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Essentially FREE software. Graphics, office & files
Most are open source / freeware or shareware. Donations optional for most. Some good tools here. Thanks to the guys on my car forum….
quote :The first one up and probably the easiest to use is Paint.net. Its a replacement for Xp Paint which has very very limited functions and brings it up to the standard of the old Paintshop pro. You can resize, crop, add effects/layers and best of all its totally free. Now you can make your own sigs, resize your avatars in fact most things you can do with a commercial program.Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, or Server 2003. It started development at Washington State University as an undergraduate senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. It is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#.
Paint.NET has many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers. We welcome any suggestions, and provide the source code for final releases under the MIT License. Please explore this website, download the software and try out many of the things you would do on those other expensive or complicated applications.
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
A Photoshop replacement with far more feature than Paint.net is GIMP:
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net
and if you want to learn how to use it:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/gimptutorials
If you are looking for a free alternative to MS office then take a look at:
Fed up of having multiple messenger windows open all the time? Try Gaim
Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks
An essential spell checker add-on for Internet Explorer is IEspell
ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries). Even if your web application already includes spell checking functionality, you might still want to install this utility because it is definitely much faster than a server-side solution. Plus you get to store and use your personal word list across all your applications, instead of maintaining separate ones on each application.
A very cool free Unzipping program is Zipgenuis 7
ZipGenius is the file compression suite you were searching for: it is free and easy to use, plus it supports more than 20 formats of compressed archives, including RAR, ARJ, ACE, CAB, SQX, OpenOffice.org documents and the excellent 7-zip. ZipGenius now can precompress executable files going to be added to a ZIP archive through the UPX compressor.
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Been using Open Office and iespell for some time, both excellent for freebies 😎
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