The computer world is full of millions of free and open source software programs and these are much much better than commercial products.We have divided the list to 10 categories, which we think is better for usage of every user.
Malware protection and Antivirus Programs
Most of our computer users just go for commercially available products and are not aware about the free open source available and much better programs and therefore we have to aware them about this fault of them.Use free antivirus program of Avast or AVG,both are good in functionality and for malware, we recommend Malwarebytes.
Backup Programs
Mostly our friends use backup programs which store backup locally, which is good sometimes for users and are available alot on the internet for free but if the data is important and need to more secure then we suggest to use the online backup services and for this solution is to use Mozy or Dropbox.
Best and free Browsers
Since Microsoft IE is mostly the default browser of windows computers and frankly i have very bad experience with IE but not saying that it is not good because most users mostly use it and like it but there are other browsers much better than IE and much faster and secure and are available for free on Internet. Our recommendation in this case to use Google Chrome, which is faster and second to use Mozilla Firefox, which is my favourite.
Compression Utilities
The internet is full of compressed data and the reason is that mostly the internet connections are slow or the storage problems, so when you download programs from internet,it is in these compressed formats like .zip, .rar, .tar or .iso, so when you deal with these files, we recommend these free softwares, which is better.These are winzip or 7-zip.
Picture Organizers and Image Editors
Instead of spending dollars on buying picture editing and organizing programs, we recommend you to use these free softwares for this cause.For image editing use GIMP while for picture organization use Google Picasa,both are free.
Disc Burner utility
If you need to create a CD or DVD, then ripping is done from CD or creation is done from .iso file and for that we recommend the free available program named CDBurnerXP.
Office Suite
Microsoft Office is mostly an expensive way of dealing with office work and it costs alot. So people who are in search of free alternatives to MS Office, we recommend to use these free and open source softwares like OpenOffice and for source code editors use Notepad++ and PSPad.
E-mail Programs
In most of the places you see Microsoft Outlook installed, which is the most expensive solution for email service, but we recommend some free client programs to be used for emailing i-e Mozilla Thunderbird for email client and for online emails use Gmail.
Multimedia Suites
There are unlimited programs avaible on internet for multimedia purpose, each have its own capabilities and limitations. Some free and open source programs for multimedia purpose, which we will recommend for watching movies and for audio listening and recording are Audacity for audio and VLC and MPC-HC for video purpose.
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