Really good free software

Today I ran across one of the most helpful posts I’ve seen anywhere in a long time - this article called 30 Essential Pieces of Free (and Open) software for Windows.  I use item #1, the Firefox web browser and I highly recommend it for ease of use, extensions (optional features you can add on yourself) and standard features, like a spell-checker any time you’re typing, whether composing email or filling out an online form. Microsoft’s recently-released IE7 is playing catch-up to Firefox in many ways - tabbed browsing, for example.

I also use #5 on the list, Open Office, a replacement for MS Office which has plenty of features and decent compatibility with Office; and #13, Audacity, for editing the audio files of my sermons before I post them.

I think I want to try #22, PDF Creator, which claims to make PDF creation as easy as printing to a file and #29, GnuCash, a Quicken/Money substitute.

NOTE:  I found this link through LifeHacker’s post on it.

December 3, 2006 · Filed Under Web, Work

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