Email:
The best Email service that I know of is AOL. This is why… AOL provides a free Email service for any age group with Parental Controls, Internet Security, Safe Browsing, Search Engine, News, Music, Video, and lots more! If you go to AOL.com, you can create free email account. Then, you can download things like AOL toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox, AOL Parental Controls for your computer, myAOL for easy access to your favorite websites, FREE Version of a McAfee VirusScan Plus, AOL Computer Checkup, Active Security Monitor, and last but not least, AOL Instant Messenger. To get this go here. To get all of this in an all-in-one software, get AOL 9.1 within the link provided. By the way, if you have Windows Vista, almost everything is Vista Ready!
Web Browsing
I don't think that AOL 9.1 is the greatest web browser in the world, that's why I recommend Mozilla Firefox. Mozilla Firefox has many awards for being the safest, easiest, fastest, and overall best web browser around. It is being updated all the time, and only gets better. It's free and easy to use. And best of all, you can make it completely you with free add-ons that make Firefox your own. You can choose a theme to make Firefox the way you want it to look. Also, get free extensions such as eBay extension, which helps you with shopping for things online, or you could get extensions that add visual effects to Firefox. I have used Firefox for a year now and continue to support it completely. To get it go to their website here.
Office Software
The best part about this is that you don't have to download anything. There is a web-based office software that you can use instead of buying Microsoft Office. I am not saying Microsoft Office is bad in any way, but there is free office software out there that is almost as good and free. It is called ThinkFree. It looks almost exactly like Office 2003. It lets you have 1 gig of online storage too! To sign up, go here. There is also OpenOffice that is free, but you do have to download it. You can get that here.
Security:
I'm going to repeat one part here. You can get some basic Security for your computer for free. I mentioned in the Email section that with AOL you can get a free version of McAfee VirusScan Plus. There is also Windows Defender which is basic security for Windows. You can get that here.
Hope this helps you guys out. Enjoy!
