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Free Software: Top 10 Useful Software for Your Computer

Computer software is the one most important things in the world right now, Software programs made our life easy. Software programs brings us music, videos, images, telecommunications, internet browsing, internet security, computing, data saving, business transactions made easy.

For now, the world depend on software programs, we cant leave without it.


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Here is the list, my personal review of some computer software programs that made our life easy.

Firefox

The Firefox Web Browser is the faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the web than others.

Features:

  • One-Click Bookmarking - you can search and organize Web sites quickly and easily
  • Instant Web Site ID - You can avoid online scams, and suspicious transaction
  • Improved Performance - You can view Web Pages faster and less memory for your computer

Yahoo Messenger

Chit Chat with your buddies and find friends in Yahoo! Yahoo Messenger is the most widely used instant messenger in the world wide web.

Features:

  • Send text messages in real-time to your buddies on Yahoo or Windows Live Messenger
  • Join a chat room to meet new friends while you discuss your favorite topics
  • Photo Sharing - Share photos from your desktop or Flickr, then discuss them over IM while you and a friend view them together
  • PC to PC calls - Make a voice call to another Yahoo! Messenger user for free
  • Send text messages from Messenger to your friends mobile phones for free

Skype

No money for calls? With Skype you can chat and make free calls over the internet to other people on Skype for as long as you like, to wherever you like. You can call to mobiles using your computer. And it is absolutely free to download.

Adobe Reader

Adobe is a free software to download. This simplest of Adobe's PDF programs lets you do just about anything PDF-related (besides create new ones), including online collaboration. It includes a host of features to aid users with disabilities. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files.

Features:

  • Leverage a simplified user interface - You can view information more precisely and efficiently with the redesigned, easier to use Reader 8 interface
  • More secure document workflows - Better protect documents, forms, and drawings
  • Automate digital certificate administration
  • Leverage existing security infrastructure

Audacity

Audacity is a free to download software you can do recording and editing of your audio interest. Audacity available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X operating systems.

Features:

  • Record Live Audio
  • Convert tape copies and records into digital recordings or Cds
  • You can Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files
  • Do can copying, cutting, splicing or mixing sounds together
  • Change the beat or speed tempo of your Audio files

GIMP

The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is the most widely used bitmap editor in the printing industries. GIMP is a graphics, photo images, logos editor. Cropping, resizing, altering color, brightness adjusting, combing multiple images, and converting into different format files. It is often used as a free software replacement for Adobe Photoshop. But it is not designed to be Photoshop clone.

Features:

  • Customizable Interface
  • Photo Enhancement
  • Digital Retouching

iTunes

iTunes is a software free to download. A digital music or media player introduced by Apple Inc. The program used for playing and organizing mp3, digital music, and video files. This software can connect to the iTune store via internet to purchase download music, videos, TV shows, iPod games, audio books, movie trailers, ring tones, and more.

Features:

  • iPod music downloader
  • Media player

AIM

Advanced Information Management (AIM). It is one of the most widely used free Instant Messenger program.

Features:

  • AIM Plug-ins
    • Whimsicals - They're web applications that let you interact with your Buddies, send & receive IMs, & more all from a web browser.
    • IM fight - Fight your buddy.
    • AIM share - Blast your buddy list.
    • AIM WIMZI - Put a chat window anywhere.
    • QQ games - Fun and play with your buddies.

WinAmp

WinAmp the most famous media player after WPM. Play music, video, movie files, DVDs. Lots of Skin to choose for their new version. WinAmp offers 50 free mp3 download for downloading the software. You can also search for skins and plug-ins, access thousands of shout cast Radio stations, get free Music and Videos and search the Web using Winamp Search.

Feature:

  • Offers free download of music and videos in their toolbar
  • Remote Music and Video Playback and Sharing
  • Play list the Best Music on the Web with Media Monitor
  • Winamp Toolbar enables browser control of Winamp
  • Album Art Support for Portable Devices

Thunderbird

Thunderbird is an ultimate open source desktop mail app support by mozilla. Its pluggable interface lets developers freely build extensions to make it ever more useful.

Features:

  • Message tagging - Thunderbird 2 allows you to tag messages with descriptors such as to Do or Done
  • Advanced Folder Views - offers a variety of ways for you to organize and display your folders, whether by favorites, recently viewed or folders containing unread messages
  • Message history navigation - Show toolbar allows you to click forward and back much like in your Web browser
  • Saved Research - Thunderbird has a “saved” folder allows you to store your file searched
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Comments (9)
#1 by Emman McGrady, Jun 25, 2008
Great review.. nice article. goodluck
#2 by Ruben Gilmore, Jun 26, 2008
Great compilation, good job!
#3 by sarah, Jun 26, 2008
Nice ariticle, i love this.
#4 by Leonard Johnson, Jun 26, 2008
You forgot the Hotmail, but anyway. like this compilation. good job!
#5 by Allen Bernard Pilapil, Jun 28, 2008
Nice article kabayan!
#6 by Ed West, Jun 30, 2008
For reading PDF files (Adobe Reader) you might try Foxit Reader at foxitsoftware.com. It is not as much of a memory hog as Adobe Reader.

I would also humbly suggest Windows Live Messenger for those who use Windows Messenger. It is a great upgrade. Good list. Thanks
#7 by desmonrock21, Jul 1, 2008
Thanks for that Info Men. And thanks for the appreciation..
#8 by Timothy, Jul 1, 2008
well done, this is your best so far.. goodluck.
#9 by nobert soloria bermosa, Jul 5, 2008
interesting post,keep it up
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