Free Software

Open Office is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

Documents can be saved in Microsoft Office compatible file formats or pdfs can be created from within the applications.

The Gimp The "GNU Image Manipulation Program" (originally the General Image Manipulation Program) sired by Spencer Kimball & Peter Mattis.

It is a raster editor, which means that it performs operations directly on the pixels that make up the image, and not a vector editor. Other (proprietary) raster editors include Adobe Photoshop, Jasc Paintshop Pro and the humble Microsoft Paint.

Avast! Complete antivirus software for free. avast! antivirus Home Edition for non-commercial & home use only.

ZoneAlarm This free firewall monitors inbound/outbound traffic and makes you invisible to hackers.

PrimoPDF Completely free PDF creator - Create PDF files from 300+ file types. Make 100% industry-standard PDF from any files that print. Create PDF files optimized for print, screen, ebook, or prepress.

CamStudio CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)