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The life cycle of a software is very short and investing in it can be costly. A good solution for this problem is freeware and open source programs.
To find quality and rated freeware and open source solutions, I highly recommend these few sites:
The following are a few of my personal recommendation:
[Comment: It is okay if you want to have more than one anti-spyware program installed on your PC systems.]
Free Hide Folder - an effective way to hide your personal folders from prying eyes or unauthorized access.
Avast! Home Edition - a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users, non-commercial users.
[Comment: Less bulky than the paid-for versions such as Mcaffee or Symantec Norton Antivirus. Much better in terms of detection features and updates release in comparison to other free version antivirus program such as AVG.]
Firefox - award-winning Web browser with faster, more secure, and fully customizable features.
Opera - the third popular web browser.
MetaProducts Download Express - a 'must have' tool for downloading files.
ClocX - enhance your desktop appearance with this truly beautiful analog clock.
Rainlendar - a customizable calendar with events and to do list.
WordWeb - a comprehensive English thesaurus and dictionary, and can be used to look up words from within most programs.
ABC Amber Audio Convertor - convert wav files to mp3 files (or mp3 files to wav files)
RealPlayer - a digital media player with much more better video and audio quality
QuickTime Player - a media player for quicktime movies (.mov) and many other formats including 3GPP and 3GPP2 files which are commonly used on your mobile handphone video camera.
Winamp - a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music and video player for Windows.
XP Codec Pack - one of the most complete codec pack which helps you to play all major audio and video formats.
ZoneAlarm (Basic) - an easy-to-use firewall that blocks hackers and other unknown threats.
[Comment: Unlike its awards winning PRO version, some say the free version is more suitable for older PC systems (Win 98/ME/2000)].
Comodo Firewall - offers a richer feature set and better protection than paid-for versions from the likes of Mcaffee or Zonealarm.
[Comment: Unlike most freeware programs which are targeted for non commercial or home users, Comodo is offering its freeware program for commercial usage too.]
Tiny Piano - turns your computer keyboard into an electronic piano.
Paint.Net - image and photo manipulation software that has many of the powerful features (including the ability to use layers).
PhotoFiltre - complete image retouching program.
PixelToolbox - complete solution for designing desktop graphics (1-bit patterns, wallpaper tiles, icons, and cursors).
UnFREEz - simple GIF animation tool using drag and drop feature.
Adobe Reader - the standard for opening, viewing, searching, and printing Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
SimpleOCR - modify your scanned document with this character recognition tool.
OpenOffice.org - an open-source, multiplatform and multilingual office suite and a alternative choice for those who don't have MS Office.
[Comment: May encounter some incompatible issues when opening and editing OpenOffice.org files in some versions of Microsoft Office. Nevertheless, it is much more stable than AbiWord (another alternative feature-savvy word processor).]
IZArc - a great alternative to the popular commercial WinZip.
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