The best free software for personal use

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by Rea Papas

Created on: September 17, 2009 Last Updated: September 19, 2009

Top 5 or the best or just some extremely useful software freebies

As a student, I was always trying to find the best deals. The best bang for my buck by scavenging for coupons for groceries and restaurants, using the Internet to comparison shop, buying used items rather than new ones (books, cds, etc.), and of course finding freebies and most importantly software freebies. And while I won't cover every aspect in life where you can get cheaper alternatives, for this article I will give some tips and advices on free software that are out there and that can do a great job if not better than their expensive competitors. First, let me just say that you can find a great number of software that is free. The list is so long and I will suffice in simply giving you a couple of links where you can find by yourself what you need.

(and here of course I will add my website http://makeusmile.webs.com/ and my blog http://learnhowtomakemoneyonlinefast.blogspot.com/ where you can get tips like the ones in this article.)

For this article though, I mainly wanted to focus on just a few of the software categories that are most commonly used by everybody and in fact software that non-experts would find most useful. So here are the best, the top 5 or just some extremely useful free software or freebies. I choose five categories of software that almost everybody consistently uses, and for each of these categories I gave at least one example.

Operating systems:

Everybody knows and most likely uses some version of Windows. The most recent version is Windows Vista, and the new version, Windows 7, is coming out soon. However, the most popular version was Windows XP at least in my opinion. Well I bet that many of you believe that Windows is free, just because you never see its price tag, which is included in the price of your PC or laptop. A cheaper alternative is some type of the Linux operating system, which people who have seen it know that it is really not that different from Windows. It just takes some getting used to. I would highly recommend before you go and buy a computer that has Linux installed or go and install Linux on your computer to first run a LiveCD version of Linux and see how you like it. This is really an evaluation version where you put the CD (LiveCD) in your computer, restart your computer and you are running Linux. Then when you restart your computer again, taking out the

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