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Firefox
The award-winning Firefox Web browser has security, speed and new features that will change the way you use the Web. Don’t settle for anything less
Opera
We have made the fastest browser in the world even faster with superior support for Web standards. Opera is quicker to start, faster at loading Web pages and better at running your favorite Web applications.
Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a new internet browser designed to make using the web as quick and simple as searching with Google.com.
Imgburn
Cool free CD/DVD burning software. Creates images from existing CD/DVD. Creates audio disks from .mpg or .flac (flac is very hidef audio). Not the easiest to use but if you can drag & drop or know your way around the Windows file dialog box then it should be easy to use. If you don't know how to drag & drop then you should really learn as it is one of the basic components to nearly every operating system that uses a GUI - graphical user interface. Same goes for a file dialog popup. History of Imgburn can be foud in this wiki
Thunderbird
Thunderbird 2 includes many new features to help you manage your inbox. With Thunderbird 2, it’s easier to prioritize and find your important email with tags and the new find bar helps you find content within your email faster. For Windows, Mac and *NIX
Postbox
Postbox works behind the scenes to catalog everything in your email. We mean everything: every bit of text, every contact, address and link. Every picture, document and attachment. It’s all in the catalog and it’s all searchable. Just click the Images tab to see a thumbnail gallery of every picture from every message, or the Attachments tab to browse through documents, files and more. And since Postbox does all of its cataloging on your own computer, the privacy and confidentiality of your email information is preserved.
Paint.NET
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help,tutorials, and plugins.
Avast!
Avast is a free Virus/Spyware program. It was first released in 1988 and has grown popularity since. It is free for personal use and has an abundance of features. If you would like to read more about it here's wiki link. Like all free software, if you like it then you should support it and either give a donation or purchase a subscription.
Gimpshop
GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP. More history here on the wiki.
Malwarebytes
The bees knees, the cat's meow, hot damn! What ever your age this one is good. When ever you are surfing on the Internet and a popup appears saying that your computer is infected and you can click here to get a free scan...DON'T!
That is the infection and if you do click on it you are giving that site permission to download and run a file on your computer. Not good.
Like all free software, if you like it then you should support it and either give a donation or purchase a subscription.
Gimp
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.
OpenOffice.org
Don't have Office or Word? OpenOffice is Sun Corporation's project to compete with Microsoft's Office Suite. This has some abilities that Office doesn't and Office outshines it in some areas. However, this one is free and will open nearly all Office documents and save your documents in several types of formats including Microsoft and Adobe (PDF). Read more about it here.
Notepad++
This one is pretty sweet. It's a replacement for Windows Notepad. You can open multiple tabs and it has the ability to show particular types of files in a formatted layout. This wiki link provides more information.