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Escrito por Dirk Röttges
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Viernes, 27 de Agosto de 2010 09:57 |
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When we were in Germany recently, I ordered a new netbook from ASUS. I armed the new machine with free software only. As a young entrepreneur these days you hardly need to buy any software to manage your daily tasks on the computer, such as Word Processing, Spreadsheet Calculation, Communication; or Image
Editing. This is my list of useful free software tools that I installed on my Computer:
- Firefox as a browser, especially the thousands of Add-ons around firefox make your browser the most important tool on your PC. Alternative: Chrome.
- Of Course you should install the latest versions of Java and Flash Player, in order not to limit your browsing experience.
- Microsoft Security Essentials to protect your PC against viruses and malware, for Windows Users. Alternatively: Avast, Antivir.
- OpenOffice as a replacement for the MS Office Suite. I have been working with it for 3 months now and am still not missing my good old MS Office.
- Acrobat Reader.
- PDF Creator to convert documents into pdf format. Open Office can directly export to pdf.
- PDF Sam to split and merge PDFs. Especially if you need to put docs from various sources into one pdf.
- Dropbox for file sharing. 2 GB free online space to share files with colleagues, customers and suppliers. The beauty of Dropbox is the dropbox client. As soon as you update a file on a shared folder on your PC, it is automatically updated on the person's PC you share it with, anywhere in the world.
- Windows Users: CCleaner to clean up Windows regularly. Unfortunately still needs to be done even in Windows 7.
- Skype to make free video calls between Skype Users and cheap international phone calls. Alternative: Google Talk.
- Keypass to manage my passwords. Don't you have hundreds of Passwords. This tool helps you organize and find them.
- Picasa for photo editing and management.
- xnview (Image editing). This tool has an amazing batch processing tool. Ever had the problem that you've got 30 images you want to send, each 5 MB. This tool resizes and compresses all in one go. Alternative: Paintnet.
- VLC Media Player, just the best, plays all formats.
- Filezilla (FTP client), if you want to connect to a web server.
You can also refer to these services that install some of the software I mentioned above in one Go:
Google Pack
Lifehacker Pack 2010
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