Free Stuff You Can Get Off the Internet
The Internet is packed with free stuff that you can just download. In this article I will give you some of the places you can go look for it. . .
In my youth I used to copy programs from friends to use on my computer. When I found out that this was called piracy, I tried for awhile to ignore my conscience, but eventually chose I needed to ‘Go Legal. ‘ Problem was, I didn’t have the cash to buy all the software I needed. To my surprise, I found out that most of what I needed was free!
So, if you are in a similar situation, here are some leads to free software. If the phrase is in capitals, place that into Google as your search term to find the right page.
If you need an Office suite of programs, ie. Word processor, Excel type spreadsheet program, Presentations program and Database program, it’s all for free and is Microsoft office comaptible from Sun Microsystems. It’s called OPENOFFICE, and version 2. 4 is about the latest. It’s about 100MB, so it might take awhile to download. You can download an earlier version, which is smaller, if you want to save money on your downloading costs.
If you need to view and print one of the new Microsoft Word documents, like a . docx type, Microsoft offer a free download of the WORD VIEWER program and also another program called the FILEFORMAT CONVERTER, which will enable you to save these new fangled docs as normal doc files.
If you want a nice audio program, that can load and play a whole bunch of stuff, and also converts from one format to another, and allows you to edit and record, try AUDACITY. It’s an open source program and works very nicely. Also remember that Microsofts Media Player is also free, if you are running Windows operating system on your PC. You might just have to authenticate your version of Windows with them.
If you want an operating system, and can’t afford Windows XP or Vista, there are quite a lot of Linux versions out there which are free. Try looking for UBUNTU LINUX which is a free version from Mark Shuttleworth (Remember the Russian Space Tourist. . . ) You can also email him, and he will send you a really free double CD (or 10!) so that you can get it even if you haven’t got a computer yet!
To easily set up all the amusing settings in your computer, download the small utility TWEAKUI and just run it by double clicking it. There’s a whole pile of things that you can do with it. And it’s made by the Microsoft guys. It’s not very huge, so it will download quickly.
If you need photediting software, there is a program called IRFANVIEW for image manipulation that’s free. Also GIMP which is free, but it would be my second choice.
If you need an Anti Virus program, a very excellent one, that I use myself, is AVG FREE edition. The latest version is 8. 0 or above. It’s about 47MB to download, and it will want to update itself everyday, so just make sure you go through all the settings before you forget. You can turn the update feature to manual if you don’t want to be downloading things every day.
If you want Bible software, like free Bible versions, Free commentries, all downloadable and able to be installed on your computer, try looking for E–SWORD. It’s incredible how this stuff can be free.
There are many many other free things available. The list above is just a drop in the ocean of what’s available. But at least this will get most of the average guys immediate needs sorted out, and you don’t have to be a pirate any longer.
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Duncan Kelly