10</span> Best Free Software Suite The Open CD site [1] offers for free a wonderful collection of just about every application software product you need to run a PC including the latest version of OpenOffice. Many of these freebies substitute admirably for expensive commercial products. There is Abi Word as an alternative for MS Word, OpenOffice for MS Office XP, Thunderbird for Outlook, The Gimp for Adobe Photoshop, 7-zip for WinZip and many more. If you then add to this collection some of the other utilities from my "46 Best-ever Utilities" collection you will have all the software you'll ever need without spending a cent. Note: All of the Open CD utilities can be downloaded for free as a CD ISO image. If you have a slow connection you can purchase the CD for a as little as $1.99. In addition to the Windows versions, the CD also contains the same collection of programs implemented under a version of Linux called Ubuntu that can be booted and run directly from the CD. That way you not only get to try all these great programs you can try Linux as well, without interfering in any way with your current Windows installation. Update: the folks at Ubuntu [2] are now giving away free CDs containing the latest version of Ubuntu Linux together with most of the programs on the Open CD. They will send you the full Ubuntu installation CDs plus a live CD where you can run Ubuntu directly from the CD. You can order as many CDs as you want and you don't even have to pay the mailing costs! When you get your CDs read this this simple introduction to Linux [3] before starting. [1] <a href=\'http://theopencd.org\' target=\'_blank\'>http://theopencd.org</a> [2] <a href=\'http://www.ubuntu.com/download/support/documentation/faq/shipit/\' target=\'_blank\'>http://www.ubuntu.com/download/support/doc...ion/faq/shipit/</a> [3] <a href=\'http://www.paulstamatiou.com/2005/10/24/how-to-ubuntu-linux-for-novices/\' target=\'_blank\'>http://www.paulstamatiou.com/2005/10/24/ho...ux-for-novices/</a> <span style=\'color:red\'>More Coming Soon
All i did its resource >.< Since i am king of searching 20</span> Best Free Digital Image Viewer Three good choices here. First there's the classic IrfanView. Irfan [1] is a first class product but one for which I have mixed feelings. That's why it's been in and out of my "46 Best Freeware" list several times. It's an amazingly capable product but it just doesn't work the way I want it to. Other users though, just love it. A product I feel more comfortable with is XNView [2]. Like Irfan it is very versatile; it can read and display nearly 400 types of graphic files and convert any of these to over 50 formats. It displays pictures very quickly and these may be viewed full screen, as slideshows or thumbnails. It's quite capable at processing images, too; you can adjust brightness, color, apply filters or effects, crop photos, re-size, convert format and more. These operations can also be carried out from a batch file, which makes it ideal for converting large digital photos to smaller sizes for the web or emailing. It supports drop and drag, has many plug-ins, is available in 44 languages and has full cross-platform support including Mac. XNView has a lot of similarities with IrfanView, so many in fact, that it comes perilously close to plagiarism. Put positively, one may say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery however the developer of IrfanView must feel more than a little miffed. XNView is free for non-commercial use, all Windows versions plus many other platforms. The standard version for Windows is 3.3MB but I suggest you download the complete version with all plug-ins which weighs in at 6.8MB. My third choice and personal favorite is FastStone Image Viewer [3]. This is a speed demon with a zippiness in displaying images that's reminiscent of the old ACDSee before it suffered feature bloat. It supports all major graphic formats and popular digital camera RAW formats as well. It's also got good basic image editing facilities, a great slide show and a very cute interface. Much to like here. Free for personal use, Windows 98 and later. [1] <a href=\'http://www.irfanview.com/\' target=\'_blank\'>http://www.irfanview.com/</a> (874KB) [2] <a href=\'http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/endownloadwin32.html\' target=\'_blank\'>http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/endownloadwin32.html</a> (3.3MB) [3] <a href=\'http://www.faststone.org\' target=\'_blank\'>http://www.faststone.org</a> (3.0MB) <span style=\'color:red\'>More Adding
