Don't Buy Commercical Software Products
Submitted by admin on Sat, 03/14/2009 - 02:08
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There are many excellent "open source" software applications that you can download from the web for free.
For instance, if you need photo imaging software like Photoshop, GIMP is an excellent product that compares to Photoshop, but it's free.
Here's another one, Open Office by Sun Micro Systems. It's is almost equivalent to Microsoft Office but it doesn't cost $500. You can configure the Open Office to open and save all documents and files in Microsoft format by default. It's pretty amazing.
For free virus protection Antivir works well and won't bog down your system like Symantec will.
We would suggest however, to make a small donation to the organizations that are sponsoring the development of these excellent products if you decide to use them.
Use can find many free software applications by simply doing a search on google. Just type in a keyword for the software you're looking for and add the words "free open source". See what you come up with. Once you have the name of a particular software. Do another search on the name, for example "GIMP" or "Open Office" to read what others are saying or rating the software. You can then decide to install it on your computer.
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