good free programs for your computer

[jayc]

I needed  microsoft office and didnt feel like paying $50 + , so a friend told me about Apache OpenOffice, its free and is compatible with office documents. and it works great!

http://www.openoffice.org/

got me thinking

whats your favorite free program that is useful or fun?

[Lover]

For several reasosn I use microsoft office. But i know open office and it's really good.

For taking screenshots I suggest bandicam. It's free and you can even record the screen (10minutes in free version). The full version costs 33 Euro.

http://www.bandicam.com

[hentaiboy69]

erhhhh……isn't this suppose tio be a post about free software, Lover!? there is nothing else good for taking screen shot but not to pay!?

[sexilicious]

when i lost my microsoft office due to computer issues and couldn't find the stuff to get it back my sister had told me about the free program of libreoffice and it has most of what microsoft had so got that instead of paying to get microsoft back again

[Brandybee]

Great topic Jayc, I'm all for saving  money.

Ok, I have a question. I usually pay for Norton to protect my computer.  I have heard though that you can get just a good a product for free.  Is there any that anyone would recommend?

[hentaiboy69]

I usualy use Avira free edition and don't have problem till now…..eccept  it recognize some old hentai games .exe as virus, but just need to add them to the not scanning list

[Covems]

Miss Brandy… check with your internet provider… here in the USA, most internet providers provide a virus/malware protection free of charge.  Mine does, and it's a pretty good one, and not obtrusive.  Maybe it's the same in the UK.

I can tell you which one NOT to get.  DO NOT get AVG.  They put a little piece into your registry that you have to go in and remove yourself.  The uninstaller will remove everything but that one piece, leaving AVG on your computer.

One of my favorites free programs is GIMP, for image editing… free and very useful.  Also, Paint.Net is good, too.

GLC Player is great for 3d rendering and modeling.

[Daveoh]

ohhh fonts of Superior knowledge im looking for a good free email reader for windows 8 any suggestions ?

[mrsexlover]

I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird for all my e-mail for some years now, never gave me any trouble

[Lover]

@ hb: 

erhhhh……isn't this suppose tio be a post about free software, Lover!? there is nothing else good for taking screen shot but not to pay!?

Bandicam is for free but you can also have a better version, which has to be payed. It's the same with Avira!

@ Brandy: Use Avira, as hb mentioned. There are several versions, but the free one is enough. It's always tested as one of the best anti virus software.

[hentaiboy69]

Thanks for explanation, Lover! you are not so useless sometimes!  :

[AusWoody]

G'Day,
i have been online  longer than some of the members  have been born, yeah  ok  enough with the old jokes ok!!

in that time  i have found  100's of great free programs, yeah FREE is a good word  lol

Thanks JayC  for creating this  thread  (bout time  you did something useful LOL)

there is a FANTASTIC page that lists  the best of the best  free  programs  i suggest that if you need something  try here first

http://mermeliz.com/coolprogs.htm

Elizabeth  is  very helpful and  tech savvy so  if you don't find what your looking for  or  have problems  getting it running  she will assist 

enjoy

[Momma_andrea]

I was using Open Office last year but I changed to
Google Drive. They really revamped it.(spell checking, grammar) I find it comparable to MS Office.  And my documents are in the cloud but I can still save them to a PC.
But it doesn't tie me to a particular PC to work on a story. (we got 3 PC's) so I can go to any of them to write.

[AusWoody]

Dose any one know who to upload photos to google images so I can get my html..

It was me

[AusWoody]

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