Top 10 Free PC Programs Everyone Should Have
There are thousands of free and open source softwares available,many of them are better than any commercially available product on internet. Below I have made a list of the must know softwares which you should have on your PC to make it more *SMART*.
Antivirus And Malware Protection
Most PC users realize that they need to secure their computer or make their computer more private and secured and you may have an installed antivirus program from your computer manufacturer on which you have also invested some money. What most of us don't realize is that there are also free programs present for us that are just as good and in some cases better than the commercial products. Below is the list of some products .
Malware and Spyware protection: Malwarebytes
Backup Solutions
There are 100's of free and commercially available backup programs for computers which helps you a lot. Unfortunately, many of those backups are stored locally and sometimes become of no use, basically I mean to say that if your house catches fire, gets robbed, or if you loose your backup discs then all your data would be lost. This is why when dealing with an important data we are here to suggest users to use the best online backup services.
Browsers
Although Microsoft Internet Explorer comes pre-installed on Windows computers. There are several excellent free alternatives that everyone should try. These free alternatives can often be faster, have more options, and in many cases be more secure than Internet Explorer.
Internet Browser: Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome
Compression Utility
When downloading files on the Internet you'll eventually encounter a .zip, .rar, or other compressed file. Dealing with these files can be easy with our below free file compression utility.
File compression utility: 7-Zip
Disc Ripper And Creation Utility
Creating an audio or data CD/DVD, ripping the data from an audio CD, or creating a CD from a .ISO file can also be done freely using our below free recommendation.
CD burner utility: CDBurnerXP
E-mail is yet another service that can be done freely. Most users today use online e-mail solutions like the one listed below. However, for those still using an e-mail client such as Microsoft Outlook we strongly suggest one or both of the below suggestions.
E-mail client: Mozilla Thunderbird
Online e-mail: Gmail
FTP, SFTP, And SSH Utility
Users who maintain their own web page or need to upload or download files to or from a server have to use an FTP utility or an SSH client. There are many commercial programs capable of doing this but our below free recommendations beats them all.
FTP client: Filezilla
Image Editor, Paint Program, And Picture Organizer
There are many great free solutions for editing, creating, and organizing your images on your computer. Many of the programs capable of doing these tasks can be several hundred dollars, but all of the below programs are completely free.
Image editor: GIMP
Paint program: Paint.net
Picture organizer: Google Picasa
Multimedia
There are dozens of different multimedia programs with different capabilities and limitations. Below are our top free multimedia programs for watching video files and recording audio.
Audio editing and creating tool: Audacity
Office Suite
An Office suite such as Microsoft Office is often one of the most expensive programs that a user can install on their computer. Why install these expensive programs when there are free solutions that are just as good.
Office suite: OpenOffice
Notepad and Source code editor: Notepad++
Written by mahbuub
a computer geek and a junior compo programmer by interest and lecturer in accounting by profession. He got his MSIT, BBIT, and MBA in Community Development at Golis University - Burao and Fair Land University - Hargesia. He has an excellence work experience with Excel Accounting/Financial Accounting, AIS/MIS/FIS/Computerized Accounting. He also masters in Excel Programming, Access Programming not to mention that he is an IT Professional in Microsoft Studio and Visual Basic Programming , Web Development in "PHP, Joomla, Wold Press. He also trained in Networking, Hardware, IT Security all in all Maxbuub has a limit let potentials and skills and he chooses to share all of that an more in this blog. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MrBura0
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