My favorite free software

Open office   -  This is a free Microsoft office compatible suite of programs.  The suite includes a word processor, spreadsheet, database, presentation program, and drawing program.  

Drawing for children – This is a great paint program for young to middle aged children.  

Irfanview – Irfanview is a simple photo browser and editing program.  I recommend this program for browsing through photo collections, cropping, resizing, and printing photos to any given size .

photofiltre – Photofilre is a good program for touching up photos.  

Pixia – This is another photo touch up/paint program.  

Gimpshop – This is the most powerful program for touching up photos or advanced painting.  

Picasa – This program by Google is for managing picture collections.  It also has a good red eye reduction tool.  

Nvu – Nvu is a web page editor.  

Google toolbar – If you’re using the Microsoft Internet explorer, I strongly recommend the global search toolbar.  

Firefox - Their fox is a free competitor to Microsoft Internet explorer.  One feature that Firefox has over Microsoft is that it will print web pages that are wider than a piece of paper correctly.  

Opera – Opera is another popular Internet browser.  

Ipodder - You don't have to have  Ipod to listen to a podcasts.  This program will download and manage your podcast collections.

Trillium - Trillium is an instant messenger client.  It works with AOL, MSN, and several other instant messenger servers.  But it is much less invasive to your computer and causes much less problems.  

Audacity – This is a multitrack audio editing and recording program.  

Video LAN client  - This is a multimedia player that will play almost any type of video or audio including movie DVDs.

Moviemaker 2 - If you haven't updated to the new version of movie maker it's worth your effort to do so.  It’s much better

Graphcalc – A free graphing calculator.  

treesize – This program will help show you where all the space on your hard drive went to.