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Free Software

Free software offers to give your computer something to do. There are a few select free software offers listed below. This is not meant to be a comprehensive list but just some of the best values in free software.

What is Free Software?

It's your choice - get your software for free or pay big bucks for it. There are thousands of quality programs that you can get for free and it's not even illegal.

Create PDF Files for Free

Here are three ways to create PDF files for free. Why buy expensive software when you can crate PDF documents for free?

Free Commercial Software

Get A New Free Commercial Software Package Every Day

Free Office Software Online and Offline

Find out how you can use the free Open Office applications with the free Google applications to have the best of both worlds for free.

Free Ubuntu or Kubuntu Dapper Drake CDs

Canonical Ltd. is now taking orders for free installation CDs with the 6.06 (Dapper Drake) version of Ubuntu and Kubuntu Linux.

Free Development Tools

Despite a bit of confusion this is a great opportunity for those who might not otherwise get a chance to learn to program with modern easy to use tools to do so for free

Ubuntu Linux

The Ubuntu developers have a philosophy and a product that seems to be in line with what I've been looking for in a Linux distribution. Here are some of major points I find appealing:

About Graphics - Top Free Graphics Software Picks

If you can't afford the premium price for software like Photoshop, you can still do the computer graphics thing with these great free software offerings.

Mozilla

This is the download page for the release (non beta) version of the Mozilla. Mozilla is an open source browser, email client, and HTML composer. (Windows, Mac, Linux and many more platforms)

Opera Web Browser

The Windows verstion fo the small and fast Web browser Opera is now free. Opera previously sold for $40.

Vocabulary Master

They offer this language vocabulary builder software for 13 different languages. You can download them one at a time for free or order a CD with all of them and pay a shipping charge. (international)

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