Essential Software For Windows PC
- Microsoft Security Essentials. Why we need to buy other virus scan software when Microsoft offer this application free?
- Mozilla Firefox 3.6.14. Mozilla Firefox is my primary default browser. To me, it must more secure and faster than Microsoft Internet Explorer.
- Google Chrome. My second choice after Mozilla Firefox.
- Adobe Acrobat Reader X.
- Adobe Flash Player 10.1.102.64.
- Java Runtime Environment or Java Development Kit 6 update 23.
- LibreOffice Productivity Suite. LibreOffice is a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms. It is free software and therefore free to download, use and distribute.
- 7-Zip is a free open-source file archiver with a high compression ratio.
- iTunes. Get this software if you have iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.
- PrimoPDF Free to create PDF files from 300+ file types
- Windows Live Essentials 2011. Do more with Windows on your PC with free programs from Microsoft for photos, movies, instant messaging, email, social networking, and more.
- Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1. Get this free email client if you don't like Windows Live Mail in Windows Live Essentials 2011 package.
- VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. Get this free application if you need to play the flash video and other popular media files.
Essential Software For Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu desktop 10.10 has a lot of good and free applications pre-installed like Mozilla Firefox browser, OpenOffice.org office application, Evolution Mail, Brasero Disc Burner, Movie Player, Rhythmbox Music Player, PDF reader or writer... you may don't need to install any more.
- ClamTK Virus Scanner. Although Linux is almost virus free, it's safe to install additional virus scanner.
- Google Chrome. My second choice after Mozilla Firefox.
- LibreOffice Productivity Suite. LibreOffice is a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms. It is free software and therefore free to download, use and distribute. Install LibreOffice to replace OpenOffice if you like.
- 7-Zip is a free open-source file archiver with a high compression ratio.
- Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1. Get this free email client if you don't like Evolution Mail.
- VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. Get this application if you need to play the flash video and other popular media files.
- VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.
- Mono is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross platform applications. It is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .Net Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime
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