Guide to the Best Free Software on the Internet

By Nick Poma, published Mar 10, 2008
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I decided to write this guide after spending about fifteen years trying many of the free software packages available on the Internet. I always enjoyed using free software, mostly because it is free and I am a cheap skate. Nevertheless, I know that I am not alone and that there are many people out there who share my spend thrift ways. Most likely if you are reading this, then you might just be one of those kindred spirits. In the course of these years I have found some software that was great and some that was not so great. This is a culmination of those experiences in a hope that I can save you some time and frustration.

One of the biggest annoyances associated with free software was the constant and annoying nag screens as well as spyware which made the software not worth the price of free. For all of you up and coming software developers, please feel free to offer your software for free. You can even throw in some ads to generate some revenue, feel free to even require payment to unlock special features, but please do not make the ads a hindrance to using the program itself. All of the software mentioned throughout this article is 100% free. Where it is applicable I will make mention of the software package's commercial equivalent.

First off, I would be remiss if I did not make mention of software that makes it possible to even run all of these software packages. I am of course, speaking of the Operating System itself. Currently, the free Operating Systems are based on Linux and they are all just different Kernel builds of the same System developed by Linus Torvalds. There are many different versions of this OS but there are only a couple of which that stand out above the others. As a note, I will mention the Linux Operating Systems but some of the free software that I will be mentioning later in this article will be only Windows compatible.

Operating Systems:

Ubuntu - Equivalent Microsoft Windows XP

Guide to the Best Free Software on the Internet
Guide to the Best Free Software on the Internet

Available for free is this great looking Operating System that is coming pre-installed on the $300.00 Wal-Mart computers.

Credit: gOS

Copyright: gOS

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very useful - thanks. I have a number of these on my computer already but several were brand new to me.

Posted on 06/04/2008 at 10:06:44 PM

 
This is a great list !!...wow !!

Posted on 04/30/2008 at 8:04:27 PM

 
Just stopping in to give you a page view and showing some page love. If AC allowed graphics in the comments, I'd leave you a cool page love graphic. LOL

Posted on 04/15/2008 at 5:04:04 PM

 
Great article!

Posted on 04/01/2008 at 8:04:28 AM

 
Wonderful list Nick. I appreciate you going to so much effort to share this with everyone.

Posted on 03/22/2008 at 9:03:36 PM

 
This is a wonderful list, and I am bookmarking it! Thanks!

Posted on 03/21/2008 at 7:03:07 AM

 
Wow, what a great list!

Posted on 03/15/2008 at 6:03:54 AM

 
Oh yeah!! Free stuff! Great article and very informative. Thanks!

Posted on 03/14/2008 at 11:03:27 PM

 
Great article Nick! I use some of these as well. I love finding and downloading freeware.

Posted on 03/13/2008 at 8:03:16 PM

 
You are genius -- to people like me...thanks, Nick!

Posted on 03/11/2008 at 8:03:05 PM

 
Great guide Nick.. I love my free software too. :-)

Posted on 03/11/2008 at 12:03:51 PM

 
Nick you did a wonderful job on this. I tested gOS a few months ago and was very impressed. There are so many superb programs available (for free) that work as well or better than most commercial programs. Excellent article and topic!

Posted on 03/11/2008 at 7:03:48 AM

 
Great job, very useful info!

Posted on 03/11/2008 at 6:03:58 AM

 
Great info to know, I'll bookmark this one for future reference!

Posted on 03/10/2008 at 10:03:45 PM

 
Nick, I have emailed your article to myself so I can read it in more depth. Thank you for taking the time to compile all of this information.

Posted on 03/10/2008 at 8:03:33 PM

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