If you are buying a new computer you can save a ton of money using free applications. There is very stiff competition among the Google’s and Microsoft’s of the world and the consumer is definitely the winner for now and the foreseeable future.
Need an office suite? Instead of buying Microsoft Office try:
Google Docs -http://docs.google.com/
Create and share your work online
• Upload from and save to your desktop
• Edit anytime, from anywhere
• Pick who can access your documents
• Share changes in real time
• Files are stored securely online
It's FREE!
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Need to edit your pictures?
Microsoft Live Photo Gallery - http://get.live.com/photogallery/overview
Free download from Microsoft. Tons of easy tools to edit your digital photos.
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Picasa from Google
Organize
Manage your photos in one place, and find photos you forgot you had
Edit
Eliminate scratches & blemishes, fix red-eye, crop and more
Create
Turn photos into movies, collages, slideshows and more
Share
Upload seamlessly to Picasa Web Albums to share with friends, family & the world
http://picasa.google.com/
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Need online storage?
Microsoft Live - http://home.live.com/
This is a whole suite of free products and services from Microsoft. One of these services is Skydrive. Skydrive lets you store up to 25 gigs of data for free and you can get to these stored files from any computer!
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Don’t like Microsoft and still need an office suite?
Open Office - http://www.openoffice.org/
OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
What's your favorite free application? It does not need to be from this list. Comment below.
