Free Software TOP 20

3. OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is a very complete office suite and available for free for both personal and commercial use. OpenOffice is the most complete alternative for Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org contains a word processor, graphics editor, spreadsheet program, presentation program and database tool.

OpenOffice.org is a very good alternative for the Microsoft Office suite with Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. And best of all: its free!

4. Bittorrent

One of the most popular activities on the internet is file sharing. This can be music, movies, software, games, pictures etcetera.

To download, upload and share data easy and fast the BitTorrent protocol was developed. BitTorrent was the first freeware application which made it possible to share "Torrent-files".

5. VLC mediaplayer

Everyone knows the problem: sometimes media files like video or music can't be started or colors or sounds are twisted or not working correctly. The reason is Windows Media Player is not recognizing all media codecs. VLC mediaplayer supports allmost all audio and video codecs.

6. Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird, or Thunderbird in short, is an e-mailclient developed by an organisation related to the Mozilla Foundation. Thunderbird offers a free and complete open source alternative for Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Outlook Express.

7. Picasa

Picasa is the free foto manager software offered by Google Inc. With this freeware program you can perform the basic photo editing and organizing functions. Examples are red eye reduction, changing the photo size or turning a picture.

8. SiteAdvisor

SiteAdvisor is the best security application after antivirus and firewall software. SiteAdvisor shows a red, yellow or green mark next to the search results of the Google, Microsoft Live or Yahoo search engine. A red mark means the website is not safe to visit.

9. Google Earth

With the easy to use Google Earth software you can see satelite and

Iedereen heeft er waarschijnlijk al wel een keer iets van gehoord of gezien; Google Earth. Met deze software kunt u via een schitterende interface satelietbeelden en luchtfoto's zien van de wereld. U kunt deze beelden inzoomen tot op straatniveau waarbij u met hetzelfde gemak luchtfoto's van uw eigen huis kunt bekijken, maar ook de locatie van uw volgende vakantiebestemming alvast bekijken. Daarnaast zijn er mogelijkheden om zelf locaties te markeren en sommige steden zijn zelfs in 3 dimensionale beelden te bekijken.

10. Ad-Aware

Ad-Aware removes spyware from your PC. Spyware are program files installing itself when you download files or visit a website.Spyware programs can collect various types of personal information, but can also interfere with user control of the computer in other ways, such as installing additional software, redirecting Web browser activity, accessing websites blindly that will cause more harmful viruses, or diverting advertising revenue to a third party. Spyware can even change computer settings, resulting in slow connection speeds, different home pages, and loss of Internet or other programs.

11. Skype

Skype maakt gratis bellen tussen Skype gebruikers mogelijk. Daarbij maakt het niet uit waar op de wereld de Skype gebruikers zich bevinden.
Met dit gratis software programma kunt u dus via de PC bellen naar iedereen met Skype op de PC geïnstalleerd.
Een zeer handige functie van Skype is de conference call, hiermee kunt u tot 7 mensen tegelijkertijd via Skype spreken. Ideaal voor vergaderingen op afstand. De chatfunctie en de mogelijkheid bestanden te versturen maken Skype compleet.

12. MediaMonkey

Manage a music library consisting of small to very large collections (50,000+ ) of audio files and playlists, whether they're located on your hard drive, CDs, or a network.

Organize, browse, or search music by artist, genre, year, rating, etc. Never never waste your time anymore trying to find mp3s you know you have. MediaMonkey is the music organizer for the serious collector.

13. PDF Creator

PDFCreator is an open source tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.

14. RSSowl

RSSOwl is a RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader written in Java using SWT as fast graphic library. Read News in a tabfolder, save favorites in categories, Export to PDF / RTF / HTML / OPML, Import Feeds from OPML, perform fulltext-search, use internal browser, etcetera.

15. Audacity

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows,

16. Sunbird

Mozilla Sunbird is a cross-platform calendar application, built upon Mozilla Toolkit. The goa of Sunbirdl is to provide you with full-featured and easy to use calendar application that you can use around the world.

17. KeePass

KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).

18. CCleaner

CCleaner is a freeware privacy and system optimization tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history.

19. Gimp

GIMP is a versatile graphics manipulation package and a good and free alternative for Adobe Photoshop.

20. Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an open source, community developed, linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the computer applications you need: a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.