Jim Daggon

Freeware

Shareware

Trialware

“Cloudware”

Source Forge - http://sourceforge.net/

Alternative To - http://alternativeto.net/

C-Net - http://download.cnet.com/windows/

Categories

1. Office Productivity

2. Graphics / Drawing

3. Video Capture and Manipulation

4. Audio Capture and Manipulation

5. Website Design

Office Productivity

Word Processing

Spreadsheets

Presentations

Calendar

Email

Databases

Office Productivity – http://www.Open Office .org

Writer a word processor

Calc a powerful spreadsheet

Impress multimedia presentations.

Draw lets you produce everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D illustrations.

Base lets you manipulate databases seamlessly.

Math lets you create mathematical equations with a graphic user interface or by directly typing your formulas into the equation editor.

Office Productivity (a) – http://www.google.com/docs/about/

Gmail Fast, searchable email with

less spam

Drive Create, share and keep all

your stuff in one place

Docs Open, edit, and create

documents

Sheets Open, edit, and create

spreadsheets

Slides Open, edit, and create

presentations

Forms Build free surveys

Office Productivity (b)– http://www.google.com/docs/about/

Drawings Create diagrams and flow charts Sites Create websites and secure group wikis Calendar Organize your schedule and share events with friends Translate Instantly translate text, web pages, and files between over 50 languages Voice One number for all your phones, online voicemail and cheap calling Google Wallet Make your phone your wallet Google Cloud Print Print anywhere, from any device Google Keep Save what’s on your mind

PDFs

PDF Creator – replaces Adobe Acrobat X

http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator

PDF Architect

http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfarchitect

Graphics / Drawing

Relational Graphics – Replaces MS Visio

Dia -https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia/Download

Photo editing and manipulation – replaces Photoshop (CS5)

Gimp - http://www.gimp.org

Vector based graphics – replaces Illustrator

Inkscape - https://inkscape.org/en/download/

Audio capture and Manipulation

Audacity

free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds- http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

PreSonus Studio One Free

Free version of Pro version allows unlimited MIDI and Audio tracks -https://shop.presonus.com/products/studio-one-prods/Studio-One-Free

Video capture and Manipulation

Blender - http://www.blender.org/

Camtasia

Computer Screen capture software for video -

http://download.cnet.com/Camtasia-Studio/3000-13633_4-10665109.html

Website Design

KompozerSimple to use Web Authoring software -

http://www.kompozer.net/

BluefishA bit more advanced web authoring software which is GUI

based, but allows coding -http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/download.html

Sea MonkeyAn all in one Internet application suite -

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/

“Built in tools” – Homestead, 1 and 1, etc.

Try it on a non-production machine (same OS!)

Don’t download from unproven sites

Test for virus and malware immediately

Test for compatibility with what you are using now

Save in new format, open in old software and vice versa

Check for compatibility with advanced features

Finally install on a production machine to check for compatibility

Set file associations (which program opens which files by default)

Questions?