Free and Useful Software

What is Free Software?

Philosophy of the Free Software movement
OpenSource.org
Creative Commons

Free Software

Firefox Browser
Google Chrome Browser
OpenOffice Office Suite
PDFCreator
Pidgin Multi-Protocol Instant Messenger Client
Songbird Media Player (Music)
VLC Media Player (Video)
Tor Anonymous Browsing Software
TrueCrypt Hard Drive Encryption
AxCrypt File Encryption
GNU Privacy Guard Encryption
NVU/Kompozer Web Page Editor
7-Zip Archiver
Filezilla FTP Client
PuTTY Telnet/SSH Client
UltraVNC
Python Programming Language
wxPython GUI Library for Python
PythonCard GUI Builder
Portableapps.com
Ubuntu Linux Operating System

Non-Free (as in Freedom) Software

Skype IM and Internet Phone
Pamela Answering Machine for Skype
CCleaner
Spybot Anti-Spyware
AVG Anti-Virus
BitDefender Online Virus Scanner (no installation required)
uTorrent BitTorrent Client
TweetDeck Twitter/Facebook Client
DeepBurner CD/DVD burner
FreeCommander file manager
WeFi WiFi Hotspot Finder
Irfanview Image Viewer
EReader E-Book Reader

Useful Web Services

Google Mail - The best webmail available
Dropbox online storage
Del.icio.us - Keep and share your bookmarks online
Librarything.com - Catalog your books
Last.fm Online Music
Blogger
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CACert.org Free Digital Certificates
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