Carol, the geek girl, has this super duper long list of freewares for visitors to choose from. She has all of it divided into 15 different categories. I’m going to shorten the list down to 10 categories. They are all my favourite freewares too.. So here it goes..

Best Desktop Tools and Office

• OpenOffice.org (Get this, stop using Microsoft Office, save money and spend on food)
• AbiWord (Get this, stop using Microsoft Word, save the money and buy some clothes)
• Wordweb (English dictionary and thesaurus program)

Best Browsers - Best Email clients - Best FTP

• Firefox (Everyone’s Favourite Browser)
• Mozilla Thunderbird (Email Client)
• FileZilla (FTP)

Best Antivirus - Best Firewall - Best Anti Adware/Spyware

• AVG Free Antivirus (I’m using it. the best.)
• Kerio Personal Firewall (I’m using it too.)
• Spybot (Spyware Removal Tool)
• Lavasoft Ad-aware (Adware Removal Tool)

Best Web Based Mail

• Gmail (the best. seriously.)
• Yahoo Mail (1 rank below Gmail)
• MSN Hotmail (Needs improvement, but still ok)

Best Graphic Tools

• GIMP
• Paint.NET
• Blender
• Inkscape
• PhotoFiltre

Best HTML Editors

• Nvu
• HTML-Kit

Best Sound Editor

• Audacity (the best there is)

Best Blogging Tools

• WordPress
• Blogger

Best System Tools

• TuneXP (system tuneup)
• 7-Zip (file archiver, winzip replacement)
• Flashget (the best download manager)

Best Content Management System

• Joomla!
• Drupal

Remember that all programs mentioned above are FREE for you to download and use. Totally no strings attached. 100% legal. No worries. Just relax and enjoy their blessings. =)

Carol’s Vault
Freewares divided into 15 categories

Here’s a blog for those who needs sense and cents. It’s for visitors who are fighting off debts and bad spending habits while building a financially secure future. It’s about providing simple ways to manage finanaces and save a little money.

Personally, I sifted through the site and 1 particular post attracted. Yes, the one where the author lists out 30 essential freewares. I am a big fan of superb freewares and his this page a whole list of them. Here’s a list of 8 of 30 freewares that I have in my computer.

1. Firefox
2. Thunderbird
3. Sunbird
4. Open Office 2.0
5. UTorrent
6. VLC Media Player
7. Audacity
8. Filezilla

The Simple Dollar
Freewares for Windows

Samer Kurdi’s vision is to replace as many retail software as he can with first rate freeware alternatives, so that he may be able to proudly say one day, that all programs that he uses are free. Hey, great vision there, bro! He has divided his site into 13 different categories. Sweet. They are :

1. Applications
2. Audio
3. Games
4. Graphics
5. Internet
6. Ipod
7. Media Players
8. Utilities
9. Uncategorized
10. Web Development
11. Video
12. Articles
13. Flash

Some of the categories have sub categories, some have not. I guess that the Utilities category is the more famous one. It is further divided into 12 subcategories. Some of the more interesting subcategories are Firewall, Performance Enhacners, Anti Spywares.

The first post that attracted me was the one on SysSense. What it does is retrieve data periodically from Google Adsense accounts and display real time notifications of your latest account informatio. After reading about it, I decided to download it and give it a try. Great stuff! Now I can find out about my Adsense automatically. Thanks, Samer!

Freeware Genius
Samer Kurdi’s great site!

SysSense Post
The post of the Adsense Utility that I was taling about