Don’t waste your company IT budget on softwares you can get for free from the Internet. Some of these softwares are better than the “standard” commercial ones. Here is the list of all the highly recommended free softwares. You are advised to use the portable version. Since you don’t have to install it and it doesn’t write anything to your Windows registry, you can just delete it if you don’t like it.
What is portable version?
According to Wikipedia: A portable application, or portable app for short, is a software program that does not require any kind of formal installation onto a computer’s permanent storage device to be executed, and can be stored on a removable storage device such as a CD-ROM, USB flash drive, flash card, or even a floppy disk, enabling it to be used on multiple computers.
Web Development
- Text editor – Notepad++ (Portable version)
- Web page editor – KompoZer (Portable version)
- Testing servers – XAMPP (Portable version)
- File comparison – WinMerge (Portable version)
Graphics & Pictures
- Image viewer – IrfanView
- Photo and image editor – GIMP (Portable version)
Internet
- Web browser – Mozilla Firefox (Portable version)
- Free PC to PC call – Skype
- Email client – Mozilla Thunderbird (Portable version)
- FTP client – FireFTP (Firefox extension)
- FTP client – FileZilla (Portable version)
- Telnet & SSH – PuTTY (Portable version)
- RSS feed reader – Sage (Firefox extension)
Music & Video
- Audio editor & recorder – Audacity (Portable version)
- Media player – VLC (Portable version)
Office
- PDF viewer – Sumatra PDF (Portable version)
- PDF creator – PDFCreator
- Office Suites (alternative to MS Office) – OpenOffice.org (Portable version)
Utilities
- Antivirus – AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
- CD/DVD burner – InfraRecorder (Portable version)
- File compression and archiver – 7-Zip (Portable version)
- Backup tools – Syncback Freeware
- Password managers – KeePass Password Safe (Portable version)
- PC Auditor – Belarc
- Disk usage statistic – WinDirStat (Portable version)
