Comments on: Free Software that can Replace Your Expensive Software

By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:33:44 +0000

Good suggestions. I would like to add VLC as a media player and Digsby as a messenger.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:12:41 +0000

By default, both Blogger and WordPress should automatically send out pings for your blog when you post an update. I don’t use a ping service, and haven’t had any problems.

Is there a particular reason you would like to manually ping your blog?

By: Regina Sunderland

Regina Sunderland — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:54:21 +0000

Happy New Year first off all and thanks for a wonderful list. Question for you since you seem one of those much more knowledgeable in this field then I am so far could even hope for.
I am looking for a FREE Blog pinging Software that is not too difficult to use. I know pingomatic is always an option, but since I have so many blogs that is not always workable. I used to have Starpinger, but that seems to have disappeared.

Any advice for me?

Thank you as always!

Regina

By: Pam

Pam — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:44:24 +0000

May the holiday season bring you peace and joy.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:26:15 +0000

Michael has a good point about the learning curve.

Is Thunderbird like Firefox in that if it crashes, there is a restore function?

By: Martini

Martini — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:04:05 +0000

Merry Christmas Paul!

By: Telecommuting Lisa

Telecommuting Lisa — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:14:45 +0000

Inkscape is great for converting AI images.
Great list and thanks to Tom for the Sourceforge resource as well.
Happy Holidays!

By: Jolie du Pre

Jolie du Pre — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:48:20 +0000

Great tips!

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:03:58 +0000

I haven’t used Picasa, but I have heard from many people who have used it and liked it as well.

Thanks for the link, I appreciate it.

By: Laura-Junkfoodaholic

Laura-Junkfoodaholic — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:04:04 +0000

Hi Paul! This is a great list of free software. I wanted to add that my daughter uses freeware Picasa (for photo editing) and LOVES it! I gave you some link love on my latest post "6 Helpful Entrecard Dropping Tips"Merry Christmas!

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:50:16 +0000

Good list and I use most of them. I, too, have not paid for software!

By: Web-Betty

Web-Betty — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:34:21 +0000

Check out my Diigo list for online resources: http://www.diigo.com/list/web-betty/instructor-online-resources

There are several free online image editors, some online documents (word processing, spreadsheet, PDF, presentation, etc.) and others.

By: Sjeltur

Sjeltur — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:41:57 +0000

The only paid software I have are Windows Xp 64bits and Fruityloops (music making program) – rest is all freeware/opensource etc;
Email; Thunderbird
Office; Open Office
Virusscanner; AVG
Firewall; “build in” in router (which a lot of people do not know they have it already)
Mediacenter; TVersity
Pictures/drawing; Paint.net

On my webpage I am also mentioning them all (one per day….)

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:58:59 +0000

I haved used Sourceforge before for downloading, but never think about that site when looking for free software. I’ll have to remember to do that.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:13:33 +0000

I use:
Open Office (unless I have to use Word)
GIMP
Inkscape (vector graphics)
Pidgin (instant messaging)

Basically I never pay for software. If you are ever looking for something, search Sourceforge to see what is there first. I was looking for a PhotoShop plugin for GIMP that would have put me back $50, and there was an open source option for that too.

By: Windmill

Windmill — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:30:51 +0000

Hi Paul,

I wish you Yuletide Joy and A Blessed New Year together with your family.

Happy Holidays!

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:36:13 +0000

Great list (although I know every one of them, some people may not)

Usually there are always a free alternative to every software, but it’s the matter of learning curve that people don’t want to get into (people are so used to using MS Office products, for example)