How to get a free download of the best software, music, videos, ebooks

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Finding a free download that will save you money

Finding a free download of stable and powerful software has gotten much easier these days. Free software that allows you to create blogs, create/edit office documents , optimize your system, create/edit videos and other multimediais yours free for the clicking. Likewise, tracking down a free download of music, videos, ebook and other media has become much easier than you might think.

Our top picks to help you find a free download that will match your needs can be found below:

Blogging software (free download)

• WordPress (Web) – is a free Content Management System (CMS), often used for publishing blogs.
• Ustream.tv (Web) - Allows you to stream webcam video live.

Free download of Music

• iTunes free music – Free music downloads can be found on iTunes. Here are
  some of the steps to take.
  • Download iTunes
    (if you don’t already have it installed on your system)
  • Navigate to the iTunes store.
  • Scroll down to the lower part of the home page and look for a window
    labeled ‘FREE ON iTunes’.
  • Click ‘See All’
  • Click ‘Get Song’ (note: you may need to create one for free before you
    can download)

Free Movie and TV Show Downloads

• Hulu

Audio (free download)

• Audacity (windows, mac, linux, portable) – Record and edit any audio orginating from a PC, free plugins are available.

Anti Virus (free download)

• AVG Anti-Virus (windows) – Great for keeping your system clean.
• Panda Cloud Antivirus (windows)- Updates occur automatically via the internet.
• Avast (windows version)- Great for cleaning up a pre-existing viral mess.

Backup / Restoration (a free download)

• DriverImage (windows) – creates images of your hard drives stored in human readable xml formated files.
• DriverMax (windows)- software that backs up and resotres your peripheral drivers (handy when migrating from one PC to another.
• MozBackup (windows) – allows for backup and restoration of underlying data for Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird,
  Flock, Songbird and more.
• Unstoppable Copier (windows or linux) – This software is good at recovering files from disks with physical damage. It also will allow you to copy files from problem disks such as bad sectors.

PC Utilties (a free download)

• Explorer++ – Explorer++
  is a free multi-tab file manager for Windows.Available on Windows XP and above, it features the same familiar interface as Windows Explorer, while introducing several enhancements and improvements for a much richer file browsing experience.
• Baku (windows) – Is an advanced utility that allows you to locate duplicate files on your PC and the ability
  to search & delete superfluous files and junk.
• Advanced SystemCare Free – Protect, repair, optimize, and clean your computer in one click.
• Glary Utilities – System Optimizer and Registry Cleaner (Fix, speed up, maintain, and protect your PC)

Application Launching Software (a free download)

• PortableApps (windows, usb storage) – Allows users to store their favorite open-source programs on a USB flash
  drive for use on multiple systems.
• Launchy (mac, windows, linux) – keystoke launcher
• ObjectDock (windows)- similar to Max OS doc (may replace the functionality of the windows task bar)

Ecommerce Web Application (a free download)

• Magento

Internet Browsers (a free download)

• Mozilla Firefox – is the second most popular web browser. Numerous free add-ins are available that can extend this browsers capabilities. Here is a list of the add-in categories:
  • Alerts & Updates
  • Appearance
  • Bookmarks
  • Download Management
  • Feeds, News & Blogging
  • Games & Entertainment
  • Language Support
  • Photos, Music & Videos
  • Privacy & Security
  • Shopping
  • Social & Communication
  • Tabs
  • Toolbars
  • Web Development
  • Other

e-Mail and News Clients (a free download)

• Mozilla
  Thunderbird

FTP software (a free download)

• FileZilla -
  provides both client and server functionality. supports FTP, SFTP, FTPS.

Free Accounting Software

• GnuCash – For personal and small-business financial-accounting

Free Image Manipulation Software

• GIMP – Image manipulation program
  
• Paint.net -image and photo editing for windows based PC’s.

Office Productivity Software Suite (a free download)

• OpenOffice -Open Office’s main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases.

Open-source multimedia frameworks, players, converters and servers

• VLC – Multimedia
  framework (Play audio and video files in real-time and streaming modes)
• Handbrake – Converts video formats

Instant Messenger Clients

• Pidgin

Mind Mapping

• Freemind

Document Editors

• Notepad++

File Compression Software

• 7-Zip

3D Graphics Application

• Blender

PDF Documents

• CutePDF – Will allow you to create PDF files from any printable document, save PDF forms using Acrobat Reader, make PDF booklet, impose, rearrange pages, etc
• PDFCreator- PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader – Free software that will allow you to read adobe acrobat pdf formatted documents.

Free eBook Management Tool

• Calibre

On The Fly Data Encryption Software Application

• TrueCrypt

Linux Operating Systems Bundles

• Ubuntu – Linux operating system, bundeled with a user friendly interface as well as a number of frequently
  used software applications. Ubuntu works great on both laptops as well as regular PC’s.