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- OpenOffice – Your main alternative to MS Office.
- Word processing and other MS-office like applications
- Toucan – for backup (one click backup solution).
- CrashPlan free version – exchange codes with someone else and back up each other’s computers, encrypted backups, to have a secure offsite backup.
- If you recommend someone you get more free space.
- SugarSync – Automatically sync selected folders between multiple computers access your files from anywhere online.
- Google Documents – for sharing, collaboration.
- Windows only, with versions for other platforms.
- Non-cloud based password manager: Keypass.
- Password managers: LastPass is cloud based, uses master password.
- Firewalls: all the free ones are linux-based and industrial quality.
- Microsoft Security Essentials <– is good enough, says our security expert.
- TrueCrypt – Encrypt flash drives or your whole disk.
- Process Explorer – like the Task Manager but much more thorough.
- PDF Xchange – Adobe alternative that’s simple, loads quickly, includes editing functions, and has never had a security hole.
- Skype – free voice and video over IP, cheap overseas phone calls.
- Thunderbird – Better than Outlook Express, less expensive than Outlook.
- Firefox – The more secure alternative to IE.
- Use Wine for running Windows software on Linux.
- Utilities, OS-related software, communications:
- Google Alerts will let you know when someone is copying your stuff without authorization.
- Rob Callahan set up, an ecommerce site (only paypal is supported) as an example.
- Google Sites is a place to get free website hosting.
- Twitter – a great marketing tool if you’re a creative person.
- – get mini versions of a lot of these things to run from USB drives.
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