Selected Software

I almost called these recommended software, but they are simply those that I use and which you may find useful.

Opera                          www.opera.com                                               Best & Fastest

Firefox                         http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/          Open Source

PDF-XChange             http://www.docu-track.com/                                

Allows  copying text, annotating and adding Post-it notes.

PDF Creator                http://www.pdfforge.org/

                                    On installation de-select the browser ad-on, or your anti-virus will detect it as adware

Other Programs

Open Office                 http://www.openoffice.org/

Free and as good as MSOffice

Kompozer                    http://kompozer.net/     

Windows HTML Editor, Free and Open Source

Notepad++                  http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

                                    Excellent text editor for programming in divers languages

MySQL                       http://www.mysql.com/

                                    Free open source database

Thunderbird                  http://en-gb.www.mozillamessaging.com/en-GB/thunderbird/

                                    Free open source email client

Compendium                http://compendium.open.ac.uk/

                                    Free Mind Mapping software

QuickTime Alternative
Real Alternative            http://codecguide.com/

                                    Play QuickTime and Real software without internet connection

Media Viewer              http://www.irfanview.com

                                    Audio, video image viewer and converter

HTTrack                      http://www.httrack.com/

                                    Web site copier and offline browser

Screenshot                   http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenshot/

                                    Free open source, simplicity itself

FTP                             http://filezilla-project.org/

                                    Open Source file transfer program

Zip                               http://www.7-zip.org/

                                    Open source zip program

AudioEditing                 http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

                                    Audio capture, edit and record

Backup                        http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx?pr=blog

                                    Full or incremental backup to another disk or DVD/CD

Genealogy                    http://genj.sourceforge.net/

                                    For building family trees
Portable Suite

PortableApps               http://portableapps.com/

This is a suite of programs including OpenOffice, Kompozer, Firefox, Thunderbird, FileZilla, Notepad++ and more which can be run from a pendrive (without installation to the PC).