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BEST FREE AUDIO EDITING PROGRAM

Audacity - Open source audio editing and recording program, the best free on you can get. It is very easy to use and works on Mac OSX and Linux too.

BEST FREE ANTIVIRUS

Avast! - The home edition is a free antivirus solution, provides resident real time protection, basic antispyware protection and doesn’t take to much memory while running in the background (a lot less than BitDefender, that’s for sure).

BEST FREE INSTANT MESSENGER

Digsby - Although it is still in beta it’s a very interesting instant messenger client. Supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat Accounts. But the great feature is that it supports multiple e-mail accounts, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP. It is also a great tool for social networking, it supports Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace accounts so far, with more of them coming up.

BEST FREE DVD RIPPING PROGRAM

DVD Shrink - This one is a classic, everybody knows it, some people even sell copies of it. A great tool for backing up your video DVDs.

BEST FREE IMAGE EDITING PROGRAM

GIMP - The best freeware alternative to Adobe Photoshop. It’s an open source image editor, very powerful and quite stable.

BEST FREE TEXT EDITOR

Notepad++ - Powerful open source text editor written in C++, supports a wide range of programming languages, great multi-document and multi-view features.

BEST FREE SCREEN CAPTURE UTILITY

Screenshot Captor - Great screenshot capture program, lots of capture modes - Multimon (multiple monitors), Desktop, Active Window, Region, Windows Object. Supports multi-monitor and includes editing features for the screenshots.

BEST FREE FILE COMPRESSION PROGRAM / ZIP UTILITY

TUGZip - Very good free compression utility, works fine with almost any archive file format, fast and reliable.

BEST FREE WEATHER INFORMATION PROGRAM

Weather Watcher - Fast, lightweight, reliable. I don’t know if you could ask for more.