It’s a little bigger, still portable, and renders PDFs near perfectly. However, I recently changed over to PDF-XChange Viewer. I have been a long time user of Sumatra PDF, it’s very small, portable, and renders PDFs nicely. Now that PDF is well established as the main digital document format, a PDF viewer has become an essential item. So, I hope you’ll indulge me and allow this inclusion to pass. I guess they could have a point, but is it so different to selecting an office suite which also includes a number of different applications? There are several very good applications included in the Windows Live Essentials collection, I habitually use Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Writer, and occasionally use Movie Maker. Some may say I am cheating by including a suite of applications as one item. I have a slight leaning toward LibreOffice, the development team does not have any commercial affiliations that I am ware of and the suite is being actively and vigorously developed. LibreOffice is actually an off shoot of the original OpenOffice which was discontinued following Oracle’s acquisition of Sun MicroSystems in 2010. Several really good products to choose from here but I’d opt for one of the open source suites, Apache OpenOffice or LibreOffice. I would much prefer for Firefox to retain its own character/individuality rather than follow a trend. Apparently, the next version of Firefox is set to mimic Chrome’s minimal interface… I hope not. ‘Speed’ is not critical for me, whether a browser opens in 1 second or 4 seconds, I can’t see that it really matters that much. Plus, there are a lot of add-ons which I could probably live without but prefer not to. Firefox is like an old friend, familiar and comfortable. I’ve tried them all, and still tend to stick with Firefox. I have been toying with the idea of trying out the new AVG but haven’t as yet, so I guess I’ll stick with the devil I know… Avast.īrowser choices are purely subjective. The protection is still top notch but the registration process is involving more and more complications, plus I don’t like the way program updates also include a button for the commercial version… too easy to inadvertently make the wrong selection. I’ve been a long time Avast fan but I must admit to being a little disillusioned with it of late. You won’t want to be connected to the net and downloading software without some sort of protection installed. This is pretty much a no brainer, except for Windows 8 of course which already includes Microsoft’s Anti-Virus solution. To start the ball rolling, here are my 10 essential freeware choices: #1 Anti-Virus – Avast Here’s the question what are the first ten freeware products you would choose to install? Here’s the scenario you just setup a brand new PC, the only thing installed is the bare bones operating system.
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