Listener Questions

Savings can be seen on all software around this time and it’s a great time to buy your software as many of the products are marked down at this time of year. Did you know that if you have kids at school, or your studying or not going to use the software for commercial purposes you are eligible for Academic prices on software. Windows XP professional upgrade can be bought for under 100 bucks. My is this? Well in all honesty its to cut down the number of machines in Australia running non legitimate copies of XP. Currently 25% of all XP installs in Australia are not complying with the end user licence agreement or are pirated copies.

But the good news is that once you have a legitimate copy of windows xp you can then utilize Open Source windows software to get you out of trouble. Open Office provides you with a free office suite capable of opening and editing PowerPoint, Word and Excel files. The Gimp is a package with the power of photoshop for free.

I know I harp on about open source a lot but really it’s the solution to someone who has a budget which is limited.
Web Browser – http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/Email Client - http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/Office Suite - http://www.openoffice.org/Graphics Package - http://www.gimp.org/CD Burning - http://www.geoshock.com/cdrtools/File Sharing - http://www.shareaza.com/FTP Client - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/Instant Message Client - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/VOIP PABX http://www.asteriskwin32.com/VOIP Clients - http://www.sipfoundry.org/sipXphone/IRC Client - http://www.savirc.com/Anti spam - http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/Media Player - ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/Website download copier - http://www.httrack.com/