Students
Links to Free Software
Free Office software that does the same as Microsoft Office but doesn’t cost £39 (see above). Just make sure you save documents in Microsoft format when you send them to school.
http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/
Free PC Firewall software that will do everything you need for a home computer but won’t cost anything.
Free animation and programming software.
Free virus checking software that will do everything you need for a home computer but won’t cost anything.
This is a free download of Java
These are free players that are frequently needed to play content on the internet. If something isn’t working, you may need to update one of these.
Free image editing software.
www.acidplanet.com/downloads/xpress/
Free sound editing and music creating an mixing software.
www.7-zip.org/
A free utility to create and open compressed files that are sent over the Internet.
All sorts of free software that is a few years old, from software for creating websites to Desktop publishing software, drawing to image editing.