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• Digital Photography
• Create smaller photo files for emailing: If you have Windows XP, get the power toy from Microsoft called Image Resizer at www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx  If you don't have Windows XP, a great free image viewer and editor is IrfanView, and it has a batch processing capability that lets you convert a whole group of photos to smaller ones at once. Photoshop Elements has a similar command. 
• Security: 
• For a free Firewall, get Zone Alarm 
• For free Anti-Spy software, get both AdAware (this link is to their home page -- from there, look for AdAware SE Personal free version) and Spybot Search&Destroy (watch out for similarly named imitators).
• Office Applications -- Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Firefox, Internet Explorer, WorPerfect, QuattroPro, Open Office (FREE office suite that works extremely well and is very compatible with Microsoft's office suite). A great, free, open source program for creating pdf files, PDFCreator, is available at http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator It acts like a printer in windows, so you print to that printer and it throws up a dialog box for you to fill in filename and other details before creating the pdf file. Works great!