When it comes to PC there are a number of free and paid software available. Today we want to showcase some must-have software for your computer. This pack includes a wide variety of categories including Image editors, cloud services, office alternatives launchers and messaging clients. So what are you waiting for? here is our best software packages for the year 2014.
Office
Apache OpenOffice
Apache open office is a well-knows open source office suite. It offers word processor tool “Writer”, spreadsheet tool “Calc” , create multimedia presentations with “Draw”, manage databases with “Base”, mathematical equations with a graphic user interface with “Math”.OpenOffice.org are available in 27 languages. It is best free substitute for Microsoft Office.
Libre Office
LibreOffice is an open-source personal productivity suite which gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing, writer, calc, impresses, draws, math, and base. LibreOffice opens with an option that let us choose which application we wanted to use: Base, Calc, Draw, Impress, Math, and Writer. Application’s interface will look very familiar to you if you’ve used MS Office products.LibreOffice also comes configured with a PDF file creator, meaning you can distribute documents that you’re sure can be opened and read by users of almost any computing device or operating system.
Audio & Video
MediaMonkey
MediaMonkey is a fully featured media player and perfect replacement of iTunes.It has a lot of features to organize your library. It takes only a few minutes to sync to your iOS device. It comes in two versions of Standard(Free) and Gold version. It supports music formats including AAC, FLAC, MP3 and much more.
GOM Player
GOM Media Player is a completely free video player, with its built-in support for all the most popular video and audio formats, tons of advanced features, extreme customizability, and the Codec Finder service, GOM Media Player is sure to fulfill all of your playback needs.
Cloud Storage
Dropbox
Cloud storage service doesn’t need any intro, they became part our life. We daily save our files, documents, photos, and videos in the cloud for backup. Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily.
Google Drive
Google Drive is a free clout storage service form search engine giant Google. Upload photos, videos, documents, and other files that are important to you to Google Drive. Get going with up to 15GB of storage.
Cleaners
CCleaner
CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your Windows PC. It protects your privacy online and makes your computer faster and more secure. Easy to use and a small, fast download.
Yet Another Cleaner
YAC is designed to keep your PC clean and healthy. The user interface is simple and easy to understand. The left panel contains all the cleaning, protection and managing tasks. It has main tasks including Health Check, Protection, Plug-in-Manager, Virus detection, quick scan, deep scan, system boost, software manager and Network monitor.
Downloading Clients
uTorrent
µTorrent is a BitTorrent client, so it speaks the BitTorrent protocol, much like a browser would speak HTTP. It is one of the best torrent client available for Windows.
EagleGet
EagleGet is a free all-in-one download manager; it supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, MMS and RTSP protocol as well as popular online video websites. It can be integrated to Chrome, IE, Firefox, Opera, and uses multi-threaded technology to boost downloads.
Image Editors
Paint Net
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
IrfanView
IrfanView seeks to create unique, new and interesting features, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole “creativity” is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView (for example XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView.
Security
Avast Free Antivirus 2014
Avast is a popular Antivirus software for Windows. It actively protecting more than 200 million PCs, Macs, and Androids. So many people trust Avast because they’ve been protecting devices and data for 25 years, in over 40 languages.
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free uses industry-leading technology to detect and remove all traces of malware, including worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware, and more.
Messaging Clients
Adium
Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can handle connections like Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, AIM, MSN, XMPP, IRC, ICQ and much more. The interface is clean and simple very easy to understand.
Pidgin
Like Adium, Pidgin also supports multiple chat accounts in the single user interface. The only difference is it is available for Windows and Linux. The best part of Pidgin is it supports plugins for improved functionality.
Web Browsers
Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google. In September 2008, Google released the majority of Chrome’s source code as an open source project called Chromium. It is one of the best web browser available for Windows.
Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed for Windows, OS X, and Linux. Firefox makes browsing better for you, bringing together speed, privacy, and latest technologies.
Email Clients
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is free open source email, newsgroup, news feed and chats client for windows. Mozilla Thunderbird makes e-mailing safer, faster, and easier with such features as intelligent spam filters, a built-in RSS reader, and quick search.
Inky
Inky is an email client app which offers a simple user interface with best features. No need to configure email setting manually, the app detects and automatically configures them based on your email address. Inky can work with any POP or IMAP account. First, you need to create the account in Inky to use. You can easily arrange emails based on contacts, newsletters, social sites. Inky works as a cloud-based Email client.
Utilities
7ZIP
7-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don’t need to register or pay for 7-Zip.
ImgBurn
ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit. ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats – including BIN, CCD, CDI, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG, and PDI.
Search Everything
Void tools Everything is a light super fast application for desktop search. Everything is an administrative tool that locates files and folders by file name instantly for Windows. Its lightning quick interface and real-time results for all of the files and folders on your local hard drive or any subsection of it. The results screen can display seven different fields: Name, Path, Size, Last Write Time, Creation Time, Last Access Time, and Attributes.
Launchy
Launchy is a free cross-platform utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes.
TeamViewer
TeamViewer connects to any PC or server around the world within a few seconds. You can remote control your partner’s PC as if you were sitting right in front of it.
Absolute Uninstaller
Absolute Uninstaller starts up faster than Add/Remove program with all appropriate icons of the application loaded and marks recently installed program. so that you can easily find out the application you want to uninstall. You can uninstall multiple programs at once, searching for apps, remove entries or restore them, change program properties, check program support information, view command line, fix invalid entries automatically, backup and restore uninstall info, and export the program list.
Foxit PDF Reader
Foxit Reader is a small, lightning fast, and feature rich PDF viewer which allows you to create (free PDF creation), open, view, sign, and print any PDF file. Configure document views with reading mode, reverse view, and text viewer options. Configure page display with full screen, single page, continuous scrolling, split, two-page facing, continuous facing, separate cover page, auto-scroll, and page transition options.
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