Review: Most excellent! Great list
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 20, 2012
This book contains a list of free-ware open-source software programs which can be an alternative to commercial packages that perform similar functions. The author describes functionality of each free alternative along with their limitations. I have used many of these alternatives listed (photo editing, sound editing, both ftp packages, spreadsheet, and document editing, mail client, presentation software, telnet client, anti-malware software, Linux operating system, file compression ) and I agree with the author that they are excellent options to their commercial counter parts. Despite being in the computer industry for many years I found a few packages that I did not know about.It includes1. A program that allows you to create and manipulate partition on your hard drive (a free alternative to Partition Magic $49).2. A program that automatically bucks your hard drive (alternative to something like Acronis TrueImage)3. A tool that allows you to create PDF from Word ot the windows program that have a print function (alternative to Adobe Acrobat)4. A tool to cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together for mp3, au, wav formats (alternatives cost several hundred dollars, such as Adobe Audition)5. Photo editing software6. Visual HTML editor7. Business reports8. FTP software9. Web page creation for a non-technical user10. Remote access to your PC11. Create and manipulate SQL databases through easy-to-use UI12. Spreadsheet packages13. Mail client (alternative to Outlook)14. Presentation software (alternative to Powerpoint)15. Desk publishing software16. Document editing software (alternative to Word)17. Flight simulator18. Burn files on CD/DVD from any source. Works in MP3, wav, and other formats19. Backup image of a hard drive20. Virus protection21. Open source SQL22. Hard drive encryption23. Personal accounting software24. Password managing software25. Telnet client26. Anti-spyware protection27. Operating system (alternative to windows)28. File compression (alternative to Winzip)29. FirewallThis is a most excellent collection! I highly recommend it.Ali Julia review