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The Internet offers free downloads and services for making PCs more productive, secure and entertaining. For desktop search, Google Desktop delivers the same level of speed and accuracy to the users PC that Google offers to the Web. Other desktop search options include Copernic Desktop Search, Windows Desktop Search, and Yahoo! Desktop Search. The best free tweaking tools for Windows Vista include TweakVI Basic, which provides hundreds of techniques to fine tune the operating system. Other Vista tweaking tool freebies are VistaBootPRO and Easy BCD. The choices for instant messaging, voice and video utilities include meebo.com, jajah.com, skype.com, gizmo.com, Yahoo! Messenger, trillion, and Windows GAIM. No-cost security software includes Avast, ZoneAlarm, AVG Anti-Virus Free, SMAC, Microsoft Windows Defender and Spybot Search and Destroy. Free entertainment software includes VLC Media Player, iTunes and FooBar2000. Software for editing images includes Google Picasa, Snapfire, Irfanview, StudioLine Photo Basic, Microsoft Photo Info, FastStone MaxView, Media Purveyor, GIMP-GNU Image Manipulation Program, and Paint.Net. Free e-mail programs include Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Microsoft Windows Live Mail, Spamato, Thunderbird, and IncrediMail. Free file sharing apps include AllPeers, Pando and uTorrent. Office productivity software and services are available for free at Zoho, Portable Apps, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Num Sum, Ajax 13 and OpenOffice.org. Free blogging sites include Google Blogger, WordPress, Live Journal, Microsoft Windows Live Spaces, AOL People Connection and Yahoo! 360. Online RSS readers include Bloglines, NewsGator Online and Google Reader. Free software RSS readers include Sage, Active Web Reader, Tristana RSS Reader and MCE RSS Reader.
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