Business & Office

For Word Processing

Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or OpenOffice are the best software for word processing.

For Spreadsheet

Microsoft Excel is the popular for spreadsheet.

For Reports And Presentation

Microsoft Access are used for data storage, reports and statistics while PowerPoint is best for presentation.

For emailing

The most common is Microsoft Outlook.

For Web Browsing

You need Web browser such as Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Opera.

For Publishing

The Most common is Microsoft Publisher which is used to create, customize, publish materials such as newsletters, brochures, flyers, catalogs, and web sites.

Operating Systems

You need operating system such as Windows 2000/XP/Vista from Microsoft, Linux, Mac OS X and BSD or commonly called Berkeley Unix.

Programming

Visual Studio.Net is the new Release for Microsoft for any .net compatible language. Netbeans is available for free that can be used primarily in java application and now has support for many languages. And Eclipse has support for almost all programming language.

Virus Protection

Anti-Virus software such as Norton AntiVirus and McAfee will protect you your computer from viruses. Firewall application also will protect you from internet hacker but will cause some application to prompt before you can use it.

Children’s Software

Software for kids are those application that will be used as their learning guide in solving puzzle such as “Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster”. These software are also the tool for awakening their creativity and talent in art such as“Kid Pix Deluxe”.

Education & Reference

There are many available software for educational reference. Each was categorized in different topics such Health, Politics, Technology and etc. Each topic was also categorize into subtopics such as for Technology it was subdivided into Communication, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering and more.

Games

Today, lot of games available. Some of them are free but most can be obtained with payment such as “Soldier of Fortune” and “Star Universe”. There many games at www.free-games.com.au most of them are free.

Graphics & Multimedia

For Viewing Movies and editing movies

Media Player comes already with the operating system. But there are many available for market today such as Quicktime,iPods, Winamp, RealPlayer, PowerDVD, WinDVD, RealPlayer, ULead, and etc.

For Editing Graphics

You need Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, Macromedia Freehand and Fireworks.These are the most popular graphics editor.