December 23, 2008

  • You know how a lot of people give themselves a Christmas gift? Well, I went ahead and gave myself something generous (that I actually bought on Cyber Monday). It's a Toshiba Satellite L355-S7835 17-Inch Laptop (2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 Processor, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista 64bit Premium). That would indeed be a new laptop to replace my old dying one, which is good too since the last time I tried to turn on my old laptop it crashed when Windows XP was trying to load. The problem ofcourse is that when moving from Windows XP to Vista, there's going to be compatibility issues with the software. Sure enough, most of the ones that I actually paid for don't work on that OS, so I had to find alternatives. The past couple of weeks, I've been trying out different freeware to replace the software that I can't use anymore. To my surprise, every software that I had has a free alternative. In fact, I am now completely running my new laptop on mostly freeware that I've downloaded from the internet, plus the programs that already came with the computer. Even something enormous like Microsoft Office or Adobe Photoshop has a free alternative with OpenOffice or GIMP respectively. I went ahead and created a website to list all these freeware that I found available online. Feel free to browse through that list (link below), because you might actually find something that you can use yourself. Ofcourse if you have an alternate suggestion or an addition to the list, please feel free to tell me.

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