Everyone likes to "doodle" right? Why not do it in your computer?...
Cartoons are great and really fun to draw, once you get the swing of it. This handy program features all the necessary tools that you'll ever need to get started as an Animator or Cartoonist. Best of all of course, it's totally free! You may be more talented than you ever dreamed -see for yourself.

Believe me you... No gimmicks, no spyware or adware, just pure clean and free software! Don't spend your hard earned dollars on something that you can get for free. This open-source office suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more, may be the perfect fit for you. It can read and write files from other common office software packages and best of all, of course, it's completely free of charge for any purpose.

Podcasts are abundent on the internet, and if you are like me, you want to listen to them all.. right? Well, Juice may help you to get a handle on your "computer time" by downloading those podcats while you are away, or asleep for instance. There's nothing more satisfying than waking up in the morning and having your favorite shows, there, already downloaded, on your computer waiting to be listened to. The scheduling features of Juice is what I like best.

If you have Vista (prior to SP1) you have probably noticed that it takes for ever to decompress a zip file. This handy utility will unzip a file at lightning speeds. It works as good as any other commercial apps and best of all it's free. 7-Zip works in Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista and is capable of unzipping files other than ".zip", such as rar, tar, etc.

This app performs a lot of the quick edits that you may need to do on a photo -like removing red-eye, or converting a file format from one to another. The feature which impresses me most, and that I used often, is it's screen capture utility.
Best of all, of course, it's free to use for personal use.