Free software for separate part 1
New businesses and sole traders, a number of costs come to at the beginning of autonomy. Even when you’re first sparingly, because meets a beautiful Summchen. To invest then no additional money in expensive software it offers is to fall back to free (or very cheap) software.
Out there is thousands programs and therefore I have times software together taken, I myself use and good find.
free software for independence
Following a list of free software alternatives for the self-employed.
Open Office
Microsoft’s Office suite is really good and also very common, however, it costs a lot. As an alternative the now very sophisticated OpenOffice offers. After the Kinderkrankheiten have been resolved, it is now very stable. I have open Office for more than 2 years and am very pleased. Surely you must umgewohnen when the migration from Microsoft’s Office for a few things. However, is relatively fast and then you can work as effectively.
Open Office includes the following programs:
- Writer – word processing (Word alternative)
- Calc – spreadsheet (Excel replacement)
- Impress – the alternative to PowerPoint
- Base – an integrated database
- Draw – vector drawing program
- Write math – math formulas (e.g. for students very interesting)
Writer and Calc replace Microsoft products Word and Excel seems completely. Impress, however, has not yet convinced me. However, I use it also hardly.
Alternatively to OpenOffice, you can use Star Office. This is almost identical to OpenOffice, so far but not free. Google offers but free it of recommended “Google Pack” part. It contains more interesting programs I shall also comment. Simply click on the button and download for free.
Firefox
Many self-employed using still the browser at some times was preinstalled on your system. This is not the best solution but for 2 reasons. A Sicherheitsklucken occur in Internet Explorer again and on the other hand there are simply better browser than IE.
Here, I recommend Mozilla Firefox. This offers many advantages especially Web developers and site operators.
The Firefox updates itself not only on its own if necessary, but it provides the ability to integrate many useful supplementary programmes. It is very easy. See extensions to Firefox, for example here.
Get the Firefox one click on the button.
Long browser of my choice and I am still very satisfied.
Thunderbird
Thunderbird is a more free software from the Mozilla community. This is a very good eMail program which makes at least Outlook Express competition. All of the features are included for normal use. There are also many extensions can find here.
These extensions added functions previously offered only Outlook. Thunderbird do I use for a long time and had yet been no cause for complaint. The program, you can directly download at Mozilla.
Sharp reader
The Sharp reader is the feed reader of my choice. Although many use online solutions that for example are useful if you’re more often. However, I have used me now to the benefits of my Sharp reader’s, I do not want to change.
The handling is very easy and you can run it in the background, including regular checks on new blog or podcast entries. There are certainly other good feed reader. But Sharp reader is the best solution in my opinion.
Julitec CRM free
I had already been here presented the program Julitec. Therefore only very briefly a few words. Julitec CRM free offers a comfortable customer management, order workflow, a simple but effective project management, a backup option, individual texts and integration of open Office, sales and project management and a comprehensive report engine.
The free version up to 200 customers, manages what first should submit a while for service providers. Simply download and install. The interface is intuitive and it finds to along very quickly. With a little skill you can adapt easily the OpenOffice templates.
Click here to the Julitec Website.
FontHit
The FontHit font tools help manage installed and not installed fonts on your computer. Just (Web) designers have generally very many fonts individually make sales orders. However, Windows is quite slow when too many installed fonts and you easily lose the overview.
FontHit can be easily and clearly fonts install and uninstall. It is also now displayed the font and can sort the fonts by category.
Homepage of the tool is although down but the software is available on various websites for download. For example, here.
CCleaner
Over time accumulate more unused and obsolete files on disk. Windows also many programs are not very consistent scavenging. Ccleaner offers a solution.
This software combed the own disk and finds reliable all unneeded files. I regularly committed the tool and am surprised again, how many hundred MB of needless files it finds and deletes. Very recommended because Windows is also slower with the many useless files.
Diskeeper Lite
After I have cleaned up the hard drive, I use the tool Diskeeper optimize configuration files on the disk. Over time, Cabinet of individual files on the hard disk is in the disordered. Then it is possible that Windows must read each file from all possible places disk when you start a program. This will of course take and slow down Windows.
Diskeeper order disks havoc again tries to bring and also adjacent places related files on the hard disk. This has nothing to do with the view in Windows File Manager. It does not change.
Diskeeper Lite Version is free and enough for most purposes.
Spybot
Viruses, spyware and Trojans are a danger for each user. You can protect itself while never entirely, but if it uses a few free tools, it is certainly on the safe side.
Spybot is a free program that searches the computer for tracking cookies (after cookies that statistically to record your browsing paths), spyware and Trojans and clean that keeps your computer. Highly recommended.
Yahoo Widgets
Yahoo bietet eine nette Spielerei für Ihr Desktop an. Naja, es ist mehr als eine Spielerei. Es handelt sich um kleine Widgets, die man aus einer großen Sammlung (> 1.000) auswahlen kann. Darunter so nützliche Dinge, wie Wetter- und AdSense-Widgets. Diese ersparen einem das Öffnen des Browsers und das Ansurfen der entsprechenden Website. Sehr schöne Sache.
Hier geht es zu den Yahoo Widgets.
Tomorrow, there are more software recommendations from me.