The Top 10 FREE Software Internet Marketers Must Have

We all have our own Must Have stash of free apps that serve our daily digital lives that come with great function. Here are some of the software I am using on my day to day work, as I know, many other Internet Marketers are also using them in their daily basis, if you are not already using them, you should take them for a spin now! They are all FREE.

1. AVG antivirus (Free edition)
http://free.avg.com/ww-en/homepage

AVG Free edition 9 provides the bare necessities when it comes to security, but that should be enough for savvy Windows users. You’ll get a combined antivirus and anti-spyware engine that make sure you can’t get or spread a virus, worm, or Trojan horse. LinkScanner and e-mail scanning to ensures every web page you visit is safe – even before you go there. It also introduces a few new features, with improvements focused on performance, which includes claims of faster scan and boot times.

2. Filezilla FTP software
http://filezilla-project.org

FileZilla is an FTP program for file uploading and downloading to and from your FTP site, server, or host. The program lets you transfer files and navigate among folders, Web sites, and your computer. This software enables you to perform multiple file transfers simultaneously.

3. Adobe Acrobat Reader
http://get.adobe.com/reader

Adobe Reader lets you read and print from any system any document created as an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file, with its original appearance preserved. PDF files are compact and can be shared, viewed, navigated, and printed exactly as the author intended by anyone with Adobe Reader.

4. Winzip
http://www.winzip.com/downwz.htm

WinZip is the world’s most popular Zip utility for file compression, encryption, packaging, and data backup. Now supporting Windows 7, WinZip 14 makes it easy to zip and unzip files for quick, efficient, and secure file transfer, email transmission, and data storage. Compress files with WinZip 14 can help you save space and reduce transmission times.

With WinZip, you can create Zip files and new Zipx files – the smallest Zip files ever, reduce JPEG image files by 20-25% without losing photo quality. You can just let WinZip select the best compression method to maximize efficiency, create self-extracting Zip files, ideal for distribution to recipients that may not own WinZip, as well as open Zip, Zipx, RAR, 7Z, BZ2, CAB, JAR, IMG, and other compressed file types.

5. GIMP
http://www.gimp.org/downloads

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring.

It is also a powerful piece of software with capabilities not found in any other free software product. It can be used as a simple paint, an expert-quality photo-retouching program, an online batch-processing system, a mass production image renderer, or an image-format converter.

GIMP is modular, expandable, and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image-manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

6. Roboform
http://www.roboform.com/download.html

RoboForm makes logging into Web sites and filling forms faster, easier, and more secure. It memorizes and securely stores each user name and password the first time you log into a site, then automatically supplies them when you return.

RoboForm’s powerful logins feature eliminates the manual steps of logging into any online account, enter your username and password and click the submit button for you with just one click RoboForm, and then you can navigate the sites.

7. OpenOffice
http://www.openoffice.org

OpenOffice.org is both an open-source product and a project. The product is a multi-platform office productivity suite.

It includes desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to those of other office suites. It also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.

Localizations of OpenOffice.org are available in 27 languages, with more being constantly added by the community. OpenOffice.org runs on Solaris, Linux (including PPC Linux), and Windows. Written in C++ and with documented APIs licensed under the LGPL and SISSL open-source protocols, It allows any knowledgeable developer to benefit from the source.

8. Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download

Audacity sound editor can record and play sounds and import and export WAV, AIFF, MP3, and OGG files, edit your sounds using cut, copy, and paste features (with unlimited undo functionality), mix tracks, or apply effects to your recordings.

The program also has a built-in amplitude-envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a frequency-analysis window for audio-analysis applications. Built-in effects include bass boost, wah wah, and noise removal, and the program also supports VST plug-in effects.

9. CamStudio
http://camstudio.org

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

10. Tweetdeck
http://www.tweetdeck.com/desktop

TweetDeck is your personal real-time browser, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Google Buzz and more, to let you staying in touch with what’s happening now. It shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organized and up to date.

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