Follow this link, http://www.freeware-software.org/ to find a very useful listing of free and freeware software.
It has tools listed under several categories including:
Office tools – a suite of free applications designed to mirror the tools available in Microsoft Office
Multimedia – – including music players, media players, sound recording and editing software
Security and Privacy Protection - antivirus and spy ware detection software
Graphic / Desktop publishing tools - free image and photo editing software
Internet - web browsers and Internet suites
I like this listing – it’s clean and easy to follow and includes many of the popular free software options with links directly to pages where you can download them. It also shows just how much great software is becoming available to use in this way.
This is a great link – many items that I’d heard about, but lots that I hadn’t, and I agree that the format is very clear and helpful. I’m particularly interested in ‘Blender’ – will try to find time to play with this!!