Below are tools and products I use regularly and recommend if you’re looking for:
Newegg’s Memory Finder: makes finding your RAM options easy.
Troubleshooting and diagnostic tools:
- Ookla’s Speed Test: a defacto standard for quite some time
- Sourceforge has their own speed test
- Malwarebytes Anti-malware Tool
- AVG – Antivirus
- WhoIs: Who owns a particular domain, also good for trying to locate if a specific domain is available.
Office Substitutes:
- LibreOffice: This is now the first on my list for Office substitutes.
- OpenOffice: Full featured office productivity suite
- Google’s Office Competitor: G Suite
PDF Alternatives:
Adobe Alternatives: it’s hard to beat the Creative Suite’s domination of the creative world, but here are a few tools to provide some of that functionality with the monstrous price tag.
Here are some key general open source/freeware products I recommend.
- Firefox
- Ubuntu: the most user friendly (in my opinion) of the Linux distributions.
- Audacity: open source audio editing tool.
Want to rip DVDs to your PC?
- Handbrake, this is the best tool I’ve found for this.
Google’s URL Shortner:
- Need a more manageable url size for sharing? Google’s got you covered.