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? It is also good for trying to locate if a specific domain is available.
- MXToolbox
- Look up key email details like email provider (Microsoft, Google, etc)
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 without 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. Note: I have a few issues with the organization that manages it and wrote about it here.
Want to rip DVDs to your PC?
- Handbrake, 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.