Software I use

Technology Dec 29, 2004

I only use Windows because I have to. I’m gradually moving off it to Linux, including running non-Microsoft software under Windows. This includes ‘free’ (Open Source) applications. Most of these below fall into this category.
Browser: Mozilla Firefox with the excellent Googlebar extension.
Email: Mozilla Thunderbird
Music Librarian: I used to use Media Monkey, but have now moved to the Apple’s iTunes
File downloads (smaller files): Limewire
and for larger files: the Bittorrent network via the Azureus client program
For document creation: The brilliant Open Office can not only read MS Office formats, but create them too. Word. Powerpoint. Excel. More importantly, it’s own formats are future-proof; XML text. Unlike the closed, binary formats of Office.