Database Software:

• LibreOffice Base - Free Database Software

Spreadsheets

• LibreOffice Calc - Learn how to use a Free alternative to Microsoft Excel

Word Processing

• Libre Office: Writer - A free alternative to Microsoft Word

Presentation Software

• LibreOffice Impress - Free Presentation Software

Diagramming and Charting Tool:

• Libre Office: Draw - A free alternative to Microsoft Visio, can export your diagram to filetypes of BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and WMF

Image/Photo Editing

• A basic tutorial of how to use the tools in Free image/photo editing tool Paint.Net
  (Pinta 1.6 for Linux users)

Desktop e-mail client

• Bring your Hotmail and/or your Yahoo Email right to your desktop using Thunderbird

Planetarium Software

• Stellarium - Free Planetarium Software

File Backups

• Backup your folders using SyncBack a Free file backup tool (sync tool not reviewed here)

• Backup files and folders using FBackup, a Free file and folder backup tool.

• A free (at the time of the recording) way to backup files and directories

System Backups

• Back up your computer with the Windows 7 system backup.

• Backup up your system (partitions) with Easeus Todo System Backup - Free system backup tool.

Encryption

• Create an encypted area to store your folders and files with free encryption tool True Crypt

Stand alone Programs

• A portable application is a software product designed to be easily moved form one computing environment to another