It may not be known to a lot of people but there are abundant desktop applications that can save you hundreds of dollar.
If you can't afford to buy Microsoft Office, you can opt for openoffice.org which is a complete suite that includes wordprocessing, spreadsheet and presentation. Don't even worry because files you created on each of this applications can be saved into different file formats such such as word, excel or powerpoint. Openoffice runs on windows, linux and mac operating systems.
What about editing your photos and adding some special effect? Most would say photoshop right? Well there's gimp which has all the features comparable to expensive graphics editor. Again this software is available for windows, linux and mac.
Can't afford quarkXpress, Pagemaker or Microsoft Publisher for your newspaper layouts? check out scribus.
And lastly, I love using thunderbird and evolution for my email clients instead of using outlook or outlook express. These email client can access virtually any type of email server (e.g. gmail, hotmail, yahoo).
These are just some of the thousands of free software on the internet. A great place for searching free and open source applications is sourceforge.net
So why pay if you can get them for free?
Wagi ka, bro. TY!
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