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This is the place where we have set up links and downloads of FREEWARE and exceptionally good shareware.   While we cannot absolutely guarantee the quality and safety of the items listed here , we have found them to be totally and safe and excellent for their purpose at the time of listing them.  Our criteria for listing these programs are (1) ease of installation, (2) ease of use and (3) features that make them worth while or better and in most cases as good as the commercial competitors.   We believe them to  be equivalent  to and quite competitive to the commercial products they  are competing against.  Many of them are also easier to use than the over featured  commercial ones and therefore better suited to small business enterprises.

Try Them , they'll save you a bunch and make it easier for you  to run your office or home systems.  All that we list are free of  pop ups, intruders and other Malware.

 When installing any Freeware or Shareware be sure that your system is well protected against Malware.   We carry the Guardian anti malware service which will  protect you better than anything we have found on the market.  CLICK HERE TO ORDER. Subscription is 32.50 per year. Full Free Support and a new CD every month.  All the programs we list here are free of Malware. Good Tips for the Use of and Installation of Freeware CLICK HERE.

All Programs run under Windows, Many also have Linux/Unix and MAC versions available.

If you find programs weak or defective somehow LET US KNOW.

 FOR HELP You can call us at 805-988-9540 if you need help and support with these. For free help email questions to answerman@calpactech.com

MORE IMPORTANT, IF YOU KNOW AND HAVE USED OTHER PROGRAMS THAT YOU FIND GOOD OR BETTER, LET US KNOW AND WE CAN ADD IT HERE.  EMAILHERE.   Be sure to provide information on where we can get it

PROGRAM

  TYPE OR USE

DESCRIPTION, COMMENTS

OFFICE TOOLS

A great collection of office tools that will save you about $800 in software costs over the standard commercial ones

Our selection of free software to assist you in keeping your books without having to pay and pay.  Do be sure to throughly test these . Your going to be using it and be stuck with it for a long time.  Whith these the upgrades are free and you won't have to pay and pay and pay every year.  They are easier than Quick Books , at least our testing indicates that.

THUNDERBIRD

KEY WALLET

Utility

A great program to keep your passwords instantly ready to use by drag and drop and safe from intruders. your site locations passwords and user ids for the various sites you use are kept in a separate location and are encrypted. The result is that intruders will not easily be able to find them and if they do the encryption protects the passwords from being hacked.

NOTE: It may take a bit of work on some xp and Vista systems to install OK

FILE & DATA RECOVERY

Anti Virus and Malware

The Best freeware programs for Antivirus and anti malware,  equivalent to and surpasses norton/symantec and Mc Affee.

Our selection of data recovery programs that we have found.

FIREFOX

Internet Browser

This is the best browser available anywhere. beats the h....out of Internet Explorer that  Microsoft dumps on your Windows.  has many,many add ons and extensions and features that Internet Explorer does not have. Also its safer by far and faster.

FOXMARKS- XMARKS

Internet Browser  Helper

This is the best innovation to browsing to come along in several years.  If you go online on more than one computer  You can have your same favorites appear on each No matter what you use. FIREFOX, INTERNET EXPLORER, SAFARI ETC.  Your favorites are kept on a server and when you download the client program it will synchronize your favorites on that computer from your Foxmark account.  Depending on your settings as to the type of synchronization  you need to watch that when hooking in a new computer you May want to KEEP settings on the SERVER and download rather than synch onto a machine that has trash favorites you don't want. You can  Synchronize in several other ways.  These are kept in your Profile on each computer you use.     A GREAT HELP WHEN YOU USE ONE AT WORK, ANOTHER AT HOME AND A LAPTOP OR TWO IN BETWEEN.  A saftyu measure would be to have a backup of the favorites you want to make sure you want to keep until you get the idea.

7 ZIP

Archive / Extracting Tool

An excellent Source Forge Extracting and packing tool  Covers the following  Formats: 

Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR

Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, MSI, WIM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS

Graphics Art and Video Programs

Graphics

Here is a selection of our Tested and filtered Graphical arts programs to help with Web site development and Publishing and other uses.

Great FREEBIES and Deals on the Internet

MISC Internet sites

Here are a number of Internet Sites that we and the readers think are worth their weight in ????

Web development

Tools to help you create your own web site.  We select them from among many, many based upon ease of installation and use and having sufficient  features to allow you to really develop a useable  functional and pleasant site.  They are equal to or better than most commercial products.

SYSTEM and Network Utilities

System Utilities

Here is a set of tried and true system utilities not loaded with Spyware and other Malware.  A Full set of tested and free Defragers, Network/Internet Speed testers,  Registry Cleaners etc.etc.

Backup Utilities

Backup Utilities

Multimedia Ware

Miscellaneous Sound, Video etc. Programs

Here is our Collection of Audio, Video, and Reproduction ware

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Linux operating systems

Here are several Linux Operating systems and installations. Most of the programs on this site ( when applicable) provide Linux versions. In fact many are Linux Open Source  that were carried to Windows in recent years.