Freeware

I have to admit. I LOVE free things. Although I'll admit that I'm not desperate enough to slam on the breaks when I see a cardboard sign on top of a rusty shopping cart along the road that reads, "Free", I still like free. Particuarly in the world of computer software. If you live in a Microsoft Windows environment, you can pretty much live on free software. Everything from web-browsers, office productivity tools, and the like can be found somewhere on the internet.

These past couple of days, my job had required me to research a free software program that would enable our business to convert our Microsoft Word document into a formatted help file for distributing a piece of software to some of our clients (forgive my run-on sentence). I knew that here had to be a way to do it. I had faith that we could do it for free. I'll admit that at one point I gave up hope. But then after persistence, I found not only a solution, but a superior piece of software for the problem. The cost? "0" dollars. All freeware. Its great.

Speaking of freeware, I also am in the process of collecting useful freeware for myself. I just don't collect anything. It has to be of high quality. Take for instance right now, I'm using a little program called, "w.bloggar" which enables me to write blog entries to several different blog sites, with tons of formatting features and settings. This software is convenient and best of all....that's right...its free. :-)