Office AppsI bet some of you have purchased a computer and thought it came with Microsoft Office just to find out it was really a trial version. Well here are some great alternatives to spending money on something most of you will just be writing a resume with. EvernoteUse Evernote to save your ideas, things you see, and things you like. Then find them all on any computer or device you use. This is a great Microsoft OneNote alternative that will sync with all your devices. Notepad++This amazing program is Notepad on steroids! This is a web developers dream program. If you like to manually change code of HTML, JAVA, CSS, XML, and other web code this program will highlight code that is related so you can better view the code. http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm OpenOfficeI cant even count the number of people that have asked my why their $400 computer didn't come with Microsoft Office. Well Microsoft Office is more expensive then Microsoft Windows believe it or not. The majority of us out there don't actually need Microsoft's Office. We just need a place to create a fancy resume, keep track of some finances in a spreed sheet or create a presentation about a trip we took. Well OpenOffice will do all of this and more! Its been downloaded over 100 million times and is owned by Oracle. Probably not a name most home users have herd but they make database software that runs some of the largest databases in the world. OpenOffice comes with 5 applications Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, and Base. Check out their website for more details. 
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