I 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.
7-zip
You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don’t need to register or pay for 7-Zip. The main features of 7-Zip High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression Supported formats: Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM Unpacking only: ARJ, [...]
Evernote
Use 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. http://www.evernote.com
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
OpenOffice
I 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, [...]