Buying software has become a necessity for many of us. From the need to buy protective software for while you are surfing the internet to software to help your personal finances, there are some expensive programs out there. However, there are some free software programs that work very well — at saving you money while doing what you need them to do. Here are some ideas for saving money on software:
Word processing and other office functions
The days when you need to shell out around $150 for Microsoft Office are past. If you want to save money on word processing, spreadsheets …read more

Google’s are free – MS’s aren’t, and that ought to say a lot :)
Thank you to Elinor Mills at the News Blog;
Gadgets comes to Google Docs
Google on Wednesday unveiled Gadgets for Spreadsheets in Google Docs, allowing people to create graphical representations of data in spreadsheets and publish them on Web sites.

[Google Docs lets you turn your data into a Motion Chart in a spreadsheet via a Google Gadget. (Credit: Google)]
For consumers, this means they have a dozen or so new ways to look at data in their spreadsheets. Google has put up a gallery of specialty gadgets to choose from. …read more