Free Antivirus Software

"Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software."

"AVG Free Edition is the well-known antivirus protection tool. AVG Free is available free of charge to home users for the life of the product."

"Founded in 2004, Malwarebytes is all about helping users remove malware from their computers... "

Mozilla Firefox Web Browser and Thunderbird Email

Firefox is a great free program for web browsing. It was built with privacy and security in mind. There many great add-ons to Mozilla, such as Evernote (note application), Delicious (web bookmark tool), and No-Script (Security Feature).
Download Firefox

Thunderbird is much better than Outlook Express for email and is good at filtering junk mail. It starts up fast and can handle IMAP. Plus it is free! This is a good program to run on a Netbook.
Download Thunderbird

Conficker (W32.Downadup) Removal Tool

Recently you may have read reports of a super computer worm that maybe on 9 million computers. Symantec offers a free removal tool.

Download it here: symantec.com

Free Movie Creation Software

Macs may have iMovie, but Windows has "Windows Live Movie Maker". This is a free program for Windows Vista and Windows 7 that lets you create movies or slide shows from your videos and photos collections.

download.live.com/moviemaker

Connect your Mac to your TV using HDMI

A recent vintage Apple Computers (Macs) uses Mini Displayport for video output, but not for sound. The HDMI on your TV is both video and sound. MonoPrice has the solution with a Mini Displayport Male and USB Male Audio to HDMI Female Converting Adapter.
Check it out here monoprice.com

Computer Hot Keys - Keyboard Shortcuts

Apple Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts
support.apple.com/kb/HT1343
Linux Ubuntu keyboard shortcuts
help.ubuntu.com/community/KeyboardShortcuts
Microsoft Windows keyboard shortcuts
support.microsoft.com/kb/126449

Groups Photos by Faces - Free

The new Picasa 3.5, from Google, groups photos by faces. Even if you have Photoshop you might enjoy this tool. It organizes your pics sort of like iTunes organizes your music.

Free download http://picasa.google.com/