Internet Browser

Mozilla Firefox

http://www.mozilla.com/

 Firefox is a next generation internet browser that is incredibly fast, stable and includes a lot of nice features such as tabbed browsing. Also, it is not affected by all of the exploits and viruses that affect Internet Explorer, so using it as your web browser makes your internet access more secure.

E-Mail Application

Thunderbird Email

http://www.mozilla.com/

Thunderbird is an enterprise level e-mail client that includes all of the extra features that make using e-mail more effective such as a personal calendar, spam blocking, e-mail preview window, and much more.

Anti-Virus

AVG Free

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

AVG Free anti-virus is an award winning anti-virus program that scans your computer as well as your e-mail. It is user friendly, very fast and automatically updates its virus definitions daily. The application and all future updates are completely free for non-profit and personal use.

Anti-Spyware

Microsoft Windows Defender

http://www.microsoft.com/antispyware

In addition to anti-virus, every computer should have protection against spyware installed. Microsoft has created a great anti-spyware application and is offering it free of charge. Microsoft Anti-Spyware will automatically scan and protect your computer from spyware that attempts to hijack or steal data from your computer.

PDF Generator

PDFCreator

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

PDFCreator is a free application that once installed allows to you create a PDF of any application that can print. After installing PDFCreator a new printer is installed on your system that allows you to "print" to PDF, which you can save to your computer or e-mail to others. This works with all application, including Church Membership Online.
***Note: Download the PDFCreator_X_X_X_AFPLGhostscript.exe and run it to install PDFCreator.

Office Application

OpenOffice

http://www.openoffice.org/

OpenOffice is an award winning, free office application that provides all of the functionality of Microsoft Office. OpenOffice provides the same applications as Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) and can read and write Microsoft Office documents natively. Why pay hundreds of dollars per copy of Microsoft Office when you can get all of the same great office application functionality FREE! Using OpenOffice can save your church thousands of dollars per year.

Bible Translations, Commentaries & Dictionaries

E-Sword

http://www.e-sword.net/

E-Sword is an awesome Bible application that can be run on either your PC or your Pocket PC based handheld device. E-Sword gives you access to many different Bible translations, commentaries, dictionaries and provides an easy to use user interface with features such as bookmarks, personal comments, searching and much more!

   VU HTML editor

www.nvu.com

NVU is a WYSIWYG editor for web sites along the lines of FrontPage or Dreamweaver. It's available for PC, Mac or Linux, it's open-source, and it's free! It's also pretty easy to use while still being powerful.