“Free” is a very popular word nowadays, with a lot of developers creating some pretty amazing software that they distribute for free, both on mobile and desktop operating systems. Of course, free in most cases means only “free to use”, because developers still make money by displaying ads or having a pro version that is paid and has a few great features absent from the free version.

Windows is no exception – in fact, it is the OS with the largest software database (which sadly isn’t available in a single location, but Google is your friend) and there are a lot of great applications that are completely free and can easily compete with other, paid products. Here’s just a short list I believe you should check out:

Readon TV Movie Radio Player is not something that has been around for years. This new and revolutionary software is something that will allow users to watch channels from across the globe; thousands of them! The great thing about this software is that it allows people to watch all of these channels without subscribing to extra TV packages, all from the comfort of their computer. In fact, people can even store the best audios to MP3 audio files so they can listen to them another time.

There was once a time when floppy drives were used every single day. Nowadays, computer users would be lucky if they even owned one. The reality is that they are no longer needed and this is something that is likely to happen to optical drives in the near future, something that WinToFlash is hoping to solve.

SimpleOCR is a popular program that is used to change images that have been scanned, into both text files and Word documents. The process may sound extremely complicated, but with the help of SimpleOCR, it is actually extremely simple! One of the major benefits of using SimpleOCR is the fact that it is 100% free of charge.

FreeOCR is something that has only become popular over the last few months. This piece of software is something that is a free scan program, but also a free OCR program, hence the name! The great thing about this product is that it gives an extremely accurate scan of OCR PDF files.

ChromePlus is basically the next step up from the so popular Google Chrome. Since its launch, Google Chrome has been intensely popular. Of course, it was only a matter of time before Google brought out something new; ChromePlus. The features that have been incorporated into ChromePlus are extremely technologically advanced in comparison to what Chrome used to have. Features that have been incorporated include such things as Super drag, IE tab, and even Mouse gesture. Of course, like Chrome, ChromePlus can be used simply to surf the internet as well.

LicenseCrawler is a great piece of software that aims to save people time and money when it comes to setting up their system again. A lot of people find that they want to wipe their system and start from scratch. One of the main reasons for doing this would be because of a virus. Whatever the reason for reconfiguring a computer, the main problem is finding all the licenses and serial numbers for all the software that was originally installed.

Nitro PDF Reader is a piece of software that works in a much more complicated manner than the majority of other PDF readers. That being said, that does not mean that the user experience is any more complicated. In fact; the user experience is simplified if anything!