Free studio is software pack that allows you to work with media files and convert from one video and audio file format to another; you can use some of the included applications to also burn DVDs and music CDs, download YouTube videos, extract the sound from YouTube videos in mp3 format, watch and listen to video and audio files on portable devices such as iPhone, iPod, PSP, Blackeberry and perform other many operations. The pack has more than 20 different tools and applications, which are designed to make working with different media files much easier.

Freelang is extremely useful, simple, lightweight, easy to use and excellent little tool that can help you immensely if you are trying to learn a foreign language. It can be used as a dictionary and also allows you to create your own practice lists; at the time of this writing Freelang offers no less than 247 language wordlists.

AbiWord is part of a larger development project known as AbiSource, which aims to create an open source office suite that works across multiple different environments. Although AbiWord is the only practical piece of software to come from the project so far, it’s shaping up to be a very flexible and practical program which has versions that can run on just about Operating System available. We take a look at the program and see how its features stack up compared to those of Word and Writer.

Notepad++ is a text editor that serves as an excellent replacement for the notepad application of your operating system.

OpenOffice.org is an entirely free and impressively complete office suite which includes word processing, spreadsheets, databases, presentations and more. All the things you’re likely to find in Microsoft Office — but for free.