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I try very hard to find interesting matters that I can write about for you to read. My objective is to provide a website that provides the best stories that I can write for you to consider.

Naturally, I hope that you agree with what I set out but of course I understand that this is not always possible. Your opinion may well be different than mine and nothing that I write can change your mind. That is a given.

As I'm sure that you understand by now, the beginning of these Blog stories generally deal with personal matters that I write about. Of course they are important for me and deals matters that I have just gone through. I post them, as I have said before, to show you how I deal with them. I don't expect you to follow what I do but to give you an idea of how you might want to deal with a similar situation.

This approach is completely different compared with the writing I did previously. That is to be expected because this is my "private" website and not a "commercial" one. Accordingly, over the past several years, I have let you know a lot about what has influenced me in the past. Who knows, it may help you if you go through something similar. I hope so.

Now let me write about an issue that is important for me to discuss with you.

NO-COST SOFTWARE

I don't even want to think about the cost of buying software that even makes life so much easier when you are on your computer and need some particular items to help you out in something that you are doing. It can be quite pricey.

Here is an obvious example for me. As you know, I write a lot of stories on here for people to read. Given all the news stories that I have done and published, I probably have been writing publicly for over a decade. How many thousands of articles that represents I don't know but it is a huge amount of them. I will talk about this later but I used to use a software product for typing that costs a fair bit of money to buy but now I do not.

There are a number of products that I can purchase so that I can use them to carry out a number of functions while I am working on my computer. Unfortunately, the amount of money that I would have to spend would have to be considerable. Nevermind buying the software in the first place, I would have to pay more money whenever it was changed and I needed that upgrade.

I'm sure that you have heard about the concept of "freeware." That is software that you can use on your computer but do not have to pay any money to get it. One of the difficulties with freeware is that a number of the products are not made very well. After all, the person making it may not have the time to make it a "perfect" competitive product or may not have the skill to do so. Even if the original version is made well, the person who made it may not have the time to keep on upgrading it.

Luckily, there are some wonderful software products that one can obtain and use at no cost at all that are quite competitive with the software that costs money to buy. It is a real pleasure to find them and download them easily in order to use them. Let me give you just a couple of examples of what I mean. By the way, I'm not going to play the role of someone who's going to work his way through software and give you detailed information about the product. All you need to know was that I have researched the various software products and made a selection of the one that I thought best served my purposes.

Here is my first example: LIBREOFFICE

Obviously, I use a typing product considerably. I was never trained in school to learn how to type. The only skill I ever developed was learning to do it myself. After all these years, I am a very good two fingered typist. Regretfully, I never learned how to be a proper typist using both of my hands with all of the fingers.

To be realistic, I'm not a quick typist. In addition, I really cannot do a lot of typing these days once I start working. Plus, I still make a fair number of typos. When I started out, I looked for something to use and found Microsoft's OFFICE product. Unfortunately, I had to pay money to buy it before in order to use it. Now, when I don't work, I looked for freeware for which I paid no money as my product to use as an alternative.

Oh, just to let you know, even with the WORD word processing software in OFFICE, I did not "type" with it. I used its dictation system for my typing. Obviously, my freeware needed something similar.

I looked around for different freeware products and decided to use LIBREOFFICE as my alternative to OFFICE and WORD in particular. Without going into a lot of detail, it is a pretty good system for dictating online. However, I use its "dictation box" for my typing rather than going directly onto the webpage. That has to be done. All I do is transfer it when I want to use it subsequently.

I have not used their other software alternatives to the OFFICE system but I assume that they are quite workable as well.

Here is another free software product: Ccleaner

Like you, I go through a considerable number of websites every day while I'm on the Internet. After all, dear reader, I'm on here for a considerable number of hours each day. Oh sure, I do some work but I also use the Internet to find out all kinds of information from news stories, to have conversations with family and friends no matter where they are located in the world, and to look for the best products to buy at the best price. What it means is that I go to a variety of webpages around the Internet and download all kinds of junk in hundreds of megabytes of data that fills up my empty space. Accordingly, I need software to get rid of all of this junk.

The software product I use to do this is Ccleaner. Here is its website description:

“Is your computer running slow? As it gets older it collects unused files and settings which take up hard drive space making it slower and slower. CCleaner cleans up these files and makes it faster instantly.”

I even use it several times a day to speed up my computer.

What is interesting about this product, as well as a number of other products that are provided at no cost, is that there is both a "free" cost unit and "Pro" versions that cost some money. Obviously, I use the freeware unit as many people do and do not pay for the other versions. Clearly, the software which I choose to use is only the basic product and does not have all the features that the paid product does. However, it meets my particular needs extremely well.

I could talk about other software freeware products that you should consider downloading to use on your computer based on your own needs. However, you know what software is essential for you. Therefore go out and do the Internet search to find what you need and then download it to experiment with it.

By the way, you must also make sure that when you download freeware that you do not download all kinds of other useless software that a particular product attaches when it does the download. It does this just so the software developer can make a few dollars from that product developer for the extra downlaod. You may have to decide not to download that freeware of your choice, no matter how good it might appear to be, because otherwise it can mess up your computer.