• 4 virtually free issues of Timeout Magazine
Time Out provides you with all the information and inspiration you need to make the most of living in London. It normally costs £3.25 to buy 1 issue at the news stand. But for a limited time, with this offer, you get not just 1 but 4 issues with free delivery, for a total of just £1. This is so cheap that it's virtually free as far as we're concerned, since the £1 is just a token payment. But we're not sure if the offer will last that long so be quick.
• Groupon - unbeatable deals in your city every day
Sign up with Groupon MyCityDeal to get a great deal in your city at an unbeatable price every day. Previous deals have included: watch any film at Cineworld for just £1, get a £10 Wagamama gift card for just £5, get £20 worth of photo, canvas, acrylics, photobooks and other printing services at posterXXL for just £3. They regularly have everything from 2 for 1 at exclusive restaurants, and discounted treatments at health spas.
• Free McAfee AntiVirus for Orange Home BB Customers
If you’re an Orange home broadband customer, you can have a year’s free subscription to McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2012 with Parental Controls, worth £49.99. This award-winning security software allows you to safely browse, email, shop and bank online, while protecting your children with the latest parental controls.
• Barclays customers: Free Kaspersky Security Software
Barclays Online Banking customers get the award-winning Kaspersky Internet Security suite and Kaspersky Mobile Security suite free of charge for 12 months.
LibreOffice.org is the leading free and open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. Almost everything that you can do with Microsoft Office, you can do with this instead, for free! It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages including Microsoft Office. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface. At FSJ this is our favourite FTP client for Windows.
• OpenDisc
OpenDisc is a high qualiy collection of free, open source software for the Microsoft Windows operating system, all on one CD that you can download. It includes many of the software packages we feature in this section.
• Gimp Image Editing & Authoring Software
Gimp is simply the best software for doing things like photo retouching and creating/authoring your own images. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an image format converter, and just about any other image/photo editing and creating task you might want. It's completely free and rivals even the best "paid for" image authoring/editing software out there.
• 7-Zip Archiving & Compression Utility
7-Zip is is our file archiving/zip/unzip software of choice for Windows computers at FSJ. Supported formats: Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR. Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, MSI, WIM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS.
• Pidgin Instant Messaging client
Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. It can work with AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo! and Zephyr.
• Free Windows CD/DVD-Writer Program
CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs on Windows, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.
Award winning adware removal program which is free for non-commercial use. The program will scan your Windows computer memory, registry and hard disk for known datamining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components and remove them for you. We have tried this on a couple of adware infested machines and it worked a treat!