吉娜·特拉帕尼

最近谷歌发布了一个名为GooglePack的Windows免费软件集。大G为包做了一些很好的应用程序选择，还有一些糟糕的应用程序（RealPlayer*cough*Norton*cough*）。

巧合的是，一年前，当Lifehacker还只是一只烤箱里的火鸡时，我的出版商和我讨论发行一张最好的自由软件CD。我们从来没有考虑过这个问题，但如果我们考虑过，下面是我将在Lifehacker Pack中包含的应用程序列表。

生产率

OpenOffice OpenOffice提供与Microsoft文件格式完全兼容的Word、Excel和PowerPoint等文件格式，让您想知道为什么您的家用计算机上没有安装M$Office会感到汗流浃背。

• Google Desktop Search Search your hard drive like you search the Web. Google Desktop indexes song data and email and comes with a handy Sidebar great for wide-screeners sick of all the whitespace on the right side of Lifehacker.
• Google Earth Someday I want to be a licensed airplane pilot. Google Earth lets me pretend from my desk at home in between Lifehacker posts. Now available for Mac, too.

通信

• Trillian I admit Google Talk's turned my head a coupla times, but Trillian still has my heart. Tabbed multi-protocol mult-name instant messaging with Wikipedia integration is simply yummy.

Thunderbird我知道这种基于网络的电子邮件在孩子们中非常流行，但T-bird可以让你离线管理电子邮件，在你打字时在线检查拼写，并通过几次点击亲自回复数百条重复的邮件。拿着，Gmail。

• Skype It's not just for talking to the computer with a headset anymore. Word on the street has it that with a Skype USB phone and some cheapy-cheap SkypeOut credits, VOIP can be yours.

间谍软件保护

• Ad-Aware If it weren't for Ad-Aware, I'd be trying to stomp on the roach in a full-screen IE pop-up window right now while someone bought imported child **** from the Netherlands with my stolen credit card number and a Nigerian drained my checking account. Thank you, Ad-Aware.
• ZoneAlarm Every once in awhile for fun I check the number of high-risk intrusi*** that ZoneAlarm has blocked on my always-on broadband connection, and I feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

媒体

• VLC Both Windows Media Player and Quicktime went "Buh?" when you tried to play that video file. Trust me - VLC will play it.
• iTunes Some quickly-addressed yet shady privacy issues with the new release aside, iTunes still handles my 55 gigabyte music collection like a champ.
• Picasa First thing I install for family members when they get their first digital camera.

Audacity想录制一首在互联网电台播放的歌曲吗？把调子缩短到20秒，让它成为你**的**，怎么样？大胆会对你有好处的。

公用事业

• FoxIt PDF Reader In the time it takes for Adobe Acrobat Reader to launch and then load up that PDF, you could download, install and open it with FoxIt with time to spare. Ditch Adobe for FoxIt's leaner, meaner PDF browsing.
• 7-Zip When WinZip started refusing to open certain necessary file formats, I switched to 7-Zip and never looked back. ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM and DEB, oh my!

SyncBack使用SyncBack保护您的数据，SyncBack支持跨本地磁盘、网络驱动器和FTP服务器的备份和同步。在这里查看我最近一轮的SyncBack love and backup scheme Goods。

网状物

• Firefox The "duh" choice, of course. But once you download, don't forget to drive with the keyboard, set up 15 useful search shortcuts, get the Greasemonkey extension installed and running some great user scripts, and to check out the ever-growing list of our favorite extensi***. Oh, and Mac users? Get yourself a Firefox build optimized for you.

我知道你们都很重视你们的自由软件，这就是为什么我如此喜欢你们。你想在这个清单上包括或排除什么？请在lifehacker.com的评论或提示中告知我们。

《生活黑客》的编辑吉娜·特拉帕尼（Gina Trapani）没有这个软件就无**常工作。她的半周专题片《极客生活》每周三和周五在Lifehacker上播出。订阅Geek to Live订阅源，在您的新闻阅读器中获得新的分期付款。