There are literally thousands of useful programs and utilities available for download off the internet. Many are full commercial software packages for which you pay retail. Some, like printer drivers, are provided free of charge from a manufacturer in support of one of their products.

A good number of the programs available off the internet fall under the category of shareware and freeware. Shareware is software you can download and use for free on a temporary basis. If you like it, you can pay a small fee to continue using it. Freeware is software distributed without license fees that anyone can use for free.

A final category of software is open source. Open source software is software where the application and its source code are publicly available for free. The development of open source software is often a community effort of goodwill, meaning individuals volunteer their time and work to continually improve the software package.

In the Software Downloads section, you will find a collection of useful software we have gathered together from across the internet. Divided into five areas of interest, we think it's a destination you'll find useful.