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The Gimp is a great free to use, open source software application, to edit photos and other images.
www.gimp.org

If you need Microsoft Office, but either can’t afford or don’t want to pay for Office, take a look at OpenOffice. If you are sending files to others, remember to send it as a .doc or .rtf, so they can open it. OpenOffice even lets you convert to a pdf file.

Download it at OpenOffice.org

Google Docs also uses OpenOffice. Try it without downloading and installing it at docs.google.com