Recommended Free Software

NetRaising has fully vetted all the software solutions listed below and recommends them without reservation.

Anti-Virus

For PC: Microsoft Security Essentials

For Mac: avast! - Free Antivirus for Mac
SOPHOS - Free Antivirus for Mac

A Web Whiteboard

A Web Whiteboard

Content Management

ExpressionEngine

Design Resources

Canva’s Web App - drag & drop graphics editor/creator

Email

PC and Mac: Thunderbird

FTP/sFTP

PC and Mac: Cyberduck (open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, OpenStack Swift, Backblaze B2, Microsoft Azure & OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox | optional donation)

Google Programmable Search for Nonprofits

Getting started with Google Programmable Search »
How to disable the ads from your free search engine »

Image Compression

PC and Mac: Tiny PNG
PC and Mac: Conpressor.io

Mac: Image Optim

Internet Browsers

For PC: Maxthon (the world’s most popular PC browser that you’ve never heard of),
Chrome, FireFox, and Opera

For Mac: Safari, FireFox, Chrome, and Opera

Office Productivity

PC and Mac: LibreOffice (may be used along-side or instead of MS Office - formerly OpenOffice)

PC and Mac: Google Docs

Photo Editing

For Mac: Seashore

For PC: IrfanView

Paint.NET
Paint.NET Instructions Simple (pdf) and Paint.NET Instructions (pdf)

*note: the actual download is a link, NOT the Buttons; those are ads, and will look something like this on the page.

Screen Capture

PC: Snipping Tool Instructions
Mac: Press the Command, Shift and numeral 4 keys at the same time.
Google Chrome Browser Extension: Full Page Screen Capture

QR Code Generator

QR Code Generator (free for static QR Codes).