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- Everyone loves FREE. So, here is a list of some of the best free software we have found with regards to web design and development. We personally use or have used the software listed here and none of these software makers paid us to get listed here. We did it because we are just so darn nice 
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Web Graphics
- Top Pick for Screen Capture Software – Faststone
- Top Pick for Screen recording software – CamStudio
- Top Pick for Graphics Editing – Gimp
Web Development
- Top Pick for FTP Client – WinSCP
- Top Pick for Text Editor – Notepad ++ (Text editor and much more – way better than Microsoft Notepad).
- Top Pick for ActionScript editor – SEPY actionscript editor – Edit or create Actionscript without even opening Flash.
- Top Pick for Free Dreamweaver replacement -Nvu Web Authoring System – Works on Linux Desktop, Windows or Mac.
Web Browsing
- Top Pick for Web Browsing – Firefox – no explanation needed
- VERY close second – Opera – Web browser that has plenty of benefits
Web Safety
- Top Pick for Anti-virus – AVG anti-virus
- Top Pick #1 for Anti-spyware – AVG anti-spyware
- Top Pick #2 for Anti-spyware (because you can’t have too many options in this department) – Spybot Search and Destroy
This concludes our list of the best free software related to web design and development. I am sure there will be some differing of opinions, so if you have ones that you are particularly fond of, feel free to speak up. As I mentioned in the introduction, we either use or have used all of the software on this list, so we recommend from experience .
Things We Like – Faststone Screen Capture »
The inaugural selection for our Things We Like section is a free software program that we just cannot do without. We use it almost everyday and if you need to make a screen capture, you should be using it too.
Faststone Screen Capture is the very first thing we have featured in our Things We Like section on the right. It will not only capture your screen and turn it into an image which you can email or publish on the Internet, it will allow you to make annotations on that image, resize it, magnify parts of it, give it a funky edge effect and lots more. Particularly useful is the automatic color-picker option, which will tell you the exact color code of any graphic that your cursor touches. We love this program and could not do without it.
If you are looking for a screen capture program that will not hog a bunch of your computer’s memory, Faststone is it.
Faststone Screen Capture is an absolute "can't do without" piece of software. Capture screenshots in a fixed window or with the scrolling window feature. It even has a screen color-picker that will tell you the code for any color that is displayed on your screen. Love it. Oh, its free too! 
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