OPEN Sauce: Latest Top-Rated PC Freebies

Trevor writes:

Found this link on MSNBC - PC World's 101 Fantastic Freebies - liked these extracts:

Free email gets a big punt, especially - Gmail - 'The heavyweight champ of free e-mail is clearly Gmail, and not just because it gives you as much storage space as you'll ever need' - and Yahoo Mail - 'We love the interface, which works more like desktop e-mail software than traditional Web mail does.'

Instant Messaging, Voice, and Video - Winner: Meebo

Blogging Site - Winner: Google Desktop - Blogger is home to tens of thousands of blogs, and with good reason. Because it's template driven, getting started is simple; posting is also a snap. But you have plenty of powerful tools here, as well, such as the ability to make RSS feeds yourself, and the ability to create posts merely by sending an e-mail message containing the text.

Backup and File Synchronization - Winner: Mozy - Free backup programs and Web sites tend to give you only the basics, hoping that you'll then pay extra for additional features. That's not the case with Mozy, a full-featured online backup service.

Office Productivity Software and Services - Winner: Zoho - What makes Zoho the winner is that it doesn't merely try to copy Microsoft Office functionality. It's Web-based, so you can collaborate with others on your documents, for example. But the functionality of even the base software beats Microsoft's offering in some areas; for creating HTML and graphics-heavy documents, for instance, it surpasses Word. This is the best and most comprehensive Web-based office suite you can find. Included are a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation program, and a database builder -- and plenty of other productivity applications are being added all the time.
Business Productivity - Winner: Google Apps for Your Domain - If you're running a small business, why pay for collaboration software when this site can give you a lot of what you need for free? Google Apps offers group calendaring, portals for each employee, and Gmail accounts for everyone using your business domain.