It’s hard to believe but summer is winding down, and many stores are starting their back to school sales. If you are headed to college for the first time, or ready to start the New School Year off right read on for my recommendations for 5 essential programs for college.
- Office 2010 Home & Student – Hands down, no questions you will use Office every day at school. Whether you are typing papers, or working on projects programs like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel will help you get all your work done. The new tools and features in Office 2010 will help you get your work done quickly and easily (…maybe that depends on the person). If you are equipped with a Mac check out Office 2008 For Mac.
- Adobe Creative Suite – If you are headed into a degree in any kind of design, or art then programs in Adobe’s creative suite will be truly beneficial to you. A majority of classes are taught on Photoshop and Illustrator. Keep up with the latest edition of CS5 to take advantage of all the great new features.
- Kaspersky Internet Security – Let’s face it, if you’re headed to college you are going to be on the internet a ton! (wheatear or not you’re doing homework is up to you) Protect your PC with one of the best protection suites available. Kaspersky’s Internet Security 2010 will keep your PC running in tip top shape all year long so you can keep studying (and use facebook.)
- Chrometa Time Management Software – Chrometa 2 is an incredibly useful for staying organized. Use Chrometa to track your daily work habits, and fine tune them to increase efficiency. You’ll start noticing things about your habits that you would have never paid attention to before. Check it out now to find out how you can stay more organized.
- Search & Recover – Tired of losing reports, and other important assignments? Search & Recover is here to help you. Not only will the program comb your system for what you are searching for, it also features powerful recovery tools. Don’t worry about losing anything again with the powerful TotalRecovery wizard included with Search & Recover.
