Got the laptop

They delivered the laptop yesterday. My wife likes it, so it was a worthwhile purchase.

Instant installs:

1. AVG Free ver 7 - anti-virus software


2. Adobe Acrobat Reader 7


3. Quicktime Player, which unfortunately, is only available bundled with iTunes - to view movies from my camera


4. Opera 8 - a seriously cool browser; mouse gestures rule!


5. Picasa2 - really useful for organizing tons of pics


6. Irfanview - small, fast pic viewer; I prefer this to ACDSee


7. OpenOffice 2 - free alternative to the MS Office suite, and definitely better than the MS Works suite

I'm probably still missing some essential software. Will add when I remember.