text: what is the single best freeware application?   there's not really a single freeware application that's best.  open office is a great alternative to ms office audacity is the leader with music file stuff limewire & emule are clean p2p file sharers ad-aware & spybot for anti-spyware avg or avast! for anti-virus gimp is the free alternative to photoshop  not to mention yahoo! games, freeciv, sudoku, and numerous other games