m8harry - Welcome aboard!!
What you wanna do is try free website that give you free bitcoins they wont give you a lot but its a start.
Yeah I seen a massive list of those on here somewhere.
So im using the Bitcoin QT program atm (it was what bitcoin.org recommended and i understand i would be part of the processing network,
which im fine with, i dont mind helping) Its still about 70 weeks behind at this point but (feeling n00b sauce here) i let it update and sort out, do i just give a label of the website im at and use that address where it asks me and keep making new addresses for different sites?
There is soooo much information out there and ive found some sites that look plain dodgey so im trying to get consolidated information from a forum like this to ensure i dont get fleeced. (not that i think bitcoin is a get rich quick scheme, i see it as get rich VERY SLOWLY scheme LOL)