Applications

Free unless indicated otherwise

Note: Some free applications charge for versions with more features.



Antivirus & Antispyware

Commercial

Audio tools

Online

Desktop

  • Audacity (audio and recording software)
  • Handbrake (DVD to MPEG-4 converter)
  • Media Info (PC, provides technical info on video and audio files)
  • (PC)

Commerical

Backing up

Desktop

Commerical

Bibliography tools

Citation tools

Lists of Bibliographic Tools

Blogging tools

Book (and other media) Sharing

Bookmark (and social annotation) Sharing

Calendars

Online

Desktop

Clipboard Managers

Desktop

Comics, Scrapbooks, and Others

Online

Desktop

Commercial

Content, Learning, and Weblog Management Systems

Conferencing & Discussion

Online

  • EtherPad (online realtime collaborative writing)
  • Fuze (online conferencing)
  • QuickTopic (private discussion boards)
  • Vyew (online collaboration and web conferencing)
  • Yackpack (a chat channel for webpages)
  • Yugma (collaboration)

Desktop

Email

Review of email clients

Firewall

Firefox plugins

FTP Clients & Download Managers

Images

Note: Some of these sites have both free and for-sale images, and some restrictions on how their free images are used, so read the license before using.

For a brief review of most of the above sites, read TechRadar's 12 best places to get free images for your site.

Image and diagramming tools

Online

Online image generators

For a brief review of most of the above sites, read Mashable's 13 Fantastic and Fun Image Generators

Desktop

Commercial

Reviews and lists

Instant Messaging

Launchers

Commercial

Mapping

Online

Desktop

Mind-Mapping

Online

Desktop

Commercial

  • iMindMap (supposedly the best tool for mind mapping)
  • Tinderbox (information management tool that can make mind maps and much more)

Miscellaneous

Online

Desktop

Shareware or Commerical

Sources of open source applications

PDF apps

Online

Desktop

Commercial

  • PDFfiIler (upload and fill out PDF forms online)

Personalized start pages

Photos

Online

Desktop

Presentation

Online

Desktop

Programming

  • Alice (learn programming in a 3D environment)
  • Panda3D (a library of subroutines for 3D rendering and game development.)

Publishing

  • Calameo (create online magazine from any document)
  • issuu (create online books and magazines)
  • Scribus

Research

Online

  • iLeonardo (social network for research)
  • Mendeley (manage, share and discover research papers)

Desktop

  • iBreadCrumbs (social network tool for researchers)
  • Mendeley (manage, share and discover research papers)
  • Netdraw (tool for visualizing social network data#41;
  • TAMS Analyzer (Mac, qualitative research tool)
  • Visone (tool for visualizing social network data)
  • Zotero (bibliographic material manager)

Shareware or Commerical

RSS readers, filters, and others

Online

Desktop

Commercial

Lists of RSS readers

Science Applications

Biology (Mac)

  • Enzyme (DNA sequence analysis and editing program)
  • 4Peaks (for visualizing, editing, and analyzing DNA sequence files)
  • iRNAi (for designing error free oligos)
  • Lab Assistant (experiment organizer)

Simulation Software

Storage Online

Reviews of Online Storage

Surveys, Polls, and Quizzes

Online

To-do, Project Management, and Scheduling

Utilities

Video (editing) tools and players

Online

Desktop

Commerical

Web and text editors

Online

Desktop

CSS editors

Commercial

Reviews of web and text editors

Web Authoring Sites (blogs and websites)

Micro-blogging sites

Website analytics

Word processing, spreadsheets, and office suites

Online

Desktop

Reviews, manuals, and tutorials for word processors

Word processing plus for writers

Commercial

List of Open Source Apps for Writers

Application (and other) Information

Lists of Freeware

Mac Lists

Freeware lists

Otherware lists

Web 2.0 (and educational) Lists

Miscellaneous Lists and Reviews

Tutorials

Reviews

  • Reviews of many types of PC software