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Applications
Free unless indicated otherwise
Note: Some free applications charge for versions with more features.
Antivirus & Antispyware
- Ad-Aware 2007 (PC antispyware)
- Avast! (PC antivirus)
- AVG Anti-virus (PC)
- Avira
- ClamAV (PC)
- HijackThis (PC, remove spyware)
- Spybot Search & Destroy (PC antispyware)
- Spyware Terminator (PC)
- WinPatrol (PC)
Commercial
- iAntiVirus (Mac)
Audio tools
Online
- Gcast (audio broadcasting)
- Show Beyond (audio narration for slideshows)
- Vodcaster (for publishing audio and video podcasts)
- Voice Thread
- Wavosaur
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
- FlexiMusic (variety of inexpensive PC audio editors and music composers)
- Rogue Amoeba (variety of audio and broadcasting apps)
- Sound Studio
Backing up
Desktop
- Carbon Copy Cloner (Mac, donationware but free for educators)
- Clonevilla
- Drive Backup Express (PC)
- DriveImage XML (PC)
- Easeus Disk Copy
- Winclone (backing up bootcamp partition on Mac)
- XXClone (PC)
Commerical
Bibliography tools
Citation tools
Lists of Bibliographic Tools
- ShaRef Project (list of bibliographic tools)
- Comparison of free bibliographic managers
- Citation Management Tools
Blogging tools
- Windows Live Writer (PC)
Book (and other media) Sharing
Bookmark (and social annotation) Sharing
Calendars
Online
Desktop
- Sunbird
- Zimbra Open Source Edition (Email, IM, and calendar suite)
Clipboard Managers
Desktop
- ClipX (PC)
- PTHPasteboard (Mac)
- Shadow (public beta for Mac)
Comics, Scrapbooks, and Others
Online
Desktop
- Blender (3D content creation suite)
- Comics Sketch
- Make Beliefs Comix
- Scrapbook (creating online multimedia scrapbooks)
- Scratch (create games, stories, and animations)
- Strip Generator
- Strip Creator
- ToonDoo
Commercial
- Comic Life (Mac)
- Comic Book Creator (PC)
Content, Learning, and Weblog Management Systems
- Drupal
- EggBlog
- Expression Engine Core (full version is commercial)
- Flatpress
- Geeklog
- gRSShopper
- Joomla
- LifeType
- LoudBlog
- Mephisto
- MODx
- Moodle
- Movable Type
- Pivot
- Sakai Project
- sBLOG
- Serendipity
- SPIP
- Symphony
- TextPattern
- Website Baker
- WheatBlog
- Wordpress
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
- Vanilla (discussion forum)
- Thunderbird
- Zimbra Open Source Edition (Email, IM, and calendar suite)
Review of email clients
Firewall
- Comodo Firewall Pro (PC)
- NoobProof (firewall configuration tool for Mac)
- WaterProof (firewall configuration tool for Mac)
- ZoneAlarm (PC)
Firefox plugins
- 23 Best Social Networking Toolbars and Plugins for Firefox
- diigo (social annotation tool)
- firebug
- fleck (social annotation tool, also available for Internet Explorer)
- iBreadCrumbs (social network tool for researchers)
- noscript
- Scribefire (blog editor)
- Universal uploader
- Web Developer
- Zotero (bibliographic material manager)
FTP Clients & Download Managers
- Core FTP (PC)
- Cyberduck (Mac)
- Download Accelerator Plus (PC)
- Filezilla (PC)
- Flashget (PC)
- Smart FTP (PC)
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.
- 123 free vectors
- flickr creative commons
- Free Digital Photos
- FreeMediaGoo
- Free Photos Bank
- Freerange
- ImageAfter
- morgueFile
- OpenPhoto
- Pixel Perfect Digital
- QVectors
- stock.xchng
- StockVault
- Unprofound
- Vecteezy
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
- Adobe Photoshop Express
- ajaxSketch
- Chocoflop
- Gliffy (drawing diagrams)
- Mindmeister (mind/concept mapping)
- Mixbook
- Splashup (image editor)
- Sumo Paint
Online image generators
- Warning Label Generator
- The Parody Motivator Generator
- Street Sign Generator
- CHEEZburger
- Big Huge Lab: Magazine Cover
- Tombstone Generator
- Big Huge Lab: Movie Poster
- Garbage Pail Kids Sign Generator
- President's Seal Generator
- Skitch
For a brief review of most of the above sites, read Mashable's 13 Fantastic and Fun Image Generators
Desktop
- Blender (3D content creation suite)
- Cenon
- CocoThumbX (Mac thumbnail creator)
- Drawit Lite (Mac image editor) (Javascript image zooming)
- FancyZoom
- Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program)
- Gimp for the Mac
- Hex Color Picker (Mac Color Palette plugin)
- JAlbum: Web photo album generator
- Inkscape (vector graphics app)
- paint.net (image editing and photo manipulation)
- Porta (PC album generator)
- Seashore (Mac)
- Shadowbox.js (Javascript image zooming)
- Web Album Generator (PC)
- Web Picture Generator (PC)
Commercial
- GraphicConverter (Mac, read review here)
- Intaglio (Mac)
- WouldjaDraw (Mac)
- ZeusDraw (Mac)
Reviews and lists
- Drawing conclusions (Review of Intalgio, Lineform, VectorDesigner, ZeusDraw)
- Best Freeware Design Software (Lifehacker)
Instant Messaging
- Adium (Mac)
- AIM
- IRC
- Meebo (IM with instant translation)
- MeGlobe
- Pidgin
- Skype
- Windows Live Messenger
- Zimbra Open Source Edition (Email, IM, and calendar suite)
Launchers
- A Better Launcher Finder (Mac)
- Butler (Mac)
- Enso Launcher (PC)
- Executor (PC)
- Launchy (PC)
- Namely (Mac)
- Quicksilver (Mac)
- RapidoStart (Mac)
- RocketDock (PC)
- Snard (Mac)
Commercial
- LaunchBar (Mac)
Mapping
Online
Desktop
- Google Earth
- Microsoft Maps (for Virtual Earth download, click on 3D)
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
- Dipity (create interactive timelines)
- FlashVortex (create flash animations)
- Glogster (create interactive posters)
- Highrise (contact management)
- Kickapps (social media applications)
- Kwout (screenshots of web pages)
- Ning (create your own social network)
- Official Seal Generator
- Scriblink (online whiteboard)
- SimplyBox (capture, organize, and share what you find on the web)
- Skrbl (online multi-user whiteboard)
- Vocabulary Profiler
Desktop
- 7-Zip (file archiver)
- Adeona (laptop tracker)
- Evernote (note-taking tool with online component)
- Imgburn (PC CD/DVD/Blu-ray burner)
- Integrity (Mac, website broken link checker)
- Linotype FontExplorer X (Mac, font management tool)
- MacLibre (a collection of Mac appliations)
- Netdraw (tool for visualizing social network data#41;
- Portable Apps Suite
- Rachota (Time tracker)
- Software for Starving Students (OS X and Windows)
- Synfig Studio (animation tool)
- Timeline
- Visone (tool for visualizing social network data)
Shareware or Commerical
Sources of open source applications
PDF apps
Online
Desktop
- Combine PDFs (Mac, for manipulating PDF documents)
- Foxit Reader (PC)
- PDF Creator (PC)
- PDF Online (PC, for converting to PDF)
- PDF Split and Merge (PC)
- Primopdf (pdf creator)
- Skim PDF reader and note-taker (Mac)
Commercial
- PDFfiIler (upload and fill out PDF forms online)
Personalized start pages
Photos
Online
- AutoMotivator (posters)
- Adobe Photoshop Express
- fd's Flickr Toys
- Flickr (online photo sharing)
- JAlbum.net (online photo sharing)
- JumpCut
- Parody Motivator Generator (posters)
- Picasa (sharing and managing photos)
- Fotoflexer
Desktop
- JAlbum: Web photo album generator
- Motivation LOL (Mac, posters)
Presentation
Online
- 280Slides
- Bookr (make illustrated books with photos from flickr)
- Flowgram
- Glogster (create posters with images and sound)
- Masher
- one true media
- Rich Chart Live (publish charts to flash or powerpoint)
- Screencast-o-Matic
- Screenr (screencasts for Twitter)
- ScreenToaster (online screen recorder)
- Slide
- Sliderocket
- Slideshare
- Spresent
- This Moment
- VoiceThread
- Vuvox
- Zentation (syncs video with powerpoint slides)
Desktop
- Aviscreen
- CamStudio (streaming video/screencast software)
- Copernicus (Mac, screencast but no audio)
- Jing
- Photo Story 3
- Wink
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
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
- Bloglines
- FeedBlitz (feed to email newsletter)
- Feedrinse (tool for filtering RSS feeds)
- Google Reader
- Newsgator
- Newshutch
Desktop
- Blogbridge
- NetNewsWire (Mac)
- Shrook (Mac)
- RSS Bandit (PC)
- Sharpreader (PC)
- Vienna (Mac)
Commercial
- FeedDemon (PC)
Lists of RSS readers
- John Tokash. A Directory of RSS Aggregators
- RSS Compendium - RSS Readers
- The Ultimate RSS Toolbox - 120+ RSS Resources
- List of Feed Aggregators (Wikipedia)
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
- 4Shared
- adrive
- AllMyData
- box
- divShare
- Dropbox
- esnips
- getdropbox
- IDrive
- Omnidrive
- Scribd
- Senduit (document forwarding)
- Wikisend
- Yousendit (document fowarding, free and non-free accounts)
- And there are many more: See "Reviews of Online Storage" below
Reviews of Online Storage
- Backup Review
- Six Free Online Storage Services
- The Best Free Online File Storage
- Free Online File Storage
Surveys, Polls, and Quizzes
Online
- Advanced Polls
- FreeOnlineSurveys.com
- Kwik Surveys
- MyStudiyo
- Poll Authority
- ProProfs QuizSchool
- QuestionForm (limited free version, pay for more features)
- Quizlet
- Survey Monkey (limited free version, pay for more features)
To-do, Project Management, and Scheduling
- Doodle (Schedule events via polling)
- iGTD (GTD-like organizer for Mac)
- iScrybe
- Online CEO
- OpenProj
- Remember the milk
- Tada List
- Tudu Lists
- Voo2do
Utilities
- CCleaner (PC, system optimizer)
- nCleaner (PC, system optimizer)
- Izarc (PC, archival utility)
- Onyx (Mac, multifunction utility)
- Preferential Treatment (Mac, permissions utility)
- WinPatrol (PC, security)
Video (editing) tools and players
Online
- Animoto
- Cuts
- Eyespot
- Go! Animate
- Jumpcut
- Mojiti (video annotating tool)
- Movie Masher
- Omnisio
- Screencast-o-matic
- Scenemaker (editor for online videos)
- Simple Theora Encoder (converts various video files)
- Springdoo (video broadcasting)
- VideoSpin
- Vidnik
- Xtra Normal | Text to Movie
Desktop
- Avidemux
- CamStudio (PC, streaming video editor)
- Cinelerra (Linux)
- Cinelerra-CV (Linux)
- Copernicus (Mac)
- FFmpeg (Linux)
- Jahshaka (video editor)
- Jing
- Kino
- LiVES
- Kdenlive (video editor)
- Media Info (PC, provides technical info on video and audio files)
- Simple Theora Encoder (converts various video files)
- VLC Media Player (Miguel Guhlin has tutorials)
- Vodcaster (for publishing audio and video podcasts)
- Wink (PC and Linux)
- XviD (compresses video files)
- ZS4 Video Editing and Compositing Software (runs on Windows, Linux, and OSX)
- Virtual Dub (PC, video capture/processing utility)
- (PC)
- Windows Movie Maker
Commerical
- iShowU (Mac, screen capture to movie)
- Screenflow (Mac)
- SnapZProX (Mac, screen capture to movie)
Web and text editors
Online
Desktop
- Alleycode (PC)
- Amaya
- Arachnophilia
- Bean
- Bluefish
- Emacs
- Eversoft First Page 2006 (PC)
- HAPedit (PC)
- HateML Pro (PC)
- HTML-Kit (can upgrade for more features)
- jEdit
- Komodo Edit
- KompoZer
- Notepad++ (PC)
- Nvu
- PSPad (PC)
- Quanta Plus (Linux)
- Scriptly (PC)
- Screem (Linux)
- Sea Monkey (Mac)
- Smultron (Mac)
- Taco HTML Edit (Mac)
- TextWrangler (Mac)
- Trellian Webpage (PC)
- Vim
CSS editors
- CSSED
- CSS Toolbox (PC)
- Firebug (a Firefox extension)
- JustStyle CSS Editor
- Simple CSS
- Web Developer (an extension for Firefox, Flock, and Seamonkey)
Commercial
- BBEdit (Mac)
- Coda (Mac)
- Create (Mac)
- Dreamweaver
- Freeway Express Interface (Mac)
- Freeway Pro Interface (Mac)
- Microsoft Expression (PC)
- Rapidweaver (Mac)
- Sandvox (Mac)
- Skedit (Mac)
- Textmate (Mac)
Reviews of web and text editors
- CSS Editors Reviewed (by Smashing Magazine)
- Text Editor Review (reviews in detail text editors for PCs)
- 35 useful source code editors reviewed
Web Authoring Sites (blogs and websites)
- 21 classes (can upgrade for a fee)
- Angelfire
- Bloc Star
- Blogger
- Bubbler
- eBloggy
- Free-ESL Blogs
- Livejournal
- MySpace
- Pitas
- Posterous
- SnapPages
- Synthasite
- tBlog
- UpSaid
- WebCrimson
- Weebly
- Wordpress
- Xanga
Micro-blogging sites
Website analytics
Word processing, spreadsheets, and office suites
Online
- Ace
- ajaxWrite
- Editgrid(spreadsheet)
- EtherPad (online realtime collaborative writing)
- Gobby
- Google docs and spreadsheets
- Shutterborg
- SocialText (basic is free, other accounts not)
- Synchro Edit
- Writer
- Writeboard
- writewith
- Zoho (online office suite, productivity tools, and utilities)
Desktop
- Abiword
- Apacite (gives APA citations in a LaTeX document)
- Dark Room (PC)
- JDarkRoom
- LaTeX
- Lyx
- MacTex
- OpenOffice
- Writer.app (Mac)
Reviews, manuals, and tutorials for word processors
- Getting to Grips with LaTex (by Andrew Roberts)
- Word Processor Review (reviews in detail most desktop word processors for PCs and a few online ones)
- LaTeX Wikibook (a manual for using LaTeX)
- The Literary Machine
- Celtx (Media preproduction)
- RoughDraft (PC)
- yWriter
Commercial
- Scrivener (Mac writing tool)
- Review of 10 Creative Writing Tools (PC)
- Links (annotated links to writing resources and software)
List of Open Source Apps for Writers
Application (and other) Information
Lists of Freeware
- Comprehensive list of free software.
- IT Redux. A list of freeware
- Sudeep Bansal. Free Essential Software for the PC User
- EduApps (portable apps for learning and teaching)
- Portable apps
- 24 killer portable apps for your USB flash drive
- Free Software and the Academy
- 60+ Collaborative Tools for Groups (some, not all, are free)
- Software Essentials for the Modern Educator (most, not all, are free)
- TechVivo's Top 101 Freeware Apps
Mac Lists
Freeware lists
Otherware lists
Web 2.0 (and educational) Lists
- All Social that can Bookmark (3spots)
- Blogging Toolbox: 120+ Resources for Bloggers
- Directory of Learning Tools (Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies. Lists more than 2300 tools of which more than 1700 are free.)
- Go2Web2.0
- Keeping Tabs on Web 2.0 (a list of sites that have lists of web 2.0 apps)
- Problogger's list of "Blog Tools"
- Shambles Web 2.0
- Educational Software and Web 2.0
- e-learning 2.0: All You Need to Know
- e-learning 2.0: How Web Technologies are Shaping Education
- My Office 2.0 Setup
- Simple Spark (a comprehensive list of web apps)
- Software for Learning
- Web 2.0 Backpack: Web Apps for Students
- Web 2.0: Comprehensive Directory to a ton of social networking sites
Miscellaneous Lists and Reviews
- 7 Apps for Online Note-taking
- AceStartups.com
- Awesome Highlighter
- Best Free Software of 2009
- Bookmark Bliss: 10 tools to help you select a Web 2.0 color palette
- CMS Matrix
- ForumMatrix
- Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day
- MakeUseOf.com
- PodcatcherMatrix
- Simple Spark Catalog: Education
- The Open Source Web Design Toolbox: 100 Web Design Template Sources, Tools and Resources
- UNESCO Free Software Portal
- WikiMatrix
- Word Processor Review (both online and offline)
- Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 1
- Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 2
- Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 3
Tutorials
- 10 things you can do with mixed media RSS
- 50 fun things to do with your iPod
- 100+ Web 2.0 Ideas for Educators on Scribd
- How to: Scrape a Web Page to RSS Feed
- How to: See the Field at a Glance
- Lazy User's Guide to OpenOffice.org Writer
- PhotoShop Tutorials Blog
- Podcasting Guide (Micha Ovadia)
- RSS: The New Information Pipeline
- W3 Schools (tutorials)
Reviews
- Reviews of many types of PC software