Downloads

Browsers

Internet Explorer

Download the latest or most compatible version
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx

Netscape

Download the latest or most compatible version. Here you can also download instant messanger to access your aol account
http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/

Mozilla Firefox

Browse the Web with confidence - Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It's easy to import your favorites and settings and get started. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Opera

The award-winning Opera Web browser. A fast and secure Web browser available for all speeds, but especially useful for those on dial-up.
http://www.opera.com/download/

Software/Programs/Tools

(many of these are trials only, though several of them are free open source--some are browser-based--check the websites for full details.)

Adobe Acrobat

This program, is based on PDF which is an acronym for "Portable Document Format." PDF is a file format created by Adobe that lets you view and print a file exactly as the author designed it, without needing to have the same application or fonts used to create the file. ACROBAT READER is a permanent download that is what is most used to read files saved as PDFs.
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html

Adobe Photoshop

This program is an image editor to aid in designing interactive Web graphics or prepare sophisticated images for print with the same power and ease.
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/main.html

Adobe Premiere

This program is used for creating online media. You can develop short- and long-format movies for video, film, multimedia, and the Web. With this cross-platform video editing tool, you can produce professional-quality movies with complete efficiency, control, and flexibility.
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/main.html

Adobe Illustrator

This is a free-drawing program. It is preferred by designers, graphic artists, technical
illustrators, and business professionals around the world.
http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/main.html

AutoPlay

Create your own custom autorun menus, interactive presentations, multimedia applications, and custom software in just minutes. Use your favorite content such as images, music, video, flash, text, and more, and simply drag n' drop your way to amazing projects.
http://www.indigorose.com/ams/

Authorware

Authorware Attain is the leading visual rich-media authoring tool for creating Web and online learning applications. It allows training developers, instructional designers, and subject matter experts to develop trackable learning applications and deploy them acrANs, and CD-ROM.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/authorware/

BitTorrent

BitTorrent is a peer-assisted, digital content delivery platform that provides the fastest, most efficient means of distributing, discovering, and consuming large, high-quality files on the Web. Our mission is simple: to deliver the content that entertains and informs the digital world.
http://www.bittorrent.com/

Camtasia

Camtasia Studio lets you easily create compelling training and presentations for Web and CD-ROM delivery, and you can do it without ever leaving your office. It is the only product versatile enough to record live PowerPoint presentations, personalized technical training sessions, and rich software demonstrations.
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp?CMP=KgoogleCStm

ClaSS

A complete student tracking, reporting and information management system.
ClaSS extends the reach of traditional systems by using the latest in web-application methodologies to include the whole school community.
ClaSS aims to be the ubiquitous classroom information assistant for schools.
http://www.laex.org/class/

ClassSimple

ClassSimple tries to find a medium. Relying on the core of what online course websites need -- a place to provide class information and share documents -- and moving up from there, ClassSimple is a scalable solution to the web-based curriculum.
If you simply need a place to store lecture slides or handouts, ClassSimple will allow you to upload all of your documents, organize them, and even publish them at a future time.
If you have a large section of students that you would like to be able to view grades, ClassSimple will allow you to enter assignments online so that students can login and view their grades. No more time wasted trying to hand back papers.
If you want to gauge your students' performance in either a formal (via online quizzes) or informal (via non score-bearing surveys), ClassSimple allows you to create multiple-choice tests with the standard features like due-dates and automatic-grading.*
If you want to collect typed work from your students, ClassSimple removes the needless paper trail by allowing one to submit written work online for you to conveniently view and grade.*
http://class-simple.sourceforge.net/index.php

CourseForum

CourseForum is web-based e-learning software that makes it easy for you and your students to interact, whether to create, post, share or discuss course content.
http://www.courseforum.com/cf/

Director

This program allows you to create, import, animate, and control media.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/director/

Dreamweaver

Make short work of Web site and HTML page production
http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/

Flash

Allows you to record and hear sound from cartoons, interactive interfaces, and information graphics. http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/trial/

GanttPV

GanttPV is named for a report that has become almost synonymous with project management, the gantt chart. Most people have used or at least seen them. GanttPV can be used to create gantt charts and export them as web pages. But GanttPV doesn't stop there. Management of a particular project may require the tracking of many different kinds of information. GanttPV can be extended to fill a variety of project management needs.
http://www.pureviolet.net/ganttpv/

Google Earth

Google Earth shows 3D overviews of major cities, mountains, and other terrain, as well as local businesses and information, driving directions, and maps. Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
http://earth.google.com/

Google Video Player

Watch videos from Google Video right on your desktop.
http://video.google.com/

Inspiration

Powered by the proven strategies of visual learning, Inspiration® is the essential tool students grade 6 to adult rely on to plan, research and complete projects successfully. Students develop essential learning strategies as they create graphic organizers to visually represent concepts and relationships. As a result, students gain and retain a better understanding of concepts and demonstrate knowledge, improving their performance across the curriculum. Free trial.
http://www.inspiration.com/freetrial/index.cfm Other product trials: Inspire Data and Kidspiration.

K-3D

K-3D features a robust, object oriented plugin architecture, designed to scale to the needs of professional artists. It is designed from the ground up to generate motion picture quality animation using RenderMan compliant render engines. We strongly recommend using Aqsis (a high quality, photorealistic, 3D rendering solution) as the render engine for use with K-3D.
http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Main_Page

Manhattan Virtual Classroom

The Manhattan Virtual Classroom is a fast, stable and effective course management system that runs on Linux and other Unix-like systems. It's written entirely in the C programming language (fast! - light hardware requirements) and is 100% database-free (no MySQL administration, no tuning issues- simple!) Manhattan supports thousands of users at its Western New England College home, and at other colleges and schools around the world. The software is licensed under the General Public License.
http://manhattan.sourceforge.net///

Moodle

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University.
http://moodle.org/

OpenOffice

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
http://www.openoffice.org///////

Open Source Freeware: 400+ Free Applications and Utilities

Extremely useful open source applications and utilities available free under various licenses.
Free (but NOT open-source) is listed separately : I want a Freeware Utility to ... 450+ common problems solved.
http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-open-source-software///

NeoOffice

NeoOffice is a fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.
http://www.neooffice.org/////

Picnik

"Online photo editing made fun. With Picnik you can quickly edit all your online photos from one place. It's the easiest way on the Web to fix underexposed photos, remove red-eye, or apply effects to your photos." This is not downloadable software, but used online through the site.
http://www.picnik.com/

Pidgin

We've released version 2.0.1 of Pidgin (formerly Gaim). Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr networks.
http://pidgin.im/pidgin/about/

ProfCast

ProfCast is a versatile, powerful, yet very simple to use tool for recording presentations including PowerPoint and/or Keynote slides for creating enhanced podcasts. ProfCast provides a low cost solution for recording and distributing lectures, special events, and presentations as podcasts. ProfCast offers an integrated workflow that makes creating, recording, and publishing podcasts easy. It's as simple as Launch, Load, and Lecture!
http://www.profcast.com/public/index.php

Quicktime

Aids in digital media capabilities. QuickTime 7 Player takes advantage of the latest video compression technology. It’s called H.264, and it’s an important new industry standard that’s quickly garnered widespread support. Chosen as the industry-standard codec for 3GPP (mobile multimedia), MPEG-4 HD-DVD and Blu-ray, H.264 represents the next generation of video for everything from mobile multimedia to high-definition playback.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/player/

RealPlayer

Aids in digital media capabilities. Dowload, watch live TV, analog recording surf, multi-channel formats or burn with RealPlayer features.
http://www.real.com/realsuperpass.html/?pcode=rn&rsrc=header&cpath=guide&src=guide

RSSOwl

Applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or "aggregators." RSSOwl is such an application. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more. It's easy to configure, available in many many languages and the best of all: It's platform-independent.
http://www.rssowl.org/////

Shockwave

Shockwave Player is the Web standard for entertaining, engaging, rich media playback. It lets you view interactive Web content like games, business presentations, entertainment, and advertisements from your Web browser.
http://www.adobe.com/products/shockwaveplayer/

SnagIt

Using SnagIt, you can select and capture anything on your screen, then easily add text, arrows, or effects, and save the capture to a file or share it immediately by e-mail or IM.
http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp?CMP=KgoogleStm//////

Sunbird

Mozilla Sunbird™ is a cross-platform calendar application, built upon Mozilla Toolkit. Our goal is to bring Mozilla-style ease-of-use to your calendar, without tying you to a particular storage solution.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird///

SwishMax

SWiSH Max has everything you need to create fully interactive Flash animations
http://www.swishzone.com/index.php?area=products&product=max

TEaCH: The Educator's Communication Hub

TEaCH is a tool that allows the classroom teacher to post announcements, syllabli, calendar events, photos and more without knowing any HTML.
http://teach.remc1.k12.mi.us///

Thunderbird

Thunderbird delivers. Enjoy safe, fast, and easy email, with intelligent spam filters, quick message search, and customizable views. Brought to you by Mozilla, Thunderbird makes email better.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/////////

Tux Paint

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.
http://tuxpaint.org///

VLC Media Player

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/////

VYM--View Your Mind

VYM (View Your Mind) is a tool to generate and manipulate maps which show your thoughts. Such maps can help you to improve your creativity and effectivity. You can use them for time management, to organize tasks, to get an overview over complex contexts, to sort your ideas etc.
Maps can be drawn by hand on paper or a flip chart and help to structure your thoughs. While a tree like structure like shown on this page can be drawn by hand or any drawing software vym offers much more features to work with such maps.
vym is not another drawing software, but a tool to store and modify information in an intuitive way. For example you can reorder parts of the map by pressing a key or add various information like a complete email by a simple mouse click.
http://www.insilmaril.de/vym///

Whiteboard

Whiteboard is a fully-featured and -integrated courseware system, targeted toward colleges and universities. It supports multiple departments and courses (including cross-listed courses); simple migration of courses to new semesters; grade storage, checking, and calculation; assignment submission and testing, and submitted assignment retrieval; documents; announcements; and discussion boards. It is written in PHP with a MySQL back-end, and is fully administrable through its web interface.
http://whiteboard.sourceforge.net///////

WikiIndx

'WikiIndx.com is a wiki of wikis, wiki people and wiki ideas.'

http://wikiindex.org/Welcome

Winamp

A quality player for Mp3 and other audio files.
http://www.winamp.com///

Win Zip

Win Zip uses the standard and familiar "wizard" interface to simpilify the process of unzipping and installing software distributed in Zip files.
http://www.winzip.com/////

Zamzar

Zamzar's mission is to "provide high quality file conversion for as many file formats as possible."
The best news is that its free and you don't have to download any software for the conversion--its all done on their site!
http://www.zamzar.com/

Hardware/Shareware

Google ShareWare Directory

http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Shareware/Directories/

FreeSarif Software

FreeSerifSoftware.com is owned and operated by Serif, independent developer and publisher of desktop publishing, design and graphics software for the PC. Serif is privately owned with operations in Europe and North America. Serif has award-winning software for desktop publishing, digital imaging, drawing and graphics, 3D effects and animations, Web publishing, Movie and DVD creation as well as editing. 100% completely free software.
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/

ShareWare

Virtual Software Library (VSL) search engine and much more.
You can search for, browse, and download the best software
http://www.shareware.com/

Hot Potatos

"The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence. Check out the Hot Potatoes licencing terms and pricing on the Half-Baked Software Website."
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

C-Net

Free software downloads and reviews. Also has free music downloads (both full songs and samples).
http://www.download.com/

Open Office

Tu Cows

The latest downloads for any computer. Software, equipment, etc.
http://www.tucows.com/

Download.com

This site is good for downloading free and trial software or auctioning (also music).
http://www.download.com/

FTP Programs

FileZilla

FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/

WS_FTP LE

This program is free for most non-commercial uses. It handles FTP tasks speedily and efficiently. The program makes file transfers easy with its dual-pane view, which displays your local files in one pane and your remote files (i.e. the files on your webspace) in the other.
http://www.info-internet.net/en/ftp.html

Transmit

This is a well-rounded FTP program for your Mac. It is one of the best shareware programs for FTP. It has elegant Mac OS-style interface, powerful FTP features, and ease of use for $24.95 registration fee.
http://www.panic.com/transmit/

Blog Hosts

Blogger

Probably the most famous of the blogging sites (thanks in part to its buy-out by Google), Blogger offers an easy to use template to upload journal entries, photos and audio (through Audioblogger).
http://www.blogger.com/start

Class BlogMeister

"There are many freely available tools that facilitate blogging, but none seem especially suited for the classroom. That is the reason for BlogMeister. This online blogging tool is explicitly designed with teachers and students in mind, where the teacher can evaluate, comment on, and finally publish students' blog articles in a controlled environment."
http://www.classblogmeister.com/

Edublogs

Create your own ad free fully featured WordPress blog at edublogs.org. Including free Yacapaca assessment tool from the Chalkface Project. In addition to a free blog, all users also get an ad free wikispace!
http://www.edublogs.org/

LiveJournal

LiveJournal is a simple-to-use communication tool that lets you express yourself and connect with friends online. You can use LiveJournal in many different ways: as a private journal, a blog, a social network and much more.
http://www.livejournal.com/

Image Editors

IrfanView32 Image Editor

Free download software tool that can alter, resize, crop, and convert graphic files into Web-ready JPEG's and GIF's.
http://www.irfanview.com/

GraphicConverter

This is a useful graphics program for your Mac. It allows you to adjust your image's appearance and add an impressive range of special effects. It is a $30 shareware program.
http://www.graphicconverter.net/

HTML

HTML Colors

This free for noncommercial use program allows you to try different combinations of text, link, and background colors so that you can see how they look before altering your Web pages. It also writes the necessary HTML code that you can cut and paste.
http://www.ogopogo.net/products/html_colors/

HTML Vocabulary

This is a $5 shareware program that lists HTML elements with descriptions of each. TA section of style sheets in included for more advanced Web authors.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/~gwm1h/htmlvoc2/

Clipart

Barry's Clipart

FREE resource for all types of clip art
http://www.barrysclipart.com/

Badgers Animated GIF Gallery

Excellent collection of animated GIF's on all topics, primarily intended for use on websites. http://www.badger.org/main.html

Clipart Universe

Animated GIF's, backgrounds, dividers, buttons, and more general clipart <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://clipartuniverse.com

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