C&NS Winter ’08 Faculty Computer Training
Free Software
The Free and Popular:...... 1 Other General Free Software: ...... 2 Audio/Video Software: ...... 3 Free Online Tools: ...... 3 Built in Software:...... 4 Inexpensive Valuable Software (Under $100)...... 4 Popular Education Related Software ...... 5 Online References:...... 6
The Free and Popular:
Program PC or Cost Description Website Mac Audacity Both Free Audio http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ recording and editing Gimp Both Free Image http://www.gimp.org/ manipulating Gimpshop Both Free Graphics http://gimpshopdotnet.blogspot.com/ Editor (Photoshop like appearance) Paint.net PC Free Photo editing http://www.getpaint.net/ NVU Both Free Web page http://www.nvu.com/ editor Open Office: Both Free Office suite http://www.openoffice.org Base: Database Calc: Spreadsheet Draw: Picture Editor Impress: Presentation
1 Math: Equation Editor Writer: Document PDF Creator Both Free PDFconverter http://www.pdfforge.org/ • Firefox Both Free Web • http://www.mozilla.com/en- • Netscape Browsers US/firefox/ • Opera • http://browser.netscape.com • Avant • http://www.opera.com • http://www.avantbrowser.com
Other General Free Software:
Program PC or Cost Description Website Mac Adobe Acrobat Both Free PDF viewer www.adobe.com Reader iTunes Both Free Media Player, http://www.apple.com/itunes/ iPod organizer, Podcast organizer Quicktime Both Free Media Player http://www.apple.com/quicktime Core FTP PC Free File Transfer http://www.coreftp.com/ software Microsoft Office PC Free Allows you to http://office.microsoft.com/en- Viewers view only us/downloads/HA010449811033. (Access, Excel, Office aspx Outlook, documents if PowerPoint, you don’t Project, Visio, have Office Word) Microsoft Office Mac Free For Mac http://www.microsoft.com/mac/d downloads versions of ownloads.aspx Office Text Wrangler Mac Free Text/HTML http://www.barebones.com/produ editor cts/textwrangler/ OpenProj Both Free Alternative to http://openproj.org/ MS Project
2 Audio/Video Software:
Program PC or Mac Cost Description Website Windows PC Free Movie creating/ http://www.microsoft.com/wi Movie editing ndowsxp/downloads/updates/ Maker moviemaker2.mspx Photo PC Free Creating http://www.microsoft.com/wi Story slideshows/stories ndowsxp/using/digitalphotogr using pictures and aphy/photostory/default.mspx audio (.wmv) Wink PC Free Screen Capture http://www.debugmode.com/ (Flash) wink Dubit PC Free Audio Editing http://www.techsmith.com/sna git/accessories/dubit.asp Camstudio PC Free Screen Recording http://camstudio.org/ (AVI/Flash) PowerPoint PC Free Capture and http://www.microsoft.com/wi Producer Synchronize ndows/windowsmedia/technol audio, video, ogies/producer.mspx slides, and images Open Both Free Free website http://www.oswd.org/ Source templates Web Design Windows PC Free Capture audio and http://www.microsoft.com/wi Media video content and ndows/windowsmedia/forpros Encoder conversion/produ /encoder/default.mspx ction tools Real PC Free Converts media http://www.realnetworks.com/ Producer into products/producer/basic.html Basic RealAudio/Video files Handbrake Both Free DVD to MPEG-4 http://handbrake.m0k.org/ converter Vodcaster Mac Free Publishing audio http://www.twocanoes.com/vo and video dcaster/ podcasts
Free Online Tools:
Website Cost Description http://www.pdfonline.com/ Free Converts multiple formats to PDF and e- mails it to you
3 http://www.primopdf.com/ Free Converts multiple formats to PDF and downloads to your computer http://convert.neevia.com/ Free Converts multiple formats to PDF over the web http://mediabuilder.com/ Free Free clipart, banners, backgrounds, web designs http://cooltext.com/ Free Free graphics generator over the web http://www.gabcast.com/ Free 1-800 # to call by phone, records into .mp3 and add RSS to create podcasts http://www.zamzar.com/ Free Free online file conversion • Cuts Free • www.cuts.com • Eyespot • www.eyespot.com • JumpCut • www.jumpcut.com • Motionbox • www.motionbox.com • One True Media • www.onetruemedia.com • YouTube Remixer • www.youtube.com/ytremixer_about • Photobucket • Photobucket.com • Flektor • www.flecktor.com • Stashspace • www.stashspace.com • Videoegg • www.videoegg.com
Built in Software:
Program PC or Mac Description Website Sound PC Records Sound. Records Recorder in MS Word and PPT Print Screen PC Takes pictures of desktop, windows or selections iLife Suite Mac iPhoto, iMovie, .Mac, http://www.apple.com/ilife GarageBand, iWeb, $80 if bought separately iDVD Grab Mac Takes pictures of desktop, windows or selections Inexpensive Valuable Software (Under $100)
Program PC or Cost Description Website Mac WS-FTP PC $40-$55 File Transfer http://www.ipswitch.com Core FTP PC $25-$35 File Transfer http://www.coreftp.com WinZip PC $30-$50 Folder/File http://www.winzip.com Compression
4 Stuffit Both $50 PC, Folder/File http://www.stuffit.com/mac/index. Expander $80 Mac Compression html Fetch Mac $25 File Transfer http://www.fetchsoftworks.com/ Transmit Mac $30 File Transfer http://www.panic.com/transmit/ QuickTime Both $30 Audio/Video editing http://www.apple.com/quicktime Pro and converting Flip4Mac Mac $30 Play Windows media http://www.flip4mac.com/ on Mac Snapz Pro X Mac $30-$70 Image and Screen http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utiliti Capture es/snapzprox/ Screen Mac $20 Image and Screen http://www.miensoftware.com/scr Record Capture eenrecord.html Profcast Mac $60 Creating Podcasts out http://www.profcast.com/public/in of dex.php PowerPoint/Keynote presentations iShowU Mac $20 Screen recording http://www.shinywhitebox.com/in dex.html Stomp Mac $30 Video compressor http://www.shinywhitebox.com/in dex.html Podcaster Both $30 Create Audio http://www.kudlian.net/products/p Podcasts odcaster/ iWork Mac $80 Apple’s own http://www.apple.com/iwork/ spreadsheet, presentation, and word processor software Demo PC $70 Screen Recording http://www.sameshow.com/demo- Creator creator.html
Popular Education Related Software
Program PC or Mac Cost Description Website Articulate PC $500 Flash based http://www.articulate. (Presenter, $400 presentations, quizzes, com/ Quizmaker, $400 interactive content, Engage, Online) $200 respectively online tools Impatica Both $500 Transforms http://www.impatica. presentations for the com/imp4ppt/index.h internet tml Lectora PC Expensive Create interactive http://www.trivantis.c multimedia content om/products/lectora.h tml
5 Camtasia PC $300 Extensive Screen http://www.techsmith Recording .com/camtasia.asp Captivate PC $800 Interactive Screen http://www.adobe.co Recording m/products/captivate/
Online References:
• http://www.opensource.org/ • http://sourceforge.net/ • http://www.gnu.org/ • http://www.osalt.com/ • http://www.versiontracker.com/windows/ • http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx • http://www.opensourcemac.org
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