Software Essentials for the Modern EducatorThe
majority of these programs are free for educational or personal use
only.
Check the licenses for Business or Commercial use. |
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License |
Vers |
Name |
Notes |
| Shareware | 7.10b | 12Ghosts | 12 Separate (sometimes technical) utility programs |
| Free | 1.1.2.381 | 1-Click Answers | Another IE Toolbar or Desktop Bar Reference tool |
| Free | 2.0 | 1Click Clocksync | 'One click' approach to synchronize your clock to Internet time servers |
| Free | 12.1.2 | 2 Pic | Image program to convert, thumbnails etc. |
| Free | 2.0 | AAscripter | Contains many Javascripts ready to use |
| Web Site | - | ABC News | FULL VIDEO MENU |
| Free home use | 2.1 | Ace Macro | Windows macro creator |
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Free |
4.2 | AcronymGenie | Look up program for popular acronyms |
| Free pesonal ed | 1.06 | Adaware SE Personal | Remove spyware, registry and cookies |
| Free | 2.08 | Add Remove Pro | Windows Uninstaller, remove entries from add/remove menu |
| Free | 7 | Adobe Reader | Needed to read .pdf files |
| Shareware $US29.95 | 2.6 | Advanced File Organizer | Ignore 2.4, doesn't track moved files, results in errors (2.6 is Fab) |
| Free | 3.93 | Aida | AIDA32 - Personal System Information 3.93 |
| Free | 3.4.2 | Syncronize files between drives and networks | |
| Free | 1.0 | Always on Top Maker | Force a window to be "Always on Top". Great for security cams. |
| Free | 1.04 | Amazing Portal Generator | A quick canned portal generator |
| Free | 2.01 | AMP Tile Viewer | Viewer for image files |
| Free | 0.93.1 | Amphetadesk | RSS Feed Reader |
| Free | 5.2 | Arachniphilia | HTML Editor colour coding etc, java version |
| Free | 4.0 | Arachniphilia | HTML Editor colour coding etc, Windows version easy! |
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Free |
5.01 | Arthaus Photoalbum Wizard | Create photoalbums from your images |
| Free | 1.2.3 | Audacity | Excellent Free Audio edtior , requires lame_enc.dll for mp3's |
| Free | 8.5 | Alter your autostart Windows programs | |
| Free | 1.61 | Avid Free DV | Video editing software by Avid, smaller, but free |
| Free | AVS DVD Player | Also available at this site: AVS TV Box Beta | |
| Free personal use | 7.1h | Belarc Advisor | Learn everything there is about your hardware and software |
| Free | Lite 1.61 | BIMP | Batch Image Processor, I wish I had this earlier ;) |
| Free | 4.1 | Batch Run | Create complex batch files with a nice interface |
| Free | 1.4 | Bonfire Studio | HTML, CSS, XML editor suite |
| Free | 2.0 | Browster | Free add-on for IE and Firefox that adds an instant preview (& launch) of any link |
| Free | 1.14 beta2 | Burrn | Burrrn is a little tool for creating audio CDs with CD-Text from various audio files. |
| Free | 2.9.0 | Burn to the Brim | Calculates files to completely fill CD's without wasting space |
| Free | 2.0 | CamStudio | Record screen, audio to .avi and Flash, more powerful than Wink, leap tall buildings et'al |
| Free | 1.0 | Caption-it! | Recover the password under the ********** in your pw box |
| Free | 1.51 | Cdex | Make MP3 files from CD's |
| Free | 2.5 | CD Cover Creator | Create CD covers, inserts etc. |
| Free | 1.33.382 | CCleaner | Clean Internet Explorer Cache and other temp files, great for exam and test centres |
| Free | 1.5 beta 2 | Clocx | Neat desktop clock, alarms that show a message, launch programs, 30+ skins |
| Free | 1.0 | Coffee Cup DHTML Menu - 2 | Build fancy drop down menu's for your web site |
| Free | 8.0 | Coffee Cup HTML Editor | A very good tabbed code, like Dreamweaver lite |
| Free | 1.01 | Color Detector | An eyedropper for the desktop to determine coler from anywhere |
| Free | 2.2 | CourseLab by WebSoft , Plugins | e-learning authoring tool, programming-free, Internet, (LMS), CD-ROMS and other devices |
| Free | 0.24E (bld 668) | CPad | A good PHP, Python, Perl, Javascript etc editor |
| Free | 3.70 | Crimson Editor | Programmers HTML, C++ etc editor |
| Shareware $US29.95 | 2.8 | Crystal Button | Make neat 3D buttons for your website |
| Free | 1.00 | CSE HTML Val Light | Full version is part of commercial Homesite |
| Web Site | - | CSS 101 | Cascading Style Sheet Beginner's Course |
| Web Site | - | CSS Tutorial | More good info on CSS , and try Google Search |
| Web Site | - | The Beauty in CSS Design | |
| Shareware $US19.99 | 2.3 | Reasonable HTML editor, but not free! | |
| Shareware $US39.99 | 7.0 | CUTFTP | Good FTP program, better permission control on UNIX |
| Free | 1.8 | Deepburner | Create bootable, autorun CD's/DVD's, but not video DVD's (Caution: somewhat technical ) |
| Free | 4.3.5 | DeKnopp Button Manager | Easily create navigation buttons |
| Free | DiffDaff | Compare Text and Folders Line by Line for differences | |
| Shareware $US30 | 4.31 | Disk Duplicator by COPYSTAR | Cool program, DOD for making quick disk copies |
| Free | 0.8.1 | DupKiller | Powerful tool for searching and removing duplicate or similar files on your computer |
| Free | 7.1 | Desksav in German, In English | Save the position of your desktop icons, save multi configurations@ multi resolutions |
| Free | 4.71 | Dirhtml | Turn entire directories into launchable html index files |
| Free | 1.0 | Clean up your system by getting rid of unused DLL's. BE CAREFULL! | |
| Free | 5.0.211 | doPDF | This utility adds a virtual printer to your computer that lets you print any document to a PDF |
| Free | 2.0.6.280 | EasyCleaner | Technical optimization for Windows, potentially dangerous for novices |
| Free | 2.8 | Easy Thumbs | Great for creating thumbnails, lotsa options |
| Websites | - | Find ebooks online, some for free | |
| Free, others shareware | 1.0 | EMCO Photo Resizer, more products | Resize your phots |
| Free | 1.31 | Quickly create your own FAQ's for your web site | |
| Free | 2.1.20 | Fav2html | Turn your favourites into an html file, like netscape bookmarks |
| Free | 2.90 | Feedreader | RSS Feed Reader, looks like Outlook , unstable on our network |
| Free | 1.0 | Filegrab | Capture filenames from explorer to text file |
| Free | 1.0b2 | FireAnt | Video Blog Aggregator |
| Free | 1.5 | Fire Fox | The main competition for Internet Explorer |
| Free | 1.4.0 | File Splitter | Split Files for Email or Floppy Disks |
| Shareware $US29.95 | 5.0 | Filevan (Laplink alternative) | Untried, but here is a comparison of features. Looks promising. |
| Free | 7.0 | Flash Player | Play flash animations |
| Donations Accepted | 1.3.2 | Make your Web portfolio | |
| Free | 1.03 | Free Hex Edit , others | Hex Editor, again if you have to ask, you don't need it |
| Free | 0.8.0 | Freemind | Mindmapping, Decision Trees -parent, child, sibling nodes, export to .jpg, .html page |
| Free | 7.32 | Diagnostic program to check why Windows doesn't work. ???? | |
| Free | 0.92 | Gallery Creator | Create galleries of web images |
| Free | 2.0 | Google Desktop | Web desktop search integration, watch out Microsoft! |
| Free | 3.0.0693 (beta) | Google Earth | Great 3D Satellite imagery |
| Free | 1.0 Beta (Build 368) | Great News RSS Reader | More stable on our network than FeedReader |
| Free (Lite Version) | 3.2 | Gridinsoft Notepad Lite | Great programmers text editor, can replace MS Notepad , can open multiple text docs |
| Donations Accepted | 3.0 | Halp TV and Radio Stations | Free Radio Stations (Includes Canadian and US broadcast stations) |
| Free | 1.0055 | HateML | Powerful editor for PHP, XHTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, VBScript and SQL |
| Commercial $US99 | 5.5 | The Macromedia acquired, BEST Code editor on the market | |
| Free/Edu | 6.0.4.17 | Hot Potatoes | HTML Quiz Generator |
| Free | 12.2.1B | HTML Gate | Edit HTML, CSS, PHP, VB and Javascript, as well as Perl |
| Website, Free | Free HTML / CSS / Link Validators | Checks for HTML / CSS errors, browser compatibility, broken links, standards compliance | |
| Free | 1.5 | HTML Splitter | Split large HTML files using Headings |
| Free | 1.19 | HTML Notes | HTML editor, Can load .rtf's, although I could not get it to work |
| Shareware $US29.85 | 2006 | HTML Pad | A good HTML editor, but not free! |
| Free | 1.5 | Split your files into multiple pages based on heading level | |
| Web Search (Live Link) | - | http File Grabbers | A search for http file grabbers and website scoopers |
| Free | 2.0.0 | Icon Edit | Edit icons |
| Free | 2.5 | Index Generator | Make an index of web pages in a folder, use themes for pages |
| Free | 1.50 | Index Maker | Make an index of web pages in a folder |
| Free | 2.0 | iPodder | Podcasting Software |
| Free non-com | 3.95 | Irfan View | Image viewer/slideshow viewer |
| Free | 6.0.1 | The newest, some people don't like the rating/tracking system | |
| Free | 6.0 | JAlbum | Create image galleries with comments and audio annotations |
| Free | 1.1 | Kwizmaker | Make online quizes with this application |
| Free | 6.04XM | Link Ripper | Capture links from web pages for review |
| Free | 1.1 | List Installs | Save or print a list of all of the programs you have installed on your computer |
| Free | Online | Lorem Ipsum | Generate content for your pages to check the design |
| Free | - | LPJ-Slideshow | Create an autorun CD photoalbum/slideshow |
| Free | 1.1 | Meta Tag Generator | View meta tags of the top 100 results for a query & generatec your own META tags |
| Free | 0.9 | Resize your images with this great free program | |
| Website | Monitor This RSS | Subscribe to 22 different search engine feeds at the same time | |
| Free | 0.4.01 | MP3VCR | Record Shoutcast and Live 365 streams, use older version for ME |
| Free | 2.0 | MPTrim | mpTrim is a simple and easy to use MP3 editor. Also see MpJoin. |
| Free | 1.7.516 | Rename your files with lots of features | |
| Shareware $US19.99 | 10 | (Yahoo) Music Match Jukebox | Great mp3 organizer, burner, ripper, supertagging, not all features avail in Canada |
| Free | 7.2 | Netscape (with Composer) | WYSIWYG Web Editor & Weather radio for the desktop |
| Free | 8.1 | Netscape Browser | Newer, without Composer |
| Free | 4.95 | Note Tab Light | Very powerful text/rogrammers Editor, Comparison Chart HERE |
| Shareware | 4.95 | Even more powerful text/rogrammers Editor | |
| Free | 1.0 | XML/HTML/CSS editor, very similiar to Dreamweaver. Kompozer is the unofficial update. | |
| Free | 2.0 | CSS editor, Great Stylesheet Tutorial HERE | |
| Free for home use only! | 1.40 | OpenExpert | Specify any number of suitable applications for each file type. |
| WebSite | Open Thinking | Open Thinking: Adopting Free & Open Source Software for Learning | |
| Free | 8.5 | Opera | Another alternative to Internet Explorer |
| Free | 2.12 | Optool | View web pages in multiple browsers to ensure compatibility |
| Donations Accepted | 2.61 | Paint.net | A very sophicticated graphics program |
| Shareware $US99 | 10 | Paint Shop Pro | Newest, lots of features, lots to learn |
| Free | 4.12 | Paint Shop Pro | Old version, no .png support, does .gif and .jpg |
| Web Site | Online | Password Generator | Generate good passwords for those secure exams |
| Free | 3.0.6 | PHP Designer | From the makers of HTML Gate, for PHP specifically |
| Free | 1.0 | PictureTray Resizer | Click and drag graphics editor, with good features |
| Web Site | - | Podcast.net | Find the Podcasts you need for that iPod |
| Web Site | 1.01 | Portable Apps.com | Includes the Portable Apps Suite , and the portable apps menu feature |
| Web Site | Portable Software | List of portable software From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | |
| Free | 1.1.1 Build 462 | Posteriza | Design your own big posters and signs from any digital photo with your home printer! |
| Free | 1.1a | Printfolder | Print file and folder contents |
| Free | 4.5.0 | Another XML/HTML editor | |
| Web Site | Restricted Access | Question Mark - Enterprise Manager | Administrator only access to Question Mark |
| Web Site | Restricted Access | Question Mark -Participant Login | For those scheduled for online exams in Question Mark |
| Free | 6.5 | QuickTime Player | Uninstall, Rebootx3, Reinstall, Do not remove launcher |
| Free | 2.10 | Quiz Faber Quiz Maker | Make online tests with M/C etc questions |
| Free | 0.22.1 | A calendar program for your desktop | |
| Shareware $US19.85 | 2006 | Rapid CSS | CSS editor |
| Free | 10.0 | Real Player | Play many media types, required for Super Internet TV |
| Free | 2.4.6 | RenameMaster | Rename your files and folders |
| Free | 2.0 | Restore Desktop | Context menu that saves and restores icons' positions on the Windows desktop |
| Free | 0.4 beta | Mac toolbar for Windows, kinda cool | |
| Free | 3.11c | Rname-It | Lots of features, easy yet powerful |
| Website | - | SAC FTP Search, and Index | Shareware & Freeware |
| Donations accepted | v0.3.8 | Screamer Radio | The easiest, very stable recorder, station list is updated regularly through the program |
| Free | 3.5 | Search Sites | Time-saving tool for searching multiple software sites! Similiar to Telescope. |
| Website | - | Shelley Cashman Resource Site | Microsoft Office Specialist Center including practice tests, et'al |
| Website | - | Shoutcast | Free Internet Radio |
| Free | 3.3 | Sizer | Simple program to change browser window to 640x480, 800x600 or 1024x768 |
| Free | 1.53 | SmartStartMenu | Quicky find any program, or shortcut, or folder contents from the taskbar |
| Free | 1.1.2584 | Snapshooter 2007 | Great software to quickly capture screen shots for training, as you preview the steps. |
| Free | 1.1 | SoftPerfect File Recovery | Restore deleted files from NTFS and FAT drives , floppies, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards |
| Free | 2.0 beta | Sonique | A close second to winamp, the default skin is dreadful |
| Free | Website | Squidfingers Web Patterns | Feel free to use any of these patterns on your own site. |
| Free | 5.6.2.0 | Starter Inspector by CodeStuff | Find out what starts with Windows, AND STOP IT! |
| Donations accepted | 2.2 |
Startup Inspector for Windows |
Find out what starts with Windows See Database of programs |
| Free, $US19.99 | 2.33 | Station Ripper | Shoutcast et al recorder, can record 2 streams, purchase to record 600 streams at once. |
| Shareware $US19 /year | 6.5 | Super Internet TV | Watch TV on your PC, needs Real Player & Windows Media Player |
| Donations accepted | 1.0 | CSS/PHP editor | |
| Free | 1.87 | SyncExp | The download link is at the top of the page |
| Free | 1.0 | Tagsnag | Capture tags from web pages for review |
| Free | 7.6.2 | Telescope | Great Metasearch software, small, fast, free. 37 search engines polled! |
| Web Site | - | The Weather Network | How are those roads today? |
| Free | 3.0 | Topstyle Light | CSS Editor |
| Free | V1R10 | TPlayer | Disk Jockeys can play, mix and cue songs easily (mp3, wma, ogg, and wav audio files) |
| Free | 1.62 | Treesize | V 1.75 does not do network drives, Pro identifies file owners |
| Free | 2.2 | Turbo Favourites | Confirm your favourites still work, like Netscape used to do |
| Free | 1.0.0.13 | Uninstall Cleaner | Great for cleaning up those partly removed programs, be careful! |
| Web Site | Restricted Access | VUE Test Center | Online VUE site |
| Free | 1.1 | WebCD | Create an autorun CD copy of your website |
| Web Site | Restricted Access | Private access for the WebCT administrator | |
| Web Site | Restricted Access | Student access to WebCT | |
| Web Site | Web Presentation Tools | Web Presentation Tools And Technologies: A Mini-Guide | |
| Free | 1.0 beta 7 | WebSwoon | The web photograher , first program that captures below what is viewed on the screen |
| Free | 3.1.2 Build 100 | (Yahoo) Widget Engine, Widget Gallery | Free Widgets (small programs: weather, clock, radio) for your desktop |
| Free | 5.3.3 | Winamp | My first and still the best audio player, weird fixation with llamas |
| Free | 2.04 | Check what is running on Windows | |
| Web Site | - | Windows DLL Library | Find out what all those .dll files are about |
| Web Site | - | Windows Live | The new feature from Microsoft , a personal portal, like My Netscape etc. |
| Free | 9.0 | Windows Media Encoder | Record audio and video from your windows applications into a movie file |
| Free | 10.0 | Windows Media Player | Windows mp3, wav player etc. |
| Web Site | - | Windows Tasks Process Library | Identify what is running behind the scenes in Windows |
| Free | 1.5 build 1051 | Wink | Create Flash Demos using screen captures |
| Free | 1.01 | Win Syntax | PHP Editor , main site is in Russian |
| Free, all 1.xx versions | 1.55 | Find out absolutely EVERYTHING about your computer. | |
| Shareware $US29.95 | 10.0 | Winzip | A must for the Internet |
| Free | Online | World Time Server | Find out what time it is anywhere, anytime |
| Commercial $US69 | 1.0.6 | Great program combines "clean Word HTML" & search and replace | |
| Free/Edu | 4.60 | WS-FTP | Great FTP program |
| Free | 1.2g | Xenu | Check all the links and orphans in your website |
| Free | 7.0 | Edit Windows, programs, system folders and more, without Control Panel | |
| Free | 2.1 | XML editor | |
| Free | 1.0.0.21 | XSTYLE | CSS stylesheet editor |
