| Open
Office : a free office suite compatible with all major office
suites. |
| RealOne Player, Windows Media Player, QuickTime, FLV Player, VLC Media Player : five media players that enable you to play the most common media formats (Also SWF + FLV Player to read FLV files and Flash animations). |
Winamp
: one of the best and most popular MP3 player. |
Audacity
(or version 3 beta for advanced users) : a free audio editor.
You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and
MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using cut, copy and
paste, mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. NB
For Audacity to create MP3 files, you will have to download LAME MP3
Encoder Library from the same website. Of course, Audacity also
enables you to record streaming audio. |
KeepVid
: Download streaming videos from various sites (YouTube, etc.) |
Internet
Video Converter
: Download and convert video files. |
Freemake
Video Converter : Video converter that converts almost any format |
| XnView : a freeware to view and convert graphic files, really easy to use. |
Gimp
: Image manipulation program (freeware). |
| Macromédia Flash Player and Shockwave Player will allow you to open animated web pages. |
J2SE
Runtime Environment : Environnement Java. |
Calibre
Ebook Management : Ebook converter. |
| Adobe
Acrobat Reader : Adobe Reader is free and lets you view and print
Adobe PDF files. |
PDF
Creator : to create PDF files from nearly any application. |
CCleaner
is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused
files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing
up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online
activities such as your Internet history. |
| Hot
Potatoes : The Hot Potatoes suite includes five 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.
Also check for Michael Rottmeier's Teaching
Tools (Hot Potatoes add-ons). NB Hot Potatoes is regularly
updated. Always make sure you are using the latest version. |