Alicev2.0: Learn to program Interactive 3D graphics with this free software. "The focus of the Alice project is now to provide the best possible first exposure to programming for students ranging from middle schoolers to college students. "

Anim8or: This is an open source animation software that will allow users to create animations for free.

Art of Illusion: "Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. It is written entirely in Java, and should be usable on any Java Virtual Machine which is compatible with Java 5 or later."

Audacity: "Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to: Record live audio. Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files. Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together. Change the speed or pitch of a recording. "

Audacity tutorials: This site offers a variety of online tutorials to assist users in the manipulation of sound.

Bean: An open source world processor for OSX. "Bean is a small, simple word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), with many niceties added to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable."

Camstudio: "CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)"

Free Software Directory: This directory catalogs useful free software that runs under free operating systems such as Linux and GNU.

GIMP: "GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages."

GIMP tutorial: This site will give the user some online assistance in using GIMP to do various activities.

inkscape: "An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. " Check out some sample tutorials | tutorials.

Jing: This site allows you to snap pictures on the screen, record video and more.

Joomla: "Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone."

LibriVox: "LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening."

Kompozer: "KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing."

MediaMax: "MediaMax, powered by Streamload, gives you a private and secure place to upload, store, access, and share your personal videos, photos, movies, music, and files."

Mindomo: "Mindomo is a versatile Web-based mind mapping tool, delivering the capabilities of desktop mind mapping software in a Web browser - with no complex software to install or maintain. "

Moodle: "Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites."

NVU: NVU is a complete web authoring system in the open source community.

Open Office: "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. "

Open Source Web Design: "Open Source Web Design is a site to download free web design templates and share yours with others. We help make the internet a prettier place. "

Osalt: Osalt provides users software alternatives to well-known commercial software. This is worth exploring.

Osliving: Open Source Living is packed with open source software and applications.

Paint.net: "Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. "

PDF Online: This site will allow you to convert documents to PDFs for free.

Picasa: Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you edit and add effects to your photos with a few easy clicks.

Scribus: "Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout..."

Skype: Skype is a free software that lets you talk over the Internet to anyone, anywhere in the world. Use Skype to chat with up to 100 people in a group chat.

Sqirlz Morph 2.0: "Sqirlz Morph allows you to mark features on several images, and the program mixes the images so that each feature on one image moves smoothly to the corresponding feature on the other images - a technique widely used in the film industry. " Example

Toaster: "Capture videos of onscreen action in one click. Record screencasts, tutorials, demos, training, lectures and more."

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. "

uTIPu: uTIPu allows you to record and share your screen in a video.

Workspace: "View documents from almost any computer with a Web browser No more flash drives—files are there when and where you need them Password-protected document sharing; you control who views and edits."