Links - Software: freeware & shareware
SOFTWARE GIFT BASKET
session by Sue Inness
Prepared for VITTA Annual Conference 2009
The software featured is not the intellectual property of Sue Inness /Techxellent Training Solutions. This software is Freeware / shareware sourced in the public domain from the internet. The original URL’s have been included on this document. Users install the software at their own risk, no warranties, guaranties or assurances are provided by Sue Inness.
CATEGORIES:
Computer Management & Utilities
Computer Management & Utilities
Icon Restore
http://download.cnet.com/Icon-Restore/3000-2072_4-10163499.html
Icon Restore gives you the ability to save the placement of your desktop icons and restore them to their saved placement any time they get moved.
Fast Video Converter PRO
http://www.iobit.com/ Follow links to get free un-lock code, then follow links to download
http://majorgeeks.com/Fast_Video_Converter_PRO_d6289.html
Converts videos of all popular formats like AVI, ASF, AVC, DIVX, FLV, H264, MP4, MOV, MPEG1/2, OGG, RM, RMVB, VOB, WMV, XVID, 3GP, 3G2, etc.
Advanced System Care
http://www.iobit.com/
A comprehensive PC maintenance tool with a one-click approach to optimize system, fix registry free, repair and speed up your computer
Advanced System Care Free (formerly Advanced Windows Care Personal) has a one-click approach to help protect, repair, clean, and optimize your PC. With over 35 MILLION downloads since 2006, this fantastic, award-winning free registry cleaner and system optimizer is a "must-have" tool to speed up your slow computer. 100% safe with no adware, spyware, or viruses; a PC maintenance program that’s incredibly easy to use.
Tidy Start Menu
http://www.tidystartmenu.com/index.shtml
As time goes by, the list of the programs in the Start Menu becomes too long. As a result, each time you want to launch a program, it takes too much time to find it in the menu.
The "Tidy Start Menu" program will help you to put the menu in order and make your work comfortable.
For setting the menu in order, the program offers you to categorize the Menu. For example, the Internet programs can be put into the "Internet" category, while all games can be included in the "Games" category. Thus, after using the program, you will have a compact menu, which will contain nothing but categories' names.
Therefore, it will be no trouble to find a necessary program.
All things the program performs can be done manually. However, with the help of the program, it becomes much easier and handier.
FSL Launcher
http://freesoftland.sytes.net/products.html
Tired for dozen of icons on your desktop?
Try this simple but powerful and intuitive launcher to organize your desktop shortcuts.
Pdf creator
This converter can be used with anything that’s printable. It installs as a printer driver, simply select pdf creator as your printer when you print and the program saves the document as a pdf file that can be printed out on any standard printer but is useful to prevent readers from editing your document or for reducing graphic heavy documents sizes. . The program will ask what name you wish to save the file as and where you wish to save the file.
Sticky Notes
http://www.sticky-notes.net/computer-sticky-notes-free.html
Sticker Lite is sticky notes freeware for Windows that offers you an easy way to keep all your thoughts, quick notes, web links, addresses, phone numbers, and other information in one place. Whether you need to create a to-do list, plan daily tasks or organize recipes, Sticker Lite is the only sticky notes freeware that provides you with everything you need.
Windows Steady State
Share computers, not headaches
What state is your shared computer in at the end of the day?
- Hard disk filled with downloaded files?
- Strange options configured?
- Programs installed that you don't want?
- System infected with viruses and spyware?
- Computer bogged down for unknown reasons?
Windows SteadyState, successor to the Shared Computer Toolkit, is designed to make life easier for people who set up and maintain shared computers.
An easy way to manage multiple users
You can manage whole groups of users as single user accounts. The new Windows SteadyState console makes it easier than everto create and modify user profiles.
A locked-down platform for stable shared computing
Not every computer user should have access to every software capability. Your system can be more stable and consistent when you limit user access to control panel functions, network resources, and other sensitive areas.
Set it and forget it
Once you have everything set up the way you want it, you can share the computer and rest easy. Any changes a user might make to the configuration or hard disk can be undone by simplyrestarting the machine.
Sue’s warning : If you install and use Steady State and only allow limited permissions for another user it will effect software updates including windows and any saved documents / emails/ anything else may be deleted on re-boot. Select the permissions carefully!
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/install/default.mspx
Revo Uninstaller
http://www.revouninstaller.com/
Revo Uninstaller helps you to uninstall software and remove unwanted programs installed on your computer even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot uninstall them from "Windows Add or Remove Programs" control panel applet.
Revo Uninstaller is a much faster and more powerful alternative to "Windows Add or Remove Programs" applet!
With its advanced and fast algorithm, Revo Uninstaller analyzes an application's data before uninstall and scans after you uninstall an application. After the program's regular uninstaller runs, you can remove additional unnecessary files, folders and registry keys that are usually left over on your computer. Even if you have a broken installation, Revo Uninstaller scans for an application's data on your hard disk drives and in the Windows registry and shows all found files, folders and registry keys so you can delete them.
With its unique "Hunter mode", Revo Uninstaller offers you some simple, easy to use, but effective and powerful methods for uninstalling software. You can use it to manage your installed and/or running software programs.
Educational
iTalc
About , Tutorials - http://italc.sourceforge.net/
Download here - http://sourceforge.net/projects/italc/files/italc/
iTALC is a powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP (Vista support will come) and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!
In contrast to widely used commercial equivalent software, iTALC is free! This means you do not have to pay for expensive licenses or things like that. Furthermore the source-code is freely available and you're free in changing the software to fit your needs as long as you respect the terms of iTALC's license (GPL). Freedom in two ways!
Features
iTALC has been designed for usage in school. Therefore it offers a lot of possibilities to teachers, such as
- see what's going on in computer-labs by using overview mode and make snapshots
- remote-control computers to support and help other people
- show a demo (either in fullscreen or in a window) - the teacher's screen is shown on all student's computers in realtime
- lock workstations for moving undivided attention to teacher
- send text-messages to students
- powering on/off and rebooting computers per remote
- remote logon and logoff and remote execution of arbitrary commands/scripts
- home-schooling - iTALC's network-technology is not restricted to a subnet and therefore students at home can join lessons via VPN-connections just by installing iTALC client
Z Soft Screen Video Recorder
http://www.zdsoft.com/
Hard to explain to someone how to do something on a computer? Show him/her a screen demo video, or share your screen with him/her remotely!
How to save a favourite flash streaming video to hard disk? The simplest way is to record the video off the screen just like a camcorder shooting screen!
Graphic Calculator – GraphicCalc
Information http://www.graphcalc.com/what_is_graphcalc.shtml
Download http://sourceforge.net/projects/gcalc/files/gcalc-win32-bin/4.0.1/GraphCalc4.0.1.zip/download
When in the course of computing events it becomes apparent that not all calculators are created equal, one must turn no further than to GraphCalc. When the requirements of your computations exceed the capabilities of your four-function figurer, turn to GraphCalc. When you need to see what multiple compound exponential sinusoidal waves look like, turn to GraphCalc. Haven't we all at some point wanted to see what "sin(x)^2-3*ln(tan(x*pi))" looked like, and the Windows calculator just wasn't up to the task?
GraphCalc can be your first, last, and only line of offense against the mathematics that threaten to push you over the brink of insanity. It slices, dices, shreds and purees functions that leave other calculators wondering what hit them.
GraphCalc is an all-in-one solution to everything from everyday arithmetic to statistical analysis, from betas to Booleans, from cubes to calculus, from decimals to derivatives. GraphCalc combines all the features of a professional mathematics package with the simplicity of an easy to learn windows interface. It provides user-friendly help and tutorials to guide you through the easy and fun process of mastering GraphCalc.
GraphCalc is ready to use out of the box. Don't bother reading the documentation. Just start the program and you'll see how easy it is to use.
Creativity
Fast Stone Capture
http://www.faststone.org/
FastStone Capture 6.5 Shareware (Last Update: 2009-07-03)
A powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool that allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand regions and even scrolling windows/web pages. It also allows you to record screen activities and sound into video files.
RGS Ava Cam
http://download.cnet.com/RGS-AvaCam/3000-2348_4-10781953.html
The easiest to use full featured WebCam tool to view your WebCam(s) or whatever video device you have installed (not just webcams) on your PC. A complete WebCam program designed with a intuitive user interface that makes AvaCam easy to use. Automatically save pictures on any interval, view, print, copy and edit your snapshots and view the video full screen.
Resize the video source to any size you want (also full screen). Possible to save images using motion detection! Record video and save them as AVI-files (using any compression available) to your hard disk. Setup your video device with all available features your device has.
Pivot – Stick Figure Animator
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure.html
Pivot Stickfigure Animator is a unique software, that allows you to create stick figure animations easily and without any artistic skills. You can move the sections of the sick figure and easily create a chain of animation frames that can be previewed as you go. You can use more than one stick-figure in the animation, and even create your own stick figures using an easy to use visual editor that lets you assemble objects out of lines and circles. In addition, you can optionally set animation size, speed and more. The result can be saved as animated GIF file. Fun and easy to use, surprisingly well featured.
Text Effects
http://www.blaiz.net/sl.html
Create stunning 3D, multicolor, shaded, rotatable text for that special web image/greeting card/logo.
Free, fully functioning software program, with no installation or setup.
Anim8tor
http://www.anim8or.com/main/index.html
Anim8or is a 3D modelling and character animation program . While it is far from a complete professional level application like 3DStudio MAX or Lightwave, it has enough capability to be of use to others.
Blender
http://www.blender.org/
http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems .
Web
Evrsoft Firstpage
Developer - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
Download http://download.cnet.com/First-Page-2006/3000-10247_4-10490779.html
First Page 2006 is designed for professional Web development. Create, edit, and deploy Web sites with absolute ease and precision. The integrated tools empower Web developers to develop standards-based Web documents, quickly and easily. The latest version includes hundreds of new features and bug fixes. Full support for HTML, XHTML, PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, Javascript, CSS, SSI, and Perl. Includes over 1,500 Javascripts/DHTML scripts.State of the art web authoring tool
Now includes 1,500+ iScripts!
ieSpell
Developer http://www.iespell.com/
Download http://download.cnet.com/ieSpell/3000-12512_4-10208550.html?part=dl-ieSpell&subj=uo&tag=button
10208550.html?spi=44af54dda2bd5d676a377e218ad361ad&part=dl-ieSpell
ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries). Even if your web application already includes spell checking functionality, you might still want to install this utility because it is definitely much faster than a server-side solution. Plus you get to store and use your personal word list across all your applications, instead of maintaining separate ones on each application.