Free Productivity Tools
"Office" Tools
- Google Calendar - embeddable, collaborative
- Google maps - example 1, example 2
- Google Docs - online office applications
- Google Sites - collaborative space
- Zoho - online suite of applications
- acrobat.com - new online suite of products.
- OpenOffice - Open source office suite. Wordprocessing, spreadsheet, presentation software and more!
- Ulteo - Project to run OpenOffice in your web browser.
- Empressr - Online presentation tool
Graphics viewing and editing
- Photoshop Express - Online image editing with Photoshop and 2gb of storage!
- Irfanview - Universal graphics viewer with simple graphics editing capabilities.
- Paint.net - image editing with more complex editing capabilities
- Gimp - mature robust image editor akin to Photoshop
- Photofiltre - Image editor
- Dia - Open source diagram and flow-charting.
- Inkscape - vector image editing tool akin to Illustrator
- Scribus - Desktop Publishing software akin to Pagemaker/InDesign
- SIB Icon Editor - Create and edit desktop icons
Audio and media
- Audacity - Software for recording and editing sound files.
- Mediacoder - for transcoding your audio files from one format to another.
- Gabcast - Record your own podcast over the phone.
- CDBurnerXP - software for burning CDs, DVDs even Blu-Ray discs.
Miscellaneous
- Zotero - Firefox extension to collect, manage and cite resources.
- Jing - a Camtasia-like clone. May have some limitations.
- Kompozer - Open Source HTML WYSIWYG Editor
- Jing - a Camtasia-like clone. May have some limitations.
- Windows Live Skydrive - 5gb of online storage.
- Xdrive - 5gb of free online file storage
- Freeconference - Free telephone conference calls.
- Twiddla - Free whiteboard/webconferencing/chat. One an award at SXSW this year.
- Google Analytics - free weblog analysis tools.
Places to look for more free software
- CNET.com - check out their downloads section. These are not all free! Check the agreements.
- Sourceforge - world's largest repository for open source software.
- LiveContent - Open source and CC licensed material on a bootable DVD
- Lifehacker - blog for tips, tricks and shortcuts..but also discusses new free software
