Geeks for Christ

Name:  Tux Typing

Website: http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net/

Description: Tux Typing is an educational typing tutor for children. It features several different types of game play, at a variety of difficulty levels.

Name:  Tux Paint

Website:  http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/

Description:  A drawing program for young children with sound effects, a cartoon character, and fun ‘rubber stamp’/'sticker book’ pictures

Name:  Childsplay

Website:  http://childsplay.sourceforge.net/

Description:  Childsplay is a ‘suite’ of educational games for young children. It’s written in Python and uses the SDL-libraries to make it more games-like then, for instance, gcompris. The aim is to be educational and at the same time be fun to play

Name:  Celestia

Website:  http://celestia.sourceforge.net/

Description: Celestia is real-time 3D space simulation which lets you travel through our solar system and to over 100,000 stars in our neighborhood.

Name: Flashcards 3.0

Website: http://rawilson.net/shareware/index.html

Description: I put this together for my kids to practice their basic math facts. It’s a simple flashcard program that covers addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You can select any one of the operations to practice on, or have the program mix them up. Though the default is 10, facts up to 100 are selectable. Version 3.0 includes the ability to practice fractions. A timer or a clock runs in the background, and a count of correct/incorrect answers is displayed. This program is freeware. Enjoy.

Name:  Read Please

Website: http://www.readplease.com/

Description:  Reads any onscreen text in any of four voices

Name: Certification Genie

Website: http://in.tech.yahoo.com/010721/94/11n8x.html

Description:  These are free, fully functional MCSE Track practice exams with over 500 questions, including scenarios, exhibits, and detailed explanations. This is the only program you need to fully prepare yourself for the MCSE NT 4.0 exams. It includes Networking Essentials, NT Workstation, Server, Enterprise, TCP/IP, and IIS 4.0.

Note: You must register at the website to get the serial number to unlock this exam.

Name: Exam II

Website: http://www.deltafarms.com/setup.exe

Description: A program for designing and administering exams.  It can also be used by a student for preparing for practice exams.

Here’s the top 10 fastest-rising searches entered into Google by Internet users around the globe:

1. sarah palin

2. beijing 2008

3. facebook login

4. tuenti

5. heath ledger

6. obama

7. nasza klasa

8. wer kennt wen

9. euro 2008

10. jonas brothers

It seems the world could not get enough of Sarah Palin.

The Alaska governor and former vice presidential candidate made headlines with her gun-toting, snowmachining, “you betcha” style. Palin even dominated tech headlines in October when a University of Tennessee student hacked into her Yahoo! Mail account.

Here in the U.S., however, president-elect Barack Obama topped the fastest-rising search terms list, while Palin came in at #7.

But tech was the real Google champ with requests for Facebook, iPhone, ATT and YouTube all making the top 10.

Google.com’s Fastest-Rising (U.S.)

1. obama

2. facebook

3. att

4. iphone

5. youtube

6. fox news

7. palin

8. beijing 2008

9. david cook

10. surf the channel

When gas prices started getting out of control this summer, Americans showed their frustration through their queries for hybrid cars. Other green searches included solar panels and compact fluorescent bulbs.

The economy was also at the top of people’s concerns. Searches for economic terms spiked in the U.S. while the Dow plummeted and financial firms started collapsing.

1. financial crisis

2. depression

3. bailout

4. mortgage crisis

5. wall street

6. oil

7. stock market

8. subprime

9. credit crisis

10. housing crisis

Social networks were also big in 2008. Facebook surpassed MySpace as the number one destination, and International social networks also came to the fore. More than half of the top queried social networks were for sites outside the U.S.

Social Networks Sought

1. facebook

2. myspace

3. hi5

4. orkut

5. linkedin

6. nasza klasa

7. netlog

8. mixi

9. meetup

10. odnoklassniki

Name: Church Info

Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/churchinfo/

Description: ChurchInfo is a free church database network application written in PHP/MySQL. This membership and management database is designed specifically to help automate the operation of a church. It has features to track members, families, groups, donations, etc

Name: Church Info

Website:  www.openlp.org ,http://sourceforge.net/projects/openlp/

Description:  openlp.org allows churches to easily project song words and other data onto a screen in a church

Name:  Higher Power Point

Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/higherppt/

Description: Worship projection software focused on ease of use, with thumbnail-driven slide navigation, easy show preview/switching, creating on-the-fly slides / shows from lyrics, scripture, PowerPoint, etc, & integrated web library to aid worship leaders’ planning.

Name: CCL Desktop

Website:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/ccel-desktop/ ,

Description:  The CCEL Desktop is a desktop digital library. It supports installation, maintenance, access, and searching of books from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (http://www.ccel.org) on your PC.

Name:  The Sword

Website:  http://www.crosswire.org/sword/index.jsp, http://sourceforge.net/projects/sword/

Description: The SWORD Project is the CrossWire Bible Society’s free Bible software project. Its purpose is to create cross-platform open-source tools– covered by the GNU General Public License– that allow programmers and Bible societies to write new Bible software more quickly and easily. We also create Bible study software for all readers, students, scholars, and translators of the Bible, and have a growing collection of over 200 texts in over 50 languages.

Name:  Open Source Church

Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/osc/, http://www.churchledger.com/,

Description:  OSC (Open Source Church) is a Church Management Software (CMS). It supports Membership, Giving, End of Year Tax Statements and group management. OSC is a fork of the Infocentral project.

Name:  Open Song

Website:  http://www.opensong.org/, http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensong/

Description:  OpenSong is a free software application for managing chords and lyrics sheets (lead sheets), presenting lyrics (and custom slides) using a projector, and much more! Great for worship leaders and musicians!

Name:  Audacity

Website: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Description:  Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems

Name: Video LAN Client

Website: http://www.videolan.org/

Description:  VLC is a free cross-platform media player.

Name:  CD-DA X-Tractor

Website:  http://xtractor.sourceforge.net/

Description:  CD-DA X-Tractor, a CD ripper for 32-bit Windows platforms. It features intelligent jitter correction, internet CDDB support, on-the-fly MP3 encoding via BladeEnc or Lame_enc.

Name:  Csound

Website:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/

Description:  Csound is a sound and music synthesis system, providing facilities for composition and performance over a wide range of platforms. It is not restricted to any style of music, having been used for many years in at least classical, pop, techno, ambient..