Educational

Posted by waremock on Thursday Dec 11, 2008 Under Free Software

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.

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Christian Software

Posted by waremock on Wednesday Dec 10, 2008 Under Free Software

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!

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Multimedia

Posted by waremock on Wednesday Dec 10, 2008 Under Free Software

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..

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Internet

Posted by waremock on Tuesday Dec 9, 2008 Under Free Software

Name:  FireFox

Website:  http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Description:  The award-winning open source Web browser. Browse the Web with confidence – Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy.

Name:  Beonex

Website:  www.beonex.com

Description:  Beonex (0.8.2) is a full-featured web-browser and email/news client targeted at end-users—both individuals at home and companies of all sizes. It is based on Mozilla source code, which in turn is based on the Netscape Communicator code

Name:  Mozilla Suite

Website:  http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/

Description:  Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple — all your Internet needs in one application.

Name: GAIM

Website:  http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

Description:  A multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client

Name:  GNU Privacy Guard

Website:  http://www.gnupg.org/

Description:  An encryption program.

Name:  Filezilla

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

Description: FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features.

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Misc Software

Posted by waremock on Monday Dec 8, 2008 Under Free Software

Name: Martus

Website:  http://www.martus.org/

Description: Martus is a software tool that allows users to document incidents of abuse by creating bulletins, uploading them at the earliest opportunity, and storing them on redundant servers located around the world.

Name:  Homeless Management Information System Home Page

Website:  http://hmis.sourceforge.net/

Description: The Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) allows organizations providing services to the homeless to collect client information electronically. The HMIS uses a web-based interface generated by PHP, and backed by either PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server.

The HMIS is designed to be flexible, secure and protect client confidentiality. The HMIS allows organizations providing services to the homeless to:

Collects individual client information (gender, age, ethnicity, etc.)
Collects household information (housing status, services provided, income, etc.)
Lets providers dynamically query individual/household data.
Allows providers to selectively share client data with other service providers.
Produce reports required by funding agencies.
The goals of the HMIS goals are to improve the delivery of services to the homeless by: Allowing providers to efficiently organize their client files in a secure, flexible electronic system that protects client confidentiality. Allowing providers to generate reports based on aggregate queries of client data to demonstrate the level of need and gaps in services.

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