Software Suggestions and Resources

Categories of Software

Anti-Virus & Anti-Spyware
- ClamWin (Windows only)
  http://www.clamwin.com/index.php
  Free Anti-Virus software.
- ClamXav (Mac Only)
  http://www.markallan.co.uk/clamXav/index.php
  Free Anti-Virus software.
- Spybot - Search & Destroy (Windows only)
  http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html
  Removes and protects from Spyware, Adware and Malware that can hinder your computers performance and compromise your security.
Free Software and Shareware Sources
- Download.com
  http://www.download.com
  All kinds of shareware and freeware for all platforms.
- Tucows
  http://www.tucows.com
  All types of software for Windows, Mac, Linux.
- Version Tracker
  http://www.versiontracker.com/
  This site tracks and links to every new version of software for all platforms, Windows, Mac, Linux and more.
- The Open CD
  http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/index.php
  This site is a good source for free applications that can help you with many computer related activites, including web development. They offer a downloadable ISO image that can then be burned to a CD with all the applications.

FTP Programs
- SmartFTP (Windows only)
  http://www.smartftp.com/download/
  A free FTP client for Windows.
- FTP Navigator (Windows only)
  http://www.vista.ru/2inter.htm
  A free FTP client for Windows.
- WS_FTP LE (Windows only)
  http://www.ipswitch.com/cgi/download_eval.pl?product=WL-1000
  An FTP program for Windows - Free for Educators
- Fugu (Mac only)
  http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/
  An FTP program for Macintosh OSx
- Fetch (Mac only)
  http://fetchsoftworks.com/Licensing/edustore.application.html
  An FTP program for Macintosh - Free for Educators
- RBrowser Lite (Mac only)
  http://www.rbrowser.com/RBrowserLite/RBrowserLite.html
  An Free FTP program for Apple os X
- FileZilla
  http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
  A free FTP program with many advanced features for windows based PC's.

Graphic and Image Software
- ArtRage
  http://www.ambientdesign.com/artragedown.html
  ArtRage is a painting package designed to provide a realistic and fun simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, and other tools.
- Blender Open Source 3D Graphics Creation
  http://www.blender.org/cms/Home.2.0.html
  Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.
- GifBuilder (Mac Only)
  http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imaging_3d/gifbuilder.html
  A scriptable utility for creating animated GIF files.
- IrfanView (Windows only)
  IrfanView
  This program will convert multiple graphic file formats to web usable files on Windows operating systems.
- GraphicViewer
  http://www.finseth.com/~fin/realbasic/index.html
  This program will convert multiple graphic file formats to web usable files on Macintosh operating systems.
- The GIMP
  http://www.gimp.org (Windows)
  A free Open Source graphics editor, equivalent to Photoshop^®. Initially designed for Linux there is now a Windows^® version. It can be run under Mac osX with the Fink free software project or using GIMP.app which requires Apple's X11 subsystem.
- UnFREEz (Windows only)
  http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/
  A free animated gif creation tool.

HTML Editors
- Nvu (Next generation Composer)
  http://www.nvu.com/
  Nvu (stands for New View) is an open source WYSIWYG web editor which is free to download and available for most platforms. It is new and still under much development but early reviews have been positive. It should work and act very much like Composer with many additional features.
- 1st Page 2000i (Windows only)
  http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
  A free HTML editor for Windows.
- Taco HTML (Mac only)
  http://tacosw.com/index.php
  Taco HTML Edit is a full-featured HTML editor and PHP editor distributed as freeware.

Office Tools & Suites
- AbiWord
  http://www.abisource.com/
  AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft^® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
- OpenOffice.org
  http://www.openoffice.org/
  A free opensource Office suite for Windows^® and Linux, Mac version is in the works. It includes a word processor, spreadsheet, drawing, Web editor and many other useful programs. It is Microsoft Office^® compatible so you can open Word and Excel documents with it.
- NeoOfficeJ (Mac only)
  http://www.neooffice.org/
  NeoOffice/J is a full featured office productivity suite including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing, database, and macro functionality.
- Star Office
  http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/get_businesses.jsp
  Star Office from Sun is now free for Educational Institutions. This is the office suite the OpenOffice is based on and Sun has professional support services available.

SSH Clients
- Linux and Apple OS X have ssh clients built in.
- Putty (Windows only)
  http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~Esgtatham/putty/
  This windows based program allows users to connect via Telnet or SSH to a remote server.

Web Browsers
- Firefox from Mozilla
  http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
  The browser from the Mozilla suite has been taken and developed seperately and named Firefox.
- Mozilla Browser Suite
  http://www.mozilla.org/
  The Open Source Netscape Browser which includes an email client, web editor and more all in one program.
- Opera
  http://www.opera.com
- Evolt.org Browser Archive
  http://browsers.evolt.org/
  Every Web Browser and every version that has ever been released. Need Netscape 4 for OS8.6 they got it!