Guerilla Productivity Tools:
 
Work More Efficiently & Effectively
 
with Free or Inexpensive Software Gems *
Operating
Systems		SecurityProductivity
Tools
Remote Control /
Assistance 		LAN UtilitiesVideo & Audio
Internet / Websites
Tools 		GraphicsEducational
USB
Utilities		File & Directory
Utilities		Asset
Management
www.ninite.com is an convenient, online tool to install a large number of
free or OpenSource software programs at the same time
For a list of additional Alternative OpenSource Software
to take the place of Commerical Software visit: OSalt.com
My Top 12 Favorites Click here for a PDF version of the printed handout

This Page was Last Revised on: 02-23-2009
  
* Note- The links found on this page are for informational purposes only. Mogadore Local School District  and the author
make no guarantees as to the quality, safety or accuracy of any of the software listed on this page and is not responsible for
any losses, monetary or otherwise, as a result of using material from our web pages and/or links from them to other sites.

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Categories
 Sub-
categories
 Examples Web Site Sources
Operating Systems

(Also see:
File & Directory Utilities  and
Security sections)
 Operating Systems Linux (in a wide variety of flavors) http://www.linux.org/dist/index.html
OS Updates WSUS-
Microsoft Windows Server Update Services

WUD- Windows Updates Downloader

nLite-
SlipStreamer / Installation Customizer		 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus




http://www.windowsupdatesdownloader.com




http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html
OS Utilities SysInternals (Free),





Winternals ($)

SystemRescueCd

CC Cleaner
 		http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals

To down load all Systernals in one download--
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/
0e18b180-9b7a-4c49-8120-c47c5a693683.aspx


No longer available new, e-bay or other used sources

http://www.sysresccd.org

http://www.ccleaner.com
OS Included Software & Download Extras Checkout what is already included,  is also on the installation disk and/or can be downloaded from the OS provider 
Virtualization / Emulation
 VM Ware, VirtualBox, BootCamp, Parallels Desktop ($), MS Virtual PC http://www.vmware.com/download/server
http://www.virtualbox.org
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html
http://www.parallels.com
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/virtualpc
Boot & Repair
Ultimate Boot CD
      (UBCD)
Knoppix

PartedMagic
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com

http://www.knoppix.org

http://partedmagic.com
Repair Windows XP Taskbar Problems
Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
ImagingFog-  A Free  Computer Cloning Solutionhttp://www.fogproject.org
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Remote Control / Assistance Remote Control VNC (many flavors),
http://www.realvnc.com
http://www.tightvnc.com
http://www.uvnc.com
Lab Monitoring / BroadcastingiTALC- view and control other computers in your lab or networkhttp://italc.sourceforge.net
Remote ControlWindow's Remote Desktop http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/
getstarted/remoteintro.mspx
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Internet / Websites Tools & e-mail
 Internet Browser FireFox http://www.mozilla.org
Internet Browser Add-ons & Plugins FireFox Add-Ons & Extensions
FireFox Extensions Web Site:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox

Some of My Favorites Add-Ons:
DictionarySearch Image Zoom
Google Preview
 ColorZilla
PrefBar Map This
Zotero Split Browser
Interclue
 Sharaholic
Advanced Dork
 Password Exporter
Copy Plain TextPrint Hint
ExtendedCopy MenuLink Evaluator
Table2ClipboardFireShot
TableToolsWeb Developer
Theme- Classic Compact
                                     
                                    

Bookmarking Services
 List of 10 Popular Online ("Social") Bookmarking http://websearch.about.com/od/bestwebsites
/tp/freebookmarks.htm
Online
"Social Bookmarking" Sites
   
 Sample of Popular
Social Bookmarking Sites
   del.icio.us http://del.icio.us     

   Digg http://digg.com

   Popurls http://popurls.com

   Slashdot http://slashdot.org

   Furl http://www.furl.net




Web Page Editors- WYSIWYG KompoZer,
very similar to Mozilla SeaMonkey's Composer
 (also, see below for text editors)		 http://www.kompozer.net



http://www.seamonkey-project.org
e-mailMozilla Thunderbirdhttp://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
Content Management Systems (Web Pages) Drupal

Content Made Simple		 http://drupal.org


http://www.cmsmadesimple.org
Web Server Apache XAMPP http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
Automation / Programming PHP http://www.php.net/
Databases MySQL http://www.mysql.com
Online Course Management Systems
 Moodle

Sakai
 http://moodle.org

http://sakaiproject.org
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USB Utilities		 Mobile Desktops Portable Apps (Free),

MoJoPac
(Free & $)

 U3 (Free &$)		 http://portableapps.com


http://www.mojopac.com


http://www.u3.com
File Sync and/or Data Backup Goodsync,

AJC Directory Synchronizer		 http://www.goodsync.com

http://www.ajcsoft.com
File & Directory Utilities FreeCommander

xplorer˛ Lite		 http://www.freecommander.com

http://zabkat.com/x2lite.htm
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Security		 Security
 CastleCops List of
Security Freeware
 http://wiki.castlecops.com/Lists_of_Freeware_Security_Software
SAM Control
(Anti Spyware, Adware & Malware)		 Spybot

Adaware (Free/$)

PC Tools- ThreatFire (Free/ $)

Malwarebytes (Free/ $)

HijackThis (Free/$) -suggested for Advanced Users Only		 http://www.safer-networking.org

http://www.lavasoftusa.com


http://www.threatfire.com/about


http://www.malwarebytes.org/


http://download.cnet.com/
Trend-Micro-HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10227353.html
AntiVirus Avira
 (Free Version)

AVG
(Free Version)		 http://www.free-av.com/


http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-virus/us/frt/0
Network Gateway & Firewall Untangle Gateway

Zone Alarm
(Free & $)

Squid Guard (Free-Linux)		 http://www.untangle.com


http://www.zonealarm.com


http://www.squidguard.org
File & Disk
 Darik's
Boot & Nuke Disk
HD "Shredder"

File Shredder

EASEUS-
Partition Manger
 http://dban.sourceforge.net



http://www.fileshredder.org


http://www.partition-tool.com/index.htm
Loss PreventionAdeona- Free Software for  Tracking Lost or Stolen Laptopshttp://adeona.cs.washington.edu
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LAN Utilities Network Scanning

 Look@LAN

fing		 http://www.lookatlan.com/oldindex.html

http://www.lookatlan.com
Monitoring / Asset Management / Help Desk

Spice Works
http://www.spiceworks.com
Monitoring / Security Wireshark http://www.wireshark.org
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Graphics		 Screen Capture- Still SnagIt ($)

Screenhunter 5 (Free Version)

MWSnap		 http://www.techsmith.com

http://wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mwsnap.html
Screen Capture- Motion Jing (Free)

CamStudio (Free)

Camtasia($)

Bulent's screen recorder (Free)		 http://www.jingproject.com

http://camstudio.org

http://www.techsmith.com


http://www.thesilver.net
Graphics & Photo Editing / Scanning GIMP

GIMPshop

Paint.NET
IrfanView		 http://www.gimp.org

http://www.gimpshop.com

http://www.getpaint.net

http://www.irfanview.com
Format Conversion IrfanView


Online Format Convertors--

Zamzar

Media-Convert,

iConv

 http://www.irfanview.com



http://www.zamzar.com

http://media-convert.com

http://www.iconv.com
Drawing / Painting / 3D OpenOffice Draw


Blender
Art of Illusion


InkScape


TUX Paint & Stamps

Drawing for Children
 http://openoffice.org


http://www.blender.org


http://www.artofillusion.org


http://www.inkscape.org


http://www.tuxpaint.org


http://drawing.gamemaker.nl
Design/CAD Google SketchUp

TurboCAD($)

 CADView7 (viewer only)		 http://sketchup.google.com


http://www.turbocad.com

http://www.fastcad.com/x-view7.html
Flow Charts / Diagrams
 Dia (Free)

EDraw Mind Map (Free)

ArgoUML (Free)

FlowGrid Control
 http://live.gnome.org/Dia

http://www.edrawsoft.com/freemind.php

http://argouml.tigris.org

http://www.robsons.org.uk/page4.html
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File & Directory Utilities		 Directory & File Management FolderSize- (free)
Adds a new column to the Details view in Windows Explorer. which shows not only the size of files, but also the size of folders.

WinDirStat- (free)
disk usage statistics viewer &cleanup tool, shows disk, file &  dir sizes in a treelist as well as graphically in a treemap

Z-Tree ($) - a modern version of X-Tree (http://www. xtreefanpage.org)


 AJC GREP($)		 http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/about.html






http://sourceforge.net/projects/windirstat/







http://www.ztree.com




http://www.ajcsoft.com
Remote File Access
 ifolder (free),  
others choices include a variety of online file storage including: Windows Live FolderShare (beta),  Google Desktop, etc. (there may be concerns with privacy with these.)		 http://www.ifolder.com
Zip, Compression, Decompress JustZipIt

7_Zip
 http://free-backup.info/justzipit.html

http://www.7-zip.org
File Format Converters ABC Amber Conversion ($)

Conversion Plus by DatViz ($)		 http://www.processtext.com


http://www.dataviz.com/products/conversionsplus
Online
File Format Converters
Zamzar

Media-Convert,

iConv

Convert PDFs to--
Word, HMTL, Text, Image formats.
 		http://www.zamzar.com

http://media-convert.com

http://www.iconv.com

http://www.convertpdftoword.net
MS Office 2007 File Formats Compatibility Pack
for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
(Allows you to open Office 2007 Word's .docx, Excel's .xlsx or PowerPoint's .pptx  file formats in Word, PowerPoin or Excel 2000, 2003, XP etc.) Make sure you install both files to the left.		MS Office Compatibility Pack

MS Office Compatibility Pack- Service Pack-1
Document Viewers PowerPoint Viewer,  Excel Viewer, & more from MS http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/HA010449811033.aspx
File/Data Recovery GetBack from Runtime Software($)

SystemRescueCd

Test Disk-
Recover/ Repair Lost Partitions & PhotoRec- Recovers missing Photo Files from wide Variety of Media

Smart Data Recovery for U3 Flash Drives
 http://www.runtime.org

http://www.sysresccd.org





http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk





http://www.smartpctools.com/data_recovery_u3
File Synchronization
Allway Sync
(Free & $ Versions)

AJC Sync ($)
 http://allwaysync.com/


http://www.ajcsoft.com
Data Backup Back2zip

AJC Active Backup ($)		 http://free-backup.info

http://www.ajcsoft.com
File System Structure / File Analysis View Files System Information using Linux

 Look@Lan's FileAlyzer *
 Bootable Linux Systems on a Disk- Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.com), Edubuntu (http://www.edubuntu.com), etc.


 *e-mail me (mo_luscre@mogadore.net) for a copy of this
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Productivity Tools		 Office Suites-
Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Database and Drawing.

All four programs can open, edit & create documents with files formats compatible with MS Office- Excel, Word & PowerPoint. You also get ability to create PDFs
 Open Office (Free) -- Windows, Mac & Linux Versions

Star Office (Free for Schools, with required  Registration) has more clipart

Neo-Office (Free) is Open Office ported to Mac for Easier Install & Use


IBM
Lotus Symphony (Free)
 http://openoffice.org




http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.jsp


http://www.neooffice.org



http://symphony.lotus.com
MS Office 2007 File Formats (.docx) Compatibility Pack  
for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
(Allows you to open Office 2007 Word's .docx, Excel's .xlsx or PowerPoint's .pptx  file formats in Word, PowerPoin or Excel 2000, 2003, XP etc.) Make sure you install both files to the left.		MS Office Compatibility Pack

MS Office Compatibility Pack- Service Pack-1
Online Productivity Tools Google Docs & Spreadsheets

ZOHO Work Online
 http://docs.google.com


http://www.zoho.com
Desktop Publishing Scribus http://www.scribus.net
PDF Creation PDF Creator

Open Office

IBM Lotus Symphony

PrimoPDF		 http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator

http://openoffice.org

http://symphony.lotus.com

http://www.primopdf.com
Text Editors for programming, web pages and everyday writing Arachnophilia

PsPad

FCKEditor

Crimson Editor		 http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia

http://www.pspad.com

http://www.fckeditor.net

http://www.crimsoneditor.com
Spell Checkers & Glossary Expansion Spell Catcher Plus ($)

Enso Words (Free)

ieSpell (for IE only)		 http://www.rainmakerinc.com


http://humanized.com/enso/words

http://www.iespell.com
Online & Offline Dictionary & Thesaurus / Translation TheFreeDictionary  (works best with FireFox Extension- DictionarySearch)

Freelang Dictionaries & Translation for a wide variety of languages (both On & Offline versions)
 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/68




http://www.freelang.net
Calculators Auditor Calculator

GraphCalc

Calc98		 http://www.auditor2000.co.il/aucalcdl.htm

http://www.graphcalc.com

http://www.calculator.org/download.html
Document Merging / Management ABC Amber Merge ($) http://www.processtext.com
Document
Templates & Graphic Organizers
 Microsoft Office Templates

OOExtras (Open Office Templates & Extras)

Graphic Organizers-
Huge Collection from gotoscience. Includes editable docs and print and use formats, each has preview capability

Graph & Grid Paper

 http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx



http://www.smalldataproblem.org/ooextras




http://gotoscience.com/Graphic_Organizers.html



http://www.incompetech.com/graphpaper
Free
Fonts &
ClipArt		 Acid Fonts

dafont

1001 Free Fonts

Free Clip Art from Microsoft

Aswesome Clip Art for Educators

Move Clip Art Sites
 http://www.acidfonts.com

http://www.dafont.com

http://1001freefonts.com

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx



http://www.awesomeclipartforeducators.com


Wide variety of sites, search for "free clipart" on google,
but beware many sites have large number of obnoxious pop-up and ads
Automated Productivity Boosters
 Enso Launcher, Enso Word,
Enso Map,
Enso Betas
(All Enso are Free)
 http://humanized.com
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Video & Audio




 Video Capture (non-computer video sources)
 Freez Screen http://www.smallvideosoft.com
Screen Capture- Motion CamStudio(Free)

Camtasia($)

Bulent's screen recorder (Free)		 http://camstudio.org

http://www.techsmith.com

http://www.thesilver.net
Movie Editing Window's Movie Maker http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/ downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx
Audio Audacity (All)

Ardour
(Mac & Linux Only)
 http://audacity.sourceforge.net


http://www.ardour.org
Audio Encoding LAME http://lame.buanzo.com.ar
Screen Capture- Motion CamStudio (Free)

Camtasia ($)

Bulent's screen recorder (Free)		 http://camstudio.org

http://www.techsmith.com

http://www.thesilver.net
Voice Over IP
 TrixBox VoIP System (Free),

Skype
 http://www.trixbox.org


http://www.skype.com
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Educational		 Course Management Systems Moodle

Sakai		 http://moodle.org

http://sakaiproject.org
Geography & Maps Google Earth http://earth.google.com
Concept Mapping (Inspiration like) C Map

Free-Mind

VUE		 http://cmap.ihmc.us

http://freemind.sourceforge.net

http://vue.uit.tufts.edu
Online Tutorials variety  
Training Tools Tux Typing http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net
Edutainment Edubuntu (Linux), KDE (Linux) http://www.edubuntu.org
http://www.kde.org
Programming Python

Scratch

GameMaker		 http://www.python.org

http://scratch.mit.edu

http://www.gamemaker.nl 
More Free Educational Software Links From David Thornburg http://www.tcpdpodcast.org/oss.html
Curriculum  & Teaching Tools
 From Mogadore's
Portal Pages
 For a large list of free software & web resources visit our portal page's Curriculum section at http://www.mogadore.net/curric.html
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Databases
& Asset Management

 Databases & Tools Open Office

Oracle 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) (Free),

MySQL (Free)

Freebyte Guide to Free Databases

Parse Rat ($)		 http://openoffice.org

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html




http://www.mysql.com

http://www.freebyte.com/programming/database


http://www.guysoftware.com/parserat.htm
Lose PreventionAdeona- Free Software for  Tracking Lost or Stolen Laptopshttp://adeona.cs.washington.edu
Software Auditing Belarc http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
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Even More !
 For a list of additional Alternative OpenSource or Free Software to take the place of Commerical Software visit: OSalt.com
 
Note- The links found on this page are for informational purposes only. Mogadore Local School District  and the author
make no guarantees as to the quality, safety or accuracy of any of the software listed on this page and is not responsible for
any losses, monetary or otherwise, as a result of using material from our web pages and/or links from them to other sites.

My Current Top 12 Favorites
1  Spell Catcher ($)7 KompoZer
2 SnagIt ($)8 AJC Active Backup ($)
3 FireFox Browser & Extensions9 Run-Time Get Back File Recovery ($)
4 VNC10 EDraw Mind Mapping & Diagrams
5 Look @ Lan11 Knoppix Boot Disk
6 Thunderbird e-mail12 CC Cleaner
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All pages of the web site http://www.mogadore.net are copyrighted (1999-2009)
 by Anthony A. Luscre (Webmaster) and/or the Mogadore Local School District and all rights are reserved.
Please contact the webmaster for permission to use original materials--
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