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Firefox Probably too well known now to mention but what the heck! A superb, fast browser that renders standards-based web pages very accurately, and which can be extended in it’s functionality by a massive number of plugins. |
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| Photostory
A free Microsoft tool that’s actually a very easy way to use images and photos to create a story with animation, sound and text. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/ |
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| CSFsoftware A variety of Visual Basic 6 applications, of which ‘The Numbers Game’, ’10 Quick Questions’ and ‘Wordsearch Creator’ are free! |
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| ArtRage Here's a lovely application you can just draw, paint, doodle, spray with. It's what we always wanted MSPaint to be and more. Work can be saved in a range of formats for use elsewhere and it will suit all ages and levels of artistic prowess! |
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| impatica Impatica for PowerPoint makes it easy to add narrated business presentations to your web site or e-mail marketing programs. Now you can deliver fully narrated and animated PowerPoint presentations to essentially any internet device without plug-ins and even at normal modem speeds. Impatica for PowerPoint simply converts the PowerPoint file into a compressed format that is optimized for streaming over the Internet. The Impatica file is typically 95% smaller than the PowerPoint HTML files. Impatica for PowerPoint supports most of the features of PowerPoint, including text, graphics, transitions, animation effects and, of course, narration. |
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| eXe learning eXe is a simple, off-line authoring environment that enables teachers and academics to author web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. Content generated by eXe can be used inside any Learning Management System, either as SCORM 1.2 packages, IMS Content Packages, or self-contained web sites. eXe enables users to select from predesigned instructional devices (iDevices) or create their own devices like objectives, case studies, reading activities, etc. Users can manipulate the look and feel of their published content as well as export for different display or delivery technologies. |
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| Irfanview An image editor that fits on an old floppy disk. A programme that just opens, not thinks, whirrs and covers your desktop with toolbars galore. When all you want to do is paste in that screenshot and crop a bit of it, this is easily the quickest solution. And it's free. |
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| Freemind Freemind is an open source mind mapping tool that is very easy to pick up and use. As it is written in Java it will require a download of the latest Java runtime package. |
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| The Gordian Knot
Despite the very strange name this is a package of open source video editing tools that (if you ever use camcorders, need to use DVD video content etc.) you will find very useful! A special version for more ‘automatic’ use is also available (2nd address) http://sourceforge.net/projects/gordianknot and http://www.autogk.me.uk/modules.php?name=Download |
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