Freeware and Shareware

Images in the Public Domain

Wikipedia: Public domain image resources <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_image_resources>
Repository of sites of images in the public domain: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/resources/image_repositories.html#Repositories

Royalty-Free Clip Art Collection for Foreign/Second Language Instruction <http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj//FLClipart/default.html> -- collection of clip art (simple line-drawings) to be used by foreign language instructors (by Kazumi Hatasa)

Stock Art, Royalty-Free Photography and Clipart <http://www.internetadsales.com/modules/wfsection/index.php?&category=32> -- An assortment of large, general and specialized royalty-free stock photography and commercial and free clipart collections for use in web design.

Freefoto.com <http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp> -- FreeFoto.com is the largest collection of free photographs for private non-commercial use on the Internet.

Graphics / Images

ClipartHeaven.com <http://www.clipartheaven.com/> -- over 22,000 images by category

Open Source Software

Nvu <www.nvu.com> -- A complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for "new view") makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.

OpenOffice <http://www.openoffice.org/index.html> -- OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project.; includes a free download of Writer – a word processor, Calc – a spreadsheet, Impress – a presentation program, Draw – a graphics program, Base – a database program to create and modify tables, forms, queries, and reports, Math – lets you create mathematical equations with a graphic user interface or by directly typing your formulas into the equation editor

ThinkFree Online <www.thinkfree.com/common/main.tfo> -- Thinkfree Docs extends the existing ThinkFree Online community, a free web service for creating and editing office documents--ThinkFree Write (word processing), ThinkFree Calc (spreadsheet), and ThinkFree Show (presentation).  It runs on all major browser on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh systems and operates natively in Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .xls, and .ppt) but the free version does not include the Insert Comments or Track Changes features.  In addition, its online office productivity suite offers an online community for sharing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

Zoho Show <http://show.zoho.com/jsp/zoho_login.jsp> --  web-based, free presentations with registration; no downloads necessary; imports PowerPoint and Open Office files

Mind-mapping software (list) -- <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mind_mapping_software>

Freeware

i-Lighter <www.i-lighter.com> -- free download; allows user to highlight and annotate texts on the Web

iSpring <http://www.ispringsolutions.com/products/ispring_free.html> -- turns PowerPoint to Flash in one click; creates high quality Flash movies of standard PowerPoint objects and keeps most of advanced PowerPoint features; keeps hyperlinks, action buttons, animations, slide transitions, embedded music and audio narrations, synchronization of animation and sounds, embedded video clips and Flash movies.

SoftArea51 <http://www.softarea51.com>  -- directory to freeware and shareware for Windows (on MACs, PCs, Linux, Mobile & Palm)

ClassMarker <http://www.classmarker.com/aboutus.php> -- Create multiple choice, true false, free text, short answer, fill in the blank and punctuation quizzess quizzes online; Instant marking is provided for all test, quizzes and exams, which allows instructors to view the results of each learner immediately without having to do any marking themselves. Quiz results are saved in ClassMarker and can optionally be sent to an email address when a quiz is finished.

Optimizing Pictures in PowerPoint <http://www.indeavors.com/resources/ppt1_tut.htm> -- compresses picture size

Slide Share <http://slideshare.net>

Voicethread <www.voicethread.com> -- an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.

SoundTransit <http://soundtransit.nl/search/index.php> -- search for sounds from this CreativeCommons community

Background Samples <http://www.styleworkshop.com/site/sample_backgrounds.php>   FREE backgrounds for PowerPoint

Impatica <www.impatica.com> -- a free download (trial version) for compressing large PowerPoints and keeping all inserted (linked) files inside the PPT;

• Quick Start Guide to Using Impatica for PowerPoint (online video with narration)

• tutorial with screen shots for using Impatica to insert narration files <http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ppt/ImpaticaforPowerPoint_3_3_3.pdf> (see pages 4 ff)

PPTminimizer  -- good for 12 free optimizations; reduces the size by up to 96%; does not change the format of the file; no PowerPoint installation required; optimizes and compresses images; optimizes and compresses objects; search for PowerPoint files; Add-in for Outlook, PowerPoint and Explorer; never changes your original presentation

Free Online Surveys.com <http://freeonlinesurveys.com/welcome_thankyou.asp?a=10&b=357560> -- create free Web-based or email surveys; results collected automatically; no software to install

SurveyMonkey.com <http://surveymonkey.com/> -- free online surveys (multiple choice, rating scales, drop-down menus, and more..).  Powerful options allow you to require answers to any question, control the flow with custom skip logic, and even randomize answer choices to eliminate bias.

Easy Thumbnails <http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/> -- suggested by Dafne Gonzalez on 1-16-06 for resizing images  (Web site info: The software creates "accurate thumbnail images and scaled-down/up copies from a wide range of popular picture formats")

Bravenet.com <http://www.bravenet.com/> -- Web tools, including guest books, forums, hit counters, web templates, photo albums, chat rooms, and much, much more

Corbis Bizpresenter <http://bizpresenter.corbis.com/> -- search (by topic) for free photographs, photo objects, cartoons, illustrations, templates

Flash Sound Effects <http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/>  -- free, by topic; Ambience, Cartoon, Communication, Creatures, Domestic, Electronic, Industrial_Commercial, Instruments, Interfaces, Mayhem, Mechanical, Nature, People, Recreation, Transportation

CoffeeCup <http://www.coffeecup.com/freestuff/> -- free image program and web hosting; includes The HTML Editor, Flash Firestarter,  PixConverter, GIF Animator, Image Mapper, StyleSheet Maker,  Button Factory, Effects Factory, Headline Factory, Navigation Factory,  PhotoObjects, and more.

IconBazaar <http://www.iconbazaar.com/>

Free Web Hosting Sites

Nvu <www.nvu.com> -- A complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for "new view") makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.

Free WYSIWYG Web Editors and Website Builders <http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/htmleditors.shtml#wysiwyg> -- includes Mozilla Suite (includes navigator and Composer), Trellian WebPAGE, Netscape Composer (also see the tutorial), Amaya Web Browsing and Authoring, and Nvu - Complete Web Authoring System

Google Pages <http://pages.google.com> -- also review some of the problems associated with them at http://www.onedegree.ca/2006/02/23/big-problem-with-google-pages

Homestead, Free Trial <https://www.homestead.com/~site/Scripts_Signup/Signup.dll?CMD=CMDTrialInformation> -- Web site building with templates

Free.Prohosting.com <http://lite.prohosting.com/> -- free 100 Megabytes of Disk Storage, 1.2 Gigabytes of Monthly Bandwidth, ProBuilder Site Builder, FTP account

ForumsPlace -- free discussion board with NO ADS!

Bravenet.com <http://www.bravenet.com/> -- free web hosting (50 MB)

CoffeeCup <http://www.coffeecup.com/freestuff/> -- free image program and web hosting

A Review of Selected Free Website Hosts and Tips for ESL/EFL Professionals   (Lev Abramov, TESL-EJ, March 2003)

50 megs <http://www.50megs.com/> -- offers 50MBs of space for free web site hosting; uses a site builder (templates); 1Gb monthly bandwidth. 0.5Mb file size limit. No ads. FTP uploads. Email forwarding provided

The Free Site <http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Web_Space/>  offers links to sites with free items, including links to free web hosting

Angelfire <http://www.angelfire.com> --  A major free Web space provider that is owned by search portal Lycos <http://www.lycos.com>, Angelfire offers 20 megabytes of space and supports FrontPage <http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/> extensions. You may advertise your business here, but you may not have paid advertising banners on your page. Angelfire offers lots of helpful advice for getting you up and running with your own Web site, even if you're new to Web site authoring.

Host Department <http://free.hostdepartment.com> -- This free Web hosting service offers you 10 megs of space, a choice of domains, and unlimited traffic. Unlike most free services of this kind, Host Department doesn't place banner ads on your pages. This service also offers several free enhancements for your site, including a guestbook, a message board and online forms, as well as full FTP access.

Internations.net <http://usa.internations.net> -- This is a nice free Web hosting service that gives you 100 megs of space and up to one gig of monthly data transfer. A banner-ad supported service, Internations.net also offers several free features for your pages, including a message board, a feedback script and a guestbook.

1ASPHost.com <http://www.1asphost.com> -- This free Web hosting service offers 100 megs of space, unlimited bandwidth and instant account activation. Features here include Microsoft Access database support; Active Server Pages (ASP) and 24-hour tech support.

FreeWebSpace.com <http://www.freewebspace.com>  A solid, free, ad-supported Web hosting service, FreeWebSpace.com gives
you 100 megs of space, along with site promotion and enhancement tools. You can use either their Web-based file manager, or an FTP client, to
upload your files.

SRP Web <http://www.srp-web.co.uk> -- This free Web hosting service offers five megs of space, along with FTP access, and doesn't pester your visitors with banner ads or popups. To access the free hosting service here, click the "free sign up" link near the top of the page.

FortuneCity.com <http://www.fortunecity.com> -- Stake your claim at this major free Web space provider that uses a city theme. Some people will probably find this concept appealing; others are annoyed by it, judging from our feedback. Fortune City.com offers 20 megs of space and they've added subdirectory support, making it easier to manage your files.

Free International Web hosting services:

DotEasy <http://www.doteasy.com/> -- free, no ad banners/pop-up ads, 20MB storage
NVu <http://www.nvu.com>-- for  web page creation; it's Linux, Mac and Windows compatible and 100% open source. (recommended by Lesley Graham)
Free Web Sites:
    Geocities <http://www.geocities.com> 
    Tripod <http://www.tripod.com> 
    Filimentality http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/

Organization Tools

Mozilla Sunbird <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/> -- a cross-platform Web-based calendar application
Jott <http://jott.com/default.aspx> -- Jott converts your voice into emails, text messages, reminders, lists and appointments.
ReminderFox <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1191> -- add-on for Firefox; displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo's.
Google Notebook <http://www.google.com/notebook/> -- Clip and collect information as you surf the web; use Google Notebook to save recipes, gift ideas and interesting articles you find while browsing. Get them later from any computer by visiting www.google.com/notebook or just clicking the Notebook icon in your browser; can be shared.
StickyPad <http://www.greeneclipse.com/stickypad.html> -- lets you place sticky notes on your desktop. You can type notes to yourself, set meeting and appointment reminders, keep track of a to-do list, and anything else you would do with paper notes. Your notes can be printed, pasted into other applications, or emailed.

Transferring, Storing, Sharing Files

YouSendIt <http://www.yousendit.com/> -- great for sending files that are too large for email (up to 1 GB!); files are stored on the company server for seven days; you send an email to the person(s) to pick up the file; no password, no downloads
DropLoad <http://www.dropload.com/> -- password needed but free; dropload is a place for you to drop your files off and have them picked up by someone else at a later time. Recipients you specify are sent an email with instructions on how to download the file. Files are removed from the system after 7 days, regardless if they have been picked up or not. You can upload any type of file, mp3, movies, docs, pdfs, up to 100MB each! Recipients can be anyone with an email address
FreeWebspace.net <http://www.freewebspace.net/guide/diskstorage.shtml>
SendThisFile <http://www.sendthisfile.com/ftp.jsp?rc=freeftp>
MoFile <http://www.mofile.com/en/?ch=14>
 

Tutorial Creation Software

Wink <http://www.debugmode.com/wink/> -- Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users. Here is a sample Flash tutorial created by Wink. See the sample at http://www.debugmode.com/wink/.

• Cross-Platform: Available for all flavours of Windows and various versions of Linux (x86 only).
• Audio: Record voice as you create the tutorial for explaining better.
• Input formats: Capture screenshots from your PC, or use images in BMP/JPG/PNG/TIFF/GIF formats.
• Output formats: Macromedia Flash, Standalone EXE, PDF, PostScript, HTML or any of the above image formats. Use Flash/html for the web, EXE for distributing to PC users and PDF for printable manuals.

gmail by Google <gmail.google.com> --  Gmail is a free, search-based webmail service that includes 1,000 megabytes (1 gigabyte) of storage
Hotmail <http://www.hotmail.com> 
Yahoo <http://www.yahoo.com> 
Excite Email <http://www.excite.com> 
ZDNet Mail <http://www.zdnet.com> 
AltaVista Email <http://www.mail.com/> 
AOL (America OnLine) NetMail <http://www.aol.com/netmail/> 

IncrediMail <http://www.incredimail.com/english/splash.html> -- nimated Emoticons , to enliven your text , Variety of backgrounds, animations and sounds, ersonal signatures, Personal voice messages, Vibrant Incoming Email Notifications, Cool 3D effects (sending, receiving and deleting your messages)