OFFICE SUITES

NEOOFFICE: word processor, spreadsheet, presentations and drawing packages

DOWNLOAD: http://www.neooffice.org/ FOR APPLE MACINTOSH

OPENOFFICE: word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, drawing and database

DOWNLOAD: http://www.openoffice.org/index.html FOR ALL PLATFORMS

FREE PORTABLE APPLICATIONS

These are applications you can store on, and run from, a USB pendrive

PortableApps.Com: word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, drawing packages and utilities etc

DOWNLOAD: http://portableapps.com/ FOR WINDOWS

STATISTICAL AND DATA PLOTTING SOFTWARE

GenStat Statistics Software by VSNi: Free Statistics Package for Educational use Only

DOWNLOAD: http://www.vsni.co.uk/downloads/genstat-teaching/ FOR WINDOWS

PSPP: Free alternative to SPSS (an SPSS clone package)

DOWNLOAD: http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html FOR WIN/MAC/LINUX

'PLOT' : a scientific 2D plotting program for Mac OS X

DOWNLOAD: http://plot.micw.eu/ FOR APPLE MACINTOSH

MJOGRAPH : Highly functional 2-D plotting and visualisation programme for MAC OS X

DOWNLOAD: http://www.ochiailab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp/mjograph/ FOR APPLE MACINTOSH

ROOT: Mathematical modelling & visualisation software from CERN

DOWNLOAD: http://root.cern.ch/drupal/ FOR WIN/MAC/LINUX

R: Free statistical computing and data visualisation software

DOWNLOAD: http://www.r-project.org/ FOR WIN/MAC/UNIX

MISCELLANEOUS FREE APPLICATIONS

PAINT.NET: Compact, stable and very good image retouching, painting and graphics package

DOWNLOAD: http://www.getpaint.net/index.html FOR WINDOWS

SCRIBUS : Free open-source Desktop Publishing Software

DOWNLOAD: http://www.scribus.net/ FOR WINDOWS/MAC OS X/LINUX

GPM V8 : Free excellent Graph Paper Maker software with plenty of options

DOWNLOAD: http://www.graphpapermaker.com/ FOR WINDOWS

XMIND : Free excellent Mind Mapping software

DOWNLOAD: http://www.xmind.net/ for WINDOWS/MAC/LINUX

ESRI ArcExplorer: FREE Java Edition

DOWNLOAD: http://community.esri.com/software-and-data for WINDOWS/MAC

Placemarker KML Creator: FREE Google Earth Placemarker software

DOWNLOAD: http://placemarker.geoblogspot.com/ for Windows

Software for Starving Students: from West Oklahoma State College

BROWSE: http://free.wosc.edu/

MyPaint: Open Source Paint Package:

DOWNLOAD: http://mypaint.intilinux.com/ for Win/MAC/Linux