Free+Stuff

A lightly (or slightly!) annotated listing of free or open source software, electronic texts, and free audio books, including links where you are likely to find the stuff! No guarantees though!

Audacity [] and it’s necessary counterpart LAME [] (this is a tricky download in tarball form) This will take you to the LAME file area []

GIMP [] Image manipulation program

OpenOffice []

EditPad Lite []

FreeMind []

XMind []

Very cool brainstorming and mind mapping software has now joined the open source community.
[|Download XMind - Free] XMind is now royalty-free and open source software. This means when you want to use an XMind fishbone in a spreadsheet, put your photos and media files into a mind map, or reuse your Freemind/MindManager files, you're free to use XMind without charge. You can even add XMind or XMind Pro as plug-ins into your Eclipse-based enterprise environment. XMind.net is the best place to share your ideas and thoughts with the world. Adding an embedded XMind map viewer into your blog will enable more people to visualize and learn from your ideas. If you want to share privately, or brainstorm ideas with selected friends, just upgrade to XMind Pro. Sometimes you want to "drill down" into a topic, i.e. focus in on a specific branch, hide other branches, or start a new mind map within a topic. With the "Topic as a Map" capability, mind maps are now truly hierarchical and layered, allowing you to focus in on and display the right information and clearly express your ideas. PhraseExpress [] · Organize frequently used text snippets. · Expand abbreviations as you type. · Launch programs with text shortcuts. · Auto-complete repetitive phrases. · Quick access to the Windows Clipboard History. · Correct spelling mistakes in any application.
 * New in XMind
 * Open Source
 * Share
 * Topic As A Map
 * Easy To Use
 * XMind Pro XMind, combined with online sharing service, provides a revolutionary way to enable both team brainstorming and personal mind mapping. With this major upgrade, we bring Web 2.0 concepts on community sharing into a popular desktop application. New Gantt view allows project managers to easily track project tasks and schedules. You'll find many more useful and time-saving functions in XMind product family.

FoxIT Reader [] As a small and fast PDF viewer, Foxit Reader currently has over 50 million users all around the world. After keeping users waiting for almost two months, Foxit Reader 3.0 has been released and introduces many fascinating new features such as multimedia design and Foxit OnDemand Content Management. To learn more about this new release, please click [|here].

PC Chrono []PC Chrono is a freeware timer, stopwatch and clock utility. It is also distributed as a part of 5-cow rated [|WakeMeUp! Alarm Clock.] Its main features: Free Clip - [] or [] FreeClip is a convenient clipboard manager. Helps to create data arrays, which include repeating fragments. In this case you should use the standard Windows clipboard that allows you to keep a fragment of the data from any editor and then to use (paste) this fragment in the same or other program. Imagine that you need to make the document for which initial data are already done. You need to copy a part of the pre-created information, and paste it. Then you copy the second fragment and insert in it. And if you need to paste first fragment again? You should to switch to the first fragment and copy it again. With FreeClip it is not necessary to do these superfluous actions. Why to FreeClip? This clipboard manager allows you to copy simultaneously up to 4 (!) blocks of the various data and provides fast methods to get access to those 4 data buffers. Besides FreeClip can save its clipboards content on to your hard disk at program exit and automatically load it at the next startup. It works similar to system clipboard. FreeClip will save your effort and make more efficient use of your time and fingers. You'll wonder how you ever got along without it.
 * countdown timer capable of .mp3, .ogg or .wav file playback on completion. S1 / S3 (suspend to RAM) / S4 (hibernate) resume is supported;
 * stopwatch;
 * 12/24 hour clock;
 * customizable voice notifications for all modes (timer, stopwatch and clock).
 * FreeClip Long Description: ** //(from Freeclip website)//

Magix Music Maker []

Mozilla Firefox Open source browser download page [] Suggested Firefox add-ons Delicious social bookmarking, Diigo ,Wolfram Alpha toolbar, Zotero, CoolIris, and CiteBite

Shape Collage 2.0 is very cool! Make a photo collage in any shape. []

Ispring is also very cool! Convert PPT to flash files in PPT. Ispring free is the one to get… [] Google Docs great! No software, web-based docs! []

Glogster multi-media poster creation! Check it out! []

Literature and Audio Books Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts [] This is a collection of public domain and open access documents with a focus on American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. Its purpose is to help facilitate a person’s liberal arts education. //“Big ideas don’t fit on a mobile.”//

[] free public domain audio books [|LibriVox]
LibriVox provides //free audiobooks// from the public domain. There are several options for listening. The first step is to get the mp3 or ogg files into your **...** [|Search the Catalog] - [|Browse Entire Catalog] - [|LibriVox forums]

= Audio Books and Free Literature = [] [] [] []

FROM PROJECT GUTENBERG [] [|Librivox], is also trying to get people volunteering to read. Consider joining them! Browse their [|list of human-read audio books] at Project Gutenberg Browse their [|list of computer-generated audio books] at Project Gutenberg