Free or Low-cost Software
Editor's Picks - Free or Low-cost Software Favorites
eSchool News: School Technology Buyer's Guide
http://www.eschoolnews.com/bg/index.php
"We have categorized thousands of major ed-tech companies by the products and services they offer to help you to find the right vendor based on your needs. Using this powerful portal, you can do complex "Yahoo-style" searches on over 4,000 school technology product and service providers."
Open Office
http://www.openoffice.org
"OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute."
Firefox Web Browser
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
"The award-winning Firefox Web browser has security, speed and new features that will change the way you use the Web. Don’t settle for anything less."
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- Some of these programs expire after a certain number of days or uses, so you may want to wait to try them out until the time when you need the program. Also, some of these programs are large and will take far more than just a few minutes to download.
Association of Shareware Professionals
http://downloads.asp-shareware.org/
Shareware and freeware downloads.
Download.com
http://www.download.com/
Free software downloads.
Educational Software Cooperative
http://www.edu-soft.org/
This is a non-profit organization that provides current information on available educational software (many low cost shareware or free downloads). You can search software by educational category.
FreeSerifSoftware
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
Free software downloads, including PagePlus SE for Desktop Publishing, PhotoPlus 6.0 for Photo and Image Editing, WebPlus 6.0 for Web Site Design & Publishing, DrawPlus 4.0 for Graphic Design and Vector Drawing, and 3DPlus 2.0 for 3D Animation and Modeling.
Microsoft Downloads
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/
Free software downloads from Microsoft.
NVU
http://www.nvudev.org/
NVU is a free, open-source Web page editor and site manager.