| Free Office Suites | |
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| LibreOffice | Freeware office suite, with professional word processor, spreadsheet, and more. There are versions available for Linux, Windows and Max OS X. This is a continuation of the OpenOffice.org project (see also below). |
| OpenOffice.org | Freeware office suite, with word processor, spreadsheet, etc. (50 - 70 MB). Versions available for Linux, Windows, Solaris and Max OS X. |
| Portable Open Office | A fully functional edition of OpenOffice.org optimized for use on an external USB drive. More specifically, you can connect the USB drive to another computer (which does not have Open Office installed), and run it directly from the USB drive without needing to install Open Office on that computer. |
| Siag Office | Free office suite for X-Windows (Unix): contains a spreadsheet, a word processor and an animation program. |
| KOffice | Office suite for Linux/KDE (K Desktop Environment, Linux). Includes KSpread, KPresenter, KChart, KImage, KIllustrator, KFormula and KWord. |
| Neo Office | A set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs) for Mac OS X. Freeware, open-source; based on the OpenOffice.org office suite. |
| Softmaker Office | A microsoft Word-compatible word processor and a Microsoft Excel-compatible spreadsheet on Windows for free. |
| Free Online Office Suites | |
| The office programs in this section run inside your Internet browser, you don't need to install any software to use them. | |
| Ajax13 | Freeware, open-source office suite, containing a word processor, spreadsheet, drawing program, presentation program, and a music player which all run in your Firefox Web browser. |
| ContactOffice | Personal and/or shared office tools, such as calendar, addressbook, documents, notes, tasks, forums, meetings, bookmarks, webmail, etc. Import your contacts from Outlook. Synchronisation with Palm Pilot, Outlook, Windows CE, or Lotus Organizer. Receive your agenda by SMS on a daily basis. Send SMS messages straight out of your addressbook. |
| EditGrid | Free advanced online spreadsheet with templates and collaboration features. |
| Google Docs | Free online word processor and spreadsheet. |
| ThinkFree | Free online web office, word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, blog, etc. |
| Free Presentation Programs | |
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| Powerbullet Presenter | Free program for creating Flash presentations, including: splash screens, slideshows, self-running shows, and multi-page presentations that are commonly used in electronic sales brochures and catalogues. Your presentations can be exported as an HTML page with an embedded SWF (Flash) file or as an executeable file which you can run on any Windows PC. |
| ScreenStream | A modern equivalent of the overhead projector. Freeware screen (and audio) broadcasting software for windows. Lets others watch your screen from their own computer. Connects over a network or the internet. Viewers do not need to install any special software, just a regular Web browser. |
| TeeChart Office | Free charting and plotting tool with hundreds of charting styles and multiple configuration parameters. Includes importing data and exporting charts to several formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF...). Versions available for Linux and Windows. Freeware, open source, GPL. |
| Free Diagram software | |
| Cacoo | Free online diagram-creation software with real-time collaboration features. |
| Creately | Free online diagram creation software. The 'online' version is free. |
| Dia | Free diagram creation and editing program for Linux and Windows. |
| Diagram Designer | With this program you can create flowcharts, electronic symbols, UML class charts, etc. Freeware for Windows 98 and higher. |
| Flowchart.com | A free online multi-user, real-time collaboration flow charts drawing program. |
| Gliffy | Free online diagram software for creating flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and more. |
| Graphity | Free online diagram creation software. |
| Lovely Charts | Free online diagramming program. You can create diragrams of all kinds, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisation charts, wireframes and more. |
| Lucid Chart | LucidChart enables you to create diagrams inside your Webbrowser. There is a free version. |
| Project Draw | Free online diagram-creation software by AutoDesk. |
| Free PIMs/Databases | |
| TreePad | Personal Information Manager, Database and Word Processor. Download TreePad and enjoy better access, organization and control over all your data, notes, bills, projects, clients, addresses, letters, speeches, research, collections, classroom notes, Web pages, links, bibliographic listings, and whatever else your creativity enables you to entrust TreePad with, for good organization, easy access, and safe storage. Despite all its features and power, TreePad is as easy to use as the Windows explorer and will fit (including data) on one floppy! Freeware, Shareware, Linux and Windows versions are available on www.treepad.com. Created by Freebyte. |
| Custom Addressbook | Fully customizable addressbook program for Windows XP, Vista, 2000, NT, 95, 98, ME. Freeware and shareware versions are available. Custom Addressbook is an easy to use, small, and extremely flexible Address Management program. Another advantage of its small size, is that the program and its database file can run directly from an external disk, such as a USB stick, floppy, etc. Some of the additional features: password protection, minimize to tray, data encryption, data compression, import, search, backup, non-western fonts, etc. For more information, please seee here. Created by Freebyte. |
| Free Project and Time-scheduling Software | |
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| FET | Freeware and open-source time-scheduling program for Linux and Windows. It uses a genetic algoritm for automatically generating the timetable of a school, high-school or university. |
| GanttProject | Free project-scheduling and -management tool, which includes: task hierarchy and dependencies, Gantt chart, resource load chart, Pert chart, reports (PDF and HTML), MS Project import/export, WebDAV based groupwork |
| Free MindMapping Software | |
| Mind-mapping software is especially designed to enhance creative thinking. Usually it is centered around one or more diagrams connecting ideas, concepts, etc. | |
| FreeMind | Free mind-mapping program in Java. It runs on any computer/operating system which has Java installed. |
| mind-mapping.org | A respected source of information on mindmapping and information management software (both freeware and non-freeware). |
| Free Word Processors | |
| AbiWord | Freeware and open source word processor for Windows, Unix, GNOME, BeOS and QNX. |
| Jarte | Small and elegant freeware Word Processor for Windows. |
| LedIt! Word Processor | Free simple cross-platform, multi-lingual unicode word processor, without all the clutter and confusion of some word processors. Versions are available for Windows, Linux and MAC. |
| RoughDraft | Freeware Word Processor for Windows, especially made for writers. Imports Word 6.0, Word 97 and HTML files, exports to HTML, RTF. Up to 100 files open at the same time, English spell check, backup to floppy. |
| Yeah Write | Simple fun-to-use yet powerful little word processor with many nice features. Runs on Windows. |
| Copywriter | Freeware, basic editor, for *.txt, *.rtf, *.doc and binary files. |
| Free Text Editors | |
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| DomiNOTE | Free text editor for Windows. Features: keyword highlighting, 256 Levels of undo/redo, drag and drop text editing, unlimited file size, open and edit multiple documents, stay on top, etc. |
| EditPad Lite | Free text editor for Linux and Windows. |
| NotesPad | Freeware for Windows. Can open up to 16 large files at once, multiple undo and redo commands. Accumlative clipboard function, macros, spell checking, etc. Runs on Windows. |
| SC Unipad | A Unicode plain text editor for Windows. It displays about 54500 Unicode characters instantly without installing extra fonts. Also: on-screen soft keyboard, over 60 built-in keyboard layouts, character map, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, UTF-7. |
| TreePad Lite | Freeware. Award-winning Personal Information Manager, Text Editor and Database for Linux and Windows. TreePad Lite for Linux. TreePad Lite for Windows. |
| Yudit | A free unicode text editor for Linux/Unix. |
| Free PDF Utilities | |
| PDF-XChange Viewer | Recommended! Freeware fast and lightweight PDF viewer for Windows. You can also download a portable edition (which does not need to be installed). In our opinion this is the best free PDF viewer for Windows. |
| PDF Creator | Freeware, open source. PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application. Recommended! |
| PDF Blender | Free program for Windows which can merge multiple PDF and postscript files into one. You can also use it to password protect your documents. |
| Print in PDF | Free online PDF conversion. |
| Creating PDF files using only free software |
Normally creating PDF files requires buying expensive software. This page explains how to create PDF files using only free software on Windows. |
| CC PDF Converter | A free (open source) application that enables users to create PDF documents from almost any application. The CC PDF Converter also allows users to define the copyright level for the document by embedding a creative commons license in their PDF file. |
| CutePDF | Prints documents to PDF format on Windows. Requires an external PS2PDF converter installed, such as Ghostscript. Freeware. |
| doPDF | It installs itself as a virtual printer driver. To create PDF files, you just have to print your documents to the doPDF pdf converter. Freeware for Windows. |
| Foxit Reader | Free PDF reader for Windows. |
| Go2PDF | Virtual PDF Printer for Windows, which enbles you to convert almost any document type into PDF format. Note: Go2PDF is free but there is a nag text at the bottom of each page, until you pay for it. |
| PDF Producer | Freeware. Converts plain text into PDF documents.It does not require Acrobat or any of its components to be installed on the system. Features: change page size, 90, 180, 260 and 360 degrees of rotation, choice of 3 fonts, 3 types of predefined paper sizes. |
| PDF-o-matic | PDF-o-matic is a free online service to convert a Web page to a PDF document. Just enter a URL and click on the "Make PDF" button. |
| PDF995 suite | Free collection of utilities to generate PDF files. Runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT and XP. |
| PrimoPDF | Freeware PDF file-printer driver. You can convert to PDF from any application by simply 'printing' to a PDF file using this printer-driver. |
| XPDF | Xpdf is an open source viewer for PDF (or Acrobat) files. For Linux, other UNIXes, VMS and OS/2. |
| Free File & Document Converters | |
| Omniformat | Free document conversion utility for Windows, which allows dynamic conversion and image manipulation of over 75 file formats including HTML, DOC, XLS, WPD, PDF, JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG, PCX, PPT, PS, TXT, Photo CD, FAX and MPEG. |
| online-ConVert.com | Free online media file converter. It converts: audio files, video files, image files, documents, ebooks. It can also create a Hash value from a file |
| Zamzar | Converts videos and other file formats online. It can converts files which are stored on your harddisk or convert files which are on the Internet (URLs). |
| Free Document Viewers | |
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| TreePad Viewer | Free, fast and zero-install document viewer for TreePad databases. Suitable for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME. Distribute your documents without any royalties or costs! Compatible with all TreePad (PLUS) file formats. Freeware for commercial and non-commercial use. |
| Visio Viewer | Viewer for MS Visio files. |
| Adobe Acrobat | Free program for viewing and printing Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. |
| AntiWord | Antiword is a free MS Word reader for Linux, RISC OS, FreeBSD, BeOS, OS/2, Mac OS X, Amiga, VMS, NetWare, Plan9, EPOC, Zaurus PDA and DOS. Antiword can convert files from MS Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 to plain text and PostScript |
| MS Word Viewer | Free viewer for MS Word documents. |
| Powerpoint Viewer | Free viewer for MS Powerpoint presentations. |
| Excel viewer | Free viewer for Excel spreadsheets. |