Audacity
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
Blender
Free open source 3D content creation suite that allows you to model, shade, animate, compose, and animate interactive 3D content. Available for all operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
Gamemaker
Develop computer games without having to learn how to program.
Gimp
Image manipulation program that allows image retouching, image composition, and image authoring. Available for all operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
Inkscape
An open source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator or CorelDraw using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
ITunes8 (Podcasting)
The iTunes Store offers more than 100,000 audio and video podcasts from independent creators and big names like HBO, NPR, ESPN, The Onion, CBS Sports, and The New York Times. www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/
Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. www.joomla.org
mtPaint is a painting program which Mark Tyler developed from scratch so he could easily create pixel art and manipulate digital photos. http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/
Open Office
OpenOffice.org is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems has released the technology for the popular StarOffice[tm] Productivity Suite. All of the source code is available under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Sun is participating as a member of the OpenOffice.org community. OpenOffice.org is being hosted by Collabnet.
download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US
Our City Podcast
Our City Podcast is a podcast for kids and by kids. Students from around the globe are invited to submit a recording all about the city they live in (with the help of their teachers or parents). Learn how to participate!
http://www.learninginhand.com/OurCity/index.html
Podcast Generator
Podcast Generator is a free web based podcast publishing script written in PHP: upload media files (audio-video) via a web form along with episode information and automatically create podcast w3c-compliant feed including iTunes specific tags. It also features a comprehensive web administration. http://podcastgen.sourceforge.net/
MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies. MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL. http://www.squared5.com/
Virtual Desktop
visionapp Remote Desktop 2008 (vRD 2008) is a powerful tool for managing and accessing multiple Windows servers and desktops via RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol). vRD 2008 features unparalleled ease of use, accelerated remote desktop access to servers and workstations, detailed logging features, and a new interface that allows administrators to view all connected machines simultaneously.
http://www.visionapp.com/1683.0.html?
Windows Movie Maker
Free download for all Windows XP, 2003 and 2007 users. Create, edit, and share your home movies easily with this user friendly software applications.
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx
Wordpress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. www.wordpress.com
XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start.At the moment there are four XAMPP distributions: XAMPP for Linux, XAMPP for Windows, XAMPP for Mac OS X, and XAMPP for Solaris*
*WARNING: This version of XAMPP is still in the first steps of development. Use at you own risk! www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html