BLOGS

EduBlogs: www.edublogs.org

Bloglines: www.bloglines.com

Blogger: www.blogger.com

BOOKMARK MANAGER

del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager allowing you to access your list of links from any web browser and to share your collection with others. Free at http://del.icio.us/doc/about

BROWSER

Mozilla Firefox is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in English and 35 other languages. The free Moxilla Thunderbird e-mail client may also be downloaded from www.mozilla.org

CALENDAR

30 Boxes: www.30boxes.com

Calendar Hub: www.calendarhub.com

DATABASE

Oracle Database XE is a free beta version of Oracle Database XE and offers application developers, database administrators (DBAs) and students a free starter database to develop and deploy their applications. Available on 32-bit Linux and Windows operating systems, it can be installed on any supported hardware platform. Check details at www.oracle.com

EMAIL

Google: http://gmail.google.com

Hotmail: www.hotmail.com

Yahoo: www.yahoo.com

FILE SHARING

SendSpace: www.sendspace.com

FILE STORAGE

Openomy: www.openomy.com

OFFICE SUITE

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. Visit www.openoffice.org

PHONE CALLS

Skype is a software program for making free calls over the internet to anyone else who also has Skype. It’s free and easy to download and use, and works with most computers. www.skype.com >>

PHOTO MANAGER

Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application. Its primary goals are to help people make photos available to others and to enable new ways of organizing pictures. Go to www.flickr.com

PROJECT MANAGER

voo2do is a task and priority management tool. Check it out at http://voo2do.com

RUBICS

RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics. Make your own at http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

SEARCH ENGINES

Rollyo: www.rollyo.com

Swicki: http://swicki.eurekster.com

Ice Rocket (for searching blogs): www.icerocket.com

SOUND EDITOR

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. See http://audacity.sourceforge.net

TEXT to SPEECH

Free software that lets your computer talk!
Natural Reader: www.naturalreaders.com (Windows only)

ReadPlease: www.readplease.com (Windows only)

iSayzme: sayzme.sourceforge.net (Windows only)

WIKIS

Wiki Community Portal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_Portal

Related Wiki Communities:
All of these projects are multilingual and open-content.