Free Online Tools
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
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. Its 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.
Meta-Wiki | Coordination of all Wikimedia projects |
Wiktionary | A collaborative multilingual dictionary |
Wikinews | News stories written by readers |
Wikibooks | A collection of collaborative textbooks |
Wikiquote | A compendium of referenced quotations |
Wikisource | A repository for free source texts |
Wikispecies | A directory of species |
Commons | Repository for free images and other media files |