Free Office and Productivity Tools 

Accounting, Bookkeeping See : Accounting and Personal Finance for small business & personal money management software Annotations, Highlights (online) A.nottate Awesome Highlighter CiteBite iCyte (highlight and note) iLighter (Firefox add-on) WebNotes Annotations, Highlights (desktop) Wired-Marker Blogging, Journaling (online) Blogger Bravenet Edublogs Penzu (private by default) Plurk (microblogging) Twitter (microblogging) WordPress Bookmarks, Web Clips and Notes (online) All but Evernote & Instapaper allow sharing Delicious Diigo (also highlights, sticky notes) Evernote Instapaper Notefish UberNote Bookmarks, Web Notes (desktop) QuotePad (Win) Scrapbook (Firefox add-on) Zotero (Firefox add-on; clips, highlights, notes, citations) Broadcasting (online) UStream Calendars (online) See also: Reminders, Scheduling 30 Boxes Google Calendar Zoho Calendar Bulletin Boards (online) Gubb iCyte Springpad (notes, organizer) SquareLeaf Stixy (virtual bulletin board) Wallwisher (virtual notice board) Calendars (desktop) See also: Reminders, Scheduling iCal (free with Mac OS X) Lightning (Thunderbird, SeaMonkey add-on) Outlook (free with MS Office) Rainlender Sunbird Charts & Graphs (online) Chartle Create a Graph Online Chart Tool Charts & Graphs (desktop) Dia (Linux, Win) Clipboard Extenders (desktop) ClipDiary ClipMagic Ditto Collaboration (online) See also: Document Collaboration, Document Sharing Google Sites Twiddla Collaboration (desktop) Project Pier (Win) Converters (online) CometDocs ConvertFiles Media Convert Movavi (video) Primo PDF Online youconvertit Zamzar Converters (desktop) AVS Video Converter (Win) CutePDF Writer Format Factory (Win) Koyote Software (several programs) Primo PDF Desktop Publishing (desktop) PagePlus SE (Win) Scribus (multiplatform) Diagrams (online) Creately Diagrammr Gliffy Lovely Charts LucidChart Document Collaboration (online) Co-ment (others can comment but not edit) DocVerse (multiple real-time co-editing) Revizr (markup editing only) Show Document (real-time co-editing) TypeWith.me WriteBoard Document Editors (online) Note: all allow collaboration Adobe Buzzword Google Docs MS Office Live Zoho Writer Document Editors (desktop) AbiWord (Linux, Win) OneNote (Win) TED Notepad (Win) Document Sharing (online) Docstoc Drop.io Issuu Scribd Email (online) Note: include email addresses AOL Webmail Google Gmail Hotmail (Windows Live) Yahoo! Mail Email (desktop) Note: do not include email addresses Claws (lightweight; multiplatform) Mozilla Thunderbird (multiplatform) Spicebird (beta; Win, Linux) Sylpheed (lightweight; Win, Linux) Zimbra (multiplatform) File Sharing (online) Box.net File Dropper LiBox SendSpace YouSendIt Forms, Polls, Surveys (online) fo.reca.st JotForm SurveyMonkey WuFoo Zoomerang Graphics (Image) Editors see: Art: Software Microsoft/Windows Add-Ons (desktop) 250 Free Office Templates and Documents IE Surfgear (Internet Explorer add-on) Microsoft NetMeeting Microsoft Office Online: Templates Microsoft Office Online: Training Xobni (indexes Outlook mail) Mind-Mapping see: Teachers: Graphic Organizers Note Taking (online) AyeNotes Evernote Jjot LiveBinders NoteFish Notely (esp. for students) Springnote UberNote Note Taking (desktop) CintaNotes (Win) eNoteFile (Win) Noteliner (portable outlines) (Win)

Office Suites (online) Google Peepel ThinkFree Zoho Office Office Suites (desktop) IBM Lotus Symphony (multiplatform) KOffice (Linux) NeoOffice (Mac) Open Office (multiplatform) Tiny USB Office (portable; Win) OCR (Optical Character Recognition) (online) Free OCR OCR Terminal (limited free service) OCR (desktop) JOCR (MS Office add-on) Simple OCR (Win) TopOCR (Win) Password Managers (online) Clipperz Password Managers (desktop) KeePassX (multiplatform) LastPass (toolbar; IE, FF plugins) Password Safe (Win) PDF Tools (online) htm2pdf (web to pdf format) PDFescape (editor, form filler) PDF Form Filler PDF Hammer (editor) PDF to Word Primo PDF Online (convert to pdf) PDF Tools (desktop) Free PDF to Word Converter (Win) Quick PDF Tools (Win) Presentations (online) see also: Video Slideshows 280 Slides Capzles PhotoPeach PreZentit (basic, easy) Prezi SlideRocket ZohoShow Presentations (desktop) related: PowerPoint, Video Slideshows KPresenter (Linux; part of KOffice Suite) Open Office Impress (multiplatform; part of Open Office Suite) PhotoStory 3 (Win) Wink (Linux, Win) Presentations - Display Only (online) PowerShow SlideShare VoiceThread (with commenting) Printing (online) PrintWhatYouLike Project Management (online) CreativePro Office LiquidPlanner (beta) Project Bubble Scrumy (basic, easy) Project Management (desktop) Open Proj (multiplatform) ThinkingRock (multiplatform) Reminders and To-Do Lists (online) See also: Calendars, Scheduling Deadline FreeMinder GQueues (Google plug-in) Nexty Remember the Milk ReminderFeed (RSS) Ta-da Lists Tooledo Reminder Lists (desktop) MiniTask (multiplatform) To-Do Decklist (Win) Todoist Research Tools (online) Daft Doggy iBreadCrumbs Research Tools (desktop) Reference Tracker (Mac) Zotero (Firefox add-on; clips, highlights, notes, citations) Scheduling (online) See also: Calendars, Reminders Doodle Jiffle Meeting Planner TimeBridge Screencasts, Screencapture see:Theater: Screencasting Screenshots (desktop) Jing (Mac, Win) Fireshot / add-on for Firefox Lightscreen (Win) Pearl Crescent Page Saver (Firefox add-on) Screen Hunter (Win) Slideshows see: Presentations Spreadsheets (online) EditGrid Google Docs NumSum Zoho Sheet Spreadsheets (desktop) WikiCalc (multiplatform) Sticky Notes (online) Gubb (mobile compatible) iCyte Spaaze (free beta) Springpad (notes, organizer, sharing) SquareLeaf Sticky Notes (desktop) HottNotes (Win) Note Scraps (Win) Sticky-Notes.net (Win) Sticky Notes - Shared see: Bulletin Boards Teleprompters (online) CuePrompter.com Timelines (online) DandeLife Dipity Time Glider Time Toast xtimeline Video Conferencing (online) Dimdim FlashMeeting Mikogo (screen sharing) Stickam Vyew Video Conferencing (desktop) DimDim (Linux, Win) iChat (Mac, bundled app) Skype (multiplatform) VSee.com (Win) Yugma (multiplatform) Video Editors, Converters see: Theater: Video Editors Video Sharing (online) authorSTREAM (PPT to video) Fliggo Livestream (streaming) SchoolTubeLive (streaming) UStream (streaming) YouTube Whiteboards (online) Note: all allow multiple users/collaboration CoSketch DabbleBoard Stixy Twiddla Whiteboards(desktop) Firedoodle (Firefox add-on) Wikis (online) Luminotes SpringNote WetPaint Wiki WikiSpaces Zoho Wiki