Free Office and Productivity Tools 

Accounting, Bookkeeping, Banking See : Accounting and Personal Finance Annotations, Highlights (online) A.nottate Awesome Highlighter Citebite iCyte (highlight and note) iLighter (Firefox add-on) Annotations, Highlights (desktop) Wired-Marker Blogging (online) See also: Blogs and Podcasts Blogger Edublogs Penzu (private by default) WordPress Bookmarks, Web Clips (online) Clipmarks Delicious Diigo Evernote LiveBinders Notefish Sqworl Bookmarks, Web Clips (desktop) QuotePad (Win) Scrapbook (Firefox add-on) Zotero (Firefox add-on; clips, highlights, notes, citations) Broadcasting (online) UStream Bulletin Boards see: Sticky Notes Calendars (online) See also: Reminders 30 Boxes Google Calendar Zoho Calendar Calendars (desktop) See also: Reminders 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 DIY Chart Hohli Online Charts Builder Online Chart Tool Charts & Graphs (desktop) Dia (Linux, Win) Clipboard Extenders (desktop) ClipDiary ClipMagic Ditto Collaboration (online) See also: Document Collaboration, Editing Google Sites Twiddla Collaboration (desktop) Project Pier (Win) Converters (online) CometDocs ConvertFiles Media Convert (audio, video) Movavi (video) youconvertit Zamzar Converters (desktop) AVS Video Converter (Win) CutePDF Writer Format Factory (Win) Koyote Software Primo PDF Desktop Publishing (desktop) PagePlus SE (Win) Scribus (multiplatform) Diagrams (online) Creately Diagrammr Gliffy Lovely Charts LucidChart Document Collaboration (online) These allow real-time co-editing DocVerse TitanPad TypeWith.me Document Editors (online) All allow asynchronous sharing/editing Adobe Buzzword Google Docs MS Office Live WriteBoard Zoho Writer Document Editors (desktop) AbiWord (Linux, Win) OneNote (Win) TED Notepad (Win) Document Sharing (online) Docstoc Drop.io Issuu Scribd Email (online) AOL Webmail Google Gmail Hotmail (Windows Live) Yahoo! Mail Email (desktop) These don't supply email addresses Claws (lightweight; multiplatform) Mozilla Thunderbird (multiplatform) Spicebird (beta; Win, Linux) Sylpheed (lightweight; Win, Linux) Zimbra (multiplatform) File Sharing (online) Box.net Drop.io File Dropper LiBox SendSpace YouSendIt Forms, Polls, Surveys (online) 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 Office Online: Training Xobni (indexes Outlook mail) Mind-Mapping see: Teachers: Graphic Organizers Note Taking (online) Evernote Jjot 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 Powerpoint 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 PreZentit Prezi Zentation (slides & video) Presentations (desktop) related: PowerPoint, Video Slideshows Impress (multiplatform; part of Open Office) KPresenter (Linux; part of KOffice) 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 Deadline GQueues (Google plug-in) Remember the Milk Ta-da Lists Tooledo Reminders and To-Do Lists (desktop) MiniTask (multiplatform) To-Do Decklist (Win) Todoist Research Tools (online) iBreadCrumbs Research Tools (desktop) Reference Tracker (Mac) Zotero (Firefox add-on) Scheduling (online) See also: Calendars, Reminders Doodle Jiffle Meeting Planner TimeBridge Screencasts, Screencapture see:Theater: Screencasting Screenshots (desktop) Jing (Mac, Win) Fireshot (plus Firefox add-on) 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 (bulletin board) Springpad (notes, organizer, sharing) SquareLeaf Stixy (bulletin board) Wallwisher (notice board) Sticky Notes (desktop) ATNotes (Win) HottNotes (Win) Note Scraps (Win) Sticky Notes (Win) Sticky Notes - Shared see: Bulletin Boards Teleprompters (online) CuePrompter.com Timelines (online) Dipity Time Glider Time Toast xtimeline Video Conferencing (online) Dimdim FlashMeeting Microsoft NetMeeting 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) Livestream (streaming) SchoolTubeLive (streaming) UStream (streaming) YouTube Webcasts, Webcasting see:Theater: Screencasting Whiteboards (online) All allow multiple users/collaboration Board800 CoSketch DabbleBoard Stixy Twiddla Wikis (online) SpringNote WetPaint Wiki WikiSpaces

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