Free and Open-Source Software Tools & Utilities

Free & Open Source Scientific & Technical Software Utilities & Tools

Blender: Free Open Source 3D Modeling & Animation
Free open source 3D content creation software suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

BOINC | Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
Open source platform and software for volunteer computing and grid computing. Contribute to existing efforts or develop your own distributed computing project.

Convert!
Convert is a free and easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions!

Free Software for Atomic and Plasma Physics
Directory of free software and utilities for plasma and atomic research

Google Earth
Since Google Earth was launched, users have been exploring our world and creating content overlays (KML files) to share their explorations with others. Now includes the night sky, Mars, and the Moon.

Google SketchUp
Freely available 3D modeling software tool provided by Google

IRAF
IRAF is the Image Reduction and Analysis Facility, a general purpose software system for the reduction and analysis of astronomical data

LaTeX
LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents

NASA World Wind
NASA World Wind allows any user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth, leveraging high resolution LandSat imagery and SRTM elevation data to experience Earth in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there.

NASA Vision Workbench
The NASA Vision Workbench (VW) is a general purpose image processing and computer vision library developed by the Autonomous Systems and Robotics (ASR) Area in the Intelligent Systems Division at the NASA Ames Research Center.

OpenG.org
Home of the LabVIEW open source community

StiX Fonts
The Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) font creation project is a comprehensive set of fonts that serve the scientific and engineering community in the process from manuscript creation through final publication, both in electronic and print formats and for web publication

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Free Software Portal | Wikipedia
Special information portal section at Wikipedia on free software, licenses, and opne source projects including reference information, data, articles, photos, and news.

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Software Utilities & Tools: General Freeware

Adobe Reader
Free reader from Adobe to display adobe PDF format

Convert!
Convert is a free and easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions!

IrfanView
Irfanview is a free image display and optimizing software program. It is very fast and easy to use.

Firefox
Free award winning more secure web browser. Numerous useful extensions.

Gimp: GNU Image Manipulation Program
Freely distributed software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

Google Desktop
Desktop search, useful gadgets and customizable sidebar

Google Earth
Since Google Earth was launched, users have been exploring our world and creating content overlays (KML files) to share their explorations with others

NASA World Wind
NASA World Wind allows any user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth, leveraging high resolution LandSat imagery and SRTM elevation data to experience Earth in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there.

Open Office: Free & Open Productivity Suite
The leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers.

Picassa
Image management software and editor freely distributed by Google

Stellarium
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

Thunderbird (Mozilla)
Mozilla's Thunderbird is a free secure email client and organizer from the makers of the Firefox

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