Free and Open-Source Software Tools & Utilities

Free Software Utilities & Tools: General Freeware

Adobe Reader
Free reader from Adobe to display adobe PDF format

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.

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

Sonic Visualizer
Sonic Visualiser is an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files of particular interest to musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers and anyone else looking for a friendly way to take a look at what lies inside the audio file

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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