We are not related to the companies that produce these products, we
just think that they produce some time-saving solutions for teachers.
If you would like to suggest other "cool tools" please tell us and we will add them to this page.
Open Office
(http://www.openoffice.org/)OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.
It's good, it's free, why use anything else!
Picasa (
http://picasa.google.com/)
A great FREE photo &
video management tool that also allows you to create videos, picture
collages, slideshows, cds and more. Make it your default picture viewer
as it is much quicker and prettier than Windows Picture viewer.
paint.net (
http://www.getpaint.net/index.html)
We just found this great free program recently while looking for a free "Photoshop like" image editor for schools.
What a great free program - this is more than enough for most users who need to cut, crop, enhance, effect, paint etc all in a layered environment.
There is also a great range of free plugins - just click the Help menu.
Keyote Free Video Converter (
http://www.koyotesoft.com/)
Quickly re-compress your videos to different formats or smaller sizes with this easy to use tool.
(
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) - The best FREE video player
available. Make it your default video player and you will be able to
play any video format.
Ashampoo Magical Snap
(
http://www.ashampoo.com/frontend/products/php/product.php?idstring=0124&session_langid=2)
A great screen capture tool. It is a commercial product but very
cheap and well worth the money.
Koyote Free Video Converter (
http://www.koyotesoft.com/indexEn.html)
A handy video conversion tool. Will convert too and from many formats.
Camtasia Studio (
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp)
A
screen motion capture program which we use to make our tutorial videos.
Approximately $350.
Copy/Paste Tool (
http://www.copypastetool.com/)
This small tool allows to save several values of text in clipboard and paste them. Use standard keys for copying (CTRL+C) and pasting (CTRL+V) as usual, but if you want to paste previous text in clipboard then simply press V again and don't release CTRL. It's free.
Bullzip PDF Printer (
http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php)
The Bullzip PDF Printer works as a Microsoft Windows printer and allows you to write
PDF documents from virtually any Microsoft Windows application.
