Freeware
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Audio
Audacity ® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds and music
Fun
Curious? Help Curious to unlock the door of Limitless Possiblilties. Salford University, Manchester. Lovely game!
Graphics & 3D Design
Lego Digital Designer This program lets you build with LEGO bricks on your computer. Easy to use interface with smooth looking graphics. Great FUN!
BlockCAD Similar to Lego Digital Designer but chunkier graphics
Google Sketchup Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create 3D models. Plenty of supporting materials and tutorials
Internet & Email
Firefox The open Source Mozilla Web Browser that is generally agreed to be safer and more secure than Microsoft Internet Explorer
Thunderbird Mozilla's alternative to Microsoft's Outlook Express
SightSpeed The free version of SightSpeed allows you to make video calls, computer-to-computer voice calls and send 30 second video message
Cooliris An excellent plugin for Internet Explorer or Firefox that transforms your browser into a lightning fast, cinematic way to enjoy photos and videos from the Web on your desktop
Office
OpenOffice Suite This is the outstanding free Open Source alternative to Microsoft Office. It contains the equivalent packages to PowerPoint, Word and Excel plus two other packages: Draw (vector graphics) and Base (Database)
Organisation
FreeMind 'FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool.'
Cool Timer A timer which has three modes: countdown, alarm clock, or stopwatch. Visit site to see full list of features!
Photo & Images
IrfanView 'IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7.'
Desktop to Photo Easy to use screen capture program. Will save as jpeg, bmp or png
Free Photo Converter 'Free Photo Converter is a powerful and 100% free batch photo resize and photo format converter software that allows you to resize and convert your digital photo in a few clicks!'
Picasa 'The easy way to find, edit and share your photos'. Picassa is produced by Google