Downloads

There are a lot of useful free or open-source programs and utilities available on the Web for online students. Listed below are links to some of them:

Utilities

Readers/Viewers

Productivity Software

  • OpenOffice OpenOffice.org offers a free productivity suite compatible with all major office suites
  • Lotus Symphony by IBM
  • AbiWord AbiWord is a free word processing program that is compatible with Word and other word processing programs.
  • WordWeb WordWeb is a good thesaurus/dictionary resource; it shows pronunciations, definitions, synonyms, and anyonyms of words; also, it gives examples of how the word can be used as a noun, verb, adjective, and/or adverb.
  • Gnumeric - The Gnome Office Spreadsheet Program
  • BuzzWord Online Word Processor
  • PhotoScape Image Editor
  • Graph - Mathematical Graphing Program
  • Jarte
  • Gimp - Photo Editing Software
  • KeyNote - Document Outlining Program
  • BonkEnc - CD ripper, audio encoder and converter

Browsers

Browser Plug-ins

Media Players

Spyware/Adware/Malware Scanners

 Search Engine Scanners

 Anti-Virus

Firewalls


Do you know of any other good downloads that you would like to see included on this page? If you do, please e-mail the link to ejackson@richland.edu.

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