free programs
Free Animation Program
I haven’t tried this out yet, but it looked so interesting and I have some readers who love graphic design that I thought I’d give you a heads up on this. There’s a little 3D modeling and animation program available for download called the Anim8tor. It looks really nice! I’ll bet kids would have a [...]
Leggo my Lego!
If you are as old as I am, you remember that old television commercial for Eggo waffles, where the kids scream at each other “Leggo my Eggo!” Eggo waffles were pretty good. I might even have screamed that at my brothers to get one.
Anyway… I’m quite off the topic, lol. There’s a new cute computer [...]
Amic Email Backup Program
Amic Email Backup
I was initially very impressed with this program. It’s is a speedy little program that will backup all your emails, whether it be Opera Mail, Eudora mail, Thunderbird, or the ubiquitous Outlook Express. It will backup all your emails and settings with the click of the mouse. It stores the information in a [...]
StumbleUpon Alerter
Here’s a cute little beta program I found! It’s the StumbleUpon Alerter, built by Adam at AdamAntSolutions. He’s an Australian blogger, and a stumbler, obviously. I’ve been trying out this little tool, and it’s pretty neat. It’s small and not terribly detailed. But I like it.
This program, which runs in your system tray, alerts you [...]
Free Color Match Mixer
I found a wonderful little tool for those of us who are “hue-challenged.” Lol. It’s the Color Match Remix, a free online tool to help you find colors for your blog. It matches hues and shades automatically, with handy little sliders. It makes me want to start up some new blogs, so that I can [...]
BlueCoat K9, Premier Internet Filter for Kids
I was talking with my sister today, who also has scads of kids who use computers, and I mentioned Blue Coat K9. She had never heard of the program. I was surprised! I don’t know where I first heard of it, but it was a few years ago. I love it. I have the program [...]
Free Bible Study Software
I love to study the Bible. For a long time, all I had was my very good study Bible. I amassed several study books, like Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, the Interliner Bible with the Hebrew and Greek words, and some Bible dictionaries and commentaries. It was quite the event, studying the Bible! I had to have [...]
Another Great Toolbar, the Groowe Toolbar
Don’t ask me how to pronounce it (is it “grow” or “grew”?) but ask me if I love it and I’ll say YES. It works with Firefox (and Internet Explorer, for those of you still using it!). It is extremely customizable, which is why I love it so. You can choose the search engines you’d [...]
Photo-Dropper Flickr Plugin For Wordpress
There’s a fantastic new plugin for Wordpress users. It’s the Photo Dropper Flickr Wordpress plugin. It looks absolutely terrific!
Photo Dropper is a Wordpress plugin that lets you add Flickr photos to your posts.
It searches for Creative Commons licensed photos - images that are licensed for shared use - and lets you drop them into your [...]
Easy Easy Thumbnails
I found another terrific photo-editing program. It’s Easy Thumbnails, and it is amazing!
I do a lot of photographing (and photo-editing and uploading) pictures for my blogs. Because I usually deal with a large number of photos, I prefer to resize them all at once. Irfanview– my favorite photo-resizing program, does do batch editing like this, [...]
A Worthy Replacement for Notepad
MetaPad 3.51Working with html code everyday, I have grown frustrated with Microsoft’s Notepad. It is still so un-functional. Has Microsoft even touched Notepad since 1991?!
So, I’ve had my eyes peeled for a replacement. I’ve tried a few, but they were either too large or still not what I was looking for. I just downloaded a [...]
Helpful Sites For Web Building
Here’s a handy-dandy list of tools found at websites that are very helpful for web- and blog-building. It’s a list I’ve kept tucked away for my own work, but I’ll leave it with you if you promise to take good care of it.
HTML with StyleAll About.com Web DesignCSS BasicsColor Schemer OnlineHTML Color NamesWebMonkeyBrowser-safe [...]
Free Educational Software for Children
Outstanding. Incredible. Spectacular!
I’m talking about the lists of free educational software to be found at Owl & Mouse. We have downloaded all their programs and my kids have benefitted from it in innumerable ways.
We really enjoy their geography programs. I have the children go over them from time to time, even when we are not [...]
Flying High with Google Earth
If there is one Google product you had to have, it would be Google Earth. I thought everyone had heard of Google Earth, but I was talking to some folks recently who’d never heard it! I like the program so much that I wanted to be sure to mention it.
The family has used it countless [...]
Desktop Utilities, Part 1
This is the first installment in a series of helpful desktop utilities you can find for free. There is a ton of high-quality, good performing free software programs out there. But finding them is not so easy. This is why I am here.
1. Desktop CalendarI’ve used this free program for many years now [...]
