All of the sites listed here are free of charge. They are listed to give you options when doing your school or homework or  anything else that you wish to create in your free time.

 

Disclaimer: Some of these site require that you create an account using an email address. Others contain advertising.

 

Productivity Programs—pick the one that works best for you. These are also listed under the specific type of work you want to do further down the page.

Zoho Word processing, spreadsheets, presentation software, and database creation/reporting.

Google Docs Word processor, spreadsheet and presentation applications.

OpenOffice (download) Cross-platform word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, and drawing program.

StarOffice Suite (download) Word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database capabilities, and export to PDF

AjaxWrite13 Word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, sketching program as well as a web-based music player

ThinkFree Word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation applications

 

Writing

Google Docs Word processing

Zoho Writer Web-based word processing

Worldlabel.com Free templates for OpenOffice documents

AjaxWrite13 Word processor

Cetlx Scriptwriting, storyboarding

PrimoPDF Coverts documents into PDFs 

Presentation

Google Docs Presentation applications

Timeline Creates timelines

Zoho Show Presentation applications

Slide Rocket Manages and shares slides

Open Source Presentation Tools

UStream 

 

Data Management

Zoho Creator Create online database applications

Lazybase Design, create and share databases

 

Spreadsheets

Google Spreadsheets

Zoho Sheet

Numbler Web based allowing instantaneous collaboration

iRows Can add graphs to spreadsheets

  

Survey Tools—create online questionnaires, surveys, or polls

SurveyMonkey

Viewlet Poll

Stellar Survey

Zoomerang

Zoho Polls

Response-o-matic

PollDaddy

Fatcast

 

Graphics and Images

Picnik Image editing and finding copyright friendly images

Lighting Quick photo lighting adjustments

Gliffy Create and share diagrams on the Web

Gimp Photo retouching and image composition

ImageJ Java-based image processing tool developed at the National Institute of Health for use in science and math

Jacuba Charts Organize data and chart creation

Pivot Stick-figure creator & animator

Best4C Online diagraming tool

Flagrant Disregard's Flickr Toys

Add Letters Image and Sign generator

Image Chef

Says It.com

Make pictures

Text 2 Pic

 

Other Cool Ideas and Tools

Celestia Free outer space simulation

GRASS Graphical Resource Analysis Support System for analyzing GIS data formats

Moodle Course management system designed to help educators create online courses

Sakai Project Online course management system

Zamzar Free file conversion

Shambles Links to source 

 

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