During April 2008 WELSTech listeners submitted their favorite free software applications, and we’ve compiled a list of the submissions.

Audio Video

• Audacity – Free Audio Editor and Recorder
• Jing Project – Visual conversation starts here
• Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows – Make show-n-tell cool again
• Real Player
• VLC Media Player
• WavePad – Audio Editing Software

Browsers

• Mozilla Firefox – Faster, more secure, & customizable

Content Management

• Moodle – A Free, Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning

Education

• Stellarium – Planetarium simulation software. Runs on multiple operating systems.

Graphics

• GIMP – The GNU Image Manipulation Program
• Irfanview
• Picasa Web Albums

Internet Telephone

• Skype – Start making free video and voice calls to other people on Skype

Networks

• NetStumbler – Determine the wireless setup for your campus
• Sysinternals
• UltraVNC

Office Tools

• Open Office – The Free and Open Productivity Suite

Operating System

• Fedora – A Free Linux Distribution

PDF Tools

• Adobe Reader
• Cute PDF Writer – Create PDF for free
• PDFill – FREE PDF Writer and FREE PDF Tools

Productivity

• Google Calendar
• Google Desktop
• Page Flakes – Get it Together
• wyrd

Security

• AVG – Anti-Virus

Utilities

• Crimson Editor – Free Text Editor, Html Editor, Programmers Editor for Windows
• Free Download Manager – Download accelerator and manager
• Glary Utilities
• Secure email
• SpamBayes – Anti-spam classifier written in Python
• Subversion – Version Control
• Vim – Unix text editor