Software for Starving Students

SoftwareFor.org is otherwise known as "Software for Starving Students." As their web site explains,

Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organized for students (but available to anyone). We've gathered a list of best-in-class programs onto one CD (one disc for OS X, one for Windows), including a fully-featured office suite, a cutting-edge web browser, multi-media packages, academic tools, utilities and more.

You can download the complete CD at http://softwarefor.org/downloads.html. You need BitTorrent software to do this, however, and software to burn it to a CD. It may be quicker to download from the web the individual programs that you want. You can find the complete list of programs on their web site. (These programs are named and linked, but not described. However, a poster on Digg.com has posted a brief discription of each program. Follow the link and scroll down.) The collection includes games and utilities as well as more academic software such as a word processor, spreadsheet, and html editor. Here is a partial listing of some of some excellent and useful software for Windows:

• audacity - audio file editor
  
• blender - 3D image creator
  
• clamwin - antivirus program
• deepburner - cd and dvd burner
• firefox - web browser (highly recommended)
  
• gimpshop - photo editor in the mold of PhotoShop
• mozbackup - easily backup firefox
• NVU - excellent html editor for building web pages
  
• OpenOffice - office suite like Microsoft Office
• pdfcreator - creates PDF files like Adobe Acrobat
• spybot s&d - spyware removal