Online Reference:
Web Applications
Email Clients
| G-mail |
Free web-based email client, allowing you to check your email from any computer. |
| Thunderbird |
Enjoy safe, fast and easy email, Mozilla-style. The Thunderbird email client includes intelligent spam filters, powerful search and customizable views. |
Free Downloadable Applications
| Audacity |
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. |
| GIMP |
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. |
| Inkscape |
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. |
| Jing |
The always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video from your computer to anywhere. |
| Open Office |
The leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. |
| Ubuntu |
Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more. |
Online Applications
| Animoto |
Site allows you to upload images and music and automatically creates customized Web-based video presentations from them for you to share with friends. |
| Buzzword |
Free online word processor, perfect for writing reports, proposals, and anything else you need to access online or work on with others. It looks and behaves like your normal desktop word processor, but it operates inside a web browser, so there's no installation required. |
| Google Docs |
Free web-based word processor and spreadsheet, which allow you share and collaborate online. |
| Prezi |
Create zooming online presentations. |
| Slideshare |
A site where you can host your presentations and share them with others. Presentations can be linked to at the site itself or else embedded in a web page. You can also synchronise an MP3 audio file (podcast) with the slideset to create a slidecast - a more powerful way of distributing presentations/tutorials. |
| Soshiku |
Web based tool for tracking assignments. |
| Weebly |
Create a free website or blog. |
Search Engines & Subject Directories
| AltaVista |
An alternative to Google. |
| Bing |
Microsoft's "Decision Engine". |
| Bubl Link |
Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas. |
| FinderSeeker |
Search for a search engine to meet your needs. |
| Google |
Includes links to Google Scholar, Images, Maps, News and more. Search pages from Australia - or the world. |
| Google Custom Search Engine |
Create your own custom search engine. |
| Infomine |
Browse or search scholarly internet collections. |
| Ithaki |
Image and picture meta search engine. |
| Jogli |
Music Search Engine. |
| Librarians' Internet Index |
Over 20,000 high quality sites. |
| Scirus - for scientific information |
A comprehensive scientific research tool that indexes content from reputable sources. To include CSU-subscribed resources in your search, click Preferences > select Charles Sturt University from the list of Library Partner Links > click on Enable > click Save Preferences. |
| Search Engine Watch |
Provides tips and information about searching the web and analysis of the search engine industry. |
| Technorati |
Search engine for blogs. |
| Wolfram|Alpha |
Computational Knowledge Engine. |
Web Browsers
| Firefox |
Free, open-source browser, widely touted as more secure and flexible than Internet Explorer. |
| Google Chrome |
a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. |
| Internet Explorer |
Microsoft's classic web browser. |
| Internet Explorer for Macintosh |
Apple Macintosh users can download Internet Explorer 5.3.2 - the last version released for Mac - from the Macintosh Old Apps website. |
| Opera |
Get a faster and more powerful Web browser and make the most of your time online. |
| Safari |
Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. |
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