Education/Home Freeware

• Astronomy  Celestia Awesome astronomy program...leave earth. Win XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Astronomy  WorldWideTelescope Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe. Win XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Bible  The Word A portable interactive and customizable bible study program. There are two main views (sub-windows) that host all available resources: The Bible View that displays Bible translations and The Book View that displays all non-Bible resources (commentaries, dictionaries, devotionals, books, maps, etc.) Each view is fully customizable and can contain any number of resources, neatly organized with button-style tabs. The program allows you to create many views of each type. Apart from these two primary views, there are three more: the Bible Search View for searching the Bible, the Book Search View for searching non-Bible resources and the Bible Tree for navigating through the Bible.
• Bible  BibleMax The Bible on Every Device: Online, PC, iPhone, iPad, and Android. BibleMax contains loads of Bible translations, Books, Maps, commentaries, references and dictionaries.
• Bible  E-Sword Fast and effective way to study the Bible. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Books  FullBooks Thousands of full-text free books. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Chemistry  ChemToolBox the Swiss army knife for the lab worker, which contains numerous scientific data very useful in a laboratory with it's own database. Properties of solvents, Chemistry of solutions, Periodic table of elements, Biochemistry, Spectroscopy, and Calculations and units. Win 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista Size 11.1MB.
• Children's Games  Souptoys is a collection of more than 100 different toys for your Windows desktop and the latest version is completely free. As an extra bonus, it also includes a brand new toy xylophone. Designed with players aged 5 to 12 in mind, but enjoyed globally by everyone, this physics sandbox game replicates a child's wooden toy box full of toys, including basketballs, robots, wooden blocks, snowmen, cannons, flying bees and a pirate ship. With its open-ended design, the possibilities are endless and players are limited only by their imagination. Size: 16.4 MB. Win 2000/XP/Vista/7.
• Earth Simulation  GoogleEarth A 3D interface to the planet with a flight simulator. This link downloads the stand-a-lone installer without Google Pack. If you want more information, go to the Google Earth site. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• E-book  Calibre reads and catalogs all major eBook formats. It features a metadata download button to fill in missing data and you may also edit it yourself. It automatically detects readers attached to your computer for easy transfer and it will automatically convert the book to the particular readers format. It has a feature to download current news from a variety of sources (200+ and you can add your own) and convert them to an eBook and schedule future downloads from your sources. Win XP/Vista/2008/7.
• E-book  Kindle for PC Read Kindle Books on Your Computer. Get the best reading experience available on your PC. No Kindle required. Access your Kindle books even if you don't have your Kindle with you. Automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync. Create new highlights, notes, and bookmarks and manage those created on your Kindle. Full screen reading view, color modes, and brightness controls offer an immersive reading experience. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Fitness  BodyByteBodyByteis a fully functionality lifestyle manager, including food database, customized favorites food list, recipes, daily meal plans, exercise and workout schedules, body stats and food intake tracker, history analysis with reports and graphs. Additional features include energy expenditure, body fat calculators, and fitness testing utility. Size: 6.36MB. Win 98SE/ME/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Genealogy  Gramps is a free, open source application that's easy enough for hobbyists to use, yet full-featured enough for professional genealogists. Gramps has a mile-long feature list of ways to help you organize and analyze the data you gather on your family history. Use it to record the details of individual people in your family, and also manage the intricate relationships found in your family tree. Filters let you display the individuals in your database in a variety of preset or customized ways. Choose birth date, name, date of death, event, or create your own. Portable version available. Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7.
• Guitar Tuner  PitchPerfect Tune your guitar strings quickly and easily to any note you want. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Guitar Chords  GuitarChords is a free software, with over 40000 basic and advance guitar chords. Nice and simple environment. TAB notation of the chords. No confusing graphics or images. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Guitar Tuner  Guitar Tuner a cool little utility to help you tune a guitar by ear. Win all.
• Sheet Music  Blank Sheet Music is a free Windows software which has all kinds of blank sheet music formats for Guitar, Piano, Bass Guitar, Choir, Drums, Violin, Mandolin, Saxophone and all other kinds of musical instruments. Nice and simple environment. Printable format (PDF). Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Language  Lingoes Dictionary and multi-language translation software providing results in over 80 languages. It offers text translation, a cursor-driven translator, index list group and pronouncing text, and abundant free dictionaries as a new gerenation dictionary and translation software. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Mathmatics  eCalc Math help reference sheets, online tutoring, and help.
• Mathmatics  GeoGebra Dynamic mathematics software for schools that joins geometry, algebra and calculus. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Mathmatics  SpeQ Mathmatics Very easy to use as a simple calculator, or for advanced complex math calculations with save functionality. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Morse Code Trainer  Morse Trainer is based on a method of CW training developed by a German psychologist called Ludwig Koch. Basically you start off learning the code at the speed you would like to achieve. Unlike the Farnsworth method which seeks to reduce the gap between the letters as you become more efficient, Koch came up with the idea that you should start off just learning two letters at full speed and add an additional letter once you reach 90% proficiency until you have mastered them all. Since you are only learning one new letter or figure at a time, your frustration is significantly reduced. Size: 2.4MB. Tested on Win XP/Vista/7.
• Morse Code to Text  WinMorse is a FREE text to Morse Code conversion application for Windows. WinMorse converts text into Morse Code to audio .aif, .au, .wav or text .txt. Enter the text in WinMorse's text window and use the Convert menu to output a file converted to Morse code. Size: 710KB. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Music notes  NoteCard all-new version of Nick's classic freeware program is a real pleasure to use, combining a fun, attractive interface with a relentlessly efficient method for building skill in musical note-reading. For the first 10 days of use, NoteCard allows you to switch freely between the Free and Paid versions. Check out runasdate for assistance with this. Win XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Music Theory  Lenmus Phonascus from Latin "the teacher of music", is a music education software that you can use to practice your music reading skills, improve your aural recognition abilities, or just learn the fundamental principles of music theory and language. And it includes an score editor, so that you can write your own scores. Portable version. Win NT/2000/XP/Vista/7.
• Music tool  Solfege is music education software. Use it to train your rhythm, interval, scale and chord skills. Recognize melodic and harmonic intervals. Compare interval sizes. Sing the intervals the computer asks for. Identify chords. Sing chords. Scales. Dictation. Remembering rhythmic patterns. Be sure to check out the add-ons on the download page.
• Music tool  EchoView is an integrated suite of powerful, interactive music calculating tools for musicians, sound engineers and producers. Delay time calculator, delay time grid, metronome, tap tempo, chord cue, virtual guitar, song length calculator, stopwatch, sample calculator, and printing features. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Office Suite  OOo4Kids project The office suite for kids 7-12 years. A light version of OpenOffice.. The idea is to provide a 7-12 years software, based on OpenOffice.org source code, say, extremely simplified.
• Piano  SimplePiano An aid for the beginner learning to play piano and read music. It uses Maestro fonts (that are installed with the program) to show the notes played on the treble and bass clef staffs. The notes played are also highlighted on a 60-key on-screen piano keyboard. You can play it using the keyboard, the mouse, or a midi keyboard connected to the computer. The Circle of Fifths can be displayed, and when a key in it is selected, that key's signature is shown on the staffs. Any of the eight most-used chords can be selected and played by playing the chord's root key. Chord inversions can also be selected. A random note reading exercise is included. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Programming Intro  Platinum Arts Sandbox A game design tool based on the Cube 2 engine that allows users to quickly and easily create and edit their own worlds in game, even cooperatively. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Protocol Analyzer  WireShark Enables you to capture and examine data/packets from a live network. Portable. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Recipe  Yiola Manage, download and share recipes. Calendar with cooking plan. Shopping list. Watch list. Portable and Install versions. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.  DemoA short demonstration of the program created with Screen2exe.
• Sports Scheduler  SplendidCity (xp) Full-featured league and tournament sports scheduling software system. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Study Guide  StudyGuide An educational public service helping learners to succeed. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Typing  TIPP10 is a free touch typing tutor for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. The ingenious thing about the software is its intelligence feature. Characters that are mistyped are repeated more frequently. Beginners will find their way around right away so they can start practicing without a hitch. Useful support functions and an extensive progress tracker, topical lessons and the ability to create your own practice lessons make learning to type easy. At least the touch typist wannabes have a fresh and improved freeware. If you still look at the keyboard to type, get it. Portable version. Size: 4.3MB. Win 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7 (32/64 Bit).
• Typing  RapidTypingExcellent typing tutor with many features, Also acceptable for children. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.