4CorePM - Free Software

Open Source and Free software

This area contains links to the free software used for many of our courses.

Please feel free to visit these sites and download the applications. To get up and running quickly check our course calendar and book yourself into one of our short courses.

Remember, whenever you see Available on the calendar, it usualy means that you can reserve those dates for your course. (a bit like booking into a hotel).

Note: There are some free Microsoft resources here, but MS Applications software is commercial and only trial versions may be downloaded for free.
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1   Link   Open Office
OpenOffice.org 3 is 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. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
2   Link   Open Proj
OpenProj is ideal for desktop project management and is available on Linux, Unix, Mac or Windows. It even opens existing Microsoft or Primavera files. OpenProj shares the industry's most advanced scheduling engine with Project-ON-Demand and provides Gantt Charts, Network Diagrams (PERT Charts), WBS and RBS charts, Earned Value costing and more. There is literally no time or effort involved in switching to OpenProj, and your teams can manage projects on any platform for free.
3   Link   Free Mind
FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software. The recent development has turned it into high productivity tool.
A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing.
The elements of a given mind map are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts, and are classified into groupings, branches, or areas, with the goal of representing semantic or other connections between portions of information. Mind maps may also aid recall of existing memories.
4   Link   Paint.NET
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
5   Link   7Zip Unzip utility
Download this if you do not have a program to unzip the .ZIP files elsewhere on thsi site. To save space and reduce download times all exercise and test files are compressed using this process.
6   Link   Komposer
KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing.

KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.
7   Link   Picasa
Together, Picasa & Picasa Web Albums make it easy to organize, edit and share your photos.
When you launch Picasa, you can immediately organize and edit the photos on your hard drive. Picasa can also help import pictures from your camera.
Next, try sharing pictures online with Picasa Web Albums. To get started, simply select photos that you'd like to share, and press the 'Upload' button.

8   Link   Microsoft instant messenger
Windows Live Messenger makes it easier than ever to stay connected. Use this application when you need assistance or a demonstration of how to do something on your computer using REMOTE ASSISTANCE.
9   Link   Mindmanager Viewer
Free to download and use, Mindjet MindManager Viewer 7 lets you view MindManager maps without having to install the full application. Easily navigate through maps by expanding and contracting branches, zooming in on select topics or searching for specific subjects.
10   Link   PDF Creator
PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.
Key Features:

Create PDFs from any program that is able to print
Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc.
Send generated files via eMail
Easy Install: Just say what you want and everything is installed

And the best: PDFCreator is free, even for commercial use! It is Open Source and released under the Terms of the GNU General Public License.
11   Link   Microsoft 2003 / 2007 compatibility pack
This tool enables you to be able to read and save Office 2007 documents in office XP or 2003.
12   Link   Skype
Using Skype to call another person who also has Skype is totally free. Yep, absolutely nothing. Zip. Zero. Zilch.
Free Skype-to-Skype calls. To anywhere in the world. And at any time, day or night, morning or weekends
13   Link   GIMP
Creatively manipulate, edit and retouch images using the open source image editor, Gimp. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It is commonly used to create graphics and logos, resize and crop photos, alter colours, stitch multiple images together, remove unwanted image elements, and to convert between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in GIF format. Gimp is often used as a replacement for Adobe Photoshop.

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