Free software for graphic artist professionals and wannabes.

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PUBLISHERS DESCRIPTION:

Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.

Available for Windows, Linux, Irix, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD or Mac OS X under the GNU Public License. For more features about this free program, click here.

License type: Freeware
Operating Systems:
Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP or Vista, Mac OS X 10.2 and later, Linux 2.2.5 i386, Linux 2.3.2 PPC, FreeBSD 6.2 i386, Irix 6.5 mips3, Solaris 2.8 sparc
Minimum Requirements:
300 MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM, 20 MB free hard disk space, 1024 x 768 px resolution with 16 bit color, 3 button mouse, Open GL Graphics Card with 16 MB RAM

File size: 8.0 MB

Developer: Blender Foundation



Note: Windows version only. Other OS versions download are available at the developer's site.

Use this tool to find the right word you need.

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PUBLISHERS DESCRIPTION:

Mobysaurus Thesaurus
is a comprehensive, feature-rich, easy-to-use English thesaurus for Windows.

In addition to numerous built-in powerful features (usually seen only in commercial products), it offers some major unique benefits that no other thesaurus product (software or otherwise) does, including a huge database of 2.5 million synonyms, Find Synonymous Headwords and Suggest Headwords, that make this free thesaurus software the right tool for you to find the right words at the right time.

Features:

  • Over 30,000 headwords and 2,500,000 synonyms
  • Fast and full-featured wildcard search
  • Hotkey support (look up words within most programs, e.g., Microsoft Word)
  • Cross-referencing
  • Display related headwords
  • Fast find synonymous headwords with structural view, ideal for serious word hunters (major unique feature)
  • Headword suggestion and full-text search, saves you troubles and hassles figuring out the "most suitable" headwords (major unique feature)
  • WordWeb support
  • Tabbed interface
  • Full clipboard/print support
  • Extra online references
  • Save and manage search history and favorites across sessions
  • Safe search
  • Suggest-as-you-type
License type: Freeware
Operating Systems: Win All, with .NET Framework 2.0 installed
File size: 4.8 MB
Developer: Mobysaurus

Powerful tool to quickly find definitions, synonyms, and even pronunciations.

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PUBLISHERS DESCRIPTION:

WordWeb
is a free English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows, and can be used to look up words from within almost any program in just one click. It works off-line, but can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia. Features of the free version include:

Definitions and synonyms
Proper nouns
Related words
Pronunciations

150 000 root words
120 000 synonym sets
Look up words in almost any program

The software has a full dictionary and thesaurus for American, British, Canadian, Australian, Indian, and global English.

WordWeb is fully functional, but to use it you must satisfy the licensing conditions.

License type: Freeware
Operating Systems: Windows 9.x, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
File size: 7.4 MB
Developer: Antony Lewis


Free program provides access to vast array of resources for the practicing Muslim.

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PUBLISHERS DESCRIPTION:

Islam
software is a beautiful software for Windows. Using Islam software you can learn easily read and search the Holy Qur'an, then to learn praying times, calculate praying times and more.

Program features:

- The Holy Qur'an - English + 11 other translations.
- can show any 4 languages of the Holy Qur'an at the same time.
- easy for reading, like a book or list view.

- supports searching in all languages including Arabic.

- changing text color, font for each Holy Qur'an translation

- praying times, animation and calendar(Hirji, Gregorian)

- tool bar ma
nager
- many other functions for easy reading and searching


License type: Freeware

OS: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP
File size: 1.8 MB
Developer: Samir Alicehajic

This beautiful astronomy program shows the night sky in its full glory.

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Whether you're a long-time, hard-core astronomy buff, or are just a part-time stargazer, you'll find something in this astronomy program for you.

It displays whatever celestial objects you want, including stars, planets, nebula, and constellations, and will display the sky in various grids and from different points of view.

Click any object to get details about it. Celestial objects move across the sky; you can have them move in excruciatingly slow real-time, or else speed them up.

Overall, this is a beautiful and visually arresting program. It will draw pictures of the constellations, label them, and even let you change whether you want to see the night sky in darkness, or with some ambient light.


License type:
Freeware
OS:
Windows XP, Windows Vista
File size:
35.0 MB
Source:
PC World


Calendar Magic

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PUBLISHERS DESCRIPTION:

Calendar Magic is an easy-to-use freeware Windows 95/98/ME/XP based program that is entertaining, informative, educational, and of equal applicability in the home and in the office. Calendar Magic has also been reported to run without problems on Windows NT/2000 based PCs, but the program has never been formally tested on such systems.


Features of Calendar Magic include:

Full year and individual month Gregorian, Afghan, Armenian, Baha'i, Bangla, Chinese, Coptic, Egyptian, Ethiopic, French Revolutionary, Hebrew, Hindu Lunisolar (3 variants), Hindu Solar, Indian National, Islamic Arithmetical (8 variants), ISNA Islamic, Julian, Revised Julian, Parsi Fasli, Parsi Kadmi, Parsi Shenshai, Persian (2 variants), Sikh Nanakshahi and Vietnamese calendars. A user option is provided to choose between displaying/printing calendars showing each week starting on a Monday (in line with the ISO 8601 international standard), on a Sunday for North American users, or on a Saturday for Middle East users.

Alternative Gregorian "planning calendars".

A month-by-month, side-by-side comparison of any two of the 23 calendar systems listed above. The display remains synchronised as you change day, month and year values in either calendar system being viewed. Again, users may choose between displaying each month with weeks starting on a Saturday, Sunday or Monday.

Date conversions among the 23 calendar systems listed above, plus conversions to Balinese Pawukon, Thai solar, old Hindu Solar, old Hindu Lunisolar and Mayan date formats. Julian day value, day of week and day of year information is also displayed. For Gregorian dates, many other facts are displayed, such as modified Julian day value, Lilian day value and Rata Die day value, and year related information including Roman numeral form, Dominical Letter(s), Dionysian Period, Julian Period, Golden Number, Solar Number, Roman Indiction and Epact. Various special days are also recognised (e.g. Halloween), as are modern Olympic years, Commonwealth Games years, European Athletics Championship years, and World Athletic Championship years.

Conversion of British sovereign regnal dates to historical Julian (years beginning on Jan. 1) or Gregorian dates, as appropriate.

Lists of Western Christian festivals, Eastern Orthodox festivals, Hebrew festivals and Islamic festivals for any (Gregorian) year. In addition, Hindu festivals may be listed for any year in the range 2000 to 2043, Baha'i festivals from 1845 onwards, Buddhist and Chinese festivals from 1645 to 3000, and Sikh Nanakshahi festivals from 1999 onwards.

"Observed Days" for any year from 1990 for over 230 countries and dependencies worldwide.

"Date Detective" command button to tabulate the weekday on which a specified Gregorian date d/m occurs for each of the years in the specified range y1 to y2.

"In Which Months?" command button to list, over a range of years, the months in which a specified day of the month falls on a specified weekday.

The ability to create, display, update and delete reminders for events (birthdays, anniversaries, meetings etc.) for "this year", "next year" or "every year". When Calendar Magic is started up, both visual and audible warnings are given for "imminent" events (those occurring within the next seven days) for which reminders have been set. In addition, a calendar for any month, in this year or next year, may be displayed with day numbers highlighted in red for those days in the month for which reminders have been set. Left-clicking on any "red day" will cause the reminder(s) set for that day to be listed.

Out-of-date reminders are also automatically purged by Calendar Magic and appended to a text file, purged.dat, for later reference, if needed.

A multi-sheet "Quick Notes" facility for holding miscellaneous plain text items.

An "alarm clock" facility for defining an alarm for a given time on a given date. A user may specify the duration of the alarm which may be repeated, after a specified "quiet" time, up to five more times. A separate “stopwatch” function is also provided.

"This is your life" information including day-of-the-week on which you were born, number of days you have lived, your Zodiac sign, some biorhythm data, and the day-of-the-week on which your next birthday falls. Your "Chinese age" and your date of birth in many other calendar systems are also displayed.

Continuously updated display of date, time and Julian day.

Number of days between any two dates in the Gregorian calendar (and number of working days).

Calculation of the date n days, weeks, months or years before or after a specified Gregorian date, where n is a whole number.

An analysis of the Gregorian 400-year cycle, after which the Gregorian calendar repeats itself.

Special Julian to Gregorian change-over calendars for Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain and Sweden.

Dates and times of equinoxes, solstices and Moon phases for any year from 1582 to 3000.

Solar and lunar eclipse data for any year up to 3000.

Sunrise and sunset information for any date up to the end of 2200 for 8000 locations across the world.

Moonrise and moonset information for any date up to the end of 2200 for these 8000 locations across the world.

"Great circle" distances between any two of these 8000 locations across the world.

Current local time and date in any of these 8000 locations, plus interpretation of time zone abbreviations.

A Unit Converter for converting among 1722 units of measurement in 83 different categories including length, area, volume, mass, temperature, time, velocity, energy, power, pressure, computer storage etc.

A Time Calculator for performing simple arithmetic on times.

A Geometry Calculator for evaluating key attributes (area, perimeter, volume, surface area etc.) of various 2D and 3D geometric objects.

A Factor Calculator for factorising numbers with up to 60 digits and for evaluating the HCFs and LCMs of lists of numbers.

A stack based Scientific Calculator with a visible stack.

An Expression Calculator for calculating the values of arithmetic expressions entered in normal (infix) form.

A Pregnancy Calculator for calculating the due date of a pregnancy and other pregnancy related dates.

A Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) calculator.

A magic square generator.

A reaction timer.

Colour customization of screen backgrounds, non-button text and button backgrounds.

Support for printing any output displayed, and/or copying it to another program via the Windows clip-board using the usual Ctrl+A , Ctrl+C, Ctrl+P, Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V keyboard commands.

License type: Freeware
Operating Systems: Windows 9.x/ME/NT/2000/XP
File size: 2.4 MB
Developer: EuroSoft

Learn about meteorology, weather systems, and other environmental factors

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Use this program to learn about meteorological influences that affect our day-to-day weather. Exploring Weather teaches you about the atmosphere, earth systems, and the vocabulary used in Geoscientific applications. Great for all ages.

Price: Free

OS: Windows 3.x, Windows 95
File Size: 5396KB
Developer: Jackson and Tull

Download!

Help students learn through problems geared for the fourth through ninth grades

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Math Assault II

This talking arcade game, intended for fourth- to ninth-grade students, teaches math through word problems. It features 480 problems, covering topics such as fractions, decimals, ratios, proportions, and percents. Problems are solved through pictures, speech, and keywords.

Price: Free

OS: DOS
File Size: 3084KB
Developer: Veenetronics

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What is Freeware?

Freeware is copyrighted computer software which is made available for use free of charge, for an unlimited time. Authors of freeware often want to "give something to the community", but also want credit for their software and to retain control of its future development. Source: Wikipedia

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