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 | Adobe Acrobat Reader | ||
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2) Adobe Acrobat Reader- A Free .pdf reader
Free software that that you download, read, search and print .pdf encoded files. essential for this on-line course. | |||
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| Audacity - A fully featured FREE audio recorder and Editor
Courses that recommend this download: Applied A-Level ICT
Click the image go to the Audacity download area.
Let's face it, the sound recorder built into Windows is a bit basic, plus the file sizes it makes are HUGE - no good for an e-book. Audacity changes all this. It is a fully featured, studio quality sound editing package and is completely free. It can save files in a variety of types, including mp3 which is nice and small. Perfect for some e-book narration!
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| Gantt Project | ||
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Gantt Project - A Free Gantt Chart tool, that rivals Gantt Project http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/ With GanttProject you can break down your project into a tree of tasks and assign human resources that have to work on each task. You can also establish dependencies between tasks, like "this task can't start until this one is finished". GanttProject renders your project using two charts: Gantt chart for tasks and resource load chart for resources. You may print your charts, generate PDF and HTML reports, exchange data with Microsoft(R) Project(TM) and spreadsheet applications. | |||
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| Gimp | ||
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| The Gimp - Graphics Manipulation Package Click the image go to The Gimp download area.  The Gimp is a FREE graphics manipulation package that rivals even Adobe Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro. It is particularly useful if you want to edit pictures or re-size them to make file sizes smaller. You will need to do this for you e-portfolio and your e-book on the Applied A-Level ICT course.
The gimp required you to install a programme called GTK runtime environment. This can also be downloaded by clicking the image above. | |||
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| Irfranview - A FREE graphics file size "shrinker"!
Courses that recommend this download: Applied A-Level ICT
Click the image to download
If your graphics file sizes are too big you can often have trouble meeting the file size requirements for a course. This little application solves all that, by shrinking down your graphics files, so that they still look good.... but are much much smaller. There is a full tutorial for this software in the E-Learning Guide. | |||
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| KompoZer | ||
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3) KompoZer - A free Web Authoring Package.
In school we use Dreamweaver. Many students want to have web authroing software at home to practice with, or complete their work., but he cost of Dreamweaver is prohibitive. Why not try this FREE piece of software called KompoZer. It is as functional as dreamweaver, and looks good too! This is the KompoZer website: http://www.kompozer.net/ And click here to download the FREE windows version of the software: | |||
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1) Open Office - A Free Office Suite that equals Microsft Office
If you don't have a copy of Microsoft Office and you don't wish to fork out for a copy, why not download OpenOffice. Not only does it have all the main features of Microsoft Office it has the distinct advantage in that it is FREE! Getting OpenOffice NOTE: This is a big file to download - (80MB). If you have a slow Internet connection, then why not bring in your memory stick and download it from school? | |||
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| PDF995- A Free .pdf maker Click the image to download pdf995
Recommended for those users without OpenOffice. This application will let you create .pdf documents - essential for the Applied A-level ICT course. It's free, but you have to put up with the adverts. Pdf995 makes it easy and affordable to create professional-quality documents in the popular PDF file format. Its easy-to-use interface helps you to create PDF files by simply selecting the "print" command from any application, creating documents which can be viewed on any computer with a PDF viewer. | |||
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| WinK - A FREE Flash© Presentation Maker Courses that recommend this download: Applied A-Level ICT
A number of sections of this course require you to show evidence of the work you have done. This can be done by simply using screen shots and .pdf documents. However screen shots are rather boring, time consuming and not very "information age" are they! Why not try something new. Have a look at the sample material. WinKcan be used to demonstrate things in fancy little flash animations. The software to do this is now available for FREE. It is called WinK and you can download it from here | |||
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