Name: TechMission Safe Families We-Blocker internet filtering software
Website:
http://www.safefamilies.org/download.php
Description: Free Software to block inappropriate material
Name: Naomi
Website:
http://www.naomifilter.org/
Description: Naomi is an advanced internet filtering program.
Easy to use and totally free, this is intended for families, and kids
in particular.
Name: Dan's Guardian
Website: http://dansguardian.org/
Description: DansGuardian is an award winning Open Source web
content filter which currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD,
Mac OS X, HP-UX, and Solaris. It filters the actual content of pages
based on many methods including phrase matching, PICS filtering and URL
filtering. It does not purely filter based on a banned list of sites
like lesser totally commercial filters.
Name: TUKI
Website: http://tuki.com/
Description: Web browser designed for children that has parental controls.
Name: Accountability Pal
Website:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/accpal/
Description: Accountability Pal monitors your network and keeps track
of who is using the Internet and what they are viewing, downloading,
uploading, etc. It emails a report of each user's activity to the
person/people you specify. Great for parents and businesses.
Name: X3Watch
Website: http://x3watch.com/
Description: X3watch is an accountability software program
helping with online integrity. Whenever you browse the Internet and
access a site which may contain questionable material, the program will
save the site name on your computer in a hidden folder. A person of
your choice (an accountability partner) will receive an email
containing all possible questionable sites you may have visited within
the month. This information is meant to encourage open and honest
conversation between friends and help us all be more accountable.
Name: Adblock Plus
Website: http://adblockplus.org/en/
(Only available for Firefox browser)
Description: Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that
often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock
Plus now and get rid of them. Right-click on a banner and choose “Adblock” from
the context menu — the banner won’t be downloaded again.
Name: OpenDNS
Website: http://www.opendns.com/
OpenDNS protects millions of people a day across hundreds of thousands of
schools, businesses and homes. We block phishing sites, give you the power to
filter out adult sites and proxies among more than 50 categories, and provide
the precision to block individual domains.
Name: Microsoft Security Essentials
Website:
http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/
Description: Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection
for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious
software. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free download from Microsoft that
is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be
assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. Microsoft Security
Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free
to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long
computer wait times.
Name: AVAST
Website: http://www.avast.com/
Description: Avast is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows
98/Me/2000/XP and 2003. It is very easy to set up and only requires
free a anual registration for home and non-profit use. ClamWin Free
Antivirus comes with an easy
installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely
free of charge.
Name: Clam Win
Website: http://www.clamwin.com/
Description: ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows
98/Me/2000/XP and 2003. It provides a graphical user interface to the
Clam AntiVirus engine. ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy
installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely
free of charge.
Name: AVG-Link
Website:
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
Description: Free Anti-Virus Program
Name: SpyBot
Website: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html
Description: Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes
spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common
anti-virus applications.
Name: Ad-aware
Website:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Description: Ad-Aware Personal provides advanced protection from known
data-mining, aggressive advertising, Trojans, dialers, malware, browser
hijackers, and tracking components
Free Church Management Software
Name: Church Info
Website:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/churchinfo/
Description: ChurchInfo is a free church database network application
written in PHP/MySQL. This membership and management database is
designed specifically to help automate the operation of a church. It
has features to track members, families, groups, donations, etc.
Name: Church Website in a Box
Website:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/churchwebsite/
Description: The 'Church Website in a Box' is a MySQL/PHP
content management system designed to be easily deployed and used by
any church. All content management and configuration can be done using
a web browser. It is an integration of many other projects.
Name: Open Source Church
Website:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/osc/,
http://www.churchledger.com/,
Description: OSC (Open Source Church) is a Church Management
Software (CMS). It supports Membership, Giving, End of Year Tax
Statements and group management. OSC is a fork of the Infocentral
project.
Name: VpSX
Website:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vpsx
Description: VpsX is an all in one Video Projection suite designed
initially to replace the old overhead projector. VpsX runs on Windows.
The software uses windows' Dual monitor system to display lyrics on one
screen, while controlling the program on the other.
Name: Open LP
Website: www.openlp.org ,http://sourceforge.net/projects/openlp/
Description: openlp.org allows churches to easily project song words and other data onto a screen in a church
Name: Higher Power Point
Website:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/higherppt/
Description: Worship projection software focused on ease of use,
with thumbnail-driven slide navigation, easy show preview/switching,
creating on-the-fly slides / shows from lyrics, sheet music, scripture,
PowerPoint, etc, & integrated web library to aid worship leaders'
planning.
Name: Open Song
Website: http://www.opensong.org/,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensong/
Description: OpenSong is a free software application for
managing chords and lyrics sheets (lead sheets), presenting lyrics (and
custom slides) using a projector, and much more! Great for worship
leaders and musicians!
Name: Quick Verse 4.0
Link:
http://www.unitybaptist.com/qv4nonav.exe
Description: Version 4.0f is the "free" version that was provided to us by
Parsons Technology. As the "free" basic version, it only has the KJV
translation and does not include additional translations and research add-in's
that were available for purchase and also in other pay versions. It does,
however, have many useful tools to help you search through God's word.
Name: InVerse
Website:
http://www.bibleinverse.org/
Description: Memorizing Scripture verses is a laudable ambition, but a
beginner can find it overwhelming. InVerse simplifies this, containing
over 15,300+ verses preloaded in 2,800 of the best known Bible passages
from 11 Bible translations.
Name: BibleData Base Software
Website:
http://www.bibledatabase.com/free_bible_software.htm
Description: Free Bible Software
Name: BiblePro
Website: http://bibleocean.com
Description: This new version of BiblePro is our most popular tool, nearly 300,000 downloads at www.download.com
and 250,000 from all other download sites. BiblePro is designed for
those students of the Bible who need the most powerful tools and
references.
Name: The SWORD
Website:
http://www.crosswire.org/sword/index.jsp,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sword/
Description: The SWORD Project is the CrossWire Bible Society's
free Bible software project. Its purpose is to create cross-platform
open-source tools-- covered by the GNU General Public License-- that
allow programmers and Bible societies to write new Bible software more
quickly and easily. We also create Bible study software for all
readers, students, scholars, and translators of the Bible, and have a
growing collection of over 200 texts in over 50 languages.
Name: Paristemi
Website: http://www.paristemi.com/
The forthcoming project titled Paristemi is named after a Greek word
which means to present. It is the goal of this project to be open
source and be a website for church and non-profit organizations to use
for free.
Name: CCEL Desktop
Website: http://www.ccel.org/,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ccel-desktop/
Description: The CCEL Desktop is a desktop digital library. It
supports installation, maintenance, access, and searching of books from
the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (http://www.ccel.org) on your PC. This program requires Java which can be download from.
http://www.java.com/
Name: The Online Bible
Website:
http://www.onlinebible.net/describe.html
Description: The Online Bible has been developed as a tool to
aid in studying the Bible. Whether you are a pastor, Sunday School
teacher or just looking for a program to "dig into" the scriptures, you
will find everything you need in this software.
Name: Open Song
Website: http://www.opensong.org/,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensong/
Description: OpenSong is a free software application for
managing chords and lyrics sheets (lead sheets), presenting lyrics (and
custom slides) using a projector, and much more! Great for worship
leaders and musicians!
Name: Open Office
Website: http://www.openoffice.org/
Description: OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual
office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other
major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and
distribute. Includes a word processor like Word, spreadsheet program like Excel,
presentation like Powerpoint, database like Access, a draw program and math
calculation program.
Name: Foxit PDF Reader
Website: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/
Description: Reader like Adobe only much smaller and faser. Reads PDFs and is availble for multiple platforms.
Name: PDF Creator
Website:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/,
Description: PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows
program. Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows
application.
Name: TurboCASH Accounting
Website:
http://www.turbocash.co.za/,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/turbocash,
Description: TurboCASH Accounting, entry level Delphi, Windows
Accounting package for single users, small networks and distributed
networks. Accomodates developer scripts, local plugins and
multi-language translation.
Name: CutePDF
Website:
http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/Writer.asp
Description: Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto
standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of
electronic documents and forms around the world. CutePDF Writer
(formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF
creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer
subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be
able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents - with just
a push of a button
Name: Thunderbird
Website:
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
Description: Thunderbird delivers. Enjoy safe, fast, and easy
email, with intelligent spam filters, quick message search, and
customizable views.
Name: Primo PDF
Website: http://www.primopdf.com/
Description: Convert to PDF from any application by simply
'printing' to the PrimoPDF� printer - it couldn't
be easier! Within minutes, you can create high-quality PDFs by
converting from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and virtually any other
printable file type.
Name: Organizers Database
Website:
http://organizersdb.org/home
Description: A database program designed for non-profits.
Name: eBase
Website: http://www.ebase.org/
Description: ebase its a complete nonprofit database solution.
With it�s comprehensive feature set, ebase can
help you manage donors, prospects, volunteers, activists, email lists
and more, all in one place.
Name: Open Workbench
Website:
http://www.openworkbench.org/
Description: Open Workbench is an open source Windows-based
desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and
management functionality and is free to distribute throughout the
enterprise. When users need to move beyond desktop scheduling to a
workgroup, division or enterprise-wide solution, they can upgrade to
CA's Clarity� system, a project and portfolio
management system that offers bidirectional integration with Open
Workbench.
Name: Free Mind
Website:
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Description: FreeMind is a premier free mindmapping software
written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into
high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation
of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click
"fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations.
Name: Moodle
Website: http://moodle.org/
Description: Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a
free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical
principles to help educators create effective online learning
communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy
(including webhosts), and it can scale from a single-teacher site to a
50,000-student University.
Name: Stamina
Website:
http://typingsoft.com/download.htm
Description: Amusing, yet multifunctional touch-typing tutor
with support for several layouts: QWERTY (US, UK, ...), Dvorak, AZERTY
etc. The program is perfect for novice as well as advanced users.
Name: Tux Typing
Website:
http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net/
Description: Tux Typing is an educational typing tutor for
children. It features several different types of game play, at a
variety of difficulty levels.
Name: Tux Paint
Website:
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/
Description: A drawing program for young children with sound effects, a cartoon character, and fun 'rubber stamp'/'sticker book' pictures.
Name: Childsplay
Website:
http://childsplay.sourceforge.net/
Description: Childsplay is a 'suite' of educational games for
young children. It's written in Python and uses the SDL-libraries to
make it more games-like then, for instance, gcompris. The aim is to be
educational and fun to play at the same time. This is for the Linux operating system only.
Name: Celestia
Website:
http://celestia.sourceforge.net/
Description: Celestia is real-time 3D space simulation which
lets you travel through our solar system and to over 100,000 stars in
our neighborhood.
Name: Flashcards 3.0
Website:
http://rawilson.net/shareware/index.html
Description: It's a simple flashcard program that covers
addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You can select any
one of the operations to practice on, or have the program mix them up.
Though the default is 10, facts up to 100 are selectable. Version 3.0
includes the ability to practice fractions. A timer or a clock runs in
the background, and a count of correct/incorrect answers is displayed.
This program is freeware. Enjoy.
Name: Read Please
Website: http://www.readplease.com/
Description: Reads any onscreen text in any of four voices.
Name: CrashPlan
Website:
http://b4.crashplan.com/consumer/index.html
Description: Free online backup system setup between friends or multiple
online computers at different locations
Name: CCleaner
Website: http://www.ccleaner.com
Description: CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy
and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system
Name: Full Sync
Website:
http://fullsync.sourceforge.net/
Description: FullSync is a universal file synchronization and
backup tool which is highly customizable and expandable. It is
especially for developers, but the basic functionality is easy enough
for everyone.
Name: Cryptainer LE
Website:
http://www.cypherix.com/cryptainerle/
Description: Secure your data and ensure absolute privacy with
Cypherix's powerful encryption software, Cryptainer LE. It's powerful
128 bit encryption, creates multiple 25 MB encrypted containers
(vaults) on your hard disk. These encrypted vaults can be loaded and
unloaded when needed. You can view, modify and hide all types of files
with a single password.
Name: CDBurnerXP Pro
Website: http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
Description: With this software you can burn CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs.
Name: 7-Zip
Website: http://www.7-zip.org/,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/
Description: 7-Zip is a file archiver with the high compression
ratio. The program supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP,
BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats. Compression ratio in the new
7z format is 30-50% better than ratio in ZIP format.
Name: Smoothwall
Website: http://smoothwall.org/
Description: SmoothWall is a best-of-breed Internet
firewall/router, designed to run on commodity hardware, and to give an
easy-to-use administration interface to those using it.
Name: Clonezilla
Website:
http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/
Description: To clone a system, you might be familiar with the
commercial package Norton Ghost�, or the
opensource solution Partition Image. However, it takes time to
massively clone system to many computers. You may be familiar with the
commercial package Symantec Ghost Corporate
Edition� with multicasting. Now, Clonezilla is the
opensource clone system (OCS) with unicasting and multicasting. With
DRBL and network boot enabled client computers, the only thing you have
to prepare is a Clonezilla server, and you do not have to prepare a
bootable CD or floppy with Partition Image for every client computer.
Name: Cobian Backup
Website:
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm
Description: Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can
be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their
original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or
other computer in your network. FTP backup is also supported in both
directions (download and upload). Cobian Backup exists in two different
versions: application and service. The program uses very few resources
and can run in the background on your system, checking your backup
schedule and executing your backups when necessary. Cobian Backup is
not an usual backup application: it only copies your files and folders
in original or compressed mode to other destination, creating a
security copy as a result. So Cobian Backup can be better described as
a "Scheduler for security copies". Cobian Backup supports several
methods of compression and strong encryption.
Free Internet and Web Software
Name: FireFox
Website:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Description: The award-winning open source Web browser. Browse
the Web with confidence - Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware
and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy.
Name: Nvu
Website: http://nvudev.com/index.php
Description: A complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop
users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival
programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for "new
view") makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web
pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of
HTML.
Name: Beonex
Website: www.beonex.com
Description: Beonex (0.8.2) is a full-featured web-browser and
email/news client targeted at end-users�both
individuals at home and companies of all sizes. It is based on Mozilla
source code, which in turn is based on the Netscape Communicator code.
Install:
Beonex
Name: Mozilla Suite
Website:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/
Description: Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client,
IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet
needs in one application.
Name: GAIM
Website:
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Description: A multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client
Name: Filezilla
Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/
Description: FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features.
Name: Google Earth
Website: http://earth.google.com/
Description: Google Earth combines the power of Google Search
with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the
world's geographic information at your fingertips.
Name: Audacity
Website:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Description: 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.
Name: Audio Grabber
Website: http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/
Description: Audiograbber grabs digital audio from cd's. It
copies the audio digitally-not through the soundcard-which enables you
to make perfect copies of the originals. It can even perform a test to
see that the copies really are perfect.
Name: Video LAN Client
Website: http://www.videolan.org/
Description: VLC is a free cross-platform media player.
Name: The Beamer Project
Website:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/beamer/
Description: A software to display song texts in (youth)
services using a video beamer - free, comfortable and without MS
PowerPoint. It requires some learning time but provides unique features.
Name: Cam Studio
Website: http://camstudio.org/
Description: CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio
activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files
and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean,
mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
Name: CD-DA X-Tractor
Website:
http://xtractor.sourceforge.net/
Description: CD-DA X-Tractor, a CD ripper for 32-bit Windows
platforms. It features intelligent jitter correction, internet CDDB
support, on-the-fly MP3 encoding via BladeEnc or Lame_enc.
Name: Csound
Website:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/
Description: Csound is a sound and music synthesis system,
providing facilities for composition and performance over a wide range
of platforms. It is not restricted to any style of music, having been
used for many years in classical, pop, techno, ambient.
Name: Protools Free
Website:
http://www.digidesign.com/ptfree/
Description: Get Pro Tools FREE and experience the power and
flexibility of Pro Tools. Using your computer's built-in sound
capability, Pro Tools FREE offers up to 8 tracks of audio and 48 tracks
of MIDI, real-time plug-ins, and many of the same editing and mixing
features the pros use.
Name: Avid Free DV
Website:
http://www.avid.com/freedv/
Description: Perfect for students, DV camera owners, video
enthusiasts or anyone exploring video editing - Avid Free DV software
is an easy, free way to join the Avid family and test-drive the
industry-standard editing interface used by more professionals than any
other video editing solution.
Name: Paint.net
Website: http://www.getpaint.net/
Description: 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. An active and growing online community
provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
Name: Blender
Website: http://www.blender.org/
Description: Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, and interactive creation.
Name: Povray 3.5
Website: http://www.povray.org/
Description: The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a
high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional
graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac
OS X and i86 Linux.
Name: Acid Xpress
Website: Acid Music/
Description:When it was introduced in 1998,
ACID� software was hailed as a breakthrough
loop-based music production tool. Today, ACID software is prized for
its power and functionality, and remains the industry standard for
professional music creation on the PC. With ACID software you can
quickly and easily create original songs, remix tracks, produce 5.1
surround mixes, develop music beds, score videos, and create music for
Web sites and Flash� animation.
Name: Eprayer
Website:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/eprayer
Description: Eprayer is a prayer request script to allow
visitors to submit prayer requests to be mailed out to your designated
prayer team members. It is easy to install and customize. It requires a
MySQL database but also creates a flat file for exporting.
Name: BibleMemorizer
Website:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/berbible
Description: BibleMemorizer is a program to help with memorizing scripture
Name: InVerse Scripture memorization
Website:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/inverse
Description: God is pleased when followers of the Lord Jesus
Christ grow in their knowlege of His Word and the saving message of His
Son. Memorizing Scripture verses is laudable, but beginners can find it
daunting. InVerse simplifies this with 15,300 preloaded verses
Name: Asaph
Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/asaph
Description: Asaph is a tool for Christian music groups and
worship leaders for managing song databases. Features include printing
lead sheets and song books with or without chord markings, and
generating presentations for use in group worship.
Name: PHPSermon
Website:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpsermon
Description: An Audio Sermon Content Management System based on
PHP & MySQL It provides a simple way to include speaker, series,
reference, date, title and links to various digital audio and
PowerPoint files. It is designed to be small & easy to manage.
Name: Online Songbook
Website:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/onlinesongbook
Description: The Online Songbook is a web interface to a
database of songs. Allows users to collaboratively edit songs in
ChordPro format, create and share collections of songs, and print
collections in a variety of formats
Name: Cross Notes
Website:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblenotes
Description: Store and organize notes (or reader impressions) of
the Holy Scriptures. Support for cross-referenced notes (i.e., notes
that can reference many passages) and searching by note content or
passages referenced. A 3d visualization of the note database too
Name: Clearstory Church Portal System
Website:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clearstory
Description: A web portal system created specifically for
churches, with features ranging from content and contact management to
prayer request and announcement tracking. Designed with an
easy-to-navigate XHTML+CSS frontend and object-oriented code.
Name: Chordshop
Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/chordshop
Description: Chordshop produces high quality PDF songsheets and
songbooks. Using an extended ChordPro format, it has advanced features
like the support of measures, on-the-