Education / Reference Apps

Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth: You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads. A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article.

Spelling Bee -- Spelling Bee is a program that enables you to memorize spelling of words and phrases.

TypeMeFast is a complete typing tutor. It's usefull for anybody interested in learning to type fast, and in improving his typing speed. It will teach you to start typing using all of your ten fingers. Its easy step by step lessons provide you with a proven way of conquering the keyboard. TypeMe Fast has integrated mechanism that finds the trouble keys with an option to review those keys. Practice includes practice with keys, words from the database, texts from the database or any other .txt texts. Games are made in order learning to be easier.

Geneabase - Andree's 1899 Atlas Page This atlas was published in the Kingdom of Saxony in the year 1899 by the map-making firm of Velhagen and Klasing and their master-cartographer Albert Scobel, under the direction of Richard Andree (1835-1912), chief of the Geographische Institut of Leipzig. The fourth fully-revised edition after fully twenty years of focused labor, it represented the highest level of cartographic art and fidelity in the world at that time, and these wonderful maps may be enjoyed as much for their beauty as for their usefulness.

NASA Free Software In an effort to foster hands-on, inquiry-based learning in science and math, the NASA Glenn Research Center has developed a series of interactive computer programs for students. All of the programs are Java applets which run in your browser, on-line, over the World Wide Web. The programs can also be downloaded to your computer so that you can use them without being on-line. The programs are in the public domain and are constantly being modified and upgraded based on your input.

Learn Spanish, French, Italian, German And Other Languages With Free Software

Historical atlas with 4000 year map animation

Encyclopedia Galactica web site is a freeware planetarium program that allows the creation of different types of sky maps in which practically any element is customizable.

Earth 3D visualization program is a program that visualizes the earth in realtime in a 3D view. It uses data from NASA, USGS, the CIA and the city of Osnabrück. I would like to thank these organisations to allow me to use their data! The program is available as binary for Linux, MacOS X and Windows under the GPL license.

Google Earth - A 3D interface to the planet

AstroViewer- quick orientation in the night sky

Celestia The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Celestial Maps is an astronomical software that produces accurate maps of the sky in five types of projections. It has been written in Borland Delphi 4 for Windows on 32 bits.

Computer Aided Astronomy is a Planetarium software that allows you to build detailed views of stellar fields. An important objective of this software is to take into account the main catalogues available to professional and amateur astronomers in order to prepare observations on small fields as well as astrometry works.

Free Software Downloads - Astronomy In Your Hands Mirapla Sky is designed for learners. It provides a very realistic view of the stars as seen with the unaided eye, which allows you to practise identifying stars and constellations during daylight hours, and when the weather is cloudy. Due to its high degree of realism and simplicity it is recommended for learning the constellations in conjunction with an Astronomy In Your Hands Star Wheel.

Hallo northern sky planetarium software program Welcome to the free planetarium program HNSKY for Windows. It is complete with the SAO, PPM, Tycho-2 star databases, up to date deepsky database containing 26000 objects , Realsky (r) images and access to the external GSC and USNO CDROM star catalogs. Telescope control using the universal ASCOM package, a Realsky viewer (incl. source) DDE controlled from HNSKY and a BMP/JPEG to FITS conversion utility.

Off-line dictionary applications Application allows users to use free bilingual dictionaries offline. All dictionaries have to be UTF-8 files with one translation per line and words separated by tabulators. Hundreds of free bilingual dictionaries can be created and downloaded from the Universal dictionary system. Universal dictionary currently interconnects 31 languages (Afrikaans, Basque, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Japanese Romaji, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmal, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish)

Text to HTML - eNovels

NASA World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.

Astronomy Software Planetarium

3D solar system A rolling advanced 3D solar system with all the planets and some big moons orbit. If you have a very fast computer - set 'True Worlds'-option 'On', and you will not be disappointed! You can manually select view of planet or moon and the camera takes you there. It includes options like 'Freeze All', 'Height of view', 'Orbit speed / Distance', 'Light and Shadow on/off', 'Atmosphere on/off', 'Rotation speed', 'Model scale' and 'Zoom scale'. Support 3D or none 3D card and changes of GFX resolution. You can also save the preferences. DirectX.

Mnemonic game Memory mnemonics are simple techniques
to help you remember
what you want to remember.
A mnemonic is as easy as,
"One two, buckle my shoe;
three four, shut the door;
five six, pick up sticks."
Many people learned that simple number rhyme
before they ever even heard the word mnemonic.
It's an example of a mnemonic.

Multiplication Game - Freeware for learning and revising Mathematics Multiplication tables for kids

Speed reading for increasing read speed By using Ababa Spead Reading, you can improve your facilities of speed reading. You needn't practice special exercises; it is just enough to read.

Grey Olltwit's Guide To The Times Tables 1 to 12 times table. Progress from basic to distinction level. Certificate print out showing progress. Compressed file size - 985 KB.

Our Solar System A journey through the solar system similar to the screen saver available on this site, except that you can learn more about each of the planets. Whereas the saver is a rolling non stop tour you can stop the action and choose which planet you wish to view and learn more about. Compressed file size - 917 KB.

MapViewer is a Macromedia Flash projector application with maps of Africa, Antarctic, Arctic, Asia, Central America, Europe, Oceania, United States, World and World Time Zones.

ABC Drawing School - Learn to draw step by step!

Guitar and Drum Trainer

Kiran's Typing Tutor is packaged and written for Microsoft Windows operating system, which lets you to learn Touch Typing and improve typing skills and speed in a very easy way with in the shortest possible time

Selingua is a vocabulary training program with extensive built-in dictionaries -- more than 2000 words in each of the following languages: English (both American and British), German, Spanish, French and Swedish. The program can be used by native speakers of any of these languages since the user can choose the language of the on-screen instructions.

Seterra is a challenging geography program with 70 different exercises. Learn about countries, capitals, flags and cities all over the world! Examples of exercises: countries in Europe; American states; American state capitals; French cities; cities in Mexico; countries in Asia, etc, etc...

Atlas of Human Skeletal Anatomy

Keyboard Explorer will train any novice user to use all the common keys on the computer keyboard. It is ideal for computer training centres and workshops. In about 60 minutes time, a novice computer user can become acquainted with the computer keyboard, without the intervention of a supervisor.

Mouse Trainer will quickly train any novice user to use the mouse. It is ideal for computer training centres and workshops. In about 60 minutes time, a novice computer user can become acquainted with clicking, double-clicking and dragging, without the intervention of a supervisor.

WinMacro, a Macro recorder-player for Windows by S. Senthil Kumar WinMacro is a simple Macro recorder/player for Windows written in Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0. It can record whatever you do at your Windows Desktop, and can replay them exactly. It doesn't record video, instead it uses windows hooking mechanisms to monitor your mouse and keyboard events, and plays them back. Therefore the recorded file is much smaller than what would be if you recorded live video, typically in the range of kilobytes.

Planet's Visibility presents a 3-color graph that shows when a planet, the moon or the sun is visible during any year from 3000 BC to AD 6000 at any location on the earth. The vertical axis marks the months of the year, the horizontal axis marks the hours of the day. The three colors create a contour map effect and show whether the body is under the horizon (black) and invisible, above the horizon with the sun (light color) and invisible, above the horizon without the sun (shaded color) and so possibly visible. The times of sunrise and sunset can be shown on all the diagrams. By moving the mouse over the diagram, the date and time along with the object’s altitude, azimuth, and magnitude, or the phase of the moon, are displayed. In addition,.............

Beginning Letter Sounds - Free software for learning phonics

Build a Medieval Castle

Download page for science freeware

Kid's Typing Skills

Learn Letters - Free software to learn the letters of the alphabet

JDN Speed Typing With JDN Speed Typing, instead of typing a single letter at a time, you type whole words and phrases (each) with a single stroke and type in a fraction of the normal time. You can save thousands of hours as well as the accompanying wear and tear.

Basic Facts Worksheet Factory Need just the Facts? The free Basic Facts Worksheet Factory can generate worksheets that will provide students with the practice they need to become proficient in the basic math operations.

Project GaiaCAD This is a small..... CAD/GIS program
GaiaCAD displays GIS and mapping data on a real-time, interactive three-dimensional globe, Cartesian, Mercator and other projections of the Earth.
In the GaiaCAD Earth globe can be rotated and zoomed to display a close-up of any region of the Earth and you can interact with the countries and objects displayed. Take a look at the Photos to see some of the capabilities of GaiaCAD.

Word Search Factory Students love word searches. Now, with Word Search Factory, you can add a little word search fun and motivation to their regular lessons in any subject area.

Mathematics Worksheet Factory Need just the Facts? The free Basic Facts Worksheet Factory can generate worksheets that will provide students with the practice they need to become proficient in the basic math operations.

EarthWatcher, a program that creates a map of the Earth showing to which areas the sun shines. Updated to version 1.1.1, including the original program with a new day image, the screensaver, plus a full Delphi source code.

Worksheet Factory Need just the Facts? The free Mathematics Worksheet Factory Lite program can generate worksheets that will provide students with the practice they need to become proficient in the basic math operations.

The complete works of shakespeare (winrar 2.7 download also available)

SolarInfo - Solar System Information An application that shows some information about the planets and their moons in our solar system. The images are all from real photos.

Travel Dictionaries the most comprehensive travel dictionaries as freeware

Periodic Table of the Elements A Freeware application meant as an aid to people who need details about chemical elements on a regular basis, and can use a computer as an immediate reference source where they are. The application is bi-lingual, in English and Dutch, but if the need arises or if enough people wish it, I could add a third or more languages to the program in the future

What Cooks Blank database designed to hold your favorite recipes

Quick Info This FREE utility gives you the information you need quick an easy! Quick Info is a reference lookup tool for three things: U.S. telephone area codes and time zones, international direct phone-dialing codes and time zones, and Internet domain suffixes. With more than 2000 cities worldwide, 320 area codes, and 250 national Internet suffixes listed, you're sure to find some piece of information that you need to get your hands on quickly.

Satscape Satscape is a Freeware Program for the PC. There are about 8000+ satellites in orbit, alot of these are just junk and debris such as discarded rocket bodies, but quite a few are working Satellites.
Their positions can be calculated very accuratly using pure maths, no need for a huge radar dish in your back garden. Satscape will do the maths for you, and present their positions in a nice graphical way. Passes over your part of the world can be predicted weeks in advance in a matter of seconds.

United States Geography Tutor Freeware will make it easy for you to learn the names and locations of the contiguous 48 states of the USA. It has a study mode ("Explore the USA"), and two types of quiz to test your knowledge.

WordWeb - the free thesaurus and dictionary WordWeb is a powerful free English thesaurus and dictionary. Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world use this top-rated software. Features include:
Definitions and synonyms
Proper nouns
Related words 120, 000 root words
100, 000 synonym sets
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