1.11.2009

Elementary School Software

1. Minute Math (v3.1)
License: Free A ‘flash card’ style program with user configurable subjects, numbers and time limit.A great way for kids to learn their basic math skills, as well as some of the ‘advanced’ numbers.No installation necessary. Just download, unzip, and run the executable.
2. ABC Drawing School
License: Free Learn to draw step by step! ABC Drawing School is a simple to use software providing lessons for drawing. Easy to follow visual instructions show how to connect simple forms like circles and rectangles with a few lines to complete drawings. One click selection from many colors and customizing of draw width is easy to use even for children. 3. Math Games Multiplication
License: FreeMemorizing multiplication tables is an essential part of elementary education. A student who has mastered multiplication gains a solid foundation for achievement in mathematics throughout high school and beyond. Math Games Multiplication software is designed to help K-3 students in mastering multiplication tables for numbers 1 to 10. The game is easy and fun to play. It is free for personal use.

Statistical Software

1. SPSS 16.0
License: Free to try SPSS Inc. is a leading worldwide provider of predictive analytics software and solutions. Founded in 1968, today SPSS has more than 250,000 customers worldwide, served by more than 1,200 employees in 60 countries.SPSS has become a leader in predictive analytics technologies through a combination of commitment to innovation and dedication to customers. You will find SPSS customers in virtually every industry, including telecommunications, banking, finance, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, consumer packaged goods, higher education, government, and market research. 2. Minitab 15
License: Free to try Minitab products offer quality professionals the powerful, reliable, and easy-to-use tools they need to analyze their data and manage large and complex projects. Minitab Statistical Software helps you draw insight from your data and is the ideal statistics package for all your projects. Its comprehensive collection of methods and ease-of-use features help you identify the processes that need improvement, find the best solutions, and measure their success.

Management Software

1. Staff Files 5.0.39
License: Free to try Staff Files is an easy and affordable solution for today's managers and human resource professionals who need to track, store, retrieve, and safeguard employee information. Its a comprehensive human resource (HR) system that saves you time by organizing staff records in one location. With Staff Files' quick-tab navigation system, you can store all types of personnel information. You can track sick leave and vacation time accruals, document performance evaluations, maintain training and certification information, record benefits, store wage rates, and many other duties traditionally involving tedious paperwork. You can also store employee photos and other important documents within Staff Files such as scanned W-2s and resumes. Because each business is different, identify facts important to your business and define your own fields. Staff Files includes pre-written HR letters and staff reports to export into PDF, Word, or Excel for one-click print or e-mail distribution.
2. Visual Staff Scheduler Pro 10 License: Free to try Visual Staff Scheduler Pro (VSS PRO) employee scheduling software can produce daily, weekly, or monthly schedules by employee, shift, department, or location with the click of a button. Plus, VSS Pro helps make sure the right employees are scheduled at the right time and place. It also gives users the power to: create custom schedules and reports quickly, ensure coverage and reduce overtime, rotate schedules and easily make changes, track time-off requests, print, publish or e-mail schedules and reports, export schedule data 3. Ithink License: Free to try IThink offers a risk-free way to make decisions that drive business improvement. iThink guides you and your business team through the creation of models that simulate business processes and scenarios; pointing out the impacts of a new procedure or policy, and offering opportunity to fix undesirable outcomes. Based on Systems Thinking, iThink models serve as "practice fields", showing you outcomes that could be painful, costly, or embarrassing if discovered in reality.

Astronomical Software

1. Asynx Planetarium License: Free Asynx Planetarium is a planetarium program and solar system simulator. It can display the night sky from any location on earth and between the year 1760 and 9999. It covers over 10000 stars, the planets, messier objects, all 88 constellations, the moon with phase and the sun. Fast animations: Night sky, geocentric and heliocentric view. Perfect for students, kids and all others interested in our solar system 2. Weather Browser License: Free World wide weather forecasts and conditions to explore with Weather Browser. You can customize Fahrenheit or Celsius readings and select from a wide variety of weather graphic skins, or design your own skin graphics. Explore different maps of each forecast including Satellite, Radar, Temperature, and Daily forecasts. Animated satellite maps available for select areas. Forecasts include a 8 day forecast including His, Lows, and current conditions. 3. Solar Model 2 License: Free The Solar Model is real-time modeling of solar system. It allows user to navigate in space, to control time counting (speed-up time flow), and estimate real movement of space bodies like planets, dwarf planets, and moons. It also allows user to bind camera to space objects (for example, you can look from Moon on Earth in real time flow). Solar Model renders beautiful 3D space environment.

Garment and Fashion

1. Virtual Fashion MakeUp License: Free to try Virtual Fashion Makeup is the first in a series of 3D fashion tools from Reyes Infografica. In VF Makeup you're given all the tools that a professional makeup artist has in his/her kit including: powder brushes, foundation brushes, eye and lip liners, eyeshadows, and eyebrow pencils. A set of masks helps guide you by limiting where you can draw which comes in handy when using lip pencils and highlighting small areas of the face.You can now participate in the First Online Fashion Design Contest featuring VF Works
2.Cutter License: Free to try Cutter enables you to make the basic patterns of shoulders garments (those you wear on your upper half) namely lady's dress, jacket, autumn and winter coat of straight and adjoining silhouette. Also the basic patterns of waistline garments (those you wear on your lower half), namely skirts, divided skirt, men's and lady's pants and jeans, men's loose-fitting pants according to custom measurements with the following printout of the patterns in scales 1:1, 1:2, 1:4 on paper of any size. The method devised ensures the qualitative fitting in the wide range of body measurements. 3. Virtual Fashion Professional License: Free to try Virtual Fashion Pro is the first fashion design system that lets you bring your creative fantasies to life. You will be able to run a complete draping simulation to see how the garments adapt to the model's pose according to the type of fabrics chosen, as they would if they were real. You can customize your model changing the posture, facial gesture, eye, hair, and skin color and you can even apply make up. VF PhotoStudio puts yourself behind the camera and offers you lighting effects, angles and zoom. Version 1.0 includes transparency value scale starting from 0, adds backup utility, progress bar, and a new button to reset simulation in VF Fitting Room.

Electrical Software

1 Electrical Tools
License: Free to try There's no question about it if you're an electrical engineer or designer: Electrical Tools is a must-have program. Check out the list of utilities included in the Features section below, then download the functional demo version and see if you don't agree that this program is one you really can't afford to do without. 2. E-Coord License: Free to try E-Coord gets the job done right when it comes to analyzing time-current curves for overcurrent protection devices. With built-in data for over 2,000 individual devices already built-in, all you have to do is select the devices you want from the list and you're ready to go. And if you need to edit the built-in data or add more devices, that's no problem with E-Coord. Download the functional demo version and see why E-Coord is the choice of many professional engineers. 3. RFFlow License: Free to try RFFlow is everything you need to start communicating your ideas with professional-quality charts and diagrams. For presentations, printed documents, your Intranet, or the Web, great looking diagrams for business, education, and industry have never been so easy to accomplish.