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VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware is high-performance security software that doesn't slow down your PC like older, traditional antivirus products. VIPRE is the end of antivirus software as you know it.

Free software for PC/Mac computers.  Teachers can have students use software to create their own illustrated books.

"Course Builder is our experimental first step in the world of online education. It packages the software and technology we used to build our Power Searching with Google online course. We hope you will use it to create your own online courses, whether they're for 10 students or 100,000 students. You might want to create anything from an entire high school or university offering to a short how-to course on your favorite topic. Course Builder contains software and instructions for presenting your course material, which can include lessons, student activities, and assessments. It also contains instructions for using other Google products to create a course community and to evaluate the effectiveness of your course. To use Course Builder, you should have some technical skills at the level of a webmaster. In particular, you should have some familiarity with HTML and JavaScript."

You can download for free software for PC or Mac to create your own Lego creations.

"it's simple and free to send voicemails over the internet, and record your voice without using any software. All you need is Vocaroo. Vocaroo makes recording your voice simple. To use Vocaroo you don't need to download any software, pay any fees, or even sign up for anything. Vocaroo gives you the option to download your recording so you have it anywhere. There's also an embed code for each recording, so you can embed it in your blog, web pages, slide shows and other presentations. Vocaroo is all you need to create a voice recording - and it's Free!"

"Tech in the Classroom is a recurring feature that examines widely available technology, software and gadgets and how they might be used in a school setting. What favorite gadget or tool are you using in the classroom? As this new content area grows, let us know what products you'd like to read about."

Free to public for Mac and PC. Software to create stop-animation movies.

Free educational maps and map puzzles.

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!

Write your own scripts and plots using this web 2.0 tool.

Write screenplays in your browser. Plotbot is web-based screenwriting software. You can write your script with as many or as few people as you want

"As much the digital overlap of Google Search, Docs, Calendar, and Gmail software as it is a response to Facebook, Google+ has strong potential application in formal learning environments. First, a look at what makes Google+ tick."

"Security Toolkit: Best 4 lesser-known malware programs Everyone knows to have good antivirus software and to run some standard anti-malware when they encounter problems. But what happens when you need a second opinion, or maybe a third?"

A variety of tools and applications to manipulate audio files.