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complete solution for creating and distributing surveys and collecting, analyzing and reporting results. Common survey applications include customer and employee satisfaction surveys, course evaluations and opinion polls. Other common applications include lead-generation forms, technical-support inquiry forms, web-feedback questionnaires and product-order forms. SurveySolutions also includes the ability to produce instant "live" survey results, making it ideal for publishing entertaining and informative polls on your web site.

Quia is pronounced key-uh and is short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. Quia provides a variety of educational services, including: * A directory of thousands of online games and quizzes in more than 40 subject areas * Templates for creating twelve different types of online games, including flashcards, matching, concentration (memory), word search, hangman, challenge board, and rags to riches (a quiz-show style trivia game) * Tools for creating online quizzes * Quiz administration and reporting tools * Free teacher home pages

Sniffy the Virtual Rat, is a fun, interactive software program that gives undergraduate students a virtual laboratory experience . . . without all the drawbacks of using a real laboratory rat. Using Sniffy, students can explore operant and classical by performing experiments that demonstrate most of the major conditioning phenomena discussed in textbooks on the psychology of learning.

This spell checker is free to evaluate & features a 75,000 word English dictionary, comprised of both American and British variants. It includes a customizable user dictionary that can contain up to 32,000 user-defined words.

Swiss PDB Viewer is a free program to display, analyze and manipulate PDB protein structures. Next to features such as protein superimposition, H-bond detection, amino acid mutation etc., the protein is tightly linked to Swiss- Model, an automated homology modeling server running at the Geneva Biomedical Research Center. This allows for threading a protein primary sequence to a 3D template and analyzing homology. The displaying options of the program include spacefill, ball & stick, stick and ribbon representations, all of which can be applied simultaneously within one structure model.

One prominent example of a successful program for preventing plagiarism is found at Turnitin.com. This is a group of dedicated professionals working to stop the spread of Internet plagiarism and promote new technologies in education. Their team is an eclectic mix of former teachers, doctoral students, designers, computer scientists, and business professionals located in Oakland,California.

MiniCAD. VectorWorks is the easiest, most cost-effective way to design. It has everything you need for precision 2D drafting, powerful 3D modeling and sophisticated client presentations. Plus, it has a built-in Database and Spreadsheet to track costs and materials, and flexible scripting language to automate routine drafting tasks. Best of all VectorWorks is priced within the means of even the smallest design firm.

Retrieves HTML pages including all links to graphics, sound, video etc. Retrieved sites look just as they would on the web. Scripts still run correctly. Links are converted to point to the files on your own disk. (Links to files you selected not to download are left pointing to the internet so you can go back online to follow links to other pages and sites.)

Different from a screen reader, the WeMedia Talking Browser becomes the actual browser through which anyone can surf the Net. Complete with large buttons and keystroke commands for easy navigation, the browser 'speaks' the text you select within the browser.

"Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more-using your own word lists."

Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With the features professionals use and novices want, it's easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photo-sharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress.

"GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages"

MathGV(tm) is a mathematical function graphing software program for Windows XP, 2003 and Vista. It can plot 2 dimensional, parametric, polar, and 3 dimension functions. MathGV contains no spyware, adware or similar problematic features.

"MathPad is a general purpose graphing scientific calculator for the Macintosh. It uses text worksheets rather than simulating buttons on a hand held calculator. This live scratchpad interface allows you to see and edit your entire calculation. Formulas can be entered directly and different values can be plugged in for easy "what if" calculating."

Simple graphing calculator that will graph in cartesian or polar coordinate systems. Contains a simple graph paper printing utility for cartesian and polar graph paper. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Graphmatica is an equation plotter which supports five types of planar graphs (including polar, parametric, logarithmic, inequalites and limited implicit plots), plots planar vector fields and solutions of the corresponding differential equations, unlimited graphs on screen at once, saving setup information and lists of equations, flexible grid labeling, lock-on coordinate cursor and several ways to resize the grid. Its calculus options include symbolic differentiation, drawing of tangent lines, and numerical integration (you use a mouse to select points and areas). Offers on-line help and demonstration files. grmat36d.zip is the DOS version (3.60), grmat16w.zip is the Microsoft Windows 3.1 version (1.60), and grmat16n.zip is the 32 bit or win32 version (1.60). This is a fully functional shareware package.

MathGV(tm) is a mathematical function graphing software program for Windows XP, 2003 and Vista. It can plot 2 dimensional, parametric, polar, and 3 dimension functions. MathGV contains no spyware, adware or similar problematic features.

HTMLDOC converts HTML files and web pages into indexed HTML, PostScript, and PDF files suitable for on-line viewing and printing. HTMLDOC is used for anything that needs to be viewed or printed including on-line billing, books, financial statements, automated network configuration guides, mailing lists and labels, marketing flyers, quarterly reports, technical manuals, and users manuals.

CapriSoft Formula Wizard is WYSIWYG equation editor for LaTeX system, MathML and HTML math documents. CapriSoft Formula Wizard One of main advantages of our equation editor for MathML is Equation Wizard, which allows to use many predefined equations. In CapriSoft Formula Wizard you can save the equation in LaTeX, MathML, BMP, WMF or GIF file format without losing the information about the structure of this equation. Most of graphic programs and web browsers interpret such files correctly. Because of that it is possible to use CapriSoft Formula Wizard as plug-in with, for example, Netscape Composer.

Equation Magic Lite is an OLE-based equation editor for Win 95/98/NT/ME/2000. EqMagic Lite is available by download from this Web page.