Software Downloads
Last Updated on Thursday, 23 June 2011
The following software is used in the school. Please make sure you have a copy downloaded to your home computer or laptop, for full compatibility.
All of the software is Open Source, and available for free.
| Name | Description | Operating System |
Download |
| Blender | Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite. | Windows Mac Linux |
http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/ |
| GIMP | GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program.Used for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. | Windows Mac Linux |
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ |
| Ktoon | A design and authoring tool for 2D Animation inspired by animators for animators. | Linux | http://www.ktoon.net/portal/download_counter |
| Openoffice | OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. | Windows Mac Linux |
http://download.openoffice.org/other.html |
| Scribus | Scribus is an Open Source desktop publishing program. |
Windows Mac Linux |
http://www.scribus.net/?q=downloads |
| Firefox | Firefox is a web browser with security, stability and speed. | Windows Mac Linux |
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html |
| Kompozer | KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing. | Windows Mac Linux |
http://kompozer.net/download.php |
| Gedit | Notepad style text editor. |
Linux | Comes with the OS. |
| Freemind | FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software. | Windows Mac Linux |
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download |
| Planner | Gantt Chart Planner. |
Windows Linux |
http://live.gnome.org/Planner/Downloads |
| Alice | Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. | Windows Mac Linux |
http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=downloads/download_alice |
| Scratch | Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art. | Windows Mac Linux |
http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_1.4_Download |
| Audacity | Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. | Windows Mac Linux |
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ |
| Celtx | Celtx is the world's first all-in-one media pre-production system. It replaces 'paper & binder' pre-production with a digital approach that's more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share. | Windows Mac Linux |
http://celtx.com/#downloadOther |
| recordMyDesktop | recordMyDesktop is a desktop session recorder. |
Linux | http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/downloads.php |
| OpenShot | An open-source, non-linear video editor. | Linux | http://www.openshotvideo.com/2008/04/download.html |
| RoseGarden | Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. | Linux | http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/getting/ |
The school also uses the operating system Ubuntu. If you wish to use Ubuntu at home you can download it for free from: http://www.ubuntu.com/