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Screensavers | Astronomy Software | Utilities | RSS Readers / Aggregators | Image Management and Processing | Web Site Management and Production

 
Screensavers
Boeing Paint By Number
Windows Screen Saver The Boeing Screen Saver. Contains Images of the ISS, F-18, F-22, AH 43 and many others!
Tested by Scientific Frontline
The Distant Suns-Grand Tour3D
A high-speed full motion solar-system simulator. In addition, this is a real-time clock. The positions and rotations of each of the planets and their moons are accurate to the current date and time!
Tested by Scientific Frontline
Mission: Apollo 2.0
Mission: Apollo is a fully functional slide-show screensaver featuring 15 fantastic images from the Apollo Moon missions. This screensaver is nag-free and doesn't come with an expiration date. All images are at 1,024x768 and come with an interesting description.
Tested by Scientific Frontline
Chandra Two Years (1999 - 2001)
A collection of images taken by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory within its second year of operation. Some of the images featured include: NGC 4631, Vela Pulsar (Wide-Field View), NGC 7027, Arches Cluster, 47 Tuc, XTE J1118+480 and others.
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Subaru Telescope Screensaver
With the assistance of the latest technologies, today's astronomers believe that they are close to seeing the edge of the observable universe, which will probably be found about 14 billion light-years from Earth.
Tested by Scientific Frontline
 
Spitzer Space Telescope
Windows Screen Saver Windows users can download the Spitzer Screen Saver. Simply double click on the executable file that downloads in order to install.
Tested by Scientific Frontline
Cassini Screensaver
Windows ScreenSaver. Every time your screen saver is activated, the latest daily image updates will be brought automatically to your computer. With the Cassini-Huygens Photojournal Screen Saver you will follow along on this historic mission.
Tested by Scientific Frontline

 
Astronomy Software
Distant Suns
The award winning and one of the longest lived home software packages now in its 17th year. Distant Suns brings the Universe home.
"I'm really boggled - [Distant Suns] is beautiful... I am totally awed by what you've done!" - Arthur C. Clarke
Incredible ease of use, yet packed with feature and astonishing graphics!” - Scientific Frontline®
Tested by Scientific Frontline
Cartes du Ciel Sky Charts
A large number of parameters help you to choose specifically or automatically which catalogs to use, the color and the dimension of stars and nebulae, the representation of planets, the display of labels and coordinate grids, the superposition of pictures, the condition of visibility and more. All these features make this celestial atlas more complete than a conventional planetarium.
As close as one can get to 'The State of Perfection', recommended for the experienced user.” - Scientific Frontline®
Tested by Scientific Frontline

 
Utilities

Free Meter
FreeMeter has the features that most people need and is FREE. FreeMeter Professional has all the features of FreeMeter plus features intended for power users and system administrators. Visit the Features page for a full list of features in each version of FreeMeter.
The current version of FreeMeter and FreeMeter Professional is v2.8.2. By TILER.com
Tested by Scientific Frontline
FreeRam
FreeRAM is a program that frees up ram manually or automatically. It shows current memory status , memory load and CPU usage graphically.
FreeRAM 4.0 BySoft (95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP)
Tested by Scientific Frontline
ClipMate
ClipMate saves time and makes you more productive by adding clipboard functions that the Windows clipboard leaves out - starting with the ability to hold thousands of "clips", instead of just one.  ClipMate has functions to edit, re-format, and manage your clipboard data.  It can also print, re-format, and even spell-check.  ClipMate 7 adds powerful drag/drop, integration with the windows taskbar, and makes pasting your data even easier than before.  Everybody needs ClipMate.  Not sure how you'd use a clipboard utility? Visit the Why You Need ClipMate page.
ClipMate is highly recommended by Scientific Frontline, just a must have for anyone in website production.
Tested by Scientific Frontline
Notepad++
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence. This project is mature. However, as you can see it's a one-man-project, there are still some bugs and missing features.
This is a highly recommended by Scientific Frontline. I find that the author of this program underestimates how well written and useful Notepad++ truly is... which is a good sign that he will continue to improve this wonderful notepad replacement.
Tested by Scientific Frontline
DarkRoom
Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, Dark Room is just about you and your text. Basically, Dark Room is a clone of the original WriteRoom that is an OS X (tiger) exclusive application. It is a child of necessity, as there were no viable alternatives in Windows to produce the same behavior. Sure, you can kind of emulate the behavior by jumping through a bunch of hoops in Word/Writer, but it isn’t the same. Also, you can do something similar in emacs, but who wants to learn a bunch of obscure keyboard shortcuts?
Recommended by Scientific Frontline. Very simple, yet one finds dozens of reasons to use daily.
Tested by Scientific Frontline

 
RSS Readers / Aggregators
Omea Pro
Bring all your information together That means your email, contacts, documents, files, blogs, transcripts, newsgroups, RSS feeds, pics, webpage bookmarks, tasks, and instant messages are all in the same place, so you don’t need to look through a slew of programs and applications anymore. Learn more »
Quickly find specific details, quotes, and facts with Desktop Search functionality.
Highly Recommended by Scientific Frontline. Installed and used on all our computers!
Tested by Scientific Frontline
Tristana RSS Reader
free newsreader (does not contain adware or spyware) which allows you to pull content directly from the Web onto your desktop without email. Simply click and drag RSS feeds to Tristana Reader to view news, blogs, podcasts and online content in real-time. Now iPod friendly! With our latest podcasting release, now you can search and download music and media files while you sleep and even synch with your iPod! We've added a Downloads Manager to schedule and download up to five files to your desktop at once.
Tested by Scientific Frontline
RssReader
RssReader collect news in the background at user configurable intervals and warn with a little popup in the system tray that there is a new message arrived. You can click the news headline to see a short description of the news and click or open the original news web page in an RssReader browser or default browser window.
Tested by Scientific Frontline
Awasu RSS Reader
Awasu is a state-of-the-art feed reader that comes loaded with features for both casual personal use and professional, high-powered information management.
Not yet evaluated by Scientific Frontline

 
Image Management and Processing
Paint.NET
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
Every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance. In order to handle multiple images easily, Paint.NET uses a tabbed document interface. The tabs display a live thumbnail of the image instead of a text description. This makes navigation very simple and fast.
Highly Recommended by Scientific Frontline. Used daily and installed on all our computers
Tested by Scientific Frontline
ImageWalker
ImageWalker is a fast/lightweight image management and viewing application that runs on Microsoft Windows. Use ImageWalker to get organized with all those amazing artistic shots and photos of friends and family. Quickly view, find, share, print and make simple edits all from a single application. Download and try it now. You can be up and running in a few minutes. It has an unlimited trial period with no obligations!
Tested by Scientific Frontline
IrfanView
It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 7+ years). IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.
Tested by Scientific Frontline
GIMP
The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. Typical uses include creating graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photos, altering colors, combining multiple images, removing unwanted image features, and converting between different image formats.[2] GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in GIF format. It is often used as a free software replacement for Adobe Photoshop, the most widely used bitmap editor in the printing and graphics industries; however, it is not designed to be a Photoshop clone.
Tested by Scientific Frontline
Not recommended for the average user, although a wonderful full featured image editor we find it not very user friendly for a beginner. We still use Adobe Photoshop for major photo manipulations.

 
Web Site Management and Production
Smart FTP
SmartFTP is an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client which allows you to transfer files between your local computer and a server on the Internet. With its many basic and advanced features SmartFTP also offers secure, reliable and efficient transfers that make it a powerful tool.
Smart FTP is highly recommended by Scientific Frontline
Tested by Scientific Frontline
OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org the product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office, and the vendor-neutral OpenDocument standard from OASIS.
Highly Recommended by Scientific Frontline, just too many uses to mention. Although, we still are using an older version due to a conflict we just have not yet worked out.
Tested by Scientific Frontline
Tristana Writer RSS Editor
Tristana Writer RSS Editor is an easy to use tool for quickly creating valid RSS or Atom feeds to instantly distribute content over the Internet. Web feed distribution 100% guarantees delivery of your messaging directly to your subscribers' desktops, without email. Creating RSS and Atom feeds gets around all of the problems with delivering content using email, such as declining delivery, open and click-through rates, increased email clutter as well as false-positive SPAM email filtering.
Recommended by Scientific Frontline. A very well thought out, updated, and supported product. Tristana Writer RSS Editor is used for our RSS Feeds.
Tested by Scientific Frontline
SWiSH Max2
SWiSH Max2 is a powerful Flash authoring application. Flash is a multimedia format for playing animation, video and audio on the web, mobile devices and more. SWiSH Max2 enables you to create Flash movies in a simple timeline based authoring environment, dragging and dropping video, audio, effects, images and more to create stunning multimedia movies.
Highly Recommended by Scientific Frontline. Creating flash with such simplicity... Outstanding Support. All flash programs on Scientific Frontline is created with SwishMax.
Tested by Scientific Frontline

 
 

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