At SPN Software Central, you'll find links to software, free clip art collections, tutorials on web site design, and more (the symbol indicates a resource used extensively by Social Psychology Network). You can even save money on software and hardware by using price comparison services and discount superstores. To add SPN's search capability to your own web site, please see the SPN Search Box.  Table of Contents (click on a category of interest) Data Analysis:    Statistical Packages    Online Statistical Calculations    Spreadsheets    Database Management and Data Entry Web-Related Software and Tutorials:    Web Browsers    Web Page Editors    FTP Programs    Log Analysis    HTML and Link Checking    Traffic Building Software    Free Resources:       Online Tools       JavaScripts    Tutorials and Reference Information:       Web Page Design       HTML       Dynamic HTML       JavaScript       Web Site Promotion Word Processing, Office Suites, and Publishing:    Word Processing    Office Suites    Desktop Publishing Images, Animation, and Video:    Freeware Media Players    Graphic Design Packages:       All-Purpose Packages       Software Specifically for Web Graphics    Downloadable Fonts    Slides, Charts, and Presentations    Clip Art and Image Collections:       Public Domain Images and Videos       Free Clip Art and Images       Commercial Clip Art and Images       Stock Photography Banks    Animation Software    Video Editing Miscellaneous Software:    Psychology-Related Freeware and Shareware    Freeware and Shareware Megasites    Other Social Science Software Saving Money:    Price Comparison Services    Discount Superstores    Product Reviews

Data Analysis

Statistical Packages: EViews JMP Lumenaut (Excel add-in software) Maple (all-purpose math software) Mathematica Minitab SAS Statistical Software SPSS (click here for technical support) Stata (from Stata Corportation) Statistica (from StatSoft) SYSTAT (from the makers of SPSS) UniStat (for Windows) XLSTAT (Microsoft Excel add-in tool) Online Statistical Calculations: Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations VassarStats: Web Site for Statistical Computation Calculators On-Line Center (extensive directory) Statistical Analysis Tools (for Windows, Mac, and Unix) Online F-Table (calculates significance of F ratio) Spreadsheets: Lotus 1-2-3 (commercial) Microsoft Excel (commercial) Database Management and Data Entry: FileMaker Pro (commercial) Microsoft Access (commercial) MySQL (open source) Oracle (commercial) SPSS Data Entry (commercial)

Web-Related Software and Tutorials

Web Browsers: Amaya (free integrated web editor/browser) Dillo (for devices with limited resources) Firefox (free open-source browser from Mozilla) Google Chrome (freeware from Google) Lynx (freeware that browses without displaying images) Internet Explorer (freeware from Microsoft) Mozilla (open source browser suite) Opera (shareware) Safari (for the Mac) Browser News (e-letter and portal on browsers) Web Page Editors: Dreamweaver HomeSite HotDog PageWiz (for beginners) HotDog Pro (for professionals) HTML Assistant Pro NetObjects Fusion Spider Writer HTML Editor Additional Web Page Editors (list from WebDeveloper.com) FTP Programs: CuteFTP Fetch (freeware for Macintosh) FTP Voyager SmartFTP (freeware for Windows) WS_FTP Pro Log Analysis: AccessWatch (freeware) AlterWind Log Analyzer (freeware and commercial version) Analog (freeware) http-analyze (free for personal use) LogAnalyzer (free web-based service) WebLog Expert (commercial software) LogScribe (freeware) MKStats (free for personal use) SuperStats (commercial service) Web Site Traffic Analyzer (commercial software) The Webalizer (freeware) Webtrends (commercial software) HTML and Link Checking: Alert LinkRunner software to check and repair hyperlinks) LinkScan (industrial-strength link checking) LinkChecker (open source freeware) SEVENtwentyfour (commercial link-checking service) Traffic Building Software: SubmitWolf (professional web site promotion) Web Site Traffic Builder (web marketing) WebPosition (monitors search engine position) iBusinessPromoter (web site promotion and search engine positioning) Free Resources: Online Tools: GifWorks (includes ButtonMaker online utility) GIFCruncher (compresses gif images up to 90%) Web Page Purifier (checks how clean your html code is) Backward Compatibility Viewer (see your pages without certain tags) HTML Validation Service (checks your html code for errors) WebSitePulse (tests several aspects of web site performance) Web Pagetest (web page analysis and tips for improvement) Web Page Analyzer (free web site performance tool) JavaScript Code: Free-Javascripts.com JavaScript Source JavaScript Kit JavaScript City Java-Scripts.net Tutorials and Reference Information: Web Page Design: Creating and Maintaining an Educational Web Site (SPN) Webopedia (online encyclopedia and search engine) Writing for the Web (Sun Microsystems guide) WebReference.com (web authoring tips and tutorials) Webmonkey (advanced web developer resources) Web Style Guide (2nd edition) HTML: HTML Goodies (some of the best tutorials on the web) Beginners' Guide to HTML HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners HTML Code Tutorial Writing HTML: A Tutorial HTML Quick Reference Guide Dynamic HTML: DHTML Lab Dynamic Drive DHTML Central DHTML and Layering Tutorials JavaScript: JavaScript Tutorials JavaScript Basics WebDeveloper.com JavaScript Tutorial Web Site Promotion: Promotion World Web Site Promotion Tutorial Add Me (free search engine submission) Submit Express (search engine placement and optimization)

Word Processing, Office Suites, and Publishing

Word Processing: AbiWord (freeware) IBM Word Pro Microsoft Office Word Office Suites: iWork (documents, spreadsheets, and presentations for Mac users) Microsoft Office (comes in several different versions) OpenOffice (open source freeware sponsored by Sun) StarOffice (see also the StarOffice User Portal) WordPerfect Office (word processing, spreadsheets, presentations) Desktop Publishing: Adobe Framemaker Adobe PageMaker Corel Ventura iWork (from Apple) QuarkXPress

Images, Animation, and Video

Freeware Media Players: DivX Player (from DivX, Inc.) QuickTime (from Apple) RealPlayer (from RealNetworks) UltraPlayer (from Ultra) VidLizard (from Kommont Technologies) Winamp (from Nullsoft) Windows Media Player (from Microsoft) Graphic Design Packages: All-Purpose Packages: Adobe Illustrator (for vector-based graphics) Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop Elements Broderbund Graphics Software Corel Painter (for digital sketching and painting) CorelDRAW (multiple versions and related software) Gimp (freeware for UNIX and X) Harvard Graphics LView Pro Adobe Freehand MX (print and web illustrations) Roxio Creator Ulead PhotoImpact Software Specifically for Web Graphics: Adobe Fireworks Screen Ruler Downloadable Fonts: MyFonts.com (roughly 40,000 searchable fonts) Fonts.com (more than 10,000 TrueType and PostScript fonts) 1001 Fonts (free membership site with thousands of fonts) TypeNow.net (offers more than 6,000 free fonts) GoldenWeb (Italian site with over 11,000 free TrueType fonts) The Font Bureau (has over 500 original fonts, can do custom work) ITC Fonts (has library of more than 1,500 fonts) Slides, Charts, and Presentations: PowerPoint (from Microsoft) SigmaPlot (for scientific graphing) SlideWrite Plus (scientific presentation graphics) Clip Art and Image Collections: Public Domain Images and Videos: Creative Commons (images, videos, and more) Wikimedia Commons (millions of free media files) Public Domain Image Resources (from Wikipedia) Burning Well (searchable image database) Incredible Clip Art & Images (Princeton Online) Public Domain Pictures (royalty-free stock photos) Public Domain Photos (thousands of free stock photos) Free Clip Art and Images: Clker.com (royalty-free public domain clip art) IconBAZAAR (directory and searchable database) MediaBuilder (3D clip art, backgrounds, and online tools) Free Clip Art Center (offers advanced search options) Clip Art Page (from Arizona State University) Clip Art Searcher (lists image search engines) Commercial Clip Art and Images: ClipArt.com (over 10 million downloadable images) iCLIPART.com (over 7.5 million royalty-free images) ClickArt (over 1 million royalty-free graphics and fonts) Illustration Works (database of stock art and stock illustrations) ArtBitz (royalty-free illustration and design stock) Stock Photography Banks: BigStockPhoto.com (searchable royalty-free stock photos) Can Stock Photo (inexpensive royalty-free images) Corbis (millions of searchable, cheap images) EyeWire (offers royalty-free visual and audio content) Fotosearch Stock Photography (royalty-free stock photos) Getty Images: PhotoDisc (expensive, but large database) Inmagine Stock Photography (searchable royalty-free images) iStockphoto (inexpensive royalty-free images) Stockxpert (royalty-free stock photos and online community) Animation Software: Anim8or (3D animation freeware) Adobe Flash (uses vector-based graphics) Trendy Flash (offers customizable Flash templates) Video Editing: Adobe Premiere (for digital video editing) Adobe After Effects (for film, video, multimedia, or the web) Apple iMovie (for Macintosh computers) Final Cut Pro (for Macintosh computers) Media 100 (for digital video editing) Roxio VideoWave (includes special effects) Vegas Pro (video, audio, and DVD creation) VideoStudio Pro (video editor with DVD authoring capabilities)

Miscellaneous Software

Psychology-Related Freeware and Shareware: LTSN Psychology (searchable database) Mind Tools (psychology shareware) PsyScope (Macintosh freeware for psychology experiments) Research Randomizer (for instant random sampling and assignment) Freeware and Shareware Megasites: Shareware.com (huge all-purpose shareware site) Jumbo! (another large all-purpose shareware site) ZDNet Downloads (includes ratings and software summaries) Other Social Science Software: Empirisoft (software and hardware for psychology experiments) KrackPlot (social network vizualization freeware) NVivo (software for qualitative analysis) Psychology Software, Inc. (cognition and perception lab software) Psychology Software Tools, Inc. (research and education software) Questionnaire Designer and Administrator (computerizes questionnaires) Sona Systems (web-based software for managing participant pools)

Saving Money

Price Comparison Services: CNET Shopper (compares more than a million prices) mySimon.com (compares products and prices from around the web) PriceGrabber.com (pop-up free price comparisons) Google Product Search (price comparisons and online shopping) PriceSCAN (price comparison and store locator services) Yahoo! Shopping (offers price comparisons and recommendations) Become: Shopping Your Way (price comparisons and product reviews) Discount Superstores: Buy.com (Internet superstore) Shop.com (thousands of products from hundreds of merchants) eBay (global marketplace selling millions of items each day) Amazon.com (superstore for books, software, hardware, and more) Tech Depot (offers educational discounts) Product Reviews: TrustedReviews (reviews and forums) Epinions (reviews and price comparisons) Geek.com (news, reviews, articles, and forums) TechReviewSource.com (reviews and information) TopTenREVIEWS (software, hardware, and web services)

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