At SPN Software Central, you'll find links to software, free clip art collections, tutorials on web site design, and more. 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    Web Image Mapping Programs    FTP Programs    Digital Web Page Counters    Log Analysis    HTML and Link Checking    Traffic Building Software    Free Resources:       Online Tools       CGI Scripts       JavaScripts    Tutorials and Reference Information:       Web Page Design       HTML       Web Color       Web Site Promotion       Advanced Topics:          Dynamic HTML          JavaScript          Java          CGI and Perl 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:       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    Anti-SPAM Software and Services (to filter junk email)    Other Social Science Software Saving Money:    Price Comparison Services    Discount Superstores    Product Reviews

Data Analysis

Statistical Packages: AssiStat (80 formulas useful in psychological research) 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 browser from Mozilla) Lynx (freeware that browses without displaying images) Internet Explorer (freeware from Microsoft) Mozilla (open source browser suite) Netscape (freeware) Opera (shareware) Safari (for the Mac) Browser News (e-letter and portal on browsers) Web Page Editors: Adobe GoLive Corel XMetal (for creating and editing XML applications) Dreamweaver HomeSite HotDog PageWiz (for beginners) HotDog Pro (for professionals) HTML Assistant Pro Microsoft FrontPage NetObjects Fusion Spider Writer Additional Web Page Editors (list from WebDeveloper.com) Web Image Mapping Programs: CoffeeCup Image Mapper HTML ImageMapper Mapedit Web Hotspots FTP Programs: CuteFTP Fetch (freeware for Macintosh) FTP Control FTP Voyager SmartFTP (freeware for Windows) WS_FTP Pro Digital Web Page Counters: Create a Free Web Counter (hundreds of styles) Download a Free HTML Hit Counter (web service) Digits.com (free and pay-for-use web services) Digit Mania (digits for counters and clocks) Log Analysis: AccessWatch Analog (freeware) HitBox Professional (commercial service) http-analyze (free for personal use) LogAnalyzer (free web-based service) LiveStats (commercial software) LogScribe (freeware) MKStats (free for personal use) SuperStats (commercial service) Web Site Traffic Analyzer (commercial software) The Webalizer (freeware) WebTrends Log Analyzer (commercial software) HTML and Link Checking: Alert LinkRunner software to check and repair hyperlinks) Bobby (software for testing web site accessibility) LinkScan (industrial-strength link checking) LinkChecker (open source freeware) SEVENtwentyfour (commercial link-checking service) Traffic Building Software: SubmitWolf (for professional web site promotion) Web Site Traffic Builder (for web site marketing) WebPosition (for monitoring your search engine position) IBP (for 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) Color Picker (interactive site that allows you to vary colors) HTML Validation Service (checks your html code for errors) Online Hexadecimal Converter (calculates hex codes from decimals) Watchfire WebXACT (tests web pages for quality and accessibility) Who Built It? (find out who built a particular web site) CGI Scripts: HotScripts.com (over 25,000 resources in 1,000 categories) CGI Resource Index (over 4,000 resources in 350 categories) Matt's Script Archive (megasite with programs and scripts) The Perl Archive (claims to be largest Perl resource on the web) Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (scripts, modules, and more) Extropia (offers open source code and free use of CGI scripts) JavaScripts: Free-Javascripts.com JavaScript Source JavaScript Kit JavaScript City Java-Scripts.net Tutorials and Reference Information: Web Page Design: Tips on Creating and Maintaining an Educational Web Site Builder.com (megasite for web page designers) Webopedia (online encyclopedia and search engine) Sun Guide to Web Style WebReference.com (web authoring tips and tutorials) Webmonkey (megasite mainly for advanced web developers) 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 Web Color: Which Color Palette? (explanation of web-safe colors) The Web-Safe Color Dilemma (informative article) Non-Dithering Colors (table of 216 web-safe colors and hex codes) Web Site Promotion: Promotion World Web Site Promotion Tutorial Add Me (free search engine submission) Submit Express (search engine placement and optimization) Advanced Topics: Dynamic HTML: DHTML Lab Dynamic Drive DHTML Central DHTML and Layering Tutorials JavaScript: JavaScript Tutorials JavaScript Basics WebDeveloper.com JavaScript Tutorial Java: Java Technology Home Page (from Sun) JavaWorld (online magazine) Java Boutique (archive of Java applets) The Java Tutorial (from Sun) CGI and Perl: CGI Tutorials Perl.com The Perl Directory The Perl Foundation

Word Processing, Office Suites, and Publishing

Word Processing: AbiWord (freeware) IBM Word Pro Microsoft Office Word WordPerfect Office Office Suites: AppleWorks (popular program for the Mac) Microsoft Office (comes in several different versions) OpenOffice (open source freeware sponsored by Sun) StarOffice (see also the StarOffice User Group) WordPerfect Office 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 PhotoDeluxe (for photo-editing) Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop Elements Broderbund Graphics Software Corel Paint Shop Pro Corel Painter (for digital sketching and painting) CorelDRAW (multiple versions and related software) Gimp (freeware for UNIX and X) Harvard Graphics LView Pro Macromedia Freehand MX (print and web illustrations) PhotoSuite Ulead PhotoImpact Software Specifically for Web Graphics: Macromedia 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 SigmaPlot (for scientific graphing) SlideWrite Plus (scientific presentation graphics) Clip Art and Image Collections: Free Clip Art and Images: Clip Art Page Free Clip Art Center IconBAZAAR Clip Art Searcher Media Builder Image Libraries Commercial Clip Art and Images: ClipArt.com (more than 6,000,000 downloadable images) ClickArt 250,000 (more than 250,000 images) Illustration Works (database of stock art and stock illustrations) ArtBitz (royalty-free illustration and design stock) Stock Photography Banks: 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) iStockphoto (inexpensive royalty-free images) Inmagine Stock Photography (searchable royalty-free images) LifeStockPhotos.com (searchable royalty-free stock photos) Animation Software: Anim8or (3D animation freeware) Macromedia Flash (uses vector-based graphics) Trendy Flash (offers customizable Flash templates) Ulead Gif Animator (for web and PowerPoint animation) 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 Movie Studio (for entry-level video editing) Ulead VideoStudio (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) Anti-SPAM Software and Services (to filter junk email): Brightmail Anti-Spam (commercial software) CA Anti-Spam (commercial software for Microsoft Outlook) ChoiceMail One (commercial software) Lyris MailShield (commercial software) Mailshell (commercial anti-spam service and software) MailWasher (freeware) Sentinare (commercial service) Spam Reader (commercial software for Microsoft Outloook) SpamAssassin (open source freeware) SpamButcher (commercial software) SpamCop (commercial software) SpamCure (commercial software) SpamEater (freeware) SpamKiller (commercial software from McAfee) Spamnix (commercial software) SpamRepellent (commercial service) SpamWeasel (freeware) SpamWeed (commercial software) Websense (commercial web and email filtering software) 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 (offer price comparisons and recommendations) 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) XYZ Computing (reviews, articles, and forums) Windows A to Z! (everything from computers to gadgets) TopTenREVIEWS (software, hardware, and web services)

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