Fuse Creator

Want to create high-quality, interactive activities for your students, but don't have a degree in computer programming? Well, now you don't need one.
Fuse Creator will help you to create engaging interactive content, quickly and easily, which you can use over and over on your school or personal computers, websites and VLEs.

Game Maker

Do you want to develop computer games without spending countless hours learning how to become a programmer? Game Maker allows you to make exciting computer games, without the need to write a single line of code.
Using easy to learn drag-and-drop actions, you can create professional looking games within very little time. There is a built-in programming language, for more experienced users, which gives you the full flexibility of creating games with Game Maker. Game Maker is available free of charge. Making games with Game Maker is a lot of fun.

Jing

The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere.

A really good resource for developing online environments, this web application can be used to capture anything on your PC screen or record video and upload it to the web.

Splashup - Online Photo Editing

Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all 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 photosharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress.
Great for anyone who wants to edit images but doesn't have expensive image manipulation software on their PC - access to the Internet required!

Free Control Software - Crocodile ICT Player

The Crocodile ICT Player lets you create and modify sequences of flowchart instructions, which can control on-screen characters or animations.
Based on our programming and control software Crocodile ICT, you can use it either on a whiteboard, or on individual computers.
The best thing, though, is this: the Crocodile ICT Player is completely free, and once you've got it, it's yours to keep.
Simply register and then download it from here:
http://www.crocodile-clips.com/ict/

Scratch

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.

Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.
This downloadable web tool has huge educational potential and offers fun ways to also teach programming and control.

Run it on your memory stick, key drive or your IPod

An excellent Blog set up to provide links and information about portable software applications. Carry your email client software, web browser, ftp client, calender, file manager even your word processor and spreadsheet software around on any portable device: Memory stick, mp3 player. Some great ideas. Most of the software is open source and easy to install - it can run independently of the computer's registry files and operating system. Very convenient if you are moving information around from computer to computer; home to school; home to office; office to office. Brilliant! (The screen capture shows the email client software Portable Thunderbird 1.5.05 a small 5Mb install and you will be abele to take you email wherever you go!)