Audcacity

is probably the leading sound-editing freeware on the internet. It lets you do everything - record, modify (wanna sound like Alivin and the Chipmunks?), and export to WAV, MP3, or OGG. I have used it for many things, including recording for making movies. Go to this website to download.

Credit Maker

In Windows Movie Maker, I found credits to be - let's face it - lame. If I wanted something like:

CASTING

John Johnson

Peter Peterson

CAST

Ed William Wonderous

Mary Anna Banana

you would have to have the "Casting" go from bottom to top, and then the "Cast." from bottom to top. With Credit Maker, you don't have to wait for one section to be finished for another one to begin. It exports to avi, and can be downloaded here.

Tourney Master

Tourney Master is an awesome program for creating tournaments. It includes Single and Double Elimination, Round Robin, and Pool Play formats. You can create brackets, fill them in, scedule games, etc, etc...

Pardon my bad spelling

ToonDoo

In a previous post I talked about Comiqs. Comiqs is photo-based. There's another online comic creator where you insert characters, backgrounds, and props instead of images:

ToonDoo

I like to make comics, but when it comes to drawing I'm horrible. ToonDoo has helped me make this comic right here:

Celestia

I found out about long before I started blogging, so I've had it for a while. Bassicly, it's a grand tuor of the universe. You can fly around in your spaceship to anywhere, at any speed possible. You can make time go fast and see the planets rotate, have time go as it is (the planets still rotate, but too slow to notice,) or pause time all together. My only critique on it is that it dosen't have nebulas, which in my opinion are the most beutiful things in the universe.

Click on the picture to download.

Here's a video I found on you-tube:

How the Market Works

Have fun, and buy and sell your own stocks. It's just like the real market, but you don't get or lose any real money. Good for learning economics: http://www.howthemarketworks.com/

Anim8or

Amimation - an esteemed modern art that was once only for trained proffesionals. But now, you don't need to develop your own software to animate good-looking animations; nor buy expesive programs like IClone. Now, with Anim8or, you can do it all for free.

The only problem is that it takes forever. Watch this movie:

The Seed That Turned

Anim8or.com