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If you’re short on cash and need to get software so you can do your homework, Software for Starving Students is your hero. They collect the best free software out there on one disc and make it available to you for download.

• SoftwareFor.org: Home of Software for Starving Students

Here is their description of themselves:

“Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organized for students (but available to anyone). We’ve gathered a list of best-in-class programs onto one CD (one disc for OS X, one for Windows), including a fully-featured office suite, a cutting-edge web browser, multi-media packages, academic tools, utilities and more.”

Their download includes the following software:

• Windows XP Software: 7-Zip, Ant Renamer, Audacity, Blender, BZFlag, Celestia, ClamWin, DeepBurner Free, Dia, Enigma, Eraser, Exact Audio Copy, FileZilla, Firefox, Freeciv, Gaim, GIMPShop, GLtron, GNU Chess, Icebreaker, Inkscape, Juice Receiver, KeePass, MozBackup, NVU, OpenOffice.org, Paint.NET, PDFCreator, Portable Apps, POV-Ray, PuTTY, SolarWolf, Spybot S&D, Stellarium, SuperTux, The GIMP Toolkit, Thunderbird, Tortoise SVN, Tux Paint, Tux Racer, Tux Typing 2, VLC, WinDirStat, Wink, winLAME, WinSCP, XAMPP, and µTorrent.

• Apple OS X Software: Acqlite, Adium, Audacity, Bleezer, Blender, BZFlag, Camino, Carbon Copy Cloner, Cashbox, Celestia, ClamXav, Crack Attack!, Enigma, FreeDMG, Freemind, Fugu, Genius, GLtron, HandBrake, ImageBurner, Monolingual, MozoDojo, NeoOffice, NVU, Pac the Man X, Platypus, POV-Ray, Seashore, Schoolhouse, Smultron, Thunderbird, Transmission, TypeTrainer4Mac, VideoLAN Client

The most useful of these software elements is OpenOffice. I have used it regularly for a few months now and have thoroughly enjoyed it. It even works better than MS Office when dealing with inserting pictures into my documents. Best of all, it can save in MS Office formats so I don’t have to convert anything.

This software suite was created for students, so it has a lot of software that will be good for kids going to school, but you don’t have to be a student to download it. Anyone can download it now. They have just completed their newest release and they are ready for you to hit their site. If you are sick of shelling out the big bucks for Microsoft Office, then try Software for Starving Students!