Academic Prizes:

 OpenSource or Freeware Apps:

  • OpenOffice - A full office software suite
  • GIMP - A photoshop-like package
  • Blender - A complete 3D modelling, rendering, and compositing software package
  • Unity3D - A complete game authoring package
  • Nitro PDF - A free program to edit and saved PDFs
  • BlueGriffon - A website editor
  • Python - Programming language
  • LightZone - Open source digital darkroom
  • FeynmanDiagrams - Drawing particle physics diagrams

3D Artwork Resources

Online Shopping:

Distributed Computing Projects

  • BOINC - A general program that includes many projects
  • Cochrane Crowd - The gold standard in evidence based medicine, with citizen science projects in all branches of medical research
  • VolunteerComputer.org - A general website collecting other projects
  • Distributed Particle Accelerator Design - Simulate new particle accelerator designs
  • Disk Detective - Help astronomers search for planet formation
  • GalaxyZoo - Classify the SDSS galaxy catalog
  • LHC@Home - Provide simulations for the Large Hadron Collider
  • Higgs Hunters - Search for signals at the LHC
  • Mersenne - Search for larger Mersenne prime numbers
  • Fold-It - Try to make better protein foldings
  • Kaggle - (Not a DCP) Competitions to improve machine learning algorithms.
  • Gridcoin - Get paid to do distributed computing
  • Monopole Quest - Search through LHC data for signs of a magnetic monopole or other exotic particles.
  • Distributed Electronic Cosmic Ray Observatory - Let astrophysicists use data from your cellphone or tablet to search for and analyse cosmic rays.
  • Zooniverse - A collections of hundreds of citizen science projects in all branches of research, from classifying animals to transcribing old documents, to studying gravitational waves and the properties of distant galaxies.

Programming:


 

Web Design & Programming:


  • Webify - commercial site for scripts and widgets
  • CreateJS - A set of Javascript libraries for making interacting websites.

Mindless Piffle:


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