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PocketMod Organiser
A printable Personal organiser with eight pocket-size pages that you makeyourself using the templates and print off. Incredibly easy to use and handy for anyone who likes using bits of paper to plan their day.

Google Website Translator
Google has a free online website translator that can give you an idea of what the page you are looking at is about. It covers languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Dutch and Russian and Arabic. It translates to and from all the languages on the list.

Podcasting How-To
This page tells you what a podcast is, where to listen to them, and how to make one of your own and broadcast it. Includes the links to useful free software that will help you receive or create podcasts.

Growing Plants - Interactive Encyclopaedia Software
This is a fully interactive and easy-to-use plant database software with information on growing over 20,000 plants plus 15,000 stunning plant pictures. A great resource for gardeners, professionals & students, you can manage your own plant list and keep records on your methods and success.

ThinkFree Online Office Software
ThinkFree is a free alternative to using Microsoft Office. You can create, edit, share and access files from anywhere over the Web. It's all Microsoft Office compatible and has an easy, intuitive interface. You get 1GB free storage too, so its in effect a virtual office.

Ethical Internet - Websites for Small Green Organisations
We provide affordable, effective, easy to use web sites for businesses and self employed people with a green or ethical slant, charities, campaign groups, and not for profit organisations. That way, any small ethical organisation can run an up-to-date, inclusive and professional website.

Bauble Botanical Collection Management
Bauble is a software application to help you (yes you) manage a collection of botanical specimens. It is intended to be used by botanic gardens, herbaria, arboreta, etc. to manage their collection information. It is a open, free, cross-platform alternative to BG-Base and similiar software.

Best Free Software
This is a cherry-picked collection of the best free software substitutes for all the usual suspects, such as MS Office programs, media players, graphics programs and so on. It really is worth using these - it saves you money and its all of very high quality and reliability.

BG-BASE
BG-BASE is a powerful, well proven database application for managing records of collections of biological material. In wide use by botanic gardens, arboreta, and herbaria, BG-BASE facilitates basic inventory control, and enables users to fully document, label and curate their collections.

Skype
Skype is a small piece of software that, used in conjunction with a telephone headset or mike and earphones, enables you to make free phone calls over the net to anyone esle who also has it installed. Skype is available in 27 languages and is used in almost every country around the world.

Google Earth
Want to know more about a specific location, anywhere on earth? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. This is one the most amazing things you can do on the internet so far...

Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Biodiversity and biodiversity information are essential to a sustainable future for society. GBIF is making recorded knowledge about biodiversity available to everyone using the Internet. Anyone with records of biodiversity can send data into GBIF to help build an online image of life on earth.

Contribute to the World's Biggest Climate Change Experiment
We need the computer power you're not using. Join in the largest climate prediction experiment ever, developed by climate scientists for the BBC using the Met Office climate model. (A PC-only project)

BGCI in Loband
Loband allows you to view our site even if you have very slow and/or intermittent internet access. It strips out all the graphics and unnecessary information to give you the smallest possible version of the site without losing any real content.

The Open CD
A collection of free, high-quality software, largely compatible with MS Office and other standard software but completely free. Excellent for anyone wanting alternatives to Microsoft either due to limited budgets or on principle. Designed to appeal to computer users in developing countries.