Free Software
- Audacity: Alternative to Cakewalk or Protools sound/music recording software
- Musescore: Create beautiful sheet music easily for free; Alternative to Sibelius, Finale
- LibreOffice: Alternative to Microsoft Office
- Gimp: Alternative to Adobe Photoshop
- InkScape: Vector drawing application
Alternative to Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw - WinSCP: FTP, SFTP and SCP client for everyday file transfers
- 7-Zip: Versatile compression program for various file formats; Alternative to WinZip
- InfraRecorder: Alternative to Nero Burning ROM
- Blender: Video Editing Software
Free Audiobooks
Go to: https://librivox.org and click “listen” and then search for a book. There are a lot of the classics available from authors like Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Jules Verne.
Free Digital Books
(Note: Holybooks.com has a lot of ancient texts and classics like Fjodor Dostojevskij’s – complete works and it’s all downloadable for free!)
Ancient Texts:
- Bhagavad Gita
- The Upanishads
- More Hindu Scriptures
- Siri Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh Scriptures)
- Tipitaka: The Pali Canon (Buddhism)
- Platform Sutra
- Noble 8 Fold Path
- More Buddhist Scriptures
- The Talmud
- The Zohar (Kabbalah)
- Quran
- King James Bible
- The Book of Enoch
- The Book of Judith
- Book of Mormon
- New World Translation of Holy Scriptures
- Tao Te Ching
- Dhammapada
- I Ching
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead
- Book of Jasher
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
- Gospel of Thomas
- Gospel of Philip
- Gospel of Mary Magdalene
- Kularnava-Tantra
Writings of Jiddu Krishnamurti:
- The Book of Life
- Freedom From The Known
- The Awakening of Intelligence
- The Urgency of Change
- Choiceless Awareness
- The Future is Now
- Network of Thought
- The Impossible Question
- You Are the World
- At Los Alamos 1984
- On Education
- Think on These Things
- Flight of the Eagle
- Life Ahead
- Inward Flowering
- The Way of Intelligence
- On Love
- Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Notebook
Writings of U.G. Krishnamurti
Writings of Jacque Fresco
Writings of Nikola Tesla
Writings of Carl Jung
Other Books & Recommended Links
- The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
- Swami Vivekananda on Vedanta Philosophy
- The Republic of Plato
- Buddhist Quotes
- The End of All Evil by Jeremey Locke
- How I Found Freedom in An Unfree World by Harry Browne
- Veil of Reality
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- Emoto Peace Project
- Jean Baudrillard Simulacra and Simulations
- A Beginners View of Our Electric Universe by Tom Findlay
- A Lost Light by Alvin Boyd Kuhn
- The Light Of Egypt Or The Science Of The Soul And The Stars-volume I By Thomas H. Burgoyne
- The Light Of Egypt Or The Science Of The Soul And The Stars-volume II By Thomas H. Burgoyne
- The Aquarian Conspiracy by Marilyn Ferguson