Freeware, it's on the house

For our tutorial in week 7 we are to download some freeware apps, use them, muse them and write a little about our experience with them.

I downloaded this program called Celestia from Sourceforge. Its wicked! Basically its an application for a real deal 3D visual representation of space. Its a detailed model of the solar system with over 100,000 stars, more than 10,000 galaxies, and an extension mechanism for adding more objects. I played on here for ages and found myself scrutinising the dense layers of our galaxy. You can rotate the axis of a planet or star or whatever you find if you drag and right click, but I only discovered this by rare incident.. I took a few screen shots while I snooped around space and this ended up becoming a pretty interesting and informative waste of my time. I recommend this free app if you get yourself into a sweat of boredom or even just this site - http://sourceforge.net/

Halley's Comet

The Milky Way

Kale - Jupiters moon

Mars.. nah just testing your eyes, its Earth, der

I also downloaded Portable Apps for my friend to use which is basically your computer without 'the' computer. I use a mac and I sware by mac so I didn't really see the point in downloading a Windows program if I am to never use it again in my life but my friend thought it would be interesting to try. So I went about and downloaded it for her and played around with the applications available. Basically you can take them anywhere with you - they're portable! Oh and I ended up playing Sudoku for about an hour, the little squares are so un-holy, my eyes feel warped!

Find your way to the PortableApps website and have a geezer if your not a baptised mac user like myself, it seems pretty helpful carrying your favourite computer programs on a portable hard drive, and its easy to download too, a quick click and your sold!

(All websites viewed on 9th September 2009)