Productivity Tools (View 2)
Includes various free tools for Designers/Freelancers/Small business owners - especially for communication, engineering and web design etc. A lot of these are useful for current Penn State or recent graduates, but truly free alternates can be found in many cases if needed! Also, a University near you would have similar options. Ask around!
1. Artistic
1.1. Sketching
1.1.1. Sketchpad.io
1.1.2. Pixlr
1.2. Animations
1.2.1. Exquisite Forest
1.2.2. Crowd Contributed
1.3. Design Tools
1.4. IDEO
2. Analytical
2.1. Design & Modeling
2.1.1. Autodesk (full suite) Free 3 years -Student/Mentor/Faculty
2.1.2. Qubism (Mobile 3D App)
2.1.3. Blender 3D Modeling
2.1.4. Google Sketchup Make
2.2. Computing
2.2.1. PSU Libraries
2.2.2. Lynda.com (psu)
2.2.3. Institute of Cyber Science
3. Idea Visualization
3.1. Planning/Idea stage
3.1.1. Mindmeister (free/$upgrades)
3.1.2. Cmap tools (free)
3.2. Voice Notes/Memos
3.2.1. Transcribe App
3.2.2. Phone - Record Calls Button* (* with permission)
3.2.3. Evernote/Onenote
4. Research
4.1. Data analysis with local university/colleges
4.1.1. Penn State Libraries
4.1.2. Schlow library
4.2. Scientific Databases
4.3. Writing
4.3.1. Scrivener
4.3.2. Scrhiffon
4.3.3. Hemingway App
5. Collaboration
5.1. Conferencing
5.2. Email Scheduling/ Response Reminders
5.2.1. Boomerang (scheduler)
5.2.2. Dropbox's Inbox
5.2.3. Google's Inbox
5.3. Cloud Storage
5.3.1. Google Drive (15 GB)
5.3.2. Onedrive (5 GB)
5.3.3. Dropbox (2 GB)
5.3.4. Box (15 GB)
5.3.4.1. PSU NPA UNLIMITED Terabytes
6. Business Aspects
6.1. Other Recurring Tasks (Suggestions needed/)
6.2. Expenses (Wave)
6.2.1. Wave (free) expense receipts
6.2.2. Shoeboxed ($)
6.2.3. Evernote
6.3. Legal
6.3.1. PSU Legal Clinic
6.3.2. Nari Soundarrajan CC BY 4.0