The Free Software Foundation is a solid place to check for legally free software.  The free software movement aims to provide these tools to help each other learn and benefit.  The programs in this list are free to use, study, share and modify.  You’re bound to find something useful on this list!

Wordassociation.org could be a sweet site to bookmark. The “play” tab gives you a word and asks you to provide the quickest answer you can. If you’d like to kickstart a little bit of creativity and see stats on how people respond to word prompts, it’s a solid visit. You can copy and paste your word list into any document you’ve got set up. There are nice stats there as well.