Tools for Activists

Free or inexpensive campaign tools. Right now, links to essential free software.

NeoOffice

Open Source office applications (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, database) for Mac OS X. Not everyone owns Microsoft Office; this is a great alternative and can read and write MS Office files.

OpenOffice

Open Source office applications (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, database) for Windows and Linux. Not everyone owns Microsoft Office; this is a great alternative and can read and write MS Office files.

Adium

Chat software for Mac OS. Works with Yahoo, AOL, Google and Facebook. If you've friended other Dems in Facebook, this can help you reach them.

Pidgin

Chat software for Windows. Works with Yahoo, AOL, Google and Facebook. (Needs a plug-in for Facebook). If you've friended other Dems in Facebook, this can help you reach them.

Pidgin Facebook plug-in

This plug-in for Pidgin allows you to chat with Facebook users without having your browser on the Facebook page.

Gimp

GIMP is an image editing program that supports advanced features like layers, paths and plug-ins to simplify effects like transforming to a water paint or cartoon, adding drop shadows, or creating animated GIFs. If you just want to resize and crop and image, this is overkill. This can edit Photoshop files.

IrfanView

IrfanView is a small and easy Windows program for viewing, resizing and cropping images.

Inkscape

Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

PDM supports aPebble.com

We've set up new support tools to help people use aPebble.com on Deval Patrick's campaign. Check out our first video.