Well no not really, but this is a great alternative and its free. Its called Growly Notes and is made by Growly Bird Software – http://growlybird.com/GrowlyBird/Notes.html Growly Notes is an organisational note taking tool that allows you to create and organise your notes, containing text, images, web links, and video clips. You have the ability [...]
Here are a few more sites that have caught my interest this week. 1. Planet ebook – http://www.planetebook.com/ this is another e-book source with classic liturature avaialble for free. This is worth visiting and potentially saving on your text book budget. Also have a look at science books online – http://sciencebooksonline.info/ 2. National Science Foundation [...]
This is the first Adobe Air tool that has really caught my attention. It is graphic design motion based painting program. It allows you to select a wide range of brushes and the decorate your canvas. Livebrush Available as a free download or as a low cost pro version this is a neat tool. As [...]
http://www.scribus.net/ Scribus is one of the best FOSS (Free and open source software) products I have found. This is a powerful and flexible desktop publishing tools for Windows, mac and Linux operating systems. There blurb sums it up: “Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and [...]
If you liked Sketchup 6 (and I do) then you will like Sketchup 7. Its available in the same mode as the previous version. The Standard version is free to download and use but you pay for the Pro version. But to be fair the price is very good. http://sketchup.google.com/download/ There are some changes – [...]
Wikipedia is amazing. It is with out a doubt the first stop of most students as they research any topic. Its huge, its peer created and peer moderated. Its also online, and this can pose a problem. This vast body of knowledge can only be accessed via the internet, and for those with our reliable [...]
Here are two websites that I have come across that are really quite useful. Freesoftwaregenius – http://www.freewaregenius.com/ This site does reviews of free and open source software (FOSS). The reviews are good and detailed and there is a rich variety of tools reviewed. A good software source. Fontstruct – http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/ Their motto Build, Share, Download [...]
This is a good review of some very powerful FOSS applications. (FOSS Free and/or Open Source Software). the review appears in the Smashing applications Blog – http://www.smashingapps.com/2008/08/12/19-most-essential-open-source-applications-that-you-probably-want-to-know.html Some of the applications we already know like: WordPress – But there are some other that are very interseting including 2 project management tools. dotproject – Open Source [...]
Recently there have been a couple of articles about google resources for education. There are some powerful tools available and interesting opportunities coming from Google. 1. Google for educators – http://www.google.com/educators/index.html This is a neat portal to a wide range of google applications, opportunites and resources. Well worth a visit 2. Google document templates – [...]
I have been foraging around for audio tools and I have found 2 text to speech tools that are free. One is an installed tool and the second an online one http://www.naturalreaders.com/ This is a download for windows, this tool will allows you to convert any written text into speech, it also converts text to [...]
