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 it [...]
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 Windows desktops with [...]
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 fonts. This is a [...]
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 Project and Task Management [...]
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 – http://docs.google.com/templates?category=7&sort=hottest&pli=1
This is a [...]
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 MP3. They [...]
http://www.fullbooks.com/
How cool – this site allows you to access full versions of many many books. This site publishes the texts within the page rather than the Gutenberg projects download. You have to scroll down past the advertising at the top but after that is the text.
between this site and the Gutenberg project, we have [...]
http://www.vicman.net/download.php?Title=Cartoonist
This is a fun tool that allows you to morph and transform images. Its a freebie, download it and install.
Then the fun begins, stretch and drag the peoples faces, add horns, reshape eye and the save your product. Great fun, simple and easy to use. Great for use with comic development or generator tools.
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