Category Archives: Free Apps
The Best of Both Worlds– Web Apps with Desktop Clients
The recent explosion of great tools that simply run in a web browser has been amazing. From tools like Google Docs, Evernote, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Prezi, and Rememberthemilk and the venerable Gmail– you can access powerful tools for free wherever … Continue reading
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Tagged Apps, Evernote, facebook, Flickr, gmail, google, Google Docs, Linux, mac, Remember the Milk, twitter, Web browser, windows
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GRUML: Google Reader on your Desktop
Image by Sue Waters via Flickr As you may have gathered from my defense of desktop email clients, I prefer desktop apps to webapps any day of the week. Even if the app is powered by a web data service … Continue reading
Posted in Free Apps, TeacherHax, Web 2.0
Tagged Aggregator, Application software, Clients, Feed Readers, gmail, google, GoogleReader, rss, Web feed, WWW
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Thunderbird Don't Die!: The Case for Desktop Email Client Software
Image by adria.richards via Flickr As the blogosphere debates the death of the desktop email client, I am anxiously awaiting the stable release of Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0. Like devotees of Apple Mail.app or Microsoft Outlook, I have come to depend … Continue reading
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Tagged Clients, Email client, google, Google Docs, Mail, Microsoft, Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird
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Replace Your Firefox Plugins with Mozilla Ubiquity
Image by flod via Flickr Everybody loves Firefox. Even with all the other fast, standards-compliant modern browsers out there (like Chrome, Safari, and Opera– sorry IE!) Firefox stands alone for its rich variety of extensions. If you’re using Firefox, you … Continue reading
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Tagged Add-on, Aza Raskin, Digg, ed, education, firefox, lifehacks, Mozilla Foundation, quicksilver, StumbleUpon, technology, twitter, Ubiquity
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Your computer has that "not so fresh" feeling? Get AppFresh or TechTracker to update all your apps!
AppFresh is a great app for the Mac which scans through your whole computer, checking to see if all of your apps are up to date. It checks them against the iUseThis database to let you know how many other … Continue reading
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Tagged AppFresh, Apple, free apps, Freeware, Mac OS, Macintosh, Macworld, Microsoft Windows, open source, Shareware
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iPhone-style phone number hyperlinks in Firefox [Mac, Win, Linux]
One thing that grabs people’s attention when they get an iPhone is that phone numbers on websites automatically become hyperlinks. Click on a number, and the iPhone asks you if you want to call that number. Firefox on your computer … Continue reading
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Tagged Application software, firefox, iphone, Jajah, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mozilla Firefox, Skype, Voice over Internet Protocol, website
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Opera Unite: A Web/Chat/FileSharing/etc. server IN YOUR BROWSER!
Image by Glztt via Flickr Opera Unite is an amazing service that allows you to run a web server right out of your own browser! What does that mean? It means that you can share photos, music, and files without … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Free Apps, TeacherHax, Web 2.0
Tagged Clients, Opera, OperaUnite, Server, Uniform Resource Locator, Uploading and downloading, Web browser, Web server
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Bridge the Screen Divide: YuuGuu, Jaadu, and Chicken of the VNC
Image via Wikipedia Has this ever happened to you? <<<<<<<RING! RING!>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Me: Hello? Dad: Hi Ted. There’s a problem with the computer. All my programs disappeared. Me: What do you mean they disappeared? Dad: I don’t know– they’re just gone. … Continue reading
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Tagged Browsers, firefox, Linux, open source, Skype, Virtual Network Computing
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Free Themed Fonts at TypeNow.net
http://typenow.net/themed.htm Image via Wikipedia THis is a great place for fonts that look like well known movie/band/ and video game fonts.
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Tagged Design, Font, Foundries, free, Graphics, Individual Designers, Repositories, Video game
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Google Picasa- A Lovable Alternative to iPhoto
Image via CrunchBase I really like a lot of things about Apple‘s iPhoto– it makes it easy to rip, organize, and upload your pictures. However, I HATE how it tries to keep me from knowing where my photo files are, … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Flickr, google, IPhoto, iweb, MobileMe, open source, Picasa, Windows XP
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