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GIMP Resources
GIMP is an open source alternative to image editors like Photoshop and Fireworks. GIMP began originally as a Linux photo editor, but due to its powerful abilities and relative ease of use, it was quickly ported to more popular platforms like Windows and MacOS...
Mapping Apps
Make a Map is a website that lets you create your own maps of the US and areas thereof using various demographics data. It’s still in beta stage but it’s got all of the US and so far has datasets for median household income, population change 2000-9, populatio...
Is There Such a Thing as Free Software? The Pros and Cons of Open-Source Software
A helpful overview of Open Source Software is available in Educuase Quarterly.Today’s higher education environment is marked by heightened accountability and decreased budgets. In such an environment, no higher education institution can afford to ignore altern...
Timeline Generators
Please add comments if you are familiar with any of these timeline creation tools. Tiki-Toki: Online Timeline Creation Tool Timeline Creation Tool by Casey Miles | Posted March 31st, 2014 and http://www.tiki-toki.com/ The Thinking Behind WNYC’s Vertical Timel...
Free Digital Textbooks
The Price is Right: 11 Excellent Sites for Free Digital Textbooks – Campus Technology 8/14/13Please add other sources, or related initiatives, as you discover them. Thanks
Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Aren’t Certain
Introduction to a spreadsheet for when things aren’t certain Guesstimate Website
Content Management Systems
Content Management Systems (CMS) are web programs that make it easier to add and update content on web sites. Instead of learning HTML, FTP and web server commands, once a CMS is set up and a template “look” is defined, others can usually add material very eas...
Useful OSS Security Tools
1 – Alienvault – Open Source Security Information Management system – good review in the latest (March 2010) Linux journalFrom the web site: The OSSIM platform consists of a Management Server, and Sensor or “Probe”. A professional version that includes SEM fun...
MATLAB opensource alternatives
This Slashdot article describes the release of version 3.0 of Octave. Afterwards there are some links from the article and a quick search of Octave versus Matlab.“GNU Octave is a free numerical computing environment highly compatible with the MATLAB language. ...