Free Stuff Friday: FreeMind
In a nutshell: FreeMind is opensource software useful for brainstorming projects, taking notes, and organizing, well, almost anything. Useful for: Teachers Students Writers Nonprofit administrators Anyone who needs to organize stuff Why I Like It: I was skeptical about “mindmapping” software at first. What could this do for me and my writing that I couldn’t [...]
Free Stuff Friday: Scribus
In a nutshell: Scribus is an open-source alternative to Adobe’s InDesign which allows the user to design a page (or a book, brochure, etc.) in a format similar to Photoshop (or Gimp) but with a focus on multiple pages in one document. Useful for: Students Nonprofits Writers (who like to play around with book layouts [...]
Free Stuff Friday: NaNoWriMo Style
In honor of NaNoWriMo (only 10 more days left to finish your 50K novels!), I’m taking a look at writing programs this week. Now I don’t mean plain old Microsoft Word, I’m referring to other programs similar to Scrivener for Macs (which by the way, I am DYING to play with) but available to us [...]
Free Stuff Friday: Fun with Flash
Free Stuff Friday is back! (Cue the cheers!) For those of you who don’t know, I love websites. I love to create them, design them, and obsessively tweak them. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that I’ve been playing around with flash lately. I don’t know a lot about how to make [...]
A New Twist on “Free” Books
I’m not sure what to make of this yet. It’s simple – get a free book from your favorite author (in this case, Gregory Maguire) if you make a donation to a charity of your choice. This may not be a sustainable business model, but the nonprofit administrator in me thinks it’s brilliant. As giant [...]
Free Stuff Friday: Oh, The Audacity!
Audacity is probably one of my favorite open source projects. I could play with it for hours (not kidding!). In a nutshell: Audacity is a free audio editor and recorder that will work on a MAC, Windows, or a Linux-based PC. And according to their website, it’s even award-winning! Audacity was voted “Best Project for [...]
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