I am, as any of my students will be able to tell you, a huge fan of WordPress: it is stable, sophisticated, powerful and flexible, all whilst being very simple to use. Last year I rebuilt our school website using WP, and this year I …
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Tag: opensource
WordPress Multisite
A Gibbon Is Born
Over the past few months I have been working to create a new open source project: Gibbon. At the risk of neglecting this blog and other projects, I have been putting in many, many hours to create a system which allows schools to better …
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Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is an online repository of books that are out of copyright, and thus freely available for anyone to use. With over 30,000 books currently available, this site provides a great source for gratis reading material. However, more important than this, it provides …
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Scrolllooper
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/162030/
Scrolllooper is a Firefox Addon that I created to allow automatic page scrolling in an infinite loop. This addon was designed to allow a web page to be displayed in public on a large screen. The aim of the addon is simply to automatically …
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Firefox Addons for Web Designers & Developers
Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source web browser which aims to provide a simple, light and fast way to browse the web. It is one of the main driving forces in the web today, and the competition it provides is one of the reasons …
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WordPress
http://www.wordpress.org
Originally designed as a blogging platform, WordPress has evolved into a fantastic system for publishing all manner of content. Whilst it is not quite as flexible as Drupal, it is far easier to use, and has a great variety of high quality themes, …
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Jamendo: Free, Legal Music
Jamendo is a fantastic source for music that students can legally use in their own creative works. Shared under Creative Commons licenses, the site offers a whole range of sounds, much of which is very professional in its composition, performance and production.…
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Miro
http://getmiro.com/
Free; open source internet tv and video player.…
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Thunderbird
http://mozilla.com/thunderbird/
Thunderbird is an email client available for Windows, Linux and Mac. Built by Mozilla, it provides a clean, easy-to-use system for managing email on the desktop. With advanced spam filtering and search, as well as the ability to add in calendering (which can be …
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OpenOffice
http://openoffice.org/
Can’t afford a license for Microsoft Office? Open Office provides a free (open source) solution that is completely compatible with Microsofts formats for spreadsheets (xls, xlsx), documents (doc, docx) and presentations (.ppt, .pptx).…
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