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FILE MANAGERS

Kristy Bellas — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:37:43 +0000

Free online file managers

11 Notecentric: Using Notecentric, you can not only organise your notes online, but also share them with your classmates.

10 Box.net is online file storage. You can create shared folders to collaborate with colleagues. The first 1GB is free.

9 DropSend enables you to send large files up to 1GB. You can also back up all your files online and share and collaborate with colleagues.

7 Flowchart: Create charts to organise your thoughts or notes. You can collaborate with your colleagues, chat and design a flowchart at the same time.

6 Bubbl.us: Is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

5 openomy is an online file system. You can store files on Openomy and access them from any computer. Openomy organises files and users via tags (as opposed to folders). Store files up to 1GB.

4 ThinkFold: Create outlines that can be shared and collaborated in real time using ThinkFold.

3 Google Notebook: Add clips, organize your notes, and even access your notes from your mobile phone with Google Notebook.

2 Google Docs and Spreadsheets: Keep all of your documents online, and even collaborate with peers using this tool from Google.

1 Backpack allows you to create pages to keep all your stuff like images, ideas, notes, lists, calendars, to-dos and files online. It also enables you to set email and mobile reminders. You can keep these pages to yourself or you can share them. It has the potential to be utilised as a basic intranet.

The KDE Education Project Tour

Kristy Bellas — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:12:27 +0000

The KDE education project is a collection of free educational software.

Students, parents, children and teachers, can freely use KDE software, copy it, modify it to their needs and enjoy learning!

Tux Paint

Kristy Bellas — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:15:30 +0000

Tux Paint is free, open source drawing program designed for primary students.

Social bookmarking

Kristy Bellas — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:31:04 +0000

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organise, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet.

The advantages of using social bookmarking are:

All your bookmarks are in one place regardless of you loction or the computer you are using.

Share your bookmarks with a group of colleagues and see their bookmarks. Promote your websites and blogs.

Listed below are a few social bookmarking sites.

Free Language Courses

Kristy Bellas — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:30:28 +0000

Mango is designed to equip you with conversational abilities from the very start. Whether you’re learning how to order a pizza or ask when the game starts, Mango immerses you in real, everyday conversations in 12 different language courses. Native speakers and a friendly instructor guide you through a unique experience for refining the art of foreign conversation.

If you can’t be a good example . . . then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning

Emailing photos and uploading photos to blogs.

Kristy Bellas — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:15:17 +0000

I found a great application called shrinkpic that automatically shrink photos to attach to emails or upload to your blog. Once installed on your computer you never have to do anything! It works automatically and silently in the background.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

Software For Starving Students

Kristy Bellas — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:13:58 +0000

When you go into court you are putting yourself in the hands of 12 people that weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organised for students (but available to anyone. The cd can be downloaded at http://softwarefor.org/