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World Cinema Foundation: Watch Restored International Films Free

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Angel Brady

I recently came across this site that pro­vides rare inter­na­tional films that you can watch for free online. The World Cin­ema Foun­da­tion is a non-profit orga­ni­za­tion that is “ded­i­cated to pre­serv­ing and restor­ing neglected films from around the world – … Con­tinue read­ing →

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PBS and NPR Team Up To Offer Free Lectures Online

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Angel Brady

PBS and NPR have teamed up to launch a new ser­vice called Forum Net­work. Accord­ing to their site the “The Forum Net­work online library fea­tures thou­sands of lec­tures by some of the world’s fore­most schol­ars, authors, artists, sci­en­tists, pol­icy mak­ers … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Brief Review of Three Language Learning Communities Available On the Web

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Angel Brady

Very Brief Review of Three Lan­guage Learn­ing Com­mu­ni­ties Avail­able On the Web: Live­Mocha, Busuu, and Hello-Hello Live­mocha, Hello-Hello.com and Busuu.com have free accounts you can sign up for. Each gives you lessons with a vocab review, a writ­ing exer­cise, an … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The National Library of Ireland’s Online Exhibit of William Butler Yeats

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Angel Brady

The National Library of Ire­land has made an online ver­sion of their exhi­bi­tion that fea­tures works and the life of William But­ler Yeats. It has inter­ac­tive sec­tions and you walk through the rooms of the exhi­bi­tion through a web browser. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Free Online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Tool: Free OCR

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Angel Brady

OCR stands for (Opti­cal Char­ac­ter Recog­ni­tion). What OCR does is that it takes a doc­u­ment like a pdf or an image that has text in it and con­verts it into a form where you can edit the text. This tool … Con­tinue read­ing →

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