Tag Archives: Tools

Lunch and Learn: John LeMasney on 365 Sketches

Posted on April 12, 2011 by John LeMasney

365 Sketches is a project in which I use free and open source soft­ware to do a sin­gle visual design every day. The project is cur­rently in its sec­ond year of pro­duc­tion, and was started as a way to force … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Al Jazeera Creates Twitter Dashboard That Illustrates Middle East Revolutions

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Angel Brady

Al Jazeera recently cre­ated a Twit­ter Dash­board that illus­trates what coun­try peo­ple are tweet­ing from and what they are tweet­ing. It is a great graphic visu­al­iza­tion tool of the real-time rev­o­lu­tions hap­pen­ing in the Mid­dle East. This is a great … Con­tinue read­ing →

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iSquint

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Angel Brady

iSquint is a free iPod video con­ver­sion app for Mac OS X. Drag your file(s) into the iSquint win­dow and click Start. You can choose “TV” or “iPod” size, set the qual­ity, crop, set the audio/video bitrate and fram­er­ate.  For … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Handbrake

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Angel Brady

Hand­brake is an open-source mul­ti­threaded video transcoder avail­able for Mac, Win­dows and Linux. It enables you to pull from any DVD-like source: Video_TS folder, DVD Image or real DVD and some .VOB and .TS files. Out­put for­mats are MP4 and … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Multilingual Zotero (In Test Phase)

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Angel Brady

Zotero announced today that they will be releas­ing Mul­ti­lin­gual Zotero. This soft­ware will allow schol­ars that work­ing in mul­ti­ple lan­guages to cor­rectly for­mat mul­ti­lin­gual data. It also deletes dupli­cates. To learn more or to down­load the Mul­ti­lin­gual Zotero, click on … Con­tinue read­ing →

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