Tag Archives: Tools

Lunch and Learn: John LeMasney on 365 Sketches

Posted on April 12, 2011 by ETC staff

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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