EDAD660 (2008) » Open Source http://edapps2008.globalblogs.org Educational Applications of Technology for School Administrators: Summer 2008 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:05:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Browser Wars 2008 http://edapps2008.globalblogs.org/2008/09/01/browser-wars-2008/ http://edapps2008.globalblogs.org/2008/09/01/browser-wars-2008/#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:14:30 +0000 Craig http://edapps.connectspace.org/?p=202 Just last month we were talking about the ‘browser war’ between Microsoft and pretty much the rest of the world.  Well, the list of competitors just got a little bigger.  Hot off the press, here is a link to an article that talks about Google’s super-secret new browser named ‘ Chrome’.

The announcement was leaked today along with a 38 page comic book written by Scott McCloud that describes the changes that Chrome will bring to a person’s browsing experience.  If you’re interested in seeing the whole comic book you can follow this link.  I posted the first page since it summarizes nicely the main issues at hand and how Chrome is planning on addressing them.

]]> http://edapps2008.globalblogs.org/2008/09/01/browser-wars-2008/feed/ 0 Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software Packages http://edapps2008.globalblogs.org/2008/07/23/open-source-alternatives-to-popular-software-packages/ http://edapps2008.globalblogs.org/2008/07/23/open-source-alternatives-to-popular-software-packages/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:17:23 +0000 Craig http://edapps.connectspace.org/?p=62 Here’s a partial listing of open source software products that may be of benefit to teachers and administrators.  This list was obtained from Wikipedia and the links below will take you to the Wikipedia entry for each package.

If you’re interested in downloading a package you can follow one of the links below and look in the shaded box on the right side of the screen for an item labeled “Website” – follow this link and look for instructions on how to download the product.

  • Audacity – Audio editing and recording suite that can be used to produce podcasts, among other things.
  • Blender — A 3D modeling package similar to Maya
  • Debian – A Linux based “out of the box” operating system that comes complete with “free” tools such as Open Office
  • GIMP — Image Editing package that is similar to Adobe Photoshop
  • Inkscape — Vector (line-based) drawing tool similar to Adobe Illustrator
  • Mozilla Foundation
     – Produces a variety of packages, such as the Firefox web browser
  • OpenOffice.org — Alternative to Microsoft Word that contains a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, database and equation editor
  • Scribus — Desktop publishing similar to Adobe Pagemaker
  • Synfig — 2D vector (line based) graphic and animation package
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