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Jan 23, 2014 - Free software for Mac, MS and Linux

Here are three free programs for your computer:

1. Libre Office -- for wordprocessing, presentations and spreadsheets: www.libreoffice.org

2. Scribus -- for page and poster layout: wiki.scribus.net

3. Gimp -- for image editing and manipulation: www.gimp.org

Dec 19, 2013 - CSS tricks

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the look and formatting of a web page. It is very powerful and can do more than just formating fonts and margins. Here's a nice page with lots of CSS tricks css-tricks.com.

There's also a very nice set of examples how to make shapes.

Dec 5, 2013 - Openclipart

If you ever need a source of free clipart for your website or newsletter, there's a great source of them at the openclipart.org website.

Openclipart may be used for any purpose, including unlimited commercial productions, as royalty-free clipart, for schools, churches, commercial and non-commercial reasons.

Nov 28, 2013 - Download YouTube videos

YouTube is a great resource for watching videos, but sometimes you want to download the video to watch when you're off-line. There are a few add-ons for FireFox that accomplishes this. Here's one called "1-Click" available at addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1-click-youtube-video-download.

Nov 21, 2013 - Ninite: One-stop Program Installer

One of the time-consuming tasks with computers is installing all your favourite programs and utilities after you've purchased a new computer. A handy webiste that makes this task easier is ninite.com. This website lets you select as many programs as you want, and with one click, it will download and install them all. The programs are categorized in a easy to use interface including Browsers, Messaging, Media, Compression, Documents, Security and more.

Install and Update All Your Programs at Once at ninite.com.

Nov 14, 2013 - Ogg: high quality digital multimedia

According to WikiPedia: Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The creators of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia. Ogg is also one of the audio/video formats that HTML 5 supports natively for embedding multimedia in web pages.

An easy to use conversion utility to ogg is ffmpeg2theora, available for free at v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora. Just using a simple command line interface (examples are provided on their website), you can convert any audio/video formats to ogg, and then simply add the HTML 5 video command to play the video. A sample of the embed code is available here.