Learning Curve

• Free Download Manager – absolutely free download accelerator and manager

  According to William Kennington, “Easy, download accelerator. Probably the best I’ve used.”

  tags: education, software, extensions, utilities, freeware, download, tools, firefox, downloadmanagers

• Apple – Education – Mobile Learning

  From Mr.Chase’s tweet:

  Students have been handed another excuse to skip class from an unusual quarter. New psychological research suggests that university students who download a podcast lecture achieve substantially higher exam results than those who attend the lecture in person.

  tags: education, iTunesU, apple, itunes

• OpenOffice.org – The Free and Open Productivity Suite

  OpenOffice.org: The Free, Open Source Office Suite. Very capable substitute for office. Slide Shows can be tricky though.

  tags: education, software, opensource, office, openoffice, freeware, tools, windows, linux

• Video DownloadHelper :: Firefox Add-ons

  Suggested by Mark Attilio, this Firefox add on will convert internet videos into physical files.

  tags: education, firefox, download, youtube, extension, tools, addon

• Home – The home of Spybot-S&D!

  Great Anti-Spyware Protection.

  tags: education, software, anti-spyware, security, spyware, spybot, computer, freeware, tools

• VLC media player – Overview

  VLC media player – the cross-platform media player and streaming server

  VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

  From Mark Atitilio via his brother Nick (Class of 2002)

  tags: education, software, media, player, opensource, freeware, windows

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