The iPad for Academics at Inside Higher Ed.

Posted by Celia Walter | 26 Jul, 2010

Alex Golub, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, shares his views on The iPad for Academics at Inside Higher Ed.

“Teachers and students have always been an important market for Apple — a fact made clear by the tremendous amount of spit and polish that went into the new education website the company recently unveiled. But honestly: What do Apple’s slickly produced promo videos of adorable multicultural elementary schoolers have to do with us? And just how relevant is their newly-released iPad for what we do? Do academics really need to shell out five hundred bucks for what is essentially a big iPod touch?”

via American Libraries Direct

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GIMP 2.6.6 for MAC OS

Posted by Celia Walter | 29 Mar, 2009
GIMP 2.6.6

http://www.gimp.org/

As it may be time to get out the digital family photo album, it's nice to have a bit of help along the way. That's where the GIMP program can be of assistance. GIMP stands for GMU Image Manipulation Program and it performs as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, and a mass production image renderer. The program also includes a full suite of advanced painting tools and it has compatibility with a wide range of file formats. This version is compatible with computers running Mac OS X 10.5.6 and newer. [KMG] From Scout Report

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100 Free Useful Applications for Mac. Part 1.

Posted by Celia Walter | 14 Mar, 2009

This is the first of a two-part series of posts at Hongkiat.com covering 100 Free Useful Applications for Mac. The article categorizes the applications into the following sections:

  • Productivity
  • Tools and Utilities
  • Readers
  • System
  • Chat Clients

Coming up in Part II next week:

  • Internet & Network Utilities
  • Audio and Video
  • Imaging
  • More tools

From iLibrarian blog

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MacWorld: Tricks and Tips

Posted by Celia Walter | 18 Nov, 2008
http://www.macworld.com/howto.html

Who doesn't want to know about important new tricks and tips for their Mac? For those who would like to know about such useful information, this site offered by MacWorld is a real find. First-time visitors can check out the top row along the homepage to check out the latest tips, and then they can navigate down a bit to the "Most Recent" and "Most Popular" tips areas. Visitors looking for specific types of tips can use the category headings to look for help with video, audio, graphics, web publishing, and programming. That's not all, as users can also take advantage of timely tips for iPods (and related accessories), digital cameras, scanners, and printers. [KMG] Scout Report

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100+ Free Applications for Mac OS X

Posted by Celia Walter | 16 Nov, 2008

UsingMac.com puts together a mega-list of over 100 Free Applications for Mac OS X. Each annotated entry in this guide has been categorized into the following application types:

  • Productivity Tool
  • System
  • Tools and Utilities
  • File Management
  • Application Launcher
  • Social Networking
  • Chat Client
  • Text Editor
  • Email, RSS and Atom Reader
  • PDF Reader
  • FTP Client
  • BitTorrent Client
  • Network
  • Web Browser
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Games
  • Image Editor
  • File Compressor
  • Google
  • Uploader
  • Programming IDE
  • QuickTime Plugin
  • Converter

115 entries in all, and if that’s not enough you can check the comments section for even more suggestions.

 

From: iLibrarian blog

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Mac Open Source; Tips on ASUS Eee PC; and Graffletopia

Posted by Celia Walter | 7 May, 2008

Open Source Mac.
It is a list of free quality Open Source software covering just about everything you could need to do on a computer.

ASUS Eee PC and Eeeuser.com has has been a solid source of hints and tips on how to tweak and troubleshoot any problems with the machine.

...if you want all your diagrams to feature little Lego men (which I sure do), then Graffletopia.com is the place. This is a directory of beautiful-looking free stencil downloads for OmniGraffle - including making custom Lego figures.

From Freepint newsletter no. 252 6th June 2008: My favourite tipples by Martin Belam

 

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15 Best Freeware Apps for Mac Users

Posted by Celia Walter | 15 Apr, 2008

The Best of the Web directory has compiled a list of fifteen free programs available for Mac users to download, many of which look very useful such as the backup utility Carbon Copy Cloner, TextWrangler which will check any type of code you’re writing, and Adium’s IM client. Here’s the full list:

  1. Quicksilver
  2. Adium
  3. Flip4Mac WMV Player (Quicktime Codec)
  4. TextWrangler
  5. Gimp
  6. Firefox
  7. Azureus
  8. StuffIt Expander
  9. iSquint
  10. Carbon Copy Cloner
  11. GeekTool
  12. MenuMeters
  13. Burn
  14. Neo Office
  15. VLC
iLibrarian blog

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