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- Open Library openlibrary.org
One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty but achievable goal.
Sentiment building. "We're now at the stage where we should be getting the next wave of disruptive surprises. But – guess what? – they're nowhere to be seen. Instead, we're getting an endless stream of incremental changes and me-tooism. If I see one more proposal for a photo-sharing or location-based web service, anything with "app" in it, or anything that invites me to "rate" something, I'll scream."
- The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic theatlantic.com
Worth it. Overdue. Helps explain noticeable burn-out type feelings. "There are organizing principles for what is considered a "good" idea. These ideas are supposed to be the right size and shape. There is a default spreadsheet that we expect ideas to fit onto. But maybe it's time that changed."
Via blech.
- Learn Python The Hard Way | A Beginner Programming Book learnpythonthehardway.org
HTML version is free. eBook is supercheap. Not that one should choose programming books on cost.
- Watch Free Movies Online | IndieMoviesOnline indiemoviesonline.com
I personally feel that until a developer is interested enough in learning about patterns to make the leap to invest in these, the majority of material they have accessible online doesn’t focus enough on how to apply design patterns to JavaScript or jQuery. That’s where having a free book of this nature comes in useful.
A grand total of three south of the river.
The idea is similar to the notion of Free Software, and like with freeware, the word “free”refers to freedom, not price. Specifically, Free Music means that any individual has the freedom of copying, distributing, and modifying music for personal, noncommercial purposes. Free Music does not mean that record labels and musicians cannot charge for records, tapes, CDs, or files.
The first comprehensive collection of Numbers Stations recordings released to the public.
A pure AS3 micro-architecture (framework) with a light footprint and limited scope. Simply put, Robotlegs is there to help you wire your objects together. It provides the glue that your application needs to easily function in a decoupled way.
- ImageOptim – PNG/JPEG/GIF optimizer for Mac OS X imageoptim.pornel.net
"Optimizes images [...] by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations." Be interesting to see how this stacks up against smush.it.
Via infovore.
- The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery - Microsoft Research research.microsoft.com
"The collection of essays expands on the vision of pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray for a new, fourth paradigm of discovery based on data-intensive science and offers insights into how it can be fully realized." Free book from Microsoft Research.
- Typefaces we can all share : Open Font Library openfontlibrary.fontly.org
Via flippers.
Si Begg's next release out for free. "Don't get me wrong I'm all for me making money out of my music. But as I say, i'm not exactly churning out platinum hit singles here. I'm thinking its more likely I'll make my money a) from possibly licensing the tracks to compilations b) PRS royalties from radio play etc c) maybe getting the tracks used in film and TV d) gig, remix and production work encouraged by generally raising my profile. All of which is more likely to happen the more people that get to hear and hopefully enjoy my music."
- Tam Variations | LJ Kruzer audio.ljkruzer.co.uk
LJ Kruzer and Uncharted Audio present the Tam Variations, eight engaging experimental versions of Tam, a piece which features on Kruzer's forthcoming album Manhood & Electronics. Each variation is the end result of methodical sequences of sound processing exploring all the possibilities of computer manipulation of digitised sound data.
Surveymonkey alternative.
Freecycle alternative.
Via askush.
- My Freecycle Network (beta) my.freecycle.org
Freecycle starting the move away from Yahoo! Groups towards custom solution.
A Free and Open Source microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web.
"An open source flash MP3 player which can be customized and integrated into websites easily. It has 5 different versions that lets you only use a "play button" or a player which lets users to choose tracks from multiple files."
Free modular software based synthesizer. What this means is that the entire system is based on objects, which may be routed in a modular fashion, giving you the freedom to be as creative as you want.
"A tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show
- 3dtracking free.3dtracking.net
Monitor the movements of a live vehicle/person or to display a previous route that's been traveled. The vehicle/person's path is displayed as a line on either Google Earth or Google Maps with details of the speed at each point along the route.
"The rise of "freeconomics" is being driven by the underlying technologies that power the Web. Just as Moore's law dictates that a unit of processing power halves in price every 18 months, the price of bandwidth and storage is dropping even faster."
- Kevin Kelly -- The Technium kk.org
When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied. Well, what can't be copied?
- ADrive - Online Storage & Backup adrive.com
"Centralized storage vault for all types of files." 50Gb
This free online service converts any web page to an RSS feed on the fly.
Free wireless access in Islington.
- ThinkFree Online beta thinkfree.com
ThinkFree Office is a Microsoft® Office compatible application suite comprised of word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics software-all usable online and off.
- 10 Free eBooks About Web 2.0 at twopointouch: web 2.0, blogs and social media twopointouch.com · Archived on
- .:: DDF ::. digital-distortions.co.uk
Free music for download, including tracks from Cursor Miner and Si Begg
- sonicSQUIRREL.net - netlabels :::: 70107.7833333 minutes of music 1376333 listened tracks so far sonicsquirrel.net
A platform and distribution channel for netlabels. All music available on this website is free to download according to the terms of the netlabel.
- Aptana: The Web IDE aptana.com
A robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications.
Free, simple hosted Trac and Subversion source control.