Nine Top Free Fonts and How to Use Them
Not too long ago, free fonts were either low-quality or utilitarian, designed to substitute for common proprietary fonts like Times Roman or Helvetica.…
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2017 – Year of the Linux Desktop
In a recent post Steve Burge reflects on how Free Software has managed to spread into tech companies in a big way, but…
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It’s Synfig crowdfunding time! Again!
Synfig, our favourite 2D animation suite, is looking for donations to keep development rolling.
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Vi Hart, the Mathemusician, explains Net Neutrality
Vi Hart, the immensely entertaining mathematician/piano player and vlogger, has put out a video that, in classic Hartish fashion, explains the cause and…
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Christmas is coming (III): The Gift of Freedom
It may sound hackneyed, it may sound trite, but many of the best things in life are free. Seriously. Even for Christmas. And…
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Christmas is coming (II): Free Board Games
Although video games have reigned supreme as Christmas presents for kids (and many adults) for some years now, traditional board games are making…
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JPEG is Dead… Long Live BPG!
Fabrice Bellard has just introduced the BPG (Better Portable Graphics) format to the world, an image format that achieves amazing quality at a…
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GCompris Needs $25,000
GCompris, the free and open sourced educational software used in schools worldwide, is running a campaign which, if successful, will allow them to…
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The 20th Century through Magazines and Comics
Following up on our item posted on November 27, where we talked about the online repository of the very influential Popular Electronics magazine,…
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The Coolest Music Apps You’ll See Today
Música Móvel is a group of Brazilian developers and musicians that are creating cool and original mobile apps for music production. The applications…
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Popular Electronics, All Issues Online, for Free
Over at RadioHistory.com they have scanned and put online an enormous collections of radio-related yearbooks and magazines. Amongst them, the full run of…
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CERN just Opened all its Data
Be it for educational purposes or for research, you can now download all the data of all the experiments carried out on the…
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