Carlos BenÃtez over at etnassoft has put together a comprehensive collection of mostly open and free books that you can browse and download for free. He has collected in one easily searchable and browsable site over 2500 books, with titles on technical issues, programming, computer administration, design and so on. The site also includes comics,…
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Using nearly exclusively the free Blender 3D and compositing software and a lot of talent, the Karma Pirates crew have created DYNAMO – a Sci-Fi web series that defies explanation and that has to be seen to be believed. Be warned that in Dynamo conventional story structures are thrown to the wind, and the action…
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Or why copyright law so often sucks. If you caught Nick Park’s “The Wrong Trousers”, a claymotion adventure with Wallace and Gromit and one evil penguin, when it was first shown on TV you may have noticed that when Gromit opens his card at the breakfast table, it plays “Happy Birthday to You”, which is…
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The very talented Nina Paley talks about copyright, Creative Commons and the free flow of ideas in her thought-provoking and entertaining talk at a PechaKucha 20×20 Night held in December 2013. Nina Paley is a cartoonist, filmmaker and general all-round artist. Her film “Sita Sings the Blues”, a retelling of the Hindu epic “Ramayana” from…
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Krita, the very excellent Free and Open Source painting application, has reached its crowdfunding goal with 10 days to spare. The team has managed to raise over $15,000. The money will be used to fund further development of the software. Thanks to the funding, developer Dmitry Kazakov will be able to work on Krita for…
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Patrick Pilmeyer, a young free software developer from Belgium, has developed Drawchemy, an Android app that allows you to doodle using your fingers and different brushes and strokes. You can also create symmetrical horizontal or vertical designs, or use both symmetries at the same time. This makes for interesting and kaleidoscopic pictures. [Show slideshow] A…
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When a notice appeared in my morning news feed telling me that there was a new, free ebook on macro photography, I couldn’t resist downloading it. Although a lousy photographer myself, Juan César Jover’s Introducción a la fotografÃa macro (distributed under a CC – BY NC SA license) immediately made me want to go and…
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Universidad Quantum is an online teaching portal that offers all kinds of courses for free or for very low fees. Quantum lists quite a few tech courses (such as Moodle for teachers, or the use of QR codes in education) in its roster, but also offers languages (they are currently running a free course to…
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