The Folger Shakespeare Library is sharing tens of thousands of high resolution images on their site covering book covers, inside pages from original volumes, manuscripts, engravings, and costumes. The detailed and high quality photos and scans are free for use for any purpose, as long as you attribute the Library. [Show slideshow] The only problem…
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The late 70s and early 80s were arguably the golden age of computer nerdiness. This was an age of innovation and invention: the first mouse-driven interface, the first GUI, and even the first touchscreen are all products of that era. In those early days, you programmed your own drivers, wrote your own applications, and hacked…
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Always on the look out for new resources, we came upon the Internet Archive’s Book Images account on Flickr. The account contains well over 2 million images in the public domain, that is, pictures with copyrights that have elapsed or were deliberately placed in the public domain to start with. Some are weird, obscure and…
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The Blender Foundation is famous for two things: their kickass 3D design application, and the films the team has produced over the years. One has always gone hand in hand with the other. The films allowed the Foundation to bring together artists and developers and have them work on a joint venture. The artists gave…
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Natron is one of those open source tools that only does one thing, but it does it really, really well. In this case it is compositing, i.e., allowing a video editor cut out chunks of background (be it with a colour key or select tool), apply effects, layer different video clips one upon the other,…
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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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Krita, the free and open sourced painting program, is looking to raise €15,000 to pay developer Dmitry Kazakov to work full time on the project for 12 months. Krita, along with 3D design and animation program Blender, the bitmap retouching program GIMP, the vector design application Inkscape, and the 2D animation program Synfig (which, by…
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In today’s obvious news, we have changed the look of Plingzine, our blog/magazine on all things Free, Open and Plingable. We have tried to make it more attractive and easy to use. By arranging recent posts into two columns, we can cram more information on the front page without making it to cluttery. This helps…
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