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Near zero server side code for developing mobile apps

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Speaker Deck is the best way to share presentations online. Simply upload your slides as a PDF, and we’ll turn them into a beautiful online experience. View them on SpeakerDeck.com, or share them on any website with an embed code.

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Readium™, a project of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) and supporters, is an open source reference system and rendering engine for EPUB® publications. EPUB is the industry-standard open format for eBooks and digital publications. The latest version, EPUB 3, is based on Web Standard technologies such as HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and the DOM. The overall aim of the Readium project is to ensure that open source software for handling EPUB 3 publications is readily available, to accelerate adoption of EPUB 3 as the universal, accessible, global digital publishing format. Readium is built on WebKit , the embeddable open source Web content engine

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Scribr is the journal you're already keeping. It tracks your posts on sites you already use - like Facebook and Twitter - and creates a custom journal just for you.

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Simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and Javascript for popular user interface components and interactions.

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QuickScreenShare.com is the simplest way to share screens with anybody:

No registration required and completely free.
Nothing to install for sharer or sharee (assuming you have Java).
Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Even lets you remotely control mouse and keyboard!

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Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. You can create dynamic interactive lessons, activities, assessments, and tutorials using Explain Everything's flexible and integrated design. Use Explain Everything as an interactive whiteboard using the iPad2 video display.

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Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Creating a great video tutorial is as simple as touching, tapping and talking. Explain a math formula... Create an animated lesson..

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At the heart of Scriptito lies a powerful text editor and project manager, combined into a tool we call the Project Workspace. All of your writing on Scriptito is performed in the Project Workspace which offers many features that have until now been available only in select desktop writing applications.

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LiveCode is the only truly simple way for anyone to create apps for any platform or purpose. Get an incredibly rich, deep feature set with more than 2000 features for even the most sophisticated project. A modern and powerful workflow saves you time at every step. LiveCode gives you completely royalty free distribution, has no ongoing fees, no hosting fees and no mandatory subscriptions.

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Putting a file into a designated Dropbox folder triggers a range of actions of your choice.

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An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

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We're the easiest way to create and maintain a web page.

All you need to do is create a text file, and save it into the special Pancake folder in your Dropbox account. We'll turn that file into a web page for you.

The best part? Updating your page is as easy as opening the text file up in Notepad, TextEdit or your favorite text editor, making the changes you want, and saving the file. Your website gets updated automatically.

We'll even take care of the formatting for you if you follow a few simple rules.

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Yet another repository for academic references in the Mendeley mould. ReadCube seems to suffer from the original Zotero problem of saving its reference data locally on one machine.

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Twubs are Twitter groups built around content aggregated from #hashtags.
View the full social landscape of a Twub with tools such as our Live Tweet Feed which pulls in external images, videos and links, and our Tweetups & Events Scheduler.
Start searching for your favorite topics now and take full advantage of these and many more useful Twub features to connect and share with people of similar interests.

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Educate in a new way.
HootCourses are held online, using Twitter and Facebook as a virtual classroom space.

Break through the ice.
Supplement face-to-face classes with a HootCourse and get to know each other faster.

Go where students are.
Lose the boring forum software. HootCourse uses the networks students know and love.

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Pastebin.com is a website where you can store text for a certain period of time. The website is mainly used by programmers to store pieces of sources code or configuration information, but anyone is more than welcome to paste any type of text. The idea behind the site is to make it more convenient for people to share large amounts of text online.

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Using the Spaaze Bookmarklet it's very easy to collect Links and Snippets while you browse the web. Store bookmarks and articles you want to remember or read later and create hotspots for different topics.

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Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.

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Mapping your Excel data in Google Earth and/or Google Maps offer several advantages:

GE and GM are free and widely available on the Internet

GE and GM are easy to use so that your data viewers will be able to concentrate on your data, not learning the mapping tool

GE and GM users have added an extensive set of data overlays. Your users will be able to mix and match your data with that from other GE/ GM users

Users can add their Excel based data to these mapping tools by exporting the data to Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files and viewing the KML file in the desired Google tool.

Google Earth lets users view KML files stored on their own PC, Google Maps lets users open a KML file that is stored on an accessible web page.

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