Hugo Domingos's List: Software - Tools

• Use the free Poladroid application to create a Polaroid™ image that you can use in your elearning courses.
• If you do use the Poladroid application, be sure to look at these two tutorials to get ideas on dressing up the images:

• WordPress is the world’s most popular blogging platform
• esides blogs, WordPress can be used as a straightforward content management system to power anything from an e-commerce site to a social network.
• 2. Magento
• the world’s fastest growing e-commerce platform
• features like multi-store capability, store credits and gift cards, out-of-the-box.
• 4. Mozilla Thunderbird
• Thunderbird has to be the best, free email application available
• to paid-for accounting software. Designed for personal and small business use, it offers bank account, stock, income and expense tracking, in addition to double-entry accounting
• 11. Handbrake
• Handbrake rips/converts DVDs to MPEG-4 for playing back on your iPod or archiving. It doesn’t have the ability to decode DVDs, but can do so if you have VLC, which includes a DVD encoder, installed on your computer.
• 18. Calibre
• “one stop solution to all your e-book needs

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• OpenSource Webinar Software
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  OpenSource Webinar Software
• OpenSource Webinar Software
• webinars are being incorporated into education, professional development, training, and team-building.
• Open Source software can be a great solution when there is sufficient programming and network support expertise to be able to deal with some of the challenges of beta-level
• For colleges and universities, the webinar format can be a wonderful way to present guest lecturers, and to discuss research design
• VMukti is an open-source, cloud-based high definition video conferencing communication suite, which has three main features:
  Live Video Streaming and broadcasting
  Web Conferencing and Collaboration
  Video Voip Telephony
• Easy to use: client runs in web browser (no installation)
• OpenMeetings is a free browser-based software that allows you to set up instantly a conference in the Web. You can use your microphone or webcam, share documents on a white board, share your screen or record meetings

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• The site offers up to the 10 GB of storage or 100 GB of data transfer for free. There’s even a group dedicated to those making the transition from Ning to Grou.ps.
• The “Basic” platform is ad-supported and includes 250 MB of storage.
• ree plan offers up to 1 GB of storage and allows users to create custom profiles, sub-groups, forums, blogs, and post media such as text, photos and video.

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