Computer
Blender - Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
FreeMind - Free mind mapping software
FreeMind is a premier free mind mapping software written in Java.
FreeMind is a premier free mind mapping software written in Java.
Gimp - The GNU Image Manipulation Program
A freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
A freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
LibreOffice - LibreOffice is the free power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. Support and documentation is free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers. You, too, can also get involved!
Newegg - Once you know, you newegg
Savvy shoppers (IT professionals, do-it-yourself enthusiasts, avid gamers, students, small to midsize businesses, resellers and consumers) consider newegg.com their top choice for computer products and consumer electronics. The award-winning web site enables shoppers to search and compare a comprehensive selection of the latest high-tech products, view detailed descriptions, pictures, how-to instructions and customer reviews as well as connect to members of the technology and gaming communities.
Savvy shoppers (IT professionals, do-it-yourself enthusiasts, avid gamers, students, small to midsize businesses, resellers and consumers) consider newegg.com their top choice for computer products and consumer electronics. The award-winning web site enables shoppers to search and compare a comprehensive selection of the latest high-tech products, view detailed descriptions, pictures, how-to instructions and customer reviews as well as connect to members of the technology and gaming communities.
Ubuntu - Linux was already established as an enterprise server platform in 2004. But free software was still not a part of everyday life for most computer users. That's why Mark Shuttleworth gathered a small team of developers from one of the most established Linux projects – Debian - and set out to create an easy-to-use Linux desktop, Ubuntu. The vision for Ubuntu is part social and part economic: free software, available free of charge to everybody on the same terms, and funded through a portfolio of services provided by Canonical.
VLC - Open source media player
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.
Information
Connexions – Educational Material for Everyone
Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc.
Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc.
CreativeCommons - Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.
Electronic Frontier Foundation - EFF
is the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the
digital world.
From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990 — well before the Internet was on most people's radar — and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.
From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990 — well before the Internet was on most people's radar — and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.
Foundation for the Law of Time - Official website for the Foundation for the Law of Time and the 13 Moon Calendar
The Foundation for the Law of Time is dedicated to the promulgation of the Law of Time as a new system of knowledge, inclusive of distribution and promotion of the 13 Moon/28-day calendar. We honor all faiths and creeds and envision a planetary culture of peace where time is art and synchronicity is the normal everyday experience.
The Foundation for the Law of Time is dedicated to the promulgation of the Law of Time as a new system of knowledge, inclusive of distribution and promotion of the 13 Moon/28-day calendar. We honor all faiths and creeds and envision a planetary culture of peace where time is art and synchronicity is the normal everyday experience.
Internet Archive - Universal access to all knowledge. Digital library of free books, movies, music & wayback machine.
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.
Wikipedia - is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project based on an openly editable model. The name "Wikipedia" is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's articles provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional information.
Music
Jamendo – Free and legal music downloads
Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses. Share your music, download your favorite artists!
Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses. Share your music, download your favorite artists!
IndabaMusic - Find People. Make Music. Online
Indaba Music is an international community of musicians, music professionals, and fans exploring the creative possibilities of making music with people in different places.
Indaba Music is an international community of musicians, music professionals, and fans exploring the creative possibilities of making music with people in different places.
Soundcloud - Your sound, at the heart
SoundCloud is a platform that puts your sound at the heart of communities, websites and even apps. Watch conversations, connections and social experiences happen, with your sound as the spark.
SoundCloud is a platform that puts your sound at the heart of communities, websites and even apps. Watch conversations, connections and social experiences happen, with your sound as the spark.
Networking
Facebook - Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
Flapon - The best way to communicate. Follow your interests, and talk with people like you.
Hootsuite - Save your time and your sanity. Monitor and post to multiple social networks, including Facebook and Twitter using the HootSuite dashboard.
LinkedIn - Over 100 million professionals use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas and opportunitie. Stay informed about your contacts and industry. Find the people & knowledge you need to achieve your goals. Control your professional identity online
Meetup - Meetup is the world's largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. More than 2,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities. Meetup's mission is to revitalize local community and help people around the world self-organize. Meetup believes that people can change their personal world, or the whole world, by organizing themselves into groups that are powerful enough to make a difference.
Mindbook - Mindbook is a place to connect with open-minded people that have a passion for consciousness-elevating, stimulating, and meaningful ideas and information. This is a community where knowledge is not only shared, but promoted. Here you will find yourself surrounded by others that have a common goal of gaining and spreading enlightenment throughout the world. Mindbook is dedicated to playing an active role in the progression of humanity; towards the new paradigm that is manifesting, and towards Truth. Free your mind, and the rest will follow.
Pearltrees - Pearltrees is the social way to organize, discover and share the stuff you like on the Web. Use Pearltrees to keep at hand the stuff you find everyday on the Web, to discover new stuff in your areas of interest and to drive people through your web.
Ping.fm - Ping.fm is a simple and FREE service that makes updating your social networks a snap!
StumbleUpon - StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click Stumble!, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of over 15 million other websurfers with interests similar to you. Rating these sites you like () automatically shares them with like-minded people – and helps you discover great sites your friends recommend.
Twitter - Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest information about what you find interesting. Simply find the public streams you find most compelling and follow the conversations.
Social
CouchSurfing.org - CouchSurfing is a worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit.
CouchSurfing is an international non-profit network that connects travelers with locals in over 230 countries and territories around the world. Since 2004, members have been using our system to come together for cultural exchange, friendship, and learning experiences. Today, over a million people who might otherwise never meet are able to share hospitality and cultural understanding.
CouchSurfing is an international non-profit network that connects travelers with locals in over 230 countries and territories around the world. Since 2004, members have been using our system to come together for cultural exchange, friendship, and learning experiences. Today, over a million people who might otherwise never meet are able to share hospitality and cultural understanding.
Gesundheit Institute - Gesundheit means good health!
The Gesundheit! Institute is a project in holistic medical care based on the belief that one cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the family, the community, the world, and the health care system itself.
The Gesundheit! Institute is a project in holistic medical care based on the belief that one cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the family, the community, the world, and the health care system itself.
Kickstarter - Kickstarter is the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world. Every month, tens of thousands of amazing people pledge millions of dollars to projects from the worlds of music, film, art, technology, design, food, publishing and other creative fields.
Kiva - Loans that change lives
Kiva's mission is to connect people, through lending, for the sake of alleviating poverty.
Kiva's mission is to connect people, through lending, for the sake of alleviating poverty.
Mesh - The living network of sharing
The Mesh is the new way of doing business. Mesh businesses leverage data and social networks to enable people to share goods and services efficiently and conveniently—to gain superior access to what they need without the burdens or expense of ownership.There are already thousands of these businesses—in transportation, fashion, food, real estate, travel, finance, entertainment and many other categories—with more starting every day.The Mesh has emerged as the best new creative engine for getting more of what we want, exactly when we want it, at less cost to ourselves and the planet.
The Mesh is the new way of doing business. Mesh businesses leverage data and social networks to enable people to share goods and services efficiently and conveniently—to gain superior access to what they need without the burdens or expense of ownership.There are already thousands of these businesses—in transportation, fashion, food, real estate, travel, finance, entertainment and many other categories—with more starting every day.The Mesh has emerged as the best new creative engine for getting more of what we want, exactly when we want it, at less cost to ourselves and the planet.
Video
OpenSourceCinema - an application designed to help filmmakers and audiences create together.
Open Source Cinema lets you create your own videos online, remix media that you have on your computer, as well as remix other people’s media from places like YouTube and Flickr. You can also connect with others by sending personal messages, commenting on remixes, or even joining projects that others have created.
Open Source Cinema lets you create your own videos online, remix media that you have on your computer, as well as remix other people’s media from places like YouTube and Flickr. You can also connect with others by sending personal messages, commenting on remixes, or even joining projects that others have created.
Youtube - Founded in February 2005, YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small. See our company timeline for more information on our company history.
