Monday, September 21, 2009

Screencasting

1) www.peepcode.com
PeepCode Screencasts are a high-intensity way to learn professional development topics like Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Git, Objective-C and Clojure.
2)http://civicactions.com/blog/2009/jun/16/drush_screencast_tutorial_2_using_drush_dl_command
This screencast dives deep into the Drush "dl" and "info" commands, which can be used to look-up, download and extract the recommended version (or specific versions) of modules, themes, install profiles and translations.
3)http://econtent.typepad.com/econtent/2006/12/camstudio_a_scr.html
Quite often in one's travels around the web, you may wish to record or demonstrate something. CamStudio is a simple, free, recording tool. This posting provides a screencast tutorial, access to the software, and some examples:
CamStudio
Web Site
Download Software (Source Forge.Net).
Tutorial (created with Wink)

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Office Replacements

1) I Work. (for Mac). Composed of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. This software is comparable to Microsoft Office however you can do much more with your projects.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB942/iWork-09?afid=p219|GOUS&cid=OAS-US-KWG-AppleSoftware-US

2) Open Office. Open Office is a free software that opens the door for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases.
OpenOffice.org

3) KingSoft Office. Kingsoft Office 2009 includes three alternative Microsoft Office compatible applications: a word processor (Microsoft Word), spreadsheet editor (Microsoft Excel) and presentation creation utility (Microsoft PowerPoint). Kingsoft Office includes native PDF export support and does not require any third-party add-ons to create PDF output from any of the three applications.
http://www.binarynow.com/office-suite/kingsoft-office-2009-an-alternative-to-microsoft-office-with-native-pdf-export/

4) Zoho. Zoho is another free software that lets you have an alternative to Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. This software also includes many more free applications for you to use.
www.zoho.com

5) Staroffice Software. This software is also compareable to Office, however although it is not free it sells for a price much cheaper than Microsoft Office. For 34.95 you will get software with everything office has and much more. Staroffice is also much easier to use.
http://www.sun.com/software/staroffice/index.jsp