GCompris, the best suite of free educational software for children
GCompris is amazing, its fun and kids love it. Over the years I’ve distributed a lot of educational freedom respecting software and GCompris is popular. Lets …
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Linux Educational Comicbooks
Hackett and Bankwell is an educational comic/cartoon manual designed to teach readers how to get started with Linux-based operating systems. You can download copies of the …
Microsoft to discontinue Encarta
News came last week that Microsoft is discontinuing Encarta, they cited changes in the way people seek information and in the traditional encyclopedia and reference material …
Stallman on the Javascript Trap
This week Richard Stallman has added to his earlier comments about web-based (so-called cloud) applications, which are mostly written in JavaScript, but sometimes in Flash. Stallman wants …
Wikileaks taken offline
The Guardian reports that whistleblowing website Wikileaks has gone offline just hours after publishing what appeared to be a complete list of the websites banned by …
iPhone…idon’t think so
Japanese retailer SoftBank are giving away the 8GB iPhone in a bid to increase take up after terrible sales. According to a report today in the Guardian the …
Have I Got Your Attention?
Social Networking Sites are posing a threat to the psychological development of children, a report in the Guardian suggests today. Lady Greenfield, professor of synaptic pharmacology at Lincoln …
The Twitter Blackout
If you use Twitter you may have noticed that recently some people have started to replace their avatars with simple black squares. This gesture is in support of a …
Open Source Social Networking Sites
We are all familiar with Facebook, the hugely popular social networking site, well now you can create your own lookalike site for free. Joomunity describes itself as ‘a …