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Reeder for the iPad

While many content providers are working diligently to find ways to lock us in to their content and to exclude aggregation, it’s aggregation that I want!! I want to be able to read my content in the form and manner that fits my workflow of the moment. Reeder for the iPad is a great example [...]

Audacity

Audacity is a free, cross-platform sound editor.

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free, Windows-only text editor offering syntax coloring, line numbers, and other programmer-centric features.

TextWrangler

TextWrangler is a free, Mac-only text editor with advanced features such as regular expression find and replace, syntax coloring, line numbering, etc., making it an excellent free choice for programmers.

G.I.M.P. (GNU Image Manipulation Package)

G.I.M.P. is an open source, free, cross-platform alternative to commercial image editing software.

CMapTools Concept Mapping

CMapTools is a free, cross-platform that allows the user to create and share concept maps for any topic they choose. Concept maps can be used for brainstorming activities, to assess students’ models of concept domains, or to capture individual or group domain knowledge.

R Statistical Programming Language

The R Project provides a comprehensive, free, open source statistical programming language and environment based on the S language. R is the name of both the language and the environment in which you generally use the language. It’s an interactive environment where the commands you enter generate immediate results that you can use to guide [...]