Monthly Archives: October 2010
A guide to distraction free writing applications
Technology has provided us with the capacity to greatly improve our productivity, but has it also somehow impaired our ability to concentrate? This has been the subject of some controversy of late, and it’s no wonder that a niche market of word processing applications has sprouted up claiming to remove distractions so you can better [...]
Posted in Product Guides Tagged applications, apps, Bean, budget, concentration, DarkRoom, free, mac, Ommwriter, Ommwriter Dana, open source, productivity, Windows, word processing, work, WriteMonkey, WriteRoom, writing 1 Comment
How to learn (almost) anything online
The web is an autodidact’s dream – if you have a desire to learn something, there’s a good chance learning materials on that subject are available for free somewhere online. The problem is how does one go about finding it? There’s very few sites where you can find a wealth of content – most open [...]
Posted in Tutorials Tagged education, free, GCFLearnFree.org, Goodwill, Google, Khan Academy, learning, MIT, OCW Finder, Open Culture, open education, OpenCourseWare, TED, tutorial, video, web, web services, web video, Yale 3 Comments
A comparison of digital video boxes