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Powerbullet is a small, simple program for creating presentations in the Flash format. You should have minimal startup time in getting your first presentation together if you're familiar with using a basic word processor. Most commonly-used operations are available with a button click or two , and there are handy keyboard shortcuts for most operations. For instance, using the up and down arrow keys - in conjunction with the Control and Shift key - dynamically increases or decreases the font size, giving you instant feedback.
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Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. Many of its capabilities rival those found in commercial programs. Highlights include subdivision surface based modelling tools, skeleton based animation, and a graphical language for designing procedural textures and materials..
Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 10:22am by The Free Geek With all the pricey cameras and equipment, filmmaking isn’t exactly a hobby that screams “cheap.” Lucky for all you free stuff-loving geeks, there are some options available that can help you make the most of your creative impulses.
15 Must-Have Freeware Programs for Filmmakers | Free Geekery
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Advertisement: SmartDraw makes it possible for non-designers to create compelling business graphics, like: flow charts, organizational charts, floor plans, maps, Gantt charts, office designs, forms, and more. No experience or training required.
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Alfresco 2.2 has focused on offering content management and collaboration for everyone in the enterprise and has used web 2.0 technologies to bring together content management, collaboration, office and email integration all within one repository. Many industry leading clients are using Alfresco to provide next generation user experiences, creating communities around their products, and delivering this at dramatically lower cost through the benefit of open source. These new community oriented product micro-sites need to be highly-scalable with the ability to integrate rich media with user generated content, and support rapid content update for a fresh customer experience, while promoting a consistent brand. Experience with this next generation of websites has driven the enhancements in Alfresco 2.2 including: Web Application Preview and Test – providing the ability to preview in-context changes to any web application, including PHP, Ruby, JSF, Tiles, Struts, Groovy, and .NET
PeopleAggregator - An Open Source Social Network - Slashdot
prostoalex writes "When Orkut , LinkedIn , Friendster , Zaibatsu and Tribe.net just don't cut it, meet PeopleAggregator , an open-source, PHP-written, FOAF-based social network. There's the site and there's the source in case you decide to launch your own. I found out about PeopleAggregator reading this interview with Mark Canter on Read/Write Web today." I wish such sites would provide profile-conversion tools to encourage jumping ship from one to another.
6 Open Source Social Networking Projects - Flock, Elgg, Jcow - Reviews - LinuxPlanet
The big social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn all us open source software to power their services. Eric Geier rounds up a batch of open source social networking projects that you can deploy in your own organization, plus one open source social networking aggregator. Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and LinkedIn have taken off. They are now among the top sites visited among the entire World Wide Web. As you might have guessed, the open source community has some involvement in the social networking space.
12 Best Open-Source Social Networking Software
Nowadays Social Networking has popping out as a new face of modern sociology and a key technique for tight connection with friends, no matters wherever they are situated in the world. The popular social networking site like Twitter , Facebook , Orkut , MySpace and LinkedIn are keeping internet users busy in various activities on their own site that incorporates – profile, blogs, notifications, groups, files sharing (photo and video), messaging, forum discussion, search option, comments, social bookmarking and others exciting feature of social networking .The 5 Best Open-Source Social Networking Software
Previously, Abhijeet has highlighted three awesome sites where you can create your own social network easily . However, if you are one of those who wants more control of the site, including the branding, the domain name, the features, the design, the community rule, or even the database, the best way is to install and run a social networking software on your server. While there are plenty of scripts (both free and paid) that you can use to run your own social network, there are only a few that are stable, good and easy to use.
There are lots of social networks from small to huge ones like Facebook or MySpace. Although trying to create the next Facebook may not be a good idea , you may want to create a niche network or empower & add new features to the network you already have. Dolphin is one of the most popular applications to create a community. It is built with PHP / MySQL & has unique features like streaming video chat or ability to record videos from the application itself to share them. Community Engine is an open source plugin for Ruby on Rails applications that provides the common features of social networking applications including: