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Amanda French

Microsoft Rolls Out Student Advantage, Giving Students Free Access To Its Office Suite ... - 1 views

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    I'm pretty sure GMU subscribes to Office 365, which means that you can get Microsoft Office products for free while you're enrolled here. Quite a deal. Or you could use OpenOffice, the open source alternative.
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    I just checked up on this. The FAQ for GMU's Office 365 says the subscription only includes free access to the new Outlook and Calendar. I use OpenOffice on my computer, and apart from some formatting inconsistencies when working with people using Microsoft Office, it works great.
Amanda French

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine - 0 views

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    Don't forget about the Internet Archive and especially the Wayback Machine in your research -- lots of good free stuff here, and you can look at what websites looked like years ago.
Taylor Kreinces

Wikipedia:List of free online resources - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    This Wikipedia page shows all the available online resources open to the public.
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    Interesting, Taylor. Notice that that page is part of a project called "The Resource Exchange" and/or "The Wikipedia Library." I was just talking to a frequent Wikipedia editor named Jake Orlowitz the other day who's volunteering with the Wikipedia Library; we're going to try to bring him to campus to give a talk. If we do, I'll let y'all know. Thanks for the link!
Xiaotong Liu

Google offers hands-free voice search for computers running Chrome - 0 views

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    if you had Google Chrome, now you can use the voice search on it.
Emily Broadwater

Google Has Gone 'Dark': The Search Giant Just Ended Its Free Data And People Are Freaki... - 0 views

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    AP Late this month, Google went "dark" in terms of providing publishers with free information on which words led people searching in Google to click on their sites. The move came as Google seeks to reassure users following the NSA/PRISM domestic surveillance scandal.
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    Wow, I hadn't even heard about that, Emily. Terrific story. That's a bummer, though -- I use Google Analytics on some of my sites, though I probably should make more use of it, and it was always interesting to see what keywords people were using to get to my site. Sometimes the keywords were weird.
Elloise Lotoc

List of free and open source software - 0 views

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    It's a list composing of free accessible, open source software for different categories such as finance and even computer simulation.
Talia Wujtewicz

Online Libraries - 25 Places to Read Free Books Online - 0 views

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    A collection of online libraries that have books and other materials you can read online for free
Amanda French

Twenty years of a free, open web - Cern - 0 views

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    Can't resist sharing this -- found it from Stephanie's "Oldest website on the Internet" link. Great short history of the web. "http://first-website.web.cern.ch" Note that it links to the "first" website at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html , which is not the same as the "oldest" one that Stephanie linked to -- I think the one Stephanie posted was a demonstration site, but not a "real" site, so I agree that it's older. :)
Amanda French

Table of keyboard shortcuts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    Here's a useful list of keyboard shortcuts -- I'll put one or two (no more than that) from the "General Shortcuts" section on the test. I'll list them in the study guide, as well.
Amanda French

Digital History | Getting Started - 0 views

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    This book, Digital History, exists in print form as well, but it is entirely available for free on the open web. It is written for historians who want to "go digital," so you as undergrads (and not necessarily History majors!) aren't exactly its audience, but the book is nevertheless excellent as an introduction to the underpinnings of the internet and the web.
Amanda French

History of the Internet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    Wikipedia page about the History of the Internet that I showed in class. Note that the first Internet connection (really, the first ARPANET connection) was made between UCLA and Stanford -- most early work on the Internet was done at universities and was funded by government grants. It was only after the launch of the Web in the early 90s that businesses began devoting resources to the Internet and the Web.
Ellie Cattle

Comparison of XML editors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    Wikipedia's page on the different XML editors that are available.
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    Probably no one in the class will ever need to use an XML editor -- and in any case, really you can just use a plain text editor -- but thanks for finding it! Everyone I know who creates XML uses oXygen.
Amanda French

Talk:DuckDuckGo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    Here's the discussion page about that misleading Wikipedia article about DuckDuckGo, if you're interested.
Amanda French

Wikipedia:STiki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    This is the automatic tool that uncovered and erased Jonathan's test edit and probably Erin's too -- it's called STiki. It's not actually all the way automatic, though -- the page says "STiki is not a Wikipedia bot: it is an intelligent routing tool that directs human users to potential vandalism for definitive classification." So basically someone somewhere was probably spending some time looking through possible vandalism edits and decided not to keep some of the ones our class submitted.
Amanda French

Gumby: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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    Note that it took 13 minutes for Jonathan's malicious misinformation about Gumby to go away. Not too shabby.
Amanda French

Wikipedia:Wikipedians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    The Wikipedia page on Wikipedians - demographics, proportions, and the rest.
Madalyn Velie

Women Battle Online Hate From the 'Manosphere' - 0 views

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    "Deep in the underbelly of the Internet is a hidden corner known as the "Manosphere"- a collection of websites, Facebook pages and chat rooms where men vent their rage and spew anti-women rhetoric. Protected by the anonymity of the Internet, men feel free to post hateful and violent comments." Follow up to presentation today, really got me thinking
Mahrokh Akhavan

Steal This Research Paper! (You Already Paid for It.) - 0 views

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    The idea of open access to scholarly journals seems to be a big debate and this article talks about how publishers make millions of dollars off of research and peer reviews that are done for free. It also talks about Aaron Swartz who led the movement for allowing access to journals by basically "stealing" them and sharing them.
Lizzie Ehrreich

9 Word Cloud Generators - 0 views

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    Even though we don't need to add original multimedia to the final, these are still cool to check out.
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