Featured 4-1-2014: Museu.ms

Museu.ms is an international portal to museums worldwide, collecting information and presenting it to the public in a searchable format.

 

Museu.ms is visited daily by thousands of users from all over the world. Users can register for free to mark favorites, write reviews and recommendations, and post to social networks.

 

Museum professionals can submit their museums and publish information about their institutions, such as visitor information, collections and objects, exhibitions and events, articles and more. It’s free.

 

The data submitted to Museu.ms can be quickly and easily transformed and distributed across different platforms and devices. The data is not available only on the website but also in mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows 8.

 

 

Museu.ms is designed and developed by Semantika, one of the leading museums documentation providers in Central Europe with over 10 years of experience in .collection management systems.

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Featured: 12-16-2013 Office 365 Education

Office 365 Education provides a school staff, faculty, and students free email, websites, online document editing and storage, IM, and web conferencing.

Office 365 Education lets schools and districts modernize their communications and productivity infrastructure on their terms.They can get needed enterprise-grade communication and productivity services with flexibility.

All Office 365 Education plans include email and calendars, web conferencing, instant messaging, file storage and sharing, team sites, Office Web Apps, privacy, security, and more.

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Two of the Office 365 Education plans include the latest desktop version of Office. The plans that do not include the desktop version of Office support Office 2010, Office 2007, and Office 2011 for Mac with the latest browsers across your devices using Office Web Apps. You can take advantage of the Office 365 cloud services such as business-class email, HD video conferencing, and file sharing.

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Featured: 6-17-2013 Kingsoft Office Free

Kingsoft Office Free 2013 for Windows provides a no-cost, powerful alternative to the MS Office monolith.

Smaller and faster than most other office suites, Kingsoft Office Free 2013, includes a built-in PDF converter and automatic spell check, as well as an innovative Paragraph Adjustment tool.

Kingsoft Office Free 2013 includes the usual modules for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations:

• Writer provides word and text processing with drag-and-drop paragraph editing, a section tab, support for .doc and .docx.
• Easily create and edit Spreadsheets, a calculator, graphing, and multiple other tools for complex data analysis, export to both .xls and .xlsx extension files.
• Presentation lets you create dynamic slides for speeches and presentations, with Flash, sound and animation effects, and artistic backgrounds.

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In addition to the traditional interface which resembles older versions of MS Office, Kingsoft Office Free 2013 gives you a choice of a new interface similar to the newer versions of Office. You can easily switch between the two versions according to your preference.

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COD - 11/30/2011 - nSpaces [Tools]

 

nSpaces is a small, free utility that brings Windows users one of my favorite Mac OS X Lion features, Mission Control, which lets you create multiple virtual desktops and open different applications and windows in each one.

With nSpaces you can:

• Create multiple virtual desktops on your computer.
• Open different applications on each separate desktop to improve your productivity.
• Give a unique name to each virtual desktop.
• Set a custom desktop image for each of your desktop spaces.
• Set a different background color for each space.
• Protect your spaces with passwords.
• Hotkeys for everything.

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Catch of the Day - Microsoft Education - 2/7/2011

Microsoft Education offers several free interactive classroom tools to help engage students in a number of subject areas. These tools can be used to encourage individual learning or to create engaging, dynamic group projects.

Microsoft Education provides these tools to help you motivate and inspire your students, engage with multimedia, and work together with students and other teachers.

Some of the tools designed to engage students:

• Auto Collage - create a unique piece of art using this collage-making tool
• WorldWide Telescope - explore the night sky by panning and zooming to distant planets and galaxies
• Songsmith - bring out the musical creativity in your students
• Windows Live Movie Maker - turn photos and video clips into movies and slideshows
• Photo Story - easily create a slideshow with just a few clicks

Tools for collaboration include a free PowerPoint add-in, Mouse Mischief, that lets students use mice to respond, and Windows Live SkyDrive with access to 25 Gb of free, online storage.

These Microsoft Education tools are free to download, and for the most part, don’t require any special training. You and your students should be able to start using them right away.

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Windows Live Search does the Math

Did you know Windows Live Search can solve linear and quadratic equations? I only tested linears and quadratics, maybe it does more.

Just enter the equation in the search box and hit enter. It's pretty fast, too.