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Software for Starving Students
by Jason Clarke Jan 12th 2006 at 11:40AM
Software for Starving Students is a
compilation CD of the best of freely available software for both Windows and Macintosh computers with a mind towards
usefulness for students and educators, though most anyone could make use of the software included in this elegant
package. The list of included software is simply
astounding, including both Open Source and simply free software. Here's a few packages that caught my
eye:Windows Packages
- Audacity
- Azureus
- DeepBurner Free
- Exact Audio Copy
- FileZilla
- Firefox
- Gaim
- Juice Receiver (formerly iPodder)
- OpenOffice
- PDFCreator
- The Gimp
- Thunderbird
- VideoLAN Client
- winLame
Macintosh Packages
- Audacity
- Azureus
- Carbon Copy Cloner
- Cyberduck
- Desktop Manager
- Firefox
- Freemind
- Genius
- ImageBurner
- iShred
- md5App
- OpenOffice.org
- Tweak Freak
- VideoLAN Client
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Richard said 12:00PM on 1-12-2006
Paint .NET is prettier and easier to use than GIMP. Plus it has a name which doesn't make me cringe every time I say it.
On a side note: when are you going to fix the problem with new paragraphs on this site? Every time someone does a double newline (for a new paragraph) you insert too many blank lines - after a while it makes the page very long, very blank and slightly unreadable.
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Whisky said 3:58PM on 1-12-2006
this looks really cool. I'm getting it when i get home.
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Bennington Purcell said 1:26PM on 1-13-2006
I am a starving College Student. Really! The only thing in my fridge is a Beer Ball (55 beers in a mini keg) and some olives (the Jalapano Stuffed kind, which now that i have thought of, i think i will go eat). I think it is a great idea, Software for Starving Students, but what they really need is food, not software. You don't get to be, well, NOT STARVING with free software. We need care packages and Cooking lessons.
Oh, and if any of you readers wants to do some good philanthropy for a good cause (me), i would love to give you my address so you could send me some food.
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