Tool
LoudBlog
Submitted by adam on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 05:36.
1 Megabyte of free webspace, PHP 4.3 or higher, MySQL 4 or higher
Tools
Submitted by adam on Wed, 09/16/2009 - 00:33.Tactical Tech's mobiles in-a-box has been designed to support campaigners looking to use mobile technology in their work. It includes a range of tools to help you achieve this.
Audio tools
Submitted by adam on Wed, 08/26/2009 - 04:57.We've included downloads and guides for the following tools to help you create your audio.
iMovie
Submitted by allan on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 03:25.iMovie is a popular and simple to use editing tool for Apple computers. It comes free with older Macintosh computers though you will now have to pay for it.
This guide includes easy to follow screencasts take from the Make Internet TV guide.
Screencast: Intro to iMovie
Windows Movie Maker
Submitted by allan on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 01:02.All versions of Windows have free access to a basic video editing program, called Windows Movie Maker (WMM). This guide will show you the basics of how to use it. If you already have access to a Windows computer check if you have it installed.
This guide is taken from MakeInternetTV.
Screencast: Intro to Windows Movie Maker
VLC
Submitted by allan on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 04:16.
VLC is a audio/video player that will read almost any format you throw at it, including DVDs and VCDs. It can be used to rip CDs and DVDs, encode video and connect to audio and video streams, and that's just the half of it.
- Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- Mac OSX or newer
- Installers are available for most Linux distributions and well as for numerous other operating systems
Miro
Submitted by allan on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 03:03.
Miro is a browser for watching videos and subscribing to vodcasts - grab webpages with video and video RSS feeds (including podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds), and watch them full screen, one after the other. It's free and open source.
- Windows 95/98/ME with DirectX 3.0 or later
- Mac OS X 10.3+ and QuickTime 7
BlipTV
Submitted by allan on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 02:49.
Blip.tv is a video sharing service that provides content creators with free hosting, support for a variety of video formats, distribution using technologies like RSS and an opt-in advertising program with a 50/50 revenue share. If you are happy to use a commercial service Blip is probably currently your best choice.
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Avidemux
Submitted by allan on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 02:21.
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types and is a great tool for converting or compressing files or making simple edits.
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Jubler
Submitted by allan on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 01:41.
Jubler is a tool to edit text-based subtitles. It is mostly used as an authoring software for new subtitles or as a tool to convert, transform, correct and refine existing subtitles. The most popular subtitle formats can be used. Preview of the subtitles in realtime or in design time, spell checking, translation mode and styles editing are some of the main features.
• Latest version of JRE
• MPlayer to view subtitles
• ASpell to spell-check the subtitles
Scribus
Submitted by bobby on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 21:18.
Scribus is a page layout program. With Scribus, individuals, organizations and communities can create layouts for newsletters, bulletins, manuals, reports and/or any other printed material that require text and image layout.
Operating System (OS)
- Unix/Linux
- Mac OSX Tiger/Leopard
- Windows XP/Vista/Server 2003/Server 2008
Hardware (Minimum)
- Pentium III or better/ 750Mhz or better processor
- 256 MB memory (RAM) or higher
Joomla
Submitted by bobby on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 04:43.
Joomla is ideal for individuals and small organizations that want to create, manage and publish content on their websites easily.
Operating System
- Unix/Linux
- Windows
Web Server
- Apache
PHP
Database Server
- MySQL
Installation Manual (version 1.5)
SPIP
Submitted by bobby on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 04:03.
SPIP is a publishing system for websites. It allows a community of users to collaborate online, creating and developing content.
Drupal
Submitted by bobby on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 00:31.
Drupal allows an individual or a community of users to publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.
Operating System
- Unix/Linux
- Windows
Web Server
- Apache
- Microsoft IIS
PHP
Database Server
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
Inkscape
Submitted by and on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 16:29.
Inkscape is a powerful and convenient drawing tool for the creation of logos and illustrations. It supports features such as shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape allows importing and exporting of most widely used graphics file formats.
- Unix/Linux (Unofficial Package)
- Mac OS X Tiger/Leopard
- Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Firefox
Submitted by allan on Wed, 04/09/2008 - 20:46.
Mozilla Firefox is considered by many to be the best browser available, particularly due to its security features, the global community of developers involved, and the huge range of add-on products that extend its functionality. Firefox runs on all platforms.
Installs easily on Mac and Windows. Most Linux distributions have Firefox packaged in them as the default browser.
Open Office
Submitted by allan on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 01:36.
OpenOffice.org includes a word processor, spreadsheet application, presentation manager, and a drawing programme. OpenOffice.org also works with a variety of file formats, including Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
For Windows and Linux *
- 128 Mbytes RAM
- 200 Mbytes available disk space
For Mac OX X
- Power Mac G3 400Mhz or higher
- Mac OS X 10.3.x (10.3.5 recommended), Mac OS X 10.4.x
- 256Mbytes RAM
- 350Mbytes available disk space
- X11 required.
* - Ubuntu linux comes with OpenOffice pre-installed.
KompoZer
Submitted by allan on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 16:55.
KompoZer is similar to Dreamweaver or FrontPage, allowing you to manage and create websites. KompoZer allows WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editing of pages; making Web creation as easy as typing with your word processor. It also has lots of nice tools that allow you to maintain entire websites both on and off line.
KompoZer is not resource intensive and will work on computers that are up to 4-5 years old.
Gimp
Submitted by allan on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 23:37.
GIMP is similar to Photoshop for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
Typical uses include creating graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photos, changing colours, combining images, removing unwanted image features, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create animated images and preparing images for websites. The full capabilities of the GIMP extend much further and include advanced image editing, manipulation, and professional
- Windows XP
- Almost all linux distros are supported
- Mac OSX requires x11
Intro vido
GIMP Screencast. If you are unable to play the downloaded file using the software on your computer, download and install Video Lan Client from here.
Podcasting with WordPress
Wordpress is great for distributing podcasts and video. Learn how to set up a hosted Wordpress blog, install Wordpress on a server and upload and publish your audio file to create a podcast.
Wordpress
Submitted by allan on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 21:03.
Wordpress makes publishing and maintaining a website quite easy and it is also great for distributing podcasts and video. You can easily add pages through a simple form and quickly update content. WordPress is one of the most popular blogging tools in the world. To use Wordpress you can either signup for an account at wordpress.com or for full control and more features you can install it on your own server.
WordPress can be used as a web service or installed on a server for greater control. To use the webservice go to wordpress.com or to download the Wordpress software to install yourself click here.
Songbird
Submitted by allan on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 20:49.
Songbird will help you manage your music files and subscribe to podcasts. Its' functionality is similar to iTunes so you can create playlists. Songbird is the only media player which works with the Firefox web
browser so you can use it to surf the web and find audio files to download.
- Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
- Songbird has been tested on Fedora Core and Ubuntu Dapper
Video Lan Client
Submitted by allan on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 20:24.
VLC is a audio/video player that will read almost any format you throw at it, including DVDs and VCDs. It can be used to rip CDs and DVDs, encode video and connect to audio and video streams, and that's just the half of it.
- Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- Mac OSX or newer
- Installers are available for most Linux distributions and well as for numerous other operating systems
Audacity
Submitted by allan on Sat, 02/23/2008 - 21:15.
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder. Audacity allows you to open audio files from a digital recorder or import them from CDs. It allows you to cut, copy, paste and edit audio along a timeline. You can add multiple tracks and a range of effects like normalize volume levels across a selection or an entire file, fade regions of the file in or out, pan the sound from left to right and much more. If you want to get into making audio pieces for podcasting or radio Audacity is a great place to start.
- Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP or Vista
- Mac OS X 10.1 or later
- Installer packages for many common linux distributions are available from the website
