Category: Resensies

Resensies van gratis en open-source sagteware as 'n alternatief vir Microsoft en ander kommersiële sagteware.

5 onskatbare gratis produktiwiteit apps vir die kollege

'N Paar jaar gelede het ek geskryf oor nuttige apps vir 'n hoë skool — maar nou kollege is hier, en dit bring 'n hele nuwe stel van eise. Sedert Ek aan die Harvard aangekom, Ek het meer te doen, en my apps het om meer te doen.

Hierdie nuwe apps moet loop op alle platforms (Windows, Mac, Android, IOS), sync moeiteloos tussen hulle, en help my hou my data georganiseer. Hulle het om te wees veelsydige, robuuste, en maklik-om-te gebruik. En hulle moet wees gratis.

With that in mind, here are the five apps that I’ve relied on most at Harvard and that I recommend to anyone in college or anywhere else in life. They’re ranked in order of usefulness.

Evernote, Wunderlist, Mailbox, Sunrise, Pocket
5 gratis, essential apps for college: Evernote, Wunderlist, Mailbox, Sunrise, and Pocket.
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5 ontsagwekkende Android apps jy terug te stuur na die skool

Moenie Spongebob. Gebruik tegnologie om jou skool jaar ontsagwekkende.

Nog 'n skooljaar, nog 'n reeks van 180 (gee of neem) effens slaap-beroof, té-beklemtoon dae. Dit kan maak dat jy lyk 'n bietjie soos die geel spons man daar.

Hou op! Ek is hier om te help.

Al wat jy nodig het, is hierdie nuwerwetse doohickey het 'n smartphone. Spesifiek, 'n Android smartphone (tablette werk te, As jy in daardie).

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Watch videos and play music with VLC

This is a review of VLC, a free multimedia player for movies and music. Download it here.

Happy holidays! To go along with that DVD of your favorite movie, that CD of your favorite band, en dat lelike trui van jou gunsteling tannie, hier is 'n geskenk van 'n program: VLC!

VLC is 'n gratis, open-source multimedia program for any operating system (Windows, Mac, Linux, selfs Android) dat kan films speel, musiek, die hele nege meter. Het ek noem dit is gratis?

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Learn Computer Science with Khan Academy

The young man had finished his arduous training period of ten years. The grizzled old man next to him, his tutor, had devoted himself to teaching his pupil the arcane art, an art known only to a select few. Ten years of intense physical labor, deep within the mysterious dungeons and high atop the silver mountains, had finally prepared the battle-scarred young man. He was prepared to unleash his mastery of the dangerous art few knew even existed.

Computer science.

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Sorry for downtime – also, props to WebHostingHub

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tl;dr – hathix.com had some downtime but my super-helpful host WebHostingHub cleared it up immediately. Also, I apologize for the fanboyishness – it’s just that WHH is that awesome.

I was recently working with some so-called cutting-edge web programming techniques (parsing JSON using PHP from client requests using JavaScript and jQuery… told you it was gory) and realized I needed a new version of some software on the server that hathix lives on.

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Chrome OS: all web, all the time

As you might have noticed, the guys at Google have released (goed, not released, they’ve just publicly shown it for the first time; Chromebooks are coming out on June 15) Chromebooks, which are netbooks that run the Chrome OS.

Chrome OS (official site)

More about the actual computers later; the interesting part about the computer is its operating system. Chrome OS is a completely web-based operating system; it’s nothing but Chrome, Google’s web browser. Dis reg, the only application on the computer is Chrome.

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Vergeet stick met Dropbox

I’m sure this happens to a lot of people: you have an important file on your flash drive and you need to hand it in, print it out, or take it somewhere else. Only problem? You lose your flash drive. It’s happened to me far too many times.

So that’s why I decided to eschew flash drives and emailing stuff to myself and use the power of the internet.

I found Dropbox, which lets me access my files from anywhere as long as I have an internet connection. I don’t even need a flash drive any more; I can just store everything I need on my Dropbox account.

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