Multimedia Tools

City Tech faculty suggested the following multimedia resources that they have found useful in planning their coursework or for presentations.

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Images/Templates

Coroflot Coroflot is the largest, most established, most diverse pool of professional creative portfolios.

Dafont This catalog of fonts can be installed into your text editor for repeated use.

Flickr Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community.

Free Clipart Pictures Free clip art categories also provide links to related resources including animated graphics, photos, fonts and desktop themes.

FWA – Hall of Fame This Web site offers a selection of well-designed flash sites.

Logo Design Love Logos are posted on this website as a reference.

Pantone Matching System Color Chart This chart is intended as a reference guide only. Use current PANTONE Color publications for accurate color.

The Omni Group Need a diagram, process chart, quick page-layout, website wireframe or graphic design? Make graphic documents quickly by keeping lines connected to shapes even when they’re moved, providing powerful styling tools, importing and exporting Microsoft Visio files, and magically organizing diagrams with just one click. Make sure to check out the free products at the bottom of the page, and the tutorial section here.

Open Source Software

Audacity Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Citrix Citrix Systems provides server and desktop virtualization, networking, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing technologies for businesses worldwide. Citrix provides free Xenserver software, along with support for its products.

Fedora Fedora is an RPM-based, general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat.

FreeSoundProject The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound provides only sound, not songs.

GIMP The best free open source alternative to adobe photoshop.

NCH Softwares NCH softwares is a free software download site. Software is available for audio, video, business, graphics, computer utility, dictation, transcription programs for Mobile, Pocket PC, Windows and Macs.

OpenOffice OpenOffice.org is an open-source software application suite available for a number of different computer operating systems. It supports Microsoft Office formats among others.

PuppyLinux Puppy Linux is a lightweight open source, Linux distribution that focuses on ease of use. The entire system can be run from RAM, allowing the boot medium to be removed after the operating system has started. Applications include SeaMonkey, AbiWord, Gnumeric, and Gxine/xine.

VirtualBox VirtualBox is a free virtualization software that supports a large number of operating systems applications.

Windows Photo Story 3 Windows Photo Story 3 lets you create narrated slideshows using your digital photos.

Social Networking Media

Blogger Share your thoughts, photos, and more with your friends and the world.

Free Layouts Find a large collection of free high quality web templates, blog templates, and MySpace layouts for personal web pages.

Free WordPress Themes The free WordPress themes on this site are made available in the standard .ZIP file format. Most modern operating systems should allow you to open these without installing any special software, but in the event you do need something, get 7-Zip. Don’t forget to check out the license page.

Second Life Second Life (SL) is a virtual world developed by Linden Lab that launched on June 23, 2003, and is accessible on the Internet. A free client program called the Viewer enables its users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars. Residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade virtual property and services with one another, or travel throughout the world.

City Tech has purchased and maintained a virtual Island named City Tech, which some professors have used in a virtual classroom setting for assigning projects for student. Real money is needed to purchase items in SL.

Wiki Dot Now it’s easier than ever to build a website. Publish content, share your documents, collaborate with friends or coworkers, create a place for your community!

WordPress Publish your work through WordPress, a publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

Tutorials

Action Script Tutorials This site provides tutorials about Flash, Flex and ActionScript.

Learn Open Office This site provides comprehensive, Web based training for OpenOffice.

Linux Cluster HOW TO This site has a detailed description of how to setup or configure high-performance servers and nodes.

Linux Tutorials These tutorials are for open source based applications.

Linux User & Developer These tutorials are for Web developers and IT professionals.

Mind Storm (LEGO) – Robot Tutorial This tutorial demonstrates how to build robots.

Virtual Training Company (VTC) VTC provides basic videos tutorials for PHP.

Windows Live Movie Maker This tutorial demonstrates how to edit videos.

Yo Linux Linux tutorials provide technical how-to information and examples for Linux desktop and server configurations.

Videos

Brown University: CIS Online Training Screencasts are narrated videos thatvdemonstrate how to make power point presentations and use other applications.

Go To And Learn This website filled with basic instructional videos on how to use Adobe Flash.

Linux Journal Linux Journal provides free instructional videos for software configurations.

Moving Image Archive This library contains thousands of free movies, films, and videos.

The Omni Group: Videos Free How to videos for Web designers.

Xilinx Web Design Videos Sign up to access the video library of ISE design suite ‘how to’ tutorials.

Web Magazines

Campus Technology Magazine Campus Technology is an online magazine that reports on the latest instructional technology trends.

Converge Magazine Converge is an online magazine that reports on instructional trends and technology achievements.

Digital Web Magazine Digital Web Magazine is an online magazine intended for professional web designers, web developers and information architects.

How Stuff Works A catalog of articles that describes how “stuff” works.

Linux Journal Linux Journal is a comprehensive source of everything readers need for creating and completing their own projects using open source software.

Linux User & Developer Linux online magazine is for Web developers and IT professionals.

Virtualization Admin VA is an online reference that provides a focused multi-faceted range of free tools and information for IT professionals.