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Icon Sets: HQ Freebies

This post is an excerpt from 35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets - Smashing Magazine.

In fact, designers make use of it, creating absolutely amazing icon sets and offering them for free download. The result: hundreds and hundreds of sets available almost everywhere, usually not that well executed and often duplicated from other sets. However, there are indeed free high-quality icon sets. And this post is supposed to prove exactly that.

Solid Video Encoder (FREE)

This post is an excerpt from Squared 5 - MPEG Streamclip video converter for Mac and Windows.

MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies. MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL.

Art Online: An awesome Collection

This post is an excerpt from Free Technology for Teachers: 11 Art & Music Resources to Try in 2011.

The Museum of Modern Art offers a sizable collection of online resources for teaching art lessons. Part of that collection is a series of lesson plans, but there are also collections of art for students, an art game for young (5-8 years old) students, interactive activities for older students, and podcasts about art and artists. The MOMA lesson plans collection can be searched by theme, artist, medium, or subject. If the lesson plans in the collection don't offer quite what you're looking for, MOMA has free resources you can use in developing your own plans. MOMA offers many images and PDFs that you can use in developing own lessons and or slideshows.

WOW. Google Locks down Gmail for Ed.

This post is an excerpt from Google Apps Gives Schools a Better "Walled Garden" for Student Email.

So Google has made a change to Google Apps (not just for Education but for Business and Government customers too) that will let administrators establish policies specifying who their users can communicate with via email.

Awesome FREE Audio Books for your iPod

This post is an excerpt from Top 100 Free Audio Books - Download Mp3 and iPod format today!.

Books Should Be Free
Free Audio Books from the public domain
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