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Posts Tagged ‘free’

Image Bookmarking

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Imgfave is a bookmarking service that lets you “share your visual inspiration” from around the web.

Text Books for Rent

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Rent textbooks from Chegg.com. The company gathers books at the end of a semester and rents or sells them at a fraction of the cost. Chegg also plants a tree for every book you rent, buy or sell.

Read more about the company in the New York Times article.

AlternativeTo, an Index for Free Software

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AlternativeTo is a user-rated database of free substitutes for expensive software. Search for a program, like Adobe Photoshop, and choose between dozens of different options.

Image Bookmarking

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Image Spark is a free web service that creates customized image libraries.  Not solely for collecting and describing the visual and digital, Image Spark allows you to personalize your display and share it with other users.

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FFFFOUND! is a web service that allows you to bookmark images, and  showcase and create a compelling visual archive. The home page also dynamically recommends new and interesting sites, posted by other users.

Transform Your Photos with Repper

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Repper is a free pattern generator that transforms your photographs into kailedscopic refractions.  Patterns created with Repper are available for free under the  Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License.

Stock Photos from PhotoEverywhere

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Over 3,000 stock photos from around the world are available at PhotoEverywhere. The site includes not just the typical landmark and scenic images, but also macro details and textures.  All the material is free of charge. You only need to attribute or link the images back to the site.

Open Clip Art

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A library of user-contributed clip art in the public domain, Open Clip Art is a great resource of over 11,000 tagged images available free of charge.