Google Font Directory

Google, in its endeavor in making the web a beautiful place for people spending their time online,  has published a font directory. The Google Font Directory acts as a site directory for all the fonts available via the Google Fonts API.

The Google Font Directory provides high-quality web fonts that you can include in your pages using the Google Font API. And it is free.

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5 Free LaTeX Editors For Windows

If you want to create documents in LaTeX, it will be useful if you have a full fledged editor which is designed for creating documents using LaTeX.

There are a couple of choices before you. The following are 5 very popular LaTeX editors available for Windows.

Some of these free LaTeX editors are cross platform as well.

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VUE : A Free, Open Source Mind Mapping Tool

Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an open source mind mapping software. VUE is designed with a motive to enable faculty and students integrate electronic content into their teaching and learning. Currently in the beta stage, this Java based mind mapping software is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

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ZScreen – An Open Source Screen Capture Tool For Windows

ZScreen is an open source screen capture tool for Windows. However, unlike other screen capture tools, ZScreen is much more versatile.

ZScreen is developed  in Microsoft  C# 3.0 language and requires .NET 3.5 framework to run. If you are a Linux user, you should take a look at Shutter which is also as powerful as ZScreen.

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Etherpad – An Open Source Real Time Collaboration Editor

EtherPad is an open source web-based word processor that allows people to work together in real-time. When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone’s screen.
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Phatch – Batch process thousands of images at once

Phatch is a photo batch processor with a nice graphical user interface. It supports all popular image formats and can duplicate folder hierarchies which makes it ideal for identically manipulating 1000s of images in one go. It can also be used to rename exif data in your photos. Phatch is based on Python and will work in Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

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Find The Fastest DNS Servers To Set For Your PC

If you suddenly find that your Internet speed has slowed to a crawl while browsing the net, in all probability it could be because of  problems in name resolution. Resolving web address names to their respective IP addresses where websites are hosted,  is the job of Domain Name System  (DNS) servers.  You can now find out the fastest DNS servers for your location using a nice open source utility called Namebench.
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A List of Open Source Web Analytics Software

If you run a website, then you may be interested in tracking your website statistics. Such as, detailed real time reports on your website visitors – the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages, who links to your articles and so on.
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GTG – A Productivity Tool for GNOME Desktop

Getting Things GNOME! also known as GTG aims to be a simple, powerful and flexible organization tool to the GNOME desktop environment. It is a productivity tool which aids you in organizing your work flow into tasks and sub-tasks, uniquely tagging them so as to get things done in a more efficient manner.
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Memoranda – A Free Personal Diary and Scheduling Tool

Memoranda is a free personal diary and scheduling tool. It is a personal organization tool that you can use to manage your work, life, etc. It is very useful if your day involves work on multiple projects.

Memoranda is truly cross-platform and works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X as it is built using Java.

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