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Unsplash.com

Copyright free images for free. It’s true

Posted on August 16, 2013 by

If we were to tell you that there’s finally a place where you can get copyright free images for free, what would you say? Figment of our imagination? Blatant lies?

Let us assure you, it’s true. Unsplash is a site where you can find copyright free images in all their splendor for use anywhere for free. The site hosts 10 free, high resolution images every 10 days. So, not only do you not have to pay for using them, the images are free of copyright restrictions under a Creative Commons CC0 designation.

Unsplash, launched barely some days ago, was created by ooomf, an online marketplace to attract creative talent for Online projects. If you subscribe to this new startup’s mailing list, you may even receive regular updates on new photos. The uploaded images are dynamic & of superior quality like this one.

Unsplash

All of us who use the Web know how difficult it is to lay our hands on copyright free images. There’s always some hidden clause, or some built-in cost. That is not so in this case.

Unsplash.com is a free image project driven by the Tumblr engine. The creators of all images hosted on Unsplash have waived off all rights. The images are hosted on the Amazon Cloud. We found many of the images to be in the “general” category so if you are, for example, looking for an image for a product or service, this may not be the place for you to be. Nevertheless, it is a good beginning, especially if you are an advertiser or into designing Splash pages.

Image Credit: Unsplash

 

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Kiwix

Offline reader Kiwix allows users to use Wikipedia, HTML stuff without being connected to the Web

Posted on August 12, 2013 by

With digital storage space having increased in leaps & bounds, & even becoming cheap, downloading stuff from the Net is no longer a daunting task. This is why an offline reader like Kiwix comes handy these days.

Kiwix is a reader for Web content, and is to be used for offline reading. It’s a software especially intended to make Wikipedia available to people without using Internet. But this offline reader is not limited only to Wikipedia. It can be used for all HTML Content. Kiwix supports the ZIM format, a highly compressed open format with additional meta-data.

Kiwix is a free software, which means you can freely copy, modify & distribute it.

Those who may use this offline reader include education institutions and any other organizations who cannot afford to have a broadband Internet connection. But it can also be used for personal purposes to save bandwidth & time.

As we said before, to use this offine reader, you need to first download the software. It works on desktop systems, like Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, & also for Android-based devices. Once downloaded, users may extract it afterwards on their desktops. Once this is done, specifically for Wikipedia, it throws up options of downloading items from the Wikipedia-related libraries.

Kiwix provides a range of features which make the usage comfortable:

  • Full text search engine
  • Bookmarks & Notes
  • HTTP server
  • PDF/HTML export
  • User interface in more than 100 languagesTabs navigation
  • Integrated content manager and downloader
  • Multi-language options
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