Tag: FREE

Zac Browser

This is a cool example of finding a way to make things work – when there’s not (many) other options available.

From USA Today:

John LeSieur is in the software business, so he took particular interest when computers seemed mostly useless to his 6-year-old grandson, Zackary. The boy has autism, and the whirlwind of options presented by PCs so confounded him that he threw the mouse in frustration.

LeSieur tried to find online tools that could guide autistic children around the Web, but he couldn’t find anything satisfactory. So he had one built, named it the Zac Browser For Autistic Children in honor of his grandson, and is making it available to anyone for free.

The browser is geared towards kids with autism but looks like it could be a good way for other kids to learn the web and computers as well.

Download the software here.

The economics of free

I’m a big fan of things that are free. Isn’t everyone?

Chris Anderson, editor and chief of Wired Magazine was on Charlie Rose’s show discussing his book, Long Tail (hat tip to John for the original tip).

Very interesting ideas about the economics of the web, along with his latest cover story from Wired Magazine.

Common Craft also had some interesting thoughts on Anderson’s ideas:

I want to talk a bit about how “Free” has impacted Common Craft…

Being a small company, we need to keep costs down, and the free economy has been a huge help…

  • Bandwidth: We pay zero bandwidth costs to serve our videos online.
  • Web hosting: Our web site is essentially free to us thanks to the fine folks at RainCity Studios.
  • Marketing: We spend little, if anything on traditional marketing.
  • Communication/Collaboration: We’re heavy users of Google’s free business services
  • At the same time, we’ve oriented our business around freeness.

Let’s pretend that we started making videos like RSS in Plain English with the purpose of making money from them directly, perhaps by charging for access. Here’s what wouldn’t have happened:

  • We wouldn’t have put the videos on You Tube, Blip.tv, etc.
  • The videos would have never been spread across the Web via bloggers.
  • We would not have a popular blog or videos with lots of views.
  • There would not be demand for our custom services
  • We would not have worked for Google, H&R Block, Redfin, etc.
  • We wouldn’t have a recognizable brand.
  • We would not be so happy right now

In case you didn’t know, every Charlie Rose interview is also available for free on the Interweb.

FREE: Videos now through Christmas

WorshipHouse Media is giving away a FREE download every weekday until Christmas! That’s right… every weekday. Go HERE and click on the “Daily Freebie” ad to go to each day’s freebie.

Stock up on some videos for your church for 2008 or for this Christmas.

Hat tip to Church Video Ideas

I scream you scream we all scream for free ice cream

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Next week…. May 15, 2007…. get your FREE ICE CREAM!

Whoooo.

Haagen-Dazs is offering free samples of their two new flavors, cinnamon dulce de leche & sticky toffee pudding.

Right on.

Find the nearest Haggen-Dazs to you and get ready for some free frozen goodness.

Thanks to Wisebread for the heads up.

Power your church/ministry website with WordPress

Delta theme for WordPress

If you’re still behind the curve, remember it is 2007 and your church and ministry needs a website. Why not use WordPress or Blogger to power your site?

It’s as easy to use as blogging and with RSS already built in, visitors can always have the latest information delivered to their e-mail or RSS reader.

Seriously, it doesn’t get much easier.

And here are a few great themes to plug-in and get started with.

Delta Theme (as seen above)

Several other themes by the same designer

And here’s a great example of how you can really put WordPress to work: Missouri Valley Baptist
Or there’s also a sample site, Cory Miller did to show off how you can make a website with minimal effort and maintenance with Blogger.

Thanks to Cory Miller for the links.