One Must Become Nerdy To Achieve Awesomeness
I am always limited by the programs that I have available on my computer. Instead of running out and buying software that I don’t know how to use, I do what I always do… I scoured the internet for free stuff.
Most sites dedicated to helping noobs with video editing or clothing creation for second life direct readers to open source downloads. Open Source programs sometimes are a pain to install, so be sure to completely read the read me file before installing the software. This has come in handy when I’ve needed to do some photo editing that went outside the realm of what iPhoto could do. I downloaded a program called Gimp, and I’m Photo-shopping away for free. Nice!
What It Means
You can think of Open Source software as a sort of Wikipedia in software form. These programs are being continuously developed by separate developers who donate their contributions for the purpose of making the program more useful/powerful/better-than anything-Microsoft-could-come-up-with/ etc.
A Couple Of Links To Get You Started
This is a blasphemous article in Mashable with 480 open source downloads, though
they’re not listed by platform (OS X, Windows).
Mac users can go here. PC users can go here.
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