Technology Advice and Policies
- Alternative search engines:
- https://duckduckgo.com/ (The search engine that doesn’t track you)
- https://www.startpage.com/ (most private search engines)
- The Internet Archive Way-back machine
- “Top 10 simple things every computer user should know how to do,” by Whitson Gordon | Lifehacker
- “Tech support cheat sheet,” by Randall Munroe | xkcd
- “Choosing a Good Password,” by Joe Sanjour, Andrew Arensburger, Anne Brink | University of Maryland
- Choose a safe password: https://www.safepasswd.com/
- “Maintaining Sanity and Security: Why Use a Password Manager?,” by Amy Cavender | ProfHacker
CC and Royalty-free archives
- Search creative commons media database
- Old book illustrations
- PublicDomainvectors
- Unsplash
- Public Domain Prelinger Online Film Archive
- Seeklogo
- BBC Sound Effects
F/LOSS Software
- https://alternativeto.net
- Libre Office
- Password manager: Keepass
- Collaborative writing online: Etherpad | Piratepad
- Collaborative calculation tool: Ethercalc
Video editing:
- SHOTCUT Video editing software
- Davinci Resolve Video editing software
- STORYBOARDER storyboarding software (Openculture review)
- MPEG Streamclip: video converter
Screen recording:
- Bandicam (registration needed)
- Win: Win screenrecorder
- Win/OsX/Linux: Open Broadcast project
- Webrecorder: https://webrecorder.io/
Android App store:
- FOSS App Store F-Droid
Save time by using keyboard shortcuts
This might sound like trivial advice, but you’ll become a much more proficient computer user if you take advantage of common keyboard shortcuts instead of using the mouse to point and click every time you want to do something.
- “Keyboard shortcuts for Google documents,” by Google
- “Six keyboard shortcuts every computer user should know,” by Adam Dachis | Lifehacker
- “Back to basics: learn to use keyboard shortcuts like a ninja,” by Thoron Klosowski | Lifehacker
- “Keyboard shortcuts for Windows,” by Microsoft
- “OS X keyboard shortcuts,” by Apple
