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Living Room / Re: Free learning resources for you and your kids during the pandemic.

« on: April 07, 2020, 08:44 AM »

"... In response, many academic presses have made hundreds of their titles freely accessible online. The Public Books Database aims to catalog such resources in a single location and to highlight titles of particular interest ...":
https://www.publicbo...blic-books-database/

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Living Room / Re: Free resources to help keep you busy while you stay at home during the pandemic

« on: April 07, 2020, 07:25 AM »

You are welcome.

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Living Room / Re: Free resources to help keep you busy while you stay at home during the pandemic

« on: April 06, 2020, 04:51 PM »

SNIPR is a 2 to 4 players turn-based sniper combat simulation (board game):
https://www.tomcooks.com/projects/snipr/

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Living Room / Re: Free learning resources for you and your kids during the pandemic.

« on: April 06, 2020, 03:24 PM »

"... Before school closures, our Treehouse (after-school virtual reality clubs) have been very well received.

Clubs have included getting children to virtually kayak down rivers to learn about how they develop and to explore volcanoes to discover more about their geology.

Given the current pressures on schools due to the COVID-19 outbreak, we have decided to now teach these lessons virtually ...":
https://www.trekview...emergency-timetable/

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Living Room / Re: Free learning resources for you and your kids during the pandemic.

« on: April 06, 2020, 02:28 PM »

Codekeep - curated collection of resources offered for free during this COVID-19 crisis:
https://resources.codekeep.io/

Another collection:
https://github.com/y...lob/master/README.md

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Living Room / Re: Free learning resources for you and your kids during the pandemic.

« on: April 06, 2020, 01:42 PM »

You are welcome.

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Living Room / Re: Free learning resources for you and your kids during the pandemic.

« on: April 06, 2020, 01:07 PM »

Crybabies 

Amazon supports free computer science during COVID-19:
https://www.amazonfu...eer.com/free-courses

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Living Room / Re: Free learning resources for you and your kids during the pandemic.

« on: April 06, 2020, 06:01 AM »

Safety and Cybersecurity at Home 101:
https://zoom.us/webi...cDUDAIQHSthpZdLOCn0Q

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Living Room / Re: Free learning resources for you and your kids during the pandemic.

« on: April 06, 2020, 05:00 AM »

https://group.spring...nd-students/17858180 (free until July 30th)
https://github.com/a...lob/master/README.MD
https://uploadfiles.io/ih7dx11o

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General Software Discussion / Re: What was a great program that's now been forgotten?

« on: April 05, 2020, 04:54 PM »

• Winamp
  
  

-app103 (February 01, 2020, 12:41 AM)

Winamp is still around:
https://winamp.com/
https://webamp.org/

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: April 04, 2020, 12:23 AM »

My Best Self-Defense Advice

If assaulted or confronted by a stranger, sneeze or cough as loudly and hard as you can.

Bionic Mosquito

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Living Room / Re: Free learning resources for you and your kids during the pandemic.

« on: April 03, 2020, 11:05 AM »

https://www.hoppersr...rs.org/bootcamp.html
https://www.hoppersr.../courseSecurity.html
https://www.hoppersr...s.org/courseCTF.html
https://www.hoppersr...pers.org/course.html

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Living Room / Re: Free learning resources for you and your kids during the pandemic.

« on: April 03, 2020, 10:55 AM »

Exo’s Retro Learning Pack:
https://exorlp.xyz/

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Epic Games Store Giveaway

« on: April 03, 2020, 01:39 AM »

Hob is free until April 9th:
https://www.epicgame...-US/product/hob/home

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Living Room / Re: Free learning resources for you and your kids during the pandemic.

« on: April 03, 2020, 12:22 AM »

Pluralsight and Oracle have partnered to provide you with free access to Oracle Cloud courses (free for one year):
https://www.pluralsi....com/partners/oracle

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Living Room / Free resources to help keep you busy while you stay at home during the pandemic

« on: April 03, 2020, 12:18 AM »

https://techcrunch.c...-hbo-now-and-hbo-go/

https://www.acronis....020/03/18-15-17.html (free until July 31st)

https://ringvpn.com/en (free during outbreak)

https://www.3cx.com/...d-19-remote-working/ (free for three years)

https://www.qualys.c...rms/remote-endpoint/ (free for two months)

https://pages.get.li...-work-with-lifesize/ (free for six months)

https://landing.coin...cko.com/how-to-defi/ (free this month)

https://www.firetrus...secure-unlimited-vpn (free until May 31st)

https://humanreadablemag.com/issues (free during outbreak)

https://blobcity.com/blobcity-cloud.html (all plans free until June 30th)

https://www.marvel.c...c-comic-book-stories (free until May 4th)

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Living Room / Re: Free learning resources for you and your kids during the pandemic.

« on: April 02, 2020, 09:43 AM »

Python for non-programmers:
https://store.lerner...non-programmers-live

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Living Room / Re: Free learning resources for you and your kids during the pandemic.

« on: April 02, 2020, 03:35 AM »

Cybersecurity Activity Book for Kids:
https://www.balbix.c...urity-activity-book/

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: March 30, 2020, 01:10 AM »

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: March 30, 2020, 01:09 AM »

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Living Room / Re: How can I find the link of an embedded video file?

« on: March 29, 2020, 12:04 PM »

https://support.pano...udio-Streams-as-MP4s

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chrome Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« on: March 28, 2020, 10:09 AM »

Poper Blocker automatically removes all ad pop ups, pop unders, and overlays for a cleaner browsing experience:
https://poperblocker.com/

Hello, Goodbye blocks annoying chat widgets:
https://chrome.googl...gnfpbfedkdokihggapoi

Epilepsy Blocker is a simple chrome extension that analyzes animated GIFs while you are browsing the web and blocks the ones that may cause an epileptic seizure:
https://chrome.googl...ijhpjcmnbjlejlfejokb

Channel Blocker allows you to block YouTube videos and comments by blacklisting users and/or by using regular expressions:
https://chrome.googl...klibjddenhnofgnfcdfp

Reader Mode is a feature-packed Chrome reading extension and web app that removes clutter, ads and distractions, while also includes dyslexia support, bookmarking, annotating, highlighting, text-to-speech and many other features all in one tool:
https://chrome.googl...flfimocjggfjdlmlhblm

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Living Room / Re: Free learning resources for you and your kids during the pandemic.

« on: March 24, 2020, 11:50 AM »

https://blog.archive...ents-and-the-public/

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General Software Discussion / Re: some useful but less-known software. share your list!!!

« on: March 24, 2020, 11:08 AM »

Open Live Writer is a powerful, lightweight blog editor:
http://openlivewriter.org/

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Living Room / Re: Share your tips and comforts for dealing with the stress and fear of a pandemic

« on: March 24, 2020, 09:09 AM »

@panzer:
Many thanks for the games link (above).   
It's going to be war in our house in lockdown now - 3 kids (me and my 2 kids) all competing for use of the same laptop, so as to play games.

-IainB (March 23, 2020, 03:16 PM)

Well, very well received Child of Light is free until March 28th:
https://store.ubi.co...3be1633568b4d36.html

So, download it, let children play for a couple of days and then it is your turn.

#DaddyWantsToPlayToo
#DaddyHasRightsToo
#DadyNeedsGames
#IPayedForLaptop
#MomIsMyBossButIAmYours