Tag: CREATIVE COMMONS

Looking for a way to expand GIMP's default toolset? Have a look at Gimp Paint Studio, a Creative Commons-licensed set of brushes and tool presets that add a wide range of new artistic options to your painter's toolbox. While GPS itself is a fantastic and functional add-on for GIMP, its creators hope that it also provides a spark to encourage others to experiment with the open source photo app's ...

Veezzle is a newcomer on the image search arena, and it focuses mainly on photos that are okay to use commercially. I usually turn to Compfight for things like that, but Compfight sources all of its images only from Flickr; Veezzle seems to pull in images from all over the place. Overall, the site feels a bit nascent. One remarkable thing is that they managed to pick a domain name that is almost ...

Despite its despotic, glaring omission of vowels, you can probably guess what Bulkr does. That's the power of brand recognition, eh! If you can't work it out, here's a clue: bulk + flickr = ... Specifically, Bulkr does two things -- and it does them well. First, you can download your entire Flickr stream -- either as one big stream of images, or broken into directories for each of your Sets. ...

Dig.ccmixter.org is a section of ccmixter.org dedicated solely to helping you find awesome Creative-Commons licensed music for your free or commercial project. They boast an incredible statistic, claiming that one in six tracks featured on the site is already in use for some project. From what I've sampled, the music does seem to be of very high quality. Each track is clearly labeled with ...

Lower your geek radar detector. You got me. I am a tech blogger. I also have a degree in library science. Guilty as charged, just put me on a cell block with wireless and a supply of graphic novels. I am a librarian who is really okay with wikis. Would I accept every entry in one as gospel? No, but questioning is good in print, too. I believe wikis are, by and large, a decent starting point for ...

With Congressman Tom Lantos' recent death, some attention has been given to the idea of Lawrence Lessig, running for the vacant Silicon Valley seat in a special election in June. The idea is purely speculative at this point, however, there are some signs that a bid could be in the works. For one thing, Facebook has a new group, "Draft Lessig for Congress," with 425 682 members at the time of ...

Who likes music by a wide variety of up and coming artists in many differing and unique genres? Who would like to be able to legally download that music to your computer and portable device? Who thought Spiderman 3 was the best of the trilogy? If you answered in the affirmative to all three of those questions, we're afraid there's no hope for you, my friend. If you said yes to the above two, then ...

Eight days into our Invite-a-palooza, we want to give a shout out to all readers who have taken the time to check out all the neat sites we've featured. We're having a great time giving out invitations, and we're not done yet. Freebase, a collective knowledge database, is a terrific twist on information Web sites like Wikipedia. The creators of Freebase describe it as an "almanac" that sorts and ...

Ficlets spills some Web 2.0-coolness into a cup of collaborative fiction. Users submit super-short fiction stories -- really short. No, like really, incredibly short. All the fiction you can squeeze into 1024 characters short. -- which are then available for others to build upon with "sequels" (or build up to with prequels). They even provide you with inspiration for your stories, in the form of ...

Last week the folks over at Creative Commons released version 3.0 of their licensing suite for user-generated content. The bulk of the changes center around clarifying the existing licenses, and addressing the growing internationalization of Creative Commons content. With 3.0 also comes a compatibility structure that will allow them to identify and certify other licenses as CC BY-SA (Attribution ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/design/CSS_Tinderbox_open_source_web_design_DLS_Design_Tip'; Today's Design Tip, the second in a recently re-launched series, brings some open source layouts to your web design tool box. The CSS Tinderbox features some Creative Commons licensed basic layouts that can easily lay the foundation for many of your design projects. All the layouts have previews available, ...

Google just donated $30,000 to the Creative Commons. The place that makes created works "copyrighted" for lack of a better word is apparently in Google's list as a benefactee. You may have heard the buzz around the web that is was not a big deal for Google to drop $30,000 to support CC. Heck, I wish they would donate 30 G's to me, I already sing their praises. I ask you: if Google's money meant ...

Google is full of cash that they have to offload. Perhaps just for tax purposes, but also just to be good and give back to the community that gave them so much. What better place to give a nice wad of cash to then the Creative Commons (CC) during their annual fundraising campaign? Creative Commons is a little non-profit organization that helps creators of original content retains their licensing ...

Looking for music that is licensed for consumption, are you? Well, today you get "Lucky." How about Creative Commons-licensed, to be more specific? Our own "Toxic" Grant Robertson has found "Britney" to help you socially find and share your favorite CC-music (and other free-to-use licenses) and use it for whatever non-commercial means your music-loving heart desires. Britney is a digg-like site ...

Yotophoto is a search engine specifically for free-to-use images. Most of the images it indexes have been released under Creative Commons, GNU FDL, or similar licenses, and a smaller percentage are in the public domain. This means you can use any images indexed by Yotophoto without feeling subversive. And if you don't want to go to the trouble of visiting the Yotophoto web site, there's a search ...