Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. Benetech has long been a pioneer in providing innovative services to people with print disabilities.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review the Nominet Trust 100 nominations for the very best technologies for social good, the big TechSoup/ Guardian Technology for Good Report, The soft launch of Hacker Helper, a new free service that sends money over email, the world’s most popular websites, and two new Netflix style subscription services for eBooks.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

It’s actually the thing that put Macintosh on the map in the 80’s. It also creates digital documents like eBooks, reports, PDFs, and webpages. is a free open source application. Inkscape is another free open-source program that does much of what Adobe Illustrator. It is not a cloud application.

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