» Essen­tial / Rec­om­mended Soft­ware & Ser­vices for upcom­ing semes­ter (see below)
 
— please sug­gest more in com­ments!
(we should com­pile an updated list of use­ful free pro­grams and mobile apps…)

related read­ing:

The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Inter­net
By Chris Ander­son and Michael Wolff
August 17, 2010 | Wired Sep­tem­ber 2010

» Rec­om­mended Soft­ware & Services

• Browser: Mozilla Fire­fox       or Google Chrome

   

  Exten­sions (plugins):
  • Ad-Block Plus
  • “Add This”
  • “Press This” (Word­Press)
  • Pixlr Grab­ber
  • — more exten­sion sug­ges­tions com­ing soon

   

• Email App: Thun­der­bird
• * CU email setup (via Google Apps): instruc­tions

   

• Ever­note

 

• Word­Press Mobile App

 

• Google Drive (part of CU Google Apps)

 

• Drop­box

 

• Google Voice for Stu­dents

 

• Ama­zon Stu­dent — includes AZ Prime one-year free membership

 

• Adobe Photoshop.com (free online tools & apps)

 

• Open Office.org (free open-source soft­ware suite)

 

• Google Docs (part of CU Google Apps)

 

• Docs.com (“Microsoft Office 2010 – Docs for Face­book”)

 

• Pocket (Read It Later)