Best free educational apps
Locate free online books fast
Andreas Büsing has written to let me know about a search engine for free books. According to Andreas, it searches more than 450 sites and covers "public domain texts, open books, free audio books, ad-supported books and more.
http://www.justfreebooks.info
Free Web service offers instant online classes
This is a free web-based Moodle Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) that allows you to set up web classes immediately after registering. It not only an administrative system but also a teaching system with many features to improve the learning experience. Thanks to subscriber Andreas Büsing for letting me know about this site.
http://ninehub.com/
800,000 user guides
Lost that printer manual? Looking for that Network Card Setup Guide? If so, you can probably find them here in this huge online collection of manuals which cover just about every kind of electronic device and consumer item. Thanks to Lex for this one.
http://safemanuals.com/
Learn to touch type for free
Why pay for a commercial typing tutor program when you can use a free online site like this?
http://www.powertyping.com
Free education programs for children
I recently had an email from Marianne Wartoft about a site she has created featuring educational freeware for children. I checked it out and it looks terrific. As for the quality programs featured, I can't say but they certainly look engaging.
http://www.educational-freeware.com/
Practical how-to meditation guide
If you want to get the benefits of meditation without the mumbo-jumbo, then check out this free guide.
http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html