The Email Unlimited website has a large selection of free, useful email tools. Their pages include easy instructions on how to send email to a wireless phone, 10 services that allow you to email HUGE files, and more.
From the Free Geekery blog:
“While not everything you want can always be free, there are a lot of free things out there for the taking if you know when to go and where. So take advantage of this list, and start getting all the free stuff you deserve…”
The list includes items ranging from food and drink to online curriculum at MIT!
All modern flavors of Windows ship with Notepad and Wordpad. For some, who prefer to keep things simple, these are all the writing or word processing applications that are necessary or needed. Others will need more features and horsepower in a word processing application.
We like OpenOffice Writer as a free alternative to Microsoft Word. The only problem with Writer is that you must install the entire OpenOffice suite to get it. Another popular free standalone alternative is Abiword.
The DonationCoder website recently posted a comprehensive review of modern word processing applications. It was written by Zaine Ridling, who runs The Great Software List. The ending summary is linked here for those who wish to “cut to the chase”.
The Web Worker Daily blog has also recently posted an article listing 10 free minimalist word processors for greater productivity. In their words, “if you don’t need a million features and don’t want to shell out 400 clams to write something, give one of these great alternatives a spin”.
We couldn’t have said it any better ourselves…
PC World columnist Richard Morochove writes:
Just because you manage a business doesn’t mean you have to throw money around. A penny-pinching business manager can access some useful services and applications with no financial outlay.
We took at look at 15 of the best business freebies. They handle everything from customer relationship management and e-commerce Web sites to e-mail accounts, customer mailing lists, and business management training.
Many entail nothing more than Internet access, a Web browser, and a few minutes of your time for user registration. Others require you to download and install some software to access their capabilities.
All are free. Some have paid versions that offer additional features and higher capacities.
There is really no reason for any small business not to have a web presence in this day and time. Of particular interest is Microsoft Office Live Basics, which lets a small business establish an online presence by providing a domain name along with the capacity for managing a good-sized Web site and a couple of dozen e-mail accounts.
Google Apps for your Domain isn’t listed among the fifteen sites in the article, but it is a similar suite of easy-to-use tools for small business.
As always, if you need assistance putting any of these free tools or services to work for you, contact us!
Photos are everywhere on the web. From sharing with friends, to editing, printing, buying, selling, searching, remixing and free hosting, Mashable has lined up a plethora of resources for photo fiends - an outstanding list of 90+ Online Photography Tools and Resources.
In addition, the Photo Freeware website has free tools, software, filters and resources available as well.
Edit 06/26/2007: The Smiley Cat web design blog has posted an interesting comparison of online photo and image editors. Several others are mentioned in the post’s comments. These may be worth having a look at as well.
To follow up on our original Free Games post, here’s 100 of the best legal free full version games you can download online courtesy of the PC Gaming blog. Be sure to check out the comments to that blog entry for even more suggestions! Check back if you get a “This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota” message as it’s a pretty popular post right now.
Earlier this year, we blogged about botnets. Today’s news headlines include an Associated Press article written by Lara Lakes Jordan titled FBI pulls plug on several botnet hackers.
Some excerpts:
“More than 1 million computers — possibly yours, too — are used by hackers as remote-controlled robots to crash online systems, accept spam and steal users’ personal information, the FBI said Wednesday. The government has no way to track down all the computers, both in the U.S. and elsewhere, that hackers have massed into centrally controlled collections known as botnets.
FBI Deputy Assistant Director Shawn Henry said that people should have their computers checked regularly for evidence of botnet infection, including using antivirus software or security firewalls. ‘People have their cars inspected once a year to make sure they’re safe,’ Henry said. ‘You’ve got to do the same types of things with your computers.’”
Carputers specializes not only in malware removal, but in computer system hardening - taking proactive steps to make certain that your computer’s potential vulnerability is minimized. This includes user training and awareness as well as anti-malware software and PC configuration.
If you have questions or need assistance protecting your computer and your personal data, contact us! We would be happy to be of service to you.
It’s no secret that Picasa is our favorite photo cataloging and editing application. We advise people all the time to uninstall the software that shipped with their digital camera and use Picasa instead. Picasa pulls the pictures out of your digital camera or off of your flash memory device and makes it easy for even non-technical people to catalog, edit, manipulate, and share them.
Lifehacker’s Wendy Boswell has written an excellent guide on how to use Picasa to organize your digital photo collection.
From the dumb little man blog:
“For millions of people, Google is an indispensable search tool … Google is the go-to search engine.
But instead of just typing in a phrase and wading through page after page of results, there are a number of ways to make your searches more efficient.“
Following these tips are but one step towards becoming a “Google-fu master“!
Mike Elgan writes:
A camera phone is more than just a camera and a phone, much more than the sum of its parts. Camera phones are the “Swiss Army Knife” of gadgets, performing the role of other tools — if you know how to use them.
Here are ten useful tools you can find inside your camera phone right now…
These tips are so simple you’ll slap your forehead and wonder why you didn’t think of them.