Free Stuff On The Web
September 23, 2008 at 5:12 pm
As we face into austere times and with much talk about belt tightening around, I’m delighted to present below for your consumption a list of free things on the web that can be of use to you. Thanks to Twitter buddies @bohoe and @ericnieuden for their contributions.
- Pix.ie – great site for storing and sharing your photos. Better than other photo sharing sites, Flickr and Picasa because of more intuitive navigation, no limitation of number of albums, it’s Irish, and you get a whacking 6 Gig of free storage space. That means for the average person you can put up nearly all your photos before having to pay a thing! On Flickr you’ve to pay $24.95.
- Want to get your pics in tip top shape before you publish? You don’t need to pay $999 to Adobe when you can use Picnik or Photoshop Express for free.
- Weebly – for free web design, hosting, and content management. Shh! I’ll be putting us out of business (not really!)
- Contacts Management, To-Do Lists, etc. from 37signals.com – I love all their products, using Highrise to keep on top of remembering birthdays, and phone numbers. And Basecamp helps me run projects on budget and on time which saves my clients money.
- Iwantsandy.com is a very intuitive virtual assistant. Write her emails or use twitter to store and retrieve info, get reminders and such.
- Can’t afford to buy MS Office? Try Google Docs instead of Word. It’s free, allows collaboration, and because it’s online, you can travel with it! I also use Google Calendar instead of paper these days, so that’s another €9.99 saved on paper product.
- Office Live Workspace and Small Business – can access doc’s online
- Office Accounting Express – free and easy accounting package that you can download and use with Word, Excel, etc.
- Looking to save on legal fees for that contract? With file sharing site Docstoc.com you need never form out for documentation again! Download business, legal, educational and tech docs for free.
- No need to buy the RTE Guide anymore when you can view TV listings for free online.
- And mobile companies all offer free online texts. I’m with Vodafone, I send around 100 free texts per month which saves me about €240 a year.
- I don’t want to condone free downloading of music and films, but there’s plenty of them about still around!
- And when you’re in need of a laugh, just type in your favourite comedian’s name into YouTube and there they are, performing for free! Here’s Eddie Izzard on technology:
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