Archive for the ‘Free Apps’ Category

Automate Your Life With iGoogle

How awesome would it be to access your email, calendar, news, favorite blogs & websites, social networks, and more in one central location regardless of which computer you are using? Wouldn’t it be even more awesome if you could set all that up by yourself…..for FREE. You can! It’s fast, easy, and you don’t need [...]

Social Bookmarking vs. Use of Handouts

So often at events/trainings we find ourselves passing out prized resource lists, which often contain references to websites. In and of itself this approach is not wrong, in fact its ok. But what if there were a way for you to share your website resources  that would prove beneficial to you and your audience beyond [...]

FREE Alternative to Delivering a Live Webinar

If you participated in any of my “How To Plan A Webinar” webinars, you have heard me recommend a tool called SlideShare, which is a FREE service that allows you to share a PowerPoint presentation (as well as other document formats) without having to be live. Slideshare offers many benefits that ordinary file sharing services [...]

FREE Web Design & Hosting Service

Need a website but don’t have access to an experienced web designer, or a budget? While tapping into the expertise of an experience web designer is most desirable, there are some free web design/hosting services that will get you started. Googling “free web design” will provide you with a number of options worth exploring, but [...]

Wordle! Free App Does More Than You Think

Wordle is a great web-based app that pulls together words and then automatically creates a visually pleasing word cloud. In and of itself it’s really “no biggie”, I mean who really cares about word clouds as a stand alone item? It’s only when you stop to consider how this little web-based application can potentially be [...]

Create Site Specific Browsers: FREE with Fluid

Good things come in small packages and that holds true for one of my new favorite apps, Fluid. Fluid allows you to turn your favorite website into its own site specific browser window. I know what you’re thinking, “what’s the big deal, I open websites in new windows/tabs all the time?” Here’s the big [...]

Why YOU Should Be Using Gmail

If you have multiple email accounts and/or you are checking your email from different computers, you should seriously consider switching to using Gmail as your email client instead of relying upon something like Outlook or your email’s webmail offering.
Benefits of Using Gmail

Gmail is FREE and allows you to funnel in all of your email accounts [...]

50 FREE Cross-Platform Applications & Services

The 50 FREE  Tech Resources listed below are truly free and are cross platform (many are web-based). There is no cost to download, nor do they have an expiration date/trial period. This list includes everything you would need to operate your organization or your business, aside from your computer and internet access. It even includes [...]

Stop Website Spam with reCAPTCHA! FREE Tool

These days its not uncommon to see a web form that requires you to enter a series of malformed letters, or to answer a math question in an effort to prove that your submission as been made by you—A HUMAN (as opposed to a computer). This process of validating human vs. computer is commonly known [...]

FREE Cross Platform DVD Ripper

Sometimes its hard to believe they are FREE, but there are some amazing FREE TECH RESOURCES out there. Today’s focus is on video. I’m often asked how and what software should be used to rip (copy) a DVD to a computer. My recommendation is Handbrake. Handbrake is FREE and available for Macs, Windows, and [...]

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