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Fainting Goat,
Madison's Advertising,
Marketing &
Web Development
Agency, offers
Free tips for
improving your
business.
Free
lunch, Part
Deux:
MORE of Fainting
Goat’s picks
for the BEST
FREE Business
Tools online
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There
was such a
resounding
response from
Fainting Goat's
last Free Tips
newsletter,
that we've
created a second
part to our
picks for the
BEST Free business
tools online.
If
you missed
Part One for
the Best Free
Tools, you
can find it
here.
I.
Free
Communication
Tools:
Part
2
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Groove
Virtual Office
Groove simplifies
collaboration
by letting
you create
shared workspaces
where you and
others collaborate
on documents,
discuss plans,
and more. After
60 days, the
trial version
loses some
features, such
as file synchronization--but
its core collaboration
features remain.
Monzilla
Firefox
: this free
web browser
[the 2005 product
of the year]
continues to
improve with
a better set
of featur es
and stronger
security than
Microsoft's
Internet Explorer.
CraigsList.org:
forget about
paying the
big bucks on
classified
print advertisements
when you can
do it for free.
Craigslist
exists in over
200 cities
around the
globe and Madison
is well-represented.
Spyware
can
slow
your
system,
monitor
where
you
surf,
and
even
make
your
browser
malfunction.
Though
no
tool
is
a
cure-all,
Spybot
Search
&
Destroy
is
a
powerful
antidote
to
many
ills.
In
addition
to
finding
and
deleting
spyware,
Spybot
can
continuously
monitor
your
system
for
changes,
giving
you
an
opportunity
to
permit
or
disallow
critical
Registry
modifications
before
they
happen.
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Is
someone
monitoring
your
surfing?
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Stay organized
with this straightforward
to-do list
manager: Ta-Da List
i's web based
which means
you can access
your list from
anywhere.
Yahoo
Widgets
puts "widgets"
on your desktop
that provide
news updates,
weather reports,
stock tickers,
or photos.
Also, it provides
handy little
services, like
performing
search engine
queries, storing
your notes,
and more.
It's
6 o'clock.
Do you know
how much disk
space your
files are occupying?
Probably not.
On many systems,
even a 1-byte
file wastes
32KB of space
on your hard
drive. Diskdata
tells you how
much space
each drive,
folder, and
subfolder is
really taking
up--something
Windows itself
won't let you
know. It's
a great tool
for helping
you decide
what to archive
and when to
partition.
Getting
just a bit
paranoid? Then
download CodedDrag,
an encryption
program that
integrates
into Windows,
letting you
drag or right-click
from Explorer
to safeguard
files, directories,
and drives.
You choose
the intensity
of encryption
you want, from
basic 56-bitkey
DES to top
secret 448-bitkey
Blowfish.
III.
Just
for
the
FUN
of
it,
Part
2
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The
GIMP
If
you
can't
afford
to
spend
hundreds
of
dollars
on
Photoshop
but
still
need
sophisticated
image-editing
software,
consider
the
GNU
Image
Manipulation
Program,
aka
the
GIMP.
It
features
an
arsenal
of
image
tools
for
retouching,
layer-based
composition,
and
more.
Audacity
This
simple
sound-file
editor
can
import
audio
files
in
a
variety
of
formats
and
can
export
them
as
.wav,
MP3,
or
Ogg
Vorbis
files.
It's
a
snap
to
use.
Project
Gutenberg
Like
to
read?
Project
Gutenberg
has
been
creating
electronic
versions
of
the
classics
for
three
decades,
and
its
library
currently
contains
the
full
text
of
more
than
17,000
volumes.
Read
them
online,
or
get
your
own
free
CD
or
DVD
containing
thousands
of
titles.
Celestia
When
the
world
seems
too
small
after
all,
launch
Celestia.
You
can
zoom
through
the
solar
system--and
beyond--for
real-time
or
accelerated
views
of
planets,
moons,
comets,
stars,
and
even
the
Hubble
space
telescope.
Heavenly.
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