PC Stuff

Free Web Services

Blogger www.blogger.com
The standard for online journal publishing. Blog was the new word of the year.

Hello www.hello.com
Let’s you share photos online easily. A great place to archive picture files online, so your friends can access them at anytime - even when you’re not online. Also integrates with blogger.com!

Yodlee OnCenter www.yodlee.com
Just one password unlocks all of your online banking accounts in a single consolidated view. Many of the major banks use Yodlee’s service for their own aggregate banking website.

No-IP www.no-ip.com
Do you have a dynamic IP address? No problem. No-IP is a leading dynamic DNS service provider.

Calendars Net www.calendars.net
Calendars Net is a free interactive web calendar hosting service, where you and anyone you choose can post events visible and printable by whomever you choose, or everyone that visits your calendar.

Free Software

OpenOffice www.openoffice.org
An amazing office suite that is compatible with many of Microsoft’s products including Word and Excel. Built and supported by the open source community.

Picasa www.picasa.com
Fantastic digital photo organizing and photo sharing software package. Like the website says this is “The software that should have come with your digital camera!”

Filezilla filezilla.sourceforge.net
FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client and server with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface.

Firefox www.getfirefox.com
Are you still using IE? Firefox 1.0 empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser. Join more than 10 million others and make the switch today — Firefox imports your Favorites, settings and other information, so you have nothing to lose.

Thunderbird www.getthunderbird.com
From the same people (www.mozilla.org) that brought you Firefox comes Thunderbird. This program makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, built-in RSS reader, quick search, and much more. So why are you still using Outlook Express?

BitTorrent www.bittorrent.com
One of the best, if not the best, P2P sharing programs around. BitTorrent is different in that you connect to more than one person at once, and as soon as you start downloading you also can upload to others. This little app has the RIAA and MPAA shaking in their lawsuit happy boots.

Ad-Aware www.lavasoft.com
Get rid of all that spyware on your PC fast!

Exact Audio Copy www.exactaudiocopy.org
A complete CD music ripping program. EAC includes CDDB access so you don’t have to type all that info in.

TightVNC www.tightvnc.com
Now you always have access to your PC wherever you go. The client is so small it just makes it so easy and convenient to download on another PC.

IrfanView www.irfanview.com
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative freeware graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003.

Gimp www.gimp.org
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Free Websites

Slickdeals www.slickdeals.net
Find great deals, coupons, price mistakes on everything from computer parts to toaster ovens. Be sure to take a look at the deals provided by the users in the forums.

Deviantart www.deviantart.com
Site with incredibly huge community of artists of all types where everyone shares and comments on each other’s work. DA also has a subscription service which gives you more options.