We’ll be using a bunch of techniques that involve making a new brush. Okay, technically, it’s called defining a brush preset, but many people refer to it as making a brush since it also can involve tweaking the settings in the Brushes palette. You start with a photo or paint a shape, make a selection, and then choose Edit>Define Brush Preset. Here I made a small selection in a photo (shown in Quick Mask mode, just so it’s easier to see). After choosing Edit>Define Brush Preset, I named my brush and then clicked OK. In order to make the new brush more interesting, I used the Brushes palette (docked in the Palette Well by default) to change some settings. I used the Brush Tip Shape options to rotate the brush slightly and increase the spacing. In the Shape Dynamics options, I changed the Size Jitter to 3% and increased the Angle Jitter to 29%.

I created a new blank document and, using the Brush tool with my new brush shape, I clicked once on one side of the new document. Then while pressing-and-holding the Shift key, I clicked on the other side of the document. This painted a straight line but as you can see, the brush rotated and changed size slightly based on my settings in the Brushes palette.

Another way to make a brush shape is to start with a blank document and create a painted shape. Here I used a standard brush to paint a few lines in black, applied several filters (Motion Blur, Glass, and Dry Brush), and then finished it off with Threshold and a little Gauss-ian Blur. (I’m deliberately not giving you step-by-step instructions here because I want you to start experimenting and making brushes.) Once you’ve created a shape you like, again use Edit>Define Brush Preset to create the brush shape, and then if you like, tweak the settings in the Brushes palette.

Any suggestions, ideas? Feel free to comment on this article!

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List of online free tools that help us to program, design, develope, optimize, etc.

• (X)HTML Validator – Free service that checks Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards.
• CSS Validation Service – Free service that checks Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in (X)HTML documents or standalone for conformance to W3C recommendations.
• 80×15 Brilliant Button Maker – This is a web interface to create “80×15 brilliant buttons”, you can also use two images (one on the left and the other on the right side) to decorate the button.
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• SafariTest – How does your website look on Apple Safari ?
• View you Web Stats in Real-Time 3D! – Web Stats in Video Game Format! Start Viewing Your Live Traffic in Ways You Never Imagined This software applies video game principles to help you easily visualize and better understand your web site traffic statistics. It’s easy: each building represents a web page; each bus a search engine; and each animated character a real visitor to your site! Just paste our tracking code into your web pages, then launch the software for Windows to analyze your stats and watch your traffic in real time.
• Favicon Genereator – This site is an easy to use on-line favicon generator.
• Feed Shark – Easily ping and submit your blog, RSS feed, or podcast to well over 35 services for free.
• Link Popularity Checker – The Link Popularity Checker tells you how many websites are linking to yours. Website popularity is an important factor in your search engine ranking. The more popular your site is, the better it will be ranked on the search engines.
• Online Signature Maker – Creates “300×20″ userbars with input text using nice looking images .
• Google And Yahoo Search Engine Position – This tool will automatically query the search engines Google and Yahoo and check if your URL appears in the first 100 results for your chosen keywords.
• Base 64 Decoder/Encoder – Decode those tricky MIME emails or just find out what those weird query strings are on some search engines. Converts WWW.WHAK.COM to V1dXLldIQUsuQ09N as an example (or vise versa).
• RSS Button Maker – Make your own RSS feed styled buttons for your blogs, over 100 fonts and colors to choose from!
• Email Obfuscator – The Email Obfuscator hides your emailaddresses on your website, so spambots can’t find them. There is an online generator available as well as implementations for jsp, php, asp, c#, asp.net and even a textpattern plugin! Decoding is done by javascript and the generated code is valid xhtml 1.1.
• Clapper Movie Board Generator – Generate your own movie clapper board.
• Post-it Notes Geneator – Generate your own post-it note style message.
• Ascii Art Generator – Generate your ascii art from image or text.
• Anagram Generator – Generate your anagram word.
• Loan Generator – Generate your own loan.
• Favicon from Pics – Create icons for your web pages with FavIcon from Pics.
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• Favicon Generator – Use this online tool to easily create a favicon (favorites icon) for your site. A favicon is a small, 16×16 image that is shown inside the browser’s location bar and bookmark menu when your site is called up.
• More than 1000 free icons for your website – the title says it all …
• Google PageRank checker – Mozilla Search Plugin – Check your website`s google pagerank with firefox Search Plugin.
• Keyword SiteRank checker – Check your website`s ranking with specific keyword in Google, MSN and Altavista.
• Acronyma – Search acronyms in many languages.
• Keyword Tool – One of the best Keyword Tools to find the best fitting keywords.
• Google PageRank, Indexed Page, Backlink Checker – Google PageRank, Indexed Page, Backlink Checker Tools
• Check you site’s backlinks – Check to see how many site are link to your.
• Your ranks on google every days ! – Ranks.fr enable webmasters to get their position on Google every days, for several keywords. A graph shows the evolution of your position.
• Google PR – This tools orders Google search results by PR.
• Font Tester – Online font comparison tool
• List of all online free tools – This URL has all the free useful online tools needed by every webmaster
• DESKTOP WALLPAPER GENERATOR – Now you can make a reminder note that sits right on your desktop with this new image generator (like a sign generator but it makes desktop backgrounds for you PC)! You can leave a funny message on the desktop of public computers (leave a joke at the library, leave a prank message for a friend, remind a loved one of a chore, post your TO DO list, etc), tag all the computers around you!
• Free online PDF converter – One of the best online PDF tool, support 42 file formats. It can also convert back PDF to DOC.
• CafePress Shop JavaScript Generator – Wish your could have your giftwares on your CafePress.com shop dynamically show up on your webpage or blog? Now you can without having to upgrade (I avoid having to pay money, I’m trying to make money) your free Cafe Press store accounts!
• Dynamic MySpace Flash Images – Over 75 fun Flash ecards that you can customize the text message right into the Flash image! You will be given the HTML source code to add to your site so the created image will show up (we host it, hot linking allowed), great MySpace.com (forums/blogs) image addons.
• Make Your Own Sign Generators! – Import your images so you can place custom text on them. Add a cartoon bubble effect with your text too (caption any photo)! Ever hear of a “sign generator” before? Well now you can make your own (free short URL available).
• Live HTML Previewer – **Sometimes you just want to test a simple HTML code (JavaScript, DHTML scriplet, JAVA applets, form submits, CSS layouts, frame layout, table designs, etc) easily and quickly from a free script resource to see what exactly it does before you put the code into any of your valuable live web pages. With our preview HTML form above, you can enter up to 1,000 characters of text (HTML source code) to view code in a live web browser window (your choice, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc).** *This is basically a tool for webmasters to test code (or link to test coding on blogs/sites or just add a link to your JAVA programs) live on someone else’s server…*
• www.web20appz.com – Search engine for Web 2.0 software only. Please submit links to missing web based applications.
• Ebay tools – Tools include a template generator and Ebay fee calculator
• Web 2.0 Button Maker – Web based software to create customized buttons for your webpages (blogs, podcasts, profiles, bookmarking) and ebooks.
• Blog Header Image (Title Bar) – Create your own personalised 750 pixel wide title/subtitle image for your weblog. Adding simple graphic headers can pice up your site and give it some life.
• Text To Logo – Convert simple text into a neat logo for your webpage/blog/podcast/etc.
• PicFindr: search the free-stock-photosphere – PicFindr finds photos and images you can use in your commercial (for money) projects. It searches several popular (and not-so-popular) free stock photo sites simultaneously and combines the results into a single page.
• Fake Identity Generator – Generates a random name, address, phone number, birthdate, and credit card number. Great for spam sites or testing a website.
• Convert Text To PNG Image – Write in up to 1,000 characters of text to be converted into a *.PNG image file (hides clumps of text from spam bots and search engines).
• Text To JPG Email Sig generator – Post your emails or URIs in a text image so they are only human readable (cannot be read by spam harvesting robots). Good tool for making a quick simple logo design.
• Gradient generator – Generates gradients. You can choose between horizontal or vertical, linear or sinusoidal and you can choose the colors and size.
• Online CSS Optimiser/Optimizer – This tool is used to optimise CSS code. Enter either a URL or Copy & Paste the stylesheet into the box, and click Go. More information on this tool can be found on the about page.
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• TAW – Web Accessibility Test – TAW (Web Accessibility Test) is a tool for the accessibility analysis of Web sites, based on the W3C – Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0)
• .htaccess Generator – Our .htaccess generator will generate the files you need (.htaccess and .htpasswd) to password protect a directory of your website. Just input the username and password you require, plus the exact path of the directory you want to protect.
• mod_rewrite RewriteRule Generator – Our mod_rewrite RewriteRule generator will take a dynamic url given to it, and generate the correct syntax to place in a .htaccess file to allow the url to be rewritten in a spiderable format.
• Link Appeal – The Link Appeal tool will calculate the desirability rating of having a link on the url you specify. This calculation includes factors such as PageRank, number of outbound links and the overall percentage of links to html. It is intended as a guideline for evaluating whether you should ask for a link on a certain page or not.
• Dig Utility – Our Dig Utility will allow you to query the Domain Name Service (DNS) database using the dig command to give you the most ‘behind-the-scenes’ information for an address.
• Password Composer -
• Ultra High Security Password Generator – Generating long, high-quality random passwords is not simple. So here is some totally random raw material, generated just for YOU, to start with.
• ASCII-o-Matic -
• TypeTester – The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen.
• Noemata: Random Name Generator – Create unique names for bands, companies, products, internet domains, cyber identites, art projects, computer games, roleplaying, pets.. Millions of combinations available. Grab one and make it yours!!
• Acronym Interaction, Expansion and Extrapolation Engine – With this tool, you can enter any combination of letters you like (from 2 to 6) and we’ll expand them into a handy, technical-sounding, completely made-up phrase that borders on the plausible.
• CSS Menu Generator – Generate both the CSS and the HTML code required to produce a text-based yet appealing set of navigation buttons.
• Background Image Maker – Generates custom stripped/dashed background images.
• WebCron – Webcron is a Web adaptation of this well known Crontab.
• ASCII to HEX to Unicode Converter – An utility to convert ASCII characters to Hexadecimal and Unicode
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• Information about you – All possible information about you based on your browser details from dnsstuff.com
• The Box Office – The Box Office lets you wrap/float/contour text around freeform images using CSS for usage in (X)HTML pages.
• Search Rank Watch – See your sites ranking in the top 10 search engines.
• Online Image Splitter – Image splitting is a technique most often used to slice a larger image into smaller parts to make it load faster. Online Image Splitter makes it easier to slice images and download the HTML tags for pasting the slices back together.
• Cookie Tester – This page can be used to test your browser cookies related settings.
• iCapture – Safari screenshots.
• Xenu’s Link Slueth – Checks your sites for broken links. Displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. Customized reporting can be produced at any time (broken links by page, broken links by link, sitemap, etc.)
• Avatar Generator – Avatar Maker – Over 5,000 avatar/icon generators (about 100 pages to browse). Create your own customized avatars with your personalized words/text. You will be able to select an avatar image, choose a font, colour and position and write your name (or anything really) on it.
• Pretty Printer for PHP, Java, C++, C, Perl, JavaScript, CSS – This is a source code beautifier (source code formatter), similiar to indent.
• Acrobot – Use the form below to convert all your acronyms to use the acronym tag with the appropriate title.
• Quimble – Create inline AJAX polls for your website.
• Don’t “Copy & Paste” And Surf! – Did you know that in Micrososft Internet Explorer their is a security breach that can allow any website to retrieve your last copy and pasted data from your ClipBoard? This page will demonstrate the exploit and also has a page that forces your Clpbook to be cleared out for safety (bookmark it or even set it as your homepage).
• Classement Google – Just type a keyword and a url and classementgoogle.com will tell you its position on the Google.fr DataCenters.
• Glitter Maker (Make Animated Text) – Glitter Maker is a free online glitter graphic web application where you can quickly and easily generate free glitter graphics (animated sparkle text with yur own words)! Make your own “sparklies”! He have made an online Glitter Generator! You can choose from hundreds of fonts (preview of each) and choose hundreds of background colors for your animated sparkle text effects. Over 100 text glitter effects!
• Resizr – Online image resizr – Resize image from harddrive or directly from the web.
• Tool Shows the Google Page Rank of all Links – This interesting tool shows the Google Page Rank of all outbound links from any webpage. Try using it on a google search.
• Quick Escape – It’s a tool that lets you quickly paste in HTML and for that to be converted to escaped characters which can be pasted back in to your HTML source code so that it renders on screen.
• BrowserCam – Cross-Browser Screen Captures and Instant Remote Access
• BrowserShots – Let web designers view screenshots of their pages in different browsers, at different screen resolutions and with different plugins.
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• PXN8 – Online image editor.
• E-Mail Icon Generator – For GMail, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo!, AOL and many more!
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• Pixel Button – PixelButton is an Antipixel online generator, easy and fast to use. This little buttons created by Jeremy Hedley, become larged used expecially among bloggers, because they are nice looking, very visible and it’s easy to place theme inside a site layout.
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• Rot13 Encryptor / Decryptor – Rot13 stands for “rotate 13 places” in the alphabet. It’s a very trivial encryption. Applying it again to the ciphertext produces the plaintext. This encrytper / decrypter works right in your browser using javascript.
• PDF Online – Quickly and easily convert your documents into PDF from anywhere in the world
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• ASCII Chart -
• Color scheme chooser & Color Blender – To help you select the colour scheme for your web site, use the 2 tools on this site … The color Scheme Chooser and the Color Blender… Enjoy!…;)
• Tabifier – The tabifier is a tool to properly indent computer code. The style it produces is a mix of my personal preferences for indentation plus what I could manage to make a program produce from dirty source. The tabifier currently supports CSS, and HTML with embedded CSS. JavaScript and PHP embedded in HTML will be preserved without changes (except extra indentation if applicable). Comments are left completely alone (so extra lines inside comments will not be indented, though the opening tag will).
• Wufoo – Wufoo is a web-based tool to help you build and host amazing online forms. In only a few short minutes, you can create a mailing list, a marketing survey or even a complete customer management system.
• Link Checker – Our Link Checker will read the page you specify, extract the links from it and test the status of each one. If any errors are found (broken links) these are reported.
• Web Page Analyser – Our Web Page Analyser will read the page you specify, and put it through a few basic tests to see if qualifies as ‘search-engine-friendly’ for the phrase you specify. It then gives a report on the good, and the bad points of the page in SEO terms.
• Websafe Colour Tool – Our Websafe Colour Tool will calculate the closest color in the 216 color web-safe palette to the hex colour that you specify.
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• CSS Creator: Layout Generator – Generate a CSS layout for your site
• Random Texture Generator – The Random Texture Generator is a free online tool which automatically generates unique one of a kind backgrounds and textures which you can use for web page backgrounds, buttons, logos, and other graphic projects.
• Web2.0Generator – This site will automatically generate the XHTML/CSS layout for your new Web 2.0 site.
• Meta Tag Analyzer Tool – This script analyze not only the Meta Tags but try to use the same spider technology as the spiders them self.
• CSS Form Code Maker – This HTML – CSS form generator will create a nice looking layout for forms. The time is now right – to move to ‘tableless’ layout for forms. And at the same time, add a ‘little color’ to the forms.
• Email Riddler – Email Riddler is an online tool that encrypts and transform your email address into a series of numbers when displaying it, making it virtually impossible for spam harvesters to crawl and add your email to their list.
• Button Generator – Use this online tool to easily and visually create those popular “XHTML valid” micro buttons (80×15). You can also opt for the larger 88×31 button instead.
• TileMachine – Generate tiled images.
• SurFTP – Web based FTP client.
• Favicon Validator – Favicon Validator is a free online service that can be used to validate favicon files, link tags and related items on web pages.
• Custom Sign & Image Generator Fun – Create thousands of digital graphics online with this free interactive web tool. Make web images like buttons, personalized logos, funny cartoons, banners, ecards, religious pix, signs, anti-spam email sigs, book covers, political parodies, warning labels, customized posters, celeb parody pics, controversial government/FBI seals, blog promo ads, etc! Almost all your image making tools you need on one site…
• colr.org – Handy site for exploring color schemes
• free graphics and programming – Ask your graphics creations or programming free! Use our banner generator
• Contact Form Generator – Enables you to create form-to-email scripts for your ASP, PHP or Perl web site with no programming skills needed.
• freeware – to get the best of the softwares
• DNS Query Utility – Our DNS Query Utility will allow you to look up DNS information on the domain you specify.
• NS Lookup – The NSLookup tool is a service to look up information in the DNS (Domain Name System). Basically, DNS maps domain names to IP addresses.
• HTML Entity Chart – This chart shows you the special characters in the latin iso character set, and how to access them using html entities in your code.
• RSS Generator – Generates RSS for sites that don’t have.
• CompactURL – Reduces the URL length.
• ASCII Artist – Converts pictures in ASCII art.
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• Character Cleaner – Prepares text to be added into HTML.
• Malevole’s Text Generator – Tired of using Lorem Ipsum for dummy text in your latest masterpiece? This text generator has been developed based on years of careful research and is guaranteed to improve even the most lacklustre of designs.
• dPolls – Create polls and vote for free.
• Web Worksheet Wizard – Creating Web Pages for Classroom Innovation
• PlotIP – Look up geographical information based in IP, show traceroutes on global map.
• JotForm – JotForm is the first web based WYSIWYG form builder.
• Secure Password Generator – The WinGuides.com Password Generator allows you to create random passwords that are highly secure and extremely difficult to crack or guess due to an optional combination of lower and upper case letters, numbers and punctuation symbols.
• Expandable Content Script – It’s a free javascript, that will let you to easily create boxes that a visitor can expand and collapse in order to view or hide their content.
• Computer Generated Webdesign – StrangeBanana is a program that creates a random webpage design.
• Firdamatic – Firdamatic™ is an online tableless layout generator that allows you to create and customise layouts easily only by completing forms, making creating skins for your Firdamatic-based layout a breeze.
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• Geo Tracker – Easy and fast way for to lookup the county by IP address or hostnames.
• calcr – A simple online calculator.
• AutoFill Bookmarklet Creator – Generates a bookmarklet with default data to be inserted in the blogs comments form.
• Rex V: an AJAX Regular EXpression eValuator – This site is a Regular Expression evaluator for three different regular expression systems: PHP PCRE, PHP Posix and Javascript.
• typoGenerator – the user types some text; typoGenerator searches images.google for the text and creates a background from the found images, using randomly chosen effects. then it places the text, using random effects too.
• Online Image Editor – We bring you “The FREE Online Image Editor!” (Flash required)
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• CSS Template Generator – This HTML – CSS template generator yields a three column layout without using any Tables.
• Layout-o-Matic -
• Church Sign Generator (Simpsons Edition) – Change around the letters on the First Church of Springfield’s church sign!
• Gradient Image Maker – Gradient images are used everywhere in web page design, ie, as the background of form buttons, DIVs, to act as shadows and other interesting visual effects etc. We created this online tool to allow you to painlessly generate a gradient image of 3 types, with instant previewing so you get exactly what you had in mind.
• Comic Strip Generator – Make your own cartoons online! Do a search for Bush, Jesus, Clinton, Army, simpsons, etc. Over 1,000 cartoon cels for you to customize!
• Image Optimizer – Image Optimizer lets you easily optimize your gifs, animated gifs, jpgs, and pngs, so they load as fast as possible on your site. Furthermore, you can easily convert from one image type to another.
• Safety Sign Builder – Make mini signs to promote safety, OSHA standards. Great for making warning labels for serious needs of just make some funny clipart for your blog.
• Banner Ad Generator – Make Free Web Banners – Make thousands of free downloadable 468×60 JPEG banner ads, no signup! Many banner blanks to choose from, all with profession to fun layouts that will suit any web site (thousands of combinations and premade designs).
• Keotag – Keotag – tag search multiple engines and tag generators
• List-u-Like CSS Generator – Create cross-browser list-based navigation bars with ease
• Online Image Editor – Create animated images, add text, resize and convert. Web 2.0 goodnes.
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• RSS 2 PDF – Free Online RSS, Atom or OPML to PDF Generator
• Binary File to Base64 Encoder / Translator – Use this tool to create data streams for embedding images in XML and CSS.
• Dummies Book Cover Generator – Make your own custom parody book cover PNG image for a “FOR DUMMIES” learning series books. Send as free ecard or just download the free clipart to use on your blog/site (or printable).
• HTML Inspector – Enter the URL of your page and get the report of its quality.
• Site Check – Saves you pain and time by offering an URL specific list of links to the most popular and useful web-based tools. Includes validators, accessibility checkers, link and load time check, WHOIS, HTTP response, and more.
• reply PDF – PDF form capture tool
• Online Generators 4 Lazy Webmasters – More generators categorized.
• HTML to JavaScript Convertor – This tool takes your markup and converts it to a series of document.write() statements that you can use in a block of JavaScript.
• Response.Right – Converts text/HTML to server-side write statements in PHP, ASP, JavaScript and Perl.
• Feed43 – This free online service converts any web page to an RSS feed on the fly. Excellent. Ajax.
• Search Engine Position Checker – The Search Engine Position Checker tool will automatically query the search engines you specify and check if your URL appears in the first 50 results for your chosen keywords. If the URL is present, it will output what position it occupies. As an additional feature, the tool also informs you if any other URLs from your domain appear in the search results.
• HTTP Header Viewer – Use the form below to view the HTTP headers provided in response to the URL you provide. Useful debugging tool.
• Ping Utility – Our Ping Utility sends echo requests to the address you specify and lists the responses received and their round trip time. When the utility is terminated it summarizes the results, giving the average round trip time and the percent packet loss. This utility can be used to determine whether there is a problem with the network connection between two hosts.
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• Keyword Analysis Tool – Our Keyword Analyser will read the page you specify and give a report on what words are used, and how many times they are used.
• RSSxl – This online tool generates an RSS 2.0 Feed from pretty well any web page.
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• CSS Compressor -
• Keyword Research Tool – The Keyword Research Tool will help you research appropriate words and phrases to include in your webpage’s body text to aid in promotion. Simply enter the sort of word of phrase you wish to be found under, and the tool will suggest some additional words and phrases you can think about using.
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• Cool Text: Logo Generator and Font Archive – Cool Text is an online graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you might need an impressive logo without a lot of work. We provide real-time generation of graphics that are customized exactly the way you want them. Also contains 1200 free fonts to download.
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• Bookmarklet Crunchinator – Your code will automatically be wrapped in a function to make it bookmarklet-friendly.
• Bookmarklet Crunchinator – This is designed to aid programmers in writing bookmarklets.
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• CSS Link Generator – Generates the necessary CSS code for rollover links.
• Search Engine Spider Simulator – Our Search Engine Spider Simulator strips out the HTML tags from the page you specify and shows you how the page would look to search engine spiders.
• Meta Tag Generator – Our Meta Tag Generator will read the page you specify, remove common words from it, and pick the most used words on the page. It will then generate a Meta Keywords tag using the words it has found.
• Top PPC Bids Checker – The Top PPC Bids Checker allows you to query a number of PPC (Pay Per Click) engines to see what the top bids are for a certain keyword or phrase.
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• FeedTier – FeedTier is a web feeds generator for web pages without an existing syndication format. FeedTier performs content analysis, picks-up the most prominent cluster of hyperlinks and automatically generates RSS web feeds from web pages without existing syndication.
• ROR Sitemap Generator – This free tool will crawl your website and generate a ROR Sitemap with up to 1,000 URLs for ALL search engines, not just Google.
• Transparent PNG Generator – It’s a simple web application that lets you create transparent PNG images in any color, using just a few mouse clicks—no need for Photoshop, Painshop Pro or any other imaging app.
• CSS Multi-element rollover generator – With this CSS rollover generator, you can create two distinct styles of rollover button, using CSS and just one image.
• Blogbar – Blogbar is a free search engine bar for inclusion in your blog and/or website
• Online Conversion – Convert just about anything to anything else. Over 5,000 units, and 50,000 conversions.
• Flash Embedder – This tool will let you easily embed flash movies into HTML.
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• 50 Online Tools Made By SirSeek.com – Stuff like: What is my IP? Anonymous Emailer URL Digger Quit Smoking Nagger/Reminder RSS/XML Feed Reader Strip HTML Codes from webpage Talking Time URL Shortener ROT13 encoder/decoder DNS Lookup JAVA Chat Client Clipboard Viewer Text To Speech Translator Canada/US Currency Converter Get Server Headers
• Image Embellisher – Image Embellisher makes it easier to create special effects with a few clicks.
• iCodeGenerator – iCodeGenerator is a very simple to use and powerful, database centric template based code generator for any programming language like C, PHP, C#, Visual Basic, Java, Perl, Python. Supported databases are SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Insta-Select – A web developer’s time-saver – lets you paste in a list of words/phrases (separated by carriage returns) and converts to an XHTML-compliant <select> list.
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• Phonetic Password Generator – The phonetic password generator has grown a bit. Here’s an overview. It was originally designed to help make up passwords that would be easy to remember but relatively difficult for nefarious types to guess.
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• The Incredible Random Website Template Generator – The Incredible Random Website Template Generator (beta) is a free web-based tool for creating great looking website templates for your website. Originally it was created to test new website template styles, border and color combinations – pure inspiration with no exact useage in mind.
• URL Cleaner – If you are attempting to get the webpage you’re building to validate, but keep running into errors with links to other websites, you’ve run into the Dirty URL problem.
• .htaccess Password Generator – Use this tool to generate all the necessary codes needed to password protect a directory or selects files within it on your site via .htaccess. It encrypts the desired passwords, then outputs the corresponding codes to put inside your .htaccess and .htpasswd files.
• Dave’s Free iPod Guide! Renovated! – Dave’s Free iPod Guide! Renovated! A comprehensive guide to getting a free iPod just to argue against all the free iPod skeptics out there. This site contains everything you want to know, including pictures of his free iPod. It also features step by step instructions, proof, and a free conga line to help you get started! Please visit http://www.davesfreeipodguide.tk for more details! Pics of his free iPod are on it too!
• Yes No Now! – It’s a tool for quickly generating accessible, XHTML-compliant yes/no radio button choices from a list, that’s what. Another time-saver I put together ‘cos I got fed up with hand coding all this nonsense.
• Examinator – Examinator is a temperamental robot that investigates the pages Web and describes its accessibility in agreement with the guidelines as WCAG 1,0 and to their own and inflexible algorithm as revision.
• Screenshot Generator – see your website on a Mac

Any suggestions, ideas? Feel free to comment on this article!

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Read your news anywhere and everywhere.

• Bloglines – Personal favourite.
• Netvibes -
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• Newsgator -
• Find News Fast – A news site that links you to every other news site online. A great way to find news across the world.
• Rojo -
• A_MUST_See_for_anyone_with_an_IPOD -
• all4RSS – Free community driven AJAX RSS agregator (German)
• Got_Computer_Problems?_Free_Diagnostic_Tools_Repair_Your_PC_Instantly -
• NewsNow – Over 25,000 news sources split into many categories.
• Feed Tools – RSS/XML feeds (submission, caching, creating, sharing) and other feed related stuff…
• 12 Tips To Great Websites – Why do some sites succeed while the vast majority of others fail? More and more website owners are asking themselves these questions. The answers are often more obvious than you may think.
• Rezzibo – The best agregator in the world
• onelurv – Channel-based feeds reader & password bookmarker. All feeds in one AJAX page. Embed feed reader into external blog/webpage.
• News Alloy -
• Alesti.org – **Alesti.org** is a fast *web 2.0* online feed aggregator, in which you can *tag* your subscriptions, *bookmark* your prefered articles, send them by *mail* to a friend, *import/export* OPML and more, thanks to it’s simple yet friendly *interface* that resembles *desktop* aggregators, which is available in multiple *languages*.
• My Yahoo! – Preview and customize it with your content (RSS) and themes.
• JunkMails Live RSS Feeds – Live RSS feeds from popular sources including local and world news, weather forecast, blogs, funny videos, daily jokes, torrents and more.
• Windows Live – personal start page with great rss reading tools.
• Sage – RSS and Atom feed reader extension
• SuprGlu -
• BeanRocket -
• KanBan (RU) -
• Kickrss – view feeds on a web page super fast.
• Inform -
• NetNewsWire – NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS and Atom newsreader for Mac OS X. Its familiar three-paned interface—similar to Apple Mail—can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs, making it quick and easy to keep up with the latest news
• Protopage – A start page with simple feed reader panels in addition to links and sticky note panels.
• Bloxor -
• Pageflakes – Ajax multipage Webdesktop
• FeedPile -
• HyperSuper – Personalized “web 2.0″ news aggregator
• Gritwire -
• FeedExa -
• Feed Digest -
• Feed Tank -
• AlmondRocks -
• RSS Mad -
• Favoor -
• 24 eyes – Ajaxian RSS Dashboard
• RssHut -
• Inform -
• Goowy – Flash reader.
• Attensa – free and paid version free online version.
• Google Reader -
• Yahoo! Mail – Yahoo! Mail beta (in the style of Oddpost) features a simple RSS reader.
• Pluck -
• FeedLounge – $5/month
• Newroo -

Purely for file and media storage

• Box.net – about to relaunch with free accounts, private beta ongoing now, more at http://live.box.net
• Streamload MediaMax -
• Netizen – Like FedEx for digital parcels. This Mozilla based Desktop app allows users to send huge files (over 4GB!) securely and quickly without bogging down email. Uses intelligent relaying to ensure reliable delivery of data. With an intelligent p2p architecture it doesn’t require massive hosting costs as other apps and sites do.
• MyOtherDrive.com – MyOtherDrive provides Internet users the ability to store online and share videos, music, photos – any file. The site provides each user with 5GB of storage space that can be selectively shared. Unlike other online storage sites, MyOtherDrive allows you to upload files in bulk (not one by one like so many sites do). The uploaded files can be any size (up to 2GB). The site allows the user to create groups and share their folders selectively to these groups (friends, family, coworkers, etc.) . You can define as many groups as necessary and friends can be placed in more than one group. Coming soon – content tagging and search capabilities.
• Pando – A cross between YouSendIt, BitTorrent, and AIM.
• Uploading – File Size Limit: 500MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• 4 Shared Free File Sharing – 500MB Virtual Drive
• LOADMAN – First german online storage hoster with a fine selection of services and relly low prices.
• Strongspace – Secure File Storage and Sharing
• DF Deposit Files – (Max. 250 MB)
• MediaFire – MediaFire is the first 100% free and unlimited file host. Unlimited uploads, unlimited downloads, unlimited bandwidth, multiple simultaneous downloads and no sign up required. You can also easily access your files from anywhere with a free account and your own “My Files” page.
• FileFront – File Size Limit: 1GB – Download Limit: Unlimited – File Life: unknown. Only for GAME related files. Any file format allowed.
• Imageshack – The ultimate image storage website. Allows images up to 1.5MB in size and allows hotlinking. Your images are available forever, and the site allows 100MB of transfer per hour. You can upload an unlimited amount of images with or without registering. Accepted file types are JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF, TIFF, and SWF.
• EchoSign – For easily archiving your documents. E-mail in all your documents; EchoSign stores them; images them; turns them into PDFs; and makes them searchable for you – for free.
• filedropr – drop files for download.
• HugeUploads – Free file storage and image hosting, with unlimited bandwidth and 500MB per file. You get unlimited downloads and uploads and protect your files with a password. We keep your files on our server for ever if you download the files within 30 days! No registration required.
• ElephantDrive – ElephantDrive provides simple, secure, and automated online storage services to individuals and businesses. By combining the power of grid computing infrastructures such as Amazon Web Services’ S3, proprietary storage optimization technology, and simple, clean design, ElephantDrive’s service allows all users to enjoy the same availability and performance as enterprise solutions, at a fraction of the cost. While the company currently focuses on data protection, it is rapidly expanding its service to push all data into the cloud, where any web enabled device can store, retrieve, manage, and share any digital asset, from anywhere, at anytime.
• DropBoks – No bells, no whistles, just an easy and quick way to store your files online. 1 GB Free.
• File Storage Sites & Tools – Places to store your viral videos to your home photography.
• Nelsok.com Video/Media Upload – This service is free. Allows users to upload videos. Also allows for creating movies/slide shows from video clips, sound files, and pictures. Users can put advertisements on their video viewing pages using googles adsense.
• filicio.us – Free $0.15 using Amazon S3
• DivShare – Upload Anything – * 100% FREE * Upload unlimited files * Serve unlimited downloads * Files stay online forever! * No pop-up ads or spam * Incredibly fast, reliable servers
• MiHD – Max file size: 2048MB Resumable downloads: Yes! Download limits: None whatsoever! File lifetime: 3 Months
• UploadOK! Free File Hosting, Free Web Hosting and Cheap Dedicated Servers – Max 1,000 MB
• Blackbeard File Hosting .::. share your music, documents – 180 MB maximum file size.Files under the size of 50 MB will expire after 3 months of no download, larger files only 1 month.
• DotSpirit – Online file storage powered by phpNavigator featuring: 10GB disk space, multi-users, drag & drop multiple files/folders. Available in English and French. Free trial available.
• SnapDrive.net – Free File Hosting No File Deletion
• Fies-Upload.com – Up to 1Gb files. Upload by HTTP or FTP. No limited space, file life time: 45 days
• JungleDisk – Backup service using Amazon’s S3 service. Fast and cheap.
• ShareUA – Ukrainian file storage. UA-IX. 60 mb space. For Ukrainian users!
• mooload – File Size Limit: 500MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• YoUpload – Up to 500 megabytes per file Unlimited amount of uploads Unlimited amount of downloads Download managers accepted No download restrictions No “loading” times Fastest servers available
• SexUploader – (500MB) For 90 Days
• Diino – Diino is a personal, on-line environment, where it’s easy to share large files, back up important data, create an instant network, organize digital photos, play music and securely access important information
• I(2) Drive Online Storage – I(2) Drive provides secure online storage and file server access through WebDAV servers for Business and Personal use. Other features include inbound servers, podcasting and RSS Feed, photo albums, direct links, and more…
• MyTempDir – Maximum file size – 51,200 Kb (50 Mb)
• QuickSharing – Unlimited downloads, even if the file have 100000 downloads, it doesn’t matter. Free to use, there is absolutely no money involved, you can use this service for free. 500MB limit per file, upload and share as many as you want. We only delete if the file is not accessed within the past 30 days.
• EvilShare – Upload limit: 128 MB per file, unlimited number of files Download limit: none Files deleted after 30 days of inactivity. I like this site a lot because it’s simple, there are no download limits and no annoying waiting before download as on other sites. And it’s pretty fast, too. I highly recommend it.
• zalil – 50 mb
• File Planet – Know of a file that we should have but don’t? Let us know! Use the submission form below and get an instant link to your file. Be sure to be as descriptive as possible. Remember, while you get an instant link back – this does not place you officially on FilePlanet. That process may take a while, so be patient. Thank you and enjoy this service! Hi limit.
• webcargo.net – Send any file, no matter the size, to anyone with an e-mail address. Price per month $0 Sends per month 5 included, $5 per send after that Max users 1 Max individual file size 100 MB Max data transfer Unlimited File storage duration 14 days Secure 128-bit encryption Yes Dedicated Account Rep — Other options available. http://www4.webcargo.net/webcargo/plan_pricing.php
• Eggdisk 6GB File Storage – All accounts get an amazing 6GB of free file storage and file sharing with registration. Free image sharing without registration. The anonymous service allows up to 20MB files, but with the registered service you can have up to 100MB filesizes.
• Boostfile – Upload files up to 150 MB, Download Stats for every file, Share, discuss, and rate files.
• BackupRight – Super easy to use and automatic, what else could you ask for? They also have a free trial with no credit card and support Mac OS and Linux (Windows too of course).
• TheOnlineDiary – Share uploaded files with your group. Upload any files, protect them from download, version managemnet included
• Filecows – 20MB
• Lumunon Media – FileSharing – FileShare gives you 10MB file limit and unlimited download limit. Time duration is about a year, but this will be eliminated either. So, other than the size limit, everything is unlimited.
• OxyShare Your Data Route – Oxyshare Rapidshare Megaupload Size of file 700mb 100mb 250mb Download speed 3 mb/s 1,5 mb/s 1,5 mb/s Download limit no limit 1 file/hour no limit FTP upload yes no no Resume downloading yes no yes Block by IP no yes yes FTP speed 500kb/s no FTP no FTP
• Picture9 Online Photo Albums – Free image hosting for blogs, eBay auctions & MySpace. Photo gallery, stock portfolio & image slideshow for personal photos.
• fileXoom – Bandwidth: Unlimited; Max file size: 100 MB; Storage space: 2 GB; All file types allowed; Free
• Data File Host – Max. file size 10MB, unlimited uploads, download limit is 2.5GB/month for each file and for files smaller than 1MB there is no limit. File kept until no downloads for 30 days.
• Flat File Host – maximum filesize: 250 MB
• TransferBigFiles – File Size Limit: 1GB Download Limit: 20 Downloads File Life: 5 Days
• mailbigfile – File Size Limit: 1GB Download Limit: 3 Downloads File Life: 7 Days
• Easy File Host – File Size Limit: 1GB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: Unlimited
• Up-FILE – File Size Limit: 1GB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: Unlimited
• Fupload – File Size Limit: 500MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 25 Days
• UploadReady – File Size Limit: 500MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• zSHARE – File Size Limit: 100MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 10 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 10 days)
• Bigupload – File Size Limit: 300MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• Speedy Share – (Maximum: 33MB) Download Limit: Unlimited (Limit of 5GB per file per day) File Life: 7 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 7 days)
• Easy-Sharing – File Size Limit: 75MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days
• JustUpit – File Size Limit: 120MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• Turbo Upload – File Size Limit: 70MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: Unknown
• Content-Type – File Size Limit: 100MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 7 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 7 days)
• Upload-File – File Size Limit: 100MB Download Limit: 50 Downloads File Life: 30 Days
• StreamUpload 2.0 – File Size Limit: 100MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days
• JumboFile – File Size Limit: 100MB Download Limit: Unknown File Life: Unknown
• Remote File CabiNET – Remote File CabiNET is an easy-to-use service that eliminates the security risks and productivity problems associated with email. Just insert and manage files online using a Windows Explorer-like interface.
• GetFile – File Size Limit: 50MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 14 Days
• Web-Upload.com – easy to use and for free !
• YourFile – File Size Limit: 50MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• BigFilez – File Size Limit: 50MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 14 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 14 days)
• rar host – free file hosting for .rar files! – Upload limit: 200 Mb. Files last 30 days
• Your File Link – File Size Limit: 50MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• orb-z – File Size Limit: 50MB Download Limit: 200 Downloads File Life: 15 Days
• Gimehost – Free upload of upto 250 MB!
• Send File – File Size Limit: 40MB Download Limit: 10 Downloads File Life: 10 Days
• MyLivePage – Free 1GB File Storage For All English And Russian Language Support
• FileBuffer – File Size Limit: 40MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 7 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 7 days)
• UltraShare – File Size Limit: 30MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• UploadTemple – File Size Limit: 30MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 21 Days
• SendMeFile – File Size Limit: 30MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 14 Days
• Upload2 – File Size Limit: 25MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 1 Year
• Rogepost (AKA) Filegone.com – File Size Limit: 25MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 100 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 100 days)
• UploadTown – File Size Limit: 20MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• Filegone – File Size Limit: 25MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 100 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 100 days)
• 11MBIT.in – File Size Limit: 20MB Download Limit: Unknown File Life: Unknown
• Refrozen – File Size Limit: 20MB Download Limit: Unknown File Life: Unknown
• Crazefiles – File Size Limit: 20MB Download Limit: 50 Downloads File Life: 14 Days
• hackz.nu – File Size Limit: 20MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: Unknown
• Zhube – File Size Limit: 20MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 15 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 15 days)
• Free-Transfer – File Size Limit: 10MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 7 Days
• carbonite – How come www.carbonite.com is not on the list?
• eSnips – 1GB free storage space.
• MailBigFile – Send big files quickly and easily, without clogging up your email. No software to download, if you can see the web, you can use Mail Big File. 3 simple steps and your file is on it’s way.No cost, no registration – just start sending files. With the option to secure your file with 128-bit encyption, Mail Big File is more secure than standard email. All files are virus scanned. Send files up to 1GB in size. Features a progress meter.
• MegaShares – File Size Limit: 1.5GB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 25 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 25 days)
• SendOver – File Size Limit: 2GB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 7 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 7 days)
• Free 1000MB file storage – FREE 1000MB file storage and unlimited size files uploads with Hercules software from your desktop
• bbDRIVE – Amazing! A windows app simply maps FTP storage into an network disk, could be use with any win support application. Max 10GB storage & no single file size limitation.
• Upload 2 – Free file hosting service. Up to 250 MB.
• Boltfolio -
• BigUpload – 2000MB upload limit. File stays on the server forever as long as it’s updated once every 30 days.
• zUpload – File Size Limit: 500MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• Spread-It – File Size Limit: 500MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 14 Days
• CyberUpload – File Size Limit: 500MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 7 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 7 days)
• Snaggys – File Size Limit: 500MB Download Limit: 999 Downloads File Life: 15 Days
• ShareBigFile – File Size Limit: 300MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 21 Days
• UpDownloadServer – File Size Limit: 250MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: Unlimited
• XtraFile – File Size Limit: 250MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 15 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 15 days)
• Dropload – Send Files upto 100MB for 7 days.
• bonpoo – File Size Limit: 250MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 10 Days
• FileCache – File Size Limit: 250MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 31 Days
• Supload – File Size Limit: 200MB Download Limit: 30 Downloads File Life: 7 Days
• ovodocs – Web based online document storage that looks just like windows explorer. Is absed around creating users/customer accounts so you can share and manage files between. Costing is based around user base. Complete security with users and groups. Alos file usage audit.
• myShareBox – File Size Limit: 100MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• TheUpload – File Size Limit: 100MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days
• Upload.Sc – File Size Limit: 100MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: Unknown
• Hemen Paylas – File Size Limit: 250MB Download Limit: Unknown File Life: Unknown
• Store and Serve – File Size Limit: 100MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• upload2.com – File Size Limit: 250MB Download Limit: Unknown File Life: Unknown
• BIGfileupload – File Size Limit: 100MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: Unlimited
• AxiFile – File Size Limit: 150MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days
• QuickDump – File Size Limit: 100MB Download Limit: download bandwidth limit of 500MB per hour File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• Fastmail – Great subscription email service with file storage; plans ranging from free (1MB limit, 10MB quota) to $40/yr (250 MB storange, 750 MB quota).
• FileHD – File Size Limit: 60MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• UploadSend – File Size Limit: 50MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• UploadFront – File Size Limit: 50MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• FreeUploader – File Size Limit: 50MB Download Limit: Unknown File Life: Unknown
• Momoshare – File Size Limit: 50MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 15 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 15 days)
• FriendlyShare – File Size Limit: 50MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• UploadHut – File Size Limit: 50MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days
• SupaShare – File Size Limit: 50MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 14 Days
• FileHost – File Size Limit: 50MB Download Limit: Unknown File Life: Unknown
• ushareit – File Size Limit: 50MB Download Limit: Unknown File Life: Unknown
• SceneWorld – File Size Limit: 50MB Download Limit: 1000 Downloads File Life: 50 Days
• WebFileHost – File Size Limit: 10MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days
• Hyperupload – File Size Limit: 10MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: Unlimited
• KeepMyFile – File Size Limit: 15MB Download Limit: Unknown File Life: Unknown
• MoFile.com – Temporary Upload Limit:1G, 3days Permanent Upload Lmit:30M
• Mozy -
• MyBloop -
• Badongo – Upload files up to 1GB.
• Mp3Tunes -
• SendSpace – 1200MB upload space.
• TrasferBigFiles – 1GB. Five days or 20 downloads.
• Woomp -
• FileFactory – File Size Limit: 1.5GB Download Limit: 25 Downloads File Life: 7 Days
• RapidUpload – File Size Limit: 300MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• iStorage -
• RapidSharing – File Size Limit: 50MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 60 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 60 days)
• Openomy -
• RapidShare – File Size Limit: 100MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)
• Megaupload – Temporary upload, fast and easy, and free.
• OurMedia -
• Omnidrive -
• DropSend -
• Inbox.com – free 2GB webmail that includes Storage, Calendar & Tasks, and Notes.
• SaveFile – File Size Limit: 60MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 14 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 14 days)
• Allmydata.com – Unlimited storage on a p2p grid network – free if you share space on your own drive
• My File Hut – How much space and bandwidth do i get with myFileHut.com? All users will receive 250MB of Storage space free at cost. Users are also restricted to 10GB/month after staying with myFileHut.com after two weeks, the first two week as a new member you are restricted to 1GB/Week for the first two weeks. Am I allowed to Hotlink and Stream? Yes!, you are allowed to hotlink any type of media off the myFileHut.com Network that does not breech the TOS. Streaming is also allowed, but it is suggested that you watch your bandwidth usage when streaming as this tends to eat up most of the users bandwidth
• Freepository -
• EggDisk – All new accounts up to September 1st will get an amazing 4GB free storage. Sign up today and tell your friends. Free File Storage and File Sharing without registration. Just upload and go! You can backup all your files, images and work. The anonymous service allows up to 20MB files, but with the registered service you can have up to 100MB filesizes.
• Grouper.com – Free storing/sharing of photos and videos
• A Website Design Checklist – Website design is a significant function of the website. It is the basis of the website development and publication. The web designer must be a creative person who can design a web site that is aesthetically pleasing to look at and plan a site that is functional and easy for your viewers to use.
• uploadyourfiles – Upload limit: 200Mb. Files last 30 days
• Uploadsever – Upload limit: 250 Mb
• YouSendIt – File Size Limit: 1GB Download Limit: 25 Downloads File Life: 7 Days
• XDrive -

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List of freely available windows software. NOT SHAREWARE.

• Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1 – Award-winning Web browser that’s fast, secure, and easy to use
• OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 – free productivity suite compatible with all major office suites
• VideoLAN 0.8.4a – VLC is a multimedia player for various audio and video formats
• Spybot Search & Destroy 1.4 – Spybot Search & Destroy is one of the best free antispyware tools. Spybot Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer. Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus applications do not yet cover. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you didn’t intentionally install, if your browser crashes, or if you browser start page has changed without your knowing, you most probably have spyware. But even if you don’t see anything, you may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging that is silently tracking your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile of you that will be sold to advertisement companies. Spybot-S&D is free, so there’s no harm in trying to see if something snooped into your computer, too
• Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 – powerful e-mail and newsgroup client.
• uTorrent 1.4 – uTorrent (actually µTorrent, pronounced as mu-Torrent), is an tiny, efficient and feature-rich P2P (Peer To Peer) BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little CPU, memory and space as possible, while offering all the functionality expected from advanced BitTorrent clients. Features : * Multiple simultaneous downloads * Configurable bandwidth scheduler * Global and per-torrent speed limiting * Quick-resumes interrupted transfers * RSS Downloader * Trackerless support (Mainline DHT)
• FileZilla 2.2.18 – fast FTP and SFTP client
• Audacity 1.2.4b – Free sound editor
• Daemon Tools – CD disk image virtual drive.
• 7-Zip 4.32 – file archiver with high compression ratio.
• CCleaner 1.27.260 – Crap Cleaner – A simple program that removes unused and temporary files from Windows machines. This excellent freeware cleans the following … · Internet Explorer · Firefox · Windows Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files and Log files · Registry cleaner · Third-party applications (Opera, Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, MS Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip)
• Ad-Aware Personal 1.06 – Ad-Aware provides protection from known Spyware including: Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components. With Lavasoft’s all new Code Sequence Identification (CSI) technology, you will not only be protected from known content, but will also have advanced protection against many of their unknown variants. To further protect you, Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition also has the capability to scan and list Alternate Data Streams (ADS) in NTFS enabled volumes. Ad-Aware SE’s new scanning engine will scan your computer faster and more thoroughly than ever before! Ad-Aware Personal edition is free for non-commercial use only.
• Media Player Classic 6.4.8.7 – Media Player Classic is an all-in-one video player
• Picasa – Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organised by date with folder names you will recognise. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organised. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures – you can email, print photos home, make gift CDs, and even post pictures on your own blog.
• IrfanView 3.98 – IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative Freeware (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows. Some IrfanView features: * Many supported file formats * Multi language support * Thumbnail/preview option * Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD) * Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc. * Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters * Drag & drop support * Fast directory view (moving through directory) * Batch conversion (with image processing) * Multipage TIF editing * Multimedia player * Print option * Change color depth * And much more…
• GIMP 2.2.10 – GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a bitmap editor suitable for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
• Putty – PuTTY: A Free Telnet/SSH Client. Also allows secure portforwarding.
• Foxit Reader – With it’s tiny 1M download, Foxit Reader is a free reader for PDF documents. You can view, search, and print PDF documents with it. Loads fast! Nice on older machines.
• Hamachi – Organize two or more computers with an Internet connection into their own virtual network for direct secure communication. * LAN over the Internet * Zero-configuration VPN * Secure peer-to-peer
• Gaim 1.5.0 – A multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client
• VirtualDub 1.6.11 – VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility
• UltraVNC v1.0.1 – emotely control a computer over TCP/IP, best vnc
• Tweak UI 2.1 – Part of Microsoft’s free XP Powertoys collection of utilities, TweakUI gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more. Version 2.10 requires atleast Windows XP Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2003. Don’t forget to checkout the other XP powertoys on that page !
• Opera Browser v8.52 – “The Fastest Browser on Earth” is what it makers claim. The most full-featured Internet power tool on the market, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, skins and advanced functions like Opera’s groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS & ATOM Newsfeeds, IRC chat, voice commands, support for Gmail, Password Manager, and even Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) support. All this within a fast, customisable & secure interface. Watch out for the upcoming Opera 9 which will introduce even better features (including support for Widgets and BitTorrent) !
• TrueCrypt 4.1 – creates on-the-fly-encrypted volumes (data storage devices)
• Skype – The best VOIP telephony service that lets you call PC-to-PC for free and PC-to-Phone at super cheap prices. Awesome!
• Inkscape 0.43 – open source scalable vector graphics format (SVG) tool
• HijackThis 1.99.1 – In depth analysis tool for scanning your computer for Spyware/Malware. HijackThis scans areas of your registry and hard drive and returns a log of items which it detects. If you suspect your computer to be infected with spyware, then it is recommended that you run a scan with HijackThis and then post your log file on a support forum, where someone will be able to suggest which entries to remove.
• Google Talk 1.0.86 Beta – Google Talk is a simple and free way to talk with and send instant messages to your friends. Like Gmail, Google Talk uses Google’s innovative technologies to help people communicate more effectively and efficiently. Think of it as Google’s approach to communications. Google Talk is easy and intuitive to use. All you need to make free calls is an Internet connection, a microphone, and a speaker. After you download Google Talk, sign in with your Gmail username and password. Invite your friends to download Google Talk, and once they do, you’ll be able to talk or IM with them instantly. Google Talk is still in beta, but its developers are constantly improving upon it, and they are already working on extending the core XMPP protocols with their LibJingle API.
• Avast! Home Edition v4.6.763 – Avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users, non-commercial users. Avast is one of the best freeware antivirus applications, with a robust detection engine, very fast & small online updates (great for dialup users), and even a skinnable interface ! Free registration key (valid for 1 year) can be obtained from: http://www.avast.com/i_kat_207.php?lang=ENG
• Blender 2.41 – 3D modeling, animation, rendering application
• FreeMind – free mind mapping software – FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map) software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click “fold / unfold” and “follow link” operations.
• Notepad2 1.0.12 – text editor with the look and feel of Notepad but with more features
• PDFCreator 0.9.0 – easily create Adobe Acrobat® PDFs from any Windows application that can print.
• Miranda IM – Miranda IM is a multi protocol instant messenger client.No bloat, it’s Easy and Small! Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use. It uses very little memory and requires no installation. Plugins can be installed to add support for ICQ, AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu, Tlen, Netsend and other protocols.
• CPU-Z – CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.
• PSPad – current version 4.5.0 – PSPad editor is freeware programmer editor. syntax highlighter, workspace management, file tree, fast, smart, easy.
• Synergy – Allows you to use the mouse and keyboard of one computer on all your computers. Works across platforms and even allows copy and paste. i.e. you can copy stuff on your Mac, move the mouse to your Linux box and paste it there.
• Cygwin – Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: # A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality. # A collection of tools, which provide Linux look and feel.
• Foobar2000 – * Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player * Audio formats supported “out-of-the-box”: WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC * Audio formats supported through official addons: FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey’s Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; extraction on-the-fly from RAR, 7-ZIP & ZIP archives * Full Unicode support on Windows NT * ReplayGain support * Low memory footprint, efficient handling of really large playlists * Advanced file info processing capabilities (generic file info box and masstagger) * Highly customizable playlist display * Customizable keyboard shortcuts * Most of standard components are opensourced under BSD license (source included with the SDK)
• KeePass 1.04 – KeePass is an open-source password safe
• nLite – nLite is a tool for permanent Windows component removal and pre-installation Windows setup. After removal there is an option to make bootable image ready for burning on cd or testing in virtual machines. With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install doesn’t include, or even contain on cd, unwanted components.
• DOSBox – DOSBox is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOSBox very easy to port to different platforms. You can “re-live” the good old days with the help of DOSBox, it can run plenty of the old classics that don’t run on your new computer!
• nmap – Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. Nmap runs on most types of computers and both console and graphical versions are available.
• Paint.NET 2.5 – image and photo editing tool for Windows 2000 and greater requires .net 2.0
• HTTrack Website Copier 3.40 – HTTrack is a free and easy-to-use offline browser utility.
• WinDirStat 1.1.2 – disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows
• Nvu 1.0 – Web authoring system
• Notepad++ – Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
• XnView – Excellent graphic file organiser. Shows thumbnails of all graphics in a folder, can made basic adjustments, batch rename and modification, skinnable and more…
• DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0 – DVD Decrypter is a free tool which enables you decrypt and copy a DVD to your PC’s hard disk. From there you can choose to watch them with the likes of PowerDVD and WinDVD or you can re-encode them to MPEG1 (VCD) or DivX. Advanced functionality can be found in the context menus. DVD Decrypter can write most types of CD / DVD images via its ‘ISO Write’ mode, and it supports all the latest writers (including booktype / bitsetting on many of the major ones – i.e. BenQ, LiteOn, NEC, Plextor, Sony). You can even use DVD Decrypter to erase / format your rewritable media!
• Azureus – Great bittorrent app. Frequent updates, works well behind NAT.
• Kerio Personal Firewall 4.2.2 – Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) helps users control how their computers exchange data with other computers on the Internet or local network. Kerio Personal Firewall is a necessity for all desktop computers connected to broadband Internet, using DSL, cable, ISDN, WiFi or satellite modems. Within an organization, Kerio Personal Firewall prevents a single computer from attacks initiated by internal users. Remote workstations and laptops running KPF are protected from Internet born attacks. Versions 4.2.2 and prior are FREE for home and personal use. Grab this version before it disappears !
• MozBackup – MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite and Netscape profiles.
• Vim 6.4.008 – a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing.
• ClamWin Free AntiVirus 0.88 – ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003.
• AbiWord 2.4.2 – Free Word processing program similiar to commercial products
• TightVNC – TightVNC is a free, GPL-licensed, remote control software package derived from the popular VNC software.
• WinMerge 2.4.4 – WinMerge is a Win32 tool for visual difference display and merging, for both files and directories.
• Stellarium 0.7.1 – Map the night sky on your computer
• Vmware Player – Run any virtual machine VMware Player lets you evaluate new or pre-release software contained in virtual machines, without any installation or configuration hassles. You can also share existing virtual machines with colleagues or friends—just use VMware Player to run any virtual machine.
• Wikidpad 1.1.6 – Wiki-like notebook for storing anything you can think of to write down
• Celestia 1.4.0 – Freeware Educational Astronomy Program
• XAMPP Lite 1.5.1 – Bundled web server containing Apache, Perl, PHP and MySQL
• Eraser – Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.
• CD Burner XP Pro – Many features http://www.cdburnerxp.se/features.php and very nice interface!
• GMail Drive 1.0.9 – GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside Windows Explorer, and thus use your Gmail account as a file storage medium. Ever since Google started to offer users a Gmail e-mail account, which includes storage space of over 2GB, you have had plenty of storage space but not a lot to fill it up with. With GMail Drive you can easily copy files to your Gmail account and retrieve them again. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag’n'drop files to. Please be aware that support for this tool may suspend at any time if Google decides to block its use.
• Free Download Manager – A free download manager that does everything other commercial softwares do and even more.
• Windows Defender – The antispyware protection tool from Microsoft
• Juice 2.2 – The cross-platform podcast receiver
• MP3Gain – Open source application for normalizing MP3s
• Evil Lyrics – Lyrics search engine that searches and displays the song currently playing in your media player. Supports all popular media players like winamp, mediamonkey, foobar, WMP…
• SpywareBlaster – SpywareBlaster prevents you computer from becoming infested with spyware by blacklisting known bad ActiveX components. This is very similar to Spybot Search & Destroy’s Immunize feature, however, they use a different blacklist.
• Wackget 1.2.2 – minimalist download manager based on wget
• GanttProject 1.11.1 – a project management tool distributed under a GNU General Public License
• TheOpenCD – TheOpenCD is a collection of high quality Free and Open Source Software. The programs run in Windows and cover the most common tasks such as word processing, presentations, e-mail, web browsing, web design, and image manipulation. We include only the highest quality programs, which have been carefully tested for stability and which we consider appropriate for a wide audience.
• TaskSwitchXP 2.09 – replacement for the standard Windows Alt-Tab dialog
• Dia 0.94 – A diagram creation program program similiar to “Visio”
• Belarc Advisor 7.1h – Belarc Advisor shows all the hardware and software installed on your PC right in your Web browser. You will see personalized advice on how well software and hardware products will work with your computer, along with a detailed description of your computer profile. All of your profile information is kept in privacy on your PC and is not sent to a Web server. The program also keeps your software serial numbers.
• Rainmeter 0.14 – customisable performance meter and other applets for the desktop
• Open Clip Art Library 0.17 – A collection of Public Domain Vector Graphics
• ShrinkTo5 1.7.1 – ShrinkTo5 is the new, powerful and fast DVD copying engine (open source). ShrinkTo5 can copy movies with an undeniably superior picture quality. No matter if you wish to copy just the main movie or the whole movie DVD, ShrinkTo5 always produces a superb picture quality, since the ShrinkTo5 engine always concentrates on the main movie. No tedious configuration is needed like with other copying tools, ShrinkTo5 will always find the perfect balance automatically.
• AutoIt – AutoIt is a freeware Windows automation language. It can be used to script most simple Windows-based tasks
• Privoxy – Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, modifying web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
• TopStyle Lite 3.10 – Free CSS editor. Try free lite version in download section.
• Rootkit Revealer 1.70 – RootkitRevealer is an advanced root kit detection utility (freeware). It output lists Registry and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a user-mode or kernel-mode rootkit. RootkitRevealer successfully detects all persistent rootkits published at www.rootkit.com, including AFX, Vanquish and HackerDefender (note: RootkitRevealer is not intended to detect rootkits like Fu that don’t attempt to hide their files or registry keys).
• Portable Firefox 2.0 – Portable Firefox is a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a USB Key (A.K.A. USB Thumb drive, USB Memory Stick or USB Wang) . It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers. It will also work from a CDRW drives (in packet mode), DVD RAM discs, DVD-RW’s ZIP drives, external hard drives, some MP3 players, flash RAM cards, compact flash cards, *small (or large) network drives at your workplace*, Memory Stick Duos, and more.
• MediaMonkey – Get Your Music Collection in Order! – * Organize music and edit tags in your audio library with a powerful, intuitive interface * Automatically lookup and tag Album Art and other metadata * Manage 50,000+ files in your music collection without bogging down * Play MP3s and other audio formats, and never again worry about varying volume * Record CDs into OGG, MP3, FLAC and WMA files * Convert MP3s, OGG, FLAC and WMA files into other formats with the Audio Converter * Create playlists and music mixes quickly and easily to suit any occasion * Synchronize with iPods / MP3 players effortlessly and convert tracks on-the-fly * Plus much more… http://www.mediamonkey.com/product.htm
• Yahoo! Widget Engine 3.0.2 – Yahoo! Widget Engine (formally known as Konfabulator) is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little windows called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather. Widgets features advanced graphics effects (such as sliding and fading) to blend fluidly into your desktop. The format for these Widgets is completely open and easy to learn so creating your own Widgets is an extremely easy task. You can easily change the look, feel, layout, even functionality of a Widget so that it matches your lifestyle and your desktop.
• AntiVir PersonalEdition – In my opinion, this is the best free Anti-Virus beacuse of speed and detection ratio. It is free to use for home users.
• TiddlyWiki – A completely standalone wiki implementation written entirely in a single html page. Uses JavaScript for dynamic page capabilities and allows saving with backups as well as RSS feeds.
• GraphCalc 4.0.1 – an enhanced calculator application that can solve equations
• Rainlendar 0.22.1 – Rainlendar is a customizable calendar that displays the current month. It is a very lightweight application that doesn’t use much system resources or take much space on your desktop.
• Win32Pad – An advanced notepad replacement with features such as line number, new instances, and bookmarking.
• Note Tab Lite – free version of Note Tab has a unique function called a clip book. Libaries inclued are auto complete, css, html amoung others.
• ClipX – ClipX is a tiny clipboard history manager. It is sweet, it is free, use it.
• SmartFTP 2.0.995.3 – SmartFTP allows you to transfer files across the Internet using the FTP protocol. It features an Explorer-like, customizable interface and supports drag-and-drop functions. Multiple FTP connections can be opened at the same time, and you can copy files from one remote host to another (FXP). Remote-host directory information is cached for future viewing, and FTP URLs are supported. Other features include a Favorites list; the ability to resume broken downloads; a global history; background transfers; proxy support; a passive transfer mode; and the ability to perform recursive downloads, uploads, and deletes. This program is free for noncommercial use only.
• SeaMonkey – Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple — all your Internet needs in one application.
• SyncToy v1.0 – SyncToy is a free PowerToy for Microsoft Windows XP that provides an easy to use, highly customizable program that helps users to do the heavy lifting involved with the copying, moving, and synchronization of different directories. Most common operations can be performed with just a few clicks of the mouse, and additional customization is available without added complexity. SyncToy can manage multiple sets of folders at the same time; it can combine files from two folders in one case, and mimic renames and deletes in another. Unlike other applications, SyncToy actually keeps track of renames to files and will make sure those changes get carried over to the synchronized folder. Highly recommended !
• Hmailserver 4.1.1-Build-140 – Free Email server supporting POP and SMTP
• MusikCube 1.0RC2 – Music “library” application similar to iTunes
• Grisbi 0.5.7 – personal finance manager
• FastStone Image Viewer 2.4 Final – FastStone Image Viewer is an image browser, viewer, converter, and editor with features including resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustment, watermarks, and other image-managing features. It also provides quick access to EXIF information and a thumbnail browser via hidden toolbars that emerge when you touch the edge of your screen with the mouse. FastStone Image Viewer also offers a batch-image converter and resizer, a magnifier, and a built-in slide show with more than 60 transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop-shadow effects, image frames, scanner support, and a histogram. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, and TGA. Version 1.7 supports PSD format, fixes bugs, and improves performance.
• Tux Typing 2 1.5.3 – “Tux Typing” is an educational typing tutor for children
• Pstart – A portable launcher that uses relative paths. Ideal for launching applications from a USB key drive.
• Diskeeper Lite 9 & NTI Backup Now – Free programs from Intel Diskeeper Lite* Defragmentation – For improved system performance NTI Backup Now* – Back up files to CD and DVD
• ePrompter – ePrompter sits in your tray and notifies you when new email arrives. It works with AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and nearly any POP domain. You can read, delete, print, reply, forward emails without having to start your email client, as well as select the interval ePrompter check your email accounts.
• XMPlay – a lightweight music player, with support to all common formats and more. No installation required, great also to keep in a flash memory
• Power Defragmenter – GUI frontend for Sysinternal’s command line Contig application. (http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Contig.html)
• Color Scheme for Your Website? – Yes, in a world that is obsessed with makeover madness, even your website needs to follow specific color guidelines when picking out “what it will wear”. The colors you use when designing your website tell an awful lot about your business, though you may not know it.
• Title for the Web Page – In a web site, there should always be a Meta Tag for the title of every page because some people are defined by the title of what your site is all about.
• Uniform Server – The Uniform Server is a WAMP package that allows you to run a server on any MS Windows OS based computer. It is small and mobile to download or move around and can also be used or setup as a production/live server. Developers also use The Uniform Server to test their applications made with either PHP, MySQL, Perl, or the Apache HTTPd Server.
• Mediaware Task Manager 3.0 – Mediaware Task Manager is a powerful process monitoring tool and provides all the necessary means to control which programs are executed at Windows startup. The integrated Launcher component enables fast hotkey access to your favorite applications.
• Fusion Desk Starter – Manage your tasks more easily and efficiently than ever before. Organize your tasks in hierarchical folders. Define dynamic filters so you can find them easier later.
• Promotion and Web Design Tips – This article gives free tips on how to find a cheap web designer and free tips on website promotion.
• Rainlendar 2 – Rainlendar is a feature rich calendar application that is easy to use and doesn’t take much space on your desktop. The application is platform independent so you can run it both on Windows and on Linux. The appearance can be customized with skins and you can even mix different skins together.
• WebSynchronizer – WebSynchronizer is a universal tool for manual or automatic backup, replication and synchronization files over FTP and Windows network. * updating content of a web-server * creating back-up archive * keeping site mirrors up to date * working with the same data from home and office
• Active Virus Shield – Free Kaspersky-based anti-virus scanner by AOL. No AOL subscription needed.
• Business Online – Do you have a business? Are you having difficulty with regards to how you can reach customers for your business to become successful? Your business can now be on-line!Markets nowadays are no longer restricted to the four walls of an office due to the advent of e-shops.
• Open source CMS – Alfresco offers open source enterprise content management including open source web content management software and document management software (Documentum, Jackrabbit, Sharepoint).
• mplayer – a great video player almost as many codecs as VLC and a lot faster, but no GUI
• 1stPage HTML Editor – Color coded HTML editing with another tab showing you the preview. Support for HTML, XHTML, PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, Javascript, CSS, SSI and Perl.
• TUGZip – TUGZip is free archiving utility for Windows. Supports 26 types of archives (incuding ZIP, 7-ZIP, CAB, BZ2, LHA, TGZ and RAR), 5 types of disc-images (such as ISO, BIN, IMG) and external plugins. Has nice interface and integration with Windows shell.
• winMd5Sum 1.0.1.55 – Md5 checker
• Tux Paint 0.9.15-2 – Tux Paint is a free drawing program designed for children
• BarracudaDrive V2.2.1 – BarracudaDrive is a multi-user secure HTTPS file manager which eliminates the need for FTP access.
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• Kobo Deluxe 0.4pre8 – space ship “shoot-them-up” style game
• 3DMark05 1.2.0 – 3DMark05 is the latest and hottest version of the very popular 3DMark series. By combining full DirectX 9.0c support with completely new tests and graphics, 3DMark05 continues the legacy of being industry standard benchmark. Use this freeware to benchmark your CPU and graphics card. Or just view the awesome demos!
• SpaceMonger 1.4.0 – Ever wonder what is taking up all the space on you hard drive. This will display your hard drive’s folder structure graphically representing the space it takes on the hard. Larger files and folders get larger boxes, small files and folders get small boxes. This make it easy to see where all the space went.
• ConvertAll 0.3.1 – Unit Conversion program
• Thingamablog 1.0.5 – standalone blogging application
• TreeComp 3.7 – Can compare two directories (and sub-directories), FTP locations, Zip files or any combination between those three sources. The program can sync data one or both directions. Files can be compared by date/time stamp, size, attribute, or content. Flexible, fast and easy to use.
• Google SketchUp – Google SketchUp (free) Beta Google SketchUp (free) is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D. With just a few simple tools, you can create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects – even space ships. And once you’ve built your models, you can place them in Google Earth, post them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies.
• SAM 2.0.0.16 – SAM is a simple voice answering machine for Skype users. When you are away from your PC and there is no one to answer your incoming Skype calls, SAM will pick up the call, play a greeting message and the “all-time clasic beep” so that the calling party will leave a voice recorded message.
• Tweak Firefox! Be Pro User®! – Tons of extension/themes with direct download. Not just online mirror of addons.mozilla.org! It’s a community of PRO users!
• ISO Recorder – This program will record ISO files to disc or create an ISO file from a folder structure. This app adds a menu item to your right click. So if you right click over an ISO file you get a dialog box to run the image to disc. If you record over a folder, you get a dialog to create an ISO image. This app has no entry in the Start menu.
• StarDict – StarDict is a Cross-Platform and international dictionary written in Gtk2. It has powerful features such as “Glob-style pattern matching”, “Scan selection word”, “Fuzzy query,” etc.
• Comodo Firewall – Totally free firewall that got the Editor’s Choice award in a recent round-up by PC Magazine(http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1969485,00.asp)
• ZoneAlarm 3 – The best verison of ZoneAlarm ever. This lite firewall will protect you computer from hacker by blocking them and making it look like you computer is not a real i.p. address. and unlike some other firewall you can make so it does not tell you when it block something that way you don’t see message ever 5 mins. this is a *must* have for windows users so disable the windows firewall and ture this on.
• Free Spyware Remover – Some of the best security software is free and can save you a fortune if used correctly. This site lists great free software to fight spam, viruses and spyware.
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• Ubuntu Linux – Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. It is developed by a large community and we invite you to participate too! The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit. These freedoms make Ubuntu fundamentally different from traditional proprietary software: not only are the tools you need available free of charge, you have the right to modify your software until it works the way you want it to.
• Folder Size 2.2 – adds a new column to the Details view in Windows Explorer to show the size of folders.
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• IZArc 3.5 Beta 3 – IZArc is a freeware archive utility which supports many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO. IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files (including CD/DVD images). Features include: drag and drop in Windows Explorer, creating multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair damaged zip archives, converting from one archive type to another, view & write comments, and built-in multilanguage support. Though IZArc’s interface may not equal that of WinZip, its support for so many archive formats, makes it an handy tool to have.
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• FindRun Robot – Rapidly find programs or documents from within the depths of the start menu (or other directories). One keypress launches the utility – then just start typing the first letters of the application you want to launch. As you type the best matches are shown – just hit the number to launch the associated program. * Fully customizable search paths (search your entire hard disk for files as well as apps) * Fast incremental searches, with memorized search history helps you find the files you need quickly. * Completely customizable heuristic scoring metrics – tune the program to search the way you think. * Add your own custom alias groups. * Low system overhead, doesn’t mess with your registry. * Unobtrusive and stays out of your way in the system tray until you need it.
• burnatonce – Data and audio CD burning and image writer.
• AutoHotKey 1.0.41.02 – scripting language to automate Windows tasks
• Karen’s Replicator – Automatically backup files, directories, even entire drives! Source and Destination folders can reside anywhere on your network. Options include repeated copies at intervals as short as a few minutes, or as long as several months, copy only files that have changed, and the replication of file deletions. New features allow you to specify which files should not be copied, and also which days a file should be skipped!
• WinPooch 0.5.9 – detects and blocks programs (such as trojans or spyware) attempting to modify your system
• Grouper – Filesharing program with a twist. Lets you share files with group of people and lets you make and upload your own videos to the grouper servers.
• Crimson Editor 3.70 – Crimson Editor is a professional source code editor for Windows. While it can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, it also offers many powerful features for programming languages such as syntax Highlighting for HTML, C/C++, Perl, Java, Matlab and LaTeX. Also, it can be extended for other programming languages based on custom syntax files.
• Copernic Desktop Search 1.63 – Standard desktop search, does files, emails, history/favorites, will index on the fly. Nice features include the able to index network drives, can set schedule on how often files/emails/favorites/history are to be re-indexed, as well as a index clear/re-index feature and the ability to change where the index is stored on the hard drive.
• TeXnic Center – TeXnicCenter is a feature rich integrated development environment (IDE) for developing LaTeX-documents on Microsoft Windows (Windows 9x/ME, NT/2000/XP) freely available under GPL.
• Childsplay 0.81.5 – Childsplay is a ‘suite’ of educational games for young children
• Bitwise – Encrypted Cross-Platform Instant Messanger with lots and lots of excellent options.
• Gate 88 – Space simulation real-time strategy/ action game. Think Subspace meets Starcraft.
• Windows Media Player 11 Beta – Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP offers you unmatched choice and flexibility for your digital media. Easily manage your libraries of digital music, photos, and videos on your computer, and then sync with a variety of portable devices so you can enjoy it all wherever you want.
• Servant Salamander 1.52 – Freeware file manager for Windows. English, Czech, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovak and Spanish version available.
• JILetters 0.06 – assists children with learning the english alphabet
• freeSSHd – freeSSHd is a great tool to setup an SSH tunnel to your Windows PC at home. Much easier than OpenSSH. A great idea if you want to VNC into your home system while on the road.
• RocketDock 1.1.3 – RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha-blended application launcher that is similar to ObjectDock. RocketDock renders quickly like MobyDock, has the visual sharpness of Y’z Dock, and the stability that neither seem to possess. Features: * Compatible with Y’z Dock, Mobydock, and ObjectDock skins * Basic ObjectDock Docklet support * Unicode compliant * Simple drag-n-drop interface * True multi-monitor support * Supports alpha-blended PNG icons * Items zoom on mouse over * Auto-hide * Popup on mouse over * Layering options * Fully customizable * Runs great on slower computers * Supports many languages and can easily be translated * And best of all…it’s FREE
• CloneSpy 2.11 – Can search hard drive(s) or directory(ies) for duplicate files, files with same name, or both. Can display a list of duplicate files, pop-up one by one as it finds them. The files can be deleted as you select them or auto delete one you select (newer, older, larger, smaller, files with a longer/shorter path or file name, or are in one of two pools you list. The files can also be put to the recycle bin or moved to a directory you specify, or even replaced with a shortcut to the file you retain.
• 1-4a Rename – Very flexible and smart batch renaming program. Basic and advanced mode. Shows before and after list so you know what the new file names will be and which files will and will not be renamed. Will work on a directory and from 0 to 255 sub-directories deep. Really too many features to list. Perfect for mp3 or jpg collections.
• floAt’s Mobile Agent – FMA is a free powerful phone editing tool allowing users to easily manage all of the personal data stored in their phones, via a number of different connections methods.
• Shutdown Monster 4.0.4 – Shutdown Monster is a utility that can make your PC turn off at a specified time. You can set a countdown, type in an exact date and time, or even specify a file to check periodically. It’s written in Delphi 10.
• SWF Opener (with SWF Cache Viewer) – SWF Opener allows you to double-click any SWF (Flash) file on your hard drive to get it played right away! No need to open SWF files in your browser anymore. SWF Opener has features such as : Pause, Rewind, Forward, Zoom, etc. SWF Opener comes with SWF Cach Viewer – a program that allows you to conveniently view and save cached swf files.
• FotoTagger – a tool to annotate and blog photos – FotoTagger is a free tool for annotating images to identify people and places. Instantly find a particular person or object among image collections. Publish annotated images to blogs at Blogger.com and LiveJournal. Annotations do not change an original image so moving and sharing files keep annotations intact.
• Maguma Open Studio – Maguma Studio is a powerful PHP IDE Integrated Development Environment for the Windows platform. Full of features PHP developers need to enhance their development process.
• HFS – Free webserver to send and receive files.
• Programmers Notepad 2.0.6.1 – text editor with special features for coders
• eMule 0.47a – eMule is an open-source filesharing (Peer to Peer / P2P) client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network but offers more features than the standard client * Clients use several networks to create one reliable network (ED2K, Source Exchange, Kad) * Queue and Credit system promotes those that upload back to the network * Intelligent Corruption Control * Auto priorities and Source management * Preview Videos and Archives as they download * Categorize your downloads * Search: Servers (Local, and Global), web based (Jigle, and Filedonkey), and Kad (Still in Alpha), Complex Boolean searches * Use the Messaging and friend system, to send messages to other Clients and add them as friends * Built-in IRC chat client
• AxCrypt 1.62 – File Encryption Software for Windows.
• ERUNT – ERUNT – Registry Backup and Restore for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP * Backup the Windows NT/2000/2003/XP registry to a folder of your choice * System and current user registries selectable * Command line switches for automated registry backup and restoration * Restore the registry in Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/2003/XP and MS-DOS (all-in-one restore program) or the Windows Recovery Console
• DBDesigner4 4.0.5.6 – a visual database design system
• WinRoll 2.0 – WinRoll easily manages multiple open windows
• rTorrent – a BitTorrent client for ncurses
• Ant Renamer 2.08.3 – makes easier the renaming of lots of files and folders by using specified settings.
• HDClone Freee Edition – HDClone Free Edition enables you to move the content from an entire hard drive to another, larger one. The program installs itself on a bootable floppy or CD, and includes its own operating system, so it runs completely independent from Windows.
• vuBrief – The best and most featureful syncing software I have found so far. Tops all commercial software around.
• ArtRage 2.0 Free Edition – Software for art painting under Windows or Mac OSX. Let’s try make art…
• XXCOPY – A replacement for xcopy, this program has over 200 command switches. Very flexible.
• OpenSebJ – Open Source Audio Mixing – An audio production & mixing tool, featuring a – Sequencer, Beat Box, Wave Recording, Frequency Modulation, DJ Scratch interface and sampler playback (the ability to assign any sample to any key) – For Windows, written in C# .Net 2.0 utilising DirectX
• Flash Saving Plugin (with SWF Cache Viewer) – Flash Saving Plugin lets you easily save Flash movies right from Internet Explorer (or an IE-based browser e.g. Avant Browser, MSN, MyIE, etc). Flash Saving Plugin is accompanied by SWF Cache Viewer – a program that enables you conveniently view and save cached swf files. SWF Cache Viewer can also be used to view Flash movies stored in Mozilla Firefox cache or any folder on your PC.
• VisiPics 1.10 – Can compare images in a drive(s) and/or directory(ies) to see if the images look close. This program can detect two images are the same even if they are different sizes, one was cropped down, or if parts of the image was modified or touched-up. The sensitivity to how close two pictures have to be before they are considered the same can be adjusted. This is very useful if you have a lot of family pictures or wallpapers and you want to remove duplicates but you can do a duplicate file search because the files aren’t identical.
• StatBar 2.406 – StatBar is a freeware system status bar which provides a handy, orderly overview of your system’s condition.
• WHOS-IN Pro In / Out Board – Do you know where your co-workers are? (Maybe) but to be sure, try WHOS-IN Pro, the in-out board for businesses and organizations that would like to know who’s in and who’s out of the office.
• CookieWall – If you use IE and you want to control what sites can and can not store cookies on your machine, this is the program for you. CookieWall is a sort of firewall for cookies. You can train the program what cookies to keep and which to delete automatically.
• Gyrfalcon – An open source note/thought/task manager. Lets you organize your information in hierarchical trees, attach textual+numeric tags, hyperlink them together, and search within the space of your notes
• TrayIt! – TrayIt! allows to save precious Taskbar space for minimized windows. For each application which applies TrayIt! it creates a small icon in the System Tray. (System Tray area is located near the Clock). When application’s window is minimized this icon represents the application on the Taskbar instead of the regular “minimized rectangle”.
• Vital Desktop 0.40 – runs screensavers in the Windows desktop.
• ColorMania – Advanced Color Picker Utility
• Virtual Dimension 0.94 – A free, fast and feature-filled virtual desktop manager for Windows.
• TClock Light – super clock replacment. highly config, time & date formats. config multiple l & r. click actions. small, light, stable, gnu gpl.
• PureText – Copy and paste text unformatted with a hotkey. (Please read the section “What PureText Will and Will Not Do”)
• o3find 0.82 – Full Text Search for OpenOffice.org documents
• Cornice 0.6.1 – Image Viewer for both Linux and Windows
• tsWebEditor 2.2.12.64 – text editor with syntax highlighting and code completion
• Poptray 3.1 – POP3 Mail checker
• TrueDownloader 0.82 – Open Source Download Accelerator And Manager
• Gungirl Sequencer 0.3.1 – Sequencer
• WellGet 1.25 – This download manager can do the usual, schedule downloads, resume broken downloads, download multiple segments of a file at once. Supports HTTP, FTP, and also MMS, RTSP protocols. This program’s is very similar to Net Transport’s interface and features.
• iColorFolder 1.4.2 – iColorFolder is a useful utility that will organize and change your folder icon. iColorFolder skin pack is available on FreewareFiles.com. Features: * Colorize your folders to organise your files. * Classify your folders by Family. Red is an Important folder, Orange is Urgent, etc… Choose the attributions that you like, so you´ll never delete an important folder by error. * Fully skinnable, light and fast tool. iColorFolder is bundled with three apparences : the default apparence of WindowsXP folders, a Mac OS X skin and a Snow.E2 skin. If your system is already customized with shellpacks like WinOSX, you´ll keep the same folder apparence. You can find other skins on the Web or even easily create one yourself.
• Any Password – Password organizer. Allows a folder structure for grouping passwords together. Can generate strong passwords for you. Stores password file encrypted. Has search feature. Can mask password field so people looking over shoulder can’t see. The exe is stand-alone, so you can backup the exe with your password file for easy recovery or synchronizing of other machines.
• Calc98 – Modes include Decimal, Binary, Octal, Hexadecimal, BaseN, Angle, Time, Finance, Statistics and even Roman numbers. As well as Matrix and unit conversion functions. It comes with a huge units database, but there is an updated unit database as a separate download. The one things I wish this calc could do is graph.
• Alley Code – a nice html editor with xhtml and css support.
• PCI File Inspector – a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. • Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged • Recovers files with the original time and date stamp • Supports the saving of recovered files on network drives • Recovers files, even when a header entry is no longer available.
• e-Sword – Free Bible study software and electronic Bible.
• Comical – If you’re looking for a CBR and CBZ reader for your favorite OS, look no farther. Comical is an easy-to-use, featureful GUI comic book viewer, written in C++ using wxWidgets.
• Maxthon – Tab web browser based on IE
• MegaTrack 1.4 – track storms on a map
• track storms on a map – A sophisticated computer algebra system
• The Babbleback Machine 1.0 – Records and Playback voice game
• DRKSpider – A link checker, like Xenu, but only open source.
• Virtual Magnifying Glass v2.36 – screen magnification tool for Windows
• Google Pack – A free collection of essential software
• Google Desktop – Google’s replacement for Windows search. A great search program that is quick, efficient, and has a number of other widgets.
• wxMusik 0.4.2.2 – An open-source, cross-platform multimedia player and library.
• Omziff – Small standalone encryption utility that also does file shredding and splitting.
• CubicExplorer – Windows Explorer Replacement – CubicExplorer is a file manager/browser software. It’s designed to be easy to use yet powerful to handle multiple directorys at the same time. It uses tabbed browsing and has a build-in text editor which has highlighters for many different file types.
• TreeLine 0.14.0 – Free Word processing program similiar to commerical products
• FullSync 0.9.1 – file synchronization and backup tool which is highly customizable and expandable.
• XP Syspad – Windows system utility with hundreds of functions – a swiss army knife utility.
• Scanner – This tool uses a unique concentric pie chart to display the usage of your hard disk or other media. The chart shows all major files and folders from all directory levels at once.
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• Yahoo! Desktop Search – This is a Yahoo! branded version of the X1 desktop search engine. Supports files, email, contacts, IM (yahoo), pictures, music. There is an expansion pack to add over 300 file types you can download. Each category above can be scheduled to be indexed as well as have it’s own index now button. Can change the location of the index. Does not support networked drives or CD/DVDs.
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• Bitdefender 8 Free Edition – BitDefender 8 Free Edition is your chance to use one of the world’s most effective antivirus engines for free! BitDefender 8 uses the same ICSA Labs certified scanning engines found in other BitDefender products, allowing you to enjoy basic virus protection for no cost at all.
• Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 2 – The latest version of Internet Explorer provides a flexible and reliable browsing experience with enhanced Web privacy features for all Windows users. This version includes a full installation of the Web browser and the most recent version of Outlook Express, the e-mail client that is included with Internet Explorer. This installer will automatically download the required components from Microsoft.
• Trillian 3 – A fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC.
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• dotWidget 0.81 – run applets or “widgets” on your desktop
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• Yahoo! Downloads – All Yahoo! software for free!
• CoolPlayer build 215 – Audio Player similar to Winamp
• ZoneAlarm Free 6.1.737 – ZoneAlarm is an easy-to-use firewall that blocks hackers and other unknown threats. * Intrusion Blocking systematically identifies hackers and blocks access attempts. * Stealth Mode automatically makes your computer invisible to anyone on the Internet. * Automatic Program Configuration provides safety and simplicity by automatically configuring programs. Automatically decides whether to allow or deny Internet access to individual programs. * Expert Controls give savvy users precise control over security settings. This free version is for non-commercial use only. If you like it, you may want to buy the “ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite” (Firewall+Antivirus+Antispyware+AntiPhishing+AntiSpam+PrivacyProtection).
• Dave’s iPod Guide Version 1 – Dave’s Free iPod Guide! Renovated! A comprehensive guide to getting a free iPod just to argue against all the free iPod skeptics out there. This site contains everything you want to know, including pictures of his free iPod. It also features step by step instructions, proof, and a free conga line to help you get started! Please visit http://www.davesfreeipodguide.tk for more details! Pics of his free iPod are on it too!
• Do_you_REALLY_know_your_Neighbor? – Do you REALLY know your Neighbor? Is he a criminal or sexual preditor? What about you kids boyfriend or girlfriend? Here’s how you can find out anything about anyone. Friends, Neighbors, co-workers.
• PlaceWiki – Find places to go and things to do. Placewiki is a site where anyone can find, enter, or edit places of interest and activities.
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• Maxthon Browser v1.5.2 build 21 Standard – Maxthon is a powerful tabbed Internet Browser with a highly customizable & powerful interface. It is based on the Internet Explorer browser engine (your most likely current web browser) which means that what works in the IE browser will work the same in Maxthon. If you prefer IE than Mozilla/Opera or need to work with IE, then Maxthon is the best browser with the IE engine. It is better to use the Standard version of Maxthon as it is lean & mean. Maxthon has many additional efficient features like… * Tabbed Browsing Interface * AD Hunter * RSS Reader * Skinning * Privacy Protection * IE Extensions Support * Mouse Gestures * Super Drag&Drop * URL Alias (shortcuts) * External Utility Bar * Inbuilt search engine box (Google, Yahoo, etc)
• Shareaza 2.2.1.0 – Shareaza is a open-source file sharing system that can harness the power of up to four separate peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, including BitTorrent, Gnutella, EDonkey2000 and Shareaza’s native network, Gnutella2 (G2). Not only that, but Shareaza is completely FREE and won’t show any annoying ads or pop-ups. It won’t install any unwanted third party programs that can wreak havoc with your computer. No spyware, no registration, no “paid version”. Just download and use. Simple.
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Get design inspirations from these showcases. Please list all of the existing galleries on the Net.

• CSS Zen Garden -
• CSS Vault -
• CSS Beauty -
• Stylegala -
• Webcreme – A design gallery updated daily with fresh and innovative sites
• CSS Mania -
• CSS Reboot -
• CSS Thesis -
• CSS Import -
• Unmatched Style -
• CSS Drive -
• CSS Galleries – Aggregating CSS & Web design inspiration
• CSS Play – Fantastic CSS resource site with loads of demos and tutorials. Some particularly impressive CSS photo galleries
• Daily Slurp – Daily link dump of well designed sites.
• Light on Dark – the majority of web sites you visit on the internet have a white background, with black text. rarely do you find web sites that use a dark background with light text.
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• Dark Eye -
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• Most Inspired – Aggregates web-design galleries into one easy to access page.
• Best Web Site Design – Our web site design services has a competitive team of skilled professionals and have best exposure in the industry. They are equipped to provide you with complete services in website design and development as well as enhance
• CSS Flavor – Collectoion of Best CSS Design Websites
• CSSElite css gallery – CSS Design Gallery and Website Development Resources
• Style Crunch – StyleCrunch is a css and standards websites gallery, you can find the best sites in the www, best design, best coded and what engine used.
• CSS Bloom – CSS Bloom is a website showcasing the best CSS based designs used by Blog’s and Online Portfolio’s. By providing links, and previews of the best designs, we aim to provide our viewers with inspiration for their websites. If you have come across a design which is missing from CSS Bloom, but you feel should be added, or if you would like to submit your own design, then please use the Submit link at the top of the page.
• CSS Remix – CSS Remix celebrates the dynamic innovation and creativity of designers who are on the forefront of CSS-based design. We honor those designers who aren’t afraid to think outside the box and who are reinventing our ideas of what great web design can be.
• The Horizontal Way – An horizontal showcase for horizontal scrolling websites.
• CSS Websites – CSS Gallery by Design CSS
• Submit CSS – a brand new website gallery full of css designs
• Best Web Gallery – Best Web Gallery is an inspirational gallery site where we collect a wide range of quality design websites
• Cssimpress – CSS Impress – Gallery of CSS Websites
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• CSSelite – Only the best of the best in CSS. Great gallery.
• CSS Spain – Here you will find sites developed in Spain with the web Standards and Guidelines of the W3C
• Alternative CSS – Gallery focusing on new and creative design ideas, elements, layout methods, and styles.
• Camaleon – Hispanic CSS Zen Garden
• CSS Blast – russian css showcase
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• CSS Collection – Naked Sites: Shedding tables and running free
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• showcase GR – showcasing the best of Greek CSS web design
• Design Snack -
• Web Standards Awards -
• Design Melt Down – Articles on web design trends, each with a slew of samples.
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• A List Apart – Great web design resource
• Webdesign reference book – They are publishing a book! Fall 2006 150 of the best web designs are picked out, and will be included in a book, together with articles and interviews, with and about some of the designers!
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• Undersigned – Webdesign reference book – We are releasing a book with about 150 of the greatest webdesigns.

Here are some sites that provide free stock photos and graphics. Some of them allow to use in commerical, but some don’t. Please read the license or term of use on each of the site for more information.

• Stock Xchng -
• Morgue File -
• Photocase -
• Image*After -
• FamFamFam – Free icons
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• Free Stock Photos -
• Stock Vault -
• Yotophoto – Search engine for free for use photos
• Big Foto -
• Free digital photos – Thousands of royalty free images for websites, PowerPoint, newsletters, forums, blogs, schools and homework. Images may be used for commercial and non commercial work. No registration or payment required.
• everystockphoto.com – Search engine for license-specific photo media, including creative commons, public domain, and other attribution-based image licenses. Now indexing over 260,000 free photos. Members can tag photos.
• Web 2.0 Imaging Tools – **Web based applications to assist with hosting, editing and creating of images online.** *Find tools like MySpace generators, button makers, bar graph designers, image croppers, photo editors, comic strippers, etc…*
• CG India – textures, graphics, 3d models and more!
• BigStockPhoto.com – Free images weekly, and just a dollar or two for incredible quality stock photos. No subscriptions or other fees. Nearly a million images online.
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• Photogen – FREE stock photos and images – Search and download free high resolution stock photos and images, for commercial and personal use.
• FreeWebPhoto – Free images for websites, PowerPoint, newsletters, forums, blogs, schools and homework. Images may be used for commercial and non commercial work. No registration or payment required.
• Custom Web Site Design – We have professional web site design service and can implement your own custom web site design with special design and animation
• Color association in logos and designs – These logo and color association is called business “branding”. Branding is the strategy in which businesses create and maintain their own unique symbol; can be in terms of a logo, fonts, graphics and most especially, colors.
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• our.imgSeek – Social photo bookmarking: search similar images, tag, rate and get recommendations
• Custom Clipart & Graphics – Make thousands of free clipart images online without having to install any software (web based applications)! You can make banners, buttons, comic strips, logos, blog pics, safety signs, email sigs, warning labels, e-cards, celebrity parodies, controversial pix, etc. We supply the basic picture layout, you supply the funny text (famous quotes, slogans, jokes) to customize the captions!
• Pixmotor – Thousands of high quality free images
• BMTutorials Stock Image Link Fest – A long list of free & commercial stock image sites.
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• InterfaceLIFT Stock Icons – Professional quality collection of stock icons for use by developers in their software and website projects.
• iStockphoto – iStockphoto™ is the world’s fastest growing collection of royalty-free images, at the world’s best prices. There are no subscription fees or extra costs. Just the best Stock Photography, Vector illustrations, and Flash files online, at prices for everyone.
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Where to submit your URL to your blog/website/forum so that the search engines will index and give promotion to you. Please submit the pages where you can submit your URL. Instant inclusion, meta search, directories, etc.

• Max Spider – Instant URL Inclusion – Free URL promotion! Add your site for free, many tools your site get’s linked too once it’s submitted!
• Sir Seek’s Instant Inclusion – Submit your site and have it indexed immediately!
• Best SEO Toolbar – Freeware search engine searching/portal software to help you search all over the internet from your web browser’s address bar (over 300 searchable resources from one tab)! Submit your website (search engine optimization) to over 300 search engines with a free buitl-in addon SEO promotional tool for webmasters.
• Tecnixindo’s Web Submitter – Web based (web 2.0) URL submitter, post your site to over 50 search engines.
• RSS Feed Submittor – FeedPing Offers Free RSS Submission to All Major Directories Simply enter the URL of your feed, choose which directories you want your feed submitted to, and click the submit button.
• Largest Web 2.0 URL Submission – This is a great tool that let’s you submit your web site’s URL (unique resource locator) address to hundreds of search engines and ports, just fill in the few blanks and hit enter! This is just too easy, it’s almost sleezy!
• Feed Shark – Easily ping and submit your blog, RSS feed, or podcast to over 35 popular services for free.
• Little Known SEO Factors that could Make the Difference – Here are some little known ranking factors that just might give you that slight boost you need.
• Free Search Engine Submission – No sign-up, therefore no spam. Download a free search engine submission tool.
• Tecnixindo’s Web Submitter – Freeware search engine searching/portal software to help you search all over the internet from your web browser’s address bar (over 300 searchable resources from one tab)! Submit your website (search engine optimization) to over 300 search engines with a free buitl-in addon SEO promotional tool for webmasters.

Resources webmasters can use to improve their optimization techniques both onsite and offsite.

• Now you can View your Site Stats in Real-Time 3D! – Web Stats in Video Game Format! Start Viewing Your Live Traffic in Ways You Never Imagined VisitorVille applies video game principles to help you easily visualize and better understand your web site traffic statistics. It’s easy: each building represents a web page; each bus a search engine; and each animated character a real visitor to your site! Just paste our tracking code into your web pages, then launch VisitorVille for Windows to analyze your stats and watch your traffic in real time.
• Google Onebox Optimization Tips – Oneboxer is the online journal of Brian Mark, Internet 500 marketing guru. Oneboxer shows you how to increase pageviews and sales using The Google onebox space. With it, Brian has achieved added sales in the 7 figure area.
• adgridwork – adgridwork is ‘The World’s First Free Advertising Network.’ Promote your website, blog or business on the Ad Network by helping to serve other users’ advertisements. Think Bittorent for Advertising!
• RSS Marketing profits Make easy – RSS is a technology that has the potential of overcoming many of the internet marketing challenges we are facing today, RSS is becoming a strong daily content delivery vehicle.
• Search Engine Marketing Success – Search engine optimization,social networking, web 2.0 are the hottest area of online traffic generation today. Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is the practice of getting your website visible on the major search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo
• New Web 2.0 Secrets – How To Capitalize On The Blazing Fast Growth Of Web 2.0 Companies Like MySpace, Technorati, Digg And Others To Instantly Attract An Unlimited Supply Of New Prospects & Customers To Your Websites…. FOR FREE! You have social networking sites. Social bookmarking sites. Authority sites. Im sure youve heard some of their names before… Digg MySpace Technorati Squidoo Wikipedia Craigslist Del.icio.us Furl.net
• SEO’s Best Toolbar – Free search engine frontend & browser add-on to help you search all over the internet from your web browser’s address bar (over 300 searchable resources from one tab)! Submit your web site to over 300 search engines with a free buitl-in addon SEO promotional tool for webmasters.
• Zoobie TV – Features Zoobie’s reviews on different Internet Marketing products.
• Sell SEO Domains – Webmaster marketplace for SEOs and general webmasters
• Seo for Newbies – Small guide how to optimize your blog for search engines written for adult webmasters, but useful for mainstream as well
• My Adsense Guide – Internet marketing tips by an online entrepreneur.
• Keyword Research – Article by Robert Wright on keyword research. **Snippet:** Professional keyword research is the cornerstone of any true search engine marketing campaign…
• Contextual Link Exchanging – Article by Dane Lyons on the importance of contextual links. **Snippet:** Writing web content is an excellent way to build passive income. An article can potentially pull visitors from search engines for years. Each targeted visitor is potentially worth more than $.003 from contextual ads alone…
• SitePoint – Search Engine Optimization section of SitePoint.com
• Search Engine Placement Tips – Article by Dane Lyons on search engine placement. **Snippet:** This is more important than some people think. Each page should be w3c compliant. You should definitely use a unique title on every page. It is also a good idea to add unique descriptions and keywords…
• Webmaster Talk – General SEO talk section of Webmaster-Talk.com
• Thread Watch – Aaron Wall’s SEO Blog.
• Webmaster World – Great forum on search marketing and webmaster resources.
• Search Engine Blog – Peter Da Vanzo’s SEO Blog.
• Link Popularity – Article by Robert Wright on Link Popularity. **Snippet:** For years now, the importance of link popularity has increased…
• Microsoft’s Vow – Blog on Microsoft’s vow to surpass Google within 6 Months.
• SEO Speedwagon – Erik Dafforn’s SEO Blog.
• Newspaper Advertising Tips – Affordable local advertising has never been easier than launching a newspaper advertising campaign in the classified ads section of your newspaper. Everyday, millions of people place classified ads in their local newspaper to sell a car, hire an employee, or sell real estate.
• Small Business Resources Blog – Stop procrastinating, I know you have the 20 minutes a day needed to start your internet business.
• SEO and Real Estate – How do we fit this puzzle? How can we relate a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) service, which is an internet-based activity with the services offered by Real Estate firms, which caters to properties and land deals? Both are entirely different, well, until the Real Estate firms, decided to go ONLINE. And that’s where we find the synergy.

This is a list for all the useful thing that a web developer should use to implement AJAX technology in his webApp.

• Prototype – The library that used by scriptaculous and ruby on rails
• script.aculo.us - script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, compatible and, ultimately, totally cool JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly, Web 2.0 style.
• Moo.fx - moo.fx is a super lightweight, ultra tiny, megamall JavaScript effects library, written with prototype.js. It’s easy to use, fast, cross-browser, standards compliant, provides controls to modify Height, Width, and Opacity with built-in checks that won’t let a user break the effect with multiple crazy clicks. It’s also optimized to make you write the lesser code possible.
• dojo - Dojo is the Open Source JavaScript toolkit that helps you build serious applications in less time. It fills in the gaps where JavaScript and browsers don’t go quite far enough, and gives you powerful, portable, lightweight, and tested tools for constructing dynamic interfaces. Dojo lets you prototype interactive widgets quickly, animate transitions, and build Ajax requests with the most powerful and easiest to use abstractions available.
• Behaviour – Using CSS selectors to apply JavaScript behaviours
• JSON - JavaScript Object Notation is a lightweight data-interchange format
• ASK – AJAX Source Kit – A simple way to get content into your page on-the-fly through asynchronous JavaScript and XmlHttpRequest, without sacrificing accessibility or usability.
• jQuery - jQuery is a new type of JavaScript library. It is not a huge, bloated, framework promising the best in AJAX – nor is just a set of needlessly complex enhancements – jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
• Yahoo! User Interface Library – The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX. The UI Library Utilities facilitate the implementation of rich client-side features by enhancing and normalizing the developer’s interface to important elements of the browser infrastructure (such as events, in-page HTTP requests and the DOM). The Yahoo UI Library Controls produce visual, interactive user interface elements on the page with just a few lines of code and an included CSS file. All the components in the Yahoo! User Interface Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.
• event:Selectors – event:Selectors allow you to apply an event such as mouse over, mouse out, click, et al using a CSS style syntax. It keeps your layers separated and greatly reduces the amount of code you have to write. And it’s better than Behaviour
• Web 2.0 Search Engine – Simply search for a keyword of what your wish to make or work with to see the tools available (example search links: mashups, blogging, viral videos, clipart, designing, social tagging, AJAX apps, file storage/sharing, RSS feeds, anti-spam tools, CSS layout generators, image editors, webmaster tools, calculators, file conversions, blog (URL) submits, web APIs, tutorials, etc). Please submit sites you find useful relating to the topic “WEB 2.0″. Each accepted site receives a Web2.0 award.
• SAJAX - “Sajax is an open source tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework â€� also known as XMLHTTPRequest or remote scripting â€� as easy as possible. Sajax makes it easy to call PHP, Perl or Python functions from your WebPages via JavaScript without performing a browser refresh. The toolkit does 99% of the work for you so you have no excuse to not use it.”
• MochiKit - “MochiKit is a highly documented and well tested, suite of JavaScript libraries that will help you get shit done, fast. We took all the good ideas we could find from our Python, Objective-C, etc. experience and adapted it to the crazy world of JavaScript.”
• backbase - Backbase software can be used to build more interactive websites and better user interfaces, web interfaces, web GUIs or web-based replacements for desktop rich clients. Backbase rich clients can be easily combined with Java & J2EE, .NET & ASP.NET, XML, XSLT and XPath.
• Gaia Ajax Widgets – Gaia Ajax Widgets is a free library for developing Ajax application in ASP.NET (2.0 and above) It’s not Open Source but there’s both a free version and a Source Version.
• Web Programming -
• Rico - rich Ajax components and effects built on Prototype
• CPaint - CPAINT (Cross-Platform Asynchronous INterface Toolkit) is a multi-language toolkit that helps web developers design and implement AJAX web applications with ease and flexibility.
• AjaXSLT - AJAXSLT is an implementation of XSLT in JavaScript, intended for use in fat web pages, which are nowadays referred to as AJAX applications. Because XSLT uses XPath, it is also an implementation of XPath that can be used independently of XSLT.