Best Places to Get Free Books
Wowio – Public domain, free legitimate copyrighted materials & one of the only with a selection of Comic Books
- BizBooktalk – Free book giveaway contests on Fridays
- SwapThing – Community of users who swap items including books
- BookCart – Internet paperback exchange
- SF-Books – Exchange Sci-Fi Books here
- PaperbackSwap – Swap books for free
- MoochMuch – Organize your book lending with your friends Read »
Best Freeware Software
Office
- OpenOffice
- PC Suite 602
- Doc Convertor – document convertor
- Convert – unit convertor
- Converber – unit convertor
- Sunbird – calendar/organizer
- EssentialPIM Free – calendar/organizer
- PhraseExpress – speed up your writing
- ATnotes – create notes on the desktop
Text Editor
PDF Reader & Editor
Free Online Translation Tools
Babelfish – provides you with a useful tool to communicate with your non-English speaking or bilingual customers. You can use this site to translate words, phrases, or entire web sites into 19 pairs of languages, including to and from English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. The site’s World Keyboard allows you to add accented or other special characters to your text for more accurate translations. Also by adding Babel Fish to your site, your customers can translate your site into their preferred language. There also is a limit on how much you can translate. Babel Fish is designed to translate up to about 800 words or two standard, double-spaced pages (about 5K of text) at a time. If you exceed the limit or if you attempt to translate a very long Web page (over 5K), the site translates up to the limit and then stops.
Free2ProfessionalTranslation – is one of the most popular websites of its kind, with in excess of 2 million visitors per week. FreeTranslation.com allows users to obtain free translations of both text and web pages. The translation is generated by a computer, displayed instantly and the user is dynamically shown the cost of having the same text professionally translated by Click2Translate Express. Translates text and web pages from and to: English, Chinese, Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, German, Norwegian, Japanese.
WorldLingo – is a leading innovator and provider of translation and localization services and technology. World Lingo has grown into a global organization with offices in Europe, America, and Asia. Provides text and web page language translations in Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, and Korean.With context-sensitive option.
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Free Online Photo Albums
Create a free online photo album or multiple photo albums and share your digital photos and albums on the web
Photobucket is the web’s most popular creative hub, linking billions of personal photos, graphics, slideshows and videos daily to hundreds of thousands of web sites, including: MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Friendster, eBay, Craigslist, Blogger and Xanga. In addition to linking, Photobucket users share their personal digital media by email, instant messaging, and mobile devices.
Flickr – is the best way to store, sort, search and share your photos online. Flickr helps you organize that huge mass of photos you have and offers a way for you and your friends and family to tell stories about them. If you have a free Flickr account, you can upload 100MB worth of photos each calendar month. There’s no limit to the number of photos you can have. But if you have a free account, you’ll only see the most recent 200 photos displayed. You can upload files up to 5MB in size.
Kodakgallery – provides consumers with a secure and easy way to view, store and share their photos with friends and family and get real Kodak prints of their pictures. The site also provides free editing and creative tools.
Imageshack – is an intuitive and easy-to-use free image hosting solution. It can be used to share pictures with friends, as well as to post images on message boards and blogs. It can also be used to direct link images on websites and online auctions.
Webshots -is a photo sharing site offering desktop screensaver and wallpaper downloads, plus photo sharing for your personal pictures.