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Free Tech Tools for Business

Collection of Free Tools, Tips and Resources to Help you start or run a small business

Free Mailing Lists, Email Newsletters & Ezines Hosting

Looking for a way to communicate with a group or customer base? Consider an Email Newsletter, Group! Check out this review for some FREE options. You may want to look at Your MailingList Provider Free Mailing List Hosting as it does not put any adds in your email newsletter.

http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/mailinglists.shtml

Andy
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Create your own Social Network

Check out Ning http://www.ning.com/ they allow you to create you own public or private social network. Its a great way for people to collaborate and share especially when you want to do it privately or have people you would like to include that don't want to be all out there on Facebook etc...
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Free Online Storage for backup or file sharing FREE!!

Looking to share files, music, video, movies and just about anything on your computer. Free file sharing has been around for a while, but the stakes are getting higher. Some services offer UNLIMITED free Storage for file sharing.

One of the most popular offerings allow you to syncronize with your PC and keep the files current. Drop Box - Limit on the free account is 2MB

Personally I like Drop.io which gives you up to 100MB PER DROP with NO LIMIT on the number of drops and a host of features and unique ways to add and share your drop.

I just "stumbled upon" a new player competing for a free place to stash your files on line: MySites which is giving up to 10GB free storage. I'm just starting to play with it but I thought I'd Share it with our community of Freeware lovers.

MyBloop.com offeres UNLIMITED online storage - I have not yet checked this out and woudl appreciate feedback from anyone familiar.


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Free Templates for almost everything.

More than just business card templates, you will find a wealth of ideas/templates that can help you market and grow your business, plann wedding, or throw a killer of party!


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Free Estimate, Price List and Bills of Quantities Program

Check it out!  It is a gift from ACCA. The Italian leader in the building and construction software industry.


Share Price Lists, Estimates and Bills of Quantities but also to create, modify and share them freely for FREE


http://www.primus-dcf.com/en/Download/tabid/79/Default.aspx


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Present.io - A great FREE way present rich media online

http://drop.io/?code=present
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Free Collaborative Project/Task Managment


http://www.taskbarn.com/
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Free e-Mail

My favorite is gmail. Once I got used to the new paradigm of how gmail threads conversations and tags email, it is now my favorite. The new Themes give it a cool fresh look that even changes based on the time of day in your timezone. You also get all basics including lots of space, great search capabilities, integration with calendaring and much more.

What really sets it apart are some of the advanced features and the Gmail Labs applications and great spam filters. Some of my favorite advanced features:

  • id+anything@gmail.com :: infinate virtual id's that you manage and automate your mail processing when combined with the filters and canned responses (auto responder. I use it to manage my vacation rental, when I get mail to my +seacolony tag it flags, it, tags its, responds with a message thanking them for their inquiry and letting them know i'll get back to them within 24 hours and more!! very Cool.
  • attachment reminders - if you mention an attachment in the body but have not attached anything it reminds you to attach before sending.

much more!! check it out!
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Free web site creation and hosting

google sites - http://sites.google.com/
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Best Free Office Suite

There are a number of Free office suites available. Most are built around openoffice.org. Check out this review at Gizmo's freeware 
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Calendar and Document sharing

Google Galendar is Great. Google Documents are great. what could be even better? Google Team Edition

Integrated solution using Google Docs, Calendar and Sites. You need to have a common registered email domain to use the service.

You can always use these apps separately to collaborate but google team integration makes it even easier!
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Free PIM with Contact Manager

You don't have to own a palm to use the desktop. You can download it from Palm or from http://download.cnet.com/Palm-Desktop/3000-2094_4-10020951.html

There are also free tools to synch with online calendars.

You may also want to check out this article reviewing other options if this does not quite fit your needs. http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-pim.htm
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Free Accounting Software - Quickbooks

http://quickbooks.intuit.com/product/accounting-software/free-accounting-software.jsp
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Free voicemail and teleconferencing.

drop.io offers both a teleconferencing number and voicemail as part of their free service.

freeconferencecall.com offers free conference call service that includes recording capabilities with a dial in for replay and an rss feed to share online.
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PDF Almost Anything

Free way to create a PDF from almost anyting! PDF is one of the most popular formats on the internet and great if you want to send the file you created to your friend with a MAC or a group of people you don't know, or heck you don't want people messing with your stuff.

My favorite solution (Free or otherwise - and I own a fully licended version of Adobe Acrobat that they sell for hundreds of $$$) is to use the PDF Printer Driver based creation tool. My favorite is BullZip PDF. There are many alternatives out there - I found this great review that weighs out the pros and cons of each of the main ones.

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Manage and Store Reciepts Online

Shoeboxed - Manages and stores receipts and business cards. For free service you need to Scan/email yourself. www.shoeboxed.com
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Free Inbound Fax Service

eFAx provided a FREE inbound service with your own private fax number. This is only free for receiving faxes -- you will have to upgrade to a paid service in order to send faxes. Granted, each fax you send will only cost a few cents but this will quickly add up, especially if you send international faxes which have higher rates than domestic ones. So please be aware of this fact, free if you only receive faxes, not free if you want to send faxes.

You can FAX outbound for FREE via Fax Zero's service h
ttp://faxzero.com/. Note you are limited to 2/Day with a Max of 3 pages each. (unless you want to Pay)
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Free Business Cards (you have to supply paper)

There are a number of free alternatives to creating your own business cards. My favorites is Serif Pagemaker Plus SE. Unfortunatly, there is no Vista Support.

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PagePlus/

Note if your unemployed a number of places are offering Free Business Cards - google for promotions or check with your local staples or chamber of commerce.
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