Office Suite Application
Save, edit and create office documents for your business for free

 Open Office - www.openoffice.org/



Image Editing Software
And instructions for manipulating and making promotional images like a professional graphic designer

The Gimp -  http://www.gimp.org/

IrfanView - http://download.cnet.com/IrfanView/3000-2192_4-10021962.html

Pixelmator - (for MAC) http://www.pixelmator.com/

Inkscape - for vector images - http://inkscape.org/


Video Editing Software
Leave the outtakes, on the cutting room floor to make videos your competition envies

Avid Studio - (30 day free trial) http://www.videospin.com/Redesign/

Movie Maker - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/get-movie-maker

iLife - (for MAC) Includes iPhoto 11, iMovie 11, GarageBand 11   http://www.apple.com/ilife/

WAX Debug Mode - http://www.debugmode.com/wax/


Audio Recording and Editing software
Create audio products  and advertising audio right  on your own computer

Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/



Video Screen Capture Software
Great for advertising. Shows people exactly how you did it - by capturing every step you took in free editable video format.

Virtual Dub - http://www.virtualdub.org/


http://www.1001freefonts.com/  

http://www.fontspace.com/




FTP software, (And instructions for placing and changing pages on the web anytime you want!)
http://filezilla-project.org/download.php

Schema.org is a webmasters tool for the collection of 'schemas', (schema are html tags, etc.) you can use this to help search engines recognize the information on your websites better.

http://schema.org


Free to Digital Point Members
http://tools.digitalpoint.com/


Put a marquee
on your website to scroll the latest news or feature of your site.

http://www.htmlbasix.com/marquee.shtml
(Annoying pop-up warning)


Zen cart
...is free and has a lot of free add-ons

http://www.zen-cart.com





Great templates for business card etc
http://www.48hourprint.com/photoshop-templates.html

Free brushes for photoshop
http://www.brushking.eu/Category/Vectors-Brushes.html

Okay, This is the best set of Photoshop Tutorials that you can laugh at, ever!
Check this out (but maybe not when the young ones are in the room...)
http://www.youtube.com/show/yousuckatphotoshop


Free Images

The Open Clipart Library (OCAL) -  free and with no restrictions.
http://openclipart.org/

Stock.XCHNG - free and can be used commercially with correct permissions
http://www.sxc.hu

The MorgueFile - Free commercial and non-commercial use www.morguefile.com/




Wiki Summarizer

Similar to Google's old Wonder Wheel. It is an application that summarizes Wikipedia articles. It identifies the most important keywords and ranks them by relevancy.You can use this tool to help identify keywords for your pages.

http://www.wikisummarizer.com


Forum Board Search engines

When looking for forums to comment- in your niche- for SEO link building this search engine is great

http://boardreader.com/


Clicktale

Real time analytics that are free for limited amounts but worth it to track where a person is looking on your page ..check out the free package benefits.

•    Limited plan $0
•    400 recorded pageviews / month
•    Limited playback
•    Generate Heatmaps of your most popular page


http://www.clicktale.com/pricing/plans_e
(Link to free package on bottom of the page.)


WOOPRA

Downloadable desktop client that tracks visitors to your site using heat maps and real time visuals

http://www.woopra.com/
(A free basic plan for non-commercial, personal sites)

http://www.woopra.com/plans/
(Go here for price plans-It is hard to find prices on the site without signing up.)


Popuri

A tool to check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more!

 http://popuri.us/




Web2.0 directory

http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0/short





Anti-virus/firewall,
Because when your computer is making money downtime is unacceptable!


Microsoft Security Essentials
Microsoft's free virus protection software
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Malware
Malwarebytes is a very effective free anti-malware tool 
www.malwarebytes.org/

Spybot - Search and Destroy
this malware removal tool has advanced features that can really search out the nasties but if you are not careful, it can destory your own downlaoded products so use with care.

Download using a mirror
http://download.cnet.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10401314.html




InnerPass
…Turns Skype Into a Virtual Business Collaboration Tool
InnerPass is a Skype Extra that adds Persistence to Web Meetings to help organize and coordinate ongoing collaborative projects.
Free $0.00 Forever
Meeting Rooms: 5 Rooms
Screen Sharing: 30 Minutes
Guests : 5 Participants
Storage: 1 GB Total Storage

https://www.innerpass.com/?




SynchroEdit
…is a browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor, a form of same-time, different-place groupware. It allows multiple users to edit a single web-based document at the same time, and it continuously synchronizes all changes so that users always have the same version.

http://www.synchroedit.com/



WatchMe
…is a simple timer program that can be used to time a number of different tasks or events together or indepenedently of each other. You can easily name each timer and track information about what you are timing - a great solution for those who need to track their time for billing, timesheets and more.

http://flamebrain.com/
 



Last update for these links was 3-5-2012
If they are broken, please let us know.

To your success,

Michael & Corena
GolliverMedia.com