Free Desktop Software
- Adobe Reader – PDF reader; a must-have tool to read most of the e-books out there
- CamStudio – Screencasting; create video demos of your product
- FileZilla – FTP client; to upload files to your hosting server
- Firefox – Web browser
- FreeMind – Mind-mapping software; great for brainstorming
- GIMP – Photo and image editor; analogous to Adobe Photoshop
- Inkscape – Vector graphics editor; analogous to Adobe Illustrator
- Jing – Screen capture and screen casting
- Kompozer – HTML editor; analogous to Microsoft Frontpage
- Mozy – Automatic online backups
- OpenOffice – Productivity suite; analogous to Microsoft Office
- Open Workbench – Project management; set deadlines for your project milestones
- Paint.NET – Photo and image editor; analogous to Adobe Photoshop
- Pdf995 (free version) – PDF printer; print to PDF from any application
- SpeechPlayer Free Edition – Text-to-speech tool – for listening to all those e-books (a shameless plug!)
- TweetDeck – Desktop Twitter application
- Windows Live Movie Maker – Video editor; latest version allows you to upload directly to YouTube
- Windows Live Writer – Blogging application; supports posting to a WordPress website
- 3D Package – 3D cover creator
- Are My Sites Up – Website monitoring
- Backlink Watch – Backlinks checker tool
- Blogger.com – Blog service which supports AdSense ads
- BrowserShots – Cross platform browser test
- ClickTale – Visitor movement tracker; improve your conversions by analyzing visitor mouse movements
- Cool Text – Logo and graphics generator
- Copyscape – Search for copies of your page on the web
- Feng-GUI – Visual attention heatmap
- Free Tell A Friend – Tell-a-friend service
- Google Alerts – Email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic
- Google Analytics – Traffic monitoring and analytics
- Google Insights for Search – Provides insights into the search terms people have been entering into the Google search engine
- Google Keyword Tool – Keyword research
- Google Trends – Compare trends for different search terms in Google
- Google Webmaster Tool – Provides detailed reports on crawling and indexing of your websites
- Google Website Optimizer – Website testing and optimization tool
- OnlyWire – Automated content and bookmark distribution tool
- Ping.fm – Update all your social networks at once
- Ping-O-Matic – Blog ping service; ping multiple search engines at once
- PRChecker.info – Google PageRank checker
- Quantcast – Media measurement service
- StatCounter – Traffic monitoring with real-time analytics
- stock.xchng – Free stock photos
- SurveyMonkey.com – Create and publish custom surveys
- TubeMogul – Video distribution service; upload to multiple video streaming service
- Twitter – Micro-blogging service
- Scribd – Social publishing
- SlideShare – Social publishing
- Quarkbase – Get comprehensive website information
- Web 2.0 Badges – Web 2.0 badge generator
- You Get Signal – Domain tools
- YouTube – Video streaming service
- Infinite Responder – Autoresponder
- Joomla! – Content management system; great for portals
- OSTicket – Help desk software
- phpBB – Forum package
- WordPress – Blogging engine / CMS of sorts
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