Misc. Freebies on the WEB
- Investor
Links - This
is perhaps the Web's top resource for free
investor information and free real-time quotes.
It's a well-maintained site with thousands of
links, with descriptions. Updated daily.
- Swingware
Daily Sounds - Drop by this site for a daily dose
of free sound files. Swingware adds 10 new .wav
files each day and accepts requests. Sounds range
from Daffy Duck to HAL from "2001: A Space
Odyssey." They also offer a selection of
sound utilities and music links.
- Send
a free fax - This
advertising-supported service lets you send a fax
to anyone in the U.S. for free. The service is
easy to use; just type in your message in their
form and your fax will be sent out within the
hour, in most cases.
- Free currency
converter - This
site offers a free currency converter tool that
offers current and historical exchange rates for
164 currencies from 1990 to the present. Also,
Webmasters can use the customizable currency
converters for free on their own site.
- Babies
Online - Have
you got a newborn in the family? Then check out
this free birth announcement service for new
parents. They offer free Web pages announcing
births, so that faraway families can share in the
bragging. They also feature a monthly
baby-related contest for prizes such as blankets,
etc.
- Tune
up your computer online - Get a free computer on-line
check-up with this nifty service (Note: only
Internet Explorer users can use use it). WinTune
98 lets you test your PC's performance by simply
clicking through a series of Web pages. If
WinTune detects serious configuration or
performance problems, it will describe the
problem right on the Web page. Once you have
completed the tests, you can compare your results
to those of similar systems in the site's
database.
- Free
tax forms - Tax
time is approaching. This site will save you a
trip to the post office. All types of tax forms
are here and available for output on your
printer. Tax forms are included in the following
file types: PDF, PCL, PostScript and SGML text.
- EBook
Central - This
site carries a large selection of free electronic
books in Adobe format. Categories include
Spirituality; New Age; Eastern Philosophy; Health
& Healing; Paranormal; Self-Help; Science
& Alternate Technology and more.
- Hot!
Coupons - Do
you love to save money? Are you physically
incapable of entering a supermarket without
clutching a handful of coupons? Then this site is
for you. Just enter your ZIP code and find local
coupon offers that you can print out.
- Free TV show
tickets - Have
you ever wanted to attend a live taping of a TV
show like "Jeopardy" or "Wheel of
Fortune"? This site is offering free
reserved TV tickets. You can make your
reservations online and then order and print your
free tickets.
- Webmonkey
Browser Tuneup - The Webmonkey tuneup will test
your browser for everything essential to your Web
experience, including frames, Java and a
"few good plug-ins."
- Jurassic
Punk - There
are many sites on the Web where you can get free
video clips, movie trailers, film clips and
animation videos. But this site is the only one
you need to bother bookmarking. This massive,
hugely-popular site offers clips from every
significant silver screen release. So download a
few clips here and then play them back
- Free
Bible Study Course - Word of Life Cyberchurch is offering
an "accredited College Level Bible Study
Course." As a student completes each segment
of the program, he or she is given credits toward
a certificate given at the end of the course.
- Free
scanning service - This site will scan three of your
photos for free, provided that you place a link
to them on your Web site.
- Alta
Vista's Translation Assistant - Have you ever seen a Web
site in another language and wondered what the
heck it was saying? This free service provides
you with a tool to translate a grammatically
correct Web page or other document into something
comprehensible
- Epage Classifieds
- There are many free
classified ads sites on the Web but this is one
of the few worth bookmarking. All private party
ads are free here and they're cross-posted to the
newsgroups, as well. All ads may have one picture
uploaded. There's also an account management page
where you can see info on your ads, bids you have
made (on auctions), etc.
- M*SPOT
- Are you into
multimedia? Then click over to this fine site
right away that deals with all facets of free
multimedia goodies. Areas include free 3D tools,
free multimedia software, free fonts, free Java,
and much more.
- Internet
Traffic Report - Why is the Net so slow today, you
may be wondering? Click over to this site and get
the details. Find out if the bottleneck is just
in your area or global. The Internet Traffic
Report measures the performance of major Internet
routers around the world hourly.
- Make your
own greeting cards - This Swedish service offers a way
for you to easily create your own greeting cards
(Easter & Mother's Day themes are now
available) and other personal/business greeting
cards. There are 22 different designs for
business cards You may also create a type chart
or a calendar. Just type in your input and within
a few seconds you'll get back a PDF file, ready
to output on your printer.
- The Pic
of Pics -
This site is offering a unique free service on
the Web: free photo manipulations. Imagine being
"seen" in a photo with whoever you
want. Be "seen" with movie stars,
politicians, models and anyone else you can
imagine!
- 3-D
photos for free - Have you ever wondered what your
favorite photos would look like in 3-D? With this
service, you can find out! Just send them your
picture files and they'll render them in 3-D. Now
all you gotta do is find some of those cheesey
blue & red 3-D glasses!
- Free
horoscopes - This
site is offering a free weekly horoscope which is
composed by Odina, a professional psychic.
- Unpublished
books - This
site is offering free exposure for unpublished
authors, writers, poets and other purveyors of
prose. They will post a sample of your work
online for one month for free.
- Free Scanning
Service -
CyberScans is offering a free scanning service.
Just fill in their order form and your photo will
be scanned and posted within two working days and
the location of your scanned photo will be
E-mailed to you.
- Smartbooks.com
A place to get free
books which are "raffled off." All you
need to do is select the book, click on the title
to go to the signup page, and enter to win.
- Free
Web calendars -
This service is offering free Web calendars to
non-homophobic community groups who wish to
publicize local events.
- HeadHunter.NET
- Useful employment
site that offers free service. Posting and
searching jobs and resumes is free.
HeadHunter.NET will even cross-post listings to
Usenet, all for no charge.
- AdOne
Classified Ad Searcher - Tell "Ad Hound" what
you're looking for and this free service will
search for your request in the classified ads of
over 400 newspapers, across the U.S. Results are
then mailed to you.
- Free
legal forms and agreements - This site offers free forms
ranging from contracts and will that you can
print out and use.
- PriceScan - A free service that
takes the hassle out of finding the best price on
thousands of computer hardware and software
products. PriceScan shows you the vendor with the
lowest price plus other vendors' prices.
- Themes
'n Schemes -
Great site for free Win 95 Themes. And no, you
don't need Microsoft Plus! to use these themes as
there's a great shareware program called Desktop
Themes (a 100K file) that'll install themes on
your system,
- Free
cartoons - This
site offers royalty-free cartoons, suitable for
publishing in newspapers or magazines. Color,
one-panel, cartoons by a Canadian cartoonist.
Large versions for print quality. 5 new ones a
week (over 300 in the site's archive).
- Center
of the Universe - For a limited time, these folks are
offering a free scan. Just send `em a photo;
they'll scan it and E-mail it to you.
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