There are now more than 200 million web sites on the Internet. The web is filled with unlimited amounts of valuable content and an equal amount of junk. Who has time to sift through all that looking for just the right tool at just the right price to make your web life easier.
1. FIVERR.COM -The Things People Do For $5
Fiverr is an amazing little site with just about anything you could ever need available for...$5. Need a logo for your business, no problem - that will be $5 please. Want to learn how to surf or do the samba? Someone will teach you for $5. Yep, everything is just $5. There's fun and bizarre to silly stuff like "I will open a bottle of wine with my shoe and tape it for $5" or "I will write your message on a hot air balloon for $5." You can also get help with Flash, Photoshop, WordPress, Joomla, get your resume re-written and the list goes on and on and on. The service providers are rated by others they've done work for so you have some references. You can suggest things you're willing to pay $5 for or offer up something you're willing to do for $5. Their motto is "Buy. Sell. Have fun." You can get similar technical help at rentacoder.comor elance.com but you'll pay a lot more so check out fiverr.com. You have nothing to lose but, well, five dollars.
2. CREATIVE COMMONS - Free, Easy-to-Use Legal Tools
You've posted your photographs, paintings, artwork, poetry, writings etc. online and you'd like to protect your original work. We all right-click, "save image as" when we see an image we like. While you understand this is going to happen, you'd still like to protect your intellectual property and make sure someone isn't making money off your hard work.
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that gives"everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work." It is recognized worldwide and enables people to easily change their copyright terms from the default of "all rights reserved" to "some rights reserved."
You'll notice that Tech Tips is covered by a Creative Commons license.You're able to share and distribute this content as is but can't make changes, use it for commercial purposes or repurpose it without proper credit. You can see the details of the license here.
While Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright protection they do work in tandem, so you can modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs.There are six different versions of licenses so find the one that works best for you.
3. ZAMZAR.COM - Free Online File Conversion
Every now and then you have a file you'd like to convert to another format but don't want to spend a lot of money on software to make that happen.Look no further than Zamzar. Zamzar is a one-stop free online conversion tool. Simply upload your file or the URL (up to 100MB), then choose the format you want, submit your email address and they'll send you the converted file. Can't get much easier than that.
Convert aac to wma or wav,mov to iphone or mp4. You can create PDFs, MP3s, PNGs, PowerPoints, Flash files, csv, gif, doc and so much more. Click here to see the entire list of formats available.
Zamzar also converts TXT files to MP3 format, providing a high quality, online text-to-speech service. You can convert videos directly from sites such as YouTube, Google Video, Myspace and more. They've recently added the ability to convert eBook files as well. Zamzar offers a handy browser tool that lets you convert files with a click of a button from your browser's Bookmarks Toolbar. To learn more about ZAMZAR watch this video.
4. NVU.COM - What You See Is What You Get
NVU (IN VIEW) is a nifty little "WYSIWYG" HTML editor - perfect for those on the fly edits for your web site or HTML project. If Dreamweaver is just plain overkill for your skill set or needs, then this free program should work just fine. It hasn't been updated since 2005 and has no install program. You'll have to create a shortcut for the nvu.exe file. Very old school and basic but gets the job done. Versions are available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
5. VYEW.COM - Share Your View
You've attended many an online webinar but wonder how you'd go about presenting one yourself. Look no further than VYEW (VIEW). It's made for online collaboration and web conferencing. Unlike GoToMeeting and others, it's browser based so no downloading is needed. It's very flexible and allows for custom branding and custom URLs. You can create and upload educational content; use your web cam to stream your video, show what's on your desktop computer, text chat with your participants. It also gives you a white board and drawing tools. You can include spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, Word docs and images. Review all the product features here.Unlike similar products, VYEW is free to use. There's a limit of 10 participants in the free version but you can always upgrade for additional services at a modest $6.95/month - $13.95/month. PC World named it one of the Top 25 Best Business Tools.
If you've used any other low cost but powerful tools, share them with us in the Comments section.
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