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Ideas in Action is committed to helping its clients and networking friends with the best, most up-to-date knowledge on managing your business. There are a multitude of FREE tools out there which can make your life much easier - it's just that "you don't know what you don't know"!
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| Remote Control Your PC!
This is a fantastic free tool to be able to access your PC, share your desk with others at another location and more. Purchase the full version (Log Me In Pro) for about US$70 per computer per year and remotely control your computer from any internet location, share your desktop, retrieve files, check and reply to email and more.
www.logmein.com
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Free Image Library - StockXchng
Search from thousands of royalty-free images.
http://www.sxc.hu/
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Color Cop
This is a great piece of free software which will allow you to instantly obtain the RGB or makeup of any colour on a website.
http://colorcop.net/
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Photo Resize Batching Tool
An easy-to-use and free tool for batch resizing of JPG pictures and photos.
www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm |
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Web CEO - Free Basic Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Tool
This is a great free tool to get you started learning about SEO which is critical to gain maximum results for your site on the internet. We recommend engaging the experts to get it right first time, but if money is tight, then this will be a good start. You can upgrade to the full version and get even more great features.
http://www.webceo.com/
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Gimp - Photo Editing Software
Don't forget that Windows XP and other software (including some scanners) comes with its own image editors. Microsoft includes the "Paint" program. Access via Start / All Programs / Accessories / Paint.
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html
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Websites - Check out loads of free Joomla Templates for your new site
Visit RocketTheme and check out hundreds of template ideas. Make a list of sites whose overall look and feel you like, and note down sites with particular features appeal to you. We can combine them all to give you exactly what your business needs for its self-managed website!
www.rockettheme.com
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Color Scheme Tool
Explore, create and share color themes. Use online or download themes. This is a great tool to use when deciding on colour schemes for your new Joomla self-managed website!
http://kuler.adobe.com/#
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On Line Privacy Policy Generator
A free tool from an international Office For Economic Co-operation and Development, use the simple online questionnaire to develop your company's privacy policy.
Click here
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C/Cleaner
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history.
www.ccleaner.com/
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AVG - Free Version
PC Magazine and many IT Professionals give AVG the thumbs up. "AVG Free offers very good FREE protection against viruses and spyware. As a bonus, its real-time LinkScanner technology keeps you from clicking search links to dangerous sites. It's an excellent choice if you need free protection against both viruses and spyware".
Important: You get what you pay for! AVG is one of the best FREE protectors, however I recently upgraded to the full paid version and found a whole swag of spyware and other fairly harmless nasties on my system. I am now fully protected against all and sundry with my automatic daily updates.
Click here
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Email Back Up - Free Trial
Backup E-mail uses an easy wizard interface to backup everything from Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express and Windows Mail. All it takes is a single click and you're done! It'll even backup your Internet Explorer Favorites!
If your system ever crashes, you will lose ALL your emails in the inbox and all your sub-folders. If you rely on this kind of e-filing of messages, this is a disaster! What about all those great websites you have in your favourites? Do you back those up also? I got caught out once and will never let it happen again. You can use Outlook's backup system however I never found it to work properly in that I could never get them to restore. I use and recommend this system. After the 30 day trial it's just US $24.95 and well worth it! www.backup-email.com
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