Ros' Ramblings

You may be amazed to know that not every helpful tool online
costs a fortune - or even needs to cost you anything at all!

In today's issue of the NPC, Jim Daniels has kindly agreed
to share his list of 10 favorite PC applications, all of
which are free.

I confess that I was unfamiliar with six of them!

Which brings me to a point.. if you know of a really cool tool
to share with other webmasters, please do drop me a line
and tell me about it, so that I can share it with everyone.

It's just good karma. :-)

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Article: Jim Daniel's Favorite PC Apps

I'd like to share with you my 10 favorite time-saving tools.
No, these are not affiliate links, they are just a handful
of slick apps that reside on my own PC. They all save me
lots of time and money on a daily basis.

Perhaps you'll find a tool that will help you.

AuctionSentry
http://auctionsentry.com/
Whether you are a buyer or a seller, this clever tool can
streamline and automate your eBay auctions. It automates
bidding by placing your bid as close to the end of the
auction as possible (referred to as "sniping"). Your
auctions are displayed in a color-coded grid, indicating
which auctions you are winning, which you have been out-bid
on, and which you have set up a snipe bid for. Definitely
worth downloading if you frequent Ebay like I do!

Google Toolbar
http://toolbar.google.com/
When the free Google Toolbar is installed, it automatically
appears along with the Internet Explorer toolbar. This means
you can quickly and easily use Google to search from any
website location, without returning to the Google home page
to begin another search. The new version also blocks popups
and offers an auto-fill feature to fill out forms online.
It's a great time saver. Oh yeah, and if you prefer Yahoo!
over Google, Yahoo! now offers a free Yahoo! toolbar which
gives you one click access to your Yahoo email, a popup
blocker and more.

KeyboardExpress
http://www.keyboardexpress.com/
Do you answer a lot of email? Keyboard Express allows you to
record, key in, and play back any set of keystrokes and
associate it with one of more than 450 different hot keys.
Eliminate the repetition of the same sets of keystrokes in
word processors, email, and more. The program can create hot
keys for standard email replies, URL's and forms. Keyboard
Express can even be scheduled to check for email messages.
This program is such a powerful tool, I don't know how I'd
get by without it.

PDF995
http://www.pdf995.com/
With PDF995 you can easily create professional-quality
documents in the popular PDF file format. Its easy-to-use
interface helps you to create PDF files by simply selecting
the "print" command from any application. And best of all,
it is free!

ScreenPrint32
http://www.screenprint32.com/
ScreenPrint32 allows you to print and/or capture to disk or
clipboard, the full desktop, active window, predefined area,
or user selected area of the screen. It's very useful when
compiling tutorials or web lessons. It lets you capture a
screen area and paste directly into your documents. The
resulting images may be saved to either GIF, BMP, JPG or PNG
formats.

SecondCopy
http://www.secondcopy.com/
There are lots of backup utility programs available for
backing up data and I've tried quite a few. But the one I
rely on daily is called Second Copy, and it automates all my
backups completely. If your computer is not backing up your
crucial data at night, this is a great way to make
that happen.

Sothink HTML Editor
http://www.sothink.com/htmleditor/index.htm
So you have a nice new website template, but no way to
customize it? That is, unless you want to shell out two
hundred bucks for a web editor program. In steps Sothink,
with their powerful HTML editor you can get for... free. It
packs almost as much power as the expensive programs
including html mode, visual (WYSIWYG) mode, site preview and
upload. If you need a solid website editor but don't have a
budget for the "big" programs, this may be all you need and
more.

UltraEdit
http://www.ultraedit.com/
A great ASCII based word processing program is a must for
anyone running an email list. This program offers great
features for email newsletter publishers, including a
spell-checker and the ability to set line width for easy
message reading in all email programs.

WeatherBug
http://weatherbug.com/
Get neighborhood weather conditions on your desktop. OK,
it's not business related, but it's slick. A digital
thermometer sits in the corner of my PC so I always know the
conditions outside. Forecast and weather alerts are always
at my finger tips. Try this fun, free tool.

Window Washer
http://www.webroot.com/wb/products/windowwasher/index.php
Many people don't realize that everything you do on your PC
can be traced: documents you've used, pictures you've
viewed, Web sites you've visited. These online tracks put
your privacy at risk and eat up valuable hard-drive space.
You can take back your privacy and improve your system's
performance by regularly cleaning your cache, cookies,
history, recent documents list, and more with Window Washer.

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Jim Daniels is the author of the immensely readable 'Make a
Living Online', a  REAL book that I purchased quite a few
years ago now, and still  ranks amongst the best guides to
eBusiness that I've ever read.

His site is simply a five page guide to starting and growing
a business online. If you're stuck for ideas or just plain
stuck, this site may be just what you need.

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BTW, at the end of the web-based guide, Jim offers his
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or not, (I did, by the way!) do read the five web pages.
Within those pages the site reveals more than many expensive
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