Martin O'Sullivan's Freebies Of The Month (three month issue) June, July, August 2007

Welcome to my Freebie Of The Month selections of free web site services, free web related software programs, and free non-web related programs for personal use in a wide variety of subjects. Check here each month, or every few months for what is new. This update is huge! It is basically for the next three months, and being Summer is a time for fun I thought I would include more fun stuff, freeware, then ever before! Oh yes, and even something for your web site creation. Let's get to it shall we?

FREE WEB SITE RELATED SOFTWARE...

I love Web site editors! and free ones at that! In the past I have offered several great free web editors. One that I have used, and has always been one of my favorites is First page 2000. Well, they have released a while back a great new one! First Page 2006. I was hesitant to try it. After all I loved the 2000 version. So I downloaded it, and I am using it now I am so pleased with it, and frankly amazed by the power of it's features that I am upset with myself that I didn't get it sooner. If I recall correctly though, when I saw it in 2006 I could have sworn it was not free, but it is now. I am still evaluating it, but so far I believe it is the best editor I have used so far. It is a beautifully designed program. Just take a look at some of the features:

Tag Insight with SmartHistory™
CSS Insight with SmartHistory™
CSS Class Support & Auto Detection
Advanced Syntax Highlighting
Tag Document Selection Tool
Dual Preview Engine
Online Webmaster Tools
Tag Property Sheet Inspector with SmartHistory™
Tag Auto Completion
Design View Engine, Powered by Microsoft®
Anti-Intrusive Real-Time Visual Source Rendering Engine™
Dual Edit System
One Click Html Reference Guides
Asset Management
Extensive Web Language Support
Tidy HTML Power Tools (updated)
Document Checking Tools
iScripts™
Page color themes
Popupmaker Deluxe
Image Mapper
CSS Style Sheet Designer
Scrollbar Designer
Powerful Server Side Includes Support
Sitetree/ Link Checking Tool
Analyze Document/Page Estimation Tool
Extendable Toolbars and Interface
Interface Designed for All
File Management Tools
Image Thumbnails
Rollover Images
Internet explorer preview integration
Netscape® Mozilla preview integration
Powerful, Enhanced IDE Interface
Powerful FTP client
Extended Find & Replace In Files
Photo Album Gallery Generator

NOW THAT'S AN EDITOR! You can read more about it, and download it from: Evrsoft First Page 2006 Home page

FREE NON WEB SITE RELATED SOFTWARE...

Now it is time to throw in something that will save you loads of money, and time from going to a store to buy a program... any program! What do you need or want? A program for your web site? Perhaps a program to make your computer run faster? Security programs? Entertainment programs? Graphic programs? Word processors? Browsers? Well, how about a site that offers hundreds of free programs in all types of subjects? Download one program and think of the money you saved by not going to the store. Download a dozen? and WOW! Now that is savings! The site is called Snapfiles. Just go to this link: Snapfiles Freeware page and check out the vast menu of free programs. Even if you find just one, it is worth it, but when you see all that are available I am sure you will get loads of 'em!

FREE NON WEB SITE RELATED SOFTWAREPart Two!...

I told you this was gonig to be a huge update! It has to be if it is for a three month term. So after giving you a way to get hundreds of free programs, how about a way to get you hundreds of free game demos, plus free full games, all from the same site! The site is Gamershell, and the amount of downloadable free demos of new and old games are amazing! When you are on the site you will find the main menu on the left. Select either: Demo Versions, or Full Games and enjoy. I strongly suggest you have DSL or a Cable modem. A dial up would take years to download some of these. Go to: Gamershell Make sure you are downloading for PC, and not Playstation, or XBox, etc.

FREE ONLINE SERVICES...

This issue of free online services is not web site related, but just plain fun for the summer. Downloading music without paying for it is illegal right? Uhm... I said RIGHT? OK! But listening to it is not illegal. How about a way to listen to any song you want right when you want to hear it? Rembmer Napster? They really started this whole thing about illegal downloading. Well they are back, but they added a twist. A legal twist. Now you can go to Napster and enter an artist or band (such as ohhhhhhhhhhh let's say Pink Floyd) You will see several choices, but the fist is usually the one you want. Click on that, and just about every Pink Floyd song you ever heard of will be listed. Click on the left next to one you want to hear, and a player will pop up on it's own, not yours, but theirs, and begin playing the song. If you want to get into really getting music legally for free, it is not illegal to record what you select using a program like Audacity (also free) that can save it as an MP3. Just like popping in a cassette to record the radio on your own home stereo for personal use... legal, and free. Or just listen to all your favorite songs without making your own MP3s. What a great service. The link to get their that I will list in a moment is actually for Pink Floyd, just so you can see what I am talking about. When there simply just type in the search box who you want to listen to, then as I said, select the first choice that is listed to populate all the songs by that artist or band. Don't go to napster.com though. Instead go to this link: napster free listening

FREE ONLINE SERVICES Part two...

Last update I mentioned a site to play free movies. Well, I have found a better one! Simply called TV LINKS, but it also has movies and cartoons. I just watched well, maybe I shouldn't say in case it is illegal haaaaaaaa, but what I will say is there is no downloading, it just plays when you click on the title. This is called streaming video. This is a very good movie site, and TV shows too. Here is what you do, you select TV shows, movies, cartoons or one of the other choices. Select from the list what you want to watch. When you click on it, another page will open. On this page you will see if the Movie is one link for the full movie, or divided up into parts (Part 1, part 2, part 3, etc.). When you select the link to start playing you will see in the middle of the black screen a white arrow. It may start on it's own, if it doesn't then click the white arrow. Just go to:TV LINKS Home page

If you have any questions or comments concerning any of my Freebies Of The Month, or any freebies on my site, please feel free to contact me, I answer all e-mails. Thanks for visiting my website and I hope you find it to be a valuable resource.

Freebies of the Month April/May 2007

FREE WEB SITE RELATED SOFTWARE...




The free program of the month is a program you won't use often, but when if you ever need it, it will save you a good hour of code writing, and even save you hours if you wanted to find a program that does this. The program is HTML FONT COLORIZER, and it does just that, but not what you may think. What I mean is you may already know how to make a word, or a sentence, or even all your text a particular color. However, there may be a time you wish to write a bunch of words or a paragraph where every single letter is a different color. To write that code, you would have to tag every single letter it's own color. That is a tast so time consuming, you may just say "Oh heck with it", and leave the color black, or asign it just one color, but feel like you gave up on a idea that you thought you wanted to do. Enter HTML FONT COLORIZER. So simple to use, no directions is needed. Simply type in what you wish, select the colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, etc. and grab the generated code and inser it into your web site. DONE! and you saved enough time to get some well needed rest, or at the very least, time to watch TV! lol. Just go to: HTM FONT COLORIZER and get this handy program free for when you ever need it.

FREE NON WEB SITE RELATED SOFTWARE...


To help keep a computer running like new, and fast, it is important to do many things, not just one. A few you may know of is to defrag your hard drive after you add, and delete many files, and programs after time goes by. You may also know to clean your temp files, and empty your recycling bin. Why they call it recycling bin is beyond me, you don't recycle anthing, you delete it! Regardless, over time your computer may get slow from other causes. Sometimes Windows gets slow because of the registry not being correct or it could be defragmented itself. Or other Windows problems. This program, Advanced Windows Care it great! It will scan Windows for errors, and fix them for you! Nothing for you to get a headache over, just check off what to scan, then click the scan button, wait a bit until it is done scanning, then click the invdividual result and fix, or just click the Care button to fix them all in one shot. For a free program it works great, and a fixed Windows runs faster then a broken one. Or at least a Windows that is laced with errors. Go to: ADVANCED WINDOWS CARE free version and run it about once a month. Here is a list of what it can do...• 100% Freeware • Removing Spyware and Adware • Preventing Security Threats • Privacy Protection • Fixing Registry Errors • Temporary Files Cleanup • Startup Cleanup • Repairing Windows • Speeding up System

FREE ONLINE SERVICES...

I must confess that even though I love providing free web thingys, I love the free online services, because most are just plain fun. I enjoy them so much that in this installment I am including two totally different free online services. One isn't really a service in the true sense of the word, but the other is, well maybe not that one either haaaaaaaaa, but both are fun!

Let me take the FREE movies, and TV shows first. No, not illegal, no downloading, no joining, just click, and it starts! I know on this very page in the upper left I discuss watching free movies on Winamp, and I still do, but this is different. These are web sites that offer hundreds of movies or TV shows as links. Just click on the link and the movie will begin in seconds. It buffers a copy of the movie to your temp files (usually), and it plays from there. This is called streaming video. Although not all streams leave a copy in your temp files. Sometimes the movies are in parts. A link may say FULL MOVIE so you just click once. Other times a link may say Part 1, part 2, part 3, etc. You can view the movie in full screen or resize it to a smaller box. I enjoyed the movie 300 this way, as well as Employee of the Month, Rocky 6, and dozens more. Even my favorite TV shows. There are dozens of sites that offer this, but I am only going to mention one here, because it is the best I have found so far. However, before I do I want to issue a warning. The site, while offering great titles for free does have ads on it not for children. Even though you may want to watch A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, ICE AGE 2, or a number of family orientated films, I suggest you go to the site, find the movie to watch, click on the link, and when the movie begins in seconds then have younger eyes watch the movie, and not before.

Another thing worth mentioning is some links do not play. If this happens just find a movie that does. These sites try very hard to have 100% of the movies play, but sometimes the movies are removed before the site is aware of it. This is because these are just links to other sites that have the streams, and the movies are not stored on the main sites themselves. Some movies are great quality, and clear, some are not, but all are free. Enjoy.

The one site I am going to mention is Nabolister When there, there are 18 pages of movies (click on the bottom of the short movie list to see ALL MOVIES), or choose TV Shows instead of movies. When you click on a movie link you wish to watch you will see another page. On this page is the link FULL MOVIE or the movie in parts. If it is in parts, when each part finishes, just X out, and click the next part. If a trailer is playing on this page, click the pause twice or watch it, and then click the movie links. You will now what I mean when you see it, tough to explain, but easy when there.


FREE ONLINE SERVICES Part two...

This next FREE online service you can incorporate into your web site if you wish. If not? It is still fun to do for anyone for any fun reason. They are free sign generators. One being on my home page. Just click on the sign you want to generate, type in some fun stuff, then click the create button or whatever it is called, and the picture is created for you looking like a real sign. Below are a bunch of fun ones so you can get an idea, but there are many, many more. Go browse to see if there are any you wish to make for other people or yourself for fun.

Just go to these two sites, and you will have lots of fun making signs up for yourself, your kids, and your friends:
Redkid sign generators

Custom Sign Generator

Here are just a few examples, I have resized them smaller to not take up so much room on this site, but each is much larger in reality...










































































































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