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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Freebies of the month March 2007

Welcome to the March 2007 edition of Martin O'Sullivan's Free Web Site Services, and Programs. I couldn't wait for March to come to enter more Freebies, so here it. Enjoy! If you missed any, be sure to check out the archives. I am pleased to highlight a great free service Free Find, a wonderful free program ColorMania, and an amazing free firewall Zone Alarm.

Visit the Freebie of the Month page to see these highlighted freebies along with detailed descriptions, and sample graphics. The links will be there for you too. Actually just click on the graphic and you will be taken to the products company to read even more about them, and download them for your needs.

Taking Free Find first, I want to draw your attention to the top of this page. You will see the Free Find search box. This is not your typical Yahoo, or Google Internet search box, although Free Find can do that if it is checked to do so. The reason why you may wish to have Free Find is because it can be used as a search engine just to search your pages of your web site. If you have several pages a visitor may wish to see if your site includes something they have in mind. Perhaps you sell widgets on your site, and they want to search all your pages that mention a certain type of widgets. So, they type in widgets, click enter as with any search engine, and Free Find displays all the results were widgets are included on your site. The result page is much like a Google, or a Yahoo search result page. You can even design it to look like your site so the visitor has no idea they left your site when on the result page. Click a result, and that page of yours pops right up for them.

Free Find has a few more features you may find valuable to you. First of all, when you sign up for Free Find, you will want Free Find to crawl (spider) your site. If you change your site a minute later? No big deal, just have them crawl it again. Unlike other site search engines that only allow you one crawl a month, Free Find allows all you need. And talk about statistics? Free Find will email you each month information of how many times your visitors used the site search engine, and what were the words they were searching for.

Give it a try up top in my search box to see Free Find in action. Type in something like Freebies, or free, or whatever you wish, and you will see the result page. This is one of the best free add-ons you can do for your site.

This months web-related free program is ColorMania. There are many freeware color pickers out in Internet land, but this one is the best, and most simple to use. The need arises for a color picker when you are trying to match a color in your web site when you are creating something else and want it to match identically. Sure, you could eye it over, guess the color, lord knows I have many times, but never did it right. It would always be a little off in shade, or color. Enter ColorMania. Simply click and drag the eye dropper icon and move it to the color you wish to match. Then copy the color code into your HTML document and there you have it, and exact match. What could be easier?

As for this month's freebie for the month for the category of Non-web related program? I have chosen Zone Alarm. Zone Alarm is the best FREE firewall there is. Not only is the program free, but you never have to pay yearly 30 bucks or so, just to update it like you do Norton's, or Macafee. It is free forever. Nothing gets through Zone Alarm, and nothing leaves unless you give it the OK.

I must install Zone Alarm on peoples computers for them, about (thinking) ohhhhhh, 6 times a year. The scenario is always the same. They buy a computer, but the firewall, and anti virus only has a 3 month trial on it. After the 3 months are over, they are expected to buy the program, and each year buy it again, and again, and again, endlessly. I then uninstall them, and put on Zone Alarm (and AVG anti virus, lasts months freebie).

Here is what you will happen if you download, and install Zone Alarm. After the installation, Zone Alarm will give you two choices. The choices are a 30 day trial, that when over you buy it, or the free version which is the same firewall less a built in anti virus program. Check the free version and that is what you get.





When Running Zone Alarm, the first week or so it goes through a learning process. For example, the first time you go online Zone Alarm will pop up a small box on the bottom right telling you that Microsoft Internet Explorer wants access to the Internet. Your choices will be DENY, or ALLOW. There is another added choice to whichever way you answer. When you answer you can check off Don't ask me again, or leave it blank to be asked each time. If your anti virus wishes to check for an update automatically, the window will pop up again asking you for permission. With each program as you start them this box will pop up awaiting for your answers. Once this is all done with in several days, you won't even know Zone Alarm is working for you behind the scenes, unless it blocks an intrusion. A similar box will pop up telling you an attempt was made, but you are safe. My Zone Alarm on the OVERVIEW page tells me I have had 185 intrusion attempts, and 183 of them were high rated! Oh, and did I mention all the updates are free too? Zone Alarm is a great firewall.


I also want to inform everyone reading this, that you may notice something strange all across the web. When you are on a site that has a flash button, menu, or any flash content, when you go to use it, it now says CLICK TO ACTIVATE. You never had to do that before. This is not your computer acting strange. Microsoft was in a law suit for illegally using a flash plug in to their browser. They lost. So that had to make it like that. It is annoying, but Microsoft is appealing the case. So if you go to use my flash menu, or any sites flash content you will see the annoying addition.

I still believe flash content is great, and this extra step, while annoying, is do-able for now. Let us hope Microsoft wins their appeal.


In addition to the new blogs on MySpace, and eBlogger (links at right, and below), I will soon have a new blog, which may be the last, uhm, or maybe even one more lol.

Http://www.xanga.freewebsiteservices.com. Blogs are a great way to get people to come and visit your site. Try one. They're FREE! This new blog is not yet active, but look for it soon.


I hope you enjoy the free web site service of the month, and also the free program of the month. It is so much fun for me to be back doing this after a long departure. Enjoy.



Sincerely,

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I want to pass along a bit of a discovery I made today. As I have praised Freewebs.comfor free web hosting. It is the very same service that I use, and that you are reading this very moment. However, in the weeks to come I will be creating a new web site (still keeping this one) from none other then Microsoft! FREE! They give you the hosting free, the domain name free (a real domain name), 25 email accounts with your business name, and many tools to create your web site with them. I am looking forward to making this new site so I can review it, and report on it. If you would like to get a jump on learning about this new free hosting service from Microsoft, you can visit them at: Microsoft Office Live Basics