Top Free Productivity Tools 
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| Abiword makes up perfectly for the MS Word Bill Gates left out of Vista. You can read MS Word docs in Abiword
which you can't otherwise. I have no complaints about Abiword and don't think you will. URL for FREE DOWNLOAD: http://www.abisource.com/ Tip Credibility: 89 (Best Tip!) |
| Derek Gehl interviewed Brian Tracy on Time Management. Brian said that 49 out of 50 top CEOs said they planned their next day each evening, setting all items as A, B, C... priority. Always do A items before B items, etc. Learn to delegate C, D, E items. Tip Credibility: 60 |
| Get up an hour earlier, and spend it relaxing, praying, thinking, then planning your day. This might mean going to bed earlier, so that's a benefit in itself. Tip Credibility: 56 |
| I agree that Open Office is wonderful, but I've had problems with it freezing and crashing on my Mac. So I've turned to a derivative free product that's much more stable - Neo Office at http://neooffice.org Tip Credibility: 33 |
| In order to be more productive I started using Gary Simpson's Time In Motion Action Planner. You can get a free copy at motivationselfesteem.com/talk/. This has helped me eliminate the distractions and get more done. Tip Credibility: 31 |
| The most used free productivity tool for me is openoffice which offers PDF export capabilities and a host of other benefits. http://www.openoffice.org Tip Credibility: 22 |
| For the Mac, which I use far more than my PC, I use Text Wrangler. It's awesome for coding, can open and even compare multiple docs, can search and replace in multiple files - opened or not, includes FTP uploading built in and as they say so much more :) Tip Credibility: 19 |
| One of my favorite free computer tools is NotePad++ -- a fantastic text editor. It uses tabs and allows you to manipulate text and create macros. NotePad++ is indispensable if you work a lot with text.
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm Tip Credibility: 18 |
| I love Jingproject.com I use this tool every day - to send video messages to clients, partners, and my staff. The free version is sufficient for anyone wanting to make great free screen capture videos. Tip Credibility: 18 |
| I've just found the awesome free mindmapping software - available for both Mac and PC. It's called xMind and you can find it at xmind.net Tip Credibility: 18 |
| FreeMind is a great mind map tool, open source and very functional. Use it to brainstorm ideas, plan presentations and structure reports. Tip Credibility: 13 |
| Open Office is good for WORD documents and EXCEL files.
Firefox for the best internet browser :)
SKYPE for Instant messaging and chat.
AVIRA is a good antivirus software (free).
JSAS is a good Joomla server tool.
Powertab Editor for learning guitar. Tip Credibility: 13 |
| Use GIMP 2.0 for all your graphics needs...it's very powerful and it's free. Tip Credibility: 13 |
| If you need to collaborate with others, then get everyone to sign up for Google's Gmail and make use of their Google Docs and Chat. You can upload, export & share docs, spreadsheets, presentations & forms - even chat while simultaneously working on them. Tip Credibility: 12 |
| I've never used NoteTab myself, but I do use Trellian CodePad, which is really great for quick web page editing since it uses colored HTML syntax highlighting and line numbering. Tip Credibility: 11 |
| I love Google Trends, you can really get a good idea of traffic and potential income when you use this as part of your "Finding a Profitable Niche" process. http://www.google.com/trends Tip Credibility: 11 |
| A tool that I recommend is Article Notepad. It's very useful piece of software which allows you to create, edit, and save your articles in one place allowing you easier organization of your articles: http://www.team-schuman.com/article-notepad.html Tip Credibility: 11 |
| If you already use the Firefox Browser. You should check out FireFTP. It's is a great FTP client that works right in your Firefox browser - no need to launch a whole new application! Here's the link: fireftp.mozdev.org Tip Credibility: 10 |
| Kompozer (formerly Nvu) is a great free Web authoring program. I prefer the .8 apha version to the .7.10 released version. For me it seems to have fewer bugs.
http://kompozer.net/ Tip Credibility: 9 |
| Two of my favorite productivity tools are: Kinook's Ultra Recall, Evernote's Evernote. Ultra Recall let's me manage my complex info in ways I couldn't imagine doing without it. Evernote lets me access important info (even if complex) from anywhere Tip Credibility: 8 |
| I agree, Open Office is a must have tool, even if you have Microsoft Office, which I do, OO rules! Tip Credibility: 8 |
| If you're into Twitter the TweetLater.com site is great to schedule tweets, send welcome DMs to new followers, track keywords, follow those following you and unfollow those unfollowing you, etc...... Tip Credibility: 8 |
| NoteTab is a really great text editor. I use it daily. It uses tabs, and it's possible to have lots of files open at the same time. NoteTab Light is the freeware version, and that's what I use. @notetab.com Tip Credibility: 7 |
| I find myself using the open office Calc for just about everything when it come to recording and organizing data. Tip Credibility: 7 |
| If you are looking for a program to manage your digital pictures: You can not beat Google's free Picasa program.
It is packed with offline and online features. i use it almost every day and simply the best free program out there. Tip Credibility: 7 |
| If you're trying to determine Demographics Predictions on your next niche, you have to use adlab.msn.com, plugin your keyword and hit GO, saves tons of time and money guessing what sites you should be targetting for advertising Tip Credibility: 7 |
| This is a nice tool to get in control of your tasks. Simple To Do List maker at http://www.wipeelist.com Tip Credibility: 6 |
| I use aaron walls'seo toolbar a lot:http://tools.seobook.com/seo-toolbar/ Great for quick info when analyzing SEO. Tip Credibility: 6 |
| I agree about openoffice. It's great.
Roboform is another handy tool designed for managing passwords. There's a free version available. Tip Credibility: 6 |
| If you need to share large files of any kind with your team, clients or prospects -Use: Drop.io
It is rich in features, 100% free and very easy to use.
They even give you a free ph# and conf line # Tip Credibility: 6 |
| SEOBook's Rank Checker is an absolute lifesaver for checking search engine rankings! You can check ranking for hundreds of different keywords with a click of a mouse. Tip Credibility: 6 |
| YC3 (YankeeClipper) clipboard extender saves everything you copy, conveniently resides in your system tray. It's saved my bacon many times! Google YC3 or search download[dot]com Tip Credibility: 6 |
| Faststone Photo Resizer is a very useful product. Resize one image at a time, or resize images in bulk. Great both for sizing an image to the right height & width, and for reducing the Kb size of images for website use. Tip Credibility: 6 |
| Sometimes your computer seems slow and not working properly: or is it the internet connection you are on?
You can go to this website to check the speed of your internet connection to narrow the problem:
"SpeedTest.io" Tip Credibility: 6 |
| I'm going to have to list my favorite email client since I spend many hours a day with email. I love Thunderbird and would not go back to Outlook if you paid me to use it. http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ Tip Credibility: 6 |
| Evernote - the best note taking software there is, you should really check it out. It's free, it has online access, it can synchronize between multiple computers, it has writing recognition support. Here's the link: www.evernote.com Tip Credibility: 6 |
| Other great free tools come from google such as google trends, keyword tool, google analytics, google webmaster tool, google docs and the google search engine itself. Tip Credibility: 6 |
| For a software program that will help you be more productive, check out Thinking Rock. It's an open source implementation of David Allen's "Getting Things Done" productivity system. You'll have to google it, as I don't have the cred to put an url. Tip Credibility: 6 |
| Serif has older versions of their apps available free at freeserifsoftware.com. I've used their apps for years and found them to be excellent. If you're not an extreme power user, the older versions are usually more than adequate. Tip Credibility: 5 |
| I couldn’t work without SnagIt. Capture what’s on your screen, then resize, change format, add text and graphics, and send result to email or a document. Easy to use. Tip Credibility: 5 |
| FastStone Image Viewer - It has a nice array of features such as image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, color adjustments, musical slideshow and much more. Tip Credibility: 5 |
| Use Abiword for a full featured and easy word processing program without a whole suite behind it. GNU Free Software. Download at abisource[dot]com Tip Credibility: 5 |
| For all mac users try Quicksilver. "Act without doing" which is the maximum productivity boost you can get. What it does? It starts applications, sends emails, finds files just with a few keystrokes. blacktree.com/projects/quicksilver.html Tip Credibility: 5 |
| I use sumopaint.com for graphics and designing other stuff. It is a lot more cheaper to use and create many designs. Tip Credibility: 5 |
| I find portable apps collection at www.portableapps.com very useful. Portable apps are versions of popular applications that run from a USB memory stick (or CD/DVD) that require no installation. You can carry your whole office around with you. Tip Credibility: 5 |
| CamStudio is a free alternative to the very expensive Camtasia Screen Capture software. You can create professional quality videos. Tip Credibility: 5 |
| Color Cop is a free color picker for web designers and programmers. I use it all the time. Just type "color cop" into google to find it.
Tip Credibility: 4 |
| My text editor of choice for years has been EditPad Lite. Tabbed and extremely versatile. Recently upgraded to EditPad Pro with extended features beyond belief. Google EditPad Lite or Pro. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| Iresize is a free online tool to resize photos. Great when a membership or social networking site requires a specific size. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| For real development on a lot of languages, NetBeans is awesome, and eclipse is good too, if you ant to take the time to get used to their idiosyncrasies. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| For Keyword Research, Site Ranking Monitoring and other SEO Tasks, I highly recommend marketsamurai.com. It will save you tons of time and give great analysis of your competitors. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| The screen capture tool that I use is ScreenHunter. It is very easy to use, and it's freeware. CNET editors give it five stars at CNET's download center, and 4 1/2 stars from users who have submitted reviews. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| Look for a free tool called Folder Guide - it saves tons of time navigating when around your hard drive (if you've as many folders / files as I have). It integrates fully into Windows XP, although it does seem to have a few problems with Vista. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| A useful and easy tool for keyword research and to determine (SEO)rating of any website: Traffic Travis Tip Credibility: 4 |
| A great free website builder is being given away at Myfreewebsitebuilder.com. This has been a real lifesaver for me when I first started out. One of the few "what you see is what you get" editors. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| I use Notecase. It can organize text notes in a single document, with individual text notes shown in a hierarchical structure, allowing each note to have its own sub-notes. It can export to HTML and XML and works on Linux & Windows. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| Personally I have found that EditPad is a great plain text editor in place of notepad. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| WEB CEO for helping to make your web pages better, Does link checking and keyword optimsation for your web pages. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| youconvertit (dot) com is an online tool that allows you to convert file formats. It handles video, text, audio, still images and more with no software to download. Select a file, select the format to convert to and click the convert it button. Tip Credibility: 3 |
| The best Firefox add on I've ever downloaded. Finds back links, indexed & cached pages on all the big 3 SE's, plus Alexa, Whois, Archives, robots text, DMOZ info and a whole lot more. A must have toolbar: seopen.com/firefox-extension/index.php Tip Credibility: 3 |
| I use Microsoft One Note (included in MS Office for Home & Student) to capture notes and links during webinars, that I want to check later . Tabbed and sectioned like a three ring notebook so its familiar to use. Tip Credibility: 1 |
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