TaxMama -- Tax information with a mother's touch! The best tax and small business information on and off the net. Good info here folks!
Handy Quote -- A sales-quotation, point-of-sale (pos), inventory control, sales ordering, purchase ordering and sales management program for wholesale, retail and any businesses. It's a fully integrated software package that provides a complete solution to your fast moving business requirements. It contains help files, user manual and tutorial to help the end user to learn the product quicker & there is an extensive list of features provided in the latest release which is free.
OpenOffice.org -- A complete suite of open source software tools for your home or commercial office.
Simple Checkbook -- Just that...A simple checkbook. In function it is exactly like your little paper checkbook register, except you don't have to do the math. It's laid out like a regular checkbook and you fill it in the same way. It's just a simple spreadsheet. Free download.
Week Scheduler -- Here's a great tool from Johannes Wallroth's awesome web site. His
World Time Clock, and
Unit Converter are also useful tools. There may even be other things on his site that you'll find interesting and useful so you may as well check the
whole list. Almost all of his programs are freeware.
Gymnast -- Free Text-To-PDF conversion program. Convert Text to PDF files without the expensive Adobe Acrobat software. It converts for free.
StupidFax -- (Not!) This free program works with fax modems to automatically print and save incoming fax calls. Incoming faxes are routed and printed to the windows default printer. Incoming faxes are logged with the time, date and status info. All printed files are logged with the time, date and print status info. New features. View a fax on-screen, all configuration parameters saved, autoprint may be turned off, main status log automatically saved. Very handy!
InfoRapid Search & Replace -- One of the most powerful text retrieval programs currently available for Windows 95, 98 And NT 4.0. With it's built-in converters, it's great for searching and previewing HTML and RTF documents. In pure text files, the found passages can be replaced after the search is over. The program has a preview window, in which the hits are "marked highlighted". A special feature is, that it can use WinWord converters to search WinWord, Excel, Lotus, WordPerfect and other documents and to preview them in their original layout. It searches your PC for files and key words and presents the search results in a clear list with text excerpts and hypertext links. After the search is done, the found passages can be replaced in ASCII & binary files as well. Handy and simple to use.
Dawn Wizard -- This makes converting address books easier than ever. The days of manual exports and imports are over. Most major email programs, including netscape, outlook, eudora, pegasus and more are now supported directly. In literally five clicks the addresses are seamlessly moved from here to there. Dawn converts a list of email addresses to various formats of address books. It also sorts email addresses by nickname or email address. Dawn is available for Windows 95/98/NT and UNIX systems.
AbiWord -- A full-featured word processor. It features basic character formatting, paragraph alginment, a spell checker, interactive rulers and tables, styles, unlimited undo/redo capabilities, find and replace...This is nice!
The Q Home Accountant -- The author calls this free software "QHacc", and says he originally intended it for Linux. Here's what he says about it: "QHacc isn't exactly feature-rich. It's small and simple, and somewhat fast. But it does have some things that I think are worth mentioning: Account Reporting, Sub-Accounting, Archiving and restoring old transactions, Line/Bar/TwoBar/Pie Graphs of accounts (snapshot), Cut-and-Paste transactions, User configurable transaction types, American or European date formats, Support for scheduled transactions, Configurable interface, Memorized transactions, Double-Entry or Single-Entry bookkeeping, Split transactions, Auto-increment check numbers on checking accounts, Type-Ahead text boxes, Reconciliation window, Auto-completion of frequently-used transaction entries, Generally pretty stable. (At least, more stable than many things which are less stable.), Based exclusively on QT, so it should be widely compilable (it's not just for Linux)."
NuoMedia.com -- They offer a free web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation app, scheduler, and more. Create, store, access and manipulate these documents with others online (you can also use it offline).
WirelessAdvisor.com -- The u.S. Is divided into 734 Cellular markets and 493 PCS Markets, There are more than 300 Cellular phone and PCS phone companies in the u.s. This website was started as a free unbiased service to help consumers make wise choices among the many Cellular, Digital PCS and Wireless phone companies. You can enter your zip code and get a list of all the carriers serving your area. There are also articles to inform users about the various kinds of wireless phone service, an alphabetical guide to u.S. Wireless carriers, a list of phone manufacturers, a glossary, recommended books, and some international wireless info. Interactive areas include regional discussion forums, wireless news groups, and free classified ads.
Gohtm.com -- Instant online document conversion into HTML. This free service will take your document, convert it into HTML files, complete with the images (jpeg) and the hyperlinks. Your document's look-and-feel will be preserved. Currently, supported source-document file formats are: PDF, RTF, TXT, DOC, XLS, PPT. The result is sent to you via email.
eBusiness-Cards -- Create, edit and print free colorful business cards online. These are really nice folks!
Winsecure-IT -- Ever caught someone using your computer without your permission, while you were away for two seconds? Here's the program to solve this problem. It's like Windows NT's lock system, but just for Windows 95/98 instead. You simply run the program and your system is locked until the correct password is entered. This program is to be used just like you would use a screensaver with a password on, or of course Windows NT's lock system (there are also other useful applications on this site).
SpreadMsg Lite 4.04 -- Captures values and/or cell contents in real time from your workbook or spreadsheet application, and turns them into wireless messages to Pagers, PCS/GSM phones, PDA's, email, etc.
CallCenter -- A native 32 bit voice telephony software application integrated with fax and data communications. It's easy to use interface provides you with basic answering machine functionality with a single mailbox and support for sending or receiving faxes from any software application. It provides support for, voice record/playback from a local telephone handset, much like your answering machine. In addition, full sound card wave file voice record/playback support is provided for most all modems.
SunBook -- This program's handy features allow you to: Create remainder for used events, search it, edit, all with built-in calendar, Create plain and RTF text documents with Notes, fully functional text editor, Create address book with personal data (incl. picture, email address, web link), search it, edit, and print data, Encrypt passwords and use it as a password keeper, Encrypt any other text using password and keep it hidden or send as an attachment directly from SunBook, Use built-in alarm clock. It is possible to set any media file (wav, mid, mp3, avi, cda, m3u) and alarm text message as an alarm notification, Minimize any instance of SunBook to "Only clock view" or place it in system tray. Freeware.
Onebox.com -- The world's first, free internet communications service offering voicemail, fax, email and paging for the web and telephone. "Everyone from mobile professionals to college students to teens, will appreciate onebox.Com's convenience, simplicity and privacy". You can use icq and aol's instant messaging with this and be alerted of new voicemails, emails and faxes." Just click to hear your new messages while you are online. Receive voicemails and faxes all at the same time. No one gets a busy signal or ties up your phone line.
Sphygmic Software Spreadsheet -- Why waste money and over 180mb of disk space to get feature-bloated excel? With this you get all the functions you need in less than 4mg. Build formulae using the 125 built-in functions, including text handling, statistical, date/time, and financial functions. Worksheets can span 256 columns and 16,384 rows, enough for almost any task, and you can work with multiple sheets at once. You can import industry standard csv files and read and write excel 4.0 files. The built-in charting module is both simple to use and highly configurable. Select a chart range and you get an instant chart. If you need a slim, fast spreadsheet that won't bury you in irrelevant features, download this now.
Claryisys-3S -- A full-featured 32 bit accounting software for Win95 and WinNT. Yes, it's true, the software is free. No strings attached, no hidden costs. Download it, use it, tel your friends about it. Completion of the registration form is optional but it would be appreciated. 3s includes: general ledger, accounts receivable and accounts payable, powerful invoice/order entry system, bank reconciliation, automated check printing. Export reports directly to Office97 and Corel Wordperfect Suite 7 and 8, and much more.
Critec Accounting 98 -- An easy-to-use, all-purpose accounting program for small businesses. You don't need to know a thing about accounting. Simply fill the blanks in the program forms to define one or more businesses. Then enter your vendors, inventory, customers, tax rates, and related info. The program opens the necessary forms to handle the dual-entry bookkeeping for you. It generates forms and reports to let you view payables and receivables. There is even a snapshot view of how the books stack up at any given moment. A bank reconciliation module keeps the checkbook current. If you need new forms, there is an editor.
Avery Label Templates -- Templates for Avery labelling products, free, for a multitude of software platforms.
Yeah Write -- A better word processor?! We say yes! It uses an innovative fill-in-the-blank approach to word processing. Very fast, easy to use and very small. You have easy access to a diary, general purpose application, journal, business letter, personal letter, memo, notes and editing features. All this with the free version!
Home Office Executive Personal Start Page -- Get your own customizable psp which includes all of these neat features: personal email address book, webnotepad, your personal links, mapmaker, zipcode matcher, weather forecast, webster's dictionary, domain look-up form, area code look-up, search engines and more, all free.
UReach -- How about your own, free 800 number? Get your messages: email, voice-mail, faxes, and files from anywhere! Not near a pc? No problem - get your messages over the phone.
Mailandnews.com -- Email by phone! Free email accounts, just like microsoft's hotmail. The difference is that you can read, send and reply to email at mailandnews.Com either from any touch tone phone as well as from a browser or email software. They give you a phone number to call, a user id and password when you call and enter your info, a computer voice reads your mail. You can reply or forward messages by speaking into the phone. The system will send the email with a sound file of your voice message attached. It also works with other internet email clients, allowing you to access your new mailbox using outlook express, netscape messenger, eudora, pegasus mail, etc.
jConnect Free -- Sign up for jConnect Free, and Get a Personal phone number: Use your personal number to unify and manage your communications: receive voicemail and faxes in your email inbox. No fax machine required. Receive faxes: Receive faxes in your email inbox—easily, forward faxes via email, and store faxes on your PC. Faxes are emailed directly to you. You'll never have to worry about your confidential fax sitting in a fax tray. Receive voice messages: Receive voice messages via email—listen to them over your computer speakers, and store them in your email.
PCBook2 -- Printing text files, such as read-me files or Internet standards documents, can use up a lot of paper. PCBook2 can help you save our forests. It can print up to eight pages on a single sheet of paper (four on each side). When printing two pages per sheet, a booklet option lets you print pages in the proper order to stack up the sheets, fold them in half, and staple them at the fold to create a booklet. A signature option lets you print out large booklets as sets of smaller booklets. PCBook2 also supports headers, footers, word wrap, and tab expansion, and it lets you use any font on your system. It runs under Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.
QuickJot -- This is a tray-based, fast-loading, auto-saving notecard. It has a legal pad-like interface, you can keep track of meetings, calls, anything!
TurboNote's -- These are onscreen sticky notes to keep your important reminders where you can see them.
Free shipping supplies! Too good to be true? Not this time. Does your small or home-based business use the USPS to ship merchandise to customers? If so, you should probably be taking advantage of the free priority mail shipping supplies from the US Postal Service. You can get several sizes of boxes and shipping tubes plus rolls of priority mail tape delivered to your home or business location, all free. Call 1-800-222-1811 to place an order.
Package Shipping Resource -- What's best? Post Office, UPS, FedEx, Or Airborne? Try using
iShip - an online service center for pricing, shipping and tracking packages.
