Web Services

Just thought I would take a minute here and post out a list of my favorite free services on the web. Many of them I use or recommend at work, but most have great value for personal use as well. There are obvious ones like gmail, Pandora and various social media sites.. Here are a few you might not know about... But don't take my word for it....

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  There are many great free options for editing images on the web (and even a couple above average installed software packages). My personal favorite is Aviary. Aviary's suite of services ranges from image and color manipulation to audio editing. Their image editor component (called Phoenix) is quite powerful, and exports very high quality images. Very easy to use and quite intuitive. A few other options include Picnik and for an installed software packages, there is the GNU Image Manipulation Program




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  Mozy online backup. Seriously, do this now. An automatic process runs and backs up your selected files to Mozy at the scheduled time... You can access the backed up info from anywhere at any time. Two gigs for backup is free. Great for backing up Documents, Pictures, Save Games, etc.

  
  



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  Webs.com is a freemium model web hosting company. Want to have a free website? Toss it on Webs. Good amount of integrated applications.. Free sites are ad-supported. They're good guys. I'm working on an integration for iContact now.

  
  



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  Allrecipies.com is a recipe sharing community. Pretty good amount of unique things to cook up. Always read the comments before making something, as people will tell you what they did differently to have more success with the recipe, or make it easier. They aren't as unique as an Epicurious, but they give a lot better direction on how to actually prepare the food.

  
  

Let me know if there are any good ones that I might be missing out on!

-- Johnny Cakes