WEB FREEBIE WEDNESDAY: Mozilla Firefox

Welcome to Web Freebie Wednesday, the mid-week event featuring the best freebies of the web. Today's freebie is Mozilla Firefox. Firefox is a free web browser from the folks that gave us last week's freebie, Thunderbird. It is feature-rich, much safer than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and free. Its presence is perhaps the reason why most popular web browsers have tabbed browsing today and why they are all free. I still keep Microsoft IE since there are some web pages and web-based applications that require it. But for most other internet activities, Firefox is a good way to go.



WEB FREEBIE WEDNESDAY: Mozilla Thunderbird

Welcome to Web Freebie Wednesday, the mid-week event featuring the best freebies of the web. Today's freebie is Mozilla Thunderbird. Last week the freebie was Gmail, a free POP3 email service from Google. A POP3 email account allows you to use an email client from your desktop. An email client downloads your email and offers tons of additional features to emailing activities. Many of these features are especially good for business purposes, but can be applied at home for personal uses as well. Such features include an audio announcement for when you receive mail (either a bell ring or the classic "you've got mail" voice). You can also set up automatic replies, create email templates, include an automatic footer to all your outgoing emails featuring your name and business, as well as many other features. If you sell digital content online, then an email client can be especially useful since you can set it up to recognize when you've made a sale and automatically send the digital goods to the buyer. The most common email client is Microsoft Outlook which is included when you buy Microsoft Office. One of the best free alternative email clients is Mozilla Thunderbird, brought to us by the same folks that created next week's web freebie. Thunderbird has a very clean look to it and it has most, if not all, of the features that are expected with an email client.

WEB FREEBIE WEDNESDAY: Gimp

Welcome to Web Freebie Wednesday, the mid-week event featuring some of the best freebies of the web. Today's freebie is Gimp open source software. Open source software is free as in "free speech" and it is also free as in "free beer". The idea of open source is to encourage programmers to contribute to an overall and improved finished product. Gimp is one of the most well-known open source programs that is comparable to Adobe Photoshop. So, if you need photo editing software, you can either pay $700 for Adobe Photoshop or get Gimp for free.



WEB FREEBIE WEDNESDAY: Project Gutenberg

Welcome to Web Freebie Wednesday, the mid-week event featuring some of the best freebies of the web. Today's freebie is Gutenberg.org. Project Gutenberg has a continuing goal to make public domain ebooks available for free online. You can get many of the classics, such as Huckleberry Finn, Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book and literally thousands and thousands of others. Books are available in multiple languages and formats. You can download them for free or read them online. This is absolutely one of the best places to get free ebooks. And one of the best parts is that since these books are in the public domain you can do use them for personal or commercial purposes. Enjoy free ebooks at Project Gutenberg!

WEB FREEBIE WEDNESDAY: Free Typing Lessons and Games

Welcome to Web Freebie Wednesday, the mid-week event featuring some of the best freebies of the web. Today's freebie is FreeTypingGame.net. Computer literacy is constantly becoming more of a requirement in today's culture and especially in the work environment. As my own children grow, I'm sure I'll continue to tell them that one of the most helpful classes I ever took in high school was a computer typing class. Now, you can get that entire class for free online. If you are beginning to learn how to type, or if you want to practice so that you can increase your words per minute (wpm), then this is a perfect resource for you. FreeTypingGame.net has lessons for typing and they make it fun to learn with games. This has got to be one of the best educational resources online. The site is definitely ad-supported, but that shouldn't affect the learning experience.



WEB FREEBIE WEDNESDAY: Open Clip Art

Thanks for visiting the official blog of ActuallyFree.info and welcome to Web Freebie Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012. Today's web freebie is Open Clip Art. Open Clip Art is one of the cleanest and most professional clip art galleries online. Their web pages aren't loaded with excessive ads or popups and their clip art is excellent. And the best part is all their clip art is free and dedicated to the public domain. You can use it in any way you wish, for any purpose, without asking permission from the authors and without paying royalties.