WEB FREEBIE WEDNESDAY: FastWeb

Welcome to Web Freebie Wednesday (sorry this is a couple days late). Today's freebie is FastWeb. FastWeb is a free scholarship database online. Students of any age can create a profile and FastWeb will match them with available scholarships that match their criteria. While some scholarships depend on grades there are tons that don't. Many of them only require an essay to apply. So don't pay for a book which lists scholarships, don't pay for access to scholarship databases online, and hopefully, don't pay for your education either. Good luck and enjoy FastWeb.

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: Quantum Leap

Welcome to Web Freebie Wednesday, February 29, 2012, the mid-week event featuring some of the best freebies of the web. Today's freebie is one that would usually be posted on an event such as Free Movie Monday. However, since today is the extra day for "leap" year, I decided it would be fitting to post the pilot episode of the classic 80's TV series Quantum Leap. Many major networks, including NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX and others, post full-length episodes of new TV series and some of their classics online. This can provide hours of free entertainment. Enjoy the show.

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WEB FREEBIE WEDNESDAY: Pandora Radio

Welcome to Web Freebie Wednesday, the mid-week event featuring some of the best freebies of the web. Today's freebie is Pandora Radio. Pandora is already a very popular site, but just in case you haven't heard of it, the site offers free internet radio and allows you to create your own music stations. All you do is register and type what you like to listen to. Pandora will then create your personalized stations based on what you typed and correlated with similar artists and sounds in their music genome. Enjoy free music streamed directly from Pandora.

Web Freebie Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012, PDF Escape

Welcome to Web Freebie Wednesday, the event of the week displaying one of the best freebies of the web! Today's freebie is PDF Escape. PDF Escape is a free PDF editor online. It runs completely through your internet browser so no downloads are required. PDF Escape allows you to add text, images, and hyperlinks to PDF documents. You can also add form fields, and shapes such as arrows, circles, check marks, and lines. There is even a white out function.

I spent a long time looking for a free PDF editor and was very satisfied when I discovered PDF Escape. A paid PDF editor can cost anywhere between $50 - $600. The name brand PDF Editor is Adobe Acrobat, which is $599.00 online. PDF Escape is completely free with no watermarks. The option to purchase a paid upgrade with no ads and more features is available.