Electronic Freebies

Graphics

ABC Banners: Make your own banner online, for free.
http://www.abcbanners.com

Cool Graphics.com: Where people go to find free graphics.
http://www.coolgraphics.com/

NetMechanic: Online tool to reduce the size of GIF or JPEG graphics. Lets you compare the optimized image to the original and select the best trade off between image quality and file size before you save the optimized image for use on your site.
http://www.netmechanic.com/accelerate.htm

Software 

Completely Free Software: Completely free and legal software.
http://www.completelyfreesoftware.com/

c/net Downloads: Freeware, shareware, and for fee software.
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10000.html

ZDNet Downloads: Freeware, shareware, and for fee software.
http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/

Drivers.net: Various device drivers, searchable, free downloads.
http://www.driverfiles.net.

Web Site Building Related

Arachnophilia: A surprisingly feature-packed HTML editor for a freebie. Instead of freeware, this software is careware.
http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.html

Bravenet: Provides FREE Web Services for both personal and commercial Web Sites. Registration for a Bravenet account is free. Once registered you can access their free services such as hit counters, e-mail forms, and votecasters.
http://www.bravenet.com/

FindSticky.com: Find free content to keep visitors on your site.
http://www.findsticky.com/

Petition Online: Provides free online hosting of public petitions for responsible public advocacy.
http://www.petitiononline.com/

QVT: a Windows telnet and terminal emulation program. It lets you log on to remote computers, such as the UTS central computing systems (Agora, Atlas, Hera). Once logged on to one of the computers, you can run a variety of programs and perform a variety of other tasks using QVT. (only registered DU students can download this software.
http://www.du.edu/uts/helpdesk/qvt.html

Miscellaneous

Eyeball Networks: Free vido communications over any Internet connection.
http://www.eyeball.com/

Printfree.com: This site features useful items you can print for only the cost of paper and ink. Just use the print commands in your web browser to make your copy of our Free Greeting cards, Calendars, Signs, and Pictures. You can also save our Pictures, Signs, Birthday cards, and calendars for use in your own printing projects.
http://www.printfree.com/

Training and Temp. Jobs

Microsoft Applications: DU offers FREE student training in various Microsoft applications, ie. Word, Excel, Frontpage. For more information check out http://www.du.edu/uts/training/#student. If you scroll up the page, there is a link to the various applications. There are also handouts that you can print out for reference.

Exchanging Jobs: Provides "a free matching service for people who work in libraries and the information field" including "one-day job shadowing and job exchanges that can last for days, weeks or even months. Check it out at http://www.exchangingjobs.org under subject: Librarians.

If you have any questions/suggestions on this page, please contact Dennis Hagen