Misc. Freebies on the WEB

 

 

  • Investor Links - This is perhaps the Web's top resource for free investor information and free real-time quotes. It's a well-maintained site with thousands of links, with descriptions. Updated daily.
  • Swingware Daily Sounds - Drop by this site for a daily dose of free sound files. Swingware adds 10 new .wav files each day and accepts requests. Sounds range from Daffy Duck to HAL from "2001: A Space Odyssey." They also offer a selection of sound utilities and music links.
  • Send a free fax - This advertising-supported service lets you send a fax to anyone in the U.S. for free. The service is easy to use; just type in your message in their form and your fax will be sent out within the hour, in most cases.
  • Free currency converter - This site offers a free currency converter tool that offers current and historical exchange rates for 164 currencies from 1990 to the present. Also, Webmasters can use the customizable currency converters for free on their own site.
  • Babies Online - Have you got a newborn in the family? Then check out this free birth announcement service for new parents. They offer free Web pages announcing births, so that faraway families can share in the bragging. They also feature a monthly baby-related contest for prizes such as blankets, etc.
  • Tune up your computer online - Get a free computer on-line check-up with this nifty service (Note: only Internet Explorer users can use use it). WinTune 98 lets you test your PC's performance by simply clicking through a series of Web pages. If WinTune detects serious configuration or performance problems, it will describe the problem right on the Web page. Once you have completed the tests, you can compare your results to those of similar systems in the site's database.
  • Free tax forms - Tax time is approaching. This site will save you a trip to the post office. All types of tax forms are here and available for output on your printer. Tax forms are included in the following file types: PDF, PCL, PostScript and SGML text.
  • EBook Central - This site carries a large selection of free electronic books in Adobe format. Categories include Spirituality; New Age; Eastern Philosophy; Health & Healing; Paranormal; Self-Help; Science & Alternate Technology and more.
  • Hot! Coupons - Do you love to save money? Are you physically incapable of entering a supermarket without clutching a handful of coupons? Then this site is for you. Just enter your ZIP code and find local coupon offers that you can print out.
  • Free TV show tickets - Have you ever wanted to attend a live taping of a TV show like "Jeopardy" or "Wheel of Fortune"? This site is offering free reserved TV tickets. You can make your reservations online and then order and print your free tickets.
  • Webmonkey Browser Tuneup - The Webmonkey tuneup will test your browser for everything essential to your Web experience, including frames, Java and a "few good plug-ins."
  • Jurassic Punk - There are many sites on the Web where you can get free video clips, movie trailers, film clips and animation videos. But this site is the only one you need to bother bookmarking. This massive, hugely-popular site offers clips from every significant silver screen release. So download a few clips here and then play them back
  • Free Bible Study Course - Word of Life Cyberchurch is offering an "accredited College Level Bible Study Course." As a student completes each segment of the program, he or she is given credits toward a certificate given at the end of the course.
  • Free scanning service - This site will scan three of your photos for free, provided that you place a link to them on your Web site.
  • Alta Vista's Translation Assistant - Have you ever seen a Web site in another language and wondered what the heck it was saying? This free service provides you with a tool to translate a grammatically correct Web page or other document into something comprehensible
  • Epage Classifieds - There are many free classified ads sites on the Web but this is one of the few worth bookmarking. All private party ads are free here and they're cross-posted to the newsgroups, as well. All ads may have one picture uploaded. There's also an account management page where you can see info on your ads, bids you have made (on auctions), etc.
  • M*SPOT - Are you into multimedia? Then click over to this fine site right away that deals with all facets of free multimedia goodies. Areas include free 3D tools, free multimedia software, free fonts, free Java, and much more.
  • Internet Traffic Report - Why is the Net so slow today, you may be wondering? Click over to this site and get the details. Find out if the bottleneck is just in your area or global. The Internet Traffic Report measures the performance of major Internet routers around the world hourly.
  • Make your own greeting cards - This Swedish service offers a way for you to easily create your own greeting cards (Easter & Mother's Day themes are now available) and other personal/business greeting cards. There are 22 different designs for business cards You may also create a type chart or a calendar. Just type in your input and within a few seconds you'll get back a PDF file, ready to output on your printer.
  • The Pic of Pics - This site is offering a unique free service on the Web: free photo manipulations. Imagine being "seen" in a photo with whoever you want. Be "seen" with movie stars, politicians, models and anyone else you can imagine!
  • 3-D photos for free - Have you ever wondered what your favorite photos would look like in 3-D? With this service, you can find out! Just send them your picture files and they'll render them in 3-D. Now all you gotta do is find some of those cheesey blue & red 3-D glasses!
  • Free horoscopes - This site is offering a free weekly horoscope which is composed by Odina, a professional psychic.
  • Unpublished books - This site is offering free exposure for unpublished authors, writers, poets and other purveyors of prose. They will post a sample of your work online for one month for free.
  • Free Scanning Service - CyberScans is offering a free scanning service. Just fill in their order form and your photo will be scanned and posted within two working days and the location of your scanned photo will be E-mailed to you.
  • Smartbooks.com A place to get free books which are "raffled off." All you need to do is select the book, click on the title to go to the signup page, and enter to win.
  • Free Web calendars - This service is offering free Web calendars to non-homophobic community groups who wish to publicize local events.
  • HeadHunter.NET - Useful employment site that offers free service. Posting and searching jobs and resumes is free. HeadHunter.NET will even cross-post listings to Usenet, all for no charge.
  • AdOne Classified Ad Searcher - Tell "Ad Hound" what you're looking for and this free service will search for your request in the classified ads of over 400 newspapers, across the U.S. Results are then mailed to you.
  • Free legal forms and agreements - This site offers free forms ranging from contracts and will that you can print out and use.
  • PriceScan - A free service that takes the hassle out of finding the best price on thousands of computer hardware and software products. PriceScan shows you the vendor with the lowest price plus other vendors' prices.
  • Themes 'n Schemes - Great site for free Win 95 Themes. And no, you don't need Microsoft Plus! to use these themes as there's a great shareware program called Desktop Themes (a 100K file) that'll install themes on your system,
  • Free cartoons - This site offers royalty-free cartoons, suitable for publishing in newspapers or magazines. Color, one-panel, cartoons by a Canadian cartoonist. Large versions for print quality. 5 new ones a week (over 300 in the site's archive).
  • Center of the Universe - For a limited time, these folks are offering a free scan. Just send `em a photo; they'll scan it and E-mail it to you.