Saturday, September 17, 2005

Free online applications

I have spent some time today with two (free!) online applications that are fun to use and work well both on the Windows and Apple operating systems.

The first is ThinkFreeOffice, a Java-based office suite that has a version which allows you to create word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online! You are allocated 30MB of online storage space, you can easily edit a presentation created with Microsoft Office applications, and ThinkFreeOffice allows you to "save as PDF", too!

Think Free Office Online: http://online.thinkfree.com/index.jsp

The other, mycardmaker, requires the Flash plug-in, but it is easy to create you own greeting cards with their beautiful designs or by using a picture or photo from your own computer.

MyCardMaker: http://mycardmaker.com/

5 Comments:

wiredinstructor said...

Kathy thanks for the link to http://online.thinkfree.com/index.jsp ... It looks promising.

One of my favorite free online tools is Basecamp for project management, I use it for online consultation jobs that pull together 2 or three folks from around the web: http://www.basecamphq.com/ They've got good messaging, timelines, to do lists etc. This group has some other cools tools like Backpack (an easy webpage maker) and Ta-Da, a fun online checklist. Clever tech.

I followed a link from Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog to find you. Doug just posted a nice bit about the free Information Fluency Tools I help to make for the 21st Century Project in Illinois: http://21cif.imsa.edu.

I've got you bookmarked, I'll 'click in' from time to time!

Dennis@Tahoe

10:42 AM  
The Blah Brain said...

Hey, nice blog you've got here. :)

5:51 PM  
aperla said...

Kathy, Always enjoyed your website and now I discovered your blog. Since "Free" has alway been the best price I am willing to pay...Have you looked at OpenOffice????

Keep up the good work

11:43 PM  
Anonymous said...

You Suck

6:19 PM  
Anonymous said...

u suck

6:20 PM  

Post a Comment

<< Home