Monday, February 2, 2009

ONLINE FREEBIES

AND IT'S ALL FREE ONLINE

FREE SING ALONG
www.hypem.com
This site allows visitors to listen to songs posted on blogs for free
Some frequently accessed tracks are cached by the Hype Machine server, much like Google Search caches web pages. Those tracks are not available for download, but you can preview them via the play buttons that are next to each track. Find out what's new and popular!

FREE TRAVEL HELP
www.kayak.com
Great for travelers. This site lets you define itineraries, sorted by airline, time of day, number of stops and length of layovers. Once you've found your perfect trip, at the price you want, you mist go directly to the vendor to buy the ticket. A link is provided, from the site.

FREE FINANCIAL ADVICE
www.Kiplinger.com
Find a treasure trove of free financial advice, here. Search for tools and calculators, to get financial help. You'll get your personal questions, including general financial answers, family and kid topics and big-picture financial planning from what they call their Portfolio Doctor. All free.

FREE PHOTO EDITING - YOUR WAY
www.picnik.com
Photo editing made fun. That's their promise. Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. It's a free photo-editing site that doesn't require registration or software downloads. Users crop and adjust photos within their browser window -- special effects and frames are available, too -- and can post images to sites like Flickr or Facebook without leaving Picnik.

FREE GAMES FOR YOUNG AND OLD
www.pogo.com
Free online or downloadable games -- including card, puzzle, word and board varieties. More than 100 games are available including Scrabble, Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit. It looks a little like those early blinding advertising sites, but if you like your games online, they've got 'em.

FREE PHONE CALLS
www.Skype.com
This will help your long distance bill! Why not talk by way of your computer? Free software from Skype.com lets you talk (with another Skype user) totally free. But for only $3.00 a month, you can even call non-users' on their landlines (which is about as close to free as we can get!)

SHOP ON THE CHEAP WITH THIS FREE SERVICE
www.shopittome.com
Here's the promise: It's fast, easy, and free. Just specify your favorite brands and sizes, and they'll do the rest. They break it down, Women's Clothing, Bags, for example, and then they ask for specificity on sizes and brands. The service emails us when retailers mark down our favorite designers. using searches that include major retailers