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30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows
What follows is a list of thirty pieces of software that are the cream of the crop of open source software for Windows. Not only is every piece of it free, almost all of them directly replace expensive software packages.
1. Firefox
http://www.getfirefox.com/
Replaces Internet Explorer
If you haven’t switched to Firefox for your web browsing needs, do it [...]
2007 Mothers of Invention Challenge
“Good Morning America Weekend” kicked off its third annual Mothers of Invention Challenge today, in partnership with Mom Inventors, Inc.
If you’re a mom who has a great idea for a new invention, you can enter to win. One grand prize winner will receive $10,000 plus a 5 percent royalty from the net sales of the [...]
How to create your own TV channel
Mark Hall, a former executive with RealNetworks, fell in love with online video two years ago, thanks to an ultrafast broadband connection in his London home. When he returned to San Francisco last year, he decided to address the growing need in online video, VodPod: a way to find just the good stuff and [...]
Want to Close the Deal? Try Chatting Up Customers
E-commerce businesses, like their brick-and-mortar counterparts, face the challenge of converting browsers into buyers. But because the Web does not allow for face-to-face interaction, it has historically been much harder for an e-retailer to offer the same level of service that customers can find when they walk into a store.
A new Web-based service, ZaZaCHAT, allows [...]
Three ways to use Skype in your small business
1. Customer Support — Got a small business online? Want to offer some customer support without spending a fortune on telephony costs? Skype’s graphical click-to-call SkypeMe buttons are ideal for this. Create your SkypeMe button (free account needed) and embed the code in your website, weblog, template, email, or wherever you want it to appear. [...]
When Free Is Just Too Expensive
Offering free stuff as a marketing tactic is an accepted practice in most industries.
However, in most cases, the party offering the free information or bait is actually interested in charging for it. Even if that charge is the exchange of a name and email address. So, for some, free isn’t free and may be too [...]
How To Play Videogames For A Living
Want to make a living playing your favorite games? There are many ways to break into the videogame industry, according to experts. These job types offer the fastest path into sought-after studios like Electronic Arts, THQ and Ubisoft.
Paying your rent playing videogames sounds fun, but the reality can be far more tedious, says Kaos studios [...]
