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Best of the Web Tools
The internet has so many great tools to help you with your business. Here are a few stand outs worth mentioning that you will use all the time. What gem have you found? Let us know here!
Open Office has come along way over the years. Over 100,000,000 downloads later it is a super polished Office Suite with the equivilant of everything Microsoft Office has...but totally free. Free is good and so is Open Office. Works on Window, Mac and Linux.
Would you like to learn Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, Access or other Microsoft software? Microsoft provides free training on all their products from the 2007 version to present. Included on this site are free time savng templates to use for all the programs.
New to Apple or just want to learn how to use your Iphone, Ipad or Desktop better? These FREE workshops, held at the Apple Stores in Austin, will help.
Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan to provide "a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere." Its website features thousands of educational resources, including a personalized learning dashboard, over 100,000 practice problems, and over 6,000 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching math, history, healthcare, medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, cosmology, American civics, art history, economics and computer science.
BreakthroughBroker.com is a free, all-encompassing resource center for real estate professionals. Site visitors an Create marketing materials such as brochures and newsletters, find the tools necessary to Succeed in the business, Learn from industry leaders, and Share their ideas with fellow agents.
Need to convert a file to a different format? From Audio to Video to Images to Documents to Ebooks, it can all be done here quickly. Can't find it here? Try the Zamzar file converter.
PicMonkey was the 2013 Editors pic for outstanding online free photo editing software. Super easy to use and they also provide plugins for Chrome and Facebook. Click here to the plugin infomation page.
Microsoft Snipping Tool
On Your Computer Already!
Microsoft has several handy programs on your Windows based computer. The Snipping Tool is one of our favorites. Just open the program, crop the picture and save it, or email it. Click here for a Microsoft tutorial. Just click your Start Button and type Snipping Tool and you'll find the program.
Camtasia is the internets #1 screen recording software. Unless you need special effects, the free version work just fine. Super easy to use and understand and plenty of Youtube videos to show you how to use it.
Capture video and audio from any site with Applian Technologies Replay Capture software. Dwonloan media, capture video, record music or record radio from your PC.