More Free Stuff
Speaking of free stuff, here's a little round-up of freebies I've come across recently:
Free Mini Relaxation Music Players (Windows only) -- if you like those relaxation CDs with the sounds of raindrops and frogs and whispering winds and all that sort of thing (I love 'em!), then these little apps that let you mix your own music are pretty cool.
Free book -- Getting Real -- no, it's not Dr. Phil. It's a book written by the people at 37signals about how to create your own start-up company. The book is specifically about starting a company based on a web application or other type of software, but a lot of the stuff they talk about (the importance of creating a small company that is lean and flexible, passionate, personal, friendly, honest, etc.) are valuable to anybody thinking about starting a small business. The paperback is $29, the PDF is $19, the web version is absolutely FREE.
Free fonts -- Dafont has a lot of great free fonts, and even though a lot of them aren't suited to professional-quality text documents, they're great for web images, photo captions, and all sorts of other things. Smeltery also has a lot of free fonts. And Vitaly Friedman has two lists of high-quality free fonts here and here.
Free Photoshop plugins -- over 100 free Photoshop plugins, most of them are Windows-only, but a few are available in Mac versions as well. If you don't have Photoshop, you might try a few free alternatives, GIMP (Windows, Unix, Mac) or Paint.NET (Windows, requires .NET Framework, available free from Microsoft).
Free music -- Russian music site AllOfMP3.com is now giving music away at no charge (which makes sense I guess, since they got spanked by Visa). The deal is that it only plays on their "Music for the Masses" player, and also they're not paying royalties to the artists, record companies and whoever else wants a chunk of money (they get away with it because apparently they're not breaking any laws in Russia).
Free Mini Relaxation Music Players (Windows only) -- if you like those relaxation CDs with the sounds of raindrops and frogs and whispering winds and all that sort of thing (I love 'em!), then these little apps that let you mix your own music are pretty cool.
Free book -- Getting Real -- no, it's not Dr. Phil. It's a book written by the people at 37signals about how to create your own start-up company. The book is specifically about starting a company based on a web application or other type of software, but a lot of the stuff they talk about (the importance of creating a small company that is lean and flexible, passionate, personal, friendly, honest, etc.) are valuable to anybody thinking about starting a small business. The paperback is $29, the PDF is $19, the web version is absolutely FREE.
Free fonts -- Dafont has a lot of great free fonts, and even though a lot of them aren't suited to professional-quality text documents, they're great for web images, photo captions, and all sorts of other things. Smeltery also has a lot of free fonts. And Vitaly Friedman has two lists of high-quality free fonts here and here.
Free Photoshop plugins -- over 100 free Photoshop plugins, most of them are Windows-only, but a few are available in Mac versions as well. If you don't have Photoshop, you might try a few free alternatives, GIMP (Windows, Unix, Mac) or Paint.NET (Windows, requires .NET Framework, available free from Microsoft).
Free music -- Russian music site AllOfMP3.com is now giving music away at no charge (which makes sense I guess, since they got spanked by Visa). The deal is that it only plays on their "Music for the Masses" player, and also they're not paying royalties to the artists, record companies and whoever else wants a chunk of money (they get away with it because apparently they're not breaking any laws in Russia).
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