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Jott - Send Email and Text Messages by Voice from your Phone
Jott is a free service that allows you to call a toll-free number and send email and text messages by voice. You can even post to your blog by making a phone call.

Free Word Puzzle Help
Get free online help to solve crosswords and other word puzzles

Free Personal Radio from Slacker.com
Slacker.com is approaching nearly 100 professionally programmed genre stations covering all kinds of music and over 10,000 artist stations. You can personalize any of the stations so the music matches your tastes exactly.

The New Free AOL
Finally AOL is doing something to get the attention of those of us who love free services. They are in the process of transforming themselves from an expensive dial up Internet service provider to an advertising supported free service for those with other Internet connections. They still offer dialup, and you still have to pay for that if you need to use it to get your Internet access, but they are making most of their "value added" services free to everyone.

Send and Receive Free Faxes
Quite a number of free fax services have come and gone over recent years. I don't know of any one current service that lets you both send and receive faxes for free, but that doesn't mean you can't have your fax and send it too! All you need to do is use two free services, one to send your faxes and another receive faxes.

Free World Cup Videos
Soccer fans that either don't have access to live TV coverage of the games, or can't spend hours and hours watching the entire matches can get their soccer fix with these free World Cup videos.

Google Spreadsheets
If there was any doubt that Google is working toward offering a free online office software suite, I think we can safely say that doubt has pretty much been eliminated by the announcement of the free Google Spreadsheets online.

Free Free Incoming and Outgoing Phone Calls
You can now get free outgoing calls to real phone numbers and free incoming calls to a real phone number. You may be thinking "who is crazy enough to be offering that kind of service free in both directions" and that would be a wise question. The truth is that no one company is doing that -- You need to be a little creative and combine services from two companies to get free calling in both directions.

Free Song Lyrics
If you have ever listened to a popular song and couldn't quite figure out some of the lyrics, you will appreciate LyricsDownload.com. They have an enormous database of over 600,000 unique song lyrics.

Google Calendar
Free calendars are cool and free email is really nice, but put them together and you have something fantastic. Google has made their free Web based calendar available to everyone and it is worth the time to sign up and give it a spin.

Mygrocerydeals.com Grocery Deal Finder
Now I don't need to go through the weekly ritual of gathering all the newspaper grocery fliers and trying to figure out who has what deals. Mygrocerydeals.com maintains a huge database of local grocery store specials and allows you to build shopping list for the stores you choose or you can browse the specials for each store online.

Create a Free Newsfeed
Want to keep people updated with news about you or about anything you care about but don't have a Web site? Or do you have a Web site without a newsfeed? FeedXS comes to the rescue with a free and very easy to use service that allows you to create your own RSS newsfeed.

HassleMe Free Reminder Service
Sometimes you just need a little kick in the pants to remember to get something done. HassleMe is ready and willing to help.

Free Web site and Web site creator from Google
Google has launched their free Web site offering called Google Page Creator. They offer an easy to use tool for creating your Web site and free hosting for up to 100 megabytes of files.

Free Microsoft Office Live
Microsoft has launched their Office Live service. At this writing the service is in beta testing and all levels of the service are free for the beta test period. The basic service will remain free after the beta test period ends. With the Office Live Basics service you get a free domain name, free Web site, five free 2 gigabyte email accounts, and a number of free online tools.

Free Countdown Timer
Create a free event countdown timer that you can place on your website, blog, forum signature or just use on the page that is created for you when you set it up.

Free Online Spell Check
Orangoo Spell Check is a very handy free online service. Many of us have come to rely on doing a spell check when we create documents. Unfortunately, most places where you enter data online does not have a spell check function.

Cool Free Videos -- 2006 Super Bowl Commercials
I have to admit it -- I don't watch football, not even the Super Bowl. I have however, considered recording the Super Bowl just so I could skip everything else and only watch the commercials. But of course with access to the Internet I don't need to.

Free Online Room Design
Better Homes and Gardens has a free online room design application that makes it easy and fun to create a room design. The room design application includes a huge array of furniture and accessories you just drag and drop.

Free Tax Filing Sites as Listed by the IRS
The United States Internal Revenue Service lists about twenty sites that offer free E-Filing. Some also include free tax preparation.

Locate those Hard-to-Find Toll-Free Customer Service Numbers
One thing that has always bugged me about dealing with online merchants has been how difficult it is to talk to real person when there is a problem that can't be solved using their online resources. There is a reason they hide their toll-free numbers. It is much cheaper for them to use automated email responses or other online communications. However, there are some times when voice communication is the only solution.

Free Internet Radio Helps you Discover Music you Like
There are many free Internet radio services but Pandora has a unique twist that makes it the most compelling free Internet radio service I have tried. Pandora truly helps you discover music that you will like based on the way the music sounds. Some free Internet radio services allow you to teach them what you like but Pandora takes custom free Internet radio to a whole new level.

Free 411 Service
411metro is a free directory assistance service that can save you significant particularly money if make directory assistance calls from your cell phone. Many cell phone companies charge you over $1 per call for directory assistance. 411metro is totally free for as many calls as you wish to make.

Roll Your Own Custom Search Engine
Do you ever go to your favorite search engine looking for something that should be easy to find, but get so many irrelevant results that you feel overwhelmed? Rollyo Role Your Own search does something to address that problem. You can create a custom search that only gives results from the sites you indicate. You can use also use custom searches that have already been designed by others.

Gizmo -- Free Internet Calling the Open Standars way
Free Internet calling has always been plagued by a lack of interoperability. Whether it was the startup companies of the 90's Internet bubble era or the more recent popular service Skype. The Gizmo project plans to change that with open standards and open networks.

Free Classical Music Downloads
I set out to see if I could find a source of free legal classical music MP3 downloads - After finding mostly sites with just a few selections to download I finally stumbled upon the mother-load of classical MP3 downloads

Yahoo offers one gigabyte of free email storage
Now that Google has upped their Gmail storage to 2 gigabytes -- Yahoo is playing catch-up and has raised their free email offering to one gigabyte

Skype Free Internet Calling
What the heck is a Skype you ask - Skype is a voice over IP (VOIP) telephone company that has made an enormous splash by offering free high quality PC to PC calling

Become.com the search engine for serious shoppers
Google is my favorite general search engine but when it comes to finding substantial information on getting the best buy on something you need to purchase it seems almost useless

Free Music Your Way
Recently I have been fascinated with the free Yahoo LAUNCHcast service -- here is a little review that will tell you why.

Avoiding Registration on Information Sites
Tired of registering on information sites and newspaper websites to read an article or two - This site offers a solution if you feel comfortable using it