Hi, I'm Bruce Naylor, your Frugal Tech and welcome to the Frugal Technology Show.
Every week, we’re talking about technology, what makes your money, what saves you money, what’s good, and maybe what’s not so good. And I always like to find great stuff out on the internet especially business software, right? And I found a list on the PC magazine of the best free business applications of 2009 now. We’re all going to have different opinions about it but I think this is a good list to at least consider so without further ado here we go.
Adobe Buzzword and this is an aligned word processor and is one of the best looking minimalist interface is going so check out at Adobe Buzzword. The next is blist and a web list is a blist or a little database that you use for all your data needs. I use the Flash with the interface as really fast for newbiz and powerful enough for everyone else so check out blist.
EtherPod is another one. You don’t have to sign up to create a new pod or shareable text document if you will that’s stored on line for you to buy EtherPod. Don’t expect any fancy formatting with EtherPod. And I use Evernote and if you haven’t done it, it is a great web clipping no taking application for both Mac and Windows, absolutely free. You get a certain amount of space on the web for that, a professional version basically gives you some more space with, check out Evernote.
The next on the list is GMdesk and that brings Google’s web access, Google Docs and all that because the desktop with this site for with the specific browser interface that requires Adobe air and you’ll have access to you Gmail, your Google reader, your Google docs, just you we’re in a browser.
The GMdesk is always alive even if you’re browser crashes so check out GMdesk. And of course who can forget Google docs, you know. That’s a great way to get started and requires no money of browser based. That’s your great word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, calendars, mail, all that in Google docs so check out Google docs.
Of the next is called Incollector and it says no taking, it doesn’t have to hug up the whole desktop or even the whole browser. Incollector runs in the background running you to call up a new note page from the system tray when everyone tag it and find one of this in your layer.
Jarte, so if there’s no one loves the notepad including Windows and there are many replacements, Jarte maybe pronounced Jarte. I don’t know J-A-R-T-E goes most often or goes most of them one better. I've been completely self contained and portably. You can run it from Thundra.
Okay, next on the list is composer. Composer is a WYSIWYG web page authoring tool that took over where NVU left off at so it supports CSS, file management including FTP. I've tried it. It’s really, really cool.
Lotus Symphony, that’s an office account of a room mentor office week and is based on an open office and is currently invaded for Mac and Linux. I'm not sure where that’s happening in the Windows world but there you have Lotus Symphony.
Next on the list is Lucid chart, so why make flow charts complicated? This web App goes back to the basics with simple black and white charts that anybody can make and vary at anyone else could easily understand.
NeoOffice, that’s for the Mac OS neo office. It comes with the same familiar tools as Mac version of OpenOffice but it’s just more Mac friendly in look and feel.
Notepad++ that is an indispensable tool. You can code in this thing. It’s a great replacement for the building notepad in Windows which is kind of a weak little app and this thing supports you in full text styles, drag and drop, and suit is really, really speedy.
OpenOffice, available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Celarius, you know, version three of this freebie thing really up see any against the Microsoft office weekends becoming really fast and really polished and it seriously warns the serious consideration for your small business or home use. It really does well.
Now it doesn’t have the ribbon interface of Office 2007 so if you really like that it doesn’t have that but other than it has really everything else Office has except Outlook so check out OpenOffice.
Next is SlideRocket. SlideRocket promises to be more than PowerPoint and keynote but it’s web only presentation tool and it really does seem to deliver the goods, creating animations on this so check out SlideRocket.
Next is SoftMaker Office 2006. This free version is meant to upgrade the 2008 version and all you need is basic text editing and spreadsheet, they’re all set. Spring note, whether you want a partial notebook or a shareable group notebook, this Wiki based notebook really could give Microsoft one note or a run for its money.
And finally, Zoho. Zoho is really cool in that it has got a whole bunch of free tools at Zoho and first of all it’s a tool in the arsenal that it doesn’t include I can’t think of it. Not all web apps are free but those are the Word processors, spreadsheet, presentation, at mail Wiki and we’re going to bring the goods table.
Hey check out these free business applications. You never know, you may find a dime or rough. You may find something and save your company or save you hundreds of dollars maybe even thousands if you really like it.
I'm Bruce Naylor, your Frugal Tech. Hey, if you like this video, make sure to rate it or leave your comment. I want to hear from you and your suggestion of what you think. It might be some free great business applications. I’ll talk to you later.
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