Category Archives: Software

Free Music Tool Bar

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If you have been following my blog, you will know that lately, I have been busy checking out sites that provide us with free music. Well, this information is much needed after we have been warned of a fine of MYR25,000 if we are caught to download music, movies and other intellectual material illegally.

While I have come across sites that provide free download of music or streaming of music, just now, I was told that we can download a free music toolbar from ListenTopia.com. This toolbar is compatible with both Internet Explorer and FireFox so it makes it very convenient for us to listen to music as we surf the web.

Using this free music toolbar from Listentopia.com, not only will we be able to listen to music endlessly, we will also get to contribute our music to the community to share with other members.

Imagine uploading your full library of songs from your iTunes or WinAmp playlists and stream online your favorite music wherever you are as long as you are connected to the internet!

Ashop Commerce Free Ten Day Trial

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Goodies like a free trial for ecommerce software cannot escape a freebie hunter like me so I was delighted to discover that Ashop Commerce is offering a ten day no-hassle obligation free full trial for its shopping cart software. You may wonder why this is good news to me. As you know, I am an online merchant, a minor player only, though, and have not been too happy with my current ecommerce software. With this trial, I will have the chance to try another shopping cart and maybe this will be my perfect solution.

You may know that it is not cheap to buy a fully integrated shopping cart like this so it is a brilliant idea for Ashop Commerce to allow us to test it out before committing ourselves. Besides looking for a total ecommerce solution, what I am looking for is ease of use and user-friendliness. And I believe I am not alone. Well, I HOPE I am not alone. I can’t be that stupid, right??

Whatever the case, if you are currently using a shopping cart software, there’s no harm in giving this a trial run.

Free Personal Finance Manager

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Image courtesy of AceMoney

Some of you may remember that I run an online store, small it may be. And as long as I am in business, there are accounts to take care of. So far, I have been doing everything manually but then I thought that I would find a free programme so that I could go paperless. My search brought me to this free personal finance manager called AceMoney Lite.

As you can see from the word LITE, there is a premium version of AceMoney with more features, but the Lite version is sufficient for home finances and small businesses. I have yet to try all the features, though, but I am going to set up different accounts for my home and business.

What I do not like about certain software is that they could be pretty confusing and I end up abandoning my projects. I hope that AceMoney will be very user-friendly for me. If you are tying this, please let me know!

Free Accounting Software

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Image courtesy of Quick Books

As you know, I am an e-trader, albeit a small one. Even so, I have my share of accounts to do and customers to track but no way am I going to pay for my software manager. My friend tipped me off about Quick Books. This is a lovely FREE accounting software that is feature rich except that if you pay for it, you will have even MORE features.

Even with its free edition, it could already create receipts, invoices, receive payments and record deposits professionally. Of course these are but only a handful of things it can do for free.

What I like the most it the easy set up and even with a free version, we are eligible for the free 30-day technical support! Isn’t that great? I am thinking that if I really like this software, I should upgrade it. Yes, even for a cheapo like me!

Text Block Writer – Virtual Index Card Program

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Image courtesy of Software by Brian

Text Block Writer is a virtual index card program useful particularly to writers. Use this to organize your research papers, articles, writings and any written text that you want.

This actually replaces your paper index cards, you know, the cards that you write on to arrange your thoughts? You can go virtual now. Everything could be arranged on the computer. When you are satisfied with everything, you can export them to a rich text format document and this document can be opened with any word processor.

Text Block Writer is a freeware offered by a programmer-cum-writer by the name of Brian.