Comp Ten

Ten Things to Get for No Cost

Freeware caution: always scan free downloads of anything for bugs and other threats before dumping the programs into your hard drive.

1. Find dead links or duplicates in your Browser Bookmarks with AM-Deadlink.

2. Get a system in which digital information can be created, stored, managed, controlled and published from a single source to print, online and help formats with the free trial of Author-It.

3. An alternative word processing freeware, CopyWriter.

4. KGP Software has a whole page of freeware downloads, including a mass mailer (not to be used for SPAM) and a compact multi-document editor.

5. PWEditor freeware has a bunch of features that allow users to design, edit and maintain web pages on or offline.

6. Yet another simple NotePad replacement freeware, QText.

7. "One of the most advanced HTML editors on the planet", Selida.

8. Get as wordy as you want with Sequence Publishing's TheSage Dictionary and Thesaurus freeware.

9. Grab a free site map generated online for your web site at XML-Sitemaps.

10. Xterm Medical Dictionary is a free downloadable dictionary of medical terms that can be updated twice a month with the latest add-ins from the project web site.

Two sites to see for fun: the creative minds at Amautalab go right for the kid in all of us (roll over objects for animation and sound; click on the amautalab logo in the upper corner for company detail cloud), while The Leo Burnett Agency displays the power of a mere pencil -- click on it and prepare to be dazzled (both links found in Web Designer Magazine, Issue 121.)