Go Ahead Treat Yourself!

Even Scrooge Would Approve!

The Holidays are upon us, but you won't have to wait for Santa to deliver these great presents. Even if you've got a little Ebenezer Scrooge in you, relax.

They're all free.

MOZILLA FIREBIRD BROWSER

Meet Mozilla's smaller, faster little brother.

Firebird includes all of Mozilla's best web-browsing features but none of the extras like email, newsreader or chat client.

Here's what it does have:

• Pop-up blocker - I haven't seen a pop-up since I started using the program. Woohoo! And the blocker doesn't disable javascript use.
• Tabbed browser windows - You can open several browser windows at once. This is great if you use dial-up, because you can have several web sites loading while you read another.
• Form and password manager - fills in online forms and remembers all those web site passwords so you don't have to.

Firebird also comes with a Google search box in the toolbar for quick and easy searches.

Plus, you don't have to install Firebird on your system.

No registry entries. Simply download and unzip the files to a folder and put a shortcut to the .exe on your desktop.

Launch it when you're ready to surf.

It's a 6mb download for Windows 98 and higher. They also offer Mac and Linux versions, check out mozilla.org for more info. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firebird/releases/0.7/MozillaFirebird-0.7-win32.zip

POWERBULLET FLASH PRESENTER

Powerbullet Presenter allows you to create slick, multi-page Flash presentations, using a simple drag and drop interface and no technical expertise whatsoever.

You can easily insert sounds or voice recordings, images, or other Flash files, create page transitions, animations and more.

The program comes with various ready-to-use animation effects, which can be assigned to any object or text, allowing you to move objects into position, fade out images and much more.

Additional features include support for hyperlinks, source editing, tables, and integrated voice recording.

Powerbullet Free Flash Creator

The result can be published as a web page or exported as standalone EXE file, which can be played on any Windows computer. You'll need Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher installed on your computer.
98/ME/2000/XP 2450 kb http://powerbullet.com/download/setup.exe

3 YEAR WEB SITE HOSTING FREE

Yes. 3 Years of free web hosting. When I first heard about this promotion, I was skeptical. How could a company give away THREE YEARS shared web hosting for free?

I did some research and discovered that the company, 1 & 1, is a large, established German internet hosting company. They are moving into the North American market and decided to give away hosting as a promotion instead of advertising.

Here's what they offer. 500mb web space and 5gb monthly bandwidth, no banner or pop-up ads, live site statistics, log files, ready-to-run CGI-library, FrontPage 2002 extensions, password protection, 5 FTP accounts, PHP3 & PHP4, MySQL, SSL Secure Server and lots more.

Check out the 1 & 1 web site for more features and to sign up.

I read their terms of service and FAQ. There is no additional commitment required during or after your free 3 years of hosting.

They don't even require a credit card to sign up!

You WILL have to pay 99 cents per gigabyte if you go over the monthly 5gb bandwidth limit. Not likely with most web sites.

The promotion is limited to Canada and the United States and ends January 14, 2004.

PALM INFORMATION MANAGER

Burn your File-O-Fax, toss out the Rolodex and recycle your MS Outlook. Palm Desktop 4.1 is a great little personal information manager.

It comes with a calendar, address book, to-do list, and memo pad. This version also offers expense tracking, in-place memo editing, customized launcher bar, desktop alarms, and more. The software program is free and you don't even need a Palm PDA to use it.

A 9.3MB download for Windows 95/98/NT4.0/2000/Me/XP.

http://palm-heva.www.conxion.com/PalmDesktop41ENG.exe

DONATE SOUP

The Holidays are all about giving to others and here is a really cool way to do just that.

Visit the 'Click For Cans' web site and click on your favorite NFL team's helmet and the Campbell Soup Company will donate a can of soup to your local food bank.

The company will donate up to a total of 5 million cans.

You can click once each day until the 5 million can goal is reached. Right now they are at about 2 million cans.

The Green Bay Packers lead the league with 303,487 cans clicked.

Not only is this a great example of a viral marketing tool for a web site (free publicity) it is also a fun, free way to help others.

http://www.chunky.com/click_for_cans.asp

Happy Holidays!

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