Archive for January, 2007

Gnumeric - The Gnome Office Spreadsheet

Friday, January 12th, 2007

The Gnumeric spreadsheet is part of the GNOME desktop environment: a project to create a free, user friendly desktop environment. The goal of Gnumeric is to be the best possible spreadsheet. We are not attempting to clone existing applications. However, Gnumeric can read files saved with other spreadsheets and we offer a customizable feel that attempts to minimize the costs of transition.

This open source offering is a strong contender in the spreadsheets offerings going around today. With a strong community behind it they have developed a surprisingly robust application that simply does the job. /strong>

Take a look at Gnumeric…

Free Business Plans Templates

Friday, January 12th, 2007

Score.org is offering a variety of free business templates for download.

These templates are in Microsoft Word and Excel formats an include titles such as:

- Business Plan for a Start-up Business
- Business Plan for an Established Business
- Balance Sheet (Projected)
- Breakeven Analysis
- Cash Flow Statement (12 Months)

Visit Score.org and check out the templates…

Box.net

Friday, January 12th, 2007

Box.net is a virtual storage space for your computer files. With packages starting at just $4.99 per month for 5GB, you will have enough space to hold thousands of Documents, Photos, Music Files, and Video Clips.

Classy offering, a very clean user interface with a free 1Gig account to try them out.

Check out Box.net…

Relenta CRM

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Relenta is a unique customer relationship management (CRM) tool. The easy way to manage your email, contacts, documents, and activities. Send, receive, filter, merge, and archive email. Gather and convert leads to sales. Organize and manage your customers. Consolidate information, distribute workload, and automate activities. Get things done.

CRM’s have had a bad rap over the years, but for my mind that’s because end-users haven’t seen, or utilized, the vast benefits that a good CRM app can provide your business. And Relenta CRM is one heck of a CRM.

The interface is a breeze to use and it has all the features that a business would need and nothing more. With an internet business managing your email list, monitoring it and getting to understand each client is easy with Relenta.

For the really small business, or those that just want to test it out, they offer a basic free version - which I’m going to be playing around with this weekend.

Check out Relenta CRM…

FreeMind - Mind Mapping

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool … Do you want to prioritize, know where you are, where you’ve been and where you are heading,

as Stephen Covey would advise you? Have you tried FreeMind to keep track of all the things that are needed for that?

I am a big believer in mind mapping techniques and FreeMind does a good job of bringing out ideas, sorting them and expanding upon them. If you’re into brainstorming then this is a must-have tool.

Check out FreeMind…

FileZilla

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

FileZilla is a powerful FTP-client for Windows NT4, 2000 and XP. It has been designed for ease of use and with support for as many features as possible, while still being fast and reliable … with an intuitive interface.

FileZilla is my own personal FTP client of choice. Firstly it’s free but more importantly it does a wonderful job of uploading and downloading my files. I also found it to start up and run faster than other similar applications.

Check out FileZilla…

PagePlus SE - Free Desktop Publishing Software

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

PagePlus is so versatile and simple to use that even a desktop publishing novice will be up and running in

minutes. With a whole host of preset document layouts, automated templates, fantastic color schemes and artistic effects,

this free download enables anyone to produce professional looking results.

This desktop publishing tool is easy to use with a good variety of features and at the best price - free! There are

also hundreds of free designs and templates you can grab from their website as well a good range of online tutorials to get

you started.

Check out PagePlus…