My first session was Free & Cheap, the idea was to share free and cheap tools we’re using at our libraries or for ourselves. Someone (I can’t remember who) made a good point, there is a difference between free beer and free kittens, kittens take a bit more work. Some of these might require some work on your end. I think I got all of them. Windows Live Sky drive Survey Monkey Ccleaner Spybot search and destory adaware Hijackthis Firefox web developer extension IrfanView Rockyou.com slide.com slideshare Open Office wordpress mykansaslibrary.org audacity List Garden – generate RSS feed - Google calender sync zoho.com - Time tracking for public PCs - Password safe - 1password – for Macs, not free libstats – to track reference questions Meebome – IM reference services All the Firefox add ons Personal Ancestral File - Geni - opensourcemac.org – open source tools for mac users lifehacker koha vizu. libraryelf - libx Last but not least PC Magazine has an article on 157 best free software tools If you know of a great Free or Cheap tool that isn’t on this list please let me know and I’ll edit and add them at the bottom! Bookmark on

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