Librarian by Day

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!