Business Tools
http://www.avery.com/avery/en_us/
Jam packed with predesigned and blank templates that can be downloaded directly to your Microsoft Office template section. Some of the templates include badges, 3 ring binder tabs, business cards, postcards, labels, brochures. Avery also provides a software tool to create or modify existing blank templates. They have a good selection of pre designed business categories including real estate, landscaping, general business, dog grooming, financial and beauty salons. Avery also has a monthly newsletter.
http://office.microsoft.com
Monthly newsletter with tips, how to's templates and more for MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, etc.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/
More than 150,000 free images, backgrounds, borders and sounds to help with your work projects.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/
Excellent resource for business card and brochure templates, expense report templates, timesheets, postcard mailer templates, budget templates, landscape planner notebook and more.
http://www.notetab.com/
This will be your replacement for NotePad on the PC. A leading text and HTML editor. Winner of software industry awards since 1998, this application does it all: it easily handles a stack of huge files; lets you format text to your heart's content; does system-wide searches, and multi-line global replacements. It even corrects your spelling mistakes. Build document templates, add bookmarks, convert text to HTML on-the-fly, and take charge of your code. Use a simple, power-packed scripting language to create anything from a text macro to a mini-application.
http://www.roboform.com/
Awsome Password Manager, Form Filler, Password Management for Windows
http://www.Picnik.com
Free photo editing tool. You can crop, resize, and rotate images in real-time, add special effects and text to your images Fix your photos in just one click including red-eye. Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
http://www.freshbooks.com/
Great tool to send invoices and estimates online and web based time tracking. There is a free version and a paid version.
http://www.google.com/calendar/render
Simple but very effective calendar application which has a huge number of features to help you remember important dates, create schedules and synchronize them across multiple devices.
http://www.launchy.net/
For Windows users it helps launch files, folders, and programs in a single keystroke instead of searching through the start menu or file manager. A timesaver.
http://www.blacktree.com/
Awesome Mac-based tool which is like an advanced version of Launchy. Apart from helping Mac users in launching apps, it also helps in tasks like running scripts, sending email , etc.
http://www.rescuetime.com/
A comprehensive web-based time management app. After an install, it gives you an amazing analysis of the time you spend on your computer everyday. It works in the background so it's not reliant on you entering any data. You just need to install their app and it does the rest.

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Don't you just hate it when you really need to update your blog and draw a blank?
Well, one of the best ways to jump start those creative juices is to simply look at the calendar. How simple is that? Every month, week and day, there are some really strange, fun and downright funny holidays and observances celebrated everywhere. In fact, you can even make up your own 'holiday' to celebrate on your blog with your readers - that's how easy it is to come up with days of posts at a time. But you don't have to make it up yourself. It's hard enough coming up with a post. Here's a blogging calendar I found that feature some of these holidays. The other nice thing is, it has room to jot down your own ideas and you can use it to literally plan out the year's content - or just a month or two ahead if you're not the planning type. This really helps keep your blog going without rushing to write last minute posts.
Download and check it out for yourself. I bet you can find a couple of posts just off those dates you can write about. In fact, you can write about them right away and schedule them. Your readers will have fun and marvel at how you are so on top of the holidays and seasons.
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