Create A Music Video for Free - No Skill Required

Need to make a sexy looking video presentation but don’t know a thing about editing video? Let Animoto do it for you. Simply upload photos, images, video and a soundtrack and Animoto will create a video for you that looks like it was edited by a professional, all for free.

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Free Online Image Editors

Once a pay service, Aviary’s many online image editing tools are now free to use. Nice collection of powerful image colour and even audio editing apps.
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Instant Dummy Image Generator

The above is not really an image, well it is, but it is generated on the fly by the brilliant web tool from Dummyimage.com

The following line of code generated the image above (you could even leave out the alt tag if you wanted)

<img alt=”A Dummy Image” src=”http://dummyimage.com/465×123″>

Simply change the dimensions and you have an instant stand-in or placeholder image to preview your layout. Not quite right? Just change the resolution and your layout is instantly updated, no need to crop or resize in an image editor.
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Automate Almost Any Task

Sikuli,  developed at MIT and available for download for free for all platforms (Mac, PC, Linux) enables you to automate any dull or repetitive task without internal API support. It requires a little bit of scripting but it’s genius is that it uses image recognition to complete most tasks. Unlike many Macro recorders that require buttons to be in the same place, Sikuli will click on any button or data entry field you want it to by looking for that button anywhere on the screen using image recognition. The demo video makes this much clearer than I have.
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Free Microsoft Project alternative

When working on a large project with many people involved, project management software can be very useful in keeping everyone on track as well as keeping an eye on the big picture. If you  don’t want to spend the thousand dollars it costs to buy Microsoft Project, the project management software, you might consider the excellent OpenProj which is a completely free software package available on Linux, Unix, Mac or Windows.
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Create a Font From Your Handwritng

Simply print the template, write on it, scan it and upload it and you will get back a font of your handwriting. For free
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Web Analytics

Yahoo recently integrated newly acquired IndexTools’ analytics  technology into what is now Yahoo Web Analytics a free rival toto theever popular Google Analytics. Yahoo has a few twists including ‘near real time’ stats available within seconds or minutes of a visit to your site.

Yahoo web analytics is definitely worth a look at least. It offers much of the configurabilty that Google does as well as some additional features of it’s own

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Drop Resize - Automatically resize images

Dropresize automatically resizes any images placed in it’s folder according to a predefined height or width and quality setting. Very useful for quickly and automatically resizing a batch of images to the correct size for your blog or web site.

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