Resources & tools

Here we will try and feature some websites that may help newsletter editors, website maintainers or groups who want to set up a community flyer.

We all know that budgets are tight, especially for often small ventures, so we will try and find stuff that is free or very low cost.

If you have any suggestions for websites or resources you have found useful then please let us know via the contact us form.

Images

Picture Newsletter.
Here you’ll find pictures on various specific subjects – so it’s easy to find just the picture you’re looking for.  More info here.

Software

Image manipulation - Irfanview

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

Image cataloguing tool – Cheez
Cheez is a powerful, yet easy to use, image cataloguing tool. It’s main purpose is to help people with digital cameras organize, enhance and share their photos and video clips. Of course it can be used for any kind of image collection.

Audio Editing

Audacity
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.

Threat prevention

AVG
Basic antivirus and antispyware protection for Windows available to download for free. Limited features, no support, for private and non-commercial use only.

Free products

A few of these sites are:
Free UK Stuff – who have been listing free stuff since 1998.
Student free stuff – as the name says it’s targeted towards students, but most of the stuff is available to anyone.
Free stuff junction – similar to the previous sites and filled with free offers and links

Let us know

If you have any suggestions for websites or resources you have found useful then please let us know via the contact us form.