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Desktop
Publishing and Free Software
How
to Obtain Free, Low-cost and Donated Software
If you missed it in the Articles Index, be sure to read this
Museum Marketing Tips guide to obtaining popular, up-to-date
software at much reduced prices -- sometimes even free.
Desktop
Publishing Templates
Dozens of free Microsoft Publisher, QuarkXpress and Adobe Illustrator
templates for everything from business cards and brochures to
place cards, numbered tickets and award certificates.
Antiquities
Clip art
John Stewart's shareware collections include clip art from 17th,
18th and 19th century engravings, drawings and hand-colored prints.
About.com Guide to
Free Clip Art Resources
Whatever subject you're looking for clip art on, you're likely
to find a link to it here.
Color
Shipping Label Templates
Need a short run of customized, color labels to use on presentation
folders or as shipping labels? Why not print your own? HP's website
provides free templates that you can download and adapt for your
own use. All you need is Microsoft Word 95 or higher, some Avery
labels and an inkjet color printer.
CNET.com
If you're looking for free software or shareware to download,
it doesn't get much better than this.
Calculators
and Calendars
Direct
Mail Calculators
Easy-to-use online calculators at EdithRoman.com allow you to
perform "what if" scenarios to determine the cost and
projected profit of a direct mail campaign and how many pieces
must be mailed to achieve desired results.
Calculators
On-Line Center
With over 11,000 different calculators on this site, you can
calculate just about anything.
Convert Anything
to Anything
That's the claim of OnlineConversion.com, and they just may be
right. At this site you can convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, yards
to meters, and gigabytes to kilobytes. You can also convert clothing
sizes between many different countries, test your typing speed
and figure your age in dog years.
The Worldwide Holiday
and Festival Site
Visit this amazing site for the dates of holidays by state, country,
religion and more -- plus links to a multitude of other related
sites.
TimeAndDate.com
Wondering what day of the week Christmas falls on in 2006, or
the date of Thanksgiving in 2010? Need to know exactly how many
days remain until the end of your capital campaign? Or the right
time to place an important overseas phone call? How about the
date of the full moon for that harvest hayride event you'd like
to plan for October 2003? This site quickly answers those questions
and more, with customizable calendars available for more than
two dozen countries.
PhoneSpell
Phonetic
If you're looking for a new phone number that spells out your
organization's name -- or if you'd just like to see what words
are contained in your present phone number -- try either of these
two sites.
Area Code Finder
With so many area code changes, here's a quick way to be sure
you're dialing the right one. Enter the city and state or zip
code and up pops the correct area code.
ZIP Find Central
You can do all kinds of zippy things at this site. Type in a
zip code and up pops its population, county, area code and time
zone. Or enter a zip code, chose a radius in miles and find all
the nearby zips. Or type in two different zip codes and find
the distance between them. Or type in a city and get a list of
all of its zip codes, along with population figures. Or...
Internet
Beginner's Central --
A User's Guide to the Internet
Award-winning tutorial for newbies, but even if you're an experienced
user, you can find some helpful information here.
Cyber
Journalist Super Search
A great search resource.
Librarians' Index to the Internet
More great search stuff!
Industry
Portals
Gateway to information about myriad industries.
TutorialsFind.com
Links to online tutorials on a wide variety of subjects.
Postal
and Government
Free Shipping Supplies
Order free shipping supplies online from the United States Postal
Service and have them delivered to your door.
Firstgov.gov
The U.S. Government's new official website; a user-friendly way
to access federal departments and information.
Miscellaneous
EffectiveMeetings.com
This site's large selection of articles, tips, quizzes and interactive
features makes it a terrific online resource for anyone looking
for ways to get meetings back on track.
Free Online Technical Support
Protonic.com is an online community that provides technical support
to computer users for free. The volunteer techs are knowledgeable
about PCs, Macs, Unix and even PDAs, so if you have a computer
problem - anything from hardware to HTML problems - you can submit
your question on their online form and receive an answer by e-mail.
American Craft Council
Online
Links to a number of craft associations and periodicals.
ArtCalendar.com
This site is home to Art Calendar, "The Business Magazine
for Visual Artists," now in its sixteenth year of bringing
artists and marketing opportunities together.
Cross
Cultural Communications
Practical tips for those who develop material, services or products
for translation and/or export.
Planet 501c3: Tales
from the Nonprofit Galaxy
Great cartoons about life on Planet 501c3. Don't miss it!
