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Your Free Resources on this page:80 Soft Skills Training Modules
19 Online Business and Reference Books
45 of the Best, Completely Free Programs and Utilities
80 Soft Skills Training Modules:These soft skill resources are are organized into four categories:
- People Skills and Effective Human Relations
- Total Quality Leadership (TQL), Power Dynamics, Transitions, and the Art and Practice of Agreement
Developing the Organization and the People in it
- Total Quality Culture, Strategies for Leading Change, Resolving Differences and Growing a Business
- Coaching, Consulting, Negotiation, and Group Facilitation
More Online Training Lessons in Soft Skills (quizzes not available)
Managing Web Projects (pdf)
19 Online Business and Reference Books:
Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P.T. Barnum
Worth and Wealth: a collection of maxims, morals and miscellanies for merchants and men of business, By Freeman Hunt
Small Business Manual: Issues in owning and managing a small business
Scientific Advertising, By Claude C. Hopkins (mirror)
Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, by W.D. Scott
The Efficiency Expert, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Art of Electronic Publishing
Imagination, By Ed Abbott
Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th Edition
The Columbia Guide to Standard American English
8 Books on English Usage, Style and Composition
On the Art of Writing, Lectures Delivered to the University of Cambridge, by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, by Emily Post
Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases and Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd Edition
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
The American Heritage Book of English Usage
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr.
The World Factbook 2001
Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
12 Free e-Books:
The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Starting a Web Site
Totally Free Web Resources
Practical DotCom Business
Increase Auction Profits
Scientific Advertising
7 Secrets To Unlimited Traffic
101 Businesses You Can Start Online For Little or No Money
On Line Stealth Marketing
How to Write a Business Plan
Online Business Primer - Basics
Greatest Internet Secrets
Magnetic Internet Power Marketing
More Free e-Books: Business and Marketing
45 of the Best, Completely Free Programs and Utilities available to make your computer life easier and more manageable:
OpenOffice.org: a full-featured, multiplatform office productivity suite comparable with Microsoft Office, works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.
Abiword: a light-weight word processor. It is compatible with Microsoft Office file formats.
602Pro PC SUITE: an integrated office suite that is compatible with MS Office Word and Excel documents.
SOT Office 2002: a free office productivity suite for Windows and Linux.
EasyOffice (Tiny Version): a free, smaller version of EasyWord and Easy Contact Manager, compatible with Microsoft Word files.
Mozilla: no longer worry about Internet Explorer's security problems, this is a complete browser to replace it.
FileZilla: an ad-free client for transferring files via File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
XChat: an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client you can use to communicate with people over the internet in "channels" devoted to a particular topic.
CDex: Converts CD tracks to computer files, supports output to WAV, MP3, or OGG formats.
7-Zip and ZipItFast: 2 free programs for creating or unpacking archived and compressed files (ZIP, RAR, CAB, GZIP and more).
HTTrack: a free and easy-to-use offline browser utility allowing you to download a web site to your hard drive.
Exodus: a non-proprietary Instant Messaging (IM) client.
Psycle: a free open-source Music Production Studio.
Virtual Music: lets you play 128 musical instruments on your PC
Dia: Diagram drawing software
TeeChart Office: free charting and plotting tool.
Rendersoft Cam Studio: a tool to record screen activity into standard AVI video files
Data Master 2000: free software developed for automation of data acquisition, measurement and control systems.
Dorgem: a webcam capture application for Windows compatible webcams.
Eraser: a secure data removal tool, which allows you to remove sensitive data from your hard drive.
GXExplorer: a replacement for the Windows Explorer and File Manager
Password Safe: allows you to have different passwords for all your programs and websites, without actually having to remember them.
Quick Search Deskbar: search Google, Yahoo and other searches straight from your desktop taskbar.
Windows Privacy Tools: a collection of multilingual applications for easy digital encryption and signing of content.
Tom Server: this web page converts your files from any of many formats into any other format.
goBCL: provides you with quick and free document conversion into PDF and HTML formats.
HTMLDOC: converts HTML files to PDF or PostScript with a table of contents, plus more features.
Martha: RTF to HTML file format converter
Hidden File Detector: check your documents for hidden files with this free addin for Word.
Amphora: an extendable virtual office, intranet and groupware system and server software for Linux.
IrfanView: best free graphics file viewer, watch movies and animations, listen to sounds; you canalso convert graphics from one type to another.
Xenu's Link Slueth: best free tool to check web sites for broken links.
Delphad: open almost any file, edit text or rtf, open Word Docs.
SimpleOCR: a fully-featured, free Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application.
Font Finder: this program lets you view all the fonts on your system using your custom text.
Font View: allows you to see all of the fonts installed on your system, and view them as they are applied to a sample phrase.
MW-Fonts: This little program shows all the fonts that are installed on your Windows system.
Microsoft Word Viewer 97/2000: allows users who do not own Microsoft Word to view and print documents that were created in Word.
Excel 972000 Viewer: allows users to view and print Excel 97 and Excel 2000 spreadsheet files.
PowerPoint Viewer: view Microsoft PowerPoint 97, 2000, and 2002 presentations even if you don't have PowerPoint.
Code Templater Lite: easily allows you to insert into a document of any editor the text generated on a template chosen from a list, includes a clipboard history viewer.
IntelaDex: a free knowledge management system for busy, resourceful managers and researchers.
DeskCalc SE: a fully featured adding machine with all the expected functions plus capabilities associated with a Windows environment.
Clipboard Buddy: Cut, copy and paste without losing your Windows clipboard data.
Office HTML Filter: removes Office-specific markup tags embedded in Office 2000 documents saved as HTML.
Instant, Easy Online Access to the 24 Best Free Computer Help & Support Sites:
Search PC Mechanic
Computer HopeSite Search:
Question and Answer Search:
TekCentral Search
Whatis.com has over 2,000 computer-IT
encyclopedia topics & 12,000 hyperlinked
cross-references among definition-topics
and other sites
FreeAnswers Support
FreeAnswers.com lets you solve computer-related problems simply by asking questions in plain, everyday language to access knowledge bases from leading vendors.
Cyber Tech Help Support Forums Search
Free Computer Help & Technical Support, for Windows and Linux operating systems, hardware, software, web design, and internet issues.
Search PC Pitstop Forums
Ask your questions after running their free PC Pitstop Test, also covers viruses, Linux and some other areas.
Linux Questions Forum Search
Visit their forum where Linux newbies ask questions and Linux experts offer advice. All Linux questions are answered.
Computec's Help Desk
This is an area where you may submit questions in regards to Computer/ Networking related problems. Having difficulty locating device drivers, patches, fixes, configuration information, manuals? Try the CompuTecs help desk! We can also provide you with support in the areas of MCSE and A+ Certification. They will make every attempt to respond back within 24 hours of your submittal. This service is offered free of charge.
Security Clinic
ITsecurity.com will circulate your query to a wide range of security experts from all round the world - and will publish their replies. Please limit yourself to genuine information security queries, and not queries on how to use your software.
Free Technical Support from 5 Star Support
Submit your question to their team of techs and then visit the solution center when your problem is solved.
Pointask: Computers and Technology
Get answers to your questions in many areas in Computers and Technology.
Profusion: Company Tech Support
Search for support from major tech companies like Apple, IBM, Novell, Sun, Gateway, Intel, Oracle.
Special Newbie Tutorial Training Pages for getting up to speed with Windows and the Internet.Entry Level Computer Skills - Index (Netscape Browser version)
Entry Level Computer Skills - Index (Internet Explorer Browser version)
If you are new to computers, this is the place for you to start. Learn the basics of using Windows and navigating the Internet.
Getting the most out of your Windows keyboard
This page lists many useful keyboard combinations. Starting with the image of a keyboard, click on the key you want to know about to learn all of the things you can do with your computer.
Windows 2000 Training:Quick Starts
Basics of Working with Windows 2000
Saving Files
Selecting a Printer
Cut, Copy, and PasteWindows 2000: An Overview
File Management Within Office 2000 Programs
Fonts OverviewWindows 2000: Customizing Your Environment
Changing the Appearance of Windows 2000
Creating a ShortcutWindows 2000: Working with Permissions Overview
Permission Types: An Overview
Working with Groups
Working with Folder Level Permissions
Advanced Folder Level Permissions
Working with File Level PermissionsStudent Global Server and other Drives
The Drives
Smarter Server Usage
Basics of Working with the Student Global Server (SGS)
Connecting to Network Drives
Connecting to LucyWindows 2000: Explorer Series
Explorer Environment
Explorer Basics
Working with Folders
Working with Files
Working with Diskettes
Diskette Care
Connecting to a Printer
Windows XP Training:Basics
File Management Within Office XP Programs
Basics of Working with Windows XP
Saving Files
Selecting a Printer
Cut, Copy, and Paste
Fonts OverviewCustomizing Your Environment
Changing the Appearance of Windows XP
Creating a ShortcutCD Writing Wizard
Saving Files to a Compact Disc
File and Folder Permissions
Permission Types: An Overview
Establishing File and Folder Level Permissions
Working with Permissions
Advanced Folder Level PermissionsWindows XP: Explorer Series
Explorer Environment
Explorer Basics
Working with Folders
Working with Files
Working with Diskettes
Diskette Care
Connecting to a PrinterMore Windows XP Tutorials:
File Sharing in Windows XP pdf
File Sharing between the WFU and DEACNET Domains pdf
Network Printing in Windows XP pdf
Changing the look of your desktop in Windows XP pdf
File management in Window pdf
Tips and tricks of Windows pdf
Windows 98 Tutorials:
File management in Window pdf
Tips and tricks of Windows pdf
More Computer Operation Learning Materials:Computer Basics Terminology Handout
23 pagesKeyboarding - Handout
4 pages Word (272kb) PDF (541kb)Keyboarding - Letter Practice
8 sheets Excel (48kb)Keyboarding - Number Practice
2 sheets Excel (23kb)Windows Basics - Handout
9 pages Word (90kb)Speedy Sheets:
Windows 98 [doc] [pdf]
Windows XP [doc] [pdf]
Setting Up Your Web page [doc] [pdf]Windows 95 98 Guide - Tips, training manual and help sheets. Covers copy paste, printing and other features common to using most programmes (5.1 MB .pdf)
Saving Files - One page poster on how to save files in Windows (.pdf)
Saving files in Windows - One page tip sheet
Windows 98 Tutorial (.doc, 1.8M) Windows-Exercises
PC Basics (179kb)
Mastering Windows
Windows 98 Tip Gallery
Windows NT/2000 Tip Gallery
Computer Operation Skills
Setup, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting
Operating System Documents:
Basics
Beginners
Control Panels
Customize Windows XP
My Computer and Windows Explorer
Help
Keystroke function shortcuts
Shortcuts (program aliases)
System Management
Internet Basics:
Introduction
Web Directories
Portals
Search Engines
Search Strategies
Meta-Search Engines
Thinking Critically About Web Sites
How to be Net Savvy
The Living Internet:
The Internet
World Wide Web
Electronic Mail
Usenet
Mailing Lists
Internet Relay Chat
Multi-User Issues
Internet News
Beginner's Central: A User's Guide to the Internet:
Chapter 1 - Learning while you surf!
Chapter 2 - Off-line operations & file downloading
Chapter 3 - Configuring Email and News Readers
Chapter 4 - Newsreader Operation
Chapter 5 - Email, the basics beyond setup
Chapter 6 - FTP an introduction
Chapter 7 - Telnet
Chapter 8 - Myths of the Internet