http://graphicdesign.about.com/cs/royaltyfreephotos/
If you are looking for royalty free photos, then try here. It means you can use them without restriction unless otherwise stated.

http://www.steema.com/products/TeeChartOffice/
If you want a data program that does what Excel can do, and it is free too, then you can save some money now. It has a Linux version too. It looks really good and can work with Excel files and also put out data as jpg files and http.

http://www.aksoft.net/progs/akfontviewer
akFontviewer - A freeware program for viewing and managing your fonts.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/developer/usability/story/0,2000011517,20229170,00.htm
This site will give a detailed article on how to set up fonts and use akfontviewer as mentioned in the previous URL.

http://www.theill.com/fl/
Here is a font viewer that will allow you to see the fonts on a cd without having to install them, and not only that, it's free. A must if you need to find a font for a particular job.

http://www.oceris.com/
This is to get viewfont which allows you to print out the same text in all the fonts on your hard drive. It doesn't allow reading of fonts from cd's, that is where you will need the one from the previous link.

http://www.editpadlite.com/
This is the site of EDITPAD LITE which is my favoured text editor. There are a lot of features that are really useful, and it is definitely worth while. The program is postcardware, which means that the programmer only requires a postcard if you decide to keep the program. I would definitely recommend it, and this new version is a vast improvement on the last version. The only thing is that Crl+B does not give you bold, it does nothing. In the old version it undid the wordwrap.

http://www.mhsoftware.co.uk
Get a free notes manager, sort of like having a favourites link on your desktop, it allows you to create a hierachical database. It even looks like windows explorer.

http://www.ebookswriter.com
They have a free ebook compiler,if it is still available it may be a way of getting your manuscript online. A very good tutorial is included. Your document does not have to be a book, there are lots of other applications for this software. Just making online albums should be possible too. There is also a free beta of an ebook reader here too.

http://www.3dftp.com
This is a free ftp program, but you have to put up with a nag screen until you pay
for it, if you want to.

http://www.convert-me.com/en/
Here is another free site that will allow you to convert almost any measurement you
can think of, into any other, even ancient Russian and Roman.
The problem for me is that it calculates mm into decimals of inches, not the normal daft 1/32" sort of thing. It wouldn't help explaining that 2mm = .079".

http://www.gobcl.com/
If you don't have PDF software and need to create a document that can be read by anyone, this site will do it for nothing. They will also convert documents to HTML for you too.

http://desktoppublishing.com/free.html
This site seems to have a lot of useful links to things like free templates etc.

http://www.fontfiles.com
No matter how many fonts you have, you never have the one you need for the job. Try this site.

http://users.pandora.be/eclypse/indexnew.htm
X-Fonter is a free program for managing fonts, viewing them, and
creating 3D fonts from standard ones. It can read fonts from a CDrom.

http://www.m-w.com/
A free online dictionary and thesaurus.

http://graphicdesign.about.com/
Graphic Design help.

http://publish.yaga.com/submitfile.html
This site wants you to submit files that can then be downloaded on a pay for basis and you get the royalties. Submission is free and they are looking for all sorts of things. Ebooks would go well here.

http://www.e-press.com
This site has a free office program which is available for download. This includes not only a word processor but accounting software too, as well as spreadsheets and other stuff.

FREE SAMPLE OF DESKTOP MAGAZINE.

THE ONLY WAY THAT THIS WILL WORK IS IF YOU SEND AN EMAIL TO egough@niche.com.au WITH "ARTZEND / DESKTOP OFFER" IN THE
SUBJECT LINE OF THE EMAIL. YOU WILL NEED TO PUT YOUR NAME AND
ADDRESS IN THE BODY OF THE EMAIL SO THEY KNOW WHERE TO SEND YOUR COPY.

http://www.booklocker.com/
This site is a good one for authors. It can deal with e-books or print on demand.

http://www.yaga.com  
Another e-publishing site.

http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/57076.shtml
Pdf file maker freeware.

http://www.dingbatpages.com/
For those who don't have enough dingbats symbols in their font collections and who don't want to make shapes with a vector drawing program that can be used for shapes for web page design.

http://www.ykwong.com
This site has a variety of free software programs from an ascii art program to a
Chinese translator and one to check for upgrades on sites to name a few.

http://www.myfonts.com/whatthefont/
This is a site you can go to to find out what font is being used.
You just insert an example of the font and wait for the answer.

http://www.identifont.com/
Another font identifying program.

http://www.software602.com/products/  
If you want an alternative to any of the costly office suites around, including Microsoft Office, then try the 602Pro PC Suite. It is very good, and you can get extra add-ons at a small price. For example, they have image editing and for $20 US you can get a pdf conversion, which has to be an enormous saving on Acrobat.

http://www.asy.com/
If you need to convert fonts from Mac to PC, this crossfont shareware will do it for you.

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptfonts.asp
Font Explorer

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptclpvue.asp
Clipboard Viewer

http://www.geocities.com/extchanger/
This site has a free program for changing file types. This may or may not have uses for you, but may help when someone sends you a file that you don't have a program to open it with.

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptprnlog.asp
Print Logger

http://www.comgrafix.com/
A free Office program with spreadsheets, word processing, slideshow and drawing capabilities.

http://www.ariacom.com/rtf2hlp/
If you need or want to make Windows help files, this freeware allows you to create them using Word and a couple of downloads from this site.

http://www.lexacorp.com.pg/
If you want a free PDF maker without paying Adobe's Acrobat price,
this site from PNG has just what you need. A large number of other freeware is availabe as well.

http://www.multimediaspy.com/go.php?lf
This link will get you to something like 400 free fonts.

http://www.yankee-clipper.net/index.htm
A freeware clipboard extender with heaps of features. You will have to go there to see them all.

http://web.tiscali.it/axart/english.html
Get AEdit here, it is a small fast free word processor with a lot of features.

http://www.danish-shareware.dk/soft/shelpm/
A help file maker that works like a word processor or wysiwyg web editor, so you dont have to learn a lot to make it work. The files are saved as .hlp files.

http://www.cdfrontend.com
Ebooks Writer Lite is a free epublishing program.

http://blaizfree.net/
Text Effects is a free program for creating interesting text in a variety of ways. Sort of like the Word Art thing in Word, but runs independently. Have a look.

http://home4.inet.tele.dk/jensguld/index.html
For teachers and librarians, this program will search out particular words in any file apparently.

http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/58254.shtml
Have a look here for dtp as well

http://www.hushpage.com/index.html
Delphad is a text editor with quite a few bells and whistles, if you want a replacement for notepad, which is very restricting, then have a look at this one.

http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/56478.shtml
A freeware font for music notation. You can see a screenshot here so it will make sense for those who read and write music.

http://www.iconico.com/caliper/
Screen Calipers is a measuring program that gives pixel accurate measuring of images or whatever you have on your screen.

http://www.expresslineit.co.uk/
ZipExpress2 is a free zip/unzip program.

http://www.oakworth.demon.co.uk/gymnast.htm
A freeware text to pdf maker which looks as though you can do a lot with it and add hyperlinks etc. The unlock code (GYM03-35672-11110-33170) is at the top of the page.

http://www.componentsoftware.com/Products/CSDiff/
A free comparison program for checking different versions of documents.

http://www.1001fonts.com/
Even more free fonts for those whose motto is,"too many fonts is never enough".

http://www.fontfreak.com/
Under Software you will find a program for converting PC fonts to Mac ones.

http://www.fontfreak.com/
More than ever before, apparently. Mac fonts too.

http://owensworld.com  
Multimediaspy.com came up with this group of fontmakers who are offering more free fonts.

ebooks@sitepronews.com  
Authors of EBooks may submit their publications to SPN via email.

http://www.openoffice.org/  
A free version of StarOffice from Sun. It rivals Microsoft Office. 49 mb though.

http://www.rkwest.com/ed.shtml
BookJones is a free ebook creator.

http://www.sofotex.com/download/software/229.html
OpenOffice is a freeware suite of Office programs, from word processor to spreadsheets etc.

http://www.rsalsbury.co.uk/rd.htm
A useful text editor designed specifically for writers, it has all the basic functions, including play and screenplay modes.

http://www.webutilities.com/community/fontzone/default.asp
More free fonts.

http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/freebiesmisc/index.htm
For Win or Mac, if you want a free office suite, you can find the links here, there are plenty to choose from.

http://www.rssol.com/en/index.html
What looks like a useful small word processor with many features. Altantis is worth a look. It opens an amazing variety of file formats including image formats.

http://www.lodz.pdi.net/~eristic/free/keynote.html
Keynote is a text editor program with lots of special features. It is very good.

http://www.ragtime-online.com/
Ragtime is a large (50mb) free dtp program. It looks good, and may be worth the download.

http://www.openebook.org/
Another e-book publishing and information site. For more of these go to the web programs page.

http://www.simpleocr.com/
Simple OCR seems to be a free program for reading scanned text.

http://www.delphi32.com/vcl/3878/
VPdfCreator is a simple .exe file to create pdf files. No installation required.

http://www.treepad.com/treepadfreeware/
Treepad is a text edit program that looks similar in interface to the KeyNote program I use for my newsletter and I have good reports of it.

http://www.abisource.com/
Abiword is a small but powerful word processor

http://www.pdfzone.com/products/software/toolinfo_all.asp
Pdf filemakers abound here. Far too many to list, but some are free.

http://www.textshield.com/
TextShield is a free word processor that has many really good features, and can read and save Word docs, allows use of colour and 3D text. It has a 6000 word help file and was written by a now 16 year old. He wrote the first version when he was 13.

http://www.senselang.com/
Senselang is a typing tutor using Flash for the instruction. If you spend any time in front of your computer it is stupid not to learn to touch type. It is easy, just practice a little.

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptfonts.asp
Karen's Font Explorer is very useful for finding what a font looks like, and it now has information about the font itself.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/frankk/FREESURF.HTM
Surf n Print is a small program that allows you to print booklets instead of single sided pages.

http://www.fontconnection.com/
Free fonts for Windows and Mac.

http://xiberpix.homestead.com/index.html
Xi-WARP is a free tool to warp any image by drawing two outlines. The result can be animated or static.

http://www.mediachance.com/free/miniclip.htm
Miniclip clipboard extender allows you to save multiple examples of things you copy to clipboard and saves them for re-use later when they may be needed again.

http://click.topica.com/maaavjZaaTlDpclDfjMb/
ROMCat is a utility to allow browsing of your CDrom of clip art for CorelDRAW!.

http://www.inspiresolutions.net/
SetPrint is a program fo allow you to set up more than one printer at a time and select that one that is applicable for the job on hand.

http://presenter.openworld.com/features.php#swfex
OpenWorld Presenter is as it says, a presentation program like PowerPoint, but they seem to have a lot of useful bits in the full version.

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/serif/dp/dp4/index.asp
DrawPlus 4 is a Serif draw program. It contains all the conventional things you expect in high end programs without any cost.

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/products.asp
PagePlus 5 is a DTP program from Serif

http://www.flamingtext.com/start.html
Create a great heading or use the other headings such as Buttons, Arrows etc.

http://superwin.com/
WinEbook is a free e-book reader with extras.

http://www.sot.com/en/linux/soto/
SOT OFFICE 2002 is a freeware office program based on OpenOffice. There is a Windows version too.

http://guiguy.wminds.com/downloads/pdf2htmlgui/down.html
PDF2HTML is a program which does just what it says. You will need to download both parts if you want the GUI to work.

http://jansfreeware.com/jftools.htm
SbookBuilder 10 is an e-book reader. It has a lot of features that look good. Also on this page are lots of other programs including EbookBuilder 4.

http://www2.xlibris.com/
Another e-book publishing site.

http://www.citrusware.com/FreeSoftware.htm
Invoicer, SimpleDispatcher, CheckWriter and ProposalWriter are all free business based programs that may have wider usage.

http://www.creativemac.com/cgi-bin/getframeletter.cgi?/2002/10_oct/reviews/gimpprint021022.htm
Gimp Print is a free printing program for Mac OS X users. Apparently this fixes a flaw in the printing from that OS.

http://www.michisoft.com/programs/readerstudio/index.htm
Michisoft Reader allows you to convert text and html e-books to .lit, which enables them to be read with Microsoft Reader.

http://www.kuraemon.com/gazo/us/download.html
Gazo Digi book is a digital book and can be read as a real book with turning pages.

http://www.notetab.com/ntl.htm
Note Tab Light is a useful text editing program.

http://www.itweek.co.uk/Download/1134444
Crypt Edit is another text editor with special features.

http://wordweb.info/free/
WordWeb is a great free thesaurus and dictionary. A new version has just been released. It integrates with Word and WordPerfect and an icon is added to the toolbar.

http://www.casimosoftware.com/downloads.html
Office Utilities Version 7 is an office program that can do all sorts of office jobs. If you don't need a full blown office program, look at this one.

http://natata.hn3.net/
Natata eBook Compiler looks like a useful program for making and distributing your own ebooks and manuals.

http://xiles.net/
SeeFont 1.0 is a font viewer. The page is in Korean but you can see what you need to work it out.

http://www.gaiadreamcreation.com/products/webchronodesktop/
Web Chrono Desktop is in beta and is a fairly deep program for remembering all the things you keep forgetting, and then some.

http://www.giletech.com/Typing-Tutor.htm
10 Finger Breakout is a typing tutor game that looks like Space Invaders. It is a game that is designed to make keyboard skills easy to learn.

http://www.boss-it.nl/producten/qc2p.asp
Quick Copy 2 Printer will turn your scanner and printer into a photocopier.

http://www.overdrive.com/readerworks/software/standard.asp
ReaderWorks is an ebook maker that allows you to convert a Word doc into an ebook to be read with Microsoft ebook reader

http://www.callnetuk.com/home/dcsoftware/products.htm
Desktop Writer for kids is also for new computer users who want to write but find word processing programs too complex.

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/Download/1138070
Swiff Point Player will allow you to insert .swf Flash movies into a Power Point presentation.

http://www.pdf-to-html.com/
Clickcat P2H v2.0 allows you to convert .pdf files to HTML and then you can save to other formats or copy and paste.

http://www.rudenko.com/ebook.html
Book reader is an e-book reader with a lot of customisable features. More than 4000 freeware titles are available for direct download from the program.

http://www.rkwest.com/booksmith/index.shtml
BookSmith is an online e-book compiler and a reader is also available for download.

http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/
PDFTOHTML will convert PDF files to HTML or XML.

http://www.savardsoftware.com/
TurboTop keeps a page on top of all others. Very handy when copying bits from one place to others.

http://doc2pdf.sourceforge.net/
doc2pdf - Convert doc files to pdf for safety online.

http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000026227
PictureBUZZ - Design & Print Center - Create and print your own high-quality greeting cards, calendars, wall art, note cards, and more - right from your Web browser!

http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/aheap/
ShapeCutter - Cuts Boxes out of any bitmap (8 Bit only at the moment). Images must have clear horizontal lines between each row.

http://www.bookcase.com/library/software/win9x.print.undef.html
2up - Print 2 pages on one.

http://www.bookcase.com/library/software/win9x.print.undef.html
Graph Paper Printer - Print all sorts of graph paper for all manner of projects.

http://users.northnet.com.au/~mitchymoo/freeware.html
Poster - Print posters of any size.

http://www.price-media.demon.co.uk/scanultr.html
Scan-U-Lator - calculates the required scanning Screen Shot resolution for a given print job.

http://www.acrosoftware.com/Products/CutePDF/Printer.asp
CutePDF Printer - Create PDF documents easy and fast, from any Windows application.

http://doc2pdf.sourceforge.net/
DOC2PDF - Convert doc files to pdf for safety online.

http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000026227
PictureBUZZ Design & Print Center - Create and print your own high-quality greeting cards, calendars, wall art, note cards, and more - right from your Web browser!

http://www.go2pdf.com/product.html
GO2PDF - enables you to convert instantly any document into PDF format.

http://www.price-media.demon.co.uk/scanultr.html
Scan-U-Lator - calculates the required scanning Screen Shot resolution for a given print job.

http://www.editpadlite.com/editpadlite.html
Editpad Lite - A great free and better than notepad replacement text editor.

http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3000-2064-10226397.html?tag=sptlt
EasyOffice - an office suite compatible with Microsoft Word and Excel, and Adobe PDF files. Be aware of the large download size.

http://www.litsprout.com
Reader Ebook Wizard - allows you to publish text and HTML documents as an MS Reader e-book.