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TechTips
At the PowerHouse, we love technology and how it can assist up in our everyday life. Here is a compiled list of links with brief descriptions to tools that I find useful. Most of the tips will be free tools while some may provide utility, they may also have prices.

Let's take advantage of the free stuff.

	Skype - Free Long Distance I can't tell you enough how much I love Skype. It is an internet phone service that provides PC to PC talking for free. And incase you are wondering how they make their money, you can pay for PC to phone long distance and other services. Those rates are Great! You can't beat them if you are calling overseas or outside the country.
	SideStep - Travel Cheaper I recently read an article in Smart Money magazine that did a comparison of prices with all the major travel sites on the internet. SideStep won by a landslide. SideStep consistantly finds the best rates for flights, hotels and rentals and its search filters are great. I use and recommend this tool for all your flight travels.
	OpenOffice - Free Software What if I told you that I could get you Microsoft Office for free, would you be interested? Well SUN Microsystems, creates all the applications that Microsoft does except they give it away for free. With OpenOffice you can open and create Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access files and more Did I say for free? Complete compatibility. The program names and some features are different, but it is practically the same tools. The saga continues... Sun vs Microsoft.
	Google - Google Collection of Services and Tools Google is much more than a search tool. And if you haven't heard of Google Earth then you have to check it out immediately. As for there tools, I love Gmail & Google Maps and use them just about daily. There is so much to Google... Go Look now!
	Bug Me Not - Avoid Unwanted Email Have you ever been to a website that had a free service but you had to give up your email address and expose your inbox to spam to use so called free service? Well fret no more! Bug Me Not is a community base site that stores email addresses, so you can use those sites and not give up your email address so you won't get all that spam. Brilliant.
craigslist.org	Craigslist - Online Community Craiglist is almost internet heaven... Almost. You can find anything and everything here. You want to join a band? Search CL. You want a new job? You want to hire an assistant? Voice lessons, buy furniture, sell furniture, computers, free dirt or even sell your house... whatever you can think of it is here.
	AnyWho - Online Directory This is online directory of people and businesses. A modern day version of the yellow and white pages but nationwide and at your finger tips.
	WebMonkey - WebMaster Resources If you are a do it yourself type person looking for how-to's in being a WebMaster or just to learn a little more about the web and its technologies then WebMonkey is your spot. They make learning fun. Everything is here and sectioned off by user experience. There is a section for beginers to masters. I use this set to touch up and stay fresh.