Free Images & Videos You Can Use Anywhere

Pixabay has over 530,000 free photos, vectors and illustrations, free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty-free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required. See: https://pixabay.com

Free Commercial Grade Security For The Home

Sophos Home lets you protect every Mac and PC in your home from malicious software, inappropriate websites and viruses. It uses the same award-winning technology that IT professionals trust to protect their business systems. Best of all, you can manage security settings for the whole family from any browser. FREE for private and non-commercial use, letting you protect up to ten computers per account. See: https://www.sophos.com/en-us/lp/sophos-home.aspx

Free Antispy Tool For Windows 10

O&O ShutUp10 is a free portable utility that lets you decide the level that Windows 10 should respect your privacy by helping you choose which functions should be deactivated. See: http://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Online Exif (Image Data) Viewer

Jeffrey Friedl's Image Metadata Viewer is a FREE online utility that will display the metadata that is stored in a wide range of files. Use can check a file on the web via a URL address or select a file on your local disk drive. See: http://regex.info/exif.cgi

Quickly Validate Your Website or Blog Links

This free online Checker / Validator not just tells you which of your hyperlinks are dead but it will also show to your where exactly those stale references locate in your HTML code! See: http://www.brokenlinkcheck.com/

FREE Reverse Image Search

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. See: https://www.tineye.com/

Online Collaboration for your Projects

I've been using the online service Basecamp.com to run small projects with users in different locations or companies for nearly 10 years. It's FREE for a single project or $29/month to manage unlimited projects and users with 10GB of storage.

Quickly Make Your Writing Bold And Clear

The Hemingway online editor is like a spellchecker, but for style. It makes sure that your reader will focus on your message, not your prose. Guiding you to tidy up your text, remove adverbs and use shorter alternative words. Available from free via the website or as a $9.99 Windows or Mac app. See: http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

FREE Disposable Email Addresses

Discard.email is a FREE service for creating disposable email addresses for when you don't want to use your own private e-mail address. No registration, noncommittal and anonymous. See: http://discard.email/en/

Free Cloud Backup for Windows Desktop

Get fast and simple backup to your choice of cloud storage provider and avoid cloud vendor lock-in for your Windows computers. CloudBerry Backup compresses and encrypts data before securely transferring it to the cloud on schedule or in real time. Works with over 20 supported cloud storage destinations. See: http://www.cloudberrylab.com/cloud-backup-windows-desktop.aspx

Free Team Collaboration

Samepage keeps your business teams (employees, consultants, customers, partners, vendors) working smoothly and efficiently. Combine files, photos, cloud content, maps, videos and team conversation together on one page. Sign up for a free unlimited users account, limited to 100 pages and 2GB storage, see: www.samepage.io

Convert Anything To Anything

CloudConvert is a cloud based file conversion service that supports more than 200 different audio, video, document, eBook, archive, image, spreadsheet and presentation formats. The service is browser based so there's no software to install. A free account gives you 25 conversion minutes per day for files up to 1GB in size. Integrates with dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and Box, also available as a Chrome plugin and iOS app. See: https://cloudconvert.com/

Fix PDF Thumbnail Preview In Windows 7 & 8

For number of years now I have been relying on a small free utility to fix the automatic PDF thumbnail preview when it stops working in 64bit versions of Windows 7, 8 & 8.1. If your PDF icons show the generic icon image rather than a miniature preview thumbnail, download and run this automatic installer and your thumbnails will display again. See: http://www.pretentiousname.com/adobe_pdf_x64_fix/index.html

FREE Daily Trending Threat Insights

Sign up for the Free Cyber Daily to get trending threat insights emails.  Covering Cyber News, Targeted Industries, Hackers, Exploited Vulnerabilities and Vulnerabilities. See: http://go.recordedfuture.com/cyber-daily

FREE Windows System Restore Utility

RollBack Home Edition is a FREE instant time machine for your windows workstation. It is a comprehensive Windows System Restore solution that lets users easily restore their PC's to any previous state within seconds. RollBack Home Edition helps users better manage and lockdown Windows based PC's. Any unforeseen incidents such as user errors, viruses or even botched software installations can be instantly reversed in seconds! See: http://horizondatasys.com/rollback-rx-time-machine/rollback-rx-home/

Also, get 25% off RollBack Rx Pro

Easy Prototyping For Web And Mobile

InVision is a prototyping, collaboration & workflow online platform, featuring real-time design presentation & collaboration, version control and sync. Easily add hotspots to transform your static screens into clickable, interactive prototypes complete with gestures, transitions, and animations.A single project plan is completely free for life, see: http://www.invisionapp.com/

Quickly Scan Directory Sizes and Find Space Hogs

These days, it doesn't take long to fill up even the largest of hard drives, but help is at hand. TreeSize is a small fast free utility that gets added to the right click context menu to quickly scan Windows directory sizes and lets you see where precious disk space has gone. Available as freeware, personal & professional editions. See: http://www.jam-software.de/treesize_free/

FREE Sat Nav App

Nokia's Sat Nav app Here Maps comes pre-installed on Windows Mobiles, but is now available for free on Android and Apple iOS devices. Features include:
- Voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation.
- Downloadable offline maps for more than a 100 countries.
- Real-time traffic for more than 40 countries.
- Public transit maps, directions and info for more than 900 cities
- 3 route planner options: driving, public transit and walking

See: www.here.com, Apple App Store, Google Play or Windows Phone Store

FREE Alternative Windows Registry Editor

The O&O RegEditor is a portable app that makes working with the registration database significantly easier compared to the built-in Microsoft Regedit. Features include preset favorites to locate frequently needed keys, XML importing & exporting. copy complete branches and improved search.

The O&O RegEditor one of the components of O&O BlueCon, administration toolbox for system repair and data recovery. Download for free at: http://www.oo-software.com/en/products/ooregeditor

View & Share Any CAD Design File Online

View 2D and 3D computer-aided design (CAD) files in your browser, with no downloads or plug-ins needed.  Works with over 50 file formats including DWG™, DWF™, RVT and IPT, as well as formats from SolidWorks, ProE, Catia and others. See: https://360.autodesk.com/viewer

Find Any HTML Symbol Code For Your Website

HTML Arrows is a great website that lets you quickly find all the html symbol codes you could ever need (or remember). For ease the website is split into 7 categories, Arrows, Currency, Letters, Math, Numbers, Punctuation & Symbols. See: http://htmlarrows.com/

Troubleshoot Microsoft Email Issues

Help solve Microsoft email and Lync issues by using the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer website. Features troubleshooting tests for Office 365, Exchange, Lync Server, a message header analyzer and client downloads of the Analyzer Tools. See: https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com/

F-Secure Router Checker

Protect yourself from rogue DNS servers. Router Checker makes it easy to check your Internet set-up to make sure your traffic is connecting to a safe server. See: https://www.f-secure.com/gb-en/home/free-tools/router-checker

PDF search engine for eBooks & manuals

PDF Search Engine is a free dedicated search engine for PDF ebooks, manuals, catalogs, sheets, forms and product documentation, with over 512 million files indexed and counting. See: http://www.pdfsearchengine.net/

Learn To Build Websites

JS Bin is a free website for learning and experimenting with web languages, in particular HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It is ultimately a code sharing site, so everything you do is public. As you type into one of the editor "panels", you and anyone watching your bin will see the output being generated in real-time in the output panel. A Pro version cost £60 a year for private bins, Dropbox backup and custom URLs. See: http://jsbin.com

Is Your Website Mobile Friendly For Google

Google is putting more emphasis on mobile optimized content in it's search algorithm. To help they've created a quick test: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/

Host FREE Websites on Microsoft Azure

The Microsoft Azure FREE website tier allows you to host up to 10 unique websites with a combined total of 1GB of disk space and a maximum daily bandwidth of 165MB a day. Supports a wide variety of content management systems including Apache, Drupal, HTML5, Joomla, Magento, Node JS, PHP / MySQL, Umbraco, Wordpress and many more.  Great for testing and learning.
See: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/websites/

Corona SDK is now FREE

The Corona SDK is a 2D development platform with built-in physics, for building apps and games. It has over 1000 API libraries where most of the complicated programming has been done for you. If you are looking to get into games development, this is a good place to start. It used to cost $588 a year for the Pro version, but is now FREE. There are still small business and enterprise versions which are chargeable. Supports iOS,  Android, Kindle & Windows Phone 8, see: http://coronalabs.com/

Recordit FREE Screencasts

Record and share screencasts up to 5mins long. Easy to use, just define your recording area and click record. Finished file is automatically uploaded to recordit.co with a unique link. Available for free for Windows & Mac OSX, see: http://recordit.co/

Google Earth Pro is now FREE

Google Earth Pro which has more features than Google Earth and lets you save satellite imagery at up to 4800 x 3192 pixel resolution is now free. Previously it was an annual subscription for $399 per year (I know this as I have an invoice for £264+VAT). It also allows you to use the imagery for marketing purposes. Sign up is no longer required for Google Earth Pro. Download Earth Pro from http://earth.google.com/download-earth-pro.html then sign in using your email address and the License Key GEPFREE.

GRC's Interactive Brute Force Password “Search Space” Calculator

This free online interactive brute force search space calculator allows you to experiment with password length and composition to develop an accurate and quantified sense for the safety of using passwords that can only be found through an exhaustive search. See: https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm

Information Security Guidance

Securezoo offers free guidance on information security for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and security professionals. Covers typical policies you would need, standards and guidelines. See: www.securezoo.com/