Microsoft Office Configuration Analyzer Tool

The Microsoft Office Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT) 2.1 provides a quick and easy way to analyze Microsoft Office programs for known configurations that cause problems. For any problems that are listed, there is a link (usually a Microsoft Knowledge Base article) about each problem so that you can read about possible fixes.Supports Windows Vista, 7, 8 & 10 with Microsoft Office 2007, 2010, 2013 & 2016. See: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2812744

FREE Team Communications

Ryver is a new free team communication platform that integrates chat with posts, allowing you to “promote” a chat to a more formal post. Every member can create teams and invite users with no additional costs. Available for Windows, OSX, Linux, Android & iOS, see: www.ryver.com

Cloud-enable Your Existing File Shares

Enterprise File Sync and Share without moving your data or changing your IT infrastructure. DatAnywhere is deployed behind your firewall, allowing you to access and work on data from anywhere, on pretty much any device, without using the cloud. 100% free forever for up to 5 users. See: http://www.varonis.com/products/datanywhere/

Check Suspicious Files For Viruses

Metascan® Online is a free online file scanning service powered by OPSWAT’s Metascan technology, a multiple engine malware scanning solution. Check files up to 140MB with 43 anti-malware engines. Additional features include inputing a MD5/SHA1/SHA256 checksum to see if the hash has been compromised and scaning an IP address to determine if it has been compromised. See: https://www.metascan-online.com (also available as a Google Chrome extension)

FREE Team Communication Portal

The Slack messaging system is free to use for as long as you want and with an unlimited number of people. A free account lets you search and browse 10K most recent messages, includes 5GB of storage, 10 service integrations (Twitter, Google Docs, Dropbox, GitHub, etc) and multi-team support. Available as free native apps for iOS, Android, Mac & Windows, see: https://slack.com

FREE WiFi Scanner For Windows

NetSurveyor is an 802.11 (WiFi) network discovery tool that gathers information about nearby wireless access points in real time and displays it in useful ways. Available for Windows only as freeware. See: http://nutsaboutnets.com/netsurveyor-wifi-scanner/

Learn Digital Marketing Skills For FREE

Google's Digital Garage lets you learn the digital marketing skills you need to grow your business, your career or just your confidence. Currently split into 89 lessons covering 23 topics and completely free. See: https://digitalgarage.withgoogle.com

Transfer Music From Your iPod

If you have an old iPod, you may no longer have the computer that held the original iTunes music library, which is a problem if your music was encoded from CDs. If your iPod has the one and only copy of your music, adding new tracks from another computer can end up removing the existing tracks. Copying the music off your iPod isn't easy, as iTunes is not designed for this, but PodTrans is a simple, fast and FREE iPod music transfer utility for PC & Mac. See: http://www.imobie.com/podtrans/download.htm

Scan Your System for Vulnerable Applications

Heimdal FREE is a security utility that scans your Windows computer every 2 hours for outdated software. The FREE version is limited to a list of 20 common applications with security issues, including Adobe Shockwave, Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, Adobe Air, Chrome, Firefox, VLC, Microsoft Silverlight, QuickTime, Skype, & Thunderbird. Available for all versions of Windows, see: https://heimdalsecurity.com/en/products/heimdal-free

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