A Times New Roman logo is not the way to show your consumers that you mean serious business. How 'bout spicing it up a bit? CoolText Graphics Generator is a free site that allows you to create professional-looking graphics within seconds! You can go from dull to impressive without the expense of a designer. Plus you get access to their free font archive ---with 1,200 free fonts available!

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Create professional video content for your site (or for your personal pleasure!) via the Vidblaster video production tools. Online broacasting has never been easier. With VidBlaster Home, you can successfully integrate footage from up to two cameras and 4 video players into one tightly-shot output for that live broadcast—no editing and rendering required! Upgrade to VidBlaster Pro and you can support up to 4 cameras and 16 video players. You can even add overlay graphics for that extra oomph! Free complete features trial software available for download.

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Find your inner Aaron Spelling—or anti Aaron Spelling!

You can be an entertainment industry mogul even without leaving your own home. Just create an account in www.mogulus.com and you can broadcast your own brand of television programming for free. A free account can already take you far: the opportunity to create live or on-demand television via a single widget, capability to mix multiple cameras, video clips and overlay graphics through the Mogulus studio and your own branded channel with chat features. And if anything else, their top channels are just worth the watch!

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If you have the guts and the creativity to put up your own TV show and start your own channel, then head over to USTREAM.TV. This site is great platform for live and interactive broadcasting. Have a brilliant concept that doesn’t seem to get picked up by the bigwigs? Here you can tap into niche markets that mainstream media often ignore. More so, you can touch base with your target audience in real time. Excellent for both marketing, advocacy and even just personal expression.

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Do you want to post an mp3, mp4 or pdf file to your wordpress blog but don’t know how to? Download the Blog Media Uploader for free and online podcasting is as easy as 1-2-3. The software helps you embed your recording into a format that is iTunes compatible and easy to download as well as play on site. The free video tutorial can help you navigate the whole process easily.

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Here is a nifty software for those needing to keep track of conversations made online—Hot Recorder.com. Compatible with Google Talk and Skype among many others, this software not just records and replays your PC to PC discussions, but also allows you to save and share them. Keep track of business discussions with your overseas client/ employee, or start podcasting that interesting political debate you had with a friend. You can even add emotisounds (kissing sounds, claps etc) to express your mood in a particular convo! And no worries, its 100% spyware and malware free!

www.hotrecorder.com

This is a haven for anyone seriously addicted to podcasts and podcasting. Created by Chris McIntyre, Podcast Alley in on the way to becoming the biggest directory of podcasts on the net (more than 45,000 podcasts available!) and the most comprehensive repository of information and tutorials on podcasting. Visit the site and take a gander at their top ten podcasts list —or maybe submit your own! This medium of communication will not be going away anytime soon.

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Would you like to take advantage of 25 years of direct marketing experience? Bob Serling shares in his Direct Marketing Insider e-zine all his insights and strategies in creating double-digit responses. Among the topicvs he will discuss are rules of writing headlines, psychological motivators and triggers that will increase your response, and common mistakes people make when writing their website copy. Subscription is free; just register and you can get your monthly update! You can be on the way to success just by reading your email.

www.directmarketinginsider.com

Security issues over the net affects everyone and it is best that you arm yourself with all the information you can find on how you can protect yourself and your organization. If you want to learn about Web Application Security and Development while commuting to and fro work, try listening to podcasted lessons by Dan Kuykendall, downloadable via www.mightyseek.com. His Hands On series is just of his free tutorials that just makes you thankful podcasting was invented.

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Now this is a serious site for serious site creators. Visit www.videospark.com and you can choose from their great variety of website templates, flash templates and related tools. Browse around and select the right solution to digitize your videos into flash-compatible formats. Their free downloadable tools and resources, as well as advertised software, are guaranteed to make your life easier.

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