Quillpad is a free online typing tool. You can write in 10 Indian languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu etc with its online editor. For example, type 'aap kaise hain' in the Quillpad editor and it will convert it directly into Devanagari script. You can save or email your message.If you don't want to purchase expensive DTP software like Pagemaker, here is a list of free open source Desktop Publishing software which are also rich in features.
1. Scribus
2. Passepartout
RentAcoder: If you are a freelance programmer or want to outsource your work, this site will help you.
Rent A Coder is a web-based marketplace that connects businesses in need of computer programming expertise with a global, freelance market of programmers. It also connects businesses and freelancers in the areas of graphic design, writing, translation and numerous other services.
See Also : elance
Palshare: Need to share or send large files/folders? Upload your files (upto 250 mb) and let your recipient(s) come to one place and download. Automatically Zips Multiple Files & Folders. It's free.
Copyscape : The Copyscape service makes it easy to find copies of your content on the Web. Simply type in the address of your web page, and Copyscape does the rest. Copyscape finds sites that have copied your content without permission, as well as those that have quoted you.
Project Gutenberg : Free ebooks : There are over 20,000 free ebooks in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog. The collection has ebooks on variety of subjects like literature, history, art etc. All the ebooks can be freely downloaded.
Scribd is a big online library where everyone can publish original content.
eHow : A reference site for just about everything else. Want to know how to tie a tie? Make pizza dough? Install a bathtub? This is the place.
Spypig is a free email tracking system that lets you know when the email you sent has been read by recipient. It works with virtually all modern email programs: Outlook, Eudora, Yahoo Email, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL Email and many others. Cool tool and it's free!
Deezer : is a very good site where you can find massive amounts of songs to listen to (you can´t download them, only listening is allowed).
Sputtr. is basically a one-stop-search destination, with a box to enter your search term and 35 choices for sites you want to search. The usual suspects are there - all the Google sites, Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask Jeeves, del.icio.us, YouTube, Flickr, odeo, iMDb, last.fm and many, many more.
Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide. So far we have 16,861 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe.
Like wikepedia, this site is going to be next super hit. Must for someone who travels around the world a lot.
Contactify : Create your own personal contact form. Contactify creates the link, people click on it and then they can send you a message without you ever having to reveal your email address. Anyone who has ever put an email address online can appreciate the benefit of this! And it's free. Registration is super fast.
Wordsmith :If you are a die hard word lover, this is the site for you. It emails you new word every day with meaning, its origin etc. Subscription is free and very easy. It has half a million subsribers !
labnol : There are many tech blogs around, but this one by Amit Agarwal, India is truly the best tech blog I have come across. Its no surprise that it generates more than 1 million hits per month. Strong content. Worth a visit.
Voipguides : Arguably, the most comprehensive blog on the subject covering a to z of voip.
StrokeIt - Mouse gestures are simple symbols that you "draw" on your screen using your mouse. When you perform a mouse gesture that StrokeIt can recognize, it will perform the "action" associated with that gesture. Free for individual.
Bubblesnaps - add a caption to your digital photos. The posibilities for fun are endless!
Freeware Guide - a nice list of the best of the freeware options for all the things you might want to do with your computer.
See also : Seetips, bearbottoms, OpensourceWindows
SketchUp - new from Google, plan out your home or garden and see it in 3D. Bookmark worthy just because it's so darned cool.
Offsurf: Can't surf your favorite sites such as mySpace at school? Employer blocked most wanted sites? There is a way out. Just enter a URL in the box and hit Navigate! Alternatively, you can also download offsurf toolbar for IE.
Yahoo! Babel Fish - Translation - a handy bookmark to add, for all your translation needs, powered by translation old-timer Babel Fish, and with a similar interface that is familiar and easy to use.
Empressr : online, ajax-powered presentation software. Impressive looking ... and free!
Picupine simple solution for quick sharing of photos for a short term. Uploaded photos disappear from the web after one week.
Daytipper: Welcome to Daytipper. Based on the premise that everyone is an expert on something, Daytipper collects tips from a variety of areas (home, food, gardening, tech etc) and if they like your tip, they'll pay you $3 for it as well! Daytipper is obviously really new and some of the tip categories are a little lean, but I'm sure once the word gets around a bit, the tips will start flowing in. A great site to add to your newsreader.
If you're looking for a nice and different way to display your photos on your website, you really should go and have a peek at Good Widgets.
Currently Good Widgets offers 3 different photo display widgets - the book, the stack and the slideshow. Each one is customizable to suit your site. Also, each is available in two flavours - free but has the Good Widgets logo and a smaller number of photos per widget OR Standard, which is priced from $2 to $4 and doubles the number of photos.
Phixr - Online Photo Editor is a site that can come in handy whenever your regular photo editor isn't handy. Perhaps on vacation or at a family members for Thanksgiving? Simply upload a photo (or point to the photo's url), edit the photo with some easy to use photo tools (crop, rotate, sharpen, color balance, convert to black & white etc). Phixr actually has a nice selection of tools! To finish, either save your photo, email it or upload it to a photo site such as flickr, all from within phixr.
LabPixies - Coolest Gadgets On The Web - whatever your flavour of personal start page, LabPixies has a good selection of gadgets to add. Most available for Google and Windows Live and many available also for Pageflakes and Netvibes, with easy click-to-add functions.
Snap Preview Anywhere enables anyone visiting your site to get a glimpse of what other sites you're linking to, without having to leave your site. By rolling over any link, the user gets a visual preview of the site without having to go there, thus eliminating wasted "trips" to linked sites. Obviously, this tool is from the Snap search people and their tool is popup, adware and spyware free and ... free.
With Musicovery : interactive webRadio you can determine what music to listen to by your mood, define it by genre or narrow it down to a particular decade. Choose to hear only only hits or only non hits or set it to discovery mode to, um ...discover.
Make your picks then watch musicovery deliver just the right musical choices for you. I like!
Signbot - make your own animated scrolling text LED sign. Write your text, select a sign width then generate to add to your MySpace or website or use as your forum sig or avatar. The generator will generator regular and LiveJournal-specific code.Calling all Wordies. Wordie lets you make lists of words. Words you love, words you hate, words you just want to share with the world. Then you can see who else likes your words or comment on other people's choice of words. Or whatever.
Wordie has a bookmarklet that will let you select and then import words right in to Wordie.
Sparkl | The Web Designers Search Engine - powered by Google CSE and boasting over 1400 hand-picked sites for the best web design results for your search time.
Gimpology: Tutorials and resources for the GIMP done digg style, with ratings and comments. A great resource for the Photoshop-alternative GIMP.
Online Education Free - for anyone in a perpetual search for knowledge, a huge list of links to online sources of education.
Footnote - The place for original documents online a new site with millions of images of original source documents, many of which have never been available online before. Beyond viewing these documents though, the site offers the user the ability to annotate, organize and add their own documents to share with others.
"Footnote has something for everyone, from individual history buffs to groups and societies looking for a smart way to make their collections available to millions of people."
Fascination stuff and a great site to get lost in for a while.
Web widgets, desktop widgets, widget resources, samples, tutorials web and desktop widgets and resources, all nicely categorized.
Movers 2.0 - Follow the Web 2.0 traffic trends - see which sites are on the move, who is gaining (or losing) rank.
WIth so many sites popping up everyday, it's interesting to see who has been able to break away and grab a decent market share. Also a great place to discover some of the up-and-comers. Interesting.
Simple todo list manager: Todoist is a simple, efficient and dynamic todo list manager, aimed at getting us organized it "Getting Things Done" fashion.
Free sign up required to get started.
Goodreads | see what your friends are reading and keep track of what you've read and what you'd like to read. Goodreads allows users to rate books, so it's easy to see which books are hits with people you know
BigString.com - The World's Coolest Email allows you to recall any sent email for those inevitable moments of email remorse.
Free, and paid Premium/Business Accounts available.
Newseum : 495 front pages from 50 countries. See how papers all over the place are covering a story. Interesting.
Kool IM - log in to many popular messenger services at the same time through Kool IM. The services include ICQ, Yahoo, MSN and Google Talk.
Zapr - Really Simple Sharing is not just another Drop Send clone. You don't have to upload anything. You can share files by having them retrieve the files right from your computer. 
PollDaddy is simple and flexible, allowing you to customize the styles to match your website or email campaign. Deliver your poll through JavaScript, direct link, widget or RSS feed.
And free, too. Currently in public beta.
dodgeit - free. receive-only. email. no set up. rss. for those times when you have to give an email but you really don't want to give one that you actually use. 
Online Alarm Clock - Sometimes, the very simplest tools are the most useful. I can think of ways this would be useful. If you can too, head on over and bookmark for future use.
Foxit Software released v 2.0 of it's free PDF Reader, a great alternative to Adobe's Reader. Combine the free Foxit PDF Reader with the Firefox PDF Download Extension and Bob's your uncle. 
Zippy - The webmaster's meta search engine - goes beyond just search results. Check SEO information, related searches, compare two urls etc.
Hockneyizer: Create a simulated collage from a single photograph - a couple of styles to chose from to create a unique photo presentation.So, with that in mind, here are 8 ways to quickly resize images ...
My tool of choice:
Windows XP Image Resizing Power Tool
Online Image Resizing Services:
Original Resizr
ResizR
Image Squash
pxn8
blibs
SnipShot
Use Photoshop an easier way:
Create a Photoshop Droplet to handle image resizing
Torpark is a small, portable, clean, open-source, free of spyware/adware, and free anonymous browsing solution.
"Download Torpark and put it on a USB Flash keychain. Plug it into any internet terminal whether at home, school, or public. Run Torpark.exe and it will launch a Tor circuit connection, which creates an encrypted tunnel from your computer indirectly to a Tor exit computer, allowing you to surf the internet anonymously."
The Lyrics Plugin is "an add-on to view lyrics in WinAmp or Windows Media Player. No more searching for lyrics. Just start listening to your favourite songs and lyrics will be displayed automatically. Oh, and if lyrics is not found, you can add it yourself :)" Lyrics Plugin is malware, adware, spyware free and is currently in open beta.
"Jump2Mail is a free web-based email retrieval application, check all your email-box from one central place - completely free, from any computer, anywhere in the world."
Jump2Mail also integrates other features, such as:
- Planning/Diary.
- Reminder.
- Task Manager.
- Filtering Anti-Spam.
- Personal rules.
- Contact management System.
- Bookmark manager (in Ajax).
- RSS Reader (in Ajax).
- RSS Feed of the new malls (in progress).
- Available in 7 different languages.
- 5 different graphic topics.
Jump2Mail was is itch-scratch ware, created by a group of web developers to meet a need and now released for free for others to use.
"Mon.itor.us is the only external website monitoring service which provides commercial grade distributed monitoring services absolutely for FREE."
Monitor.us service is free and there are no limits on the number of sites monitored. Get notifications via RSS feeds or email, performance reports and customizable metrics and a desktop workspace.
ClockLink From their websites "provides fashionable clocks that you can easily embed in your web page. All you need to do is simply paste the tag on your web page. Our clock will display the city name of your choice if you choose. You can also choose a time zone for your clock so it will show the correct time." 
WebSnapr - Website Thumbnails For Your Site. : It is a screenshot tool and also provides screenshot thumbnails for use in link thumbnails (hovering over a link shows a thumbnail-sized screenshot of the link destination page). 
thumbq - Free image hosting - Stylish, trendy, flexible From their site - "Thumbq is a straight-forward image hosting solution that makes uploading and sharing images easy as never before. Thumbq has got Lovely galleries, beautiful eye catching slideshows, the most simple interface to upload and manage your images. Thumbq lets you host and link images, run stunning galleries and slideshows on your webpage with full freedom." Thumbq allows upload of up to 10 image files at once, with a limit of no more than 5MB per image. There is no limit on the number/total size of store images.
mypictr - is an online image resizer that is perfectly suited for creating a custom sized profile image but could also be used for any quick and easy image resizing needs. mypictr offers a handy dropdown box for a bunch of social networks, which will spit out the correct sizing for each one. There are also some generic sizing options as well as (I assume) the ability to just plug in your own dimensions.
Once resized, you can download the image to your own computer. Images are not retained on mypictr.
Textorizer - vectorise a picture using text strings. To use the cool textorizer generator, simply point to an image on the web, enter the text to add, set some size and effect controls and then Textorize! Neat effect. 
Would you like your screensaver to display the time? Here's a small (472kb) Windows screensaver program to download and install that contains 14 different clock screensavers. Clock Screensaver:The handwritten one is very cool and the timeline is very slick. Don't be put off by the fact that the site looks a bit dated. The software will run fine on WindowsXP and is spyware, adware etc free.
Zamzar - Free online file conversion - without downloading or installing anything! Zamzar converts to a wide range of image, document, audio and video formats. The maximum file size is limited to 100MB.
If you'd like to be seen as well as heard, check out Gabmail - a free, video email tool, that requires no download, installation or registration.
AmbientClock is about more than telling time. At a glance, it shows you your events for the day. The backlighting changes color prior to your next appointment to subtly get your attention, as well. This online beta will hook up your Google Calendar with a Google Personal Homepage gadget, and wrap your daily schedule around the clock.
Weebly - Website Creation Made Easy says it's the easiest way to a create great looking website and share it with the world for free. And featuring a drag and drop interface, a variety of themes, personalized subdomains, zip exports (in case you want to host your site on another server) and many content elements (photos, videos, maps, ads etc), they just might be right. Looks like a great tool for those who want a site but don't have the skills to build one or for anyone who just wants a fast and easy site.
Looks like a really nice tool for those who are regularly sharie files with clients.
PhraseExpress Autotext - Clipboard Utility organizes your frequently used text phrases and allows you to paste them into any application.
"Do you find yourself typing common phrases over and over again? Just store abbreviations, answers to frequently asked questions, email templates or text snippets in PhraseExpress and reuse them again and again."
Phrase Express is a small (1.3MB) Windows program, with a lot of features to save keystrokes in every program - like MS Office programs, MSN Messenger, comments on blogs etc.
Free web ringtone maker. Load up a tune from your computer, an audio url or the web (max size 5MB) and turn it in to a ringtone. Accepts mp3, midi, m4a, aac, wav and mp4 formats.
Juice, the cross-platform podcast receiver.- free, open source podcast manager that has a built-in directory with thousands of listed podcast feeds, auto clean-up and supports multiple media players. Available for Windows, OS X and Linux.
Online Icon Maker - create your own icons in an online free editor - A quick and easy way to create your own unique icon or favicon. Use their editor or create a favicon from a picture on your computer.
There are plenty of sites which gives you a unique site everyday. Here are some of the interesting ones :
Coolsiteoftheday : A cool site is chosen everyday. Also see site chosen by coolpick.
Cruel site of the day : A daily dark-humored, mean-spirited or bleak site.
Political site of the day : Political Site of the Day is one of the ORIGINAL Political Information sites (since 1995), and still is updated daily. An oldie but a goodie.
Celbrity site of the day : Everyday a new Celebrity Site of the Day is chosen. Visit Celebrity Site of the Day daily for the new Celebrity Site of the Day!
Reference Site of the day : Lists interesting site every day on varied subject like history, economy, science, geography etc., predominantly sites relating to US.
Dan Pollock's site of the day : Check back every day for a new link to something useful, funny, or at the very least different from the day before.
The Weird Site - A classy selection of weird, strange and bizzare sites, funny links, exclusive humor and bizarre news.
A site a day : This is for web designers in desperate need for inspiration. It gives one unique site every day to get your creative juices going
Windows on our world, is a site dedicated to online image library of royalty free geographical photographs. It has a collection of more than 3000 images which users can download free of charge and use for educational purposes.
The site categorises all the pictures into multi categories and each image has keywords attached to it, including category, location and description.
Explore extremely high resolution gigapixel digital photography with www.Xrez.com.
