Jake’s Life

Lately, for some reason, I have been finding so many things that would have benefited me so much in school. I’m entering my last term, and after Juvenile Delinquency and my Criminal Justice Capstone I will be out of school, with little chance to use these resources.

Think Free Online: Think Free is basically an office suite (word processor, spreadsheet app, and presentation creator a la MS Office) which is free and web-based. Definitely worth a look if you can’t afford MS Office, can’t get the dirty versions to install properly, or are not impressed too much with the open source alternatives.

Notely: Notely is a self-proclaimed “collection of online tools designed to help all you drunken students out there to organize your busy lives. whether you’re in University, College or High School Notely has the tools to help you get organized.” Definitely something I could have used when I was beginning my college education.

Free Book Notes: “Free Book Notes .com is dedicated to finding all of the sites with free book notes or “free cliff notes” and indexing all the individual free study guides and free book summaries for you on one easy to navigate site.” I would have loved this site in high school.

End school-related usefulness.

Mint: I’m dying for Mint to launch. “Mint is building a free, simple, and secure personal finance web-app. Designed to be effortless, Mint consolidates your financial life in one place. Easily see how much you have, how much you owe, and where your money goes. Advanced alerts notify you before you bounce a check or forget to pay a bill. Patent pending algorithms even show you personalized ways to save and make more money. If your finances could use organization without effort, Mint is for you.” I’m suffering through MS Money 2007 right now…..

Beautiful Agony: Is this considered porn?!

Windows Live Writer: One of the most useful apps Microsoft has published lately. It’s what I use to publish jakeslife.net.  

Desktop Two: A Flash-driven web app that creates your own desktop with every basic program you’ll need (web browser, e-mail, RSS, blog app, media player, office suite, web editor, calendar, address book, and IM). It even has 1GB of file storage so that your files are there anytime you log in.