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After nearly ten years online I've seen a lot of things.  I've seen websites grow from something only big companies could afford to manageable solutions for small businesses and individuals.  I've seen selling online go from cutting-edge to darned-if-you-don't.  In just the last few years, I've seen domains go from $70 a year to $7! 

In that time I've also seen a lot of really great web and Internet tools.  A few stand out, and I'm here to show you which ones are the best that I've seen.  If you know of another great tool I may be interested in, email me and tell me about it!

Trillian: All your chat programs in one

There's MSN, ICQ, Yahoo!, AIM, mIRC...AAHHHH! How do you chat with everyone without crashing your computer? The answer is Trillian, a program that allows you to log into all your chat accounts from one simple program. While it doesn't support a lot of the extras that MSN, Yahoo!, and AIM offer, it does squelch the bickering. "How come you're never online????"

Download Trillian

Firefox: More than just a browser.

I downloaded Firefox for the first time about a year ago, and I refuse to go back to Netscape or MSIE (unless I absolutely have to because Firefox doesn't support somethign I need to view).

As of late, I've discovered extensions. Extensions are awesome little add-on tools that allow you to do great things through Firefox. Below you will find links to these tools.
Download Firefox
Download Firefox and enjoy using the Internet more effectively. You can block pop-ups, easily manage your saved form and password info, and browse multiple websites through tabs in a single window.
Download Thunderbird
I haven't actually tried Mozilla's new email client, but I will let you know how it goes!
Morning Coffee Extension
Every day I visit the same dozen websites to check messages, upload articles, or run my business. Morning Coffee allows me to open them in multiple tabs with one quick click of the mouse.
Squidoo Extension
The Squidoo extension is fabulous for quickly adding links to your lenses.
Tab Mix Plus Extension
I am forever accidentally deleting tabs, but with this fabulous feature, you can undo closed tabs or lock and protect tabs - saving you the hassle of lost information.
Internote Extension
This feature allows you to leave yellow stickies on websites! Great for making notes of things to do, or capturing signature information on sites that don't save it for you (such as MySpace!)
Add Search Engines
You can now search dozens of websites from your browser, such as Technorati, Amazon, Wikipedia, ESPN, and Flickr.

Organize your Goals using Basecamp

Basecamp project management and collaboration

Basecamp is officially my new favorite thing in the world. The Citizen Squids are using it to manage some of our neat new projects, and I created my own personal account to manage my gazillion projects.

Setting up an account is free if you just want to manage one project. If you want to manage more, there's a monthly fee. I created one title for all my projects. You can create to-do lists for each of your smaller projects which is awesome because it allows you to break your work down into tiny, manageable tasks. You can create messages about your ideas and set milestones for major deadlines.

As an author of several current and future books on goal achievement, I give this a big two-thumbs-up!

Basecamp project management and collaboration

Squidoo, of course!

Since discovering Squidoo, I've stopped creating futile websites that take years to reach decent rankings on the search engines. I've made more money with Squidoo in one month than some of my old websites made in a year. Since you're already here, I'll assume you know where to find Squidoo. ;)

Here are some tips for using Squidoo, and tips for using Groups. You'll also find more great lenses at the Addicted to Squidoo Group and Groupers Group.

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Flickr: An easy way to share photos

Sharing photos of our HazMat team's training nights used to mean a lot of emailing, a lot of large files, and a lot of time. Now I can upload them to Flickr and share them easily with just a few links and emails. It's also great for images of crafts, your kids or pets, your remodeling project, vacations, school plays, the three-foot long hornets nest you found in your attic, or the Halloween parade.

curated content from Flickr

Can You Digg It?

Digg is a great way to keep track of websites you like AND generate some buzz about hot new articles and tools. There are some serious Diggers out there who spend all day (well, maybe not all day, some I'm sure) reading hot new links and voting on their popularity.

You never know which of your submitted links could hit it big on Digg!
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