Very Helpful (Free) Internet Tools!

www.changedetection.com
- What: A tool that notifies you every time specific websites are changed and/or updated
- How: By email
- Why: You could use this to track blogs, for example. If you wanted to be notified every time Rebecca Ueltschey adds a post, you could enter her URL as one of my change detection sites.

www.waybackmachine.org
- What: A tool that lets you look at older versions of current sites
- How: All online and one at a time
- Why: If you had a competitor, for example, and you wanted to track some things they did in the past, this tool would be extremely helpful. Or, if a site has changed and you need a piece of old information, again this site would be helpful.

www.yousendit.com
- What: A tool that allows you to send large files over the web (things that are too big to email)
- How: FTP
- Why: We have all experienced the picture that is too big to send... This will solve your sending problems at no cost. You include your email and the email of the person you are sending it to... Then upload the file and you're done.

www.snip.com/site/index
- What: A tool that takes those grotesquely long URL's and shortens them to your liking.
- How: Not sure but it's cool.
- Why: We send out monthly newsletters at work based on product and client profile. The newsletters are all html files and therefore have pictures and links imbedded in them. When they first arrive in a client's inbox, all the client sees is a very long URL and a button they can click to open the online version. We hated our clients were seeing the ugly, long URL's. So we snipped them.