Sometimes you get what you don't pay for.
If you know where to look, you can get some pretty cool stuff for free—and with the price of gas these days, "free" may be just what your budget calls for.
Free Education
Get your geek on with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT offers a comprehensive selection of free online courses that includes nearly its entire undergraduate and graduate curriculum. Downloading materials takes minutes. A newsletter highlights new offerings, from Quantum Physics to American Women Authors. The catch is, users can't enroll, take classes on campus or earn degrees. But if you're looking to broaden your horizons, you can find these free courses at ocw.mit.edu.
Free Photos
If your digital camera is full but you need some good old-fashioned prints, visit websites Adorama, Dotphoto, Kodak and Snapfish. In addition to photo sharing and online albums, these popular services provide 15 to 50 free prints when you register. You have to pay for shipping, but that's usually not more than a few dollars. Get more details at www.adorama.com, www.dotphoto.com, www.kodakgallery.com and www.snapfish.com.
Free Tech Support
Need your own personal help desk? The next time you have a tech issue, don't spend your hard-earned cash for someone's expertise—at least not right away. Protonic.com is an online community that provides technical support to computer users around the world for absolutely nothing. To date, the website has provided over 160,000 answers to computer-related questions. On the site, you can browse through other people's questions and answers or simply ask a Protonic.com technician for help with the tech troubles you're facing. Find out more at www.protonic.com.
And the next time you need a phone number, dial 800-FREE-411. Instead of dialing 411 and getting charged 50 cents to $1.50, call this 800 number for free nationwide directory assistance. You'll have to listen to a 20-second ad before receiving your number, but you won't have to pay a thing.
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