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Beamz is a W-shaped device that lets you make music by waving your fingers between the arms.

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FreshBooks.com is a service for creating and sending out invoices while you’re online. You can send invoices by email, postal mail or both.

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The press lives! Newspaper web sites attracted 66.4 million unique visitors in the first quarter of 2008.

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Webcards lets you create small web sites, about the size of large index cards, for businesses that don’t have the time or money to build and maintain their own. Just fill in a form and it’s done.

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YourTechOnline, a great tech support service we’ve both used and written about, is no more. The web service was recently absorbed by Support.com.

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FoldIt (at http://Fold.It ) is a game designed to teach you how to fold proteins. While it’s designed as a game, the purpose is serious.

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Wellsphere.com, HGTV.com and PimpMySearch.com.

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According to Symantec Corp., 80 percent of all email in April was spam.

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You can post a video to YouTube for private or wide audience viewing, but there’s a ten-minute limit. There are free programs, such as SecureZip from securezip.com that let you compress and encrypt a file with just a couple of mouse clicks. That’s nice for sending it through email, but not convenient for a large group.

There’s a free and easy solution available from a new service called Drop.io.

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A Windows utility called “eXpresso” allows a number of people to collaborate on the same spreadsheet, online at the same time. Now that businesses have employees scattered across the world, such collaboration can be very useful.

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