Online Free Stuff:
Online free stuff will depend on what you want to do. Technically the area of online free stuff is huge - there are so many big sites offering free online services now that it can be difficult to choose. Here are some of the best.
Google Maps is a fantastic free resource. Quickly developing with better and better maps being added, it is fascinating to do a search for your home and then see how close you can zoom in from above. Also very good for finding your way around - there is a map view, satellite view or hybrid view.
MSN Encarta is a free online encyclopedia. It is not often nowadays on the World Wide Web that you see Microsoft products and services being recommended, it seems everyone is out to run them down.... but this online encyclopedia provided for free by Microsoft is worth recommending - check it out.
Here is Google again, this time Google Labs - try visiting Google Labs for a huge range of excellent and effective online free stuff. There are free notebooks, free docs and spreadsheet editors, free TV programs and Videos, to name just a few. Well worth checking out.