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Stacy Reed shares five free sites that can help you keep your digital life organized when you go back to school. From class notes and schedules to gradebooks and collections, we'll show you how to keep it all tidy and access it remotely anywhere you have an internet connection!

Striving toward the utopian dream of a paperless office? Did you know you can verify the authenticity of a document, sign contracts, send secure forms to your colleagues (and much more), but do so quickly, securely and most importantly, legally online? Most countries recognize the legality of a digital signature and deem it binding. Also, many industries have established regulations that recognize digital signatures as valid replacements for handwritten signatures. This week, Stacy introduces three online services for creating your own digital signatures.

Stacy Reed shares five more

sites where you can create free cartoon representations of your unique personality

. Use these avatars to spruce up your social network profiles or to use in online forums where you'd prefer to remain anonymous. You could even make cartoon characters of all your phone contacts or chat buddies! This episode follows up on last week's episode where Stacy demos five other avatar creating online apps.

Create free cartoon avatars that can be customized to represent your unique personality or interests across the social networks or chat clients you frequent. Stacy Reed shares five of her favorites this week.

Stacy Reed explains how you can

receive notifications through email, RSS or desktop widget whenever your website server goes down

and again when it comes back up with Montastic's free monitoring services.

Many Internet services use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) connections to encrypt data that travels between your computer and their server. This week, Stacy Reed shows us Google's encrypted web search and will show how to make it your default search engine in Firefox's search box.

Stacy Reed explains how to use GuerrillaMail, a site that provides its visitors with

disposable email addresses

that expire within an hour's time. This service is ideal for situations where you need to sign up for a service you only plan to use once, so you can avoid the subsequent spam as well as the headache of having to unsubscribe later.

Have some last minute edits to make to your photos before you publish them online or share them with friends? Don't have time to download and install software to your computer? Stacy Reed shares five of her favorite

free online photo editing services

that integrate well with third party sites like photo galleries and social networks.

In this episode, Stacy Reed shares some of her favorite sites that provide online tools to help you convert documents into PDFs and vice versa. We'll also talk about some unique ways to get around a few of the most common issues with PDFs, all for free online. That's right, no download required!

Stacy Reed shares five of her favorite free visual search engines. These intelligent and interactive resources are worthy of a place among your bookmarks right alongside those staple search engines you use everyday, like Google, or Yahoo.