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Way back when, we all used to read books. That was before the rise of the World Wide Web, e-Books, and Kindle. You're reading along, but eventually came to the point where you needed to put that book down—maybe it was time for school, or dinner, or maybe it was lights-out and off to sleep. How do you keep track of where you were reading? You could always lay the book down face-first on a table, but that could crack the book's spine. Go ahead and dog-ear a page, but eventually all the pages will be dog-eared and that won't be much of a help. So they invented this neat technology called a bookmark. It's kind of like a PostIt, but without the adhesive.

If you actually read books still, maybe you'd like a nifty bookmark to go with it. Check out the selection offered by Free Printable Bookmarks. They've got a couple dozen different designs to choose from. Just grab one you like from such categories as Adventure Bookmarks, Mystery Bookmarks, Christian Bookmarks, and more. Each bookmark is available as a PDF file. All you need to do is download it, print it out, trim it to size, and let the reading begin.

The bookmarks at Printable Bookmarks are all available to download for free.

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Are you, or someone you know, expecting? Even though it feels like the pregnancy is going to last forever, the Blessed Event will be here before you know it. You're going to want to let everybody know about it: date, time, weight, and length—all the vital statistics. And the last thing you want to do after coming home with your new Bundle of Joy is to head off to the stationery store. So maybe you want to think about birth announcements that you can print yourself? That's probably a much better solution.

Printable Birth Announcements has over twenty different designs to choose from. They've got announcements for boys and for girls; announcements with room for photos and footprints; they've even got announcements for adoptions. And the best part, aside from the whole not-having-to-go-out-shopping thing is that they're available for free. Just pick the one, or ones, you like, download them, and print them out with your copy of Adobe Reader. Or if you want to customize your announcements, for a couple bucks you can grab Microsoft Word DOC-compatible versions that you can personalize.

Either way, congratulations on the new addition. And don't forget to start saving for college!

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While it's the birthday of the dear old U. S. of A., maybe it's time to give yourself the present, with some free 4th of July printables.

Add a holiday flair to your business or personal correspondence with flag-themed printable stationery. Matching business cards are also available.

Got a special holiday recipe? There's no better place to keep track of your picnic favorites, like fried chicken or potato salad, than some firecracker-themed holiday recipe cards.

Keep the kids entertained and busy before fireworks time with some free printable coloring pages. Choose from patriotic themes, fireworks, and more. And if they're in the mood to make a contest of it, you can award them a flag-emblazoned Certificate of Achievement.

Hooray for the Fourth of July!

While it may not be the biggest holiday on the calendar, who can deny that Dear Old Dad deserves his own day? Whether he sat up with you all night when you were sick, checked for monsters under the bed, taught you how to throw a ball, or helped you struggle through algebra, he's a heck of a guy. Help make his big day more special with some free printables.

Wish the old man the very best with a printable Father's Day greeting card or two. Add a special Father's Day gift tag to the goodies you've got in store for him. One of those gifts could be a special picture you've colored just for him—your own original work of art—that's sure to be posted prominently on the refrigerator. And you can always award him a World's Best Dad certificate.

All of us here at FreeDownloadADay.com wish your dad—and all the dads—the best Father's Day yet.

One of the sure signs that Spring has Sprung is almost upon us: Mother's Day. Whether you're celebrating with your Mom, your Dad who was almost like a Mom, your grandmother, daughter, in-laws, or somebody else, be sure to take a moment and say "thanks" to all the Moms in your life. And, hey—if you want to make your celebration one of the best ever, maybe you should grab some free printables to include in the big day.

Grab a printable greeting card or two to wish Mom the very best. Is breakfast in bed in the cards this year—or maybe a big celebratory dinner? Grab some free Mom recipe cards to keep track of your favorites. You did remember to buy Mom a gift, didn't you? Make it extra special with a printable gift tag. After all, she needs to know who thought so highly of her, right? And speaking of gifts, children will enjoy coloring a special picture for Mom, with the help of the hundreds of free printable coloring pages to choose from. And finally, you can proudly hand her a World's Best Mom certificate to let her know just how important she is to you.

All of us here at FreeDownloadADay.com hope that your Mom has the best Mother's Day ever!

Did you ever need to tell somebody how to do something on their computer? Some simple instructions are easy to talk through, but when things get more complicated, there's nothing that can substitute for showing them how to do it. That's all well and good if they're sitting at the next desk, but that's not so easy if they're halfway around the world. For that, you need a video capture tool that can record what you do on your screen, that they can look at later.

ScreenToaster is a free tool that helps you to do just that. It doesn't require a huge download, although it does need to stick a Java applet on your system, and it should run on any computer that supports Java, which means that most Windows, Mac, and Linux systems are good to go.

All you do is click the button, and start doing whatever it is that you want to record. Create a tutorial, where you demonstrate how to create a tutorial—you get the idea. When you're all done, you can send your handiwork via email, or embed it in a web page or blog.

And don't worry: ScreenToaster doesn't leave screen crumbs.

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Back in the day, if you wanted to create a collage—a picture made up of other pictures, photographs, doodles, bits and pieces of "stuff", all glued together—you had to get out the scissors and paste. As with most complicated processes, there's now an electronic way to automate this process.

Shape Collage is a tool that lets you build a collage on your computer. You can use your own pictures from your local drive, or you can incorporate images from the Web. Choose a shape, add your images, tweak the spacing, and you're on your way to artistic greatness. Save your masterpiece as a JPEG or PNG, or even as a Photoshop PSD file. Each image in your collage is in a separate layer, so you can use Photoshop or GIMP to go in and manually adjust the particulars.

Shape Collage is free for personal use. It's available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and just about anybody else who supports Java. And you don't get glue all over your fingers.

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It's almost time to break out the springtime bonnets and hard-boiled eggs: Easter is right around the corner. While Easter doesn't seem to get the same attention that Christmas does, it's still a big deal. One way to help add some fun to your celebration of this special day is with free printable Easter goodies. To start with, you can grab a free letter from the Easter Bunny, with many for kids, and a special naughty one for the grown-ups. Send your own Easter greetings with a funny Easter card. Make your Easter baskets extra special with free Easter gift tags. Your holiday meal will be even tastier when your table's set with Easter place cards and your favorite old family recipes are written out on Easter recipe cards. You can even add a whimsical touch of Easter to your business correspondence with an Easter-themed fax cover sheet. You can grab all the free Easter coloring pages that your little ones can handle from here and here and here.

Have a Happy Easter!

Have you ever downloaded a deck of cards? Neither have we, but that's all about to change. With SVG-cards, you can do just that. Well, almost at least.

SVG-cards is a huge image that, when you print it out and chop it up, will give you a deck of cards. As the name suggests, this image is in SVG—scalable vector graphics—format. Unlike bitmapped image files, SVG are vector graphics. This means that you can resize them without making them all nasty looking, with jagged pixelation and all. It includes the faces of all the cards of a standard deck of 52 playing cards, as well as a couple of Jokers, and a design for the back as well.

You can choose to print them out as they come onto paper or card stock, or you might scale them down, or up, to make them into a size that works better for you. If you like the designs, you can also do more exotic things like put them on T-shirts as well.

SVG-cards are free to download.

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Holidays are a wonderful time: friends, family, celebration, and traditions. Often we associate these primarily with Christmas. But what about the other big days in the year? There's a certain Jolly Fat Man in a red suit who gets all the publicity, but what about that Large Springtime Rodent*, The Easter Bunny? Easter's a big deal too, and it deserves its fair share of attention.

Free Easter Printables can help you get off to a good start with your Easter celebration. They've got an "in" with the Easter Bunny, you know. You can even download a letter from The Easter Bunny from their site. There's a whole collection of letters, ranging from your garden variety letter, to special ones for Easter morning, letters addressed specifically to a boy or girl, and even one specially written for the grown-ups.

Along with those holiday letters, Free Easter Printables has a whole collection of Easter Coloring Pages. You can grab more pictures of Easter Eggs here than you can shake an Easter Basket at–a great way to keep the little ones entertained until the big day.

FreeEasterPrintables.com is a free service.

* Yes, we know that rabbits are members of the order Lagomorpha and not Rodentia, but work with us here, OK?

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