Would you like to include a web-based tracking solution for your next project that can report your GPS coordinates from your cell phone? Do you want to do it for free? Here’s a great solution.

InstaMapper is a free application that you install on your phone, which continuously sends your GPS coordinates to their website, where they use the Google Maps API to generate a real time map of your location.  You can choose the refresh rate to balance accuracy with battery life in your phone.

This would be a great tool for someone who might be doing something like bicycle across the country to raise awareness of lung cancer and to encourage followers to quit smoking.  Whats more, they even have a Facebook app to embed the animated mapping software in your facebook account.

Soundsnap is the best platform to find and share free sound effects and loops- legally. It is a collection of original sounds made or recorded by its users, and not songs or sound FX found on commercial libraries or sample CD’s.

It was originally started by a small group of sound people from all over the world. Our common belief is that sounds and samples should be free for everyone to use in their projects, commercial or not.

Symantec’s Norton Ghost provides advanced backup and recovery for your PC, protects your data by making a backup of your hard drive’s contents - without restarting Windows. Norton Ghost is a comprehensive disk imaging solution for home and small office users, enhanced with Drive Image technology, which Symantec obtained through the acquisition of PowerQuest Corporation. Incremental backups save you time and disk space. You can even schedule backups to run automatically. You can restore individual files, selected folders, or the entire hard drive.

• Hot imaging lets you create backup images without restarting Windows.
• Incremental backup updates save time and disk space.
• Scheduled backups automatically keep your backup image up to date.
• Backs up everything on a hard drive or partition.
• Works with a wide range of hard drives and removable media, including CD-R/RW and DVD-R/RW drives, USB and FireWire (IEEE 1394) devices, and Iomega Zip and Jaz drives.
• Restores data from images created with PowerQuest Drive Image 7.0 and previous versions of Norton Ghost.