WhatTheFont is a lot like one of my favorites, Identifont. This little free service allows you to upload a graphic that contains words, and the system does its best to identify your font.

I tried it with a few logos I’ve developed where I knew what the font was. It hit about 50 percent of the time, but the misses were darn close. I could have easily used one of the fonts they came up with as a close match to the look and feel.

WhatTheFont is a tool brought to you by MyFonts, which looks to be a pretty inexpensive way to purchase interesting fonts. Of course, I still prefer dafont, which is free. I’m funny like that.

WhatTheFont! « MyFonts.

We’ll I’ll be… here I thought Dimdim (review coming soon!) was going to be my new favorite online collaboration tool, and then I find ShowDocument. ShowDocument lets you share a document, whiteboard, YouTube video — all kinds of stuff — with a very, very, very quick touch of a button. You can have up to 50 attendees.

Oh, did I mention it was completely free?

The only drawback is that it doesn’t integrate audio and video unless you use the professional version, which lists its pricing as “a flat monthly rate” and asks you to fill out a form to be contacted by sales. Not a good sign for a free or low-cost tool.

But the free version is wonderful.

Web Meeting, Document Sharing | ShowDocument.

Clever, clever Best Buy folks set up@Twelpforce, a Twitter account that gives free tech answers just for asking. Great public relations idea, and a fantastic free resource.

Also, check out CrossLoop, another great resource for help with your computer.

Twelpforce twelpforce on Twitter.

Many people are using wonderful free tools such as Jing (my favorite tool ever!) to create online presentations. Cueprompter is a quick and easy way to script your presentation so your “ums” and “wells” go away.

Free teleprompter/autocue service. Cueprompter – The online prompter..

The web is now full of helpful reminder systems. I like Task.fm because you can write the way you speak and it converts your note into a smart reminder, such as if you tell it to remind you about “my meeting with Scott Thursday at noon.” You can set reminders to come to you via text, email, twitter or a phone call.

The basic level is free, and the deluxe is less than $4 a month.

Want another reminder system? Try my old favorite, Jott.

Task.fm – Free SMS and Email Reminders.

Come on… be honest. Some of you still text and drive, right? Jott.com is the solution. Just dial a number on your phone, and a chipper voice asks, “Who do you want to Jott?” Say the name of a contact (or yourself), and Jott will take your message and convert it to text, plus attach the audio for the recipient’s listening pleasure. One of the attendees to my presentation called it “automated nagging.”

Jott has been one of my Beth Favorites for a couple of years now. It used to be free, which was crazy, and now they charge a very reasonable $3.95 a month for their most basic service. Well worth it. It integrates with all kinds of things — social media, great to-do list services, etc. Love it.

Jott.com | Voice-to-Text Notes, To Dos & Reminders.

It’s about time I profile Dropbox, a great little tool my readers have mentioned several times, and it came up again when I was presenting  “Free and Low-Cost Tech Tools Your Organization Can’t Live Without” at the Fancy Food Show this week.

Dropbox allows you to synchronize your files among your computers and also stores them online for access anywhere. This is a fantastic application for those of us who travel and don’t want to deal with throwing files on thumb drives. Its storage capacity matches Mozy.com for backups and its feature set is on par with Live Mesh.

You receive two gigs of storage with the free version, and 50 is only $9.99 a month.

Dropbox – Home – Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy.

OmniDazzle is a free special effects tool for presentations. Lucky Mac users can download the software to add cool ways to highlight screens, words and points during presentations. Oh how I wish we poor PC users had a similar version! I have a presentation this week in San Francisco, and I would love to use this tool to make my favorite tools pop!

The Omni Group – OmniDazzle.

Now here’s a switch… Penzu is an online blog-type service — that you can keep private! All the other blogs in the world are out there so you can share your thoughts, but Penzu lets you create a private journal for your eyes only, though you can choose to share with others.

I’m not sure what type of business application this might have, but I love the notebook-paper graphics. PC Magazine gave it props for being some of the best free software of 2009.

Penzu – Write in Private: Free Online Diary and Personal Journal.

I just found an awesome little free tool to start off the new year. Cut My Pic lets you upload a picture, crop it, round the corners and add a drop shadow… in about 30 seconds.

Want more graphic tools? Click here…

Cut My Pic! The Free online image resize, cut, crop, round corners, and drop shadow tool!

Happy New Year! Look for lots of new tools in the New Year, plus a monthly webinar series….