Saturday, March 10, 2007
Free Software
For PC users: www.giveawayoftheday.com is a site you should check daily. There's also a sister site, http://game.giveawayoftheday.com . Everyday they give
away one software title - free. You must download and INSTALL the software that day. The titles change at 3 AM ET. Now, there will often be software that you will never use, didn't know you needed, or you may already have something similar. But, you never know when they will have something of value for you. In my last post, I talk about FlashSpring Pro.. a $199 program that was the giveaway a couple of days ago - great value to me. The daily giveaway is for software that you would otherwise have to pay for.
away one software title - free. You must download and INSTALL the software that day. The titles change at 3 AM ET. Now, there will often be software that you will never use, didn't know you needed, or you may already have something similar. But, you never know when they will have something of value for you. In my last post, I talk about FlashSpring Pro.. a $199 program that was the giveaway a couple of days ago - great value to me. The daily giveaway is for software that you would otherwise have to pay for.Since this post is about free software, let me add a few more sites here. www.tucows.com has been around for at least a decade. It's got a great search engine and lots of downloads for freeware, shareware, demos and other software, for both PC and MACs. Another aggregator is http://www.simtel.net/ . GNU - http://www.gnu.org/ - is all about FREE SOFTWARE.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is the principal organizational sponsor of the GNU Project. For a directory of software by categories, go to http://directory.fsf.org/. Here you will find links for some popular freeware like Audacity (audio editor), GIMP (photo editing) and Celestia (visual simulation of Space). Google has some of their own, like Picasa for simple photo editing (http://pack.google.com/intl/en/product_info.html?picasa), and Google Earth (http://pack.google.com/intl/en/product_info.html?earth) .
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is the principal organizational sponsor of the GNU Project. For a directory of software by categories, go to http://directory.fsf.org/. Here you will find links for some popular freeware like Audacity (audio editor), GIMP (photo editing) and Celestia (visual simulation of Space). Google has some of their own, like Picasa for simple photo editing (http://pack.google.com/intl/en/product_info.html?picasa), and Google Earth (http://pack.google.com/intl/en/product_info.html?earth) .
Labels: free software, GNU
