Bare Bones relinquishes Mailsmith, now freewareSource: MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
Bare Bones on Tuesday transferred ownership of its flagship application, Mailsmith, to Stickshift, a company owned by Bare Bones founder and CEO, Rich Siegel.
Microsoft Office to go online - for freeSource: CNN
It's too early to say Microsoft has checkmated Google in online documents – the latest version of Office hasn't shipped yet. But the sleeping giant in Redmond has clearly woken up to the Internet threat.
10 Ways To Trick Out Your Netbook for FreeSource: GigaOM
Netbooks are all the rage at the moment, with Asus predicting that it will sell 5 million of its Asus Eee PC netbooks by the end of this year. However, one of the tricky aspects of netbooks is that they have much more limited hardware resources than larger, traditional notebooks.
24 Great Open Source Apps for Admins & TechniciansSource: Download Squad
I've put together this list of two dozen great applications that I can depend on to keep things running smoothly on my office LAN and customer systems as well.
Some of these you'll recognize, but I hope that there are some that are new to you as well.
24 Killer Portable Apps For Your USB Flash Drive - Download SquadSource: Download Squad
My flash drive works pretty hard, so I've spent a lot of time gathering a reliable, powerful set of portable tools that allow me to work hard and play hard, even if I can't do it on my own PC. Here are two dozen apps that I always have at the ready
Finally! Sync iCal and gCal with freewareSource: Lifehacker
Online and desktop calendar-syncing application Calgoo Connect—along with all of the other calendar tools available from Calgoo—are now free. Calgoo Connect syncs Outlook on Windows or iCal on OS X with popular online calendars, namely Google Calendar and 30 Boxes.
Firefox 3 Download Day falls flat on faceSource: The Register (UK)
Firefox 3 Download Day is turning into a PR fiasco. At time of writing - 11.44am PDT - servers are down and Mozilla Foundation websites are either unavailable or publishing html error messages.
Opera releases 9.5!Source: opera.com
Opera Software today released to the world the final public release of its flagship Web browser, Opera 9.5. Opera's cross-device expertise, support for open Web standards and commitment to speed and performance culminate to create the most powerful Opera browser yet.

Recently, there's been a lot written about virtualization. Ever since Steve Jobs announced the move to Intel, there's been huge flurries of excitement as commercial virtualization products like VMWare and Parallels and open-source products like VirtualBox improved their offerings.

If you use a lot of windows on your desktop and need to rapidly resize them at times then I have found "the tool for you.
NewsGator Enterprise Server free for 20 usersSource: rassoc.com
Newsgator, the RSS company who recently changed their desktop news readers from shareware to freeware, has revised their license for their enterprise server.
You can now download a free 20-user version of NewsGator Enterprise Server, install it, and use it!

Most of the time, I'm at my computer. Or near it. And if I had an internet device like a Nokia N810 or an iPod Touch, I'd have it with me 24/7.

If you type a lot (and chances are that if you are reading htis, you do) you probably know and are slightly worried about that horrible disorder known as carpal tunnel syndrome, a form of repetitive strain injury (RSI) common among keyboarders.
It Should Be FreeSource: Eater
Leo Laporte is one of the most supportive advocates for independent software developers that I have had the pleasure of (virtually) meeting.
Game Giveaway of the Day: Mad CarsSource: indiegames.com
Game Giveaway of the Day currently has Realore Studios' Mad Cars up for free download, and according to the Retro Remakes gang it's a decent game - especially if you're a fan of the original SuperCars series. The offer is still valid for another eight hours.

Nobody's ever called me rich before and I have no shame recognizing that I generally dont find myself paying for software applications.
SimCity Source Code Released Into The WildSource: ASP.NET News
This past holiday (I've been bugging him since November about it) my good friend Don Hopkins got a lot of work done on the finishing touches on releasing the original SimCity source code under the GNU General Public Library (GPL).