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Bare Bones relinquishes Mailsmith, now freeware
Source: 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 free
Source: 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.

OmniWeb, three other Omni apps available as freeware
Source: Yahoo! Tech - Daily Features

The Omni Group on Tuesday decided to make three of its apps available as freeware. The applications are available for download with no restrictions.

10 Ways To Trick Out Your Netbook for Free
Source: 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.

9 Downloads to Free Yourself from iTunes
Source: MSN

Nine free downloads promise to help you get the most out of your iPod -- without iTunes. See more irresistible headlines

24 Great Open Source Apps for Admins & Technicians
Source: 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.

10 amazingly alternative operating systems and what they could mean for the future
Source: royal.pingdom.com

This post is about the desktop operating systems that fly under the radar of most people. We are definitely not talking about Windows, Mac OS X or Linux, or even BSD or Solaris. There are much less mainstream options out there for the OS-curious.

24 Killer Portable Apps For Your USB Flash Drive - Download Squad
Source: 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 freeware
Source: 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.

Open It Online - Firefox Extension for opening docs in Zoho, GDocs, and Thinkfree
Source: ghacks.net

Open It Online is a Firefox extensions that is compatible with Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 and offering the user a way to open and edit documents directly online.

Firefox 3 Download Day falls flat on face
Source: 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.

andLinux: A great way to virtualize Linux inside of Windows

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.

Sizer - Quickly Resize Windows

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 users
Source: 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!

Land of the Freeware: Making and receiving free phone calls via any computer or internet-enabled device with GrandCentral

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.

100 of the Best (Useful) OpenSource Applications
Source: ubuntulinuxhelp.com

100 applications that look either cool or just plain useful all free and available for Linux

Land of the Freeware: Workrave, a great way to kiss RSI good-bye

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 Free
Source: Eater

Leo Laporte is one of the most supportive advocates for independent software developers that I have had the pleasure of (virtually) meeting.

100-downloads.com | Top-100 downloads of free software & freeware for Windows XP & Vista
Source: Microsoft and Mozilla & 100-downloads. most e

This is a extremely good free software list. No trash or tricks. While there is no way to personally download & test each one. But am familiar with and using a large group of them and know that they are as good as they get.

Game Giveaway of the Day: Mad Cars
Source: 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.

The Poor Man's Software Review: NetNewsWire

Nobody's ever called me rich before and I have no shame recognizing that I generally dont find myself paying for software applications.

Copilot is now free on weekends - Joel on Software
Source: joelonsoftware.com

Remember Fog Creek Copilot? The app that our 2005 interns built that lets you remote control someone's computer over the Internet to help them with technical problems?

IndieGames.com's Best Freeware Adventure Games 2007
Source: indiegames.com

The third of the 2007 Best Of Features here on the IndieGames.com.blog, we're proud to present twenty of the best freeware adventure games released in 2007.

SimCity Source Code Released Into The Wild
Source: 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).

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