Comments on: Free stuff

By: Lawrence D'Oliveiro

Lawrence D'Oliveiro — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:26:49 +0000

How about some free books?

http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=4491

By: Brenda

Brenda — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:54:45 +0000

last.fm has heaps of free music downloads

By: Seth Wagoner

Seth Wagoner — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:50:41 +0000

Firefox, and all the wonderful free add-ons in the directory at addons.mozilla.org

Wikipedia. :-)

By: Brenda

Brenda — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:04:01 +0000

joyent.com give out free facebook app hosting on solaris with 2 Quad-Core Xeons, un-metered bandwidth, 1/32 of CPU usage. 512MB ram and 10GB space

http://www.joyent.com/developers/facebook

who wouldn’t want that?

By: Stuart Barson

Stuart Barson — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:21:14 +0000

doodle.com provides really easy scheduling of meetings, kind of like crowd sourcing: it’s a great way of finding the time that everyone can meet without going backwards and forwards normally required.
Perfect for committees, groups etc.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:37:43 +0000

People that enjoy Stellarium might also like to travel further with Celestia http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:41:54 +0000

I strongly second Evernote, Dropbox, Gmail, NetNewsWire (or presumably FeedDemon for Windows) and Skype.

I’d add Google Earth, Stellarium for anyone even slightly interested in the night sky, and Twitterific for Mac users.

By: Ben Milsom

Ben Milsom — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:08:14 +0000

We love Adempiere – just like SAP but open source and free!

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:36:01 +0000

I guess most of the listeners will be Windows users, so perhaps you need to cater to them.

Is there a decent free antivirus software for Windows? AVG used to do one.

The best browsers are free; Firefox, Chrome, Opera.

OpenOffice is a free alternative to the expensive suite from that other company.

VLC is an excellent video player, handles many different codecs, and available for Windows, Linux, etc.

Or, go the whole hog, have only free software on your computer; Linux! It is a little different, so takes some learning, but a must for anyone serious about computing (even if only on a part time basis) and great for those who want to tinker or learn more about computing.

By: Lawrence D'Oliveiro

Lawrence D'Oliveiro — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:34:07 +0000

Some useful links here

http://wlug.org.nz/LinuxEquivalentsForWindowsSoftware