Over 40 GIMP Plugins

December 24th, 2007

Free Software

If you are like most of the world and can’t afford a copy of Adobe Photoshop, a popular free alternative is the open source software known as GIMP. I think most people would agree that Photoshop is still a much better software, but it is always hard to beat free. Another advantage [...]

SnagIt Screen Capture Software Now Available….For Free

November 26th, 2007

Free Software

For close to two years now, I have been using SnagIt for all my screen capturing needs. Despite several free alternatives, I felt that this software did a better job of giving me the tools that I needed, so I dropped roughly $40.00 on this software and haven’t looked back.
Today I noticed that TechSmith [...]

Avast Reaches 40 Million Users

October 24th, 2007

Free Software

Over the past couple of years, I’ve spent a lot of time talking about free software, mostly because I am very passionate about open source.   There is a ton of great freeware out there, and I actually believe that many of the free anti-virus software available is better than their paid alternatives such as Norton. 
I’ve talked [...]

Mozilla Launches InstantBird – New Instant Messenger

October 19th, 2007

Free Software

Mozilla fans rejoice!   Fans of Firefox, Thunderbird, and/or Songbird applications will be pleased to see that Mozilla has just entered into the instant messenger market with the release of beta version 0.1 of InstantBird, which is available for Windows, Apple, and Linux users.  This beta version still includes some bugs and some problems with Ubuntu [...]

Happy Software Freedom Day!

September 15th, 2007

Free Software

One of my favorite things that go along with running this website is getting the opportunity to explore all sorts of free software, including open source software.  It never ceases to amaze me that such high quality software is available to anyone (non-commerical) at no cost to the user. 
Unfortunately, there are still many people that [...]

Should Anti-Virus Software Go Open Source?

September 2nd, 2007

Free Software

Currently many web surfers make the terrible mistake of using one of several paid anti-virus softwares on the market, such as the popular Norton and McAfee softwares. Not only are they not the best anti-virus software available, but if you were to ever take the time to look into it a little bit, you [...]