Blogs Posts in Software Freebies category; 54 blog posts

Free software group backs WebM in H.264 row

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has thrown its support behind Google’s decision to ditch the H.264 codec from its HTML5 video plans. Google, which said the move was intended to strengthen its open standard WebM alternative, has [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Sheriff offers free software to help combat cyber-bullying

The Flagler County Sheriff's Office is offering computer software to parents to help them monitor what happens on social networking sites in hopes of preventing cyber-bullying. Two Flagler County middle school students were recently [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Mangalore: Free software to check cyber crimes launched

The police hosted a workshop for cyber caf owners here on Monday. Nearly 200 cyber caf owner participated in it. A free cyber caf security software was launched by Ideacts Innovations Ltd on the occasion. The objective of the worksh [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Withdraws Free Software Deal, Overwhelmed by Priva...

Remember yesterday when I told you that you could get a boatload of free software from Microsoft, including Vista and Office, for allowing them to track your computer usage for a few months? Well, apparently a lot of you jumped on [...]

Posted On : Sep, 07 2010 | Comments : 0

Premier Farnell launches enhanced free EAGLE software versio...

Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl), the leading multi-channel, high service distributor, has announced the launch of EAGLE software version 5.8. This enhanced version of CadSoft's award winning software, Europe's best selling CAD tool [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Jailbreak and Unlock iPhone 3G/2G 3.1.3 version with free so...

Apple’s iPhone seems to have taken its admirers for something called mass hysteria. There always has been a lot of anticipation and waiting for the company’s latest version of the iPhone in the market. Apple successfully deve [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Nokia 5235 with one year free software offers access to musi...

The Finnish mobile phone manufacturer has introduced the Nokia 5235 a new model of its series “Comes with Music”. The handset comes with device’s software, which allows a year of free access to the approximately six millio [...]

Posted On : Dec, 14 2009 | Comments : 0

Free (Legal) Engineering Software for Students

Students with an ITLabs Account at the University of Minnesota have access to a wide range of free software (legally) for their personal computer. This includes software ranging from Microsoft Windows to Microsoft Office to ProEngineer to M [...]

Posted On : Sep, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

Free Software Foundation trashes Windows 7

And that's exactly what the Free Software Foundation plans to do on Wednesday, staging a demonstration in Boston where it will encourage businesses to throw away Microsoft Windows in favor of free alternatives. In addition to the public d [...]

Posted On : Aug, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

Microsoft offering free software!

YEOVIL MP David Laws has encouraged local charities to apply for free software from Microsoft. Microsoft have written to Mr Laws about their software donation programme, which is run in conjunction with the Charity Technology Trust. [...]

Posted On : Aug, 05 2009 | Comments : 0

Free software: How it drives AVG's business

Chris Anderson's new book, Free, explores the direction part of our economy is taking -- a direction in which the infinitely copyable, ie digital content, gravitates towards costing nothing, with revenue generated via other means. To Anders [...]

Posted On : Jul, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Offers Free Tool To Troubleshoot Office Bugs

whether an Office file contains malicious content. Microsoft also provided updates on the three security collaboration programs it first announced last year at Black Hat, the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP), the Microsoft [...]

Posted On : Jul, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

Free Software Foundation Waves Developers Off Mono & C#

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) doesn’t like Microsoft, doesn’t like software patents, it especially doesn’t like Microsoft’s patents, and it doesn’t trust the two of them in the same room together. It&rsqu [...]

Posted On : Jul, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

The Best Free Desktop Software for an SMB

I've always been on the lookout for free software that I can use in the course of my daily work. Beyond the notion of getting a freebie, though, what is truly important is that the application must work better than the default software it i [...]