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The Almost Daily Freeware Podcast discuss all things freeware for you windows, mac, linux, and even iPhone uses on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. This Podcast was created using www.talkshoe.com
On the last episode of the week Billy shares his love of star bucks and their new iPhone app
On todays show Aaron tries to convince Billy he should use this news site and not just RSS Feeds
On this Mondays edition Billy tells us all about Flixter for the iPhone - a movie lovers dream app.
To round off this weeks shows we take a look at Social Median, a great website that lets users create their own uniquely personalised news network.
On this Wednesday edition of the podcast, Billy tells us about the new official iPhone App from Flickr.
On todays show we discuss the new features included in the latest version of iTunes from Apple.
On the show today Aaron talks about Spotify a streaming music service for UK listeners.
On todays show we discuss all things Kindle including their recent iPhone app, for kindle users.
On Todays show we talk about the iphone 3gs and Qiks new video streaming app. Hint Billy is not happy!
On this episode of the show Billy talks about a cool new location based application for your iPhone 3GS.
On this Friday edition of the show Billy & Aaron exchange weird laws using their iPhones. Search for the phrase Weird Laws in the itunes store for Aaron and Billys choice apps
Today Billy has a free iPhone app for use in the US & Canada. What's on TV gives you full tv listings for many cable, satellite and over the air stations.
On todays episode Aaron reviews a handy application for TV junkies ( UK only ) for more info and download links visit http://www.adamdawes.com/windows/win_tellyprompter.html
On todays end of the week episode Billy Reviews the photo sharing website DailyBooth. http://dailybooth.com/
This episode Aaron tells us about a couple of handy iPhone Apps to help your inner chemistry nerd.
On todays episode Billy and Aaron discuss Skype's free iPhone / iPod Touch application. You can find out more & download this free application via the iTunes App Store. Enjoy!
Happy Friday everyone and welcome to the final episode of the week of The Almost Daily Freeware Podcast. Today if you have an iPhone you will love this app called iHut from Pizza Hut. Hope you enjoy a slice for Aaron and Billy and have a good weekend.
Happy Wednesday everyone (first day of senior year for Billy), today we are saving you tons of money with Sun's Virtual Box which is a FREE way to run windows on your Mac.
Happy Monday to you all, hope you had a great weekend, today we have a great website for you all to enjoy called Posterous. Its like the pipeline of the internet. Have a listen and remember to follow us on Twitter at Twitter.com/AlmostDFP
Today on the show Billy chooses one of his favourite iPhone games. Mega Man II Lite (free)
For information and to download visit the app store using iTunes.
Please note this Lite (free) version only contains the Woodland stage, the full game can also be purchased in the iTunes App Store
On todays show Aaron talks about a fun new way to choose a restaurant with his iPhone. You can try it yourself by downloading UrbanSpoon via the iTunes app store.
Today on the show Billy talks about Brightkite and their iPhone / iPod Touch app. Brightkite is a social networking service based on the location of your friends and places they visit. To sign up go to www.brightkite.com
Happy Friday everyone, today we have for you a awesome free iPhone game called Paper Toss, hope you all enjoy the show and have fun playing with this awesome game. See you all Monday and have a safe weekend.
Hello Everybody, welcome back to a beautiful wednesdays episode of the Almost Daily Freeware Podcast. Ping.fm is our web app of the day which links up all your social networks together. Follow ADFP on Twitter at Twitter.com/AlmostDFP.
Welcome back to our 131st episode of The Almost Daily Freeware Podcast, we are back from a 9 month hiatious. Today Aaron and Billy will be talking about an amazing little Twitter app for the Mac (and iPhone) called Tweetie. Send all your comments and feedback about the show to dailyfreewarepodcast@gmail.com
This is Aaron and Billy's Last Episode of The Almost Daily Freeware Podcast. Thanks for listening
Today Billy talks about a free wikipedia app for the iphone, Aaron talks about a free but kind of pointless application for people who like to take polls. Plus a random chat about ebay.
These applications can be downloaded free from Apple's iTunes Store
It's a Wednesday and today the guys talk about a system preference plug-in for Mac OS X
'RCDefaultApp is a Mac OS X 10.2 or higher preference pane that allows a user to set the default application used for various URL schemes, file extensions, file types, MIME types, and Uniform Type Identifiers '
to find out more info and download a copy goto http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/
It's Monday and we are back!
Today the guys dive into CD-Burner XP for Windows users.
Create CD/DVD HD-DVD's and Blu-Ray disks Create Audio Cd's from, wav,wma mp3 and other formats Convert iso files into CD's and DVD's
You can get this application from http://cdburnerxp.se
also in this episode a short conversation on illness and iTunes 8
This Friday on the DFP we talk about iStat Menus for the mac.
some key menus are: CPU usage. 7 display modes, multiple core support. Monitor cpu usage for individual processes. Memory usage. 4 display modes, page ins/outs and swap usage display. Monitor memory usage for individual processes. Disks usage and activity. 6 display modes and the ability to hide disks you don't want to see. Monitor networking. Current and total bandwidth, peak bandwidth and IP addresses. PPP Controls for 10.5 users. Temperatures. Monitor the temperature of your Mac with 2 display modes and the ability to hide sensors you don't want to see. Fans & Power. Monitor the fan speeds, voltages, current and power usage, in your Mac. 2 display modes and the ability to hide sensors you don't want to see.
find out lots more and grab your own copy from www.islayer.com
It's a big day here on the show this Wednesday aaron picks a free creativity suite for Windows users from Serif.
FreeSerifSoftware.com allows users to download full featured free versions of its top creative applications,
PhotoPlus 6 is the perfect choice for editing and enhancing your digital images and photos for print, email and the web. PagePlus SE is a great way to get into desktop publishing and easily design professional-looking documents for every occasion. WebPlus SE lets you quickly design and publish stunning websites - no HTML or previous web design experience required!
Plus
DrawPlus 4 has all the power and tools you need to create attention-grabbing logos, striking text and artistic masterpieces. 3DPlus 2 can help you add a new dimension to your website graphics, presentations and desktop publishing projects.
download all of this for free, visit http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
Kick starting this weeks application picks the guys discuss bandwidth caps and an easy way windows users can keep an eye on just how much bandwidth you're PC is pulling.
Net Meter monitors network traffic through all network connections on the computer it's installed on, and displays real-time graphical and numerical downloading and uploading speeds.
To Download it go to http://www.hootech.com/NetMeter/
Today n the show, the guys talk about their favorite RSS Readers.
Billy uses a free application called Net News Wire that is now also able to run on the iPhone. Find out more over at www.newsgator.com
Aaron prefers to use web based apps for news, so he chooses Google Reader, This can also be used on almost any device that has an internet connection, such as an iPhone sign up for this free service by going to www.reader.google.com
On this Wednesday's edition of the show we review a couple of versions of 'trailers', a must have iphone application for any movie lover
To find out way more and download these applications visit the iTunes App store
Today on the show billy talks to us about cube runner a fast paced game for the iPhone.
To download cube runner visit the app store within iTunes.
It's Friday and today the guys talk about a great streaming music application for you iPhone pr iPod Touch.
Last.fm is a social media website for music lovers.
Listen to over five million songs, Share music via your phone contacts Purchase tracks and albums from the iTunes Music Store
Download this application via the Itunes App Store.
Sign up and create your own last fm profile by going to http://www.last.fm
Today on the podcast we discuss a free windows text to speech application called Speakonia.
Features include: Clipboard Reading (Whenever something is copied to the clipboard Speakonia reads it aloud) Let Speakonia read your Email for you Speakonia supports many TTS Engines TTS Engines are available in different languages (From Microsoft ®: French, German, Italian and more) Wave Export
to get your copy goto http://www.cfs-technologies.com
Today we take a close look at Magnifier
A free open source screen magnification application for Windows, Linux and Mac.
some features include:
Multi-monitor support Lens height and width can have any size Mouse scroll-wheel now controls zoom factor Variable scale factor from 1x to 32x
For download links, full support info and shortcut key guide head on over to http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/
Rounding off this weeks bundle of applications the guys discuss a windows application launcher.
"PStart is a simple tray tool to start user defined applications. Designed to run portable applications (like portable Firefox & Thunderbird), you can start anything runnable from USB key devices or removable disks."
this application can also be used to launch documents and applications which are stored on your windows computer also .
Find out more at http://www.pegtop.de/start/
Today Aaron tells Billy about a free almost iphoto like application for windows users.
Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.
Key Features such as: Viewer: View your folders photos, slideshow cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming Batch editor: Batch editing multiple photos Page: Make one photo by merging multiple photos at the page frame Combine: Make one photo by attaching multiple photos vertically or horizontally Animated GIF: Make one animation photo with multiple photos and more get your copy now from http://photoscape.org
Kicking off this week Billy tells us about a super media streaming service.
Simplify Media allows users to stream music files from their Windows, Linux PC or Mac and now iPhone.
some iphone features include
Stream your music over WiFi, EDGE and 3G
Navigate fast by artist, album and genre
Enjoy artist bios and lyrics. Cover art coming soon.
goto http://www.simplifymedia.com to set it up now.
On this Tuesday episode of the show, we talk about a great looking desktop enchancer for Windows XP / Vista.
'360desktop transforms your desktop into a panoramic workspace - with more space for everything. Slide around your new workspace quickly and easily between all your open applications, windows and widgets - it'll spin you out.'
for more info and a pretty good demo video goto http://www.360desktop.com/media.php
On this episode Aaron and Billy dive into deeper for Mac OS X.
'Deeper is a personalization utility for Mac OS X. Deeper allows you to enable and disable the hidden functions of Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, Safari, Login window and many Apple's applications'
find ouyt more and downkload this application form http://www.titanium.free.fr/
Today on the show Aaron and Billy go back to the 80's of console gaming with www.nintendo8.com (Java required)
Hosting over 90 original nintendo 8 bit games you can have hours of fun just on this one site!
Also in this show we discuss our favorite games of the past.
Today on the show Billy introduces is to orb, a multimedia streaming service for windows users.
using Orb you can send your video, music and photos up to the cloud and then watch them on your mobile [phone, iphone, games console or even your digital photo-frame.
For more info goto www.orb.com
To kick start this week of freeware goodness we talk about eBay Desktop for ebay members.
Running on Windows Mac and even linux (Adobe Air required) the app allows members to bid, sell and manage settings without using the website.
Download adobe air from http://get.adobe.com/air/ Linux users can get air beta from http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/ and finally instal the ebay app from http://desktop.ebay.com/
To end this week Aaron talks about format factory for Windows.
Using format factory users can resize and convert almost any video audio and picture formats in just a few clicks of your mouse.
Convert VMV Divx DVD and many more MP3, AAC, and ORG audio TIFF, JPG and BMP images
download it free now from http://formatoz.com/index.htm
today on the podcast we talk about two more iTunes App Store picks for your iPhone / iPod Touch.
TapTap Revenge a small Guitar hero like game and Where? a nice location based gps app designed to help you find out where the nearest star-bucks is and cheap fuel for your car / bike plus much more!
both of these are availible for free in the iTunes App Store
On this monday edition of the show, Aaron and Billy talk about a recently discovered tool for Mac os X.
With Grab Up installed and a connection to the internet established users can post screenshots to the web automatically, after a few seconds a link will then appear in your clipboard for you to paste into whatever application you wish so that you can share shots with family and friends.
download it from http://www.grabup.com/
It's Tuesday and we have another super handy mac application kindly supplied by listener Alex Anderson.
'Wraparound is an application primarily intended for users with large and/or multiple screens, which allows the mouse cursor to "wrap" around the screens. Rather than spending time and energy moving the cursor across the screen, from one side to the other, simply drag it off one edge and it immediately appears on the other side.'
grab a copy from http://www.digicowsoftware.com/detail?_app=Wraparound
Today on the show we get an application from a listener.Listener Alex Anderson suggested a mac app called cord:â??CoRD is a Mac OS X remote desktop client for Microsoft Windows servers using the rdp protocol. It is easy to use, fast, and free for anyone to use or modify.â??Download cord from http://cord.sourceforge.net/index.html
Today on our 100th episode we discuss one of Aaron's favorite iphone / ipod touch applications,
The Mobile News Network from the Associated Press allows users to surf the latest wire stories right from their apple mobile device, also includes photos and even videos.
you can get more info and download this mobile application from the iTunes Store by using this link
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284901416&mt=8
Thanks for a fantastic 100 episodes, both Billy and Aaron look forward to bringing you the next 100 episodes over the coming months.
Today on the show Billy and Aaron, both self confessed facebook addicts discuss the new and official iphone native application. the app provides all the usual facebook goodness as well as:
Facebook IM ability built in
Full facebook inbox support ( reply and send messages within the application.
Post pictures ti your profile direct from your iPhone
Users of both iPod Touch and iPhones can download and install this free from the iTunes Application Store,
On this exciting mondays episode of DFP we have a special software update for you iPhone and iPod Touch Owners.
With this update you can now save images, have a scientific calculator, mass deleted and move emails, and of course install native 3rd party applications through the long awaited app store.
You can find the software update by going to iTunes and clicking the Update button for your iPhone and iPod Touch.
Aaron talks about one of his favorite iphone web apps. Google News for the iPhone does exactly what its meant to do.
Bringing you a collection of top news stories from many different sources and countries right on your iPhone or even iPod Touch.
See it for yourselves at http://www.google.com/m/news/i
Today billy and aaron talk about Facebook's mobile safari web app for use with Apple's iPhone or iPod Touch.
This app allows you to take facebook with you and always be upto date with what your friends are doing.
You can visit the site using your Ipod Touch or iPhone www.iphone.facebbook.com
Tuesdays episode of DFP brings to you a little app for OSX called QuickShareIt
QuickShareIt is a Mac OS X utility that works on Tiger and Leopard designed to let users upload files quickly.
You can fins QuickShareIt at http://www.quickshareit.com/
Tweak-UI is a free 'power-toy from Microsoft.
With this free application users can customize the windows user interface to their hearts content
more information can be found at http://www.tech-faq.com/tweak-ui.shtml
download Tweak-UI from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Today on the show we talk about mac maintenance with a free application from Mac Dentro called IceClean.
for more info on IceClean head on over to http://www.macdentro.com/MacDentro/Home.html
Today on the show Aaron talks about a free application for streaming web radio on your mac.
Find out more about FStream at http://sourcemac.com/
Todays freeware pick comes from Billy.
Using DVD Shrink windows users can easily and quickly make full copies and even re-author and compress their DVD's to smaller sizes.
Features Include
Remove Region encoding Remove special features and unwanted audio tracks Built in DVD Burning
Downloadable from http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_shrink.cfm and works with windows 98, 2000 NT and XP
Today Billy tells us about a portable version of Thunderbird.
With a simple install users can now take their email and rss feeds with them using this simple install package and a USB Thumb-drive.
To get the lowdown on this application head on over to http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable
On this Tuesdays edition of the show Billy tells us how to take skype to every windows computer that you use.
Portable allows you to install Skype on a USB Thumb-Drive. Skype
More information and download link can be found at http://portableapps.com/node/751
Friday means game day, and today on the DFP we talk about an open source Racing simulator.
TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator)
"TORCS features more than 50 different cars, more than 20 tracks, and 50 opponents to race against. Your can steer with a joystick or steering wheel, if the device is supported by your platform. It is also possible to drive with the mouse or the keyboard. Graphic features lighting, smoke, skidmarks and glowing brake disks. The simulation features a simple damage model, collisions, tire and wheel properties (springs, dampers, stiffness, ...), aerodynamics (ground effect, spoilers, ...) and much more. The gameplay allows different types of races from the simple practice session up to the championship. Enjoy racing against your friends in the split screen mode with up to four human players."
This application can be downloaded from http://torcs.sourceforge.net/index.php and can be used on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux
Its Thursday and today Billy Talks about a more mobile version of firefox
With Portable Firefox you can take your browser complete with all of your settings and bookmarks with you on a thumb-drive usb stick.
More information can be found over at http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/testIts Thursday and today Billy Talks about a more mobile version of firefox
With Portable Firefox you can take your browser complete with all of your settings and bookmarks with you on a thumb-drive usb stick.
More information can be found over at http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test
Today on the show Aaron talks about Celestia an open source app that lets users discover pretty much the entire solar system.
You can download ad ons that help you to plot the current orbit of many NASA and other spacecraft. As well as many fictional aspects from Star Trek and Star-Wars
To take a look at some images and download Celestia goto http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
Today Billy talks about a multi platform password storing application called KeyPass.
Users can use this application to keep track off all of their personal passwords in windows linux and even other devices such as your blackberry
features include Export To TXT, HTML, XML and CSV Files Import From Many File Formats Easy Database Transfer Support of Password Groups Time Fields and Entry Attachments Auto-Type, Global Auto-Type Hot Key and Drag&Drop
You can get it from http://keepass.info/
Today we re-visit one of our favorite apps. AVG have recently updated their Anti Virus suite to version 8.0
The new release provides:
Better comparability with Windows Vista. Built in link scanner and malware protection combined.
Download this updated version from http://free.grisoft.com/
On this friday edition of the show billy talks about iDMG, a free file compression application only for Mac OS X leopard.
'iDMG is an easy to use application to create .dmg files of a folder with a simple drag and drop. Is a native cocoa application. Supports encryption, internet enable and much more. ! '
to find out more and download iDMG goto http://web.mac.com/patrickjamelo/
Today on the show it's all about backups. Drive Snapshot is a free simple to use all in one backup solution for windows users.
With Drive Snapshot users can: Do a full backup (while still running windows and continuing to work) backup selected items only. Create an emergency boot disk and more...
All the information and a download link can be found at http://www.drivesnapshot.de/
Today on the show we are joined by a guest co host, Steve from the fabulous Podnutz podcast. find out more about Steve and listen to his latest show ( episode 14) an hour long interview with both Billy and myself. by going to www.podnutz.com
Steve tells us about a free Windows only application to help users view files stored on their hard drives. SpaceMonger v1.04 provides a simple to use interface for locating those pesky space eating files and then deleting them once and for all with a simple click of your mouse.
To download SpaceMonger visit http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/v1x.php
Aaron intros Irfanview a free windows graphics editor.
features include:
Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc. Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD) Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc. Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters Batch conversion (with image processing) Multipage TIF editing Email option Multimedia player and many more
Grab your copy today by visiting http://www.irfanview.com/
Today Billy tells us about a eat little Post it note application for Mac OS X.
Stick-It lets users jot down small notes (just like Mac OS X's built in dashboard application only This one gives you a few more advanced options like the ability to lock a note to avoid accidental loss of data.
Download Stick-It from http://www.johnjoyce.org/stickit.html
Today on the Daily Freeware Podcast we talk about an internet explorer alternative for windows users.
Maxthon is a fully featured web browser that comes complete with:
Mouse gestures Plugins Super drag and drop A built in Ad Hunter / Blocker and much more
Check it out over at http://www.maxthon.com/
On todays edition we talk about Microsoft's upcoming release of internet explorer.
This ie 8 beta features an improved privacy / phishing filter
Web Slices and also pretty tight integration with many of Microsoft's other services such as mail, maps and spaces
to try out the demo and get further info on the future of IE visit. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/features.mspx
Today we talk about Apple's web browser Safari.
Running on OS X and now Windows XP / Vista Apple's Safari provides a fast light weight browsing experience, complete with pop up blocker built in RSS reader and privacy settings.
To get more information and to start using Safari, goto www.apple.com/safari
This Friday's game is Assault Cuber form he people over at http://assault.cubers.net/
'AssaultCube, formerly ActionCube, is a free first-person-shooter based on the game Cube. Set in a realistic looking environment, as far as that´s possible with this engine, while gameplay stays fast and arcade. This game is all about team oriented multiplayer fun.'
download it from http://assault.cubers.net/This Friday's game is Assault Cuber form he people over at http://assault.cubers.net/
'AssaultCube, formerly ActionCube, is a free first-person-shooter based on the game Cube. Set in a realistic looking environment, as far as that´s possible with this engine, while gameplay stays fast and arcade. This game is all about team oriented multiplayer fun.'
download it from http://assault.cubers.net/
Open with Manager is a Mac OS X that allows users to control; which applications can open many different video and picture files by default.
With open with manager you can tell all of your .GIFs and JPEGs BMPs and TIFFs to open up with photoshop or preview with a few simple clicks of your mouse.
download this application from http://www.manytricks.com/openwithmanager/
Today on the DFP we discover time Tube.
Time Tube is a new web service that allows users to search for youtube videos and then places them in a variety of time line formats.
try it out over at http://www.dipity.com/mashups/timetube
Its twitter day here on the DFP, Twhirl is a new and upcoming lightweight twitter client that runs on both mac OS X and Windows. Requires Adobe Air install also, find out more at http://www.twhirl.org/
Todays application is a handy little application for all Macintosh notebook owners. Insomnia X is a small simple utility that does one thing. when enabled it keeps your mac awake stopping it from sleeping even when you have your notebook lid closed.
More information found at http://semaja2.net/insomniaxinfo
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Today we talk about a free online software tracking community, Wakoopa tracks what kind of software or games you use, and lets you create your own software profile so that your friends can keep track of which applications you have running on your computer in realtime. To signup and start sharing goto www.wakoopa.com
Have you ever had an app crash on you and just wanted to tear it apart with your bare hands... well then iBlend IT is the fun gadget you've been looking for: not much more to say other than go download it from http://fernlightning.com/
Permanent Eraser for Mac provides an even stronger level of security by implementing the Gutmann Method. This utility overwrites your data thirty-five times, scrambles the original file name, and truncates the file size to nothing before Permanent Eraser finally unlinks it from the system. Once your data has been erased, it can no longer be read through traditional means.
download it from http://www.edenwaith.com/products/permanenteraser/
Todays application is BZ Flag an open source online only multi player tank game!
BZ Flag allows you to game over the internet in either capture the flag or shoot to kill style rounds. More info can be found at http://bzflag.org/
We're back from are week of rest proudly bringing you another great freeware application. Billy's all about blackjack today with BlackJack Internation for Mac and Windows users. This colorful game features such as:
Pick one of sixteen countries and bet with items unique to each nation Configure any table rule imaginable including decks, penetration, dealer hitting, double after split, etc. View your "Report Card" at any time and examine detailed analysis of your performance Turn on hints so you learn exactly what is the correct move in any given situation.
To learn more and start playing head to http://www.candywriter.com/bji.html
Super Tux Kart is a free open source racing game based on that old retro classic Mario Kart!
Running on Windows Mac and Linux this fun filled colorful game comes packed with the following features:
12 tracks Multiplayer support Grandprix Single Race Time Trail
You can download it at http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/
Cool PDF Reader is a free very lightweight Adobe Reader alternative for windows users.
features include: The ability to View and print PDF Files ad free Quickly convert any PDF File into either TXT or graphics formats such as BMP EPS and JPG. Supports all the current versions of adobe made PDF files. and its on
It's all in the timing, today on the DFP we're talking alarm clocks. Alarm Clock 2 for Mac OS X lets you set as many different alarms as you want, wake up to your favorite itunes playlist and also setup countdown timers.
Get this application from http://www.robbiehanson.com/alarmclock/
Today's freeware pick comes in the form of a secure hard drive erase tool for windows users.
"Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect. "
More info and a download link can be found by visiting http://dban.sourceforge.net/
Today Billy and Aaron discuss a new multi client VoIP app for both mac and windows.
Oovoo is a new beta app that lets its users use both voice and video chat to talk with up to 5 other people! Basically think Skype but with more people. the website also talks up the ability to make calls to landlines for free.
Grab your copy at www.oovoo.com
With Social Thing users can collate all of there friends feeds from loads of different social networks such as Twitter and Pownce as well as Flickr.
Also once setup you can post in social thing and have the messages replicated for free over many of your social networks.
To sign up for a beta account goto www.socialthing.com
Today Billy and Aaron talk about a couple of easy to use WiFi tools for Mac OS X
With iStumbler and Air Traffic Control you can poll the different access points surrounding your mac, it also displays information regarding signal strength as well as frequency and channel number.
Download iStumbler from www.istumbler.net Download Air Traffic Control from http://www.spintriplet.com/atc/
Internet anonymity is todays topic of conversation, namely The Onion Router.
TOR for short this really nifty little app acts as a personal proxy server within your Mac Windows or Linux system. TOR acts by spreading your IP traffic through many other servers before reaching the desired website or destination on the web, effectively making your internet activities anonymous.
More details and install guides can be found at www.torproject.org
Today on the show Aaron and Billy discuss Steve Gibson's Shields Up.
Steve's free online firewall port testing service send packets or data streams to your NAT Router / Firewall and then reporting back to you letting you know if your device is as secure as it should be.
For a whole lot more info and to run the test yourself goto to www.grc.com
This week Billy and Aaron are talking security applications, today it's the turn of AVG Antivirus protection for windows users.
AVG Free is fast light weight and very reliable. complete with secure vault and Automatic update features AVG provides a realtime protection for home users.
more info can be found at http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-virus/us/frt/0
It's another Friday and to end the week Aaron and Billy talk about a free iPhoto alternative for windows, Google Picasa gives users a single environment to import edit, sort and even upload / order prints of your best digital photos.
Simple, Slick looking and powerful its a must try for windows photographers
More info at http://picasa.google.com/
This Thursdays edition of the DFP brings you FreeMind, a free open source mind mapping software application used mostly for presenting vast amounts of information in a single diagram.
This application is for Windows Mac and Linux Please note FreeMind requires the Sun Java Runtime to be installed.
More info found at http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Today billy and Aaron discuss a brad new and FREE product from Adobe.
Photoshop Express offers it's users a simple yet good looking online way to import edit and even upload their digital pictures to a community site.
Take a look by going to https://www.photoshop.com/express/
Tuesdays DFP brings from the first time in Daily Freeware Podcast history 2 applications on 1 episode. We have Time Machine Scheduler and TimeMachineEditor. Both of the apps have the same general idea, but 1 does something the other doesn't. You can find TimeMachine Scheduler at http://www.klieme.com/TimeMachineScheduler.html
And TimeMachineEditor at http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/
It's a brand new week on the DFP and today we are talking about a free open source vector graphics app called InkScape. This near Adobe Illustrator alternative offers all the commonly used tools and is a must try for anybody who wishes to learn vector based illustration on the cheap. Fun, fast and pretty powerful i am sure you will love this one.
For more info goto http://www.inkscape.org/ also be sure to check out this awesome tutorial site http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/
Today of the DFP we talk about Skitch, Skitch is from the same people that make the great Comic Life ( free on most macs.) â?? Skitch is an amazingly fun and super useful duo. Everyday we all share images, ideas and have fun with friends online.â?? for more goto www.skitch.com
Todays topic of conversation is Coconut battery, this small utily allwoows mac notebook owners to check the status and overall health of your battery.
Today Aaron reviews Quicksilver for the Mac. This unique app laugher and shortcut utility allows users to gain control over apps with the use of a few key commands saving you some serious time.
To download goto http://www.blacktree.com/ For more info visit http://docs.blacktree.com/quicksilver/what_is_quicksilver
also check out these demo videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBvFUhTqKK4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EydTYOeqIrk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DYb56xxnh4
also this demo from merlin mann is pretty good
http://www.themerlinshow.com/ep/006-howto-quicksilver-comma-trick
Today we talk about the new version of RealPlayer for Mac OS X, RealPlayer 11.
Features include:
Video downloading: if you want to download that youtube or other embedded clip, this is the tool for you! Live Pause and much more. For more info check out http://www.real.com
Ever wanted to make your windows PC look and feel more like a mac?
Today introduces RocketDock. Put simply this little app adds a Mac os X like dock to your windows desktop, allowing users to drag and drop applications for quick access.
No more navigating complex drill down menus to find and run that game, just drag, drop, and click.
For more info and a pretty good video demo head on over to http://rocketdock.com/
Its Friday WooHoo. And on todays episode of Daily Freeware Podcast we are bringing to the table Growl. Growl is a notification tool for Mac OSX. Have it assigned to Skype, iChat, Transmission, and more. Ever chat message you get from iChat you get a little pop-up window showing you what the message you just received actually is. To find out more about Growl surf to www.growl.info/
Thursdays Edition of Daily Freeware Podcast brings you a great webapp for the iPhone or just your internet browser. This webapp will give you all the lastest news, webapps for the iPhone, books, gossip, and much more. To find out more go to GetAllThe.com
Today the guys discuss a bit torrent application for Mac owners.
Transmission is a super loght weight and powerful bit torrent app, with a great looking user interface and its also open source!
More info can be found at http://www.transmissionbt.com/
Today Billy and Aaron take a look at a podcaster application for your iPhone using the built in Safari web browser. With Podcaster you can watch and listen thousands of podcats right from a really great looking directory. More info can be found here: http://www.apple.com/webapps/entertainment/podcaster_alexsokirynsky.html
On this monday episode the guys talk about DAEMON Tools for windows.
DAEMON Tools is an advanced application for Microsoft Windows which provides optical media emulation, fo games movies and install disks alike.
It works on Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server and Vista 32 and 64 Bit.
Find out more at http://www.daemon-tools.cc/
It's Friday and today Billy introduces MySpace IM, a neat looking instant messaging client for MySpace failthful.
Running on Windows 2000/XP/Vista this app allows you to message your myspace friends at anytime from your computer.
Now with skype support it also allows you to: " Speak to your friends on IM for FREE, call cell phones right from your PC, and even get your own local phone number and voicemail! "
For more info and to download goto http://www.myspace.com/myspaceim
Today of the show Billy shares a security app for the Mac. Lock for my mac lets its users lock out their mac.
Download this app from http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26998/lock-my-mac
On this Wednesday edition of the Daily Freeware Podacst we shine the spotlight on Primo PDF, a free PDF maker utility for Windows.
Using Primo PDF you can open up over 200+ file formats and then with just a few clicks of your mouse button create industy standard PDF documents.. FOR FREE.
A must have for windows users, head on over to www.primopdf.com for more info and get your copy.
Today on the show Aaron and Billy rewiew a nifty app to help put your mac to sleep.iWannaSleep works pretty simply Open the app, set the countdown timer and go relax.iWannaSleep will then use a count down feature to slowly fade out your iTunes music or audiobook and then put your Mac into a low power sleep mode.
Visit http://www.sb-software.de/sb-english/iWannaSleep.html and find out more .
It's Friday and today Billy and Aaron take it back to the old Arcade, A classically retro game for your mac. Pac the Man X is a Pacman Ms. PacMan super addictive fast paced time waster!
Packed with over 100 or so levels including ones designed by other players this is sure to give you hours of button mashing fun.
Stop by http://www.mcsebi.com/ptmx.php download a copy and let the weekend pass you by.
Today Billy and Aaron talk about Disk Inventory x
This disk space utility gives mac users a graphical view of the files and folders that are stored on your macs Hard drive. This allows users to free up some space without accidentally deleting your important documents.
Download a copy from http://www.derlien.com/
Today we discuss Synergy, this neat little app is for linux, mac or windows.
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware.
This sis pretty tough to set up i managed to find this troubleshooting FAQ
http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/SynergyOSX/Instructions.htm
Synergy is downloadable from here http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
Today the guys review Mozilla's popular E-Mail / RSS client, Thunderbird.
Providing Many cool features such as Message Tagging, Great Junk mail and Privacy (Phishing) Filters. Thunderbird provides a Fantastic Email, RSS reader and even Newsgroup reader available for Linux, Mac and Windows.
Check it out http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
Today Billy introduces Aaron to Fluid, a standalone offline website viewer. according to www.iusethis.com users can also enjoy fluid to 'run YouTube, GTalk, Flickr, Basecamp, Delicious, .Mac webmail, or any other webapp as a separate Mac desktop application.' seems to work good with websites too!
Download your copy of Fluid by going to http://osx.iusethis.com/app/versions/fluid
Today on the Daily Freeware Podcast Billy and Aaron go retro,
Lego digital Designer, do you remember when you were a kid playing with legos? of course you do! right?
Well, with this free application from lego you can design your own lego projects 3D CAD style, and then build it by ordering the exact amount of bricks directly from lego.
To find out more about this fun filled product goto www.ldd.lego.com.
Today on the Daily Freeware Podcast Billy and Aaron review CyberDuck, a simple but powerful lightweight FTP application for Mac OSX
It supports the` following FTP (File Transfer Protocol), FTP/TLS (FTP secured over SSL/TLS) and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer). It also intergrates well with Spotrlight, Keychain Bonjour networking and even your .mac iDisk.
Find` out more and download this great application by going to www.cyberduck.ch
Todays freeware is called Switch. Switch is a mult formate conversion application for all your audio conversion needs. Just drag and drop your audio file and select the format you want it to become. Want to change the bitrate no problem Switch has an advanced setting built right into Switch.
You can find Switch at http://www.nch.com.au/switch/plus.html
The Levelator from the Conversations Network is a must have for all you podcasters and audio geeks, this free utility takes Raw uncompressed audio (.WAV or .AIFF formats) and normalizes audio levels. This app also runs under either Linux, Mac OS X or Windows,
Check it out at http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator/
Today Aaron and Billy focus on OpenOffice, a free open source rival to Microsoft's Office suite. Using Sun Microsystems Java it provides users with a lot of applications such as Writer for word processing, impress for powerpoint style presentations and even a pretty good graphics app. Even better it runs on Windows linux and Mac OS X (X11 install required)
You can get your hands on this fantastic bundle by going to www.openoffice.org
Week 5 Friday - On todays episode Aaron and Billy discuss another fun game for your weekend. Quinn is like tetris except it takes it in more of a 21 Century Look. You can post your score online to the Quinn website and compete against people all around the world. You can find Quinn at http://simonhaertel.de/
Week 5 Thursday - Today on the Daily Freeware Podcast Billy and Aaron review Media-Convert.com
100% Free online file conversion using your web browser.
to use it simply upload a file of your choice and pick a format to convert it to.
works with audio video and many many more formats including Ringtones!
Click on over to www.media-convert.com to discover more.
Piknik - with Picnik you can Crop, resize, and rotate your images in real-time over the web.
Piknic is pretty close to a online Adobe Photoshop replacement,
go check it out at www.picnik.com
Week 5 Tuesday - Today on the DFP we discuss a free open source image editor, G.I.M.P ( the GNU Image Manipulation Program)
With th GIMP users can proform many of tasks that PhotoShop is used for without spending a penny!
for a full list of its features visit http://www.gimp.org/features/
You can get your copy of the GIMP at http://www.gimp.org/
Week Five Monday - On todays monday edition Billy and Aaron discuss an application for OSX and Windows called Flickr Uploadr which uploads your photos onto your flickr account. To Find out more go to www.flickr.com/tools/uploadr
Week 4 Friday- Today Billy and Aaron talk about another great game. Todays game is SuperTux. Remember the old Mario Brothers games? This is basically the same thing, but instead of Mario its Tux the Linux Penguin. To Learn more about this game go to http://supertux.lethargik.org/
Week 4 Thursday - Today Billy and Aaron talk about another social networking tool, Twitterific is a free social networking site that allows users to send tweets; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long to your friends.
Goto www.twitter.com to sign up today
Week 3 - Wednesday we're back to talk about Pownce. Pownce is a social networking application that enables people to share music, photos, messages, links, and pretty much anything over the web or via a downloadable desktop application powered by Adobe Air
To find out more and join this growing community goto www.pownce.com
Week 4 Tuesday - Today on the Daily Freeware Podcast we discuss A popular Multi Protocol IM App for Windows, Trillian. It supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. as well as many other features such as audio chat, file transfers, group chats, chat rooms, and SMS support. You can find out more and download this application by visiting http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/
Week 4 Monday 1 Today Billy and Aaron are talking about IM on the Mac, With Adium, you can connect to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services. To learn more about and download your copy of Adium visit www.adiumx.com
Week 3 Friday
Today we talk about one of the nets most popular anti-spyware solutions, Ad-Aware 2007 Free Version for Windows. With Ad-Aware installed you can find and remove many different Trojans, worms, other types of spyware with just a few clicks.
To download your copy of Ad-Aware goto http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.php.
Today Billy and Aaron talk about Maya Personal Learning Edition From AutoDesk. is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, effects, and rendering solution. AutoDesk kindly provides a free, Personal Learning Licensed version for non commercial use.
Week 3 Wednesday: Today on the show we discuss Perian, a free open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats such as AVI, FLV, and MKV and DivX.
To download Perian for Mac visit, www.perian.org
Week 3 Tuesday On these episode we talk about TrueCrypt, a Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Truecrypt provides Encryption that is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent. It supports many different encryption standards such as AES-256 and TwoFish.
To learn more about truecrypt, visit www.truecrypt.org.
Week 3 Monday: Today on the daily freeware podcast we talk about one of our favorite Apps for Google, Google Earth.
'' Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. ' Google Earth is for Windows Mac and Linux
As well as Earth google also prove similar satellite images for the Moon and Mars
Billy Links are as follows Earth www.google.com/earth Mars www.google.com/mars Moon www.Google.com/moon
Week 2 - Friday: Today we talk about a game demo. Tagline: You are the last of your kind. Bred for combat, built for war, you are the master of any weapon, pilot of any vehicle and fear no enemy.
To find out more on halo visit http://www.microsoft.com/games/halo/
PC demo can be found at here.
Week 2 - Thursday: Today on the DFP we talk about Audacity the free, open source application for recording and editing audio on your computer . It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, & Linux,. To learn more about Audacity check out http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Week 2 - Wednesday: Today on the show Billy and I discuss one of the most popular free video converter tools for your iPod. iSquint {LINK TO SITE} is a free, lightweight and very simple to use video converter for Mac OSX that converts almost any video format into either .mp4 or .H264 that is suitable for playback on your iPhone / iPod and even your Apple tv.
Week 2 Tuesday: Today on the daily Freeware Product Billy and I talk about Mozilla's Cross-Platform Web Browser - Firefox. The firefox web browser is fully customizable thanks to a very active community of 3rd party ad-on developers, to that end Billy and i also talk about a few of our top Ad-ons. This application is available for, Mac OSX Windows, and Linux
Week 2: Today we discuss an app that we use daoly and dont know how we live without. Skype is a application for making phone calls from over the interenet or even from computer to "landline". Besides a phone call you can also do a video chat with its built in video chatting . Using a mac makes it easier because it automatically works with the iSight camera built into most macs. Skype is a application for Mac OSX, Windows, and Linux.