Freeware and "Giveaways"

[johnfowles]

I thought that I had previously mentioned a great software "giveaway" site at:-
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/img/ga-logo-text.gif
that I had stumbled upon but now find that I failed to do so.It is at
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/
whose website declares:-
Giveaway of the day - what's that?
"Well, that's a convenient initiative allowing you to get the best commercial software titles - for free. Every day we offer licensed software you'd have to buy otherwise, for free! Yes, we are giving away software, and you can download it from our site, right now and right here and our goal is to give away every good piece of software, sooner or later"
Since finding it by accident recently I am now checking the site every day and intend bringing any free downloads that appear useful to your attention. Please note that you will only have until midnight on the day I post details to grab any program that takes your fancy for free
Today is a free download of a useful back up program that I already have as it was included with a super little USB external hard drive
http://images.tigerdirect.com/skuimages/large/T26-1084-main.jpg
I bought the 80 Gigabyte version for $80.00 (nett after the accursed mail in rebate/scam) last year from my favourite online store
http://www.ecost.com
Anyway the program is called
Giveaway of the Day - Backup4all Lite
http://www.backup4all.com/
File Size: 9.24 MB Price: Backup4all Lite is available for $19.95, but it will be free for our visitors as a time-limited offer. You can download and install it now. Please note that you have to install it before the Giveaway offer for Backup4all Lite is over.
whilst posting about free software, I have collected many very useful programs most of which appear to be perfectly sanitary and bug free although one has to be careful as some insist on installing unwanted other rubbish, like useless toolbars or other surfing aids and sometimes malware.
I intend writing a suitable "tips' page in due course but meanwhile one of the best sources for information is Ian "Gizmo" Richards fantastically well researched pages "Tech Suuport Alert: at:-
http://www.techsupportalert.com/contact.htm
he has a pair of listings
1.The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities at:-
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm
with a link to:-
247-103 latest additions to the list
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_extended.htm
all very nicely listed by category as you can see :-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/tutorials/gizmo.jpg
John Fowles

[ June 11, 2007, 09:20: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

[johnfowles]

Today's giveaway could be most useful, in my case for enhancing tutorials by helping make them into a video presentation
It has not excaped my notice that a number of people have made such videos already and uploaded them to youtube,where like every other uploaded video file they are automatically converted to and stored in the ultra compressed flash video format *.flv. This giveaway can as you can read below create flash video demos to create product/procedure tutorials.
Indeed a simple search on youtube for "tutorial" produces 109.000 results such as
Photoshop Tutorial: How to Create a Web 2.0-Style Logo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pOkaC4eHsE
linmiting the search to "dvd tutorials" for example reduces this to a more manageable 611
including for example:-
Window vista DVD tutorial Review
"This is a great DVD tutorial for windows vista beginers."
Time: 06:25 at:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP3bUPgfvkM
youtube even has a "Howto & DIY' cartegory which includes gems such as:-
How To Be Healthy in a Hip Restaurant 2: What to Order? at:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brxIB3hti4c
a tutorial that is allegedly over 3 minutes but for me ended after only 7 seconds in which:-
"Diet.com presents How To Be Healthy in a Hip Restaurant with Bethenny Frankel at STK in the Meat Packing District in Manhattan New York. In the second part of this series Bethenny gives her best advice on how to order healthy. From snacking before to desert after, we'll give you the best diet tips for your figure"
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/restaurant.jpg
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OK enough food for thought as it were
today's giveaway is
Wondershare DemoCreator
which " is a handy screen recording tool that captures full desktop screens, windows or regions. You can add images, annotation and narration to enhance and publish it as a flash video demo. It gives you the easy way to create software demonstrations, screencasting, presentations, product tutorials and interactive training."
the link you need is.:-
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/democreator/
where you can also read
Wondershare DemoCreator captures on-screen actions for making software tutorials, presentations, and game shows. With wide range of functions and features you can manage those tough jobs easier than ever!
Wondershare DemoCreator Features
Record on-screen actions with various capture modes (Full screen; Application capture; Region capture); Edit movie with dazzling elements and powerful tools (Wondershare DemoCreator provides wide range of elements or objests to annotate and enhance your demonstrations); Publish for comprehensive formats to share with the world (Web; LMS; CD; e-mail).Homepage: http://www.sameshow.com/demo-c...
File Size: 6.04 MB Price:
The program is available for $99.95, but it will be free for our visitors as a time-limited offer.
Download Democreator now
Mirror link #1
Unzip the package you`ve downloaded and install the software. Carefully read the instructions which you can find in readme.txt file. This readme.txt file is enclosed with all our downloads.
clicking that download link takes you to
http://www.wikifortio.com/763602

[johnfowles]

It never ceases to amaze me that a large number of computer geeks write much wonderful and usable programs and then make
it available to all as freeware,and another such group are prepared to monitor these offerings and publicise them for
everbody's benefit
I thought that I had previously mentioned Ian "Gizmo" Richards super site
http://www.techsupportalert.com/contact.htm
but the less than 100% reliable/efficient corfid search system couldn't find it so please bear with me whilst I repeat the details
(I had typed them up before I found this topic that the silly corfid search system failed miserably to do)
Ian has assembled a stunning list of The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities all beautifully listed by category at:-
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm
with a link to 47-103 latest additions to the list
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_extended.htm
I also refound a reference in another magazine to a site that archives programs that were once freeware
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/freeware.jpg
and I have just found a pair more such sites that are worth knowing about if you are searching for freeware or indeed ideas
for programs that just might be useful to you

First a link I found in a brilliant UK DVD magazine that itself had 2 cover CDs crammed witn useful DVD creation programs
and had an advert for a sister publication called PC Utilities who have a website devoted to freeware at:-
http://www.magnesiummedia.com/pcutilities/
"Now featuring 24,365 programs"
you will have to register (free) to use it
the other site was featured in Gizmos latest newsletter and is:-
http://www.portablefreeware.com/
that site comprises some 20 pages containing 100 freeware programmes that you might want to include on a USB "key" drive
such as the 2 GB Ultra flydrive I bought on special offer thanks to their rebate scheme/scam for mere $9.99 from one of my
favourite online storesTiger Direct (http://www.tigerdirect.com)
http://images.tigerdirect.com/SKUimages/medium/ULT40004.jpg
from their site
Ultra FlyDrive USB 2.0 Portable Drive
Ultra’s new FlyDrive USB flash drive series brings high-data transfer rates and plenty of storage to your digital artillery.
These sleekly designed USB flash drives come in an assortment of capacities. You can practically carry an entire office’s
worth of paperwork, along with images and other data on an Ultra FlyDrive USB flash drive. Perfect if you’re highly mobile.
Wherever you fly, you can take the Ultra FlyDrive USB flash drive with you

Perfect for people like Walter who have to surf in a library,or if you have to use an internet cafe whilst on vacation
as we did once down under recently
My one criticism of the Portable Freeware site is that the programs are listed in what seems to be a random manner and no
attempt is made to provide even a basic index or category guide but the search box works so use it to locate any of the
programs I will mention below that might interest you
GIMP Portable
Synopsis: The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an image editor for photo retouching, image composition and image
authoring. USB versions of browsers incuding Maxthon Combo
Synopsis: Maxthon is a tabbed browser based on the Internet Explorer rendering engine. It supports mouse gestures,
ad-blocking, skinning and a built-in RSS reader sidebar. It also has privacy protection features. For example, you can erase
browsing history, cookies, cache etc. with a single click, or configure the browser to clear them automatically when it
closes. Firefox Portable
Synopsis: Mozilla Firefox is an web browser that includes popup blocking, tabbed browsing, smart search and built-in download
manager. Firefox Portable is a special build of Mozilla Firefox that is optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some
specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized
launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers. OperaUSB
Synopsis: Opera is a fast and secure web browser that features pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches,
built-in email and RSS client etc. OperaUSB is a portable package for Opera that does not write to the registry nor leave
any data on the guest machine where it is run.
also OperaTor
Synopsis: OperaTor is a software bundle that can be easily installed on a portable memory (pendrive, usb stick, hard drive)
to allow anonymous surfing while at an internet cafe, library etc. It combines the power of Opera, The Onion Router and Privoxy to give the user an anonymous browsing experience.

and a number of other most useful (to me anyway) items including but not limited to Vdownloader
Synopsis: VDownloader is a download manager for video sharing sites such as YouTube, Google Video, Grinvi and DailyMotion.
Given the URL for a video clip, it downloads the clip and automatically converts it to AVI, MPEG or PSP. It supports batch
downloading and clipboard monitoring. PC Decrapifier (sic)
"Synopsis: PC Decrapifier helps you remove many of the common trialware and crapware found on many of the PCs from big name
OEMs. you may select exactly which items to be removed." Autorun.inf Editor
Synopsis: Autorun.inf Editor allows you to quickly and easily create the an "autorun.inf" file that tell an autorun (also
known as "autoplay") CD to automatically play upon insertion into a CD-ROM drive. You can set a label and an icon for the CD,
specify a program on the CD to run when the CD is inserted, and add various entries and commands to the context menu when a
user right-clicks on the CD. FastStone Capture
Synopsis: FastStone Capture is a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything
on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web
pages. It has innovative features such as a floating Capture Panel, hotkeys, resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing, e-mailing, screen magnifier and many more.Any questions class of 2007??
John Fowles Bt

[ June 22, 2007, 12:25: Message edited by: johnfowles ]