You just had a dose of free software in my last post. AVG Anti-virus is one of the most popular free anti-virus products out there. But, free doesn’t mean free as in beer like most open source software but comes with some limitations but usually enough for an average home user.
ComputerActive is [...]

The trend for a lot of software companies in this age of freeware is to release their old versions for free. This lets potential users TechSmith is doing just that with their award winning products SnagIt & Camtasia.
SnagIt
SnagIt is a Screen Capture and an Image Editing tool. It is really feature rich [...]

Montastic is a very cool website monitoring service. It is free to register and use. If you have a blog or website and you want to get notified anytime it goes down, keep reading.

Quick facts about Montastic

Free to register and use
Register as many as 100 sites to monitor
Get an email when your site goes down
Get [...]

I know there is a lot of online file storage options. But, few have this kind of high numbers while keeping the service free. BOXSTr offers 5GB of free storage plus some significant bandwidth to share files.
Quick facts

5GB of free online storage space
1/2GB of daily bandwidth with rollover bandwidth (reset daily)
Upload files upto 250MB
Supports [...]

I just learnt from Kyle at Kyle’s Cove that today is Software Freedom Day. This introduction at the official site explains a lot about celebrating this day which aligns a lot with what I am trying to do with ShanKri-la. Letting technology assist us in our daily lives.
In a time when our lives are increasingly [...]

Unlocking Apple’s iPhone has been an obsession for a lot of hackers since it’s release. Engadget reported that the race between various groups of open source hackers may be over with the release of the first free, open source iPhone SIM unlock app.
More recent reports from Engadget says that the iPhoneDev team has released a [...]

If you don’t like paying for games, you are going to love this. Someone has created a neat wiki with a list of all Free games on the Libregamewiki.
In the List of Games page, you will find an alphabetical list of games with a link to their home page, version and date last released. Since, [...]