Free Pictures

Where To Find Great Free Photographs And Visuals For Your Own Online Articles: Great roundup of free stock photography resources, via LifeHacker.

Published: April 4, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 1000

Free Stock Images

Where To Find Great Free Photographs And Visuals For Your Own Online Articles: A great roundup of free stock-photography. Via Lifehacker, some time ago.

Published: April 15, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 991

Free Wi-Fi and Schlotsky's

Schlotzsky's Offers Free Wi-Fi in Restaurants in Six States; Free Use of In-Store Computers Adds to Wi-Fi Appeal: Free wi-fi is working well for Schlotsky's, apparently. No sign of Wi-Fi at the lone Schlotsky's in Sioux Falls, sadly. More than 40 percent of customers say that free Wi-Fi or the ...

Published: February 18, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 990

Copilot Free on Weekends

Copilot is now free on weekends: I swear, Joel Spolsky is like the greatest guy, ever. Well, recently we figured out that we re paying for a lot of bandwidth over the weekends that we don t need, so we decided to make Copilot absolutely free on weekends. Yep, that s right free ...

Published: January 25, 2008 Geek Popularity Factor: 988

Napster is Free...Again

Napster to let users face the music...for free: This is the new trend. Rhapsody has done something like this, and Pandora has been offering free music for a while. Online music is rapidly becoming like radio, except you can pick what songs are played, whenever you like. Napster, the online ...

Published: May 1, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 979

Yahoo Tries to Out-Free Gmail

Yahoo fortifies free e-mail to counter Google's Gmail: It's a huge battle to see who can give away the most free stuff. Reminds me of 1999. Beginning Tuesday, all of Yahoo's free e-mail accounts will be upgraded to 100 megabytes, a move spurred by Google's plans to offer 1,000 megabytes ...

Published: June 15, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 971

Free iPod Revisited

A while ago, we talked about a program where you could get a free iPod by doing...something. I never did quite figure out how it worked, but it involved signing up for stuff. I thought it was a scam, but more and more I kept hearing about people who got ...

Published: September 22, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 971

No More Free FTP for Uncle Sam

Ipswitch yanks free FTP software from government market: I've used WS_FTP faithfully for years. At work, I've paid for the professional version (v9 is just out and it's quite good they finally updated their sorry user interface), but at home I use the Limited Edition that they're talking about ...

Published: September 5, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 968

Latest Free Books from Microsoft

Microsoft Reader - Welcome, Readers!: New free books from Microsoft: I Am Madame X, Open Innovation, and The Joy Luck Club.

Published: July 12, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 964

Free College Courses

Technophilia: Get a free college education online: Here's a great little article detailing some of the free college courses you can find online. This one on "Causal and Statistical Reasoning" from Carnegie Mellon looks interesting. So does this course on World War II from the University of Washington. And I've ...

Published: September 26, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 959

More Free Books from Microsoft

Microsoft Reader - Welcome, Readers!: The latest free books from Microsoft: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Flying Book, and Face in the Frost.

Published: July 19, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 952

Hotmail Wireless No Longer Free

Another free MSN service to be payed for: It's now $19.99 per year, apparently. "If you are accessing MSN Hotmail on your wireless device, this free service will expire on Wednesday, December 3, 2003. This only affects access to your Hotmail account from a mobile device..."

Published: September 18, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 947

This Week's Free Books

Microsoft Reader - Welcome, Readers!: Well, I missed last week, but here's the week's free books from Microsoft: Amsterdam, The Killing Hour, and The Disowned Self.

Published: August 2, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 944

Free Wifi Next Thursday

One Unwired Day "Join Intel on Thursday, September 25 your day to try public wireless Internet access for free at thousands of locations including coffee shops, airports, and hotels nationwide." Via Anil Dash.

Published: September 18, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 933

Free Technical Books

Big Technical Library: This site appears to have several hundred complete IT books, free for the reading. Can't be legal, I don't think. The domain is out of Russia, if that means anything.

Published: January 14, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 932

PHP: Free Software on Free Tools

Open Source: Open Source Scripting Made Easy: This is an article about PHP scripting tools that makes an important point: Commercial scripting languages have drawn success from powerful and widely used development tools: ASP has Visual Studio, ColdFusion has Macromedia's Dreamweaver, and JSP has a variety of tools from commercial ...

Published: May 17, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 929

On Accepting Free Stuff

Bribing Bloggers: This is a really interesting post from Spolsky about the ethics of bloggers accepting free stuff from vendors. Apparently Microsoft offered to send Joel a new Ferrari laptop pre-loaded with Vista, for free. [...] I've decided that from this point forward I'm not accepting anything, full stop. Even ...

Published: December 29, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 926

Free CliffsNotes

Make a Note of it: I love CliffsNotes. I've verified what's below it's all free. CliffsNotes, a boon or crutch for students, depending on your perspective, plans to announce Tuesday that its 180 literature guides can be read free at cliffsnotes.com. Students who want to download and print the ...

Published: September 7, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 923

Free Books from O'Reilly

www.oreilly.com -- O'Reilly Open Books Project: Did you know O'Rielly publishes some free books? Man, I love free books. Over the years, O'Reilly & Associates has published a number of "Open Books" books with various forms of "open" copyright. The reasons for "opening" copyright, as well as the specific ...

Published: February 14, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 920

Free High-Speed Internet...May Not Be

Something to look out for when you travel: hotels advertising "Free High-Speed Internet" may be fudging the terms just a little bit. I stayed in a hotel in New Jersey once that advertised this. I was all excited to get my laptop hooked up and check my email when I ...

Published: December 23, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 919

Free Python Book

Dive Into Python: I'll always post about a free book. I love free books. "Dive Into Python is a free Python book for experienced programmers. You can read the book online, or download it in a variety of formats. It is also available in multiple languages." Incidentally, Python and Zope ...

Published: October 9, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 919

What Free Services Would You Pay For?

There are a lot of free services on the Web -- we all use one. But which ones would you pay for? Of the free services you use, let's say they all decided to charge $30 per year. Which ones would you go without and which would you shell out ...

Published: February 9, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 916

Free eBooks from Microsoft

Microsoft Reader - Welcome, Readers!: Microsoft is promoting its Reader software by letting people download free eBooks for three months. I installed Reader which does some interesting DRM mojo before it starts up (you need to "activate" it with a Passport account) and I downloaded and can read ...

Published: July 4, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 916

stackoverflow.com

stackoverflow.com: With both Spolsky and Atwood involved, I suspect this will be huge. Jeff Atwood and I decided to do something about it. We re starting to build a programming Q&A site that s free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read, free to index, built with plain ...

Published: April 16, 2008 Geek Popularity Factor: 912

Free Stock Icons

Silk Icons: Here's a really great set of free icons (a very small subset displayed above). We've talked about stock icons before (that article is top 10 on Google for "stock icons"), but these look just about as good and don't cost a thing. "Silk" is a smooth, free icon ...

Published: December 15, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 912

Too Much Free Wi-Fi

USATODAY.com - As wireless hot spots proliferate, commercial windfall in doubt: Turns out there are too many free Wi-Fi spots for anyone to make any money off it. "Then there are colleges, geeks and city officials who are making Wi-Fi as free as the foliage in public plazas. And now ...

Published: July 19, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 910

Microsoft to Offer Works for Free

Microsoft tries free office suite: Utterly fascinating in the crack that it opens in Microsoft s business model. It ll be interesting to see where this goes. Free copies of some of Microsoft s office software will soon be available. The software giant said it would make ad-supported copies of the Works package ...

Published: August 2, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 910

Copilot Free for Mother's Day

Fix your mom s computer for mother s day: Joel rules. What a great promotion idea. This Sunday is Mother s Day. Why not fix your mom s computer? You know: remove the spyware and adware, install Firefox, and make it so that weird toolbar toast doesn t pop up every 15 seconds. To make ...

Published: May 8, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 908

Invision Powerboard: No Longer Free

Sadly, it appears that Invision PowerBoard, my favorite forum system, is no longer free. They had a free, unregistered version, but when I went looking for this morning, no such luck. While it was never open source, it looks like they've taken it behind a paid wall. They do have ...

Published: December 9, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 908

You are entitled to your free Credit Report

Not sure if everybody knows this, but it's pretty important. AnnualCreditReport.com processes requests for free credit file disclosures (commonly called credit reports). Under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT Act) consumers can request and obtain a free credit report once every 12 months from each of the three ...

Published: March 24, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 907

O'Reilly Hacks + Google Book Search = Free Books

Read Most of O'Reilly's Hacks Books for Free Using Google: This works. I tried it for curiosity's sake, and, sure enough, you can read page after page of tons of O'Reilly books. How is this not a huge hole? Anyway, I have found a way to read most of their ...

Published: December 28, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 906

Free iPod

The Original Free iPod Guide: I'm hearing from a couple of people that this is not a scam you really can get a free iPod. I'm still waiting for someone I know and trust to confirm that they got one. Click the given referral link [...] There's a marketing ...

Published: August 10, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 897

SpyMac Trumps Google

While Google is busy trying to allay fears that their free 1GB mail service is too intrusive, SpyMac has already implemented it. And without the content scanning and advertising that Google is planning! Spymac's free membership includes: 1 GB e-mail account, 350 MB combined storage, personal blog, forum, gallery, auctions ...

Published: April 6, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 896

Free Windows Installer

Advanced Installer: Here's a great free Windows installer tool. If you need to distribute software, this is a great way to bundle to up and send it. This package contains the complete Advanced Installer application, including the freeware and non-freeware features. The former can be accessed at any time by ...

Published: October 28, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 885

TextWrangler Is Free!

Boy, the MacWorld Expo is just full of goodies. First all the new stuff from Apple. Then Bare Bones Software cuts loose version 2 of TextWrangler a text editor for Mac OS X and announces that it's available for free! While TextWrangler doesn't have quite the feature set ...

Published: January 12, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 881

Why I secretly like to pay for stuff

I've recently made the switch from Microsoft Outlook to a Web mail account. I was nervous about virus propagation, and I wanted to be able to access my email anywhere, so I decided to make the leap. But which Web mail service to use? I tried several free ones (Hotmail, ...

Published: September 14, 2002 Geek Popularity Factor: 880

Timed Free Access

B2.0 Tries A 2-Minute Time Trick: Interesting attempt at subscriptions from Business 2.0: "A source in Time Inc told me that the free links only work for two minutes...which is why all the B2.0 stories have now been broken into chunks and have multiple pages...if say you are on the ...

Published: July 31, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 877

From Free to Fee Case Study

uclick Tests Selling Subscriptions to Comics and Puzzles on the Web: Results Revealed: This is a good case study of how uClick converted from a free to fee model. "More than 10,000 people switched to the paid My Comics Page offer immediately in September, and more join daily. The combined ...

Published: June 27, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 875

Free Wi-Fi Problems

Cafes find Wi-Fi boom unsettling: Having free wi-fi in your cafe isn't always a good thing. [...] there was also a disadvantage, staff members said: The cafe filled up with laptop users each weekend, often one person to a table for four. Some would sit for eight hours purchasing a ...

Published: June 13, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 873

Give Bloggers Free Stuff

Blog wine Stormhoek doubles sales: Seriously, give us free stuff. Cars would be nice. Computers are good too. Anyway, this South African winery was really upfront about a blogging-focused marketing campaign, and it appears to have paid off. Around 100 bottles of the Stormhoek Shiraz 2004 and Sauvignon Blanc 2005 ...

Published: January 23, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 867

Free Music and Rhapsody

Rhapsody is giving away music. I was able to listen to a dozen full-length songs today with no cost and no catch. According to this article at O'Reilly, anonymous users can listen to 25 songs per month (but no free repeats -- the same song twice counts as two songs). ...

Published: April 15, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 861

Free iPod Complaints

Unhappy Customers Slam FreeiPods.com; Owners Blame Apple: Perhaps we spoke too soon? A Web site that gives away free iPod Mini's to customers who participate in promotional offers is being criticized by its customers for failing to get them their promised portable music player and inundating them with additional spam ...

Published: September 24, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 857

Opera Now Free

If you missed out on Opera's tenth anniversary giveaway last month, don't sweat it. Opera has now been made permanently free for download. I was curious how they plan to make money from this. There's a 'Why Free?' link on the home page, which tells you this: Opera has removed ...

Published: September 21, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 851

Microsoft Attacks Open Source

Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents: I thought Microsoft was trying to bridge the gap to the open-source world lately? This is a really horrific idea. Did the SCO fiasco not warn them off a plan like this? [ ] there s a shadow hanging over Linux and other free ...

Published: May 15, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 850

Free Energy?

Irish company challenges scientists to test 'free energy' technology: It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out. A company from Ireland claims to have controverted one of the core principles of physics -- a principle that we have debated here before. However, far from hiding the details ...

Published: August 21, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 846

My Kid Is Now Free to Be a Total Pimp

Radio Control Full Function 1:6 Lincoln Navigator: This remote control Navigator has an MP3 player in the back. No information on how you get music onto it. (The only review claims that it's a 30MB player that was advertised as 128MB.)

Published: November 8, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 846

All Free, All the Time

Freeware Arena - 100% freeware since 1997 "Freeware is defined on FreewareArena as software that is available to download and use at no costs, is not shareware, not demos, not trials, and doesn't contain spyware, adware or any type of malware or any form of intrusive components..." Via LockerGnome.

Published: August 29, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 839

CutePDF Writer

CutePDF - Create PDF for free: A good, free PDF printer without any pop-ups (like PDF995, for instance). Can't find a downside yet.

Published: February 1, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 837

Tim O'Reilly on the Economics of Piracy

Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution: The O'Reilly Network is making great strides in e-book publishing with their Safari service. I've been a customer of Safari in the past, and I found it very good. In this article from last year, Tim O'Reilly ...

Published: November 23, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 832

Siouxland Linux Users Group

SLUG | Siouxland Linux Users Group: To all my Sioux Falls readers: "SLUG (Siouxland Linux Users Group) was formed to intoduce new ideas, information, and to answer questions that others may have about GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux is free software avaibale to you no matter what "computer level" you are on. Plus ...

Published: August 10, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 830

ExpressionEngine Core Version

ExpressionEngine's New Free Version: Expression Engine has released a free version. Good for them. As we approach the two year anniversary of the release of EE, it now has 19 available add-on modules and vastly more features and capability than it did when we started. It has enough features, in ...

Published: December 18, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 827

Bill Gates Interview

Gates: In Ten Years, it's a Windows and Linux Game: OS News has a good report on an interview Bill Gates gave at "a conference" (it's not specificed which). The quote of the title seems to indicate that Bill doesn't give Apple a fighting chance. He says some other interesting ...

Published: October 4, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 825

Movable Type 3.0 Controversy

MovableType Madness: Dean over at blogs4God presents a really good wrap-up of the furor over the new Movable Type release. Unbeknowst to me, Six Apart made a change over the weekend to say that mutiple Weblogs in MT used to create one site (for instance, if you have another blog ...

Published: May 17, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 825

PBWiki

PeanutButterWiki: I don't know what I like better: free wikis or peanut butter. Make a free, password protected wiki as easily as a peanut butter sandwich. Peanut butter, totally.

Published: August 5, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 820

Of Cache and...Cash

Google cache raises copyright concerns: The NY Times is raising a fuss over the fact that Google's caching feature allows people to view archived articles that they would have to pay for over at the Times' site. "Through a caching feature on the popular Google search site, people can sometimes ...

Published: July 9, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 820

Why is it that the crooks have all the money?

We've talked before about some of the crazy search engine positioning we get on this site. The GoogleBot loves us. In particular, this page is second on Google for the term "bitlord," behind only BitLord's own site. I don't know how it happened, it just did. This weekend, we got ...

Published: December 18, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 816

Timber For Sale. Will Throw In '36 Ford For Free.

Check out this '36 Ford Pickup. According to the seller, it was left sitting in a field for the last 40 years and had a tree grow through the engine compartment. I've seen other vehicles parked in groves with trees growing through the engine compartment, but never with the engine ...

Published: January 26, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 816

An Ugly Face on the Linux Community

Militant geeks are hurting the widespread adoption of Free software. CMP has an article on the subject, and Bruce Perens has written a message to the community condemning actions like cheering on the recent denial of service attacks on SCO. "Do not cheer on attacks on the SCO site. By ...

Published: February 4, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 816

One Year of AOL: Free PC

AOL unveils a $299 PC deal: Cheap, though you have to tack on the AOL premium. You can get decent dial-up for, say, $12 a month, or $10 less per month than AOL. So you're spending an extra $120 a year for AOL, which makes the computer actually cost $419. ...

Published: December 4, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 813

RSSCache

RSScache.com: Here's a free service to cache your RSS feed which we've talked about here and here. This site subscribes to your RSS feed, then translates that into a much narrower one for dissemination to end users. Users subscribe to the feed through this site, instead of through your actual ...

Published: December 3, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 810

If Only They Used Their Powers For Good...

Solving and creating captchas with free porn: You know those distorted alphanumeric codes you have to decipher and type in on some sites to get access? They're apparently called "captchas" and they're meant to make sure you're a real person, not a script. Well, here's a flat-out brilliant way that ...

Published: January 28, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 806

WTF License Plates

Potentially Offensive License Plate To Be Replaced For Free: Oh, man WTF? Thanks to some text message-savvy grandchildren, North Carolina drivers whose license plates have the potentially offensive WTF letter combination can replace the tags for free.

Published: June 25, 2008 Geek Popularity Factor: 805

Kill-Free Meat

Our buddies at NASA have been working on a way to produce meat without having to raise animals. On a deep-space mission this would be a handy thing, but here on the home planet it would be a great thing too. Papers published recently describe how industrial-scale tissue engineering could ...

Published: July 10, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 803

Standardized Linux on the Horizon

Free Standards Group Announces General Availability Of Linux Standard Base 2.0: I believe that one of the true keys of Linux success is standardization between distributions. There was an attempt some time ago with United Linux to create a standard file system, but Red Hat never signed on so it ...

Published: September 14, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 803

More Abandonware

It's hard for good commercial software and shareware to compete with free software, especially when it comes bundled with the OS you're using. So the folks at Panic Inc. must've figured, if you can't beat 'em them being Apple's iTunes you might as well join 'em. Audion, "the ...

Published: November 14, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 801

Why Paying For It Is a Good Thing

Pay To Play: Fair Price for Good Community: Josh Clark nails another good post today as he discusses a new communal bike rental program in Paris. For 29 euros a year, you can check out a bike for 30 minutes whenever you need one. He discusses why the city of ...

Published: July 13, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 798

Get a Free Computer From Microsoft?

MSFreePC: This site is run by the Lindows crew. "Microsoft was found guilty of anti-trust violations based on claims brought by the U.S. Department of Justice. Microsoft recently agreed to a $1.1 BILLION settlement to resolve numerous lawsuits alleging that Microsoft's behavior violated antitrust and unfair competition laws. This settlement ...

Published: September 17, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 798

Mono and SharpDevelop

Home / Mono: Joe pointed this out in a comment to an earlier entry, but just in case you don't monitor comments, I wanted to make sure everyone sees this. It's .Net for Linux. The Mono project is an open source effort sponsored by Novell to create a free implementation ...

Published: May 17, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 796

OpenCourseWare

How to go to M.I.T. for free: This is a very cool thing. I've looked through this and it's all there, free for the taking. The OpenCourseWare movement, begun at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002 and now spread to some 120 other universities worldwide, aims to disperse ...

Published: January 7, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 794

The Quality of Free Discourse

I've participated in a lot of online forums. The value of the information you get from them varies. Some of it is good, but you get a lot of cruft, especially from hit-and-runners -- people who are there to ask a single question based on an acute need, who will ...

Published: December 11, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 794

New ISBN Database

isbndb.com - free ISBN database: A thing of beauty underway here: The goal of the project is to create a multilingual database of books with well defined remote access protocols and free individual access. Think Amazon API for every book ever written. Database. Books. My two favorite words. Via ResearchBuzz.

Published: December 30, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 787

IBM DB2 Express-C

IBM sets DB2 database free: This slipped under the radar about a week ago: there's now a free version of DB2. DB2 Express-C is the same database as IBM's commercial offerings but the company places limits on what kind of hardware it can run on. It can be deployed on ...

Published: February 17, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 785

Firebird

As will surprise nobody who knows me, the shininess of the Firebird database server had been blinding me since I posted that interview yesterday. It was calling my name, so I just had to download and install it. I'm extremely happy with what I found it's a free database ...

Published: June 14, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 784

Windows AntiSpyware Extension

Download details: Windows AntiSpyware (Beta): Microsoft has a new version of their AntiSpyware tool out. It has some bug fixes, but more importantly it pushes the expiration date of the free version out to December 31, from June 30. That's six more free months for a tool that ...

Published: June 28, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 782

My Own Private Heaven

FreeTechBooks - Free online computer books, tutorials, lecture notes, documentations and references "All online computer books listed in this site are available for free, as they are hosted on websites that belong to the authors or the publishers. You are most welcomed to view, download and print the books for ...

Published: August 22, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 782

Opera turns 10

The Opera Web Browser, poster child for the niche market, turns 10 this month. Judging by our server logs, 2.8% of you are stoked. If you're at all interested in the browser, though, don't miss this party favor: Party favors: Get a free Opera registration code[...] We're giving away registration ...

Published: August 30, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 777

St. Louis Unwires Downtown

St. Louis to offer free wireless Internet network to lure business and residents downtown "The city of St. Louis is setting up what could be the nation's largest, free, wireless Internet network in hopes of drawing techno-savvy businesses, tourists and residents to the downtown business district. The city has teamed ...

Published: July 25, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 772

Freebie Friday

It's raining free apps! Picasa is a pretty terrific photo management software. Google just bought the company, and they're giving Picasa away for free. My father-in-law just got a digital camera for his birthday, so I set him up with Picasa. Now he just plugs in the camera, and up ...

Published: July 23, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 771

XM Radio in New Accords

I was picking up my Accord from the service department of my dealer today, and I wandered through the new car showroom. I noticed that 2004 Accords come with XM Satellite Radio pre-installed with free sign-up and three-month free subscription. Great marketing move. Odds are very good that you'll be ...

Published: August 19, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 771

Copernic Moves to Enterprise Search

Copernic Enters Enterprise Search Space: Copernic has a client-side tool called Agent that's quite good. Now they're expanding to the enterprise. "The product, called Copernic Enterprise Search, can support searching repositories of up to 2 million documents. It will be offered free to companies with less than 5,000 documents to ...

Published: October 9, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 769

GMail

Google to offer 1 gig of free e-mail: This will alter the playing field a bit. Comes with a GB of storage. Search engine Google Inc. announced Wednesday it will launch a free, Web-based e-mail service to compete against popular services from rivals Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Google's service, ...

Published: March 31, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 767

Movable Type Licensing

movabletype.org: News: Six Apart clarifies Movable Type licensing: "...for personal, non-commercial users, Movable Type is free to download and use. We don't consider an Amazon wishlist link or a PayPal donation link to be a commercial use of your site, so you're free to update your weblog and maintain your ...

Published: July 17, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 762

CMS Test-Drive

opensourceCMS: This site has several dozen installed CMSs for you to play with: "This site was created with one goal in mind. To give you the opportunity to 'try out' some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be ...

Published: June 19, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 762

CityDesk Pricing Loophole

Joel on Software - Friday, August 08, 2003: Joel Spolsky has fessed up to a big, fat loophole in CityDesk pricing. This is a great piece of software, so get it now to get it cheap. "...we promised to upgrade all CityDesk 1.0 Home or Pro Edition users to CityDesk ...

Published: August 9, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 759

A Billion Free iTunes from Mickey D's

According to a New York Post article, Ronald McDonald is stealing Pepsi's thunder. Less than a month after Pepsi announced a blockbuster deal to give away 100 million downloads from Apple's iTunes music service to its customers, ... McDonald's plans to give away up to 1 billion songs in a ...

Published: November 6, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 759

Winning the War on Spam

Spam-Free at Last: This guy declared war on spam, and he managed to wriggle out from under it. He presents his techniques here, and there are a lot of them. He was slightly neurotic about it, but he managed to win...for now. For approximately a month now I have been ...

Published: March 19, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 754

gOS

Hack Attack: Turn Your Old PC into a Webapp Monster with gOS: This is a review of the linux distro that comes with Wal-mart s ultra-cheap PC. The screenshots make it look pretty good. ince Wal-Mart began selling a $199 PC running a free Linux distribution—called gOS—with a hearty dose of ...

Published: November 6, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 754

Invision Power Board

Invision Power Board: Forum Software Free to Use: I've used a lot of BBS software, but I've never seen one this good before. I first ran into this as the backend behind the Movable Type Support forums. It installs easily (one page of options to get it running), and the ...

Published: August 25, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 754

The GNU/Linux - "Just Linux" Controversy

GNU/Linux naming controversy: A good look at a topic that I knew was out there, but only marginally understood. GNU/Linux is the term promoted by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), its founder Richard Stallman, and its supporters, for what is commonly called "Linux" [...] For historical and other reasons, most ...

Published: July 2, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 753

Freebies From Bill

Microsoft is pushing to make their licensing program more understandable (all right, quit laughing!) and wants to send you some info to help you on your way. The cool part? The info is on a USB thumb drive. No word on how big the drive is, but free is free. ...

Published: March 1, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 753

PayPal and iTunes

PayPal and Apple have announced that you can now use your Paypal account to purchase music on the iTunes music store. Now, when you sign up for a new, free iTunes account and pay with PayPal in the iTunes Music Store, you'll make your online music experience better than ever. ...

Published: December 10, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 752

SQL Server 2005 Express

SQL Server Express: One of the things I don't like about Microsoft development platforms is that they're not free. Um, wait a minute... SQL Server Express is a version of SQL Server 2005 designed for building simple, dynamic applications. SQL Server Express helps developers build robust and reliable applications by ...

Published: July 2, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 750

Producing Open Source Software

Producing Open Source Software: A good-looking book on how to create the next killer app. Producing Open Source Software is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software. It's free ...

Published: November 1, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 750

Orbiter

Orbiter - A free space flight simulator: If you get tired of the terrestial confines of FlightGear, expand your boundaries a bit. ORBITER is a free flight simulator that goes beyond the confines of Earth's atmosphere. Launch the Space Shuttle from Kennedy Space Center to deploy a satellite, rendezvous with ...

Published: September 10, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 748

Office Depot Begins Electronic Recycling Program

Office Depot offers to recycle electronics for free: This is a Very Good Thing. I'm not an Earth-muffin or anything, but old electronics do some really crappy things to the environment. Don't be so quick to toss out your old PCs, fax machines or digital cameras office supply retailer ...

Published: July 13, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 746

Visual Studio 2005 Express

Announcing the release of Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions: Good news if you want to try .Net. Until November 7, 2006, we are promotionally discounting the downloadable versions of Express to free. This doesn't mean that the product turns off after a year, but rather that as long as you ...

Published: November 9, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 746

"In the Beginning was the Command Line" by Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson is a hacker-novelist responsible for some of the most popular fiction among computer geeks. Recently, he wrote Cryptonomicon, which was hailed far outside geek circles as a great piece of fiction. In 1999, Stephenson wrote an essay (a 38,000-word essay...) called "In the Beginning was the Command Line." ...

Published: September 9, 2002 Geek Popularity Factor: 746

Photo Story

Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows: This is a neat, free download from Microsoft. Photo Story lets you create slideshows using that Ken Burns-like effect of zooming and panning across the pictures. The experience is oddly affecting, as this short story of my daughter demonstrates (Windows Media link; my apologies ...

Published: October 21, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 746

The Gutenberg Project

The Gutenberg Project: Gutenberg has been around since the Internet was very, very young the Web wasn t even born yet. It s an effort to catalog as many free books and texts as possible. Gutenberg has thousands of books from hundreds of authors; all in the public domain, all free. ...

Published: August 12, 2002 Geek Popularity Factor: 745

Red Hat Buys JBoss, Plus an Opinion or Two on the Business of Open Source

Red Hat Signs Agreement to Acquire JBoss: This is interesting, but we all knew it was coming. Red Hat will acquire JBoss for approximately $350 million in initial consideration, plus approximately $70 million subject to the achievement of certain future performance metrics. The transaction consideration is composed of approximately 40 ...

Published: April 23, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 743

Email Without the Computer

Computerless E-Mail Printer: Your parents want email but they don't want to deal with a computer? Here's just the thing. This is the color inkjet printer that only requires standard AC power and a telephone line to automatically print spam-free e-mail and pictures from friends and family you designate, eliminating ...

Published: October 26, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 743

JBoss Takes on IBM, BEA

JBoss uses voluntarism to take aim at BEA, IBM: I'm probably not an expert, but I never thought there was much money to be made in application server software. I think that's going to go down in flames as a commodity product, just like a regular everyday Web server. "A ...

Published: November 14, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 742

VersionTracker

VersionTracker: Windows Software: I don't understand the "VersionTracker" part, but lots of free- and shareware links here.

Published: July 21, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 742

Using Linux for Book Publishing

Linux as a Publishing Platform: Here's a great little article about how an independent role-playing game publisher used about a dozen free Linux tools to publish and support his first role-playing game. Just a nice narrative of how all the pieces came together, and how they were mostly all free. ...

Published: February 19, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 742

PHP Marathon Winner

PHP Marathon: The PHP Marathon is over. Here was the problem: Build a working tutorial platform for beginner, intermediate, and advanced programmers. (This is very practical and will be used by dotGeek, with credit given to you, the almighty winner.) The overall platform should work a lot like Zend.com sub ...

Published: November 29, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 742

Now's the time to switch to Gentoo

GenUX is launching a new service that will offer technical support to users of my beloved Gentoo Linux. The best part? They're offering the service for free for the next few weeks while they work the kinks out: Initially, GenUX will be testing its technical support services, during this time, ...

Published: October 4, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 742

Cheap, cheap PC

HP lowers price pole with $349 PC | CNET News.com: That's awfully cheap, and it comes with XP Home. "The desktop is fitted with an Advanced Micro Devices Athlon XP 2000 processor running at 1.67GHz, 128MB of RAM (random access memory), a 40GB hard drive, a CD-ROM, a modem, and ...

Published: June 26, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 741

Google Purchases

More on 'Google Purchases': If you hate PayPal, here's some joy for you. The new 'Google Purchases' service (purchases.google.com) will be launched in a few days, and is to allow users to make micropayments within 'Google Base' (buy and sell all kinds of items), to acquire licences of 'Google Earth', ...

Published: February 27, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 741

Computing Dictionary

FOLDOC - Computing Dictionary: FOLDOC stands for "Free Online Dictionary of Computing." It seems pretty comprehensive. Worth a look.

Published: January 5, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 740

Classic Computer Adventure Games Book

Creating Adventure Games On Your Computer: Man, I totally remember this book. You can read it for free.

Published: December 25, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 740

Dot Mac Enhancements; Still Overpriced

Apple has beefed up its .Mac service in several ways, but it's still way too expensive. $99.95 a year for a gigabyte of storage space (combined Mail and iDisk), .Mac Backup software, .Mac Groups, your own Homepage, yadda, yadda, yadda... Who needs it? I guess I'm still hacked that Apple ...

Published: September 27, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 738

Google Click-to-Call

Google Click-to-Call: Has anyone tried this yet? I couldn't get a phone icon on any of a dozen keyword-rich searches I tried. We're testing a new product that gives you a free and fast way to speak directly to the advertiser you found on a Google search results page -- ...

Published: November 28, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 738

Hybrid Vehicle Incentives

States Hoping More Will Buy Hybrid Vehicles: Government is rolling out the red carpet to hybird vehicles in the form of incentives to drive them. Anything from tax credits to free parking. At least 15 states and three cities have incentives in place. Thirteen states are considering such measures. Oregon ...

Published: May 27, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 738

The Waterstone's Controversy

The Woolamaloo Gazette: This guy got fired for his personal blog. He worked at a bookstore in the U.K. and, as he puts it: Anyone who has been a regular reader of the Gazette will know that I do occasionally mention my work life, although it accounts for a fraction ...

Published: January 12, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 737

New Search Engine Tools

Search engines' new tools hasten info hunt: These were all released this morning. Has anybody tried them yet? [...] Ask Jeeves introduces preview tool Binoculars: Under each search result, you put your mouse over an image of binoculars and Jeeves displays a mini picture of the underlying Web site. The ...

Published: June 21, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 732

Joseph Scott and Rhyll.com

Joseph Scott's Blog -- Rhyll: Joseph Scott releases a domain to host his projects, and starts off with a free SMS app. He's a bright guy -- look for coolness here. In the last year though I've been looking to host a domain where I could pull together various little ...

Published: December 27, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 731

Programming PHP at Wikibooks

Programming:PHP - Wikibooks: Wikibooks has an entire, free PHP book online. It's a work in progress, but still very usable.

Published: December 2, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 731

Stupid Cell Phone Tricks

The last cell phone that I owned and carried around with me was a 1997 analog number that I thought was tiny because it fit in a coat pocket or the cup holder of my car. So when I went to pick up a new phone, I was suprised to ...

Published: January 25, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 731

Interesting SharpReader Feature

I tried out this SharpReader, and found it to quite competent it's a free, Windows newsreader. It seems to do all the right things. It's very Outlook-ish: three panes, unread items bolded, etc. It lets you filter and sort and such. But here's the thing. Look at this screencap: ...

Published: August 18, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 730

Google Giveaway

Earlier this week, Google announced they were purchasing Picasa, the excellent photo organization program. Well, now they're giving it away. If you are still looking for a good (and free) way to organize your pile of digital photos go get it. It has a great interface and does most of ...

Published: July 16, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 730

Konichiwa!

Deane mentioned with great pride that he's cheap, but admitted he'd probably pay $29 for the RSS news aggregator, Newsgator. Not to be outdone on the cheap stakes, I attempted to find a free, quality news aggregator for my own use and ran into Awasu: "Awasu is a free Windows ...

Published: June 3, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 729

Content Access Models: The Four Major News Outlets

I got to thinking today that the four major news Web sites offer four graduated levels of content access: CNN: Anonymous access. Just about everything at CNN.com is free (with the exception of some streaming video). You don't have to register or answer any questions. No restrictions. USA Today: Anonymous ...

Published: June 5, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 724

The MSDE

One of our clients has started working with some software that uses the MSDE -- the Microsoft SQL Desktop Engine. This is a stripped down, black-box version of SQL Server for people that need a database server but don't want to pay for SQL Server nor need all its super-powers. ...

Published: December 22, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 721

Lots 'O Freeware

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities: A fantastic list of free programs. They have programs for things I didn't even know there were programs for.

Published: November 25, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 721

SharpDevelop 1.0

SharpDevelop: SharpDevelop, the free replacement for Visual Studio, just hit 1.0 today. They're calling it a "Production Release" on their download page.

Published: September 24, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 718

Buy a Pepsi, Get a Song

Apple and Pepsi are teaming up with a new promotion: Apple and Pepsi-Cola North America today announced a historic promotion to legally give away 100 million free songs to Macï¿½ and Windows PC users from Appleï¿½s iTunesï¿½ Music Store. Beginning February 1, 100 million winning codes will be randomly seeded ...

Published: October 16, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 715

Corporate Logos

www.logotypes.ru: Need a corporate logo in vector form? This site has 5,000 of them. All free, and all in severe copyright violation, I'm sure.

Published: June 20, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 714

Oracle 10g Express Edition

There can be no doubt now: Oracle is trying to destroy MySQL. Consider: They buy Innobase, the company responsible for the back end data format that makes MySQL go. They forge a partnership with Zend, the company responsible for PHP, which is the lanuguage most often used with MySQL on ...

Published: October 31, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 711

CSS Site

Book of Styles | No table? No problem!: A nice site on CSS layout with lots of free templates. The first one I looked at was actually pretty good.

Published: July 18, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 710

MIT Gives It All Away

MIT OpenCourseWare: MIT is offering all their courseware online for free. Seriously. "MIT OCW is large-scale, Web-based electronic publishing initiative funded jointly by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MIT. Its goals are to: Provide free, searchable, coherent access to MIT's course materials for ...

Published: September 5, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 707

Gmail Paper

About Gmail Paper: This is a little early to be an April Fools joke, so I have to assume it's legitimate. Not it's not -- I just checked the calendar and was shocked to realize it's April 1. You can ask Google to send you a paper archive of all ...

Published: April 1, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 707

Communicating from Iraq

Since arriving in Iraq, people have been amazed at the ease of which I am able to communicate with my friends and family. I have to admit, I have been amazed, too. I never thought I would have this much access to home. Internet and phone technology is in the ...

Published: April 16, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 705

Tutorial Database

TechTutorials: Free Computer, Programming, Networking and Application Tutorials: A good directory of tutorials. Doesn't look like much original content, just links to tutorials on other sites, categorized by app, platform, or skill type.

Published: August 12, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 704

Wikipedia Founder Answers Questions

Slashdot has posted an interview with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. In the usual SlashDot style, the ten highest-rated questions from the community were the ones they asked. Good stuff. It is my intention to get a copy of Wikipedia to every single person on the planet in their own language. ...

Published: July 28, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 704

ATT Relay Service

ATT now has a browser-based relay service. Best of all, it's totally free, except for 900-numbers. Now you don't even need to pick up a phone to order pizza.

Published: December 5, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 704

Is This Heaven?

I Spot ACCESS is an Iowa company that is currently working with the state of Iowa to set up free wireless hotspots at all of the states highway rest areas. An article in today's Des Moines Register points to increased tourism and spending in local communities as a benefit of ...

Published: June 30, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 704

The Joy Of Pablo

Pablo Software Solutions: Pablo Vandermeer is a Windows programmer based in The Netherlands. Pablo is a simple guy: He is interested in music, blonde women and programming. But the software he builds spot-on. And he gives it away... He's programmed fully-functional FTP servers, POP3 servers, Web servers (a small one, ...

Published: October 21, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 703

New Anti-Spam Approach: Remove the Demand

Australia's Internet Industry Association is launching a new campaign to educate consumers on the best way to eliminate spam: "Don't try - Don't buy - Don't reply". "'Spam is the unwelcome by-product of a largely free and open email system', says IIA chief executive, Peter Coroneos. 'Spammers are freeriding on ...

Published: September 26, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 702

Firefox 1.0 Released

Mozilla Firefox has hit the big 1.0, and is available for download now. The update promises "Better Tabbed Browsing Controls" and "a horde of other bug fixes..." Free. For Mac OS X and others.

Published: November 9, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 700

The Economics of Piracy

On Piracy, or, Nick Bradbury is an Amazing Idiot: This was written in response to Nick Bradbury's bit about piracy from yesterday. ...most people who pirate his software probably would never use it anyway, so they aren't costing him any money and they're providing him with free advertising. This is ...

Published: January 5, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 699

Of Harry Potter and DRM

Harry Potter and the Internet Pirates: This is an interesting look at the pirating of the new Harry Potter book. For all the care taken to protect this version, the publisher failed to understanding one thing: readers can simply transcribe the text. And that's what they did. Apparently you can ...

Published: July 14, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 699

Panotools / Autopano

When Deane and I were in Chicago this weekend, I bought a disposable camera, just so I wouldn't keep commenting that I should have brought a camera with me. Just before we left, I'd read about PTAssembler, which is one of several frontends for the open-source panotools suite of command-line ...

Published: June 29, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 699

ACME License Maker

Here's a fun distraction The ACME License Maker. Choose your favorite state, your favorite year, and your favorite message. You can't use it on your car, but what do you expect for free?

Published: March 13, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 698

Grokker Online

Grokker - A New Way to Look at Search: Grokker has encapsulated their client-side tool into a Java applet which you can use for free at their site. Looks almost exactly the same as the installable version.

Published: June 16, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 696

Noo Gentoo

Gentoo Linux has announced the release of their first-quarter build, with some cutting-edge enhancements. Gentoo Linux is proud to announce the release of Gentoo Linux 2004.0 for the x86, AMD64, PowerPC, Sun SPARC, and SGI MIPS architectures. Additionally, the Gentoo Hardened team is announcing the inaugural release of a security-enhanced ...

Published: March 2, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 695

MySql dips its toe into closed source

MySQL reserves features for paying customers; open-source community up in arms: This is interesting, and perhaps not surprising given the acquisition. Open-source darling MySQL is facing a new uprising within its customer base over plans disclosed this week to reserve some key upcoming features, and their source code, for paying ...

Published: April 17, 2008 Geek Popularity Factor: 694

tuneDial

Here's something interesting that just popped up; tuneDial.org is a place where musicians can share their music for free through iTunes and the Music Store interface. The really cool thing is that it totally bypasses Apple's iTunes Music Store and allows artists to create and share playlists of their music ...

Published: May 11, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 691

Nvu 1.0

Nvu - The Complete Web Authoring System for Linux, Macintosh: Nvu made it to a 1.0 release earlier today. I'm a big fan of this software. It's like an un-crapped-up version of FrontPage. And it's free.

Published: June 29, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 690

I did it my way

What can you do when Linux isn't geeky enough for you anymore? Why write your own operating system, of course! An engineer from Austria (along with a small team) is developing SkyOS, a very slick looking OS that includes a lot of advanced features. SkyOS is a free operating system ...

Published: February 25, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 689

The Onion Archives

Strapping Young Man To Address Congress: With their new redesign, The Onion has opened up its entire archive for free -- it used to be behind a paid wall. With this, I once again have found the funniest news brief in Onion history.

Published: August 31, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 687

MSN Spaces - The One-Minute Review

What they got right I was pleasantly suprised by a lot of the features they are offering. First off, making new entries is terribly simple. They already define categories, give you an easy way to add pictures to articles, and there's neither a WYSIWYG editor nor markup needed to write ...

Published: December 2, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 686

XAMPP

When it comes to AMP (Apache; MySQL; Perl, Python, or PHP) installers, we at Gadgetopia started with FoxServ. That project kind of died, so a few weeks ago, we touted the benefits of Sokkit. That product, while very good, wasn't free, which was a drag (though, at $24.95, it's still ...

Published: January 30, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 684

Cafe Press Print-on-Demand

Publish books for Free: Publish books on demand for as little as three cents a page. "Pricing includes book manufacturing, order management, fulfillment and customer service. You choose the retail price and earn the different between the retail price and our base price."

Published: July 16, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 683

iTunes U

Apple - Education - Products - iTunes U: Interesting use of iTunes. iTunes U is a free, hosted service for colleges and universities that provides easy access to their educational content, including lectures and interviews From this larger article about how colleges and increasing using MP3s for teaching.

Published: February 7, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 683

Baseline Magazine

Baseline: Case Studies, Tools and Best Practices for Better Project and Process Management: I had never heard of Baseline before, but they seem to do a good job covering enterprise IT project management. Great content, and it appears to be 100% free (though ad-heavy).

Published: June 19, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 682

Site Owners Not Liable for Third-Party Postings

Court says blogs can't be sued for postings: This is some good news...or bad, I guess, depending on if you've been defamed or not. Bloggers and website owners cannot be sued for posting libelous or defamatory comments written by third parties, the California Supreme Court has ruled. The court said ...

Published: November 22, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 679

RssReader

I've been using a new free RSS aggregator for a couple of days and, on the whole, I'm very impressed. RssReader does lack a few features of some of the other players, but is very responsive and easy to use. It needs the .NET framework to run.

Published: January 3, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 678

Registry Explorer

Registry Explorer home page: free software for windows: This tool will allow you to mount your Windows registry as a drive for browsing and editing in Windows Explorer. Via Anil Dash, who astutely notes that this is a "wacky way to f**k your system all up in a hurry."

Published: November 3, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 677

Quest Markup Language

QML: On the heels of Fiction Markup Langauge and Interactive Fiction Markup Language comes Quest Markup Language. What is QML? QML, the Quest Markup Language, is a free XML-based Choose-Your-Own-Adventure game system. Adventures can have images, sound, states to check, random events and much more.

Published: January 20, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 677

Turck MMCache

Turck MMCache for PHP: PHP is blindingly fast as it is, but this is a pre-compiler that makes it almost 5x times faster, according to their benchmarks. I've seen a fair amount of independent opinion