Best freebies

Free logo generator - Cool Text

2008-10-10T10:23:00.005+01:00

I am working in a temporary position as a webmaster for a centre at the University of Warwick. I had to get a small logo done quickly but I didn't want to mess around with Photoshop.

Did a search on Google and I found the Cool Text website. In just a few clicks, I had a brand new logo.

First you choose the Logo Style which takes you to another page where you can customise the text, size, colour, etc. Hit the "Render Logo" button and you are done.

Really cool.

Firefox ver 3.0.3

2008-09-27T18:48:00.002+01:00

Wow! It's been quite sometime since I last updated this blog. It has totally been neglected.

Anyway, the latest version of Firefox, version 3.0.3 came out yesterday. It fixes a problem where users were unable to retrieve saved passwords or save new passwords.

Those who think that Foxkeh, the Japanese mascot of Firefox is cool (or cute), you will be pleased to learn that a Foxkeh theme is out.

Play Battle City online

2008-07-20T15:44:00.003+01:00

When I was a kid, one of my favourite games was Battle City (also known as Tank in some places).

Just found a flash powered version of the game online at y8.com. They have loads of other games as well.

Battle City

Click here to play this game

Medical ID Jewellery

2008-07-19T00:22:00.004+01:00

Found out about some amazing products that may actually save your life. The medical jewelry are engraved with a brief description of medical conditions you are suffering from and can help prevent medical errors and reduce medical costs.

Universal Medical ID's personalized medical ID jewellery are now available in the UK. These are available in various styles including bracelets, necklaces, watches and even sportbands. You have a choice of the material: gold, gold-filled, sterling silver, stainless steel, titanium and nylon.

Right now they are offering free personalized engraving and sizing as well as free engraving warranty. Each order also comes also with a Free wallet card. You will also have 24/7 access to the Online Medical Registry. Just go over to their website to check out whether you qualify to wear a medical ID alert based on medical conditions and drug or food allergies listed. Making your own medical ID is really easy and completed in 3 easy steps on the "Build Your ID" page.

Freebies on my computer

2008-07-09T00:05:00.004+01:00

Here is a list of all the freeware/ open source software running on my computer:

SECURITY:

Ad-Aware

AVG Anti-Virus

ZoneAlarm

ENTERTAINMENT:

Google Earth

ITunes

Real Player

BROWSER:

Firefox

GRAPHICS AND PHOTO EDITING:

IrfanView

GIMP

INSTANT MESSENGERS & VOIP

Google Talk

Skype

VOIP Stunt

Yahoo! Messenger

OTHER USEFUL TOOLS:

Filezilla - FTP solution

Foxit - free PDF document viewer and printer

IDrive - Online storage

Kompozer - WYSIWYG HTML and CSS editor

ZipGenius - Compression utility

AVG antivirus no longer free

2008-07-08T23:13:00.002+01:00

AVG antivirus has always been my favourite anti-virus program and I have been using it for a very long time. AVG Technologies (formerly Grisof)has come out with the latest version, AVG Internet Security 8.0, which consists of Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Spam, Web Protection and Firewall. It costs £39.99 (inc. 17.50% VAT) for a 1 year subscription and £59.99 (inc. VAT) for 2 years.

If you just want the anti-virus it will cost you £29.99 inc. VAT for a 1 year Subscription and £39.99 inc. VAT for a 2 years Subscription.

Fortunately, a free version - AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 (latest version : 8.0.138) is still available.

Introducing two new blogs

2008-07-08T15:58:00.005+01:00

This blog started out as a list of all the free of all the best free software out there on the net. I later started writing about bargains, discounts and informations regarding sales offered by retailers, both online and offline.

Now I am going to take this blog back to it's roots and focus mostly on software with limited news on other free stuff.

I will now carry news about discounts and offers by online retailers on my site On Sale Online. This will include discount codes, online shopping tips, etc.

On the other hand, my new blog "not about fashion" will discuss fashion, retail news and tips on getting value for your money on branded clothes and accessories.

Firefox Download Day

2008-06-14T01:38:00.003+01:00

Dear readers, just to remind you - Firefox 3 will be launched officially on June 17, 2008. That is next Tuesday. Let's help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours.

Apology

2008-06-14T01:24:00.002+01:00

Removed the link to Cool Web Scrollbars 3.1 (coolscrl.exe) because McAfee tests found that this program added Adware-xplus.url which may be considered as Adware.
Read the report on the McAfee site.

I guess it happens sometimes. Sorry about that.

Firefox 3 out

2008-05-29T00:28:00.002+01:00

Just found out that Mozilla has released the Release Candidate 1 of Firefox 3. It isis available in more than 45 languages as a public preview release. However, it should be noted that this release still has some issues.

Edit photographs online and more

2008-05-16T15:09:00.004+01:00

I had heard about Adobe's Photoshop Express sometime back but only signed up for it today.

It has the same function as Flickr in that it allows us to store images online and create slideshows. However, the similarities end there. Photoshop Express allows you to store up to a maximum of 2Gb space. You can also edit your images online, create a slide show which you can then post up on social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and more.

Flickr users should be happy to learn that Photoshop Express allows you to download images from their Flickr albums, edit them on PE and upload them back up again on Flickr.

And of course, it's totally free of charge.

Creating a colour theme with Color Hunter

2008-04-30T11:01:00.002+01:00

Have you ever wanted a colour theme for your site that goes with your banner image . Well just go over to Color Hunter. All you have to do is upload your image and the site will create and find color palettes made from it.

You can then use those colours for various elements in your site.

Got this via Elizabeth's 'Getting my Blog on'.

Yet another Firefox update

2008-04-19T00:51:00.002+01:00

Mozilla recently release another update of Firefox - version 2.0.0.14 on April 16, 2008. That's just a few days after the last update.

I don't think that bad. Apparently the latest update fixes a critical issue - MFSA 2008-20 Crash in JavaScript garbage collector. I have no idea what that means and I don't really care.

Create huge panoramas with Hugin

2008-04-09T17:26:00.004+01:00

As an amateur photographer, I absolutely love this program.

I am sure you have come across the situation whereby you wanted to take the picture of a beautiful landscape or building but it just didn't fit in. Well just take loads of pictures and use "hugin" - the Free downloadable Panorama photo sticker to join up all your photographs into one whole complete panorama.

The latest version is version 0.7 beta 4 and is available for Linux, OS X and Windows.

Download Hugin here.

Here is a screenshot of the software in action from the Hugin site.

In the top 50 list

2008-04-03T13:47:00.002+01:00

Just found out that this blog has been listed on "The Freeloader’s Toolbelt: 50 Tools to Help You Get Anything Free Online".

The article by Christina Laun puts my blog under the "websites" category.

Thanks Christina.

Firefox 2.0.0.13 released

2008-03-27T01:03:00.002Z

A new version of my favourite open source browser, Firefox has been released. No! It's not the eagerly awaited version 3 but ver 2.0.0.13

It was released on the 25 of this month.

A few security issues were fixed.

Watch free movies online on 66Stage

2008-02-26T13:22:00.003Z

Sometime back I wrote about allfg.org where you could watch movies and TV shows for free.Well, I found another similar site called 66Stage. They have loads of movies, TV shows, documentaries, cartoons, etc.

Like allfg.org. they don't store the movies on their server but provide link to others sites such as Veoh, DivX, Google, Youku, etc.

The quality of some of the movies I have seen are quite good. That is if you don't mind the small screen and the awfully long buffering.

In fact as I write this, I am waiting for "Resident Evil: Extinction" to load

VoipStunt - a great alternative to Skype

2008-02-16T22:50:00.003Z

I am quite satisfied with Skype and use Skypeout to makes calls internationally all the time.

One day, I suddenly found that my wife had installed a new software called VoipStunt. She told me that it was a better alternative to Skype. Better in the sense that it was free to make calls to land lines in Malaysia and several other countries. Check out the rates here.

Like Skype, you can also chat with friends who have the software installed.

It also has a feature called "Phone-to-Phone" which enables you to make VoipStunt calls with your regular phone. We only pay 50p to make calls to Malaysia.

Try it out and tell me what you think.

Firefox 2.0.0.12 out

2008-02-08T19:00:00.000Z

Mozilla released the latest version of the Firefox browser yesterday. I was quite because the new version didn't get updated automatically unlike previously and I had to use the "Check for Updates" under help tab on the browser.

Anyway, the new version fixes a number of security and stability issues that were discovered in Firefox 2.0.0.11.

Phoenity theme for Firefox reborn

2008-01-28T23:27:00.000Z

Lim Chee Aun has finally come up with a new version of the Phoenity theme for Firefox - the Phoenity Aura 0.1.1

Love the clean and colourful icons.

I wrote about this Firefox fan in March 2005.

Thanks Chee Aun.

Even more free blogger templates

2008-01-26T23:23:00.000Z

A lot of newbies to blogging usually start out with a blog on Blogger. After they have got the hang of it, they usually start looking for a new template. There are loads of free Blogger template sources out there on the net. I had blogged earlier about Blogclouds and Adam's templates.

Here are two more sources with loads of free templates for your Blogger hosted blogs:
- Final Sense
- Blogger Templates

KompoZer a great open source WYSIWYG HTML editor

2008-01-14T00:41:00.000Z

My favourite open source WYSIWYG HTML editor has always been Nvu. However, it had several bugs and often crashed in the middle of a web desiging job.

I was really happy to learn that there's a community-driven project called KompoZer. It maintains Nvu's codebase and fixes several bugs.

You don't need to have any knowledge of either HTML or CSS to use the software though it would be better.

Infra Recorder for buring CD and DVDs

2008-01-03T23:20:00.000Z

I haven't been neglecting this blog for quite sometime now. Will be updating it regularly it from now on.

Anyway, I was looking for a DVD burner and came across Infra Recorder, an open source CD/DVD burning software for Microsoft Windows. The latest version is 0.44.1 for Windows 2000/XP/Vista (2.65 MiB).

It is totally free and released under the GPL version 2.

Go to their website to download InfraRecorder or for information: http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/

IrfanView verison 4.10 out

2007-11-28T12:08:00.000Z

The latest version of IrfanView, my favourite free graphic viewers for Windows is out. According to the site, the software has over 1 Million downloads EVERY month.

The latest version has numerous changes including a Paint PlugIn and some bug fixes. Go here to read what's new.

Download the latest version here.

Ad-Aware 2007 Free

2007-11-12T02:01:00.001Z

Ad-Aware 2007 Free is out. They say that it is "the world's most popular anti-spyware". Not sure about that but it did clean some stuff not detected by other software programmes I have on my pc. It also works with Windows Vista 32Bit

During the installation process, I was a bit confused when a popup asked me for the registration code. I choose cancel and found that it had been installed.

The free version does not offer real-time defence against spyware and you have to run it manually.

One feature that particularly attract me is it's ability to repair damage left by malware. Had bad experiences in the past when removing spyware caused the system to function erratically.

Download 'Ad-Aware 2007 Free' here.