Considering the fact that Adobe wants $640 for a full version of Photoshop CS4, $353.99 for Dreamweaver CS4 and Microsoft wants $313 for Office 2007 it’s probably safe to assume that there’s a whole lot of people out there looking for cheaper (and legal) alternatives.
AlternativeTo.net is a website dedicated to helping users find better alternatives [...]
According to PC Pro Microsoft will give away Windows 7 for free for a full year(!) when the Release Candidate launches May 5th.
So, the free-as-in-beer RC will include all the features available in the final product and will be functional until June 1st 2010. That gives you more than a year of free testing [...]
Robert Curto has created WriteMonkey: a free full-screen text editor aiming to help those of us apt to get easily distracted. Just put everything else behind and write. No fancy fonts, no fancy colors (except the customizable foreground/background). Think of it as a fullscreen, old-school typewriter for modern people.
“For creative writing I prefer text editors [...]
Just like with textures it’s pretty much impossible for any designer to find him- or herself with too many high quality and free icon sets. Finding those sets, on the other hand, can be quite a pain.
Here’s where sites like iconPot.com comes in. They’re collecting high quality icon sets that are completely free for both [...]