The Almost Daily Freeware Podcast

DFP - #37 Joost

DFP - #36 iWannaSleep

Today on the show Aaron and Billy rewiew a nifty app to help put your mac to sleep.iWannaSleep works pretty simply Open the app, set the countdown timer and go relax.iWannaSleep will then use a count down feature to slowly fade out your iTunes music or audiobook and then put your Mac into a low power sleep mode. Visit http://www.sb-software.de/sb-english/iWannaSleep.html and find out more .

DFP - #35 Pac The Man X

It's Friday and today Billy and Aaron take it back to the old Arcade, A classically retro game for your mac. Pac the Man X is a Pacman Ms. PacMan super addictive fast paced time waster! Packed with over 100 or so levels including ones designed by other players this is sure to give you hours of button mashing fun. Stop by http://www.mcsebi.com/ptmx.php download a copy and let the weekend pass you by.

DFP - #34 Disk Inventory X

Today Billy and Aaron talk about Disk Inventory x This disk space utility gives mac users a graphical view of the files and folders that are stored on your macs Hard drive. This allows users to free up some space without accidentally deleting your important documents. Download a copy from http://www.derlien.com/

DFP - #33 Synergy

Today we discuss Synergy, this neat little app is for linux, mac or windows. Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. This sis pretty tough to set up i managed to find this troubleshooting FAQ http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/SynergyOSX/Instructions.htm Synergy is downloadable from here http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

DFP - #32 Thunderbird

Today the guys review Mozilla's popular E-Mail / RSS client, Thunderbird. Providing Many cool features such as Message Tagging, Great Junk mail and Privacy (Phishing) Filters. Thunderbird provides a Fantastic Email, RSS reader and even Newsgroup reader available for Linux, Mac and Windows. Check it out http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

DFP - #31 Fluid

Today Billy introduces Aaron to Fluid, a standalone offline website viewer. according to www.iusethis.com users can also enjoy fluid to 'run YouTube, GTalk, Flickr, Basecamp, Delicious, .Mac webmail, or any other webapp as a separate Mac desktop application.' seems to work good with websites too! Download your copy of Fluid by going to http://osx.iusethis.com/app/versions/fluid

DFP - #30 Lego Digital Designer

Today on the Daily Freeware Podcast Billy and Aaron go retro, Lego digital Designer, do you remember when you were a kid playing with legos? of course you do! right? Well, with this free application from lego you can design your own lego projects 3D CAD style, and then build it by ordering the exact amount of bricks directly from lego. To find out more about this fun filled product goto www.ldd.lego.com.

DFP - #29 CyberDuck

Today on the Daily Freeware Podcast Billy and Aaron review CyberDuck, a simple but powerful lightweight FTP application for Mac OSX It supports the` following FTP (File Transfer Protocol), FTP/TLS (FTP secured over SSL/TLS) and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer). It also intergrates well with Spotrlight, Keychain Bonjour networking and even your .mac iDisk. Find` out more and download this great application by going to www.cyberduck.ch

DFP - #28 Switch

Todays freeware is called Switch. Switch is a mult formate conversion application for all your audio conversion needs. Just drag and drop your audio file and select the format you want it to become. Want to change the bitrate no problem Switch has an advanced setting built right into Switch. You can find Switch at http://www.nch.com.au/switch/plus.html

DFP - #27 Levelator

The Levelator from the Conversations Network is a must have for all you podcasters and audio geeks, this free utility takes Raw uncompressed audio (.WAV or .AIFF formats) and normalizes audio levels. This app also runs under either Linux, Mac OS X or Windows, Check it out at http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator/

DFP - #26 OpenOffice

Today Aaron and Billy focus on OpenOffice, a free open source rival to Microsoft's Office suite. Using Sun Microsystems Java it provides users with a lot of applications such as Writer for word processing, impress for powerpoint style presentations and even a pretty good graphics app. Even better it runs on Windows linux and Mac OS X (X11 install required) You can get your hands on this fantastic bundle by going to www.openoffice.org

DFP - #25 Quinn

Week 5 Friday - On todays episode Aaron and Billy discuss another fun game for your weekend. Quinn is like tetris except it takes it in more of a 21 Century Look. You can post your score online to the Quinn website and compete against people all around the world. You can find Quinn at http://simonhaertel.de/

DFP - #24 Media-Convert

Week 5 Thursday - Today on the Daily Freeware Podcast Billy and Aaron review Media-Convert.com 100% Free online file conversion using your web browser. to use it simply upload a file of your choice and pick a format to convert it to. works with audio video and many many more formats including Ringtones! Click on over to www.media-convert.com to discover more.

DFP - #23 Picnik

Piknik - with Picnik you can Crop, resize, and rotate your images in real-time over the web. Piknic is pretty close to a online Adobe Photoshop replacement, go check it out at www.picnik.com

DFP - #22 GIMP

Week 5 Tuesday - Today on the DFP we discuss a free open source image editor, G.I.M.P ( the GNU Image Manipulation Program) With th GIMP users can proform many of tasks that PhotoShop is used for without spending a penny! for a full list of its features visit http://www.gimp.org/features/ You can get your copy of the GIMP at http://www.gimp.org/

DFP - #21 Flickr Uploader

Week Five Monday - On todays monday edition Billy and Aaron discuss an application for OSX and Windows called Flickr Uploadr which uploads your photos onto your flickr account. To Find out more go to www.flickr.com/tools/uploadr

DFP - #20 SuperTux

Week 4 Friday- Today Billy and Aaron talk about another great game. Todays game is SuperTux. Remember the old Mario Brothers games? This is basically the same thing, but instead of Mario its Tux the Linux Penguin. To Learn more about this game go to http://supertux.lethargik.org/

DFP - #19 Twitterific

Week 4 Thursday - Today Billy and Aaron talk about another social networking tool, Twitterific is a free social networking site that allows users to send tweets; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long to your friends. Goto www.twitter.com to sign up today

DFP - #18 Pownce

Week 3 - Wednesday we're back to talk about Pownce. Pownce is a social networking application that enables people to share music, photos, messages, links, and pretty much anything over the web or via a downloadable desktop application powered by Adobe Air To find out more and join this growing community goto www.pownce.com

DFP - #17 Trillian

Week 4 Tuesday - Today on the Daily Freeware Podcast we discuss A popular Multi Protocol IM App for Windows, Trillian. It supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. as well as many other features such as audio chat, file transfers, group chats, chat rooms, and SMS support. You can find out more and download this application by visiting http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/

DFP - #16 Adium

Week 4 Monday 1 Today Billy and Aaron are talking about IM on the Mac, With Adium, you can connect to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services. To learn more about and download your copy of Adium visit www.adiumx.com

DFP - #15 Ad-Aware

Week 3 Friday Today we talk about one of the nets most popular anti-spyware solutions, Ad-Aware 2007 Free Version for Windows. With Ad-Aware installed you can find and remove many different Trojans, worms, other types of spyware with just a few clicks. To download your copy of Ad-Aware goto http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.php.

DFP #14 - Maya

Today Billy and Aaron talk about Maya Personal Learning Edition From AutoDesk. is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, effects, and rendering solution. AutoDesk kindly provides a free, Personal Learning Licensed version for non commercial use.

DFP - #13 Perian

Week 3 Wednesday: Today on the show we discuss Perian, a free open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats such as AVI, FLV, and MKV and DivX. To download Perian for Mac visit, www.perian.org

DFP - #12 TrueCrypt

Week 3 Tuesday On these episode we talk about TrueCrypt, a Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. Truecrypt provides Encryption that is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent. It supports many different encryption standards such as AES-256 and TwoFish. To learn more about truecrypt, visit www.truecrypt.org.

DFP - #11 Google Earth

Week 3 Monday: Today on the daily freeware podcast we talk about one of our favorite Apps for Google, Google Earth. '' Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. ' Google Earth is for Windows Mac and Linux As well as Earth google also prove similar satellite images for the Moon and Mars Billy Links are as follows Earth www.google.com/earth Mars www.google.com/mars Moon www.G...

DFP - #10 Halo Trial

Week 2 - Friday: Today we talk about a game demo. Tagline: You are the last of your kind. Bred for combat, built for war, you are the master of any weapon, pilot of any vehicle and fear no enemy. To find out more on halo visit http://www.microsoft.com/games/halo/ PC demo can be found at here.

DFP - #9 Audacity

Week 2 - Thursday: Today on the DFP we talk about Audacity the free, open source application for recording and editing audio on your computer . It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, & Linux,. To learn more about Audacity check out http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

DFP - #8 iSquint

Week 2 - Wednesday: Today on the show Billy and I discuss one of the most popular free video converter tools for your iPod. iSquint {LINK TO SITE} is a free, lightweight and very simple to use video converter for Mac OSX that converts almost any video format into either .mp4 or .H264 that is suitable for playback on your iPhone / iPod and even your Apple tv.