Today billy and aaron talk about Facebook's mobile safari web app for use with Apple's iPhone or iPod Touch. This app allows you to take facebook with you and always be upto date with what your friends are doing. You can visit the site using your Ipod Touch or iPhone www.iphone.facebbook.com
Tuesdays episode of DFP brings to you a little app for OSX called QuickShareIt QuickShareIt is a Mac OS X utility that works on Tiger and Leopard designed to let users upload files quickly. You can fins QuickShareIt at http://www.quickshareit.com/
Tweak-UI is a free 'power-toy from Microsoft. With this free application users can customize the windows user interface to their hearts content more information can be found at http://www.tech-faq.com/tweak-ui.shtml download Tweak-UI from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Today on the show we talk about mac maintenance with a free application from Mac Dentro called IceClean. for more info on IceClean head on over to http://www.macdentro.com/MacDentro/Home.html
Today on the show Aaron talks about a free application for streaming web radio on your mac. Find out more about FStream at http://sourcemac.com/
Todays freeware pick comes from Billy. Using DVD Shrink windows users can easily and quickly make full copies and even re-author and compress their DVD's to smaller sizes. Features Include Remove Region encoding Remove special features and unwanted audio tracks Built in DVD Burning Downloadable from http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_shrink.cfm and works with windows 98, 2000 NT and XP
Today Billy tells us about a portable version of Thunderbird. With a simple install users can now take their email and rss feeds with them using this simple install package and a USB Thumb-drive. To get the lowdown on this application head on over to http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable
On this Tuesdays edition of the show Billy tells us how to take skype to every windows computer that you use. Portable allows you to install Skype on a USB Thumb-Drive. Skype More information and download link can be found at http://portableapps.com/node/751
Friday means game day, and today on the DFP we talk about an open source Racing simulator. TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator) "TORCS features more than 50 different cars, more than 20 tracks, and 50 opponents to race against. Your can steer with a joystick or steering wheel, if the device is supported by your platform. It is also possible to drive with the mouse or the keyboard. Graphic features lighting, smoke, skidmarks and glowing brake disks. The simulation features a simple damage model,...
Its Thursday and today Billy Talks about a more mobile version of firefox With Portable Firefox you can take your browser complete with all of your settings and bookmarks with you on a thumb-drive usb stick. More information can be found over at http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/testIts Thursday and today Billy Talks about a more mobile version of firefox With Portable Firefox you can take your browser complete with all of your settings and bookmarks with you on a thumb-driv...
Today on the show Aaron talks about Celestia an open source app that lets users discover pretty much the entire solar system. You can download ad ons that help you to plot the current orbit of many NASA and other spacecraft. As well as many fictional aspects from Star Trek and Star-Wars To take a look at some images and download Celestia goto http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
Today Billy talks about a multi platform password storing application called KeyPass. Users can use this application to keep track off all of their personal passwords in windows linux and even other devices such as your blackberry features include Export To TXT, HTML, XML and CSV Files Import From Many File Formats Easy Database Transfer Support of Password Groups Time Fields and Entry Attachments Auto-Type, Global Auto-Type Hot Key and Drag&Drop You can get it from http://keepass.info/...
Today we re-visit one of our favorite apps. AVG have recently updated their Anti Virus suite to version 8.0 The new release provides: Better comparability with Windows Vista. Built in link scanner and malware protection combined. Download this updated version from http://free.grisoft.com/
On this friday edition of the show billy talks about iDMG, a free file compression application only for Mac OS X leopard. 'iDMG is an easy to use application to create .dmg files of a folder with a simple drag and drop. Is a native cocoa application. Supports encryption, internet enable and much more. ! ' to find out more and download iDMG goto http://web.mac.com/patrickjamelo/
Today on the show it's all about backups. Drive Snapshot is a free simple to use all in one backup solution for windows users. With Drive Snapshot users can: Do a full backup (while still running windows and continuing to work) backup selected items only. Create an emergency boot disk and more... All the information and a download link can be found at http://www.drivesnapshot.de/
Today on the show we are joined by a guest co host, Steve from the fabulous Podnutz podcast. find out more about Steve and listen to his latest show ( episode 14) an hour long interview with both Billy and myself. by going to www.podnutz.com Steve tells us about a free Windows only application to help users view files stored on their hard drives. SpaceMonger v1.04 provides a simple to use interface for locating those pesky space eating files and then deleting them once and for all with a simple ...
Aaron intros Irfanview a free windows graphics editor. features include: Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc. Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD) Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc. Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters Batch conversion (with image processing) Multipage TIF editing Email option Multimedia player and many more Grab your copy today by visiting http://www.irfanview.com/
Today Billy tells us about a eat little Post it note application for Mac OS X. Stick-It lets users jot down small notes (just like Mac OS X's built in dashboard application only This one gives you a few more advanced options like the ability to lock a note to avoid accidental loss of data. Download Stick-It from http://www.johnjoyce.org/stickit.html
Today on the Daily Freeware Podcast we talk about an internet explorer alternative for windows users. Maxthon is a fully featured web browser that comes complete with: Mouse gestures Plugins Super drag and drop A built in Ad Hunter / Blocker and much more Check it out over at http://www.maxthon.com/
On todays edition we talk about Microsoft's upcoming release of internet explorer. This ie 8 beta features an improved privacy / phishing filter Web Slices and also pretty tight integration with many of Microsoft's other services such as mail, maps and spaces to try out the demo and get further info on the future of IE visit. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/features.mspx
Today we talk about Apple's web browser Safari. Running on OS X and now Windows XP / Vista Apple's Safari provides a fast light weight browsing experience, complete with pop up blocker built in RSS reader and privacy settings. To get more information and to start using Safari, goto www.apple.com/safari
This Friday's game is Assault Cuber form he people over at http://assault.cubers.net/ 'AssaultCube, formerly ActionCube, is a free first-person-shooter based on the game Cube. Set in a realistic looking environment, as far as that´s possible with this engine, while gameplay stays fast and arcade. This game is all about team oriented multiplayer fun.' download it from http://assault.cubers.net/This Friday's game is Assault Cuber form he people over at http://assault.cubers.net/ 'AssaultCube, for...
Open with Manager is a Mac OS X that allows users to control; which applications can open many different video and picture files by default. With open with manager you can tell all of your .GIFs and JPEGs BMPs and TIFFs to open up with photoshop or preview with a few simple clicks of your mouse. download this application from http://www.manytricks.com/openwithmanager/
Today on the DFP we discover time Tube. Time Tube is a new web service that allows users to search for youtube videos and then places them in a variety of time line formats. try it out over at http://www.dipity.com/mashups/timetube
Its twitter day here on the DFP, Twhirl is a new and upcoming lightweight twitter client that runs on both mac OS X and Windows. Requires Adobe Air install also, find out more at http://www.twhirl.org/
Todays application is a handy little application for all Macintosh notebook owners. Insomnia X is a small simple utility that does one thing. when enabled it keeps your mac awake stopping it from sleeping even when you have your notebook lid closed. More information found at http://semaja2.net/insomniaxinfo More information found at http://sem
Today we talk about a free online software tracking community, Wakoopa tracks what kind of software or games you use, and lets you create your own software profile so that your friends can keep track of which applications you have running on your computer in realtime. To signup and start sharing goto www.wakoopa.com
Have you ever had an app crash on you and just wanted to tear it apart with your bare hands... well then iBlend IT is the fun gadget you've been looking for: not much more to say other than go download it from http://fernlightning.com/
Permanent Eraser for Mac provides an even stronger level of security by implementing the Gutmann Method. This utility overwrites your data thirty-five times, scrambles the original file name, and truncates the file size to nothing before Permanent Eraser finally unlinks it from the system. Once your data has been erased, it can no longer be read through traditional means. download it from http://www.edenwaith.com/products/permanenteraser/
Todays application is BZ Flag an open source online only multi player tank game! BZ Flag allows you to game over the internet in either capture the flag or shoot to kill style rounds. More info can be found at http://bzflag.org/
