Have you seen http://www.giveawayoftheday.com? I find it handy for 2 reasons.

1. Obviously for the giveaway products themselves – which are commercial software products that are given away for free for 24 hours. Usually you have to install them within the 24 hours to get them working for free. And occasionally there has been a product I have downloaded.

2. But what I find more useful often is the discussion afterwards. Users can download (or not) and leave a comment. For most products that are given away, you will usually find that some of the commenters will link through to a free product that they say does the same job better.

I like that.

Take today’s example. It “allows users to grab images right off their screen, edit them using paint and photo editing tools” but in the following discussion various posters linked through to over half a dozen alternatives, all free.

My favorite, being a Firefox user, was the link through to Fire Shot which is a Firefox browser addon.

Other finds that caught my eye:

FastStone Capture “is a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages.” You can add watermarks with this one, too.

Rumshot – “Get classy – use Rumshot to automatically generate a themed and stylish screenshot preview!”

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Since this is where I now share some of the “what’s going on + what I’m doing”, let me mention that I’d seen several emails about this latest giveaway but hadn’t bothered to open them up. Busy trying to keep my focus somewhere else at the moment – not succeeding entirely, but trying anyway.

However tonight (it’s now very late on Sunday night here in Sydney), I got an email from Geoff Shaw with his endorsement of this particular giveaway event.

It’s from a top, very visible IM guy.

So it is attracting plenty of attention and contains a ton of great stuff all at no cost, of course – other than your email address. Since I use Gmail (and they have good spam filters), that’s okay with me.

If you’re interested in participating as a JV partner / product contributor – and building your mailing list as a result, click here.

If you just want the free stuff, click here.

If you want to see what some of the free stuff is, look at the top right corner of my eProfitNews internet marketing blog. The scroller is from this event. When the event ends, I will remove the scroller code.