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!”

Talk to you later. Hope you found this useful… Read the rest of this entry