Opensource Photoshop

GIMP is an opensource image manipulation program (Photoshop-like). It works on different operating systems, which included Windows, Unix, Mac. It also support all the major languages in the world. It is a very nice piece of software for users who don't want to shell out $600 to get Photoshop but yet good enough to do all the photo editing and image composition.

There are many free tutorials to walk you through all the "how-to" step by step. The help files come with different languages and it is pretty easy to start learning how to use GIMP from scratch.

Click here to download and try it out.

Sneakpeak MS Office Small Business 2007

Take a look and try out the free trial version of Microsoft Office 2007 here.

Other than the improved "looks" of the applications, there are a couple of new features in the latest release:

• Preview attachments before opening it in Outlook
• To-do bar that consolidated tasks, flagged emails, calendar events
• Built in PDF publisher
• Centralized communication records

Giveaway of the Day - Software Download Site

There is a free software download site called Giveaway of the Day. Unlike other traditional download site, they promote different software one day at a time. Every day they offer only one free licensed commercial software for download (with a 24 hours window).

I haven't downloaded any software in the site yet but I see that it is a very unique way to start out a free download site with limited inventories. The look and design of the site is exactly likr a blog, and it is powered by WordPress. Users are also allowed to rate and comment on downloads just like other download sites. Each post is getting around 100 comments and I think the website is getting some interest from software companies/developers that would like to promote their products.