http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Giveaway of the Day Forums Topic: A Very Nice List Of 480+ Open Source Programs en Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:00:52 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1766#post-11115 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:28:12 +0000 Bobby 11115@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Pauloparra:</p> <p>I locate a search engine for what I need. Freeware has at least one search engine at freeware.filehungry.com. </p> <p>My favorite is Clusty, but you might want to try OSDir.com, Koders (for opensource code), Freshmeat.net, AllSearchEngines.com, SearchEngineGuide.com, RefDesk.com, Momma.com. </p> <p>Specialized search engine listings at these two sites: </p> <p><a href="http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm</a><br /> <a href="http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/specialized.html" rel="nofollow">http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/specialized.html</a></p> <p>One of the newest (and most fun) web crawlers is ChaCha, where you can do a simple Google-type search OR choose 'search with guide,' which opens up a dialog box to access live experts, free of charge. You can find it at <a href="http://www.chacha.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.chacha.com/</a></p> <p>Of course, you can always check the links already posted at social bookmarking sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, Frassle, Furl, Scuttle and Wists. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1766#post-11082 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:35:04 +0000 FreewareFan 11082@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Good point, BuBBy!! </p> <p>I'll start making it a habit of checking out those sidebars, like you said, never can tell.... :-) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1766#post-11080 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:20:41 +0000 BuBBy 11080@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I tend to find "interesting" sites in much the same way - just go looking.</p> <p>Also, if you find an interesting site - it sometimes pays off having a look at the "links" section or the side panels for sites that they recommend. I'm sure most people ignore the sidebars and related links, assuming that they are all just advertising. Sometimes the owners of these websites like to "share the odd gem" that they have found also.... (After a while, you get to know which sites share candy, and which sites share... crap). </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1766#post-11077 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:43:21 +0000 FreewareFan 11077@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Well, speaking for myself only, it usually turns out that I find my way to sites like the one I listed above simply by starting out looking for a particular program. </p> <p>What usually happens is that when I want or need a program to do something for me, I pretty much know the names of the programs that do that function, but one has to pay for. So, from there, I just start looking for a free replacement for the pay program.</p> <p>Once I locate the freeware program that will do the job for me, I sometimes luck out and end up at a website that has many freeware programs all in one place.</p> <p>All that to say this: Mostly for me, it's a matter of good fortune.... :-) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1766#post-11075 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:42:42 +0000 pauloparra 11075@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>This page is awesome. Thanks a lot (of money that I am going to save ).</p> <p>Seriously, how do you guys find all these great downloads? There are quite a bit of them in this forum. I, for one, am very grateful for sharing with us the result of the time spent finding them and for taking the time to post them.</p> <p>-Mario </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1766#post-11073 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:54:03 +0000 Archangel 11073@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I'm alittle late but,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, <strong>Thanks for the link!!</strong></p> <p><strong><em>Archangel</em></strong> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1766#post-11058 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:06:51 +0000 FreewareFan 11058@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>You are ALL very welcome, my pleasure. Helping each other is what this forum is about, and the more we contribute, the more we each gain. :-) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1766#post-11054 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:22:06 +0000 2-SHEDS 11054@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <blockquote><p>hamstergirl wrote:<br /> see above two comments as well </p></blockquote> <p>Well, maybe not so much mine.. I was being sarcastic. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1766#post-11051 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:15:36 +0000 hamstergirl 11051@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>In short.....WOW! - see above two comments as well :)<br /> Thanks FreewareFan!<br /> hg </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1766#post-11050 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:02:49 +0000 2-SHEDS 11050@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Yea.. nice work. I'm with HeadMan, I would have never found it using Google. Sometimes Google gives you too much info. It's freaky. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1766#post-11015 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:11:25 +0000 headman 11015@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Mighty tasty list, FreewareFan! Thanks for the tip! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1766#post-11012 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:45:06 +0000 FreewareFan 11012@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>A very nicely compiled list of free open source programs, gathered into sections. Seems to be something for everyone...</p> <p><a href="http://mashable.com/2007/09/23/open-source/" rel="nofollow">http://mashable.com/2007/09/23/open-source/</a> </p>