WEB FREEBIE WEDNESDAY: Mozilla Firefox

Welcome to Web Freebie Wednesday, the mid-week event featuring the best freebies of the web. Today's freebie is Mozilla Firefox. Firefox is a free web browser from the folks that gave us last week's freebie, Thunderbird. It is feature-rich, much safer than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and free. Its presence is perhaps the reason why most popular web browsers have tabbed browsing today and why they are all free. I still keep Microsoft IE since there are some web pages and web-based applications that require it. But for most other internet activities, Firefox is a good way to go.



WEB FREEBIE WEDNESDAY: Mozilla Thunderbird

Welcome to Web Freebie Wednesday, the mid-week event featuring the best freebies of the web. Today's freebie is Mozilla Thunderbird. Last week the freebie was Gmail, a free POP3 email service from Google. A POP3 email account allows you to use an email client from your desktop. An email client downloads your email and offers tons of additional features to emailing activities. Many of these features are especially good for business purposes, but can be applied at home for personal uses as well. Such features include an audio announcement for when you receive mail (either a bell ring or the classic "you've got mail" voice). You can also set up automatic replies, create email templates, include an automatic footer to all your outgoing emails featuring your name and business, as well as many other features. If you sell digital content online, then an email client can be especially useful since you can set it up to recognize when you've made a sale and automatically send the digital goods to the buyer. The most common email client is Microsoft Outlook which is included when you buy Microsoft Office. One of the best free alternative email clients is Mozilla Thunderbird, brought to us by the same folks that created next week's web freebie. Thunderbird has a very clean look to it and it has most, if not all, of the features that are expected with an email client.

WEB FREEBIE WEDNESDAY: Gimp

Welcome to Web Freebie Wednesday, the mid-week event featuring some of the best freebies of the web. Today's freebie is Gimp open source software. Open source software is free as in "free speech" and it is also free as in "free beer". The idea of open source is to encourage programmers to contribute to an overall and improved finished product. Gimp is one of the most well-known open source programs that is comparable to Adobe Photoshop. So, if you need photo editing software, you can either pay $700 for Adobe Photoshop or get Gimp for free.



Web Freebie Wednesday, Jan 11, 2012, Sumo Paint

Welcome to the first Web Freebie Wednesday! One of the unique things about ActuallyFree.info is that there is a clear distinction between tangible freebies and electronic freebies. Other free sites may have a free sample here and there and then be loaded free ebooks, other downloads or even scams.

Freebie Friday is an event that we've already started doing, and that will only involve tangible freebies and select services (which are admittedly not tangible but can still help individuals live within a budget). However, a freebie doesn't absolutely have to be tangible to be valuable or useful. That's why Web Freebie Wednesday is also an event we'll start doing often on this blog. Web Freebie Wednesday will mention freebies that are downloadable, digital or electronic. In other words, this event will mention freebies that you can get through the world wide web.

Today's freebie is Sumo Paint. You could potentially spend up to $500 or more on a graphics editing program such as Adobe Photoshop. Maybe if you're a professional graphics artist you'll have to invest in the name brand software if it is the standard for your industry. But the rest of us should never have to pay that kind of money for any software.

Sumo Paint is a paint and graphics program that is run entirely through the internet browser, so you don't even have to download it. It has many of the features that any paid program has and its completely free. You can use it as long as you want, whenever you want, and where ever you want as long as you have internet access. There is a paid upgrade if you are an advanced artist. Have fun.

Free Movie Monday, Jan 9, 2012, Super Size Me

Welcome to Free Movie Monday. Today's movie is Super Size Me, a 2004 documentary about a guy who only ate food from McDonald's for a full month.

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Family Friendly Warning: Not rated by the MPAA. KidsInMind rates it as a 4, 4, 5 for sexual content, violence and profanity respectively. A woman talks about her partner's sexual ability (or lack thereof), there is one F-word and lots of medical references and medical exams. Read the Kids In Mind page for the full report.