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No site does as good a job of helping you choose a freeware tool for a specific task than Gizmo's Freeware (otherwise known by us old-timers as Tech Support Alert). The site is simply unrivaled in terms of recommendations for freeware, and if you ever find yourself asking what the best free windows utility is for a given task, it's *the* site to visit. In each well-organized category, top alternatives are reviewed, rated, and ranked, and then discussed by all -- and reviews are frequently revisited and updated, which is a rarity. In addition, Gizmo Richards himself has also long been a friend to freeware authors, helping to shine the light on new freeware tools, and a friend to us from the early days, helping to tell people about DonationCoder and our software -- and I am extremely honored to have had some of my tools recommended on the site. I can't think of a better site to receive the first entry in our list of our Favorite Websites.

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Literal Videos

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I pondered posting this in Recommend some music videos to me! or Silly Humor but I thought it warranted it's own post
Ever wish singers just sang what was happening in the music video? Well now they do...

http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA

And there's even more in dascottjr's channel.

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The State of the Homebrew Game Console Scene 2009

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This article on the homebrew game emulation site DCEmu.com comes this brief but useful roundup of homebrew game development sites and summaries for each of the different popular game consoles and platforms..

http://www.dcemu.com...ene-2009-187322.html

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WP plugins: donating is not the solution

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http://tomuse.com/wp...oper-business-model/

Worrying news. DC is really an exception, it seems.





Comment from mouser:
People sometimes ask me about donations as a "business model".. I always have to tell them: it just doesn't work.  If you're goal is to create a business, you simply can't do it with donations.

Except in the very rare case (i think we are talking about way less than 0.5%), people won't donate to support a software project if they don't feel compelled to.

Note: That doesn't mean it's not worth doing!  I think we've proved on DC that a donation-based approach can be very successful in terms of supporting a community, bringing people together, helping to offset the time spent by some members, and helping to fund stuff that otherwise wouldn't be affordable.  Plus it can be fun once you come to terms with the fact that you have to ask for help from others.

It's just that if you're primary interest is in creating a profitable business, it's a non-starter.

You can read more in my article about the first year of DC here.

Click to add your comment..

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Opera Unite: a server within the browser. Opera innovating as it used to

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Interesting idea..

Opera Unite turns any computer into both a client and a server, allowing it to interact with and serve content to other computers directly across the Web, without the need for third-party servers.

Opera Unite makes serving data as simple and easy as browsing the Web. For consumers, Opera Unite services give greater control of private data and make it easy to share data with any device equipped with a modern Web browser.

For Web developers, Opera Unite services are based on the same open Web standards as Web sites today. This dramatically simplifies the complexity of authoring cutting-edge Web services. With Opera Unite, creating a full Web service is now as easy as coding a Web page.

http://www.opera.com...releases/2009/06/16/

 What do you think?

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Cool Music Video of the Week: Kwoon - I lived on the Moon

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I have to thank nudone for originally introducing me to this band with this video.

http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=xTysF1E4Ft0

Kwoon - I lived on the Moon

And if you want to see it in much better quality, and read about the story behind the video, go to the artist's website and download it.


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Tech News Weekly: Edition 24-09

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The latest edition of DC's Tech News Weekly has hit the news stands:

  • 1. Crypto Attack Puts Digital Sig Hash On Collision Course
  • 2. 'Millionth English Word' Declared
  • 3. French Court Savages "three-strikes" Law, Tosses It Out
  • 4. No IE Onboard Windows 7 in Europe
  • 5. Swedish Pirate Party Headed to European Parliament
  • 6. Open Source, Digital Textbooks Coming to California Schools
  • 7. Webhost Hack Wipes Out Data for 100,000 Sites, Boss Found Hanged
  • 8. Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified (Thanks 40hz)
  • 9. Obama Drastically Scales Back Goals

Click here to read the full edition now..

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