‘EXTRA, EXTRA, Read all abaht it…’ – free phone calls to national and 60 international landlines (not just PC to PC) with the free Gizmo Project VoIP software. All you need is for both parties on the call to be registered and regular users of the Gizmo service. That’s it, no cash required. It’s either a suicide play or a desperate and genius reaction to the growing dominance of Skype services and peripheral products.   The Gizmo Project All Calls Free plan allows you to…

Huminity. Kind of an under the radar group blogging freeware application which has some rather interesting concepts in it. Like an inbuilt chat engine…yeah hold on, there’s more…with an embedded visualisation map of your social circle of friends. So now, not only can you chat with your mates, but also bounce off the map to their mates and have a chat, and then to their friends and so on. It’s kind of 6 degrees of Linked In meets Blogger meets AIM. Definitely worth…

Phrase Express. Auto text entry freeware which lets you add phrases and words to your documents at the press of a key. Apparently it works with all applications, which is interesting. Hotkey support too.  PhraseExpress works like the AutoCorrect function in MS Office but for all applications on your computer. AutoText expands short keywords into full phrases. Example: typing ‘btw’ would be automatically expanded to ‘by the way’ while you type. Ever missed this feature in your web browser or…

activeCollab. Need a free open source web based collaboration tool? Kinda like Basecamp but without the fees and stuff? Only tiny hassle is that it needs PHP5, which is a bit of a pain. But this is definitely one to watch.   1. Easy to install and easy to use 2. Web-based. After installation the only thing you’ll need to use it is a web browser 3. 100% open source, 100% free 4. No limitations on number of projects, clients,…

Vibe Streamer. A free MP3 streaming server which lets you access your music anywhere, anytime – as long as you’re close to a web browser. Deffo worth a look.  Your Vibe Streamer server is intended for personal use to make it possible for you to reach your own music collection from wherever you are. Vibe Streamer is not in any way part of a file sharing community or any internet radio broadcasting network. Your files are always kept private by…

Pretty May. Free personal voice assistant for Skype. Record your Skype conversations, auto-answer answering machine, forward audio files automatically via email, broadcast Skypecasts, share background music while talking and the rather nifty feature – switch sound device mid conversation (e.g. you want to move from wired headset to Bluetooth headset).  So PrettyMay has been designed to extend the functionality of Skype considerably, Features PrettyMay adds are Emailing Forwarding,Switching sound device while conversation,calling recording, Automatic answer for both Skype and so…

MozbBackup. Backup your Firefox bookmarks, extensions, history etc. Free and pretty useful if you are a Firefox power user (although I had to say that it failed to backup my 38 + extensions, and just stalled). Nevertheless definitely worth a look.  MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite and Netscape profiles. It allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache etc. It’s easy way to do Firefox…

The Skype Toolbar for Firefox. Instant Net calling from any web page phone number with one click. Is cool. Is easy. Is fast. Is free. Internet – cough – Explorer version also available.

SGOOPE. Yet another silly named VoIP service, but with a twist. They pay you. Oh yes, we’re back in 1999 and everything’s kooky. The idea is that you watch banner ads while you’re making your free SGOOPE to SGOOPE, or even SGOOPE to Skype or SIP calls. These ad views earn you credit which you can use to make PC to PC or PC to landline calls anywhere across the world. Maximum you can earn is 12 minutes per call and…

Deicide. Fancy seeing what all the MMORPG – online role playing game – fuss is all about? Without paying Everquest or WoW prices? Then try this. Free public beta any time now.  Consolidate a place for our shelter and making living by farming, rise in arms for their shelter from the enemy, conquest other castles with colleagues, become one of the member of hierarchical society, working and fighting for their lords and masters, all these multiple living activities are what our…

Thinkfree Office Online. The best online office on earth. It says. And it’s free. With 1GB free storage, creation of MS Office compatible docs, built in PDF and sharing an’ stuff. Ho ho!  With ThinkFree Online, you can: Schedule and track tasks for your social group, create elaborate invitations and easily post online for everyone to see, build a presentation to describe your latest project or show pictures from your latest trip with complete details of the story behind the…

Celtx. Pre-production software for film, video, theatre and animation. Fancy yourself as a Hollywood mogul? Then this collaborative Open Source project management and script writing freeware might help. And a bit of talent maybe. Wonder if this is why Page2Stage is going Open Source too?  Can I use Celtx for free? Yes. Celtx is distributed under an open source license, so you can download it, use it, and distribute it for free. An open source software company, Greyfirst uses open…