Free Software

There are a lot of different programs around these days which claim to be able to turn your webcam or other video source into a cutting edge PC based security system on the cheap.

Most are terrible.

If its not a time limited trial, then its severely buggy, or just plain useless. Motion detection is one of the big issues here - on some of the software its very poorly coded, so will constantly give you false positives, from sunlight glare etc.

Thankfully I've finally found a totally freeware solution which although still in Beta, seems to work really well.

I tuned in to the world of podcasts a little late as far as aggregators go I'm ashamed to admit.

Space Invaders OpenGL is a 2D / 3D modern version of the old classic game.

Foxit Reader for windows is a free 1mb download, which is a non-bloatware Adobe PDF reader.

Foxit PDF reader

If you need to find and extract data, for instance email addresses, from a text file on your computer, try the free software GetInfo.

A lot of people record TV shows onto their computer with a TV tuner card, and want to remove the ads.

You can use CBreak, a free program for Windows, to remove the ads for you, either automatically, or with quick minimal ad break identification by the user.

A long list of free open source games, mostly for Windows, and linux.

Open source games

Stratagus is a free cross-platform real-time strategy gaming engine.

Stratagus

Turns out there's an open source continuation of the Wing Commander / Privateer series of PC games!

Free games anyone?

Open source version of Privateer

Plucker lets you read offline HTML, text, documents and ebooks on your Palm.