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20 Best Free or Freemium Alternatives to Popular Paid Software Programs

Posted on 28. May, 2009 by LesliePoston.

You know that Adobe and Microsoft are, if not the best, at least some of the most widely used software.  Because these programs are standard, and your clients and friends use them, they are on your radar – but they cost a fortune! How can you get the job done when you are working on a shoe string budget?

There are other heavy-hitting software titles just like them out there that you can use.  Today, we are going to run through the best alternatives to that expensive software everyone else uses.

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Speed Up Photoshop with Adobe Photoshop Speedup

Posted on 21. May, 2009 by Alae Hatoum.

Besides having the most obvious name any piece of software has Adobe Photoshop Speedup does exactly as it name suggests and doesn’t go wrong in providing a light-weight, dead-simple way to tweak the preload of plugins and fonts in Photoshop.  It provides a snappier lagless start up for Photoshop with just under two seconds on my machine.

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Picturesque: Photo Edits for Mac that Trump Photoshop

Posted on 21. Apr, 2009 by Luis Sandoval.

There is no doubt that Photoshop has become the heavy hitter with photo edits and graphic creation. Adobe has laid it’s dominance down for quite sometime, and with the acquisition of Macromedia, there is little out there to offer competition enough to change the tide of popularity. Several open source applications have risen up to tackle the behemoth, the most popular being GIMP. GIMP has acquired quite the following but even those followers admit that Photoshop offers a bevy of choices that GIMP still does not offer.

But what about the casual user who just wants to touch up photos? Photoshop can have a steep learning curve for those not familiar with the product, and more time will be spent learning the applicatoin then actual work. So where is the happy medium for a user where an application is both easy to use, and quick to make the edits necessary? The answer comes in a small Mac application called Picturesque.

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A Guide to Online List-Making

Posted on 22. Jan, 2009 by DavidPierce.

I make lists like you wouldn’t believe- more than I’d care to admit. Lists of things to do today, lists of reasons I’m really fantastic, lists of items of clothes to put on in the morning- you name it, I love making it into a list.

The Web is a great place to satisfy my bizarre love affair with lists. There are a ton of applications out there that help you make lists, in any way shape or form you can imagine. Whether you want your lists to be simple, complex, or far too difficult to be used, there’s a solution for you.

Regardless of the type of person you are, there’s a list-making application for you.Here are the best of the list-makers, by type of user:

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TweetDeck is a Great Desktop Twitter Client

Posted on 30. Jul, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

A little over a week ago, I posted 26 Ways to Update Twitter where I mentioned several desktop clients for Twitter.  After playing around a little more with TweetDeck, I decided it was worthy of a post of its own.  TweetDeck adds new functionality and flexibility to your average Twitter desktop client by adding multiple columns, groups and search with Summize.

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Plurk From Your Desktop with Plurkair

Posted on 08. Jul, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

It wasn’t long ago I was posting about Plurk taking strides to move past Twitter as the microblogging service of choice.  In the article, I spoke about how Plurk has a long way to go to surpass Twitter.  One of the shortcomings of Plurk I mentioned was the lack of a desktop client.

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4 Alternatives to Adobe PDF Reader

Posted on 18. Jun, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

I’m not sure about you, but I really hate the PDF format. What has always added to my dislike of the PDF format has been the traditionally slow Adobe PDF Reader. To make it easier to deal with PDFs, I’ve rounded up four great alternatives to Adobe PDF Reader.

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