Saturday, January 5, 2019

The Benefits Of Free Tech Giveaways

By Karen Richardson


When it comes to free services and products, individuals can often save time and money when only having to fill out a form and download the items. While this is the case, free tech giveaways of software applications and tools can often have benefits and drawbacks. For example, most have to be downloaded and installed on a specific date and time. Whereas, most often there is a risk of downloading a virus or other issue, especially from individual developers or lesser known companies.

The specific offerings by GOTD include a number of licensed software applications for Windows, or those compatible with both Mac and Windows on a daily basis. Most often, individuals must download a free offer on a specific date, and sometimes within a specific time period. As such, to get the most out of these free offer websites, it is important to visit the site as often as possible.

It should be noted that any license downloads associated with attached protection software can only be activated is the software is installed on the correct date. While individual publishers of free software prohibit commercial use, individual publishers sometimes allow otherwise in a separate end user agreement associated with ownership of such software.

While most of these offerings are from individual developers or lesser known companies, brand name applications are occasionally available. The types of products and services offered include, system tools, shell replacements, editing tools, video and photo applications, Office365-extras, file format converters and screen-savers.

Initially, the site used techniques to protect installation packages. While this was the case, the techniques being used led to another company warez stealing and distributing the same titles on other websites. In July of 2012, the GOTD technical team announced the release of a new security wrapper as a new mechanism of protection.

Towards the end of 2008, GOTD had plans to build a similar MAC oriented website to that of the free Windows offers. While popular fans of the site and developers, the team decided against moving forward with the project. As a result, there are now some Mac oriented products available on the Windows GOTD website though most are also compatible with both Mac and Windows.

A new website which gave away games on a daily basis was instituted in 2008. After which, the site began giving away e-games on a daily basis. Once the site had proven less than successful, the schedule was revised to distribute the games on a monthly basis, which has been the case since beginning the schedule in Spring of 2009.

Whether obtaining Mac or Windows applications and products, or games free of charge, individuals can save a great deal of time and money by doing so. In addition, as it seems technology often moves as fast as the speed of light, individuals can often update technical skills and experience by learning new applications without the need for costly computer classes. As such, what can take a few minutes to download an application or online product can often save more time and money in the future.




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