In Mac, we have this application call Automator where you can program repetitive tasks into a 1-click mini application. If you are familiar with Photoshop, think of it as the Photoshop Action. The reason we’re bringing this up is because we are going to giveaway something similar for Windows and its call WinAutomation.

WinAutomation allows you to record repetitive steps and allow you to execute all of them within one single click. This greatly helps to increase productivity in work. Whether it’s routine file backup, maintaining your PC or just trying to mass rename images, you can pre-program and have them done in seconds. WinAutomation come with more than 130 predefined actions to handle some generally used task. It’s just awesome. Click here to read more about the features.

Sample of WinAutomation Predefined Actions

Courtesy of folks behind WinAutomation, we are giving out 5 copies of WinAutomation Professional (worth $199 each) to Hongkiat readers. That’s right, it’s a giveaway contest worth about $1000. Here’s how you can win them!

How to Win

We’ve got 5 copies, and winning them is simple. Drop a comment, letting us know how it will help you in terms of productivity. If you can’t think of any, share with us your frustration and grievance on handling routinely repetitive tasks :-)

Contest starts today, ends 9th September. Winners will be announced on the blog. Good luck!

Notice: We’ve got winners! Congratulations to Luke, James Smartt, Luigi, gjbth and Alan. We’ve pass your contact to the sponsor and you’ll be receiving the license software in no time :-)

(Mac only) Blogo is by far one of the easiest and most complete desktop blogging application we’ve seen. Really! It’s simple interface allows you to effortlessly post, preview and publish a blog post. Blogo supports these following blogging platform: Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, Typo, Drupal, Joomla and Expression Engine as well as Twitter.

And here’s what we thought really distinguish Blogo from the rest of the desktop blogging applications.

• Offline mode – All tools are functional even if you are writing without an Internet connection.
• Microblogging supported – Follow friends or even Twitter status when you have a new article.
• Wordpress custom field- It’s rare to find a desktop blogging application that allows you to add Wordpress custom field. Blogo is probably the only one.

Blogo in fullscreen mode.

Click here to read more.

How to Win

Courtesy of Brainjuice, we have 3 copies of Blogo to give away to Hongkiat readers. Here’s how you can win them, either one way will do.

Tweet it

1. Follow @hongkiat on Twitter
2. Tweet this following message:
   Giveaway: Free Desktop Blogging App – Blogo @hongkiat

or, Comment in

If you are interested in winning a copy, simply leave a comment below. Please leave a valid e-mail address as we’ll notify winners by e-mail.

Contest starts today, and we’ll draw (and announce) winners next Tuesday, 14th July 2009. Good luck!

Update: Thank you for your participating (both in tweets and comments). Contest will now close, and winners will be draw and announce in a short while.

If you are looking to buy a web hosting account to host your Wordpress blog, you might wanna hold that thought first; Also if you are hosting your blog on a free Blogger, or Wordpress.com, here’s an excuse to get yourself a self-host Wordpress blogging platform. This week in our giveaway contest, we are giving out 5+1 hosting accounts (1 year) for free and you don’t have to pay a single cent for it.

This giveaway is a courtesy of WPWebHost, only for Hongkiat.com readers. And if you’ve observed closed enough, we are too hosted with WPWebHost. Details on winning the Wordpress hosting account are as follows.

In short, here’s what on the table to be won:

• 5 WP Freedom Plan (50Gb/500Gb Bw/50 domains). More info.
• 1 WP Buddy Plan (100Gb/1TB Bw/100 domains). More info.

WPWebhost has Wordpress-savvy supports working behind both these plans, so if you come across any Wordpress technical problem, chances are, they already have a solution for you. WP Buddy Plan is specialized for Wordpress Multiuser (MU) hosting. If you are thinking of running a multi-user blog, you don’t want to miss this.

How to Win

Just comment in! If you are looking forward to win the WP Buddy Plan (for Wordpress MU) please specify in your comment.

Contest starts today, closes 24th Wednesday June. Exactly one week from now. Good luck guys :-)

Update: Thank you for all your participation. The contest will now close and we’ll announce the winners soon!

Update (30th June 2009): We have winners, and here they are:

• Prasanth Chandra (awaiting response)dlv
• Steven
• Thefinalhome
• Chardy
• Jonathan Farley
• Boris Rorsvort (Buddy Plan)

Once again, congratulations and thanks for participating guys! More contest coming up soon.

This week, we are giving away freebies that we thought should be pretty useful for graphic and web designers. You’ve probably have a rough idea from the title already, here’s a detail break down of what we are giving out at hongkiat.com, courtesy of Designious (also a sponsor of previous contest).

Included in this giveaway are:

• 15x Vector Packs,
• 15x Brush Packs, and
• 10x Font Packs.

Let’s skip directly to the chorus part.

Distribution

Here’s how the freebies will be distributed, with 12 winners in total.

• Vector Packs – 5 Winners with 3 packs/winner
• Brush Packs – 5 Winners with 3 packs/winner
• Font Packs – 2 Winners with 5 packs/winner

How to Win

Winners get to choose packs of their choice. Two ways to participate in the giveaway:

1. Comment In, or

   Tell us in comment, which do you like. Vector, brush or Font packs.

2. Re-Tweet

   Decide which (among Vector, Brush and Font packs) you’d like to win, and Re-Tweet the following in Twitter:

   • Vector Packs – Re-Tweet this,
   • Brush Packs – Re-Tweet this, or
   • Font Packs – Re-Tweet this.

Contest will close one week from now, 2nd June 2009. Winners will be announced on this page. Good luck :-)

Update

Closed: Contest will close now, we’ll be picking and notifying winners soon.

Wordpress is no doubt one powerful blogging platform but the problem is if you don’t customized your theme you end up having the same layout as some others out there. This week we are giving away 3x Premium Wordpress themes of your choice (Flash Wordpress themes included!). Meaning, you picked them, and if you win, we’ll send that theme your way. Courtesy of FlashMint.

So if you are looking for a change to your Wordpress blog and not going to settle for some common themes, read on.

Who’s FlashMint

Folks at FlashMint create some of the highest quality web templates on the web with great varieties. They do Flash, Swish, CSS, Flash CMS, Joomla, Html, osCommerce templates and of course, Wordpress themes which we’ll be giving away today. You’ll be surprised with the number of thematic categories of web templates available for download at FlashMint.com.

How To Win

Together with FlashMint, we are giving away 3 Premium Wordpress themes of your choice. Here’s what you’ll do:

1. Check out the themes (http://bit.ly/acz3u)
2. Tell us which theme you like and why, in comment box below.

3 commentators with the best answers walk away with theme of their choice. Contest close next Monday, 27th April 2008. Good luck guys!

Update: Contest is now closed.

Img2icns is a small little application (Mac only) that converts images in almost any file format to:

• Folder icons,
• Icns file format
• iPhone icons, and
• Favicon (16×16 icon for website)

There are a lot of applications out there that does similar but we thought Img2icns stands out the crowd simply because:

• Easier – Just drag and choose the formats you desired.
• Coverage – Supports most graphic format as input.

With Img2icns, you can either design your own icons in any photo editing software, download from DeviantArt or check out our archives. Get the desired image and convert it on the fly for your folder or website favicon.

How to Win?

This week we are giving away 4 licensed copies of Img2icns (courtesy of Shiny Frog), with 2 different ways of winning it.

1. Retweet (2x)
Retweet (RT) this on Twitter. We’ll randomly pick 2 winners.

2. Drop a comment (2x)
Drop a straight forward message at the comment, remember to include a valid email. We’ll randomly pick 2 winners.

Update: Thanks for all the input guys, the contest is closed now. We’ll be picking the winners very soon.

Few weeks ago, we showcased you some free Photoshop brushes we hand-picked. Today we want to bring to your attention some paid Vector sets, something higher quality and definitely useful for your design. And because you are readers of Hongkiat, we are giving to you free, courtesy of Designious.

How To Win

We are giving away 5 Mega packs of Vector sets of your choice. If you think these Vectors will be a great help in your design, leave your comment after this post. We’ll randomly choose 5 winners and send the Mega packs your way. Contest will due on 15th February, Sunday.

Note: Please leave an valid e-mail address, you will be notified via e-mail.

There’re some mistake in the contest content. The giveaways are actually not “brushes” but “Vector packs“. Content has been correct. Apologized for the confusion created.

Update: Contest ended. Winners will be notify via email soon. Stay tuned.

BannerSnack is an online tool that allow users to create banners (flash banners in particular) easily and export them in .SWF format. Even if you barely know Adobe Flash, you too can have a attractive flash banner. BannerSnack make text effects, transitions and other animations easy. Check out more examples of what you can do with BannerSnack.

And for every good web tool, there’s free tryout and paid version. BannerSnack is no different, but here at Hongkiat, we are giving out 5 BannerSnack Premium Plus memberships (worth $149/year) to readers. You might also want to compare what premium plus can do apart from the rest.

How to win?

If you are interested in creating cool animated banners for your product or websites, comment in. We’ll randomly picked 5 commentators and send the memberships over. Contest ends next Monday, 19th January.

Thanks for participating in the previous 2 Christmas giveaways and here comes the third (final) one. This is something we thought most Wordpress bloggers would want – Free premium Wordpress themes, that’s right! Together with ElegantThemes, we are giving away 10 membership accounts (up to 1 year) to Hongkiat readers.

To date, ElegantThemes has more than 10 great looking premium themes in their gallery. As a winner, not only you’ll gain access to all of them, but you’ll also get to enjoy all the new premium themes these folks are going to release in the next one year. Cool? Here’s how to win.

How to Win?

Interested bloggers please comment in. Do tell us which blog you’ll be using the theme, if you win. We are planning to select all the winners before Christmas eve, therefore the contest will close slightly earlier – 23rd December 2008. Here’s how we’ll pick the winners:

• First commentator x1
• Second commentator x1
• Thirrd commentator x1
• Randomly chosen commentators x7

Good luck guys.

Note:

If your comment don’t appear after submission, chances are, it was treated as possible-spam and needed manual moderation. Don’t worry, we’ll bring it back, there’s no need to comment the 2nd time.

For those who commented 2 (or more) times because you’ve forgotten to insert the URL, we’ll combine your comments into one. Just in case you wondered why one your comment is gone :-)

Following up next is a giveaway of an application, a security tool called Lockngo Pro by Keynesis.

What’s Lockngo Pro

Lockngo Pro is an application that allows you to lock (or even encrypt) your external drives; let it be flash drives, usb pen drives or portable hard disks. If you have an external storage that you carry around with you all the time and the content confidentiality is a great concern, then this software utmost suitable to help you protect them. See a demo.

Lockngo Pro application resides on the external drives so there’s no installation on your computer. Other advantages of this security tool are:

• Ability to hide data, making them look invisible.
• Unbreakable 256-bit AES encryption.
• Fast lock/unlock time with encryption optimization.
• Command line control and administration for faster operation and multiple device (drives) control.

This great tool from is selling at $39 per single license, but we are giving out 20 copies free to Hongkiat readers. Courtesy of Keynesis.

How to Win?

Interested users please comment in. Here’s how we pick the winners:

• First commentator x1
• Second commentator x1
• Third commentator x1
• Fourth commentator x1
• Fifth commentator x1
• Randomly-chosen commentators x15

Note: This software is for Windows only, Contest ends next Thursday, 18th December 2008

Our Christmas giveaway kicks off with Jumpeye Component’s TxEff2. Sounds familiar? That’s right. We previously hosted a contest to win Jumpeye’s FlashEff Premium. This time it’s going to be TxEff2, not 1 but 5 premium copies to giveaway to Hongkiat readers.

What’s TxEff2?

TxEff is a great Flash CS3/CS4 AS3 component created for easing the text animation process. It contains a great collection of patterns that allows you to create cool text animation in flash on the fly. And these cool animation patterns are growing because they are user contributed.

You’ve got to check out the sample on TxEff2 website to get an idea. In short, this is a great tool for any designer, doesn’t really matter if you are a beginner or advance Flash user. Learn more.

How to Win?

Interested designers please comment in. We’ve got 5 copies of TxEff2 (worth $99 each), and here’s how we pick the winners:

• First commentator x1
• Second commentator x1
• Randomly-chosen commentators x3

Contest ends next Thursday, 11th December 2008

Every now and then, we strive to bring free gifts aka giveaways to our readers as a token of appreciation for the support. We’ve done couple of giveaways over the pass few months, and you can see most of them at the Freebies Category. See, the problem with most of these giveaways we noticed is, there’s too little for too many readers. So this December, before we call it a year, we decided to do again what we’ve done in May – another giveaway month. And this time, we promise there will be much more and chances of winning will be greater.

How things work?

Every week, we’ll create an entry letting you know what we are giving away for free. If you react fast, you might win yourself something.

Tip: To get alerts fast, we urge that you subscribe the RSS feed (if you have not), or follow hongkiat on twitter.

How to win?

Comment in. Simple as that.

We also want to bring to your attention that prizes for this giveaway month (or in fact every time) is made possible not only by us, but also some really cool generous sponsors. If you do win, please keep it to yourself, don’t distribute or re-sell. See you later , and stay tuned :-)

iPhone is an internet-connected multimedia smartphone which combines the main functions of several popular electronic gadgets in a single device. With its 9 cm (3.5 in) liquid crystal display (320×480 px at 6.3 px/mm, 160 ppi) HVGA touchscreen and a minimal hardware interface, it allows us to interact better regardless in watching video, accessing Internet, listening to music, communicating with friends and even playing games.

iPhone games designed for iPhone are nothing short of amazing. That’s because iPhone has variety of features available like the Multi-Touch interface, the accelerometer, GPS, real-time 3D graphics, and 3D positional audio.

At the time we’re writing this entry, App Store contains more than 100 free games for download but not all were everyone’s cup of tea. Here’s 25 Most Addictive Free iPhone Games , you might already have know some of them, but probably not all. Full list after jump!

1. Cube

   Cube is a singleplayer and multiplayer first person shooter that provides satisfying and fast old school gameplay. It is a landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine, which combines very high precision dynamic occlusion culling with a form of geometric mipmapping on the whole world.

   

   Download Cube

2. Armado Lite

   Guide Armado as he rolls, jumps and crashes his way through this action packed journey.

   

   Download Armado Lite

3. RhinoBall

   Tilt your iPhone forwards, backwards, left and right to guide Rhino through the city streets, avoiding cars and other obstacles on your way to the finish line. Collect bonus lightning bolts and hit the launching ramps for a FULLY AWESOME adventure.

   

   Download RhinoBall

4. Blue Skies Lite

   Use the accelerometer to pilot your helicopter and out maneuver enemy tanks, planes, helicopters, blimps and mines.

   

   Download Blue Skies Lite

5. Cannon Challenge

   Take charge of your own Non-Lite-of-Sight Cannon, the revolutionary gun that represents the future of US Field Artillery. Use stimulated elevation and velocity controls to destroy enemy targets with indirect fire.

   

   Download Cannon Challenge

6. TapDefense

   TapDefense is a new TOWER DEFENSE strategy game that you can take you with you all day long. Play for hours or salvage snippets of time on the go.

   

   Download TapDefense

7. iBasketball

   Ibasketball is the newest way to shoot baskets with your iPhone. Using your iPhone to make a shot motion, play a game of around the world and see how many baskets you can make.

   

   Download iBasketball

8. iGolf

   iGolf let’s you swing your iPhone like a golf club and then tells you how far your shot went. It gauges how fast you swung and how far your shot traveled with the iPhone’s accelerometer. It’s like having a driving range wherever you go.

   

   Download iGolf

9. Adrenaline Pool Lite

   Adrenaline Pool Lite features authentic physcis. 8-Ball, 9-Ball, Straight, Snooker against players from all over the world. It provides a cool 3D view with particle effects.

   

   Download Adrenaline Pool Lite

10. iBall3D

    iBall3D is a remake of the classic Labyrinth game but in 3D. You will have to guide a ball from a location to another, by orienting your iPhone to avoid the holes.

    

    Download iBall3D

11. Touch Hockey: FS5

    Touch Hockey outclasses every air hockey game available on the iPhone with the fastest animations possible.

    

    Download Touch Hockey: FS5

12. JellyCar

    JellyCar is a driving platform game which is about driving a squishy car through squishy worlds, trying to reach the exit. JellyCar features soft boxy physics for all of the objects in the world.

    

    Download JellyCar

13. Trace

    Trace is a casual platforme where you draw your own path through the levels. Use the touch screen to draw platforms and navigate past obstacles to reach to goal at the end of each level.

    

    Download Trace

14. iPint

    This game turns your iPhone into a virtual glass of ice cold lager. The hyper realistic liquid tilts, pours and reacts just as if you were holding a real pint.

    

    Download iPint

15. Tap Tap Revenge

    Tap Tap Revenge is a music game that puts your rhythmic skills to the test in all new ways. Tap through the beats of shake left and right as the arrows fall.

    

    Download Tap Tap Revenge

16. Aero Guitar Free

    Aero Guitar is a music game that is played with iPhone like AIR guitar. It is using iPhone sytle of intuitive operations by tapping, flicking and sharing methods.

    

    Download Aero Guitar Free

17. MazeFinger

    Penetrate a seemingly endless collection of challenging mazes and race to the exit before your energy runs out! MazeFinger showcases the visual power of your iPhone with incredible special effects that blanket the screen with explosive energy.

    

    Download MazeFinger

18. Aurora Feint The Beginning

    Compete with your friends in an epic fantasy world. Play exciting puzzle games, level up your character and collect magical items.

    

    Download Aurora Feint The Beginning

19. Critter Crunch Lite

    Critter Crunch Lite is the FREE version of the award-winning, innovative, and addictive puzzler that lets you control Biggs, a friendly, furry forest dweller. Feed small critters to larger ones and help Biggs to the top of the food chain.

    

    Download Critter Crunch Lite

20. Fire Drop

    Tap on 3 or more adjacent cauldrons of the same color to destroy them. Do it crafitily to break larger combination, and earn bonus points, power-ups and more!

    

    Download Fire Drop

21. Quartz 2 Deluxe Free

    Challenge yourself to clear the diamond-shaped matrix by combining at least four stones of the same color. Special stones like the wildcard and fire stones make this easier but watch out for the blocker, frozen and nuclear stones!

    

    Download Quartz 2 Deluxe Free

22. Diamond Twister Lite

    A hugely addictive, simple and intuitive puzzle. Swap pairs of gems to line up 3 or more identical diamonds. It has 8 gam modes and 64 different levels of difficulty in 8 glamorous.

    

    Download Diamond Twister Lite

23. Labyrinth Lite Edition

    The classic labyrinth game where you control a steel ball by tilting a wooden labyrinth. This is the Lite Edition with 10 fully playable levels.

    

    Download Labyrinth Lite Edition

24. Mouse About Lite

    The aim of Mouse About is to solve all the food puzzles by guiding Marv the hungry little mouse around the screen from one piece of food to another.

    

    Download Mouse About Lite

25. Space Buster Lite

    With Soace Buster, Storybird will really surprise you. Endowed with an irrepoachable gameplay and a well-balanced difficulty, Space Buster is already the iPhone bricks buster game reference.

    

    Download Space Buster Lite

Greate news for those who uses Adobe Flash. We are giving out a copy of FlashEff Premium (worth $149) for free, countersy of Jumpeye Components. If you use Adobe Flash to create text and graphic animations, this could be your ultimate guide to create great animations.

What’s FlashEff?

FlashEff is an Adobe Flash component that makes creating cool animation for text and graphics easy. FlashEff currently has about 140 patterns you can use and it’s growing because there’s an Effect Gallery, user contribution model. Premium account enjoys unlimited access to Effect Gallery and yes, what we are giving is a premium account.

FlashEff Sample

Here’s a simple Flash animation I’ve created with FlashEff; 15 minutes of understanding the components and 3 minutes to create. It’s just simple.

Now whether you are a skillful designer or you are a beginner in Flash, you could be pretty much level now with FlashEff handling all the complex algorithm in creating animations. We guess it’s the creativity that counts now.

How to Win?

To win this copy of FlashEff Premium (worth $149), drop us a comment stating how FlashEff can be useful to you. We’ll send one copy to the best commentator. Entry close next Friday, 21th November.

Update:We’ve got a winner

First thank you all for the participation, I hate the fact that I’ve only got one to give away. Personally I think FlashEff is a great tool. So after a random pick, the FlashEff Premium goes to Jayhan. I’ll be in touch with you shortly.

Creating a cool Flash image gallery can definitely enhance user experience when images exploration is merged with interactive navigation. Normally what we need is an Adobe Flash component or script template which is customizable. Flashloaded is the pioneer to make an image presentation easier and more importantly, impressive by providing flash componnents with powerful effects that can be generated on the fly.

Flashloaded 3D Spiral

In short, 3D Spiral is a product of Flashloaded that displays images on an interactive 3D rotating spiral using the Papervision3D engine. 3D Spiral is 100% controllable as viewer can scroll, moving around and zoom the spiral Flash gallery freely. As a designer, you can customize the opening and closing animation style or even its built-in preloader.

Here’s some key features you shouldn’t miss out:

• Customizable height, width and spacing
• XML or ActionScript
• Customizable animation settings
• Depth of field
• Built-in skinnable scrollbar and preloader
• Double sided thumbnails
• Swivel camera
• Mouse and keyboard interactivity
• Mouse and scroll events
• Thumbnail borders

Your images can be organized in 3 options below with 3D Spiral. Click to experience the cool Flash navigation.

1. SPIRAL ROTATING ON FIXED AXIS WITH SCROLLBAR
    
2. TALL SPIRAL WITH FREE MOUSE MOVEMENT (up/down/left/right)
   
3. WIDE SPIRAL ROTATING ON FIXED AXIS WITH SCROLLBAR
   

We bet such a Flash component is able to showcase your photos or portfolio impressively or attract some attentions from public. Previously we’ve given out 2 copies of Flashloaded’s 3D Wall. Today, we’re giving out 3 copies of 3D Spiral free for hongkiat.com readers (each copy cost $49.95).

How To Win?

To win a piece of the Flash component, simply post a comment and we’ll pick 3 winners. Comment entries will be accepted until 3rd November 2008.

Aimersoft is giving out their MP4 Video Converter for free for one month (10/15/2008 – 11/15/2008). If you are looking for a video converter that convert any video to MP4 formats (WMV, AVI, FLV, 3GP, MPEG, MOV, RMVB, MKV) to MP4 so you can enjoy them inside your portable player like iPod, Zune, PSP, iRiver ,etc, you might not want to miss this chance.

Key Features

Here’s a list of MP4 Video Converter’s features, directed taken from the site.

• Support all MP4 players
• Support all video formats
• Powerful Video Editing Function:
• Support video crop and movie trimming
• Merge Videos
• Snap picture
• Personalized watermark designing
• Selectable video aspect ratio
• Fast speed:
• Easy to use
• Batch conversion
• Automatically shut down
• Free technical support

To find out more about Aimersoft’s MP4 Video Converter and download, click here. Windows only.

Thanks CrayDeng

Thus it got us back into work again. After revising the previous post, and gone through each and every single of the suggested sites, here’s 20 Best Websites To Download Free E-Books, Part II. A user contribution entry.

Full list after jump.

1. Free Ebook Download Links

Free Ebook Download Links intends to provide links for downloading books available free in different format.The books are published online by their authors for free viewing and printing for non-commercial proposes only.



Credit: Raj

2. eBoook3000

A library of free ebook downloads with over 17 categories available.



Credit: Myo Kyaw Htun

3. SlideShare

SlideShare is the best way to share your presentations with the world. Let your ideas reach a broad audience. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to create a webinar.



Credit: La Ode Adam

4. PDF Search Engine

PDF Search Engine is a book search engine search on sites, forums, message boards for pdf files. You can find and download a tons of e-books by searching it or browsing through the full directory.



Credit: iphoner

eSnips


eSnips is the one place where you can share anything you want, about any topic: your thoughts, your photos, your music, your videos, your flash files, stuff you find on the web, and many other media types. You can search and download for free documents in eSnips as well.



Credit: sandeep, syokkahwin, Suresh

Book Gold Mine


Book Gold Mine serves a large collection of quality e-books, lectures, notes, and other kinds of documents at no cost to the user.



Credit: Gio

eBooks-Space


Free downloadable ebooks for computer IT, programming lauguages, software development, tutorial, database design in PDF-CHM file format.



Credit: mongther

5. drebooks

The vision of the founder was to provide an online space where Medical Students and Doctors could gather to share and collaborate their information and ideas about medical books.



Credit: peter

6. E-Books Directory

E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet. You can submit and promote your own ebooks, add comments on already posted books or just browse through the directory below and download anything you need.



Credit: Stam

7. UFindBook

UFindBook offers free ebooks download more than 200,000 titles categorized in format of pdf, chm, html.



Credit: sobookee

8. Books-PDF

Books-PDF provides free ebooks for .Net, 3D animation, accounting, AJAX, algorithms, ASP.NET, AutoCAD, C#, C++, Database and etc.



Credit: ganesh

9. PDFoo

PDFoo.com was developed for free services to provide resources of PDF files. All files based on popular section and it short by number of the most download by people. Browse through the category section will lead you find the PDF files that you are looking for. Every time people download, or system will counting how many times it has download by people.



Credit: Delaserna

10. Free Ebook Down

Free Ebook Down offers over 10,000 free ebooks in 22 categories.



Credit: ebook

11. Free-Ebooks-Canada

Free-Ebooks-Canada searches for? free ebooks that either have PLR (Private Label Rights), MRR (Master Resell Rights), giveaway rights or personal use only. PLR( Private Label Rights)and MRR (Master Resell Rights)can be sold and modified to the extent of ebooks resell license. No Matter whether PLR, MRR or give-away any book can be used for personal information.



Credit: mesha

12. eBooks Download Free

ebooks download free is One of the biggest books sharing websites that contains large collection of pdf and chm books free download you can download free books in many categories: Computer books like free php ebooks to download, ADO.NET, AJAX, java, ajax, photoshop, javascript Exchange Server, Sharepoint , ASP.NET XML free books downloads, c# and c+ books.



Credit: bookm

PDFGeni


PDFGeni is a dedicated pdf search engine for PDF ebooks, sheets, forms and documents.



13. CHM PDF

A collection of general interest and technical ebooks.



14. eBook-X

eBook-x lets you to download popular free ebooks, classical free ebooks, new releases and more.



15. Spotbit

Spotbit.com provides paperless solution to publishing industry which end result is an E-Book make available in a unique and standalone digital format that is different from most formats available in the current market.



16. Ebook Share

eBook Share provides free ebooks download in torrent format.You can search for an ebook in categories like magazine, programming, graphic design, networking, business and investing and the others.

More Free eBook resources

1. Filebook – Free eBooks download in zipped format.
2. ebooksboard – Free eBooks download portal.
3. Computer-Books.us – Highest quality computer books all of which are available for free download.
4. 76eBook – Free ebooks download for IT, business and multimedia.
5. Linux Related Free Ebooks – 68 Linux Related Free E-books.
6. TechBooksForFree – Free books on technology subjects.
7. Wowio – WOWIO is passion for FREE BOOKS + FREE MINDS.
8. Freeebooks – Free ebooks are divided into different categories from business, art, computing and education.
9. Witguides – The premier online source for a wide range of useful e-books that are completely free with no need to sign-up or buy anything.
10. Issuu – Issue lets you find and share the web’s most interesting publications.

It’s been 3 months since we did some freebies giveaway and this time we are giving out 3 deck of business cards, 250 per deck to 3 readers, courtesy of Uprinting.com.

So Who’s UPrinting?

Uprinting is a printing company that does not only business card printing, but too covers postcards, brochures, flyers, labels and stickers and a lot more. Check out their website see the wide range of products they covered.

• If you already have business card, considered this a chance to win a deck of personal contact card to promote anything you want. And the card will be the design of your own choice of course.
• If you don’t have business card yet, you will not want to miss this because if you win out, we are sending this right to your doorstep, all free of charge.

How to win your free business cards?

All you need to do is leave a comment after this post, tell us what would you use the card for? (assuming you win out).

• Please post only one comment per person, duplicated comments will be deleted and void.
• Comment box will be accepted until 31th August, and we’ll randomly generate 3 winners.
• Winners can get to choose any type of business card from Uprinting, including the eco-friendly cover stock (13 pt. Cover Uncoated – Recycled) or the the 14 pt. family in Matte, AQ, or UV at any custom size we offer such as square cards, odd sizes like 3×3, 2×2.
• Winners will be contacted via email, further details on designing and receiving will be included.

Till then, happy commenting :-)

We have winners!

First of all, I’d like to say it’s not easy to choose only 3 among 90 but sadly that’s how much I could giveaway. Congratulations to

• Jonathan Kong
• Indeep
• Sierra Koch

I’ve send you guys an e-mail regarding the follow up of claiming the free business cards, please drop me an email if you did not hear from me.

We understand that reading is the most simplest way for human to derive and constructing meaning in order to gain a particular knowledge from a source. This tendency has been digitized when books evolve into digital media equivalent – E-Books.

It would be nice if we’re able to download free e-book and take it with us. That’s why we’ve again crawled deep into the Internet to compile this list of 20 places to download free e-books for your use. Full list after jump.

1. FreeBookSpot

   FreeBookSpot is an online source of free ebooks download with 4485 FREE E-BOOKS in 96 categories which up to 71,97 GB.

   You can search and download free books in categories like scientific, engineering, programming, fiction and many other books. No registration is required to download free e-books.

   

2. 4eBooks

   4eBooks has a huge collection of computer programming ebooks. Each downloadable ebook has a short review with a description. You can find over thousand of free ebooks in every computer programming field like .Net, Actionscript, Ajax, Apache and etc.

   

3. Free-eBooks

   Free-eBooks is an online source for free ebook downloads, ebook resources and ebook authors. Besides free ebooks, you also download free magazines or submit your own ebook.

   You need to become a Free-EBooks.Net member to access their library. Registration is free.

   

4. ManyBooks

   ManyBooks provides free ebooks for your PDA, iPod or eBook Reader. You can randomly browse for a ebook through the most popular titles, recommendations or recent reviews for visitors. There are 21,282 eBooks available here and they’re all free!

   

5. GetFreeEBooks

   GetFreeEBooks is a free ebooks site where you can download free books totally free. All the ebooks within the site are legal downloadable free ebooks.

   

6. FreeComputerBooks

   FreeComputerBooks consists of a huge collection of free online Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Technical Books, Lecture Notes and Tutorials. It is very well categorized by topics, with 12 top level categories, and over 150 sub-categories.

   

7. FreeTechBooks

   FreeTechBooks lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet. Throughout FreeTechBooks, other terms are used to refer to a book, such as ebook, text, document, monogram or notes.

   

8. Scribd

   Scribd, the online document sharing site which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and other popular formats. You can download a document or embed it in your blog or web page.

   

9. Globusz

   Globusz is a unique ePublishing house, specializing in free eBook downloads. They also provide an excellent Star Rating Showcase for new and evolving authors.

   

10. KnowFree

    KnowFree is a web portal where users are able to exchange freely e-books, video training and other materials for educational purposes and self-practice.

    

11. OnlineFreeEBooks

    OnlineFreeEBooks provides links to various ebooks (mostly in pdf) spanning in 9 big categories which are: Automotive Ebooks, Business Ebooks, Engineering Ebooks, Gadget Ebooks, Hardware Ebooks, Health & Medical Ebooks, Hobbies Ebooks, Programming & Technology Ebooks, Sport & Martial Art Ebooks.

    

12. MemoWare

    MemoWare has a unique collection of thousands of documents (databases, literature, maps, technical references, lists, etc.) specially formatted to be easily added to your PalmOS device, Pocket PC, Windows CE, EPOC, Symbian or other handheld device.

    

13. BluePortal

    

14. OnlineComputerBooks

    OnlineComputerBooks contains details about free computer books, free ebooks, free online books and sample chapters related to Information Technology, Computer Science, Internet, Business, Marketing, Maths, Physics and Science which are provided by publishers or authors.

    

15. SnipFiles

    SnipFiles offers you free ebooks and software legally by brought or attained PLR, resale or master rights to all the products on their page.



16. BookYards

    BookYards is a web portal in which books, education materials, information, and content will be freely to anyone who has an internet connection.



17. The Online Books Page

    The Online Books Page is a Listing over 30,000 free books on the Web.



18. AskSam Ebooks

    AskSam Ebooks has a collection of free e-books like Shakespeare, and assorted legal & governmental texts.



19. Baen Free Library

    

    Baen Free Library is an online library of downloadable science fiction novels.

20. eBookLobby

    Free ebooks in eBookLobby are divided into different categories. Categorys range from business, art, computing and education. Select the category appropriate to the e-book you’re looking for.

    

More Free eBook resources

1. PlanetPDF – A small collection of classic novels all in PDF format.
2. DailyLit – Read books online by daily email and RSS feed.
3. Wikibooks – Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.
4. Dwalin – Free novels in text format.
5. Project Gutenberg – Free ebooks from producers.
6. Adobe Free eBooks – In Adobe’s Free eBooks area, you can download, unlock, and read electronic books on your personal computer or reading device.
7. Alive & Free – A page of links to some recent books from living authors available free online.
8. Franklin – Thousands of free titles in text and HTML file formats.
9. Read Easily – An ebook online library which has been designed to provide you an adaptive reading experience!
10. PDFbooks – This new site offers around 4,700 downloadable public domain e-books.
11. Witguides – An online source for a wide range of useful e-books that are completely free with no need to sign-up or buy anything.
12. Diesel eBooks -Offer free ebooks formatted for both Microsoft Reader and Mobipocket.
13. Free eBook Miners –
    Free eBooks for your education, research or amusement.
14. Planet eBook –
    Free classic literature to download and share.
15. e-Library – Plenty of free ebooks available for download.
16. BookBoon – Provides free ebooks for students and travelers in PDF format. No registration is required.

We’ve got Part II. See it here.

More freebies: Click here for more freebies.

3 giveaways were done in the last few weeks, here comes the 4th also the last for this month of May. This week’s prizes is sponsored Exabytes, a local Malaysian web hosting company. Hosting more than 20,000 domains in more than 120 countries around the globe, they are one of the top-tiers, or perhaps the largest in Malaysian web hosting industry. I came to know Exabytes when they did the crazy campaign on RM1 (USD $0.30) per domain registration campaign.

So back to the giveaway. Exabytes is generously giving out a Exabytes voucher worth RM399 (USD $120), and on top of that, they are also adding a limited edition Exabytes t-shirt for free. Good news for those who are looking for a brand new web host. A RM399 voucher can get you a pretty awesome shared-hosting account. But the bad news is, there’s only ONE prize I have with me.

How to win?

I’d like to change the way how thing works since this is the last giveaway for the month, further more, the past few giveaways the prizes are claimed way too fast. So here’s how you win – The 10th reader who submitted in their particulars will walk away with the prize. The link to the submission form will be given inside RSS Feed.

1. Look for the hyperlink inside RSS feed (end of content, before Related Articles)
2. Click on it, send us your name and email address.

We’ve got a winner

Congratulations davidlowjw. You’ll be contacted soon.