It turns out that "free" car from Oprah isn't so free after all

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It's Oprah Winfrey, Not Win Free

It's Oprah Winfrey, Not Win Free 09/24/2004 10:04 AM
Oprah's taxing dilemma should be more taxing than a dilemma.

Playboy's free come-on turns iPod into
iBod

Playboy's free come-on turns iPod into
iBod 12/22/2004 01:48 AM
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Free WiFi turns coffee-shack into
freelancer It Spot

Free WiFi turns coffee-shack into
freelancer It Spot 12/18/2003 10:31 AM
Interesting piece about a Dallas coffee-hut that added free WiFi and now finds itself playing host to a slew of Cheers-like regulars, freelance workers who hang out and use the shop as their office.

``You get all the colds ... you have to be able to work through loud noise, you have to be able to focus and tune out even more so than in an office,'' he said. ``Babies are one of the biggest hazards. The screaming child at the table next to you ... you don't get that at work.''

As a person who spends hours each day at a coffeehouse, Smith is always mindful of the fact that he is in someone else's place of business. He doesn't go behind the counter to help himself to a refill, even though he knows where everything is as well as any employee, and he always dresses nicely as if he were going into the office -- albeit a casual one.

Link (via WiFi NetNews)

Webcomic creator turns down Universal
Syndicate, offers works for free to any
newspaper

Webcomic creator turns down Universal
Syndicate, offers works for free to any
newspaper 08/03/2004 05:15 AM
The creator of PVP Online, a webcomic, has decided to try to put the funnypapers sydicates out of business by publicly inviting any newspaper in the USA to syndicate him for free.

This last year, I was contacted by Universal Press Syndicates about PvP. They know the strip and were very interested in syndicating it as a feature. I would love to see PvP in newspapers and we started talks. I let them know that there were six years of archives available and that I could edit the strips to conform to family paper editorial standards. The only thing I could not do was give up my ownership and rights to my creation.

Under no circumstances would I relinquish my copyright, book deals, merchandise deals, rights to market my strips, etc. If they wanted PvP, we would agree to a newspaper distribution deal and that was it. After six weeks the syndicates returned with their answer: They wanted PvP...all of it. If they could not have the rights to the feature, they weren't interested. So we parted ways.

But I've already become attached to the idea of seeing PvP in the papers, and that's why I've decided to start a new program. In the coming months, I'll be putting into effect, a program in which papers can receive PVP for free. That's right, free. They don't have to pay me a cent for it. I will provide for the papers, a comic strip with a larger established audience then any new syndicated feature, a years worth of strips in advance, and I won't charge them a cent for it.

Link (Thanks, Russell!)

Business Blogger Turns Free Traffic Tips
Web Log Into 400 Page Book – Has
Giveaway at Site

Business Blogger Turns Free Traffic Tips
Web Log Into 400 Page Book – Has
Giveaway at Site 02/01/2005 09:27 PM
No, it’s not about blogs, it literally IS her blog. The author of one print edition and four existing marketing ebooks found that the material most in demand at her web site (http://www.freetraffictip.com), was the archived portion of her site. [PRWEB Jan 31, 2005]

Virus-free, spam-free, secure email a
step closer

Virus-free, spam-free, secure email a
step closer 09/27/2004 10:38 AM
Holy Grail spotted in Leeds...

"Better performance with Bonded-Pairs -
FREE cable samples; FREE CD"

"Better performance with Bonded-Pairs -
FREE cable samples; FREE CD" 07/28/2004 04:34 AM

India's Upcoming Free Software, Free
Society Conference

India's Upcoming Free Software, Free
Society Conference 06/05/2005 11:10 PM
Free software advocates and IT delegates from around the world will be in Kerala, India, this week in the hopes of building free software collaborations for the future.

Free After Rebate - The best things in
life are free, after sixto eight weeks

Free After Rebate - The best things in
life are free, after sixto eight weeks 01/23/2004 04:14 PM
This website lists stuff that ends up costing you nothing except the (sometimes costly) shipping charges. What a great idea.Link (via GlennLog)

Free James Brown, free all Political
Prisoners....

Free James Brown, free all Political
Prisoners.... 11/17/2003 09:15 AM

Just Say Go!!

David Weinberger points at the "Send Back Your MP3" site this morning.  I think this is just the thing for children of all ages - from eight to eighty - we can all start to feel better about ourselves by sending back our MP3s to the RIAA.  As for me, I prefer the hex dump, but you might want to save a tree in your neck of the woods and fax the data back electronically!  I know I have a fax program that doesn't require me to print out out hard copy before I fax.  Maybe you do too!

Experts to Demystify the Challenges of
Lead-Free Wave Soldering in Free, Live
Webcast Seminar... Thursday, March 17th
– 11 a.m. to Noon, U.S. E.T.

Experts to Demystify the Challenges of
Lead-Free Wave Soldering in Free, Live
Webcast Seminar... Thursday, March 17th
– 11 a.m. to Noon, U.S. E.T. 03/14/2005 04:12 PM
SMT manufacturing experts will explore and demystify the challenges of lead-free wave soldering in a free, live webcast seminar on Thursday, March 17, 2005, at 11 AM, U.S. Eastern Time. [PRWEB Feb 28, 2005]

Barefoot Software Launch Australian
Swimsuit Edition-Free, a Free Mobile
Phone and Wireless Device Service for
Cardmate on Symbian Devices

Barefoot Software Launch Australian
Swimsuit Edition-Free, a Free Mobile
Phone and Wireless Device Service for
Cardmate on Symbian Devices 06/12/2004 02:48 AM
Barefoot Software Asia Limited (BSAL) is pleased to announce the launch Australian Swimsuit Edition-Free (ASE), via the Barefoot Software website (http://www.barefootsoft.com) for immediate download. ASE is a Cardmate application for mobile phones which is being launched for Free as a promotional application to end users who have a Symbian based mobile phone. ASE, the first Australian swimsuit model application for Smartphone devices in the World can initially be downloaded by users who have a Nokia (6600/3650/7650), Sony Ericsson P800/P900 and other compatible phones from the barefoot Web site. [PRWEB Jun 12, 2004]

WorldNetDaily - A Free Press for a Free
People

WorldNetDaily - A Free Press for a Free
People 08/09/2004 02:56 PM
Israel's End-Time Gamble .. their front page today .. WND's Joseph Farah .. World Net Daily .. WorldNetDaily, .. WorldNetDaily .. WorldNetDaily .. NEWS .. WND .. y

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Free wi-fi in mobile alabama and a Free
Drink

Free wi-fi in mobile alabama and a Free
Drink 11/12/2003 01:14 PM

Jr's Smokehouse in Mobile, Alabama

has free wi-fi at the resturaunt. The owners are really great guys. I told them about this site and they said if anyone that comes in mentions they saw this here they would give them a free drink with their meal!

Free Semiconductor Manufacturing Process
Seminar Webcast, “Lead Free Process
Overview,”: Thursday, July 22, 2004

Free Semiconductor Manufacturing Process
Seminar Webcast, “Lead Free Process
Overview,”: Thursday, July 22, 2004 07/07/2004 02:38 AM
Free Semiconductor Manufacturing Process Seminar Webcast, “Lead Free Process Overview,” Thursday, July 22, 2004, 11 AM to Noon & 2 PM to 3 PM, Eastern Time.Presented by Speedline Technologies. [PRWEB Jul 7, 2004]

PHP: Free Software on Free Tools

PHP: Free Software on Free Tools 05/17/2004 10:25 AM

Open Source: Open Source Scripting Made Easy: This is an article about PHP scripting tools that makes an important point:

Commercial scripting languages have drawn success from powerful and widely used development tools: ASP has Visual Studio, ColdFusion has Macromedia's Dreamweaver, and JSP has a variety of tools from commercial sources such as Borland and open source projects such as Eclipse and NetBeans. PHP's enormous success, however, is not tied to specific tools.

Some friends of mine have been working with Microsoft's .Net platform. They tell me it's amazing ("fan-friggin'-tastic," one of them called it). This is great, but I guess I don't like anything where the barrier to entry is so high — first you have to have a Windows server, then you have to have the Windows dev environment.

I code PHP in EditPlus, which cost me all of $30, and that was an optional purchase because there are so many other free alternatives. Maybe I'm just a snob. Via PHP|Architect.

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Free Hotspots Need Free Security

Free Hotspots Need Free Security 06/20/2004 06:58 AM

Why is Today the Best Day Ever to Get a
Free Domain Name? .Info Domain Names
are Free Through Sept. 9

Why is Today the Best Day Ever to Get a
Free Domain Name? .Info Domain Names
are Free Through Sept. 9 09/02/2004 12:23 PM
Domainsite.com announces free domain name registration for .info domain names [PRWEB Sep 2, 2004]

1-877-YELLOWPAGES is filing to go public
in order to raise money and provide a
free service competing against 411
Directory Services. Founder Bobby
Khalili, a 28 year old millionaire
entrepreneur from Los Angeles is
promising to provide a free alternative
to 411.

1-877-YELLOWPAGES is filing to go public
in order to raise money and provide a
free service competing against 411
Directory Services. Founder Bobby
Khalili, a 28 year old millionaire
entrepreneur from Los Angeles is
promising to provide a free alternative
to 411. 06/17/2004 02:03 AM
1-877-YELLOWPAGES, The nation's first and only YellowPages directory providing business listings over the telephone is filing to go public. [PRWEB Jun 17, 2004]

Free online Real Estate Listing Service
Introduces Free Integration with
Existing Real Estate Systems. Now,
Realtors Can Just "Set it and Forget
it." ™

Free online Real Estate Listing Service
Introduces Free Integration with
Existing Real Estate Systems. Now,
Realtors Can Just "Set it and Forget
it." ™ 06/24/2005 03:14 PM
Just Real Estate Listings™, an online real estate advertising company, has launched a new web site offering the Realtor™ community a free way to advertise real estate properties on the internet. This service also includes free data integration services which eliminates the need for users to manually enter data. [PRWEB Jun 24, 2005]

How Free is Free Republic?

How Free is Free Republic? 12/30/2003 01:11 AM
Free Republic is an online story and discussion site similar to Kuro5hin.org, but with an explicitly conservative bias. The site proclaims itself to be "an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web." Intrigued, I proceeded to offer some comments to stories there, addressing some factual errors and dissenting with some conservative views. The result was a quick lesson in the right-wing view of free expression. The experiment left an open question - where do you go on the web to engage conservatives in open debate? Where is the right-wing version of k5?

Free As in Free Coffee

Free As in Free Coffee 01/22/2004 05:04 PM
At LinuxWorld in New York this week, Microsoft's booth is one of the busier ones.

E-band Wireless 100Mbps Radios Offered
for Free Trial ElvaLink mm-wave Fast
Ethernet radios for newly opened E-band
offered for free trial.

E-band Wireless 100Mbps Radios Offered
for Free Trial ElvaLink mm-wave Fast
Ethernet radios for newly opened E-band
offered for free trial. 07/22/2004 02:48 AM
ElvaLink LLC, an innovative supplier of millimeter wave wireless network equipment, is announcing the free trial of its state-of-the-art 100Mbps radio links for the newly opened E-band (92-95 GHz). [PRWEB Jul 22, 2004]

The Not Really Free, Not Really
Broadband, Free Broadband Scam

The Not Really Free, Not Really
Broadband, Free Broadband Scam 08/06/2004 04:41 PM
Aaron writes in to point us to a story at Broadband Reports about a scam claiming to offer "free" broadband, when the truth is anything but that. The company in question is really just offering one of those silly web "accelerator" tools that speed up some dialup web surfing by caching images and using some compression. It's not really broadband at all, though if you're stuck on dialup, apparently it helps. It's also not free at all, since it's a typical pyramid scam, where you need to get others to sign up first. Since they know otherwise intelligent people will know it's a scam, the site doesn't make outrageous claims on their home page, but leaves those only for those who come via a referral code (which is all part of the scam) at which point they start making outlandish claims anyone with a bit of broadband knowledge would know were false.

Free pizza, or at least the hope of free
pizza

Free pizza, or at least the hope of free
pizza 03/14/2005 04:38 PM
College kids these days have lots of things we didn’t have when I was in college—computers, the web, iPods, massive credit card debt—but we had one thing they don’t: if pizza wasn’t delivered in 30 minutes or less, it was free.

On any weekend night—okay, any night really since I attended a liberal arts college and I tended to hang out with people who weren’t exactly model students (I don’t think there were any, actually)—we’d have a small quantity of money to spend on beer and pizza. If the pizza was free, that meant more money for beer.

The amount of beer you could get for the price of a pizza was significant.

It was still the Cold War then, with the possibility of nuclear war and all that. But it was not a time without hope: there was always the hope of free pizza.

Of course, eventually they figured out that pizza delivery drivers were getting into accidents too often, so they got rid of the free pizza policy.

To this day I’m still a little let down whenever I order pizza and they tell me it will be there in “about 45 minutes” or whatever. Oh, man, where’s the fun in “about 45 minutes.” And what if it comes in 50 minutes? Nothing special.



On the other hand, these days I eat Pagliacci’s instead of Domino’s. Seattle-ites, you know what I’m saying.

Absolutely free web page hosting. Free
web hosting and web page.

Absolutely free web page hosting. Free
web hosting and web page. 07/17/2004 09:29 PM
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Way Too Free

Way Too Free 08/19/2004 02:24 PM
Freed omOfChoice's Apple petition was shut down yesterday by Real Networks after a single day. Why? Seems that allowing comment backfired. Instead of lambasting Apple, everyone used the forum to vent their ire at Real. Only so much freedom at a time, thank you very much.

How free is free will?

How free is free will? 05/21/2004 08:42 AM
Lauren Slater's new book about 10 landmark psychological experiments has ignited a firestorm in the psychological establishment. But whatever her shortcomings as a reporter, Slater is asking profound questions about human nature and its limitations

Buy two, keep your leg for free

Buy two, keep your leg for free 04/09/2004 04:12 PM

Rumpled, armless mannequins. Maybe the new rage in mobiles is something like "New! Not just hands-free, but arm-free!" in some masochistic urban chic style or it's a pun on the shirt being so expensive that it "costs an arm and a leg" but if you buy two, you can keep the leg for free. :)

Free! Free! Free! Free!

Free! Free! Free! Free! 04/08/2005 07:53 PM
Free Online Wine Course from the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). We’ll give you a sample of our in-depth, on-site courses by taking you on a virtual journey through three of the world’s top grape varieties.

"The end of free"

"The end of free" 05/15/2004 08:24 PM

Getting in on the Free OS

Getting in on the Free OS 07/02/2004 01:18 PM
Attendees may have received free copies of Tiger (lucky punks), but in this week's Freeloader Friday you'll learn that's not the only way to get a free OS.

Tune in this week to find out why you should care about Linux.

Keep RSS Free for All

Keep RSS Free for All 02/10/2004 02:53 AM
Jim Louderback argues that NewsGator's latest service could turn RSS into a 'nasty walled garden'—and offers up a free version that's just as good.

Buy Three Get One Free

Buy Three Get One Free 04/13/2005 07:59 PM
KBToys.com is running a special right now online. Buy three and get the fourth one for free! Might be worth it if you haven't gobbled up all the new figs just yet! Thanks to Bill Rosendale for the heads up!

Free vs. Fee in the UK

Free vs. Fee in the UK 01/28/2004 01:31 PM
This story is largely another take on the free vs. fee debate: The general conclusion is that venues will find they won't make any money by charging for Wi-Fi because no one is willing to pay and if they can't make any money they won't bother offering Wi-Fi access for free. One angle this writer neglects to consider is the increased business that Wi-Fi can lead to for some businesses such as cafes. A lot of venue owners say they see increased visits during traditionally slow hours by Wi-Fi users, who even though they don't pay for access do pay for food or coffee. One business owner in the story is quoted as saying that people expected Wi-Fi to become a mass market product but it's still mostly for business users. It'll remain that way unless there are applications running on the networks that the mass market finds worth using....

Is Pb-Free The Next Y2K?

Is Pb-Free The Next Y2K? 04/30/2004 04:13 PM
Robert Cringely's latest column is looking at the issue of Pb-Free, which is a regulation stating that products in the EU (and, increasingly, other parts of the world) need to be almost entirely lead free by July 2006. Cringely is worried that no one is thinking about the implications of this, which may require major equipment shifts for electronics makers and, he believes, shifts in what type of technology is used in electronics, since direct replacements for lead may be less reliable. He's worried that it will end up being costly, and is likely to drive tier II and III suppliers out of business - especially since they have no current plans for how to make the switch. Of course, unlike Y2K (which he compares it to), there's no hard deadline on this, and no risk of existing equipment no longer working.

Wi-Fi: If Not Free, Then How?

Wi-Fi: If Not Free, Then How? 06/08/2004 05:46 AM
Commercial Wi-Fi networks haven't had an easy time convincing customers to pay daily or hourly fees for broadband. Following the closure of one of the industry's larger players, survivors may need new pricing schemes. By Joanna Glasner.

If It's Free, Will No One Pay?

If It's Free, Will No One Pay? 06/14/2004 09:40 AM
TechDirt briefly dissects Associated Press story that points out no one (that they talked to) is profitable in the hotspot business: We try not to be defenders of the flame here at Wi-Fi Networking News, but examine news stories and company announcements as well as hardware and software with some degree of objectivity tempered by experience. The AP article isn't inaccurate, but we'd rather point to TechDirt's brief dissection of it than the original story because the premise is flawed. It's abundantly clear after the events of the last couple of months--not to mention years--that there is no such thing as a standalone Wi-Fi hotspot business. I'll beat the drum that Sky Dayton first stretched the deer hide over back in Dec. 2001: the business of selling hotspot access is a different business than signing contacts with venues and installing hardware and running a network. Wayport's ongoing transformation from 2000 to present from a customer-facing organization into a customer and reseller-facing group into a pure wholesale managed services and network operator demonstrates most clearly that standalone hotspot operators are and were a temporary phenomenon. The networks that remain will eventually derive the majority of their income from either roaming users from their reseller partners, from managed services for venues that want to handle their own billing or be part of a larger network, or from the per-venue/per-month fees that Wayport is promoting as the model to build larger audiences. The AP story is prescient in that the idea of there being a "Wi-Fi hotspot business" has practically become passé already. Mass-market companies like cell operators, cable system owners, telcos, warehouse membership clubs, and other groups with millions of customers will be most people's experience with hotspot service in the future....

IT, Be Free!

IT, Be Free! 07/24/2004 06:25 AM

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