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.

The different types of products and services offered on these free websites include photo and video editing software, file format converters, 365Office add-ons, screen-savers, system tools, shell replacements and templates. In most cases, the downloads will download and install successfully. While this is the case, if error messages were to appear during the process, it is important to cancel the process and forego the free offer. If not, there could be a risk of damaging the device being used at the time.

The main GOTD website originally used a number of techniques to protect free offerings from being absorbed and redistributed by other sites. Even with some of the best security software, a company was able to break through the barrier and do so. As such, in July of 2012, the technical team behind GOTD announced a new release of a non-branded security wrapper to prevent against any other security breaches.

At the end of the 2008, GOTD had similar plans to launch a similar project for Mac related products. While a good idea at the time, the project team decided against moving forward. As a result, there are occasionally Mac applications offered together with Windows on the same GOTD website.

In 2006, a new website, Game Giveaway Of The Day was instituted. The site which gave away games on a daily basis did prove as successful as that of the free software giveaway. Still, the beta website has been giving away games on a monthly basis since April of 2009.

Whether acquiring free applications and other products related to Windows, or both Mac and Windows operating systems, or games free of charge, it is important to be cautious when downloading and installing these items. For, most often the items will download and install successfully. Whereas, if there are error messages, the best thing to do is forego the free offer. Otherwise, what could be a free application or tool could end up damaging a computer, tablet or smart phone if such messages are ignored.




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