Posts Tagged ‘free’

New Arrival: Amazon launches Prime Gaming to Replace Twitch Prime

Tuesday, August 11th, 2020

Prime Gaming offers free content for today’s popular video games plus free games every month.

Now more than 150 million paid Prime members around the world can get more value out of their Prime membership with the best of gaming.

Now more than 150 million paid Prime members around the world can get more value out of their Prime membership with the best of gaming.

Amazon first launched gaming benefits in 2016 as Twitch Prime.

Today, Amazon is launching Prime Gaming, an Amazon Prime benefit offering members tons of free, exclusive content for their favorite games, a collection of free PC games, and a free Twitch channel subscription every month.

This month’s more than 20 Free Games with Prime include SNK arcade classics SNK 40th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION, METAL SLUG 2, and indie retro brawler Treachery in Beatdown City.

More details below from the press release.

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New mobile app: Quit Pro makes quitting smoking fun and easy

Thursday, January 2nd, 2014

If quitting smoking is one of your new year resolutions, try out this free app to help you kick the habit.

New mobile app: Quit Pro makes quitting smoking fun and easyQuit Pro offers easy navigation and user experience to enable the user who is ready to quit smoking to easily find out when and what situations caused the need to smoke, along with the emotions that triggered the puff.

The app also has a social feature which allows sharing of one’s progress with their loved ones via Facebook, Twitter, email or even SMS.

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Music from Spotify now free on smartphones and tablets

Thursday, December 12th, 2013

Music lovers can now stream millions of songs on your mobile devices for FREE. Spotify has also launched in 20 new markets today, making the service available in 55 markets.

“Today we’re giving people the best free music experience in the history of the smartphone and the tablet,” said Daniel Ek, Spotify CEO & Founder in New York City. “Whether you're going to the gym, or having a party with friends. Just sit back and let Spotify serve you great music for every moment of your life.”

“Today we’re giving people the best free music experience in the history of the smartphone and the tablet,” said Daniel Ek, Spotify CEO & Founder in New York City. “Whether you’re going to the gym, or having a party with friends. Just sit back and let Spotify serve you great music for every moment of your life.”

Listen to all your playlists, discover new music, or simply sit back and dig into your favourite artist’s entire back catalogue.

Spotify’s new free smartphone experience lets you shuffle play:

  • Your music: Listen to all the playlists you’ve created and playlists from the people you follow. Spotify lets you discover new music, save, shuffle and share.
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Free Premium Apps from BlackBerry App World

Monday, October 17th, 2011

Research In Motion (RIM) announced today that more than US$100 worth of selected premium apps will be offered free of charge to BlackBerry customers, in view of service disruptions last week.

Game Publisher
SIMS 3 Electronic Arts
Bejeweled Electronic Arts
N.O.V.A. Gameloft
Texas Hold’em Poker 2 Gameloft
Bubble Bash 2 Gameloft
Photo Editor Ultimate Ice Cold Apps
iSpeech Translator Pro iSpeech.org
DriveSafe.ly Pro iSpeech.org
Drive Safe.ly Enterprise iSpeech.org
Nobex Radio Premium Nobex
Shazam Encore Shazam
Vlingo Plus: Virtual Assistant Vlingo

The apps will be available from October 19 to December 31, 2011.

The complete selection of premium apps will become available for download at BlackBerry App World over a period of four weeks beginning Wednesday, October 19th.

The selections over this period will include the following (with more to come):

Launch of LibreOffice 3.3 – successor to OpenOffice

Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Wondering what happened to OpenOffice after Oracle took over the Sun? It’s now called LibreOffice but preserves the free open-source promise and vendor-independent principle that its predecessor maintained.

Almost a full year after Oracle Corporation announced that it had completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems on 27 Jan 2010, LibreOffice 3.3 has been released by a breakaway group of developers previously from the OpenOffice.org Project, which had been sponsored by Sun.

LibreOffice 3.3 from The Document FoundationLibreOffice 3.3 is an office productivity suite that includes software for wordprocessing (Writer), spreadsheets (Calc), presentations (Impress), databases (Base), equation editing (Maths) and drawing (Draw). It is available on Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

The developers in the breakaway group comprised about a third of the original OpenOffice.org team and formed The Document Foundation in September 2010.

OpenOffice 3.3 from OracleThey were concerned that Oracle would discontinue OpenOffice as they did OpenSolaris since these open-source projects did not contribute a significant part to the bottom line.

In the space of four months, they have created a stable release of the office suite, which was unveiled on 25 Mar 2011. Based on a fork of the OpenOffice code, much of the development focus was on adding new features as well as extensively cleaning up portions of the legacy code, said Italo Vignoli, a founding member of The Document Foundation.

The version 3.3 continues from the versioning under OpenOffice. LibreOffice means “Free Office” and is free for users to download, modify, use and distribute. The name was original intended to be temporary, in the hope that Oracle would accept their invitation to become a member of The Document Foundation and donate the OpenOffice.org brand to the project.

Oracle has rejected the project.

Canonical, Novell and Red Hat intend to include LibreOffice in upcoming versions of their operating systems. The office suite for the Ubuntu 11.04 daily builds was changed to LibreOffice for alpha testing purposes on 20 January 2011.

LibreOffice 3.3 features improved usability and interoperability with other formats, such as improved support for importing documents from Lotus Word Pro and Microsoft Works. It can now import SVG content and edit SVG images in LibreOffice Draw.