Today on the show Aaron and Billy discuss Steve Gibson's Shields Up.

Steve's free online firewall port testing service send packets or data streams to your NAT Router / Firewall and then reporting back to you letting you know if your device is as secure as it should be.

For a whole lot more info and to run the test yourself goto to www.grc.com

This week Billy and Aaron are talking security applications, today it's the turn of AVG Antivirus protection for windows users.

AVG Free is fast light weight and very reliable. complete with secure vault and Automatic update features AVG provides a realtime protection for home users.

more info can be found at http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-virus/us/frt/0

It's another Friday and to end the week Aaron and Billy talk about a free iPhoto alternative for windows, Google Picasa gives users a single environment to import edit, sort and even upload / order prints of your best digital photos.

Simple, Slick looking and powerful its a must try for windows photographers

More info at http://picasa.google.com/

This Thursdays edition of the DFP brings you FreeMind, a free open source mind mapping software application used mostly for presenting vast amounts of information in a single diagram.

This application is for Windows Mac and Linux Please note FreeMind requires the Sun Java Runtime to be installed.

More info found at http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Today billy and Aaron discuss a brad new and FREE product from Adobe.

Photoshop Express offers it's users a simple yet good looking online way to import edit and even upload their digital pictures to a community site.

Take a look by going to https://www.photoshop.com/express/

Tuesdays DFP brings from the first time in Daily Freeware Podcast history 2 applications on 1 episode. We have Time Machine Scheduler and TimeMachineEditor. Both of the apps have the same general idea, but 1 does something the other doesn't.

You can find TimeMachine Scheduler at http://www.klieme.com/TimeMachineScheduler.html

And TimeMachineEditor at http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/

It's a brand new week on the DFP and today we are talking about a free open source vector graphics app called InkScape. This near Adobe Illustrator alternative offers all the commonly used tools and is a must try for anybody who wishes to learn vector based illustration on the cheap. Fun, fast and pretty powerful i am sure you will love this one.

For more info goto http://www.inkscape.org/

also be sure to check out this awesome tutorial site http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/

Today of the DFP we talk about Skitch, Skitch is from the same people that make the great Comic Life ( free on most macs.) â?? Skitch is an amazingly fun and super useful duo. Everyday we all share images, ideas and have fun with friends online.â?? for more goto www.skitch.com

Todays topic of conversation is Coconut battery, this small utily allwoows mac notebook owners to check the status and overall health of your battery.

Today Aaron reviews Quicksilver for the Mac. This unique app laugher and shortcut utility allows users to gain control over apps with the use of a few key commands saving you some serious time.

To download goto http://www.blacktree.com/

For more info visit http://docs.blacktree.com/quicksilver/what_is_quicksilver

also check out these demo videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBvFUhTqKK4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EydTYOeqIrk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DYb56xxnh4

also this demo from merlin mann is pretty good

http://www.themerlinshow.com/ep/006-howto-quicksilver-comma-trick