Free stuff continued...

Anyone who knows me at all knows whenever possible I use Free and Open Source solutions for my personal and professional technology needs.  Here are a couple of sites I use to get my free goodness from...

A great source for this software is SourceForge.  According to their site

SourceForge.net is the world's largest open source software development web site. We provide free services that help people build cool stuff and share it with a global audience. See a list of our software development features.

As of August, 2010, more than 240,000 software projectshave been registered to use our services by more than 2.6 million registered users, making SourceForge.net the largest collection of open source tools and applications on the net.

 I personally go there to grab software fairly often and it can actually be quite rewarding to just browse and discover new tools and applications in general.

Another site that I use quite frequently is FileHippo.  The only drawback to FileHippo is that while its software is free, it isn't always Open Source.  I still go there for much of my Windows needs since I am forced to work on Windows quite frequently.  Another really great use for FileHippo is that I can point someone there when they ask me a question.  For example, if they have a problem that I know MBAM will fix I can direct them to the site instead of relying on their often dodgy or nonexistent Google Fu.
According to their site

Purpose

With FileHippo.com our aim is to provide you with the simplest method of downloading the newest versions of the best software - without the usual excessive popups or spyware and without the low quality software.