While checking in on one of my favorite blogs, Lifehacker, I came across a post concerning a free download of Direct Audio Converter and CD Ripper from Piston Software. The app typically sells for $24.95 but is available today for $0.00. Not a bad deal. To get the free download you go to Giveaway of the Day and download it, its that simple.
Giveaway of the Day is a site developed to help both users and publishers together to the benefit of all. Users get a free app, not a limited or trial version, and publishers get their product reviewed and posted on Giveaway's site for a predetermined amount of time. The publisher stands to get a lot of publicity about their product and themselves as the popularity of the site grows.
In Giveaway's own words...
The idea behind this initiative is that many sites and publishers offer trial downloads; but only we offer giveaway downloads. What does that mean?
Basically, every day we nominate one software title that will be a Giveaway title of that day. The software will be available for download for 24 hours (or more, if agreed by software publisher) and that software will be absolutely free. That means - not a trial, not a limited version - but a registered and legal version of the software will be free for our visitors*.
The software product will be presented in its full functionality, without any limitations save for those mentioned in Terms and Conditions.
The download link will remain on our web-site for the agreed period of time, together with the review of the software product and the information about other products from the software publisher presenting the giveaway title.
Both reviews and the information on the product line will remain active even when the Giveaway period is over.
The information about Giveaway of the day and the participants of this initiative will be included in our newsletters and distributed among our visitors and subscribers.
We will pay the software publisher for the Giveaway license, and our visitors will only receive those after downloading a special verification program and agreeing to the Terms and Conditions, thus protecting software publishers’ interests and making our initiative beneficial for both clients and publishing companies.
Giveaway has an RSS feed as well so you can stay on top of all the latest offerings.
