The modern computer experience is amazing for distracting you from work; E-mail, Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, Growl notifications, all popping up like friends at a party, dragging you away from the tasks you’re supposed to be concentrating on. All of this has lead to a new class of word processor—one such as Omm Writer Dana which eliminates features, stripping the experience down to its most basic features, and hiding the rest of your digital world away.

MacHeist asked the popular question, “Anyone want free software?” on their Facebook fan page yesterday, and, as usual, they weren’t being rhetorical. After generating a lot of deeply insightful “yes” answers, they offered a link to download Socialite, a social media aggregator from Real Mac Software. But there is a catch to get Socialite, a social media aggregator, for free.

Twitter is pretty awesome—I think most of us can agree on that—but sometimes 140 characters just doesn’t cut it. Sure, you can use Twitpic to share a picture with all of your followers, which is pretty cool, but what if that’s still not cutting it for you? Good news, you can use Tweetube to share short videos with your Twitter followers.

On Friday, February 6th, MacHeist 3 kicked off to the excitement of tons of geeks around the internet. What is MacHeist, you ask? A creative, brain-teasing, fun way to get free and steeply discounted Mac software! What more could you ask for?

The folks at MacHeist have done it again. They’re known for their ridiculously low-priced application bundles, but they’ve really outdone themselves this time. They are offering six applications in their bundle, and the admission price is current-economy-friendly at free. Here’s how it works. Visit the mac Giving Tree website and register if you don’t already more »

Been wanting to run Windows applications on your Mac or Linux machine? Well, on Tuesday, October 28th, you’ll be able to download the full version Crossovers, the corporate-supported version of Wine, from Codeweavers for free.

And you have President Bush to thank for it. Kind of.

With barely any effort at all, you can get at least 7 more presents this Christmas. MacGivingTree.com is a site from MacHeist that gives you 2 presents that you can open on Christmas morning. It is luck of the draw what shareware you will get. With a simple friend referral, you can get a third more »