My friends, here's a good question from a special category of issues everyone is trying to solve, especially those new users in the emerging Internet countries that just got their hands on this wonderful resource we all know as the World Wide Web! Unfortunately, giving a good answer to those asking "Where can I watch movies absolutely free?" is not such an easy task, because there are a lot of traps on the way to the truth. The first trap a lot of them fall into is to simply type "free movies," "download movies for free," or even "Where can I watch movies absolutely free?" in a certain search engine, and wait for the results to drop in...


Obviously, the results to the questions above will be quickly delivered by the search engine, as long as your Internet connection is not incredibly slow, but you'll usually end up downloading illegal content, if you manage to download something. Absolutely free movies are available on the Web, but they don't show up when you get to search answers for the logical questions, so let's see some "replacements," shall we?

"Free Online TV" may not be that close to "Where can I watch movies absolutely free?" as some may think, but it gets the job done. <-336x280 Large Rectangle - right->Apart from various live streaming sites that you may find(not that easy, anyway, because most of them also provide paid content, and the free user experience may be rather frustrating), there are a bunch of interesting programs, like Joost, Miro(formerly known as Democracy Player), and even paid programs like ChrisTV PVR, but...since the question we started with contains "absolutely free," I guess this one doesn't qualify...

More and even better than live streaming sites, you have the community-driven video sites we all got to know about when YouTube became popular, and now there's an incredible amount of them available, with Metacafe, Vimeo, or Vreel, currently still 2 weeks away from the launch into a new Beta version, just waiting for your visit!

Other than the above, let me give you one idea - try to sneak in your neighbors' backyard and watch their movies through the window, if their TV set is properly seated. If not, cook something nice and go to their door, right when they come home with the last movies they have rented. Well, that's not really "absolutely free," but should get the job done, and increase your charisma in the neighborhood, too!

At last, you could consider borrowing movies from your friends - that's usually free, but leaves you with a debt that needs to be repaid one day...

I know all the above may not be that much, but if you know more than I do, feel free to answer the big question - "Where can I watch movies absolutely free?..."

If you ask me about the disadvantages of open source software now, I can say there are two facts I really don't like about it. First, you can't eat it, and second, you can't drink it. I am not joking, because that's what I can tell you for now. Why? Well, I am not a programmer, and for most computer users, there's no big difference between open source and freeware. After all, you get the program for free, install it, play with it for as long as you like, no matter if it's freeware, or open source, but for programmers, there's a big difference. While freeware applications don't usually give you the chance to go through their source code and even modify it, the open source ones allow you this, and even more, in some cases. Now, it seems things in the open source world are slowly changing, as we're going to see right away...


OK, so where were we? Oh, yeah, disadvantages of open source software! A recent US federal court has just ruled that the holder of a copyright to some code made available for free download can enforce an "open source copyright license" to control future use of its work. As strange as it may seem, open source proponents have argued that those who don't comply with the conditions should be subject to copyright infringement claims. Say whaaaaat? I know I may not be that deep into open source, but there's one thing I am sure of - I don't like the way this sounds! Not at all!<-250x250 Square - right->

It all started with Robert Jacobsen, a hobbyist who made software used for model trains. Obviously, free software, but he ended up bringing copyright infringement claims against developers of commercial products, as they didn't follow the terms of his programs' license.

After being rejected by a lower court, Jacoben got his claims finally fulfilled, in a court decision described as "a fantastic ruling" by his lawyer. According to Victoria Hall, Jacobsen's lawyer, the decision "shows that open-source groups can protect their code under copyright laws, and this is a ruling that other open-source groups can use."

In the end, I think it all ends well. I may have been a bit in a hurry to draw my conclusions - the open source movement can sleep well, as long as they are not going to steal code and turn it into commercial products without following the Artistic License. Anyway, this is only my opinion, so if you know more, or would like to say something, go ahead - I am "all ears!"

...right from NVIDIA! I am sure that thousands of people are looking to download free computer games, but too many of them end up with...well, not-so-legal downloads, and of those, a very large number are also infected with various viruses. If we look at this whole matter and say the truth and nothing but the truth, there are only a few free computer games really worth your time. Don't get me wrong - I've seen a lot of promising ones, but most of them have been in the "eternal Beta stage" for a few years, and then simply faded away. The good part is that, when the battle for hardware supremacy enters the scene, providing free games for download turns into something really easy to do for the big ones, as it just happened with NVIDIA on Tuesday...


...when they announced a bunch of free computer games, all available for free download! Obviously, this is not something done only because NVIDIA loves its customers so much, but because Microsoft agreed to support the Havok phsyics technology in its upcoming games, pushing NVIDIA aside, if I can say it this way.<-336x280 Large Rectangle - right->

As I was expecting, this is not just general computer software - most of the applications available for free download are optimized for NVIDIA's PhysX technology, and the free applications pack comes at the same time as a free trial of Badaboom, a little video transcoder that used the CUDA technology of the GeForce 8-series GPUs, cutting the time necessary for transcoding a video file by up to 18 times, as Elemental Technologies claims.

Here's the list of goodies NVIDIA has for us:

- "Warmonger, a full free game. Destroy walls, floors, and whole buildings to open up new paths or close existing ones. Destructive power is more than eye candy here—it's a tactical weapon in this ground-breaking action game.

- Unreal Tournament 3 PhysX Mod Pack—includes three maps with amazing effects that fundamentally change the gameplay (requires full version of Unreal Tournament 3)

- A sneak peek at the upcoming Nurien social networking service, based on the Unreal Engine 3 (with built-in benchmark)

- A sneak peek at the upcoming game Metal Knight Zero (with built-in benchmark)

- All new Nvidia 'The Great Kulu' tech demo that showcases the use of PhysX soft bodies in a real game play environment

- All new Nvidia 'Fluid' tech demo—a simulation of realistic fluid effects with a variety of liquids."

These being said, get ready to download free computer games, the right way. Good luck!