Google Nik Collection is Now Free

The Nik Collection is a set of image enhancement tools and photographic filter plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Lightroom and Apple's Aperture.
Photo enthusiasts all over the world use the Nik Collection to get the best out of their images every day.
The Nik Collection is comprised of seven desktop plug-ins that provide a powerful range of photo editing capabilities — from filter applications that improve color correction, to retouching and creative effects, to image sharpening that brings out all the hidden details, to the ability to make adjustments to the color and tonality of images.
Starting March 24, 2016, the latest Nik Collection will be freely available to download: Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza, HDR Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro and Dfine.
Download Google Nik Collection for free

Giveaway: Zoner Photo Studio 17 PRO

The only photo software you will ever need. It is a user-­friendly Windows software, that brings every feature you need in a single package. From importing photos onto your PC to organizing a photo archive, editing, sharing, and RAW files support. Almost every Zoner`s feature can be applied to batches of photos. For example, you can apply frame to 1000 vacation photos at once, resize them the size you need for a photo album, saving you time.

Features:

• Importing: Right as you're downloading your pictures to your PC, you can tag them, rotate them to match camera rotation (EXIF), back them up, and more.;
• Managing: Give photographs a rating from 1­5, colored labels, descriptions, and more. Drag­and­drop them onto an integrated Google Map to GPS­tag them, so you'll know exactly where your photos were taken even years from now. Then find any photo you need in seconds, even among thousands of others;
• Editing: Dozens of photo editing and retouching features: cropping, resizing, straightening, local edits, exposure and color fixes and more. A Quick Edits panel helps you fix a picture in moments using just a few sliders. The Editor also offers dozens of creative Quick Filters and other creative tools like HDR, Tone Mapping, 3D, panoramas, cartoon, lens flare;
• Sharing: Share straight from Zoner to Facebook, Flickr, and more, including Zoner's own Zonerama: the first truly unlimited gallery;
• RAW: An improved, faster RAW module with start-­to-­finish processing of your DSLR's RAW files, with lots of practical perks such as RAW+JPEG stacking.

Download link available today: https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zoner-photo-studio-17-pro/

About.com review ****: http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/productreviews/ss/Zoner-Photo-Studio.htm  
Download.com review****: http://download.cnet.com/Zoner-Photo-Studio/3000-2192_4-75186165.html

Zoner free Android photo app: http://www.zoner.com/en/zoner-photo-studio-for-android 
Google play - Zoner Android photo app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zoner.android.photostudio 

Free Alternatives:

• Zoner Photo Free -  free limited edition - PRO vs. Free edition comparison;
• Rawtherapee - free open source;
• Digikam  - free open source;
• Photoscape - free;
• Photo-editing software, Lightroom alternatives - dedicated page on my blog. 

Giveaway: WPS Office 10 Business

WPS Office 10 Business is a leading productivity office suite including Writer, Spreadsheets and Presentation. It has the best compatibility with Microsoft Office and enables you to create high-quality documents effortlessly.

Highlights of WPS Office 10 Business:

• Make documents smaller, more secure and easier to share;
• Built-in spell check in WPS Office helps you keep your documents free of spelling errors;
• Ready-made templates for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets. You are free to download and use these professional templates to make your work easier;
• Text editing with all the formatting tools: font styles and colors, columns and tables, paragraph formatting and much more;
• Formatting tools to create amazing presentations: font styles and colors, shapes, columns, tables and much more;
• Spreadsheets includes hundreds of commonly used formulas and functions organized by dozens of categories, making it easy to analyze complex data.

Download link available today:
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/wps-office-10-business/

Download.com review: 
http://download.cnet.com/WPS-Office-10/3000-18483_4-75563178.html

Free alternatives:

• LibreOffice 
• OpenOffice  
• Kingsoft-Office-free-version  

Giveaway: Ashampoo WinOptimizer 2016

Ashampoo WinOptimizer 2016 is a powerful system optimization tool that frees space, fixes errors and maintains your PCs performance. It also protects your privacy and allows you to customize your Windows environment. Aside from hard disk cleaners the program comes with multiple tools that cover various tasks from system maintenance, tweaking and system analysis to file processing (encryption, splitting etc.).
Version 2016 includes a font manager, full Windows 10 compatibility and multi-user support.

Download link available today:  http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ashampoo-winoptimizer-2016/

Download.com review: http://download.cnet.com/Ashampoo-WinOptimizer-2015/3000-18512_4-75021499.html

Free alternatives:  

• CCleaner
• Wise-care-365-free-edition 
• Ashampoo-WinOptimizer-Free 

Giveaway - Wise Care 365 Pro

Protect and Speed Up Your PC with Wise Care 365 PRO now! Wise Care 365 Pro can keep your PC at peak performance. Wise Care 365 Pro is an all-in-one Windows maintenance and optimization software which includes the fastest scanning engine. It is a bundle of important registry cleaners, disk cleaners, and other system utilities for your PC. Containing all the features of highly-praised Wise Registry Cleaner and Wise Disk Cleaner, Wise Care 365 cleans disk and registry, supports one-click PC checkup, optimizes system and protects privacy.
All that make Wise Care 365 stand out from other PC maintenance and optimization utilities available today. Easy to use and effective, Wise Care 365 is the best solution to improve your PC`s performance. Get Wise Care 365 and your computer will never run slow again!

Download link available today: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/wise-care-365-pro-3-9-5/

Tutorials: http://www.wisecleaner.com/wise-care-365-user-guide.html

Download.com review:
 http://download.cnet.com/Wise-Care-365-Free/3000-18512_4-75744630.html 

Free alternatives:  

• CCleaner
• Wise-care-365-free-edition 

Giveaway: BurnAware Premium 8

BurnAware is a full-fledged, easy-to-use burning software which allows users to write all types of files such as digital photos, pictures, archives, documents, music and videos to CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. With BurnAware, you also be able to create bootable or multisession discs, high-quality Audio CDs and Video DVDs, make and burn ISO images, copy and backup discs, extract audio tracks, erase and verify data, recover data from multisession or unreadable discs.

Download link available today:  http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/burnaware-premium-8-7/

Free alternatives:

• ImgBurn 
• Ashampoo-Burning-Studio-Free 
• BurnAware-Free

Giveaway: Advanced System Care Pro 9

Advanced SystemCare Pro 9 is an easy-to-use and all-in-one PC optimization utility that takes one click approach to clean, optimize, speed up and protect your system, even secure your online privacy. With newly added Speed Up tab, it greatly accelerates your system, system boot time, disks and browsers. What's more, it rebuilds and improves over 10 useful tools like Startup Manager, Performance Monitor, Large Files Finder, Auto Shutdown, Win Fix to explore your PC's full potential. 
Download link available today: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-system-care-9-0-3/

Download.com review: http://download.cnet.com/Advanced-SystemCare-Pro/3000-2086_4-75628962.html

Free alternative:  CCleaner/