Feels Like Christmas
Looking for Christmas music? This site offers a growing collection of free, legal Christmas-themed MP3 sound files, submitted by the artists themselves. Yuletide tunes here include traditional and contemporary songs, as well as instrumentals.
Free Christmas Graphics
Are you working on a Christmas-themed Web page or presentation? Claire Schaeffer's site offers a great roundup of the Web's top Christmas free graphics sites. From original yuletide art to icons to matching sets to ornamental graphics, you'll find it here. All sites are rated and reviewed.
Christmas Cell Phone Freebies
This site offers a festive collection of Christmas-themed freebies for your mobile phone, including screensavers and wallpapers. No registration is required. The site is safe for all ages.
Shopping Spree Sweepstakes
Follow the instructions to take a shot at winning a $1,500 holiday shopping spree. You must be at least 18 years old to participate. (U.S. and Canada only).
Vintage Holiday Images
At this site, you'll find a colorful collection of over 700 free vintage Christmas holiday greeting card images. New images are added here regularly.
Nikon Coolpix sweepstakes
Enter this sweepstakes for a shot at winning a 12-megapixel Nikon Coolpix camera. Contest deadline is Dec. 31, 2009. You must be 18 or older to enter. (U.S. only).
FreeChristmasSavers.com
This site is the Web's top resource for free Christmas screen savers for Windows. Here, you'll find delightful screen savers featuring Santa, Frosty the Snowman and other Christmas characters. Be sure to also check out the Elf Bowling Game, as well as a nice selection of yuletide greeting cards, desktop themes and wallpapers.
Christmas Coloring Pages
This site offers a nice collection of free Christmas-themed coloring pages for children, suitable for outputting on your printer. The site includes pictures that are appropriate for toddlers, as well as for older children.
1 Nutty Santa Screen Saver
One of the best free Christmas screen savers we've seen, this fun program features wacky antics from the jolly elf, as he flies his sleigh across your desktop. This site also features another festive, freeware program, the Frosty Goes Skiing Screen Saver. (For Windows).
ChristmasFreebies.com
This unique, festive site offers a big collection of Christmas-themed freebies for all ages. Items here include free gifts, samples, yuletide contests, Christmas-themed software, children's freebies, and other goodies.
Christmas Postcards
Here, you'll find a festive collection of free digital cards for Christmas. Just browse the thumbnail images until you find the card you want, then personalize it with your message and send it on its way. Optionally, you may attach a recipe or poem to your card.
JCPenney gift card
Follow the instructions at this site to request a free $500 gift card for retailer JCPenney. You must be 18 or older to request this item. (U.S. only).
Christmas Screen Savers
One of our favorite resources on the Web for free Christmas screen savers. This site offers dozens of festive screen savers and more titles are added each day.
FreeChristmasScreensavers.com
There are sleigh-loads of free Christmas desktop enhancements at this site. Here, you'll find freeware desktop wallpapers, themes, greeting cards, games, and, of course, lots of festive screen savers.
Christmas stationery
Liven up your Christmas E-mail correspondence with the free custom stationery at CloudEight Stationery. Here, you'll find a festive collection of free Christmas-themed stationery for use with Outlook and Outlook Express. Each self-installing package here includes nice scrolling backgrounds, and some include music. (For Windows)
Custom Christmas fonts and logos
Are you looking for a customized Christmas-themed logo for your page or presentation? This free online graphics generating service lets you select a yuletide style, in which you can enter your own message. This service is provided by FlamingText.com , which offers loads of other styles and effects, as well.
Christmas MyCorkboard
The makers of the MyCorkboard screen saver are offering several festive, free Christmas-themed modules for their popular program. MyCorkboard (which is also free) is like a bulletin board for your computer, onto which you can place any one of a number of cool objects, such as a clock, a calendar, memo pads, pranks and more. (For Windows).
Christmas Greeting Cards
AAAPostcards.com offers a charming collection of free digital greeting cards for the holiday season. Just browse the thumbnail images until you find the card you want, then personalize it with your message and send it on its way.
The Grinch Screen Saver
This fun freeware screen saver pays homage to the feature film adaptation of Dr. Seuss' "How The Grinch Stole Christmas," starring Jim Carrey. Features sound and multiple images and transition effects. (For Windows).
Christmas sounds
One of our favorite free WAV sound file sites, A1 Free Sound Effects, offers a fine selection of Christmas-themed sounds here. Christmas sounds here range from "Christmas Music Box" to sleigh bells.
ChristmasSavers.com
Give your desktop a festive touch with the many jolly freeware screen savers at this site, featuring St. Nick and a cast of yuletide characters. You'll also find free Christmas-themed wallpapers, themes, cards and calendars here.
Free Christmas Wallpapers
Decorate your desktop with these lovely holiday wallpapers from T&P SC. These colorful, festive images include Santa, Frosty the Snowman, yuletide decorations, doves, holly and more. You can view thumbnails of each image and download these wallpapers in compressed ZIP form.
New Christmas Music
This site offers a nice collection of free Christmas-themed music, in MP3 and Windows Media format. Here, you'll find original Christmas songs, as well as traditional Christmas carols.
Chat with Santa
At this site, you can chat with Santa Claus for free via a live, interactive Webcast. You can also send your Christmas requests directly to Santa's desktop and watch as he reads them over the Web.
The Christmas Spot
This festive site offers a good roundup of various Christmas-themed freebies, including wallpapers, jokes, digital cards, screen savers, fonts, recipes and more.
L.L. Bean Christmas catalog
Complete the form at this site to request a 228-page 2009 Christmas catalog from L.L. Bean, a retailer that specializes in apparel and outdoor equipment. (International availability).
Free Christmas clipart
Here's a nice roundup of original, free Christmas clipart. An online image editor lets you customize the graphics, as well. Images include snowmen, Santa, candles, Christmas trees, wreaths, ornaments, candy canes and more.
MyComic.eu
This fun free site lets you easily design your own custom Christmas-themed cartoon E-mail, which you can then send to your friends. The site is available in English, French and German versions.
Free Christmas Backgrounds
Add a Christmas touch to your presentations or Web pages with the many free Christmas background images available at this site. Images here include Santa, reindeer, wreaths, tree ornaments, elves and loads more.
Free Christmas Screen Saver
Put your computer in a festive mood with this screen saver, which features lovely yuletide images of Santa, Frosty the Snowman and more. (You can use the images as desktop wallpaper, as well). From the freeware screen saver guru Tony Beaudion, who wishes everyone, Happy holidays. (For Windows).
Halloween stationery
Liven up your Halloween E-mail correspondence with the fun, freeware custom stationery at CloudEight Stationery. Here, you'll find a spooky collection of free Halloween themed stationery for use with Outlook and Outlook Express. Each self-installing package here includes nice scrolling backgrounds, and some include music. (For Windows).
Halloween Haunting Screen Saver
This freeware screen saver features animated, creepy 3D skulls and scary jack-o'-lanterns that float around your screen, along with various spooky noises. (For Windows).
Halloween Cell Phone Freebies
This site offers a spooky collection of Halloween-themed freebies for your mobile phone, including screensavers and wallpapers. No registration is required. The site is safe for all ages.
Halloween Screensavers
This site offers a fun collection of free Halloween-themed screensavers. Here, you'll also find free Halloween-themed cards, desktop themes, wallpapers, freebies, and more.
Halloween desktop themes
AAAThemes.com, a popular desktop themes resource, offers a nice selection of free Halloween themes, as well as thousands of themes in other categories.
Haunted House Horrors Screen Saver
This new freeware Halloween screen saver features a cast of spooky characters, including floating ghosts, bats, a screeching cat and more, along with creepy sound effects. (For Windows).
Halloween Screen Savers
One of our favorite resources on the Web for free Halloween screen savers. This site offers dozens of spooky screen savers and more titles are added each day.
Free Halloween Sound Effects
Are you looking for some spooky sound effects for Halloween? This fun, free WAV sound file site features a wide range of sounds, including creaking doors, crackling thunder, screams, witches laughing, and much more.
2009 Halloween Screensaver
This is a free, family friendly Halloween screensaver that features images of ghosts, witches, vampires, and other scary creatures. The screensaver offers eerie music, transition effects, and a "sticky note" feature for custom on-screen messages, as well as other options. (For Windows).
Halloween desktop wallpaper
This site offers a good selection of free Halloween-themed desktop wallpaper, as well as thousands of wallpapers in other categories.
Halloween Screen Savers
This site serves up a fun collection of free Halloween screen savers, including the popular "Ultimate Horror Scream Saver," which features images from "Night of the Living Dead," "Alien," "Friday the 13th," etc. No installation is required for these screen savers (just download them to your desktop, click and play). (For Windows).
Halloween Coloring Pages
This site offers a nice collection of free Halloween-themed coloring pages for children, suitable for outputting on your printer. The site includes pictures that are appropriate for toddlers, as well as for older children.
Halloween Postcards
Here, you'll find a fun collection of free digital cards for Halloween. Just browse the thumbnail images until you find the card you want, then personalize it with your message and send it on its way.
Halloween Horror Tetris Game
A fun Halloween-themed Tetris clone arcade game that featured spooky, rendered 3D games pieces, falling against a scary background. (For Windows).
Halloween Screen Saver
This freeware screen saver features scary animated images, including a haunted house and a graveyard, as well as a creepy cast of characters: witches, ghouls, ghosts, mummies, skeletons and more. It also features a scene of various ghouls dancing to "Monster Mash." (For Windows).
Halloween Fonts
The major freeware fonts site, Acid Fonts, serves up a spooky selection of free Halloween-themed fonts at this site. Font selctions here include "Blood of Dracula," "Dungeon," "Creepy Girl," and more.
Free Halloween Screen Savers
Here's a frightfully entertaining collection of free Halloween-themed screen savers for Windows. You'll also find free Halloween-themed desktop wallpapers and greeting cards.
Free Halloween art
Here, you'll find a nice little collection of free Halloween clipart. And with this site's online image editor, you can customize and edit these images, which include ghosts, tombstones, pumpkins, witches and the Grim Reaper. From the major free clipart site, GraphxKingdom.com .
Free Halloween Backgrounds
Add a Halloween touch to your presentations or Web pages with the many free Halloween background images available at this site. Images here include ghosts, pumpkins, witches, skulls, spiders and loads more.
Grim Reaper Screen Saver
This freeware screen saver celebrates with spirit of Halloween with spooky animated images. Be sure to also check out the matching jigsaw puzzle, available here, as well. (For Windows).
HalloweenFonts.com
Here is a spooky collection of freeware Halloween-themed fonts. Perfect if you're making a logo for your site or printing a Halloween newsletter for family and friends.
HalloweenJoys.com
This site offers a fun collection of Halloween-themed freebies. Here, you'll find Halloween-themed digital cards, fonts, games, graphics, MySpace codes, wallpapers, and more.
Father's Day Screen Savers
Bring a smile to Dad's face with this fun collection of Father's Day-themed freeware screen savers. Titles here include "Especially for Him," which features building-block images. (For Windows).
Father's Day Postcards
This site offers a nice selection of free Father's Day digital greeting cards. FreeWebCards.com features loads of card categories and offers animated and Flash multimedia cards.
Father's Day Graphics
Are you looking for some free Father's Day themed graphics for your Web site, presentation or greeting card? Here's a good place to go. Each resource is reviewed and rated. From free clipart to animations to graphics sets to backgrounds, you'll find it here. From Claire Schaeffer's FreeGraphics.com site.
Free land offer
Here's a unique gift for Father's Day. Follow the instructions at this site, OwnAPieceOfAmerica.com, to claim a free (one-square-inch) land parcel. Land is available in all 50 states.
FreeWoodPlans.net
Does your Dad enjoy woodworking projects? FreeWoodPlans.net offers thousands of categorized woodworking plans that you can output from your printer. The site also offers tips, tricks, tutorials and more.
Father's Day Digital Postcards
Send Dad a custom digital greeting card at this quality free digital postcards site. AAAPostcards.com has a number of Father's Day-related card images to select from. You can personalize each card with your own message, text, background, music, etc.
JCPenney gift card
Follow the instructions at this site to request a free $500 gift card for retailer JCPenney. You must be 18 or older to request this item. (U.S. only).
Free travel book
Complete the short survey to request a free 92-page book, "151 Travel Tips for Mature Travelers" from Vantage Deluxe World Travel.
FreeValentineScreenSavers.com
Give your desktop a romantic touch with the many Valentine's Day-themed freeware screen savers here. You'll also find free Valentine's Day wallpapers, themes, cards and calendars at this site. (For Windows).
Valentine Cell Phone Freebies
This site offers a fun collection of Valentine-themed freebies for your mobile phone, including screensavers and wallpapers. No registration is required. The site is safe for all ages.
2 free romance novels
Sign up as a member at eHarlequin.com (it's free) and you can then request two free romance books, "Circle of Gold," by Diana Palmer and "The Fall of Maggie Brown," by Anne Stuart. (U.S. and Canada only).
Hearts in Love Screen Saver
Get into the spirit of Valentine's Day (Feb. 14) with this charming freeware screen saver that displays animated 3D hearts that chase each other across your desktop screen. The screen saver offers a password protection option, as well. (For Windows).
Valentine's Day Coloring Pages
This site offers a nice collection of free Valentine-themed coloring pages for children, suitable for outputting on your printer. The site includes pictures that are appropriate for toddlers, as well as for older children.
Mingles.com
Here's a good site to hang out, if you're looking for love, or just a friend. A free service, Mingles.com offers thousands of online personals, as well as a matchmaking service, chat, message boards and more. There's no cost here to contact others, as well as read and reply to E-mail.
ValentinesDayFreebies.com
A marvelous resource for all things free on Valentine's Day (which is Feb. 14). Here, you'll find free Valentine's Day related samples, gifts, contests, games, screen savers, greeting cards, children's freebies and more.
Astroglide sample
Access the "click here for a free sample" link and fill out the form to request a sample of Astroglide, a personal lubricant product. You must be 18 or older to request this item. Allow six weeks for delivery. (U.S. only).
Valentine Screen Savers
Celebrate Valentine's Day with this free collection from freeware screen saver guru Anthony Beaudion. "Looney Tunes Collage Valentine Saver" is a fun program that features 20 images of Tweety, Taz and other Looney Tune characters. There's also "Looney Tunes Valentines," a neat slide show screen saver, as well as the "Be Mine Valentine" screen saver, featuring Bugs and his Space Jam sweetheart. (For Windows).
Free Valentine's Day stationery
Liven up your Valentine's Day E-mail correspondence with the lovely freeware custom stationery at CloudEight Stationery. Here, you'll find a wonderful collection of free Valentine's Day themed stationery for use on Outlook and Outlook Express. Each self-installing package here includes beautiful scrolling backgrounds, and some include music. (For Windows).
Free Valentine Graphics
Working on a Valentine's Day-themed Web page or presentation? Claire Schaeffer's site offers a great roundup of the Web's top Valentine-themed graphics sites. Free images here include hearts, flowers, animations, backgrounds and more. All sites are rated and reviewed.
TheHolidaySpot.com
A good destination for all things Valentine-related, this site offers a number of freebies: virtual greetings, desktop wallpaper, games and more. You'll also find Valentine-related recipes, gift ideas and poems.
Free Dating Service
This is a good starting point for anyone in search of a date. This site rounds up and reviews various free singles' sites from across the Web. Here, you'll also find an online dating guide, tips, articles, a free newsletter and more.
MatchDoctor.com
A popular dating and personal ads site, MatchDoctor.com is easy and fun to use and the site doesn't pester you with popup ad clutter, unlike many similar sites. At this free site, you can post your profile, search a big database, send E-mails, and chat with other members. You must be at least 18 to register.
Valentine MyCorkboard Screen Saver
The makers of the wonderful MyCorkboard screen saver are offering a free Valentine's Day-themed module for their popular program. MyCorkboard (which is also free) is like a bulletin board for your computer, onto which you can place any one of a number of cool objects, such as a clock, a calendar, memo pads, graphics, various gizmos, pranks and much more. (For Windows). Note: you must register to use MyCorkboard more than 10 days--but registering is free, too.
Valentine Desktop Themes
A marvelous resource for free Valentine's Day themed desktop themes. There are dozens of titles to choose from, to give your desktop (or your sweetheart's desktop) a romantic makeover. New themes are added here daily.
Valentine Radiocards
This is a unique free virtual postcard service that offers a nice selection of Valentine-themed greetings. Here, you can customize your card with an image and your personal greeting, as well as a live streaming radio station selection. Images include roses, sunsets, puppies, kittens and more.
Valentine Screen Savers
One of our favorite resources on the Web for free Valentine's Day screen savers. This site offers dozens of lovely screen savers and more titles are added each day.
The Love Calculator
This freeware program enables you to "calculate the possibility of a successful relationship between two people," it says here. (For Windows and Macs).
DownHoax
This nifty, free prank program makes it realistically appear as though an unwanted file is being downloaded from the Net. DownHoax randomly chooses a site from its internal database of undesirables, and proceeds to simulate downloading an equally distasteful file. Supports both Netscape and Internet Explorer. (For Windows).
Error95 Joke Program
This freeware program is a must-have gag for pranksters. Error95 generates customizable fake error messages for Microsoft Windows. Drive your computer buddies crazy! (For Windows).
Prank Calls Unlimited
This site offers a collection of free, prank phone calls. You'll also find a wild collection of free sound effects and other gags.
Cursor Fun
Here's a fun, freeware program that randomly changes the appearance of the mouse cursor. It allows you to choose which cursor to change, what type of cursor to change it to, and how often you'd like to swap the cursor. Cursor Fun is great for playing a trick on an unsuspecting user, or for those who get bored easily with their desktop. (For Windows).
April Fools' Day Graphics
Claire Schaeffer's site offers a nice roundup of the Web's top April Fools' Day-themed graphics sites. Free images here include joke animations, fun matching sets, humorous Windows splash screens and more. All sites are rated and reviewed.
HeadAche
This freeware prank program lives up to its name. That is: it'll definitely give you a headache. Be sure to view the disclaimer before viewing. You may also send HeadAche as a postcard. (For Windows).
April Fools' Day Cards
All-yours.net offers a fun, colorful collection of free April Fools' Day-themed greeting cards. You can customize your card here with animation effects, as well as April Fools' themed sounds.
Fake Format
Drive your friends(?) insane with this cruel prank program. Fake Format is a free utility that when executed, gives the appearance that your hard drive is being formated. Your victim will be unable to stop or close this clever, realistic program. It even creates hard drive noise while it is formatting. (For Windows).
Random Wallpaper Changer
This free utility randomly switches your Windows desktop wallpaper at any interval that you select. It's a stealth program (meaning that it can't be detected). Good either as a prank or if you'd just like to have a new wallpaper automatically displayed, from time to time. (For Windows).
The Finger Prank
Launch this free prank program on your unsuspecting victim and watch their reaction when the Windows cursor changes to a rude gesture that involves the middle finger! By default, this program will switch the standard cursor to a finger every five seconds, but you can configure how often the cursor will change. (For Windows).
Program/WAV Launcher
This free, sneaky gag program offers all kinds of possibilities for driving your buddies bananas. It's a hidden program launcher that'll execute a specified program or .WAV file at intervals that you choose. You can specify when the program or sound file will be launched, as well as how often it'll be launched. Fun! (For Windows).
Crazy Num-Caps-Scroll gag program
I know from personal experience that this prank program can drive someone crazy! This free utility will toggle the Num Lock or Scroll Lock keys at intervals that you can specify. You can set up which keys to toggle and how often they'll be toggled. New version includes command line support for Num, Caps and Scroll Lock. (For Windows).
Clickme
Install this free joke program and it displays a button on the desktop. When your prank victim moves their mouse to click on the button, it moves elsewhere! Lots of fun. (For Windows).
Fake Delete
A perfect gag for April Fools' Day, this exceedingly cruel, freeware prank program simulates the deletion of all files and folders in your victim's Windows directory. The program's action looks very real, and even experienced users will be unable to detect or stop it. You can select the directory to be deleted. This new version features the added realism of hard drive noise! (For Windows).
Fake Windows Start Menu
Here's another free gag program to play on a computer user. This is a fake Windows Start Menu that won't respond to the user. It actually takes away the users' Start Menu and puts this one in its place. Very realistic. (For Windows).
Mother's Day Screen Savers
Celebrate Mom's special day with the fine collection of freeware screen savers at this site. Selections here include "All About Love," "Happy Mother's Day Teddy Bear" and "Woman Especially for Her," which features raindrop effects. From T&P SC Screen Savers . (For Windows).
Free Mother's Day Graphics
Looking for some free Mother's Day themed graphics for your Web site, presentation or greeting card? This is the place to go. Each resource is reviewed and rated. From free clipart to animations to graphics sets to backgrounds, you'll find it here. From Claire Schaeffer's FreeGraphics.com site.
Mother's Day stationery
You can add a nice touch to your Mother's Day E-mail correspondence with the free custom stationery at CloudEight Stationery. Here, you'll find a nice collection of free Mother's Day-themed stationery for use with Outlook and Outlook Express. Each self-installing package here includes nice scrolling backgrounds, and some include music. (For Windows).
Free romance novels
Sign up as a member at eHarlequin.com (it's free) and you can then request two free romance books, "Circle of Gold," by Diana Palmer and "The Fall of Maggie Brown," by Anne Stuart. (U.S. and Canada only).
Mother's Day themes
AAAThemes.com, a popular desktop themes resource, offers a nice selection of free Mother's Day themes, as well as thousands of themes in other categories.
Free Mother's Day Postcards
Here, you'll find a charming collection of free digital cards for Mother's Day. Just browse the thumbnail images until you find the card you want, then personalize it with your message and send it on its way.