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Hi everybody,

Except books, magazines are always the very good sources of knowledge, I believe that many of you are loyal readers of eWeek, SD Times, Electronic Gaming Monthly, CIO Insight, Dr Dobb 's Journal … etc. KnowFree 's contributors are contributing a lot of them, but it seems not to be enough. 

Recently, I have receive a offer from a partner to provide KnowFree 's visitors hundred kinds of magazines for free. I mean they are really free, you just put your email in the box, answer a few questions ( I tried, and I am sure that it won't take you more than 5 minutes) then start receiving your favorites magazines directly to your mail box. I think that it is still one of advertising kinds, but they are providing really good things, without credit card or trial period as I had experienced before.

"It's worth it to them to give you the magazine free because you have a genuine need for the information and products described therein. Advertisers need a vehicle to deliver their message to you which justifies spending advertising dollars to give subscriptions for free."

So, let start with SD Times, one of my favorite one. Or you can browse hundreds of other kinds HERE

Hi everyone,

Currently, I am processing some developement on KnowFree, for both functions and appearance. The new lay out, as you could notice, has been not changed much. I just improve the old one, make it more clear and clean. About functionality, I am adding some more features, which will be released and announce officially in a very near future.

In this progress, I really need your help. As usual, I am still the only one on this project. Then, I can't check everything carefully. So, if you find some thing strange or wrong please post the comment below this article. I will try to fix them.

Thank you very much.

Best Regards

Hi, everybody !

KnowFree.net has been established nearly a year. At the outset, it is just my hobby to share some interesting ebooks, then the site is growing bigger and bigger.  Actually, I had the wish to improve KnowFree.net for a long time ago. The problem is that I am just an amateur at programming(I am doing a Bachelor of Commerce), and only me could not develop a complete system even I have some useful experiences at PHP, Javascsript and xHTML/CSS. As the result, you could see that, KnowFree is messy, contain many bugs, and somehow not really user friendly.

Someday ago, I was very surprising and happy when receiving a kind suggestion from Aiko to help me improve the site. He such a kind person, he just want to make KnowFree better and more useful to everybody. Then, we have some discussions and preparations to the project. We are planning and make a schedule to improve the core of KnowFree, make it easier, more powerful and more flexible to everyone. You could take a look a something is going on here.

Till now, there are only two member in this project, me and Aiko. I wonder that whether or not I can find any help from KnowFree members. I guess that there are  a lot of talent guys, who own wonderful computing skills, in our community (or I am wrong ?). So, if you only spend about one or two hours to help us, we are really grateful. At the moment, we are doing on BaseCamp, it is very convenience and flexible for an international team work.We are doing things related to Ajax, Javascript, MySQL and PHP, however anyone, who want to join, you are more than welcome.

Finally, the reward is that your names will be remembered  by at least 80000 members of KnowFree.net (the exact number is 85707), we could make more friends, develop skills about web programming, team works and developing  a community.

Thank you very much

Mr.Blue

P/S: At this moment, I have a small trouble with the mail system, and the contact form may not be used, so you can leave your comments here or send me private messages via the forum (my nickname is Mr.Blue). 

Hi everybody,

You may aware of the downtime of KnowFree.net recently. The reason is that  I have changed the server, the old one is nearly overloaded with the big number of visits daily. I hope this is better for now.

Also, two important bugs were fixed:

1. Can't be accessed in Opera

2. Private Message in the Fourm doesn't work

Regards

Mr.Blue

As you may known, our forum has just been opened ,and till this moment we have 3 very enthusiastic moderators:

1. ilcfloran will take care Networking section

2. lovepc will take care Programming section

3. aiko.onedan  will take care Design section

They are working so hard to support our community. So, why you still stand out of the game ? Let join now .

My goal is that we could establish a group, and develop our community as well as our site better and better. Moreover, I hope that we could use the knowledge from books on this site to build some kinds of open source or free applications or some non-profit projects for the community ( I am still thinking of this idea, but not find any out-standing idea yet ).

Thanks for visiting and joining this site.