Freebies and free-shipping deals, from Amazon shipping changes to free software and icons.
After four and a half years, Amazon appears to be ending its free AmazonGlobal Saver Shipping to Singapore. Items I bought during Black Friday 2017 that qualified no longer do, signalling the end of the popular program.
Amazon offers free shipping to Singapore through its AmazonGlobal Saver programme, provided your order tops US$125 and every item qualifies. If even one item doesn't qualify, the whole order misses out, so here I round up LEGO sets that qualify.
Amazon now ships to Singapore for free on orders above US$125, through its new AmazonGlobal Saver Shipping initiative. The free shipping covers India and Singapore when your order includes at least US$125 of qualifying merchandise, excluding the Import Fees Deposit.
Adobe Creative Suite 2, released on 2nd April 2005, is now free, downloadable from the official Adobe CS2 Download Page. Note that the Mac version won't run on current Intel-based Macs, as it was built for Power PC machines.
Andrey Kem emailed asking whether my plugins needed custom icons, having noticed since 2003 that they use the famfamfam set. She's building what she calls the world's biggest free icon set, eventually 3,926 icons, with around 1,400 ready so far.