articles about free software
“A rootkit is a stealthy type of software, designed to hide the existence of certain processes or programs from normal methods of detection and enable continued privileged access to a computer.” <ex Wikipedia> Rootkits can be very difficult to identify and eradicate, and represent one […]
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Easily Find Duplicate Images Do you have tons of images stashed away on your computer? How many are duplicate images or very similar to each other? Here’s a very simple way to find out, and relieve yourself and your computer of some of that clutter
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Pretty Photo is the latest offering from the Toolwiz team of developers and represents their initial foray into image editing software. With flagship products Toolwiz Care and Time Freeze enjoying wide popularity and universally favorable reviews,Toolwiz has quickly established a reputation for producing very good
Toolwiz Pretty Photo: image editor/collage maker review Read More »
Right-Click Menu I have written several articles over the years about changing the right-click menu. These have usually involved editing the Windows Registry in some way. Truth be told, many people are justifiably nervous about hacking into the Registry. If you are one of those
The Right-Click Menu Made Easy Read More »
I am a self-confessed movie buff. Fortunately, so is my lovely better half. I’m always on the lookout for half decent DVD authoring software, free of course! There aren’t too many around which fit the bill… the freeware offerings always seem to involve one issue
DVDAuthorPlus: Test and Review Read More »
Just over a week ago I published an article on how to Increase your browsing security easily and effectively. Co-incidentally, I just came across a very simple yet useful add-on for the Firefox browser which also helps in this regard. I am guessing Flagfox is
Flagfox: Add-on provides extra security for Firefox Read More »
There are certain types of software that fall easily into the ‘essential’ category, those products which we just cannot do without. PDF readers (or viewers) fall squarely into this domain. PDF (Portable Document Format) has become the standard utilized in a myriad online distribution models;
PDF Readers: 6 alternatives to Adobe and how they stack up Read More »
Last week I published a Review of System Explorer, an alternative task/process manager. At the end of the article I promised to follow up with a review for the developer’s other freeware, System Security Guard… well here it is: System Security Guard takes the ‘security
System Security Guard: process checker/monitor Read More »
We’ve all used Windows Task Manager at some time or the other, and for one reason or another… well most of us have anyway. System Explorer is a freeware application which expands hugely on Task Manager’s basic premise, providing you with much more usable information…
Review: System Explorer – security-minded task/process manager Read More »
Backup Your Browser Profiles These days it is important to back up your browser profiles and settings. Internet browsers are becoming the go-to programs these days for accomplishing most everything. We use them to access our bank accounts, create and edit our web sites, backup
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Do you find yourself often needing the little accents and doo-dads which appear above certain letters in certain words, maybe in your writing, posts or emails? Would you like to be able to easily put the é into your elan, the à into your voila,
Input special characters easily with ‘Holdkey’ Read More »
CheckDiskGUI – A One-Click Disk Check (almost) The native Windows ChkDsk tool is not very user-friendly. It involves several mouse-clicks to check each hard drive for errors, bad sectors, and other integrity issues. This is fine if you only have a few drives/partitions to deal
A One-Click Disk Check Tool for Windows – CheckDiskGUI Read More »
In my job as a Network Administrator, I’m constantly called upon to reset passwords to email, network shares and sensitive corporate resources. Up to now, it has been my standard procedure to transmit passwords and other login information only by phone, but this is tedious
Send sensitive information to anyone securely Read More »
For those who may not be familiar with the name; Puran Software was founded in India 5 years ago and has quickly established a solid reputation compliments of its very good Puran Defrag freeware. Now Puran Software has released a suite of 22 freeware maintenance
Puran Utilities: Suite of 20+ maintenance tools Read More »
