articles about free software
A review of two free (open-source) and portable alternatives to Team Viewer. I’m pretty sure almost everyone would be aware of TeamViewer which is free for personal use and the most popular remote access software on the planet. However, here are two free (open-source) and […]
Start Everywhere is a free & portable Start Menu alternative that can be run either as a replacement for the Windows native Start Menu or as well as. Start Everywhere is highly customizable, both in terms of display and content, and can be set to
This is part 1 of a 3-part review. Make sure to check out all 3 parts for the full review. Part 1 – Hasleo Intro And Backup Features With the announcement of Macrium Reflect free being retired, I decided to take a closer look at
Most of you will be well aware of the Ashampoo software company which distributes a wide range of excellent products. Ashampoo has built a solid reputation over many years for providing quality software. Now, the company has released a free software client called “Connect” which
Ventoy is a free and open-source tool to create multi-boot flash drives. Ventoy creates a very small boot partition leaving the remainder of the flash drive’s space free to accommodate multiple ISOs. You can add as many ISOs as you wish, only limited by the
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Macrium Reflect is popular imaging/backup software that has been available in free and commercial editions. However, the parent company, Paramount Software, has recently announced that the Macrium Reflect Free version will be retired as of 1st January 2024. The current free version (v8) is the
PicPick is a top-notch free screen capture tool and my number one recommendation. PicPick comes with a comprehensive range of features including all required capture profiles, a built-in image editor that is so feature-rich it could easily match standalone dedicated image editing freeware, a unique
The latest version 7.0 of PicPick was recently released and includes an improved capture interface, some improvements, and new functionality – specifically, a new delayed capture function. PicPick is a free for personal use screen capture tool. PicPick’s capture options include full-screen, active window, scrolling
MAME – Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, according to their website: “MAME’s purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important “vintage” software from being lost and forgotten. … so MAME now documents a wide variety
ExplorerPatcher is an open-source freeware tool that provides many options to change Windows 11’s behavior so it looks and behaves more like Windows 10, including options to place the Taskbar at any of the four locations on the screen and change to a Windows 10
System file corruptions in Windows are quite common and can cause all sorts of weird behavior. Don’t ask me how they happen because I have no idea – I only know they do happen. It might have something to do with the 50- 60 million
Many of you will remember Winamp, the extremely popular free media player. The original Winamp was first released in 1997 with development discontinued in 2013. However, in 2018 a new version of Winamp was leaked online with developers subsequently announcing they were indeed continuing to
This is what’s known as a lazy writer’s article. No, not really. I was thinking about all the articles I’ve written about freeware over the years, particularly the reviews, and what a shame it is that they are now buried in the DCT archives. So,
It’s been quite some time since a new and innovative freeware program has been released. I remember, many moons ago when Sandboxie was first released and terms such as “sandbox” and “isolation technique” were akin to a foreign language for many. These days, of course,
