Dropbox announced an update to its Android app on Friday that automatically syncs a user’s photos on the phone. A complementary update to the desktop app also auto-syncs photos stored on cameras or SD cards. The service will be added to Apple’s iOS soon, Dropbox said. On Android, the photo-upload function mirrors one already built […]
Software Pick: Ninite
The software pick of the week for this week is Ninite. Ninite is a free online service that automatically installs some of the top freeware on your computer with no bloatware, no toolbars or other options and without any intervention on your part. You simply go to the Ninite site, choose your software and run […]
Freeware Pick: Fresh UI
Fresh UI is a new solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings in Windows XP/NT/2000/9x/Me, this software covers customizing and optimizing techniques such as Customizing Windows User Interface (UI) Optimizing system settings Hardware settings Customizing Windows application settings Control user environment with policies. Fresh UI is organized by […]
Freeware Pick: Defraggler
Today’s freeware pick is defraggler. Use Defraggler to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files – unique in the industry. This compact and portable Windows application supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems. Operating System: Windows XP,Windows Vista,Windows Server 2003,Windows 7 Defraggler defragments your hard drive, and it offers some features that the defragmentation utility […]
Freeware Pic: Go oo
Go-OO is a fork of OpenOffice that has quite a few impressive features which really ought to be in official OO, but for some reason or another aren´t, such as support for OpenXML, better Microsoft Binary support, Excel VBA macros, Visio diagrams and Word Perfect Graphics support
Freeware Pick: BlackSheep
The news has been full of doom and gloom over the Firesheep plugin that allows people to snoop on computers in public hotspots. Free Wi-Fi hotspots are convenient, but come with increased security risks as well. Another Firefox plug-in called BlackSheep was developed as a Firesheep alarm. It won’t secure your wireless data, and it […]
Freeware Pick: Disk Investigator 1.5
Disk Investigator helps you to discover all that is hidden on your computer hard disk. It can also help you to recover lost data. Display the true drive contents by bypassing the operating system and directly reading the raw drive sectors. View and search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors. Verify the effectiveness of […]
Freeware Pick
FastStone Image Viewer Version: 4.0 File Size: 4619 License: Free Operating System: Windows XP,Windows Vista,Windows 7 FastStone Image Viewer displays pictures lightning-fast and lets you browse through them–but it does much more than that. You can crop, rotate, and resize pictures, and create slide shows. The program also converts images between several different file formats. […]
The Best Windows 7 Downloads from PCWorld
The Best Windows 7 Downloads We’re big fans of Microsoft’s latest OS, but we’re bigger fans of making Windows better–so we’ve rounded up the best Windows 7 downloads. They’ll let you customize it in any way possible, give it features that Microsoft removed or neglected to include, and more. So get ready to download–you’re about […]
Freeware Pick: Microsoft Security Essentials
Never pay for antivirus again. Microsoft has come up with a fantastic antivirus utility that is free, small, and just works well. Pretty amazing from Microsoft. The standalone antivirus product Microsoft Security Essentials has caused a stir, as might be expected when the words "Microsoft" and "free" are involved. We have tested the final product, […]