Freeware Reviews

What is FreeWare?

I can't always offer you true freeware, but if it's got strings attached, I'll generally tell you what they are.

If you have a favorite free program you don't see below, maybe you can write your own review of it.

Recent (unfiled) reviews

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SaveIt - Locking Programs and Files with a password •
Driver Backup2 - free portable Windows Drivers backup and restore •
PicPick - great free portable screenshot capture •
Recuva - undelete and recover files •
PagePlus SE - alternative to MS Publisher •

COOL
World Golf Tour - lifelike free online flash game •
Views from the Hubble Telescope set to music •
Beware Of The Doghouse - don't give lame gifts •


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bLADE wiki - another great desktop wiki for quick notes •
VDownloader - search, download and convert videos •
Easy Unicode Paster - adding exotic characters to a page •
WinSonar - protection against unknown programs •
Windows Vulnerability Scanner - may not be useful for the average user •
AnVir Task Manager - replace Windows task manager •
Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel - mount ISO files as virtual CDs •

FEEDBACK
Gmail Has Themes •
Backup Your Gmail Account •
GMail Drive - set up multiple free hard drives online •

COOL
The Dutch Jewel - great organized list of freeware •
Turkey Day Video •
Shoplifting Seagull Video •


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ThinkFree Office - MS Office compatible and 1Gb of free document hosting •
A First Look at OpenOffice 3 •
Portable Safari - take your Safari browser on the road •
Opera@USB - use browser, emails, addresses, anytime, anywhere •
Notebook - free portable wiki style notebook •
Note Mania - sticky notes, calendar and reminders on your desktop •
RadarSync 2009 - do your drivers need updated? •

FEEDBACK
Flash Security and Privacy Settings Panel •

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WebNotes - create unique web pages with no registration •
rssfwd.com - turn RSS feeds into email •
NapSounds.com - take a 20 minute nap to sounds from the net •


REVIEW
Seagate DiscWizard - is it a free copy of Acronis True Image? •
RemoteKeys - hundreds of Windows automation commands •
AutoClip - retrieve text clips a few keystrokes •
QuickPaste - save text clippings as short links •
Screenshot Captor - is this the best screenshot tool? •
QeepIt - nice little text based PIM •
Zune Theme for XP - free Windows theme installer •
Billeo - assisting with shopping, billing and passwords •

FEEDBACK
Where are the Best Free Fonts? •

COOL
Mothers of the Year •
Clif Notes For President •


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IE Application Compatibility Images - virtual machines running XP •
Some of the best free Screensavers •
MobaLiveCD - Runs Linux Live CDs Inside Windows •
WinMD5Sum - checking to make sure you have a good copy •
Everything - light and fast indexed file search •
MediaCoder - free Open Source audio converter and extractor •

FEEDBACK
How to Install and Configure TrueCrypt Disk Encryption •

COOL
Dreams of flying come true •
LibriVox - making public domain books into audio books •
Splicd.com - cutting up YouTube your way •


REVIEWS
HowManyBrowsersDoYouHaveInstalled •
Ewido Antispyware Micro Scanner •
Sophos Anti-Rootkit - easy to use scanner •
Download Statusbar - Firefox addon for those who love downloading •
KeyMaker - another fine way to make safer passwords •
Lastpass - you don't have to remember more than one password •
Snowbird Search - finds files very fast •

FEEDBACK
Windiz Update - the Firefox alternative to Windows Update •
Epidemic of fake anti-malware threatens Internet users •

COOL
Tag Galaxy - a whole universe of images •
Mohawke's Best of the Best Free and Open Source Software Collection •


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Javascript password generator - don't use the same password everywhere •
Stickies - your desktop Post-It® notes •
Hyperwords - take this off of your list of things to do •
Chromifox - add the Chrome browser look to Firefox •
QuickTime Alternative - put Apple's bloatware on a diet •
taskTome - a competent and intuitive task organizer •

FEEDBACK
Abbott and Costello - An Office With Windows •

COOL
Dropbox - 2 Gigs of free space for backups and sharing •
Google Earth Videos - amazing things you can see from space •


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Google Chrome - did you ask for a new web browser? •
Revo Uninstaller - sure beats Add/Remove •
Google Updates Picasa and Picasa Web Albums •
JavaRa - removing old Java versions •
SafeSpace - some protection from surfing with sharks •

FEEDBACK
Adding Applications to the Lupo PenSuite •
How_to_Access_Free_Windows_Live_Hotmail_in_Windows_Mail •

COOL
Take the Jung Typology Test - what kind of person are you? •
Play with a live spider? •


REVIEW
F-Secure BlackLight Rootkit Eliminator - be sure you are clean •
WinPatrol Flash Edition - protect any PC in a flash •
CleanUp! - flushing out the useless files •
Johnny's Freeware Mission - running a freeware computer •
OpenWide - enlarge your open and save dialog boxes •

FEEDBACK
WOT says PC Doc Pro Lies •
Why does Google want to Free The Airwaves? •
Internet Fixes - Kids And Computers •

COOL
Bedtime For Puppies - sing'em to sleep •


REVIEW
Folder Guide - a guide to your favorite folders •
Graptxt - copy text from Windows dialogs •
Mp3tag - a great tool for tweaking MP3 tags •
LogMeIn - is their free service any good? •
Remobo: VPN, Chat, Filesharing, Remote Control All-In-One! •
Styler - Style The Windows Explorer Toolbar Your Way •
Anti-Malware Toolkit Keeps Your Arsenal Up-To-Date - but do you need it? •

FEEDBACK
Making Internet Explorer Safer - tutorial from bleepingcomputer •
50+ Free Online Photo Tools •
The Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites from PC Magazine •

COOL
EvaPhone - free VOIP phone in your web browser •
Drop.io - my new favorite free file exchange •
Windows Live SkyDrive - 5Gb of free file space in the cloud •
Abandonia - abandoned software and games, resurrected and alive again •
KickNotes - free self-destructing emails for any reason •

GParted - free open source partition manager •
Zoundry Raven - portable blog post editor •
Malware Bytes Anti-Malware - good anti-spyware and trojan scanner •
Switch Audio File Converter •

FEEDBACK
Free Tools To Keep Your Software Up To Date •

COOL
WriteToMyBlog.com - online blog post and HTML editor •
Google Street View is very nice, now a marriage proposal? •
England's Child Singing Star •


FEEDBACK
Kid Protect your PC using Windows SteadyState •
The Lupo PenSuite of portable applications •
VJPEG - quick and unique image viewer •
Mini-Putt - addictive putt-putt golf online •
Xpy - disable undesired XP settings and services •

REVIEW
How to set up OpenDNS to surf faster and safer •
Goog-411 - another Google great •

COOL
CommandWindows.com - great techie resource •
App-Stick.com - directory of portable freeware •
PicReflect.com and WaterEffect.net - add reflections to images online •
BookMooch.com - exchange books for new reading material •
Giọt Mưa Thu - studying Vietnamese Music •


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IrfanView - my favorite image viewer •
Bug Shooter - nice free screen capture tool •
Mozilla Sunbird and Lightning - best free calendar tools •
Google Calendar - great online calendar for you or your organization •
Desktop Calendar - sits right up front for easy access •
AccelMan - Windows Explorer replacement •
AnVir Task Manager - replace Windows task manager •

FEEDBACK
Johnny's Freeware Mission - running a freeware computer •

COOL
VideoFetcher.com - searching for online videos •
4 Neurons - freeware that's small and useful •


REVIEW
RUBotted - protection against computer bots •
John's Background Switcher - Windows wallpaper complete control •
360 Desktop - a panoramic virtual desktop manager •
SlickRun - shortcuts for getting things done •
Desktop Stress Reliever - destroy your desktop game •
DreamMail4 - A portable e-mail client with full Rich Text support •

FEEDBACK
Is it ok to download pirated software, videos, or music? •

COOL
Where the hell is Matt? •
Hitsquad's free musicware - for the penny pinching musician •


REVIEW
HostsMan - blocking ads and bad web sites is now easier •
ID3 renamer - easily rename all of your MP3 files •
Process Security Manager - detailed information on running processes •
Active@ ISO Burner - a simple and effective CD/DVD image writer •
Kaspersky Rescue Disk beta - remove the really tough viruses •
Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool •
Firefox 3 is here! •
Macrium Reflect - backup using a disk image •
Google Notebook - a clipboard for the web •

FEEDBACK
How to Reinstall Windows XP Without Reformatting •
Security Threats in the Internet's Red Light District •

COOL
Journey's New Lead Singer was chosen on YouTube •


REVIEW
Spicebird - the Outlook alternative •
TeamViewer - remote desktop sharing and conferernces •
Sleipnir Web Browser - fast and customizable •
PrintMaster Express - card, posters, calendars and more •
ViStart - XP start menu replacement looks like Vista •
RadarSync 2008 - scan for programs and drivers that need updated •
Phantasmagoria - transform your images with cool effects •

COOL
Some really fun chalk drawings •
Aionel's Software - games and utilities made in Poland •

REVIEW
Ultra Explorer - the ultimate File Manager? •
Crunzh cmdMail - email from the command line •
xB Browser - easy anonymous surfing •
Mikogo Free Online Meetings •
LemonScreen - just your smile is all you need to login •
SMOz - Start Menu Organizer •

FEEDBACK
Anonymous in the Internet? •
Don't go to Zango •
Musopen - Classical Music Radio Station •

COOL
Konradp.com - some very good freebie apps •
A Faery's Tale - fun scarey video •


REVIEWS
ObjectDock - a better start menu replacement •
K9 Web Protection - free internet filtering for young surfers •
Azulstar Wireless Wizard - gives you more info on WiFi networks •
Streaming Radio Alarm Clock - wake up to your favorite radio station •
IExpress.exe - create self-extracting archives with this XP utility •
SysExporter - extract infromation from any program or window •
LocatePC - Free Theft Recovery Software •

TIPS AND FEEDBACK
Bob's list of Online File Storage and Collaboration Services •
Vulnerability Management for Dummies - free E-book •

COOL WEBSITES
Dirty Car Art - Tip from Tiffany •
Musopen - Free Public Domain Classical Music •
BitDefender Online Scanner - be very careful with this one •

REVIEWS
Sentry Lite - monitor your children or your spouse •
HP Smart Web Printing - organize web clippings before you print •
SS-Tools - free portable security utilities •
An overview of free turn-based strategy and war games •
DriveImage XML - free disk image backup •
GetIcons - scan your hard drive for thousands of icons •

TIPS AND FEEDBACK
List of commercial games released as freeware •

COOL WEBSITES
MediaFire - free file hosting made simple •


REVIEW
Genealogy Freeware - tips from the readers •
Vista Start Menu - replace your tired old start menu •
Index.dat Suite - the hidden truth about Internet Explorer •

REVIEW
Avant Browser - Single handed at it's best •
Unknown Devices - a quick way to find drivers for pci devices •
Technitium MAC Address Changer •
andLinux - running Linux in Windows •
Sebran's ABC - fun learning for children •

FEEDBACK
My journey from Windows to Linux •
Sentry Lite - is it safe to monitor your children? •

COOL
Tell Microsoft you want to Save XP •
The Webware 100 winners - according to Download.com •
Pixel2life - 18,000 tutorials •
The Bee Hive - History •


REVIEW
QuickMonth Calendar - hover over the system tray to see it •
CloneSpy - duplicate file finder and cleaner •
Free Zune Video Converter - save tons of time uploading to Zune •
DesktopZoom - magnify the entire desktop •
Extora - calendar, agenda and note taking software •
Windows Live Contact Importer - upload contacts to Hotmail •

FEEDBACK
Segway's Strange New Robot •
How to find a freeware game •
Screen Capture Shootout for Windows •

COOL
Yanobs Online Notepad - your notepad on the road? •
Ramps Flash Game - so simple and so fun •
Top 50 Open Source Alternatives •
DotWhat - for unknown file extensions •
Wanokoto Labs Image Aging Service •


REVIEW
Browzar - your private web browser? •
Incognito - live CD for anonymous surfing •
Clip2Net - easy way to publish screenshots •
Screen Recordster - capture audio and video from your desktop •
PDF-XChange Viewer - faster than Adobe •

FEEDBACK
List of nice free E-book libraries •
Koma-Mail - A Portable and Useful Email Client •
IdleBackup: Backup your files when you're not doing anything else •
Zoolou - screen magnifier and capture •

COOL
Moor Computer Productions •
Photoshop Express - free photo hosting and image editing •


REVIEW
Netscape Navigator - good bye old friend • Comments (View)
Portable Flock - an easy way to try it out • Comments (View)
Cool MP3 Chopper - chopping up those long mp3s • Comments (View)
Kid Watch • Comments (View)
Sizer - resize active windows to exact specs • Comments (View)

FEEDBACK
Best Firewall for 2008? • Comments (View)
The 13 Best of the Best Free File Hosting Options • Comments (View)
Microsoft Not Sure Of Its Own Future •

COOL
WaveMyPic - Apply the lake effect to your pictures • Comments (View)
Wowio - download free e-books • Comments (View)
WRASAP - free hosted contact form • Comments (View)

REVIEWS
Auslogics Registry Defrag •
Free Video to Flash Converter - simple but powerful•
2008 Planner - realistic looking yearly planner •
Digital Calendar - simple calendar with built in MP3 player •
Flash this - convert WMV, AVI, MPG to SWF or FLV •
Windows XP Security Console•
Office Live Workspace vs Google Docs •
Popuload - RSS feeds to prevent boredom while waiting •

TIPS AND FEEDBACK
10 Tips to Manage Photos Better using Google Picasa •
Sometimes You Have To Dance - video tip from Tiffany •
How To: Maintain A Lean Mean Computing Machine •
How to get into your computer's BIOS •
Earth Hour is coming soon •
Special Hot Air Balloons •

COOL WEBSITES
SendSpace - sending and sharing large files is easy •
Karen's Power Tools •


REVIEWS
3d Room Planners - are better than moving a couch around •
Actual Booster - does it really boost anything? •
Cetus Wordpad - an abandoned wordpad replacement •
Enhance online TV-Watching: Zorro 1.4 •
Wink - easily create your own flash animated tutorials •

TIPS AND FEEDBACK
What's an EFX file and how do I open one? •
What is a winmail.dat file and how do you open it? •
5 Free Screencasting Apps for Creating Video Tutorials •
Top 10 Free Programs to make the most out of your MP3 Collection •

COOL WEBSITES
Graboid - no underground monsters, just full length movies •
Talkster - free long distance? •


REVIEW
HobComment - a better way to add file and folder comments •
Windows Home Server - how to make it work for you •
Pocket K-meleon - web browsing with no install and no tracks left behind •
Offline NT Password & Registry Editor - did you lose your Windows login password? •
DivX Web Player - better videos in your web browser •

FEEDBACK
PC Tips on Security from TopFreeware •
Ten Must-Have Plug-ins to Power Up Pidgin •
Tips from Geert Moernaut - runscanner and lansweeper •

COOL
Tower Bloxx - a simple online game that's fun and challenging •
Free Mac Ware - great site for free OSX stuff •
Gate2Home - your universal keyboard •


REVIEW
jZip - a free WinZip alternative •
TeraCopy - a better copy and move for Windows •
AnnotSX - file annotator shell extension •
SurF - unique Explorer replacement •
VirDir Manager - assign drive letters to folders •
Waluigi World - Mario is missing? •

FEEDBACK
VHS to DVD in Six Steps - online course for you •
Your MySpace Web Browser is Coming •
The Best, Free Alternatives to Nero CD/DVD Burner •

COOL
DizzyWood - virtual play-world for kids •
Learn new languages online: Babbel •
ExtractVideo - download online videos fast •

REVIEW
MediaCoder - free Open Source audio converter and extractor •
Movie Organizer - get your collection organized •
VideoSpin - create your own videos in minutes •
[KantarisMediaPlayer|Kantaris Media Player - open-source alternative to Windows Media Player •
NewsGator FeedDemon 2.6 - the best of both online and on PC •
ComicRack - comic ebook reader and manager •

FEEDBACK
Unlikely Friends •

COOL
Top 10 Anti-Malware Tools •
Freeware Bulletin Board - nice place to browse •


REVIEW
DeepBurner - create usable CDs, not drink coasters •
Kryptonite - helps you learn HTML while you design •
Docx2RTF - convert Office 2007 formats to something you can use •
WinLibre - a collection good freeware with a pick and choose installer •
Google Docs Uploader - now an easy way to take your office docs into Google Docs •

FEEDBACK
Last.fm helps to free the music •
Lifehackers Exclusive Line of Productivity Software •
Redneck Power Windows •

COOL
MeeMix - web radio exactly as you want to hear it •
Verify Email Address - who emailed you, are they real? •
instaSaver - create your own screen savers •


REVIEWS
AllChars - easy addition of special accent characters when writing •
NetSetMan - manage multiple network setups easier •
MooPlayer - small, simple and portable video viewer •
BurnAware - stand aside Nero •
Wavosaur - does some jobs better than Audacity •
Zipeg - see images in your zipped files before you unpack them •
Portal - flash version of a popular game •

TIPS AND FEEDBACK
10 Useful Plugins for Windows Live Writer •
2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Save as PDF or XPS •

COOL WEBSITES
Portable apps at TopFreeware •
Kwout - a brilliant way to quote •


REVIEWS
tinySpell - a tiny spell checker for Windows •
WOT - plugin helps identify bad websites •
Fireflix - a Firefox addon for Flickr •
UltraDefrag - open source Windows defragger •
OperaTor - portable anonymous surfing •
Total Text Container - open source PIM •
Lux - blasting balls of light for a big score •

TIPS AND FEEDBACK
One in five PCs infected with rootkits? •
Lifehacker's 2007 Guide to Free Software and Webapps •
50+ open source or free alternatives to Acrobat •
Process Library updates two free tools •
Firefox can be dangerous if ... •

COOL WEBSITES
Calvin & Hobbes Snow Art Gallery •

REVIEWS
Online Armor - top rated firewall and intrusion prevention •
Prevx CSI Free - a stand-alone malware scanner •
Fire Uploader - Firefox extension for uploading images •
New England Snow Screen Saver •
Flickr Uploadr - fast and easy photo uploads •

TIPS AND FEEDBACK
Creating Photo Slideshow Movies •

COOL WEBSITES
Cownter - see how many surfers are on the same page •
Draw Anywhere - work on group drawings online •


REVIEWS
NexusRadio - streaming audio player and recorder •
ReminderCube - nice calendar and reminder plus much more •
ClipMagic - a good free clipboard manager •
Mozilla Prism - web apps on your desktop •
ProjectForum - free collaboration server on your PC •

TIPS AND FEEDBACK
Download SnagIt & Camtasia for Free •
Vista Will Die in Four Years •
Windows Live Calendar is now available (beta) •
5 Tools to Make Windows XP Look Like Vista •
Yahoo! has new version of Widgets •

COOL WEBSITES
20 Fantastic Open Source Downloads •
DVDVideoSoft - full of free video software •


REVIEWS
EasyCapture - screenshots with great editing options •
GoogleHacks - collection of handy file search tools •
SandBoxie - nagging and auto-starts now a problem •
Miro - The only video player you need? •
Better Gmail 2 - even better for heavy Gmail users •
Free Music Zilla - download tunes from social services •

TIPS AND FEEDBACK
3 Excellent Sites to Get Free Document Templates •
The 5 best, free tools to remove junk files •

COOL WEBSITES
Lala.com - a place to grow your music •
Songza - free streaming music with a nice interface •
StartForce - web desktops that look and feel like Windows •


REVIEWS

CA Internet Security Suite 2007 - free offer for RoadRunner customers •
PC Tools Firewall Plus - free edition •
BitDefender Free Edition - antivirus scanner •
NeoCrypt - Encryption solution •
QT TabBar - useful and cool Explorer add-on •
HobComment Explorer Extension - comments a file from the right click menu •
Clickster - search and download MP3 files •

TIPS AND FEEDBACK
Rebuild Your Mac with 20 Useful Downloads •
Flock is somebody's favorite browser •

COOL WEBSITES
Odeo - subscribe and listen to PODcasts on your PC or MP3 player •
Downloadpedia.org - great download lists •
Words and Phrases that Should Exist but Probably Don't •
Senduit — Quick One-Time File Sharing •


REVIEW
trakAxPC - multimedia creation tool •
Shock 4Way 3D - 4 virtual desktops •
Poster Forge - free fun with posters •
Hott Notes 4 - easy desktop sticky notes •
WinInizio PenSuite - choice collection of portable apps •
QeepIt - nice little text based PIM •
Gios PDF Splitter And Merger •
Gadwin PrintScreen - screen capture utility •
FEBE - backing up all of your Firefox addons and settings •

FEEDBACK
Watching your video downloads on TV •
Adding Comments To Your Files •

COOL
Make Use Of - Free Non-Crappy Web and Mobile Apps •
Make Windows Invincible •
Here's some total Momsense - video •

REVIEWS
Doctor Spyware Cleaner - too new to have an opinion •
SiteAdvisor - privacy policy change •
Flikr Foldr Monitr •
Cookie Monster - it will eat cookies you don't want •
RamBooster - "out of resources" no more •