Freeware Reviews

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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

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 •
Essential PIM - managing your personal info •
WinSplit Revolution •

TIPS AND FEEDBACK
What is the best free iPod manager? •
List of Freeware Anti-Keyloggers •

COOL WEBSITES
Building Stonehenge - Michigan man solves the mystery •
I see giraffes •
SlideShare - is like YouTube for slide presentations •
Superb Photos - a great slideshow •
More than 100 Web 2.0 Online Generators •


reviews
Lotus Symphony - the new kid in free office suites •
Open Office - MS Office alternative •
WinAmp - multimedia player to the max •
GemSwap - a free clone of Bejeweled •
Firefox Wonder Edition •
ThreatFire - protection against zero-day threats •

tips and feedback
How to clean an LCD screen •
One last word on security - from Bill Webb •
Microsoft creates more nightmares for itself •

cool websites
micado - create reusable multiple choice exams on-line •
Encyclopedia Mythica - the myth lives on •
Survival Against All Odds •
Google Presentation - web enabled Power Point clone •


Reviews
Is Trend Micro's HijackThis Spyware? •
WinTabber - Tab your terminal, shell, browser or favorite application •
Knytt Stories - sequels can be better •

Cool Websites
VirusTotal - upload a file for an online virus test •
Docufarm - find and view uploaded documents •
Contactify - don't post your email address, post a link instead•
Goodbye Pidgeons - a unique solution •
Homemade Rube Goldberg Contraption •


REVIEWS
Yodm 3D - cool virtual desktop manager •
Spybot Search and Destroy - malware scanner and remover •
Stellarium - a star could be in your future •
DownloadHelper - to download streaming video, and more •
TC Spy - is it good at catching spyware? •
PeaZip - portable compressed file utility •
Photo to Sketch v3.5 Standard Edition •
AutoPatcher killed by Microsoft •
Miro - The only video player you need? •

TIPS AND FEEDBACK
Sincerely Annoyed with Windows Vista •
Firefox Email Help •
10 Must Have Online Office Applications •
Online Applications for Students •
Google Earth's Flight Simulator •
Smart Image Resizing •

COOL WEBSITES
The Best of Hubble Images •
Gorilla Rock •
Conversion Central - find out how to convert almost anything •
Comparing Media Players - how many do you know about? •
Karen's Power Tools •
SkreemR - finding favorite MP3s and more •


REVIEWS
Flightsimx web game - paper airplanes •
FileMenu Tools - lord of the right click menu •

TIPS AND FEEDBACK
Search FreewareArena - most respected •
Search Snapfiles Freeware - best organized and best comments •
Search NoNags Freeware - great selection •
Search alt.comp.freeware - advice and new finds •
Block all bad sites - where is this program at? •


Review
WinPatrol - puts you back in control of your PC •
HijackThis - free analysis tool helps identify malware •
Alcohol 52% - 6 virtual CDs on your PC •
Google Pack adds some real treats •
Secunia Personal Software Inspector •
Anim8tor free animation studio •

Tip
Gtalk has group chat feature? •
Did you know Opera has widgets? •
The Tale of The Killer Biscuits •

Cool
Perpetual Motion Found - an endless energy source? •
Scam Warners website •


Review
TrendProtect - new protection from bad search results •
Tidy Start Menu - a quick way to organize your programs •
Snowbird Search - finds files very fast •
Solway's Internet TV and Radio Player •

Cool
GetHuman.com - contact real people •


Reviews
QuickTime Alternative - put Apple's bloatware on a diet •
Passion Audio Player - audio that gives you chills •
ClearProg - clearing your tracks •
Internet Window Washer - erase your surfing histories •
A-Squared Anti-Dialer - gives bad dialers the busy signal •
Stick - add personal tabs to your desktop •
Raptor - save your eggs •

Tips
What free software do you need? •
Returnil Virtual System Personal Edition •

Cool Websites
GCAst - create your own podcast station •
Game Giveaway of the Day •
DonationCoder Newsletter - awesome •


Review
Plasma Pong - a new twist on the oldest video game •
TubeSucker - a unique way to snag and play videos •
Unplug - download the hidden media on web pages •
YouRipper - download videos or listen to Shoutcast music •
SyncToy - Folder Sychronization Tool •
Chromium B.S.U. - fast paced space shooter •

Tip
Startup Monitor - an old solution for unexpected startups •
What are M4A files? •

Cool
The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows! •
Laughing Girl - she watched last week's video •
Eagle VS Fox - who wins? •
Starship Groove - computer animated music •


REVIEWS
Ad-Aware 2007 - new look but no major improvements •
Safari 3 beta - Apple's new web browser for Windows •
Opera 9.21 USB - excellent portable browser •
JkDefrag - a unique and handy defrag tool •
MessenPass - getting lost IM passwords from your PC •
Free WMA to MP3 Converter - as simple as it sounds •
Word Processor Review from Zaine at Donation Coder •

TIPS AND FEEDBACK
The Quintessential Guide to Creating High Quality MP3s •
Why DRM Doesn't Work •
Dad at the Comedy Barn •

COOL WEBSITES
Vista-Themes.net - free themes, icons and wallpapers •
WebRide - discuss the web •


Review
Living Screensavers - pretty, simple and free •
ScribeFire - a better blog tool for Firefox •
Accenter - for help with accented text •
Better Gmail - shortcuts, skins and more •
Meebo Rooms - Meebo adds chat rooms •
Securemaker - the death of All-in-One Secretmaker •

Tip
Easy Money in your Mail - NOT! •
McAfee reports on Web security •

Cool
Txt2HTML - free help publishing text online •

Reviews
Torpark - surfing the net in anonymity •
Gom Player - Simple, Free & Light multimedia player •
ZenKEY - shortcuts and macros for Windows •
StickWiki - a portable wiki to help you manage info •
Intercept - stop the mother ship or die •
Mr. Blocko - tetris with a cool twist •
Parental Control Bar •

Tips and Feedback
How do I copy an entire web page? •
Can a snake lift a cow? •

Cool Websites
Play Ogg - free yourself from MP3 •
Jewel - an online game similar to Bejeweled •


REVIEWS
BackRex Internet Explorer Backup •
DLL Archive - another great tool from AnalogX •
SuperEdi - super text editor •
Free Spider 2005 Solitaire Collection - free and hard to beat •
AviScreen Classic - capture your own desktop movies •
DVD Flick - burn your video files to DVD •

TIPS AND FEEDBACK
Terry recommends Open Office software •
Save Internet Radio - part two •

COOL WEBSITES
Security Advisor Glossary - great resource when you need it •
Free Web Hosting - search for free website providers •
Spammer Alert - a community fighting spam •

IE7Pro - add-ons for IE7 that you might love •
Wakoopa - a social network of software geeks •
db4 Font Viewer - fast, small and handy •
Comic Life - make your home photos into a cartoon •
PhotoWipe - removing objects from an image •
ZippyLock - secure password manager •

The war over Vista certification •
What are BotNets? •

Learn Firefox - A Visual Guide to the Firefox Web Browser •
Ubuntu Unleashed - an online how-to book •

ShellExView - master the right click menu •
Tales Animator - make your own cartoons •
LimeWire - great file sharing application •
The IM Client Formerly Known As GAIM •
PasswordSafe - open source password manager •
Clipperz - keep it to yourself •
FastStone Image Viewer - better than IrfanView? •
G.ho.st - online virtual PC •
Aggrega - online music videos •
Neave.TV - a very cool way to watch videos •


YackPack - voice chat at PBwiki.com •
XP SysPad - Editor's pick at Freeware Arena •
Wubi - the easiest way to Linux? •
KompoZer - A Freeware WYSIWYG Editor •
ZipGenius 6 - great archiving tool •
XSPF Web Music Player - more goodness from Source Forge •
Clickster - search and download MP3 files • ;

The fastest way to defragment your hard drive •
Disable Taskbar Grouping in XP and Vista •
How to backup your Gmail account •
New Music Store Allows Non-DRM Downloads •

Media Convert - free online converter •
Memory Alpha - enter the Star Trek universe •
Public Domain and Free Image Resources •


Ditto - clipboard extender from SourceForge •
The File Research Center - another good source to keep your PC lean •
PCTools Firewall Plus - a free firewall, is it right for you? •
Play DVD - freeware DVD player •
OETool - an Outlook Express addon •
Universal Extractor - don't want to install it, then extract it •
Abiword - forget WordPad, use a Portable App •

How to burn ISO files •
Windows One Care fails to live up to it's name •

ChampsGames.com - play free games on your pages •


Process Scanner - what's running on your PC? •
BPM Notepad - scrolling notepad for musicians and public speakers •
TextMorph - powerful text formatter •
Pixie - an on screen colour picker •
Zzoom - screen magnifier, color picker, screen capture •
Google Talk - best integration between chat and email •

Is freeware doomed when we switch to Vista? •
How to create your own Strange Windows Wallpapers •
David Letterman's tribute to Bill Gates •

Links from Lesley •


Windows Communicator - chatting at home on your LAN •
IcoFX Icon Editor Reviewed •
KMPlayer - CD, DVD, MP3, Playing Streaming and Ripping •
Network Traffic Monitor •
Songbird - music to the ears of Mozilla fans •
Remote Selector