Category Archives: Freeware Picks

Every week we feature a freeware program that meets our very high standards. All freeware picks are free for home & personal use and contain no spyware or adware and do not bundle other applications with them.

Our freeware picks are the best of the best…

A photo editor unlike no other

A photo editor unlike no other: XnRetro The author should be a role model for us. He describes his very amazing program in 15 words. We should take after him, but you know us: Verbosity is in our genes. We thought long and hard about how to describe this program and, believe it or not, the best way… Read More »

Escape the ordinary PDF hassles

Escape the ordinary PDF hassles with PDFescape OK so we’ve featured about 100 different PDF Readers, Editors, and a few creators, but yet have we manage to find one FREE program that can create new PDF file, edit existing PDF files, create PDF forms and basically allow you to do anything you want with PDF all for free… Read More »

AlternativeTo

AlternativeTo.net This is about evolution – no, not the kind you argue about with atheists and astrophysicists, but about software evolution. Remember when Bill Gates was a skinny geeky, god-like creature who ruled over the world of desktop PCs like a skinny, male school marm with funny glasses – deciding for us what we’d like and then, like… Read More »

Sesquipedalianism – or why do I need a dictionary?

Sesquipedalianism – or why do I need a dictionary? Wordsmyth Dictionary pronunciation: dIk sha neI ri part of speech: noun inflections: dictionaries definition 1: a reference work that contains a list of words of a particular language, usu. in alphabetical order and supplemented with information about the spelling, pronunciation, and meaning of each word. definition 2: the electronic… Read More »

Be a power user with ServiWin

Be a power user with ServiWin from Nirsoft One of the most trusted names in freeware is Nirsoft. We’ve been using Nirsoft utilities for a long time, and he still continues to churn out Windows utilities continuously… and most of what he does has a minimalistic interface but performs its functions admirably. Just because Nirsoft programs lack fancy graphical user… Read More »