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…

VeraCrypt: The best TrueCrypt replacement

VeraCrypt: The best TrueCrypt replacement TrueCrypt lived a long life. It was the most commonly used Windows encryption tool until TrueCrypt, with no warning, closed up shop. Since then many other have tried, none ever attained TrueCrypt’s popularity or ease of use, until VeraCrypt came along. VeraCrypt is a powerful encryption tool and for most of us not… Read More »

Wear the Badger of Privacy

Wear the Badger of Privacy We think “Do Not Track” browser features and browser add-ons are pretty much worthless – they assume that everything and everyone is tracking you for evil purposes and thus block everything without regard to what it is, who it is , or if it may be beneficial. Yes, indeed, I tells ya… sometimes… Read More »

Be a power user or a power learner with ServiWin

Be a power user with ServiWin from Nirsoft One of the most trusted names in freeware is Nirsoft. We’ve been using his utilities for a long time, and he still continues to churn out Windows utilities continuously… and most of what he does is minimalistic, but excellent. No fancy graphical user interfaces here. Rarely do we feature something… Read More »