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…

Find Duplicate Files Fast With Anti-Twin

What the heck is an anti-twin? Well that would be like EB and me — we’re anti-twins. She’s cruel and heartless – and I’m gentle and have a heart of gold. All that’s true, but that’s not the Anti-Twin we’re talking about here. The Anti-Twin is the fastest, coolest, safest (when used according to directions) free duplicate file… Read More »

Use an Old Friend to “Clean-up” Your Computer

We were struck by nostalgia last night. I was going through some old programs and came upon one that EB and I used to refer to as “the toilet-flusher” program. If you download, install and run it, you’ll see why. Otherwise, you’ll just have to imagine whatever you will. I promised EB that I was going to stop… Read More »

Venomous Animals and Insects May Save Your Life

Venom: Nature’s Killer (PBS.org) You’ll excuse me this week. I’ve had EB take off a week while I hunted down a worthy site of the week. And this site of the week was picked because I’m a big fan of the PBS series entitled “NOVA”. Working with EB has caused me to develop a fascination with venom. She’s… Read More »

Copy Files Faster

There’s a place in your computer life for using file to file backup — but not instead of full drive image backups. But for things like photos, music, documents and videos, keeping a quickly accessible backup folder is a good idea. But if you’ve ever tried copying, say 14GB of data from one place to another in Windows,… Read More »