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…

Sundry Web Sites for All Seasons

Sundry Web Sites for All Seasons Hurry up it’s Halloween, Halloween, Halloween First, Halloween is coming up ( I suppose if you’re reading this several months from now, it’s still coming up) soon…and some of you like to decorate your desktop with wallpaper appropriate for the season. We’ve been around the web a long time – in fact… Read More »

PureText makes pasting pure text purely simple

PureText makes pasting pure text purely simple Can you say: “PureText makes pasting pure text purely simple”, fifty time really fast? Ha! Whatever email program you use, you’ve likely encountered this problem: You’re writing and email and you copy text from a Web page or a Word doc or PDF file, and paste it in your email. You… Read More »

Are you color blind?

Are you color blind? We are not sure if you can file this under “U” for Useful or “T” for Time-wasting…but we know one thing, we can file this under  “I” (or should that be ‘eye’?) for Interesting. I’m not sure about EB, looking at her desktop, I swear she’s color blind. Anyone who thinks pink and green… Read More »

What caused that crash?

What caused that crash? This freeware program is one of those we categorize as “any-port-in-the-storm” software. We’re not sure of its value as far as determining the causes of system crashes and boot failures – however it may help if the answer is just a faulty driver or something easy. Don’t count on software to do complex analysis… Read More »

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 »