Computing
Free, low cost, and high quality software & hardware - the results of our own quest for best value & price. • No malware, spyware, or nagware.
Reviewed and chosen for quality customer support, product performance, pricing, and security.
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2BrightSparks
Home of SyncBack - file backup software with precision control for on-the-fly work snapshots. Free and shareware versions.
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Move. Manage. Maintain. Seamlessly.
Acronis is a world leader in backup, deployment, migration, and disaster recovery solutions for enterprise, small business, and home users. Read our review >> |
Advanced Digital Media
What's up with their web hosting? ... their servers! It's your site. Get it up. Keep it up. • Domains • Design & Build • Blog • E-mail • E-store • the Works
AV-Comparatives.org
Independent tests of anti-virus software, with product reviews and charts of the effectiveness of standard security features. Start here when researching your next security software purchase.
Avast! Antivirus Home Edition
gets our vote for best free antivirus. Includes e-mail, chat, and anti-rootkit defense. Robust payware versions available.
Axantum Software AB
Home of AxCrypt - strong, reliable, free file encryption.
Dan Hates Spam
Think nobody cares about spam e-mail? Dan Balsam is passionate about it.
"Set It and Forget It"® - automatic disk defragmentation while you work - a major contributor to system speed and stability. I-FAAST® technology yields an additional 10% - 80% more drive performance for the most commonly accessed files. Real customer support: High-dollar or not, each customer is important - you get a fast, meaningful response. Remarkable! Read our review >> |
Emergency Recovery Utility for NT
Super fast, reliable backup and restore of the NT based Windows system registry - the heart of the operating system. For Windows ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, and Windows 7.
FastStone Software
Home of FastStone Capture - a screen image capture and editing tool with all the trimmings. Responds to the keyboard PrintScreen key.
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For most users, we recommend the awesome Kaspersky Internet Security suite. Read our review >> |
Kelly's Korner - WinXP
This Microsoft MVP is an excellent resource for help with Windows XP and other Windows versions.
MapleXp Express
Quickly and accurately record and summarize your work time for multiple tasks and projects. This free application includes excellent documentation.
Micro Center Online
Current, high quality, low priced computer hardware and software.
MOGware, Inc.
Home of File Hamster - automatic, versioned file backups while you work. Best of 3 different products in price, reliability, and system overhead.
My Id Score
Free ID theft risk report from ID Analytics, Inc. Not a credit score, but an assessment of your current risk of ID theft. BBB accredited, VeriSign secured, encrypted end-to-end. Data in the ID Network is never sold or distributed for marketing purposes.
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NoNags
A huge freeware and shareware site. No adware, spyware, or "nagware" allowed. Quality ratings by the site and the user community.
Notepad++
Notepad++ is a truely robust free replacement for Windows Notepad. Character conversions, line hiding, macro record/playback, multiple views, multi-file string search/replace, regular expression search/replace, sorting, tabbed editing, and accurate user defined syntax highlighting for coders. Serious text-fu!
Online Armor
gets our vote for best free personal firewall. Nice interface, light on resources.
Open Office
Large office system with databases, graphics, math, presentations, spreadsheets, and word processing - free. Sponsored by Sun Microsystems.
PegTop
Home of Pixel Meter - a free on-screen measuring tool for graphics work. PegTop also offers PStart - a unique, portable "start menu".
PESoft
Home of TinyResMeter. Weighing in at just 91KB, this compact, low-frills, free real-time monitor can legibly display hundreds of Windows system resource values in a very small footprint, and provides control of processes and services. The web site is in transition, so go straight to "Products".
Photo Filtre
An easy to use, full-featured, free graphics editor.
Sci-Tech Concept - Alexander Vechersky
Hands down, Glint for Windows is the king of small footprint system activity monitors, with up to 200 indicators displayable as bar and line graphs or color intensities. Updated 2010/04/02 for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, and still free.
SnapFiles (WebAttack)
A large, superb freeware and shareware site. No adware, spyware, or "nagware" allowed. Quality ratings by the site and the user community. Some freeware is professional grade.
SpeedTest.net
Test the speed of your Internet connection. See if you are getting what you pay for, and share your results with others.
Stop Work-for-Hire
Learn why and how to avoid permanently signing away your rights to your own creative efforts. A message from the Professional Artists League.
SysInternals
First class Windows internals diagnostic and utility software - much of it free. Recently acquired by Microsoft.
The Secret Guide To Computers
Russ Walter's BIG book (and free telephone help) demystifies everything about computers because it's written in (gasp) layman's terms! Cheap and updated for both new and older technology. (Russ inspired us to avoid the usual "robber baron" style of fees.)
Hours worth of work ...
— Recovered in a flash and you get Diskeeper's exceptional customer support. Read our review >> |
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
An amazing resource for web designers. All the details, languages, methods, live examples, and reference material you need. Current, and free.
 from Corel
backup • compress • encrypt • carry
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