Kerio Personal Firewall

Alaron reviews a free firewall option.

BitDefender

Alaron reviews a free anti-virus software solution

JAlbum

Alaron takes a look at an image album program that allows you to take your images and put them on your webpage

BartPE

Alaron takes a look at a useful tool that will boot into a functional Windows environment if your native installation won’t boot.

nLite

Alaron reviews nLite, which allows to to integrate service packs, hotfixes, tweaks, and various settings onto your Windows installation CD so you don’t have to do all of that manually after installing a fresh copy Windows.

A-Squared

Alaron reviews an alternative malware scan utility

QNext

Alaron takes a look at a multi-purpose, all-in-one online chat client, media streaming, and file sharing application

Inkscape

Alaron reviews a freeware application similar to Adobe Illustrator

K-Meleon 1.02

Alaron reviews another viable alternative browser

Ewido Anti-Spyware

Alaron reviews another alternative anti-spyware application called Ewido

AM DeadLink 2.8

Alaron reviews an application that will check your bookmarks/favorites to see if the links are still active.

TigoTago

Alaron reviews an MP3 tagger called TigoTago in this week’s Freeware Frenzy. The program is set up to look similar to a spreadsheet, so you can easily edit the tags of large numbers of MP3s.

AutoPatcher

Alaron reviews AutoPatcher–a Windows Update utility that is an alternative to Windows Update.

FastStone Image Viewer

Alaron tackles FastStone Image Viewer for this week’s Freeware Frenzy column. And yes, this program is an image viewer, only so much more than that. Features include simple image editing tools.

MaxType Lite

Alaron reivews a good program to assist with learning keyboarding skillsmaxtype

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