With more and more applications becoming deployable without the use of an installer (i.e. PortableApps and the like), you may wonder which option is best. After all, why install it if you don’t have to as this will surely clutter your system, right? As with just about any computer question, the answer is “it depends”. Take 7-Zip for example...

Software bloat is unfortunately all too common in many of the apps that we use, with two of the biggest offenders being email clients and instant messaging programs. While it’s true you could use web-enabled versions of these apps, sometimes this is just as bad because it causes the browser (no matter which you use) to use a lot of memory in short...

A very easy way to add some ‘pizazz’ to your Windows installation is to install a dock application to launch your programs and documents. I have written about one previously, but another to turn your attention to is the open source Circle Dock. Circle Dock offers everything you would expect from a dock application in that you can add as many programs...

Literally defined, a "killer application" a.k.a. a "killer app" is software that is revolutionary and popular (must be both). In layman’s terms, a killer app is the software giving you the reason to use a computer (or possibly a specific computer) in the first place. The history of killer apps basically have two generations, that being...

Text editors are obviously not very exciting in the world of computers, however there are times when they’re absolutely necessary to get things done. For example, if you have ever dabbled in programming, used HTML, custom-made your own Cascading Style Sheet or the like, an advanced and fast text editor is required otherwise it takes twice as long to get...