Human nature is by design addicted to free stuff but who would blame us. Is there anyone in the world who hasn’t wished at least once a day to be able to get something without having to pay for it? It is no wonder Gmail, Youtube and the like have become so popular and a significant part of our daily lives. However, these major players are not the only...

Skype over the years has proven itself to be faithful reliable service. Computer-to-Computer “calls” have always been free, but you have to pay in order to connect to regular phone numbers – although it should be said their rates have always been very competitive and a good deal for the money. According to Skype’s blog, they currently...

Lotus Symphony is an office suite by IBM. It’s free. Free? Yes, free. From IBM. And yes, I know, "IBM" and "free" never appear in the same sentence, but this time it does. And wouldn’t you know it, it’s available for Windows, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux and Mac OS X. Why it is free? Because it’s based on...

Something that old-school Windows users remember is the “Recorder” program in Windows 3.1, as in the macro recorder:(image credit) This was a very short-lived but very useful program as it had the ability to record keystrokes and mouse clicks into a script and then be run later at any time. After Windows 3.1 this program disappeared, and people...

For those of you into MMO’s and/or strategy games, you may want to take a look at the new offering from EA: Lord of Ultima. Lord of Ultima is an online strategy game where you build your own unique city and play with thousands of other players. Join now and rule a mighty empire which you can access from wherever and whenever you want. All you need to enter...

For those of you that have ever used JkDefrag, MyDefrag is what it has evolved to, and it’s still as great as ever. When it comes to running a file defragmentation on your Windows PC, the only thing you truly care about is getting it done as fast as possible with no fuss. MyDefrag does just that. What are the improvements over JkDefrag? Here are five good...

ImgBurn is a popular free application for write data to CD/DVDs and creating ISO image files. Concerning the ISO specifically, yes it can make bootable discs. This is very useful for creating emergency recovery discs. In the video below, the place mentioned where to get boot diskette images is AllBootDisks. Compared to other web sites that offer the same...

I have seen this posted on several sites today so I am going to join the club to make sure none of our readers miss this deal. Today (Jan. 14, 2010) only, you can download the full licensed copy of Glary Utilities Pro for free. If you are not familiar with Glary Utilities, it is a popular all-in-one suite for system maintenance and protection. The suite is...

Automotive GPS devices while used by many have the issue of difficulty of being able to edit locations on a desktop PC level. There are tools available such as Bing Maps, Google Maps and Google Earth which allow for some fine tuning, but the way in which those sites work is still a bit on the difficult side. Nuvi Editor on the other hand is very easy. It makes...

If you very seldom have the need to print to PDF or do not want to install a PDF printer then using an online PDF converter is really your only option. While I would highly recommend a PDF printer, when this is not an option PDF Converter will do the job. Usage is simple: just upload a file, provide your email and then the resulting PDF file is emailed to you....

For the past six months or so I’ve been receiving a lot of flyers in postal mail touting, "If you sign up for internet service with us, you get a new netbook computer!" For many U.S. residents they’ve been seeing the same, and maybe this is even happening in other countries. Everybody knows that in order to get the computer, you have to...

The default Windows XP theme is called Luna. This is the rather disgusting blue taskbar, program title bars/borders and the big green Start button. It looks awful. Luna can be changed to either Olive Green (equally disgusting) or Silver (the only which looks good out of the set for Luna). Many people can’t stand Luna and switch to the “Windows...

New software from Microsoft, Hohm, is a free web-based tool that you can use calculate how to save on energy costs in your own home. Defined: Microsoft Hohm is a free web based application (running on the Windows Azure platform) that enables consumers to better understand their energy usage by utilizing advanced analytics licensed from the Lawrence Berkeley...

Free is a relative term because it doesn’t necessarily mean "no money required". If to get the free access you must do something decidedly inconvenient, that costs you time and effort. But in these times, some are willing to be inconvenienced if it means saving a buck or two. Method 1: Hotel parking lot. Many hotels offer free wi-fi, and most...

Do I have to say it? Spam. Or at least that’s what Symantec says, so you can take that for what it’s worth. Spam is one of those things that’s constantly changing to bust the roadblocks we put up against it. However we as email users are smarter now and we also have better tools to fight the junk. What’s the best way to filter spam...

Ordinarily I am very, very against "skinning" a web browser because it usually makes it perform like absolute crap. Usually what will happen is that some internal menus won’t work and sometimes it even interrupts web site loading. However, when I saw that Personas was actually developed by Mozilla Labs themselves (i.e. the guys and gals who made...

Fun and important “Did you know?” fact of the moment: The only true authorized source to get a free annual credit report under federal law is AnnualCreditReport.com. Here’s where the funny (as in good funny) part comes in. The FTC themselves released two videos explaining why this is:So yes, you can actually get a free credit report without...

Before the dot-com crash of the early 2000s, the industry was replete with internet business moguls of the time stating (or rather, yelling) GIVE EVERYTHING AWAY! THE CUSTOMER WILL RECIPROCATE! Well, we all know that went over like a lead zeppelin. Nobody reciprocated at all and the industry took its lumps in grand fashion (to the tune of losing their...

If you’ve ever delved into the world of having your own web site, you will inevitably have a need to send and retrieve files from your server via FTP. FTP is really (and I mean really) old and still widely used. While it’s true you can send or receive files from the command line in any OS, the GUI way of doing it is much easier because you get things...

First and foremost: This is not a new idea. Others have made wallpaper before purposely put into a grid-like fashion in this manner. Why would you use wallpaper like this? Simply put, it’s easier to organize your stuff with it. If you’re the type who has a ton of icons on your desktop, you will find these wallpapers very handy to use. Each wallpaper...