Archive for the 'Freeware' Category
I’ve been catching up on my mail and one list I read [PGP-Basics] has been particularly busy of late. The bulk of this traffic seems to have started in a thread in which somebody wanted to know which PGP version they should use.
August 20th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Freeware, Opinion, Privacy, software | Comments Off
I’ve spent a fair amount of time searching around to find a useful program to record video screen captures and save them to an .AVI movie that I can edit or use in something else. Along the way I’ve found, downloaded and tried a bunch of utilities that promise to do what I want.
August 7th, 2008 | Posted in Freeware, Movies, Opinion, Video Editing & Authoring, software | 1 Comment
doPDF is a freeware app that installs itself as a virtual printer. This printer doesn’t use paper, instead it’s output is in PDF form. This lets you turn any printable document into a pdf file just by selecting the doPDF printer.
July 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Business, Financial, Freeware, software | 3 Comments
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Well, Firefox 3 is officially released and they’ve managed to achieve a record breaking 8 million plus downloads on the first day. I’ve loaded up the Portable Apps version of Firefox 3 to give it [...]
July 4th, 2008 | Posted in Freeware, Internet, Opinion, Uncategorized, news, open source, software | 2 Comments
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I recently wrote about the FileZilla FTP Server and Client programs but there was a version of it that I hadn’t mentioned. The FileZilla Client program, which is the version that most people will need, is also available in a portable apps version.
Even though I’d spent time browsing the programs [...]
June 19th, 2008 | Posted in Computers, Freeware, Hardware, Internet, Misc, Opinion, Programming, Websites, open source, software | Comments Off
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Shutdown Machine 1.1 is a solution that isn’t needed very often but once in a while you want to shut the computer down after a task but the situation prevents you from sitting there to wait for it to complete.
Shutdown Machine is a timer program that shuts down the computer automatically. [...]
June 12th, 2008 | Posted in Computers, Freeware, Misc, software | Comments Off
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XAMPP is a free and easy to install Apache web server that allows you to host a website from your own PC (provided you’ve taken care of something like a dyndns name or other way to have a domain name that points to whatever your current IP address is.)
It comes with [...]
June 10th, 2008 | Posted in Freeware, Internet, Misc, Websites, software | Comments Off
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A couple of powerful apps that together can take care of all FTP needs.
FileZilla Server is a Windows FTP server that supports standard FTP as well as FTP over SSL/TLS for secure, encrypted connections.
The FileZilla Client program is a full featured FTP client. Like the server, it’s Freeware open source [...]
June 9th, 2008 | Posted in Freeware, Internet, Websites, open source, software | Comments Off