Article | 22/04/2011
Opera browser: Can it sing the big boys off the stage?
Coke or Pepsi? Kirk or Picard? Betty or Veronica? The great battles of the marketplace tend to be duels, and few people gripe if you leave out RC, Sis...
Article | 9/03/2011
Open source FreeOTFE encrypts disks handily
FreeOTFE may sound like a political bumper sticker, but it stands for "Free On The Fly Encryption." The "Free" part is self-explanatory; "On The Fly E...
Article | 8/03/2011
10 utilities to secure your data
Very few people (certainly not the smart, savvy, people who read PCWorld articles) run their computers without up-to-date firewall and antivirus softw...
Article | 7/03/2011
Erase data permanently with SecureClean
It's well-known that "deleting" a file from Windows doesn't fully remove it, but you may not understand just how much data can remain on your disk aft...
Article | 1/02/2011
Microsoft Word alternatives: Wordsmiths, rejoice!
Microsoft Word is ubiquitous: It's the standard word processor in most places of business, and it often ends up installed on home PCs due to compatibi...
Article | 12/01/2011
ConTEXT text editor a boon for programmers
ConTEXT is a powerful, free, and open-source text editor squarely aimed at programmers. Its feature set makes it especially useful for system administ...
Article | 11/12/2010
New Notepads: Better, stronger, faster
Much as coelacanths have changed only slightly despite millions of years of evolution, some bundled Windows apps have scarcely progressed since the da...
Article | 19/07/2010
PalTalkScene adds video to its chat
PaltalkScene is a full-featured messaging/chat program that includes video, audio, and a host of other bells and whistles, as well as the ability to s...
Article | 6/07/2010
Create your own FPS games for free with Cube 2: Sauerbraten
Cube 2: Sauerbraten (free) is an engine/editor for designing and playing first person shooter games, primarily aimed at multiplayer LAN games. It is a...
Article | 21/05/2010
Tabbles Free
One all-too-common phenomenon on the internet is the promising but not-quite-there-yet program which dies the lingering death of ever-slower updates u...
Article | 27/04/2010
Dungeons and Dragons Character Builder
We've come a long, long, way from "Roll 3d6 6 times." While character creation in <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,83732-order,4/des...
Article | 21/01/2010
Ashampoo Office 2010
Microsoft Office is the de facto standard for productivity tools, to the point at which word processors and spreadsheets are now called "office progra...
Article | 9/12/2009
Stuffit Deluxe 2010
Stuffit Deluxe 2010 is the latest iteration of Stuffit, which is the dominant file compression protocol in the Macintosh world.
Article | 8/09/2009
DeskTube
Want to watch YouTube without all the overhead of a browser? DeskTube (free) lets you do just that. DeskTube is, as you might guess, a desktop app whi...
Article | 7/09/2009
BitZipper
A new year, a new chance for the makers of file compression software to try to convince us that we need to upgrade despite the fact most of the format...
