Freeware of the Week! [LogMeIn Free]

I know that I’ve blogged about remote software before, but I may have glossed over the fact that it can be tricky getting it to work on several different computers, especially if you’re using it for tech support and the people you are helping never do more than browse and email. Getting them to configure [...]

Freeware of the Week! [Tungle]

So yesterday I had a meeting, or rather a group IM chat. All was going swimmingly until we tried to arrange follow-ups, whereupon there was much humming and hawing amongst us from our three respective time zones and with our competing schedules. Had I had this week’s offering to hand, the process of setting up [...]

Freeware of the Week! [MahTweets]

Social networking has been chugging along nicely for a while now, and has grown into something that you’re almost expected to do, rather than fool around with once in a while. Along with that have grown a number of applications that profess to make your online social life easier to manage, but there hasn’t been [...]

Freeware of the Week! [OpenProj]

Yes, I know it’s late. I had to schlep down to London on Friday and spent Saturday in recovery (work is hard!), so I am only getting round to things now. Usually I am quite good and write the blog post the night before if I know I’m going to be out all day, but [...]

Freeware of the Week! [Orbit Downloader]

Very easy choice this week. I download a lot of stuff, and I don’t mean obscure Azerbaijani folk music, unless it is Eurovision season. To do my work, I need all sorts of files, sometimes entire cohorts of them. I also need videos, and occasionally need to review audio, sometimes from websites that are less [...]