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! [Dropbox]

A friend of mine is finishing his PhD and had a heart-in-mouth moment this week. He had been doing all of his work on a laptop and the hard drive temporarily died on him. He was able to restore everything except the very extensive bibliography, which he is now having to rewrite from scratch. Lucky [...]

Freeware of the Week! [ImgBurn]

I can’t believe that while I was going through my movie montage hell that I didn’t mention that I also had a nightmare burning the final clip to disc. Because I didn’t know what kind of video playback was going to be used, I needed a CD with the clip in a variety of formats, [...]

Freeware of the Week! [Avidemux]

Last week, I rashly agreed to do a favour for a clueless friend before hearing all the details. It turns out they wanted a video montage, and they needed it in a hurry. Did I mention that up to that point I had precisely zero experience in video editing? Having had trouble getting XP’s built-in [...]

Freeware of the Week! [Prism]

Last week, I chose Splitweet as my choice of Freeware of the Week. While I have been using it for a while, it was a bit of a pain remembering to load it every time I fired up the browser, and on the times I forgot, it would end up in the last of a [...]