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! [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! [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 [...]