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! [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 [...]

Freeware of the Week! [Portable Apps Suite]

After the unpleasantness, I could very easily have gone quietly but demonstrably insane. Left without a working computer, I was cut off: no social networking, no news, no music. Of course, I could always use an internet café, but what about my settings? What would I do without my usual files, my emails, my calendar? Could [...]