Collaboration on projects can be greatly improved through the adoption of a Wiki. There are a number to choose from but one in particular I have been looking at is PBwiki. PBwiki describes itself as …

If you have concerns over the privacy of your data, particularly if using USB devices or other portable drives you may want to consider encryption software. If you do not have any concerns I would …

Creamundo.com describes itself as "The ‘free fonts’ web site" and offers a huge, strike that, a vast collection (some 9,800) of free typefaces (true-type) for download and the interface is clear and simply (if …

IP Chicken offers a quick, memorable, and simple way of finding out your public IP address. This can be useful when configuring your home hub or firewall, IP Chicken will also tell you a …

Moffsoft FreeCalc is a small footprint freeware application that aims to be a replacement for the calculator application that comes shipped with Windows; and adds some really useful features. FreeCalc describes itself as "…In …

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Something very special, and based on one of my favourite authors, is the BBC 20th Anniversary Edition of the classic adventure game The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
If …

I have written before about the ‘cannot find the right word to describe how extremely useful these applications here’ Windows Sysinternals (snapped up some time ago by Microsoft) group of utilities - especially if …

I often write about the amount of wasted space on our disk drives, from pointless Excel files to old Temp files but one of the more annoying, and potentially dangerous, space wasters is duplicate files. …

Transferring cassettes, live audio and other recordings such as record to computer is not the easy task it should be but fortunately there are tools around to help - Audacity being one of the …

If you post comments on blogs you may find there is often a section to include an avatar. An avatar is a small image that represents you and if you have not got one a …