Freeware, Shareware & Abandonware

Have you ever been curious to know where a website was hosted. If you use Firefox, there's an easy way to do just that. If fact, you can make Firefox display the location for every website you...

So, you deleted all your 80’s disco albums from your computer, and now, ten weeks later, you decide you still like disco. The bad news: you still like disco, which is going to affect your social...

Editing photos can be fun and easy. If you enjoy taking photos with your digital camera and want to share them with you friends on the Internet, first you have to edit them. To edit your photos...

Times are hard and cash is short. In this article we will learn how to download free stuff from the internet using the popular search engine, Google. Whether music, video, or document files it's...

A PDF is a file format made by Adobe and is used with the program known as Adobe Acrobat Portable File Format. PDF files are commonly used with online media such as ebooks, coloring pages and...

Yahoo Messenger is a software application used to send instant messages. Besides being able to talk in real time, you can also use Yahoo Messenger to send files, call people (either on the phone...

Very often, we would like to download a video file from the Internet. But the common problem is that they don't come with a download link like youtube videos. This downloader comes with its...

This article will provide instructions on how to install and configure web app on your iPhone and your PC/MAC so you could monitor the status of your torrents

Whether you have limited bandwidth or just like to automate everything in your life, the following is a guide to automatically stop a torrent, in uTorrent, once it has reached a seeding goal.

Changing a photo from the standard form to a comic form is an entertaining and popular effect. With a simple shareware program you can download from the Internet, you can open your photos in the...

Anyone who enjoys jigsaw puzzles enjoys the challenge of the puzzle-building process. Working jigsaw puzzles on the computer gives an added twist to this popular pastime. There are many options...

Have you recieved an RAR file from one of your friends? or some other source? If so and you dont know how to use these files I can walk you through how to open them.

A cluttered desktop can create an unproductive computer session as well as frustration for those who are forced to share a Windows' desktop. Utilizing just two free programs can quickly create a...

Imagine the delight of your children when you make a special coloring book out of family photographs. Kids who like to color will find it fascinating and enjoyable to color pictures made from...

When you are creating a project with Corel Paint Shop Pro, you often reach the point where you need to insert items from your computer into your projects. These items may be graphics or...

Laptops and netbooks have made traveling with a computer a lot more convenient but, there are times when you don't even want to carry those. You can get your email and do some web browsing on a...

A torrent file is used as a method of downloading something to your computer. The torrent points a torrent program to where the file is located so your computer can begin transferring it to where...

Microsoft Paint is an easy-to-use basic image editing program that allows you to resize images, remove scratches and red-eye from photos, change colors, add paint effects and even add type to an...

Limewire is an easy-to-use file downloading service that can provide you with many hours of entertainment for free. Depending on what you're downloading, however, you may find that searching and...

Wouldn't it be nice if you didn't have to bring your laptop with you to access your favorite programs? Assuming you have access to a computer, you can actually bring you "portable...

The Portable Document Format (PDF) document type was created in 1993 by Adobe Systems to enable users to share documents. The PDF is independent of document creation software and operating system...

No longer does home security featuring motion-sensing cameras have to be solely for the rich and famous. Now because of the increasing affordability of webcams, homeowners can harness the power of...

Reason 4.0 is a musi- producing software developed by the Swedish software company Propellerhead. With Reason, it is possible to create all sorts of sounds and bring the studio to your computer....

MySpace users know that photo creations and layouts are generated on various websites all over the Internet for free. Using these generators, you can create photos to use in various places on your...

WAV files and other media files may be uploaded and shared from a media-hosting site. Many hosting sites offer space for uploading media to share, and some are free to the user. One of the most...

Mdf is a file format used by the program Alcohol 120%. It's a virtual copy of a CD or DVD. In order to get access to the files inside the mdf, you will need a program that can extract these files...

Be very cautious when surfing the Internet. There are all manners of viruses and bugs waiting to pounce on an unsuspecting user. Spyware first rose to infamy in 2001 with the discovery of some...

An mdf is a virtual CD file. This means that it simulates a real CD. It is a virtual copy of a CD that you can use on your computer without the actual hard copy of the disk. In order to open and...

When you get music video files from Web sites on the Internet, they could be in a wide range of video formats such as WMV or AVI. The problem comes when you want to play this music video on your...

Files created by DAT recorders, or ".dat" files, are often used to store video information, but the files can not be easily shared or viewed by other users. Converting ".dat" files into ".avi"...

Ccleaner is free software that is used to clean all the access junk that your computer accumulates over time. When you browse the internet, your browser will save things in temp folders. Over...

One simple way to monitor your home from your cellphone is to use your webcam as a security camera and then broadcast it over the Internet to a secure site. You can then access that website with...

After you install a program on your computer from a CD, you don't always keep the box. If a situation comes up where you need the product key for that CD, and you don't have access to it, then...

JAR is an archive file format. This format can be used to store many other much larger files inside of it, including games and programs. If you have a game or a program that you want to load onto...

The following set of instructions is a guide that will help you to be able to burn certain media to discs using a free program on a Mac running OS X. The program is simply named “Burn” and it will...

The phrase "Time Clock Time" can be used to refer to a decimal version of telling what time it is. For example, 12:15 is a quarter past 12, so in "time clock time" it would be 12.25. This decimal...

CDA is the file format used on music CDs that you buy from the store. When you burn a CD from MP3 files, they end up as CDA on your CD-R. Since CDA is only useful on the disc itself, converting a...

Although sometimes MP3 players may come with a few sample songs, in order to get more on them you'll have to buy them online and then download them onto the MP3 player through a USB cord. This...

The process of putting files such as a video onto a blank CD is called "burning." Transferring videos to a blank CD can be a great way to back up important videos if you're afraid of losing them...

Although you can buy a music album from the store in CD form, it's just as easy to get entire albums from the Internet. You can then burn this music to a blank CD if you want, making it almost as...

There is so much information on the internet it's hard for some people to distinguish what website to use , what one's are trusted. In this article I'm going to give my personal opinion on some of...

Are you planning a long trip and want to take some movies along to play on your laptop, but don't want to bring a bunch of DVDs with you? Or perhaps you just want to make backup copies of your...

The Yahoo user ID gives access to reading email, and signing into Yahoo Messenger. However, sometimes you may misplace or forget your password. Although this can be frustrating, it is certainly...

MIDI is an audio format that is used in ringtones and for digitizing musical instruments. If you accidentally delete a MIDI music file, you do have some options for getting it back. The best...

TUB is a graphics file type. The format is a multi-celled picture. Since this format isn't widely used by many programs, you'll have to convert it in order to use it with other programs or to...

Copying a video clip is a good way to transfer the clip to another computer so you can show a friend the same video you like. One easy way to accomplish this is with CD software. The process of...

PDFs allow us to share more more information with each other than ever before. However, they can come with thick black borders that make it more difficult to access that information. By learning...

Introduced in 2006, Apple's MacBook line of laptops has become one of the most popular computers in the company's history. In addition to its top-tier hardware, Apple also develops software for...

If you downloaded a DVD from the internet in a file format such as VOB, you can burn it onto a DVD, which will let you watch it outside of your computer in some DVD players. In order to do this,...

If you put a password on a ZIP file and then lose or forget it, then you won't be able to "unzip" the files to get access to the files inside of it. Fortunately, there are programs you can...