Freeware, Shareware & Abandonware

If you're trying to blend two photos... this is a very simple way to do it. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3. You can combine two photos and make one unique photo. You can blend two photos, add effects,...

There are tons of free books available online. With a free software application called TextWedge. You can use your iPod as an e-book reader. iPods read text files call them notes. The notes on an...

Spy ware can invade your computer and privacy, steal your credit card number, identity, your password and even crash your computer. You can prevent these from happening to you by taking the...

Sounds have various formats that can be played on different types of devices. For instance, .wma files are only usable by Windows Media Player and certain compatible devices, while .mp3 files can...

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...

The reason for putting files into a zip file is to organize related files all in one place and also to make them smaller. If the zip file still isn't small enough, you can compress some of the...

Sansa media players include the Fuze and the View. You can download MP3s for them and then transfer these MP3s directly to your player. In order to do this, you'll first need the drivers for your...

Adware is a software application that automatically displays advertisements on your computer while a program is running. To protect yourself from cyber threats and to help maintain your privacy,...

Music software can help you edit or even create your own music in a variety of different ways. Some programs will help with standard music files such as MP3, while others will help you with...

LimeWire and FrostWire are both peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing applications that allow users to download a wide variety of digital files through a shared network of all other users. Through these...

Have you ever seen black and white pictures with one little part colored, for example. A black and white wedding photo with a colored bouquet. In this article I am going to show you how to...

MIDI is the audio file format that stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It allows for the digitization of musical instruments. One use for MIDI is as the ring-tone your phone plays...

A partition is a section of your hard drive. If one of your hard drive partitions is deleted for some reason, then you may want to find a way to get it back. One option is to download freeware...

It's now possible to download albums from websites like iTunes onto your computer. If you want to listen to such an album in your CD player, you'll have to record it to a blank CD first, a process...

Adobe Acrobat is a software by Adobe that allows viewing and creating files in PDF format. PDF format enables users to create documents that cannot be changed by another party or to view scanned...

Naruto is a Japanese Manga series that follows a teenage ninja as he hones his skills and seeks recognition in a world of awesome warriors. Still images from the cartoon make perfect screensavers,...

Privacy online is crucial to keeping your identity, financial and personal data safe from hackers. When the basic tools that come with your computer are not enough, you may consider using a...

BearShare is a file-sharing software application; you can share music, audio and video files. The program allows you to download many types of files on a peer to peer network. The BearShare...

Yahoo messenger is a great program with many features. One of them is the chat function that will allow you to talk to people from all over the world or right in your own neighborhood!

VOB is a DVD format file on your computer. You can use VOB files to burn and create DVDs. If your VOB file becomes corrupted or damaged for some reason, you won't be able to use it to create a...

Downloading music from the internet is a fast and easy way to find songs you want, but one of the downsides is you don't always get to see the album cover art. Part of the pleasure of old LP...

Internet Explorer is a web browsing software by Microsoft that comes installed with Windows operating systems or can be downloaded at no charge. This browser is an alternative to Mozilla Firefox...

There often comes a time when a downloaded program is no longer needed, its trial period expires, it becomes obsolete or it takes up space. Registry Clean is a piece of software developed by...

The process of "restoring" files means that you bring them back after you've deleted them. You can do this as long as it hasn't been too long since you've erased them from your computer. This is...

Torrent technology allows you to download files from other users considerably faster than many standard file-sharing tools. This is because torrents allow you to get the same file from many...

When you buy songs from iTunes, they are often in a format other than MP3, such as the MP4 format. This can be a problem if you have an MP3 player that won't use the MP4 file type. Fortunately,...

When operating a computer, you can make mistakes that could cause the loss of important data. Purging your computer of unnecessary files is a wise action to take. If you delete files too quickly,...

Download accelerators work by splitting a file into multiple pieces and attempting to simultaneously download all of those pieces from either the same website, or different sites, all at the same...

PPM is a type of "decompressed" image file, which means it hasn't been compressed to make it smaller like some other picture formats. For this reason, your PPM file may be stored inside a ZIP...

"Adware" is a term used to describe malicious software that can be downloaded from the Internet to your computer without your knowledge. These programs can cause pop-up advertisements to appear on...

You can create your own MP3 file in a two ways. You can make it from an audio file in a different format, or you can record your own sound file with a mic and then convert that to MP3. No matter...

Blinkies are graphics that are designed and animated to create the effect that they are blinking. They can contain small icons, blocks with letters, dashes that alternate colors to create the...

Trojan viruses often worm their way onto your hard drive by hiding themselves as another program. You think you are installing a useful program, but instead you may be installing a harmful virus....

WMV stands for "Windows Media Video" and it's a video file format you can watch on programs like Windows Media Player. The file format "3gpp" is a video format commonly used on cellphones. You may...

Sometimes, at school or in the workplace, you may be required to make a timeline chart to show details about an event. The timeline chart will show what happened over the course of the event in a...

Megaman ZX is a game for the portable Nintendo DS game system. In this game, you play Mega Man, a hero who battles rogue robots. In order to get the torrent for this file to work, you have to...

While large businesses maintain vital, dynamic web presences to remain competitive among consumers, individual users are establishing websites for similar personal or professional reasons. To...

WMV or Windows Media Video is a format that was designed by Microsoft to be streamed. However, WMV now supports all kinds of media content like music videos and movies. Even though the quality of...

LimeWire is a popular peer-to-peer file sharing program that allows users to search for files shared by other users and download them directly from that user. LimeWire downloads can run slower...

VOB files are multimedia files that comply with the MPEG-2 system level standard (ISO 13818-1). VOB files contain high-quality audio and video, but unfortunately they are very large. For example,...

If you delete pictures from your computer by accident, or if you delete them on purpose and find that you need them later, all is not lost. It's not always a sure bet that you can get the pictures...

So, you broke a cd, or lost all your software when your computer crashed. Bummer!! Well, we can fix it, and we can triumph. After all you did pay for it didn't you? I will show you how to...

There may be times when you would like to record a song that you heard on the Internet to playback on your mp3 player later.

Converting MPEG files to MP3 format can be defined as changing an audio file's codec to a different file format. In most cases, this is done to make the audio file more accessible for playback in...

Iden Webjal is a program that allows you to create your own ringtones and upload them to Nextel, Boost and Sprint PCS wireless phones. This keeps you from spending money on purchased ringtones and...

Although Microsoft Outlook has a variety of options that include sending email, making calendars, and assigning tasks, not everyone may have access to Outlook during the day. Because of this...

Since the file format MP3 is actually copyrighted, there may be times when you'd like to have your music encoded in a completely patent-free format referred to as "open source." An example of an...

TiVo was the first major DVR (digital video recorder) provider in the United States. It is essentially a set-top box that connects to your TV and allows you to record programs directly to its...

Paint Shop Pro is a popular photo and image editing software used to create and edit graphics. It can be used for frivolous or personal purposes as well as practical or professional ones. Paint...

Most people use Internet browsers daily. Mozilla's Firefox, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Apple's Safari, and Google's Chrome are examples of Internet browsers.