A guide to Freeware utilities that will display the status of the Caps Lock, Num Lock and Scroll Lock Keys as well as locking or changing (remapping) them.

Okay, I’ve written about firewalls a few times before. I have trialled a few paid firewalls and I believe most of the free 64 bit Firewalls. The trouble is, none of them seem to work trouble free. It may be my system, it may be the other software I run causing conflicts, but I’m not so [...]

This list aims to show you the *BEST* freeware video tools for various video related tasks. These tools are all free and should be all you need to complete most video related tasks. Ripping a Protected DVD DVDShrink – Can Rip many  DVD9 (dual layer)  DVD’s onto your hard drive into DVD5 (single layer) size, ready for [...]

Moo0 is a new software developer to me but their website has lots of nifty little freeware utilities on it. One of these is Moo0 Diskcleaner. This cleaner is similar to the others I have included in my roundup of computer cleaners comparison. It simply has a checklist of items to clean and a clean [...]

Privoxy is a very small proxy that can be run from startup to filter your web traffic. It is simple to set up and basically acts as a go between in front of your browser stopping rubbish getting through. The kind of filtering it provides is: Ad removal Web bug removal Removes html and JavaScript annoyances Popup prevention Advanced cookie handling Configurable [...]

Outssider is a freeware tool that is to be used with your laptop when you are “walking outside in the need for WiFi.” This is not a situation I’ve found myself in but for people who live in cities or more built up areas then this could be handy. Essentially it can find open WiFi [...]

There have not been many Firewalls available for x64 bit operating systems. Luckily another Firewall has just become freeware. Privatefirewall is not just any firewall neither, it gets extremely good results from Matousec who are the best authority (in my opinion) on firewalls at the moment.

Everybody knows that Vista’s User Account Control can be a pain. These are the nagging screens that ask if you want to allow a program (with the blacked out background). After speaking to some friends about it recently, I found I was wrong in thinking most people knew how to turn it off. Then I found [...]

Why would you want to dim your screen you ask? Two reasons: 1. You read in low light conditions and don’t want to burn your eyes away. 2. You want to scrape a few more minutes out of your laptop battery. I have covered laptop battery power saving before.

I love ccleaner and it came top of my computer and browser cleaners. What I love even more is the fact that you can put an icon on your desktop that will run ccleaner and then shut your computer down.

I have covered freeware software updaters before In my Software Updaters roundup. In this post I believed Filehippo’s updater and Sumo were very good. Here we have another application updater and it compares rather well with those I have covered before.

If you would like to save the contents of a webpage then there are a few ways to achieve this. A handy way to archive the contents of a webpage can be to convert them to pdf within your browser. Today I shall cover three such tools.

Game Booster is a freeware application designed to squeeze a few extra fps (frames per second) out of your latest resource hungry game by stopping unnecessary services and processes.