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Downloadcrew Giveaway: Genie Timeline Home 2.1, worth $39.95, free on Tuesday
March 5, 2012 – 13:23 | No Comment
Downloadcrew Giveaway: Genie Timeline Home 2.1, worth $39.95, free on Tuesday

Considering how important it is, backing up in Windows is never as simple as it should be. Until now… Genie Timeline Home 2.1 reduces the backup process to just three steps: pick your backup drive, …

Test-drive Auslogics Disk Defrag Pro 4 with our exclusive 90-day trial version
February 2, 2012 – 10:45 | No Comment
Test-drive Auslogics Disk Defrag Pro 4 with our exclusive 90-day trial version

If you’ve ever tried Auslogics free Disk Defrag tool then you’ll know it’s a quick and easy way to optimise your hard drive, if a little basic: like most of the free defrag tools, the …

Downloads roundup: 26 important tools or updates you may have missed in the last week
August 19, 2011 – 11:50 | No Comment
Downloads roundup: 26 important tools or updates you may have missed in the last week

The major release this week was more about the migration of Mozilla Firefox 7 from Aurora to the Beta channel, rather than the recent announcement that Firefox 6 is now stable. Firefox 7 is a …

19 important tools and updates you may have missed this week
July 29, 2011 – 13:45 | No Comment
19 important tools and updates you may have missed this week

CyberLink released YouCam 5 this week. Although it’s not an application that may be on everyone’s radar, the new version does have a couple of interesting new features for serious users, one of these being …

Downloads roundup: 18 important tools or updates you may have missed in the last week
July 8, 2011 – 13:28 | No Comment
Downloads roundup: 18 important tools or updates you may have missed in the last week

Never fails to amaze us how much effort web browser development teams are investing to bring us the latest and best browser. Where’s the end goal? You can understand Google pushing significant resources in to Chrome, as …

Downloads roundup: 17 of the most important releases from the last week
June 24, 2011 – 13:27 | No Comment
Downloads roundup: 17 of the most important releases from the last week

Font managers are not so readily available on the Windows platform. Possibly because the Mac was the de facto choice for DTP back in the 90s and that’s remained to this day. There are times where you …

Downloads roundup: 16 important tools or updates you may have missed in the last week
May 27, 2011 – 13:02 | No Comment
Downloads roundup: 16 important tools or updates you may have missed in the last week

With software developer’s updating their applications on a daily basis, it’s easy to miss an important update or a minor, but essential, hotfix. We’ve rounded up some of the key new releases from the last …

Sixteen popular downloads you may have missed this week
May 6, 2011 – 12:42 | No Comment
Sixteen popular downloads you may have missed this week

Sadly we can’t feature every new and updated application, but that doesn’t mean that some of the apps we haven’t covered aren’t worth rounding up. There are a number of interesting applications that are worth …

Downloads Week in Review: Chrome 11 FINAL, CCleaner 3.06, Paragon Hard Disk Manager 11 Professional
April 29, 2011 – 13:29 | No Comment
Downloads Week in Review: Chrome 11 FINAL, CCleaner 3.06, Paragon Hard Disk Manager 11 Professional

After a quiet start to the week, today saw a rush of new releases and updates to popular software. This week Google Chrome 11 FINAL was introduced to the stable channel. The primary new feature …

Software Store – save 50% on various brands through December!
December 9, 2010 – 16:35 | No Comment
Software Store – save 50% on various brands through December!

January used to be the best time to purchase products, with stores holding back on their sales until the middle of the month. Over the last few years the sales have been brought forward, with …

PC Tools release their 2011 range, including a new app
September 3, 2010 – 12:59 | No Comment
PC Tools release their 2011 range, including a new app

It’s been a time of change for PC Tools over the last 12 months. Not only were they bought and integrated in to Symantec, but many of the original team have been moved on and …