Keeping yourself safe from online threats can be an expensive business, particularly if you’ve a network to protect. But there is a new alternative. Russian security company Agnitum has just launched Outpost Security Suite Free, …

Opera 11 has been released as a public beta, allowing experienced users to test-drive its new features. It’s biggest new feature is its support for extensions, and there are already over 100 available from the …

Webmail can liberate your email from your PC, and one of the best webmail packages out there is Google Mail, enabling you to tie in all your existing mail accounts in a single web-based interface …

Whatever your taste in music, it is likely that you have long harboured a dream of writing a music track. Some people are blessed with an ability to play a variety of musical instruments, but …

Video editors require large amounts of RAM, ideally far more than a 32-bit operating system can provide. Which is a problem, as most consumer video editors are strictly 32-bit only.
If you’ve made the jump to …

Adobe has released the tenth major version of its well-known PDF viewer, Adobe Reader. Adobe Reader X shares the same ‘X’ branding as Adobe’s professional products, and remains the only PDF reader capable of working …

Paint.NET has just been updated for the first time since April. Version 3.5.6 is a relatively minor update, offering minor performance improvements alongside a raft of bug fixes. The performance improvements involve minor tweaks to …

Mac users can now take advantage of the popular compress tool WinZip which has limited to Windows until now. Despite the name, WinZip Mac Edition can be used to work with Zip, Zipx, RAR, LHA …

Yahoo! has released a beta version of its instant messaging client Yahoo! Messenger. In version 11 of the popular IM client, there is a strong focus on social networking features. As well as providing the …

You might have thought Process Explorer was already the most powerful Task Manager replacement around.
Authors Sysinternals clearly aren’t satisfied, though, and the program’s latest release, version 14, now includes even more troubleshooting power.

Google Voice has proved to be an incredibly popular service in the US, with tens of thousands of users turning to the site to make free online phone calls and text messages as well as …