Our Special Focus this week takes a look at freeware and shareware tools you can use to monitor and track your network and applications. Our author (ddubie@nww.com) gathered up a few of the more ...

Trying to repair a computer with memory problems can become an exercise in futility. While a professional hardware-memory tester is handy, it's too expensive for most system builders. On the other ...

YOU MAY not know it, but not all software comes in shrink-wrapped boxes, nor is all software bought at retail stores. No, friends, there is a whole world of free and inexpensive software out there on ...

A look at some tools that can help round out your management toolbox at little to no charge. In many cases, the best things in life are free – and when it comes to software applications that can help ...

Have you ever read through the licence agreement that accompanies most commercial software packages these days? Don't bother, the gist of it is that you're basically only borrowing the program and ...

IF you've just spent a small fortune buying software only to find that it was full of bugs, unsuited to your purpose, too difficult to use or simply didn't work, take heart: there is something that ...

Back before YouTube and Twitch and always online DRM, developers needed more effective ways of marketing than just relying on word of mouth. This resulted in shareware, demos and demo discs, free ...