PC REBELLION

JkDefrag is a refreshingly simple but powerful utility that works as good or better than anything else out there. We can thank Dutch programmer Jeroen Kessels for this handy utility.

The latest Firefox is perhaps the best web-browser ever created for any platform.

PC Reb has been experimenting with Linux since 1996 and each distribution of this free operating system is disappointed. Each version was always too complex and required a bit more knowledge that a newcomer could offer. Linux was an unfulfilled promise.

That is until this year.

We first stumbled across Avast Antivirus when we finally got around to installing Windows XP x64 edition to see what mysterious powers we could unleash from our first hot new Athlon 64 processor. Other than support for more memory, it turns out the 64 bit version of XP was more trouble than it was worth - including being incompatible with our perfectly good antivirus software.

OpenOffice.org is both a product and a project. The project is an open source community effort headed up by Sun Microsystems to create the award winning product, an office software suite that is professional in quality and a worthy rival to Microsoft Office.