Welcome to the PC Rebellion. Your one-stop source for links to FREE software and Do-It_Yourself projects to help you take back your PC.

None of the software reviewed here is crippleware, spyware, adware, malware, trialware or is limited in any other way. It is all (as far as we’re able to verify) completely free. Some are even open source. And as far as we know, all the software reviewed here is completely legal to use (at least in the US - check your local laws to confirm the legality of using the software discussed on this website).

Why PC Rebellion?

You use your computer every day. It can be expensive. Sometimes, frustrating or confusing. So we launched this service to give you alternatives to these annoyances.

PC Rebellion offers alternatives to what Microsoft deems fit. Sometimes we even acknowledge that what Microsoft deems fit is a pretty good choice. But for the most part, knowing that Microsoft pushes us from one Microsoft product to another (a problem we thought would have been addressed in the anti-trust suit), we sometimes overlook options Microsoft would prefer you not know - options that reveal there are better ways to compute than the Microsoft way.

In 1983, Time magazine hailed the computer as the Machine of the Year (normally reserved for Man or Woman or People of the Year). The image on the cover featured an IBM style monitor and keyboard atop a red kitchen table, and in a high back kitchen chair facing the monitor was seated a paper-mache human figure in a sort of slouching posture (almost as if in surrender). The headline “The Computer Moves In” seemed to foreshadow the dominance of computing in our daily lives. The furniture featured on the cover of this issue clearly images indicating this was the beginning of ubiquitous home computing.

Indeed, often we hear our friends utter the phrase “computer room” as if the device were another dependent, a mouth to feed, needing an entire living space to itself. Time Magazine was more prophetic than perhaps they imagined.

So today, more than two decades after Time Magazine’s exaltation of the “machine of the year” as the mother of all home appliances, home computing is now a necessity to a most, a hobby to a many, and an annoyance to nearly everyone. The goal of PC Rebellion is to give computer users who often find themselves feeling like that paper-mache’d slouching human on the 1983 cover of Time, a reason to sit up, to take notice of the promise of home computing, to enjoy computing Nirvana - to take CONTROL of his or her computing experience.

If this is you, PC Rebellion is for you.

We hope you find our offerings useful, and if you do, please visit our advertisers. It’s far cheaper than paying Microsoft for the next version of a bloated software package that you can probably match feature-for-feature with a free package.

The Rebellion will not be televised, it will be computed!

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