This is perhaps the coolest computing solution of the year! Imagine carrying all your favorite applications with you wherever you go.  Now imagine when you use the application, it remembers your personal settings, bookmarks, or even passwords. What comes to mind to most people is that this can only be accomplished with a laptop or some kind of remote desktop solution.

But what if everything you needed existed on a single USB flash drive? PortableApps allows you to “carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind.” Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

The latest Firefox is perhaps the best web-browser ever created for any platform. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »