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We Transfer

WeTransfer.com is a free, quick, easy, registration-free way to transfer big files to up to 20 other people.  Here is how to use the service: Visit wetransfer.com Upload your files by clicking the (+) and selecting them. Enter the recipient(s) email address(es) Enter your email address. Type a quick message Then click ‘Transfer’ Some more [...]

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Poll Review – Free or Subscription based Anti-Virus?

Our recently expired poll, Free or Subscription based Anti-Virus?, unsurprisingly resulted in subscription based anti-virus coming top. However, we were worried to see that 41% of voters have either free anti-virus or no anti-virus whatsoever!  Whilst free virus protection is better than none it doesn’t provide your computer with the full protection that it requires [...]

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Online Photo Editing – Picnik

Picnik is a brilliant free online photo editing tool and ideal for all users (from novices to pros).  The website has a wide variety of features which can help you make ‘average’ photos look ‘amazing’. Free features include rotate, crop, flip, re-size, exposure options (including exposure, contrast, highlight, shadow and brightness adjustments), colour options (including [...]

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Microsoft SharedView

Microsoft SharedView is one of those quality pieces of free software which is fantastic but not very well-known.  So here’s a bit about it and what it has to offer… As described on their website…Microsoft SharedView is a fast, easy way to share documents and screen views with small groups of friends or coworkers; anytime, [...]

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AVG 9 Comparison

Here is a table comparing the latest AVG packages.  They are all currently available from Brandstar with a 15% Discount! Free Anti-Virus software doesn’t protect you, your files or your identity while: Shopping online Banking online Chatting to friends Downloading music, files and films Feature AVG Free AVG Anti-Virus AVG Internet Security RRP – 1 [...]

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Disk Cleanup – Vista

We recently wrote a post about performing a ‘Disk Cleanup’ on XP and we thought it would be a good idea to do one for Vista too! Disk Cleanup is a computer maintenance application included in Microsoft Windows operating systems. It’s designed to free up disk space on your computers hard drive. Therefore, it’s worth [...]

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Disk Cleanup – XP

Disk Cleanup is a computer maintenance application included in Microsoft Windows operating systems.  It’s designed to free up disk space on your computers hard drive.  Therefore, it’s worth performing a cleanup every so often.  The feature searches and reviews your hard drive for files which are no longer necessary.  It will then, after you’ve made [...]

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Filemail.com

Have you ever had a problem sending large emails to other people?  Many web-based email accounts have a limit to how many bytes worth of attachments you can send at any one time.  Filemail.com is an online large email sender which resolves this problem. The service can be used for free (up to 2GB) or [...]

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Windows 7 RC – Brilliant!

We have been testing the Beta version of Windows 7 since that was released and downloaded the RC as soon as we could get our hands on it. In short we still think it is brilliant and are really looking forward to the final release. Without writing pages and pages on this the best way [...]

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Spotify

Free, legal and music streaming are words which you don’t often hear together…until now.  Spotify is a free program that you can download.  It lets you stream (listen to) millions of songs for free!!  You could type in loads of current bands and find all their albums ready to listen to.  You’ve also got all [...]

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