The Freeware Mission goes on, the finishing line is getting closer. And I’ll be very proud to have a freeware only PC! Now I’m going to choose the best free image editing program. Now I’m not doing image editing on a daily basis, but I like to play around with my photos from time to time. Which is the freeware program I picked? Well, I chose to install two freeware programs.
 

The first one is obviously GIMP. I’ve been using it for the past few months and I’m very …

Welcome to the Freeware Mission again. You might wonder why do I need a file renamer… Well, I’m a quite passionate photographer, making dozens of photos each day. And when I save them into the computer they all have as filenames those long lines of numbers. I need a freeware program that would allow me to rename all of them quickly and easily.
 

I’ve tested a lot of freeware file renamers, from Lupas Rename 2000 to Flexible Renamer but I wasn’t satisfied. I nearly gave up hope when I accidentally found …

Or, if you want to be politically correct, call it best free DVD backup program Welcome to the Freeware Mission again, proceeding steadily towards my goal: a freeware only PC. I need a freeware program to backup some of the movies that I have on DVD to my hard disk. And maybe later make .avi files out of them for easier storage.
 

I guess you all know the famous and infamous freeware program called DVD Decrypter. Their website was shut down and the development of the program stopped a …

My freeware only PC needs to be up to date, not only with the programs installed, but also with the device drivers. I think you would agree that searching for drivers updates over the internet can be very time-consuming, so I need a freeware program that could do that for me. Did I find one? Of course I did.
 

Actually I found a few, but I was disappointed with most of them because they say they are free, but when it comes to really downloading a driver update things tend to …

The Freeware Mission enters another week. This is the 22nd episode, 21 more to go. Now I’m going to pick the best free disk health monitoring solution. We all know that hard disks aren’t exactly the most reliable components in a computer system, so it’s quite important to monitor their health status and do something before it would be too late.
 

I’ve tested a few so-called freeware disk health monitoring programs. Unfortunately many of them are actually “crippleware” – the functions are crippled so that anytime you need to do something …