Category: Free Stuff



Building backlinks to your pages is an essential part of SEO (short for Search Engine Optimization) for two reasons. The first reason is that it helps your pages get indexed faster, which is very important because you want the search engines to find them as soon as possible and crawl them regularly. The second reason [...]

Earn Money Online

Posted on: Sunday, Jun 12, 2011

You see it everywhere these days, “Earn Money Online”, “Earn an Online Income”, “Want to earn $$$ from your PC?”  But how many of these schemes are actually legitimate offers?  It is impossible to know.  I know I like earning money online, but I have two simple rules that I follow:

If I have to pay [...]

AVG PC Tuneup

Posted on: Monday, Apr 18, 2011

Just recently, my laptop became extremely slow, freezing up every few minutes and basically driving me totally insane.  As you can imagine, I’ve been busy downloading programs, deleting programs, moving files etc. etc. etc, the usual carry on we’re all at on a daily basis.  “Time to pay my dues”, I thought, so I put aside [...]

Play all formats with VLC Media Player

Posted on: Thursday, Mar 31, 2011

If you want to play video or music files in any format, download VLC Media Player.  It’s free and is a great alternative to Windows Media Player, iTunes and RealPlayer, to name but a few.  No more converting files or searching for programs to handle the format. Just play and enjoy.
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Remove mywebsearch

Posted on: Thursday, Mar 31, 2011

A number of people are having problems with mywebsearch, a toolbar that comes with applications such as Tattoodle, Smiley Central, Zwinky etc. In particular, users of facebook have come to us requesting help on removing this from their computer. 
mywebsearch has been reported as a source of malware/spyware/adware and can be difficult to remove .  That [...]

Disk Defragmentation

Posted on: Thursday, Mar 24, 2011

When you buy your new computer, everything is lovely, organised and neat on the nice new hard drive. But as you start using it, adding files, modifying files and removing files, things start to get less organised and this becomes apparent in your computer’s performance.  Windows has an inbuilt function called Disk Defragmentation. This Defrag [...]

Run programs from the cloud?

Posted on: Saturday, Mar 19, 2011

Sounds exciting, doesn’t it?  With all the great software that is available now, it is so easy for you PC and laptop to get bogged down with it all, slowing you down in the process.  But all that is about to change!  With the new ‘Spoon’ plug-in, you can run popular programs directly from the web.  [...]

Clean your PC

Posted on: Sunday, Feb 27, 2011

Another handy little number from Piriform is CCleaner.  CCleaner is their system optimisation, privacy and cleaning tool that removes unused files from your system.  By getting rid of these you free up valuable hard disk space which  in turn allows windows run faster.  It will also clean traces of your online activity.  As an extra, [...]

Accidentally deleted an important file?

Posted on: Friday, Feb 25, 2011

Have you ever accidentally deleted an important file?  Have you ever deleted an important file and then emptied the recycle bin? If you’re anything like me then the answer is yes!  Piriform have kindly produced Recuva, a file recovery software that recovers files deleted from your windows computer, recycle bin, digital camera card or MP3 [...]

SUPERAntiSpyware

Posted on: Tuesday, Feb 22, 2011

Detect and remove Spyware, Adware, Malware and a host of other little nasties with SuperAntiSpyware.  Click on the link to visit their site and download their free edition.
SUPERAntiSpyware

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