Our Special Focus this week takes a look at freeware and shareware tools you can use to monitor and track your network and applications. Our author (ddubie@nww.com) gathered up a few of the more ...

A look at some tools that can help round out your management toolbox at little to no charge. In many cases, the best things in life are free – and when it comes to software applications that can help ...

Gail Redd recently wrote to ask about the difference betweenshareware and freeware. The difference is that freeware can bedownloaded and used without any payment ...

Trying to repair a computer with memory problems can become an exercise in futility. While a professional hardware-memory tester is handy, it's too expensive for most system builders. On the other ...

The idea of an individual or company giving away software or charging only a nominal sum for it makes a lot of PC users suspicious. Nevertheless, for little more than the cost of a PC magazine, you ...

Back before YouTube and Twitch and always online DRM, developers needed more effective ways of marketing than just relying on word of mouth. This resulted in shareware, demos and demo discs, free ...

Hi all,<P>I'm looking for a freeware/shareware database app with full SQL support; I'm currently learning SQL and I don't have Oracle at home...<P>Thanks in advance for any suggestion.

Have you ever read through the licence agreement that accompanies most commercial software packages these days? Don't bother, the gist of it is that you're basically only borrowing the program and ...