But some programs are so helpful that we heartily recommend them to everybody. These free PC programs—a mix of must-haves and delightful auxiliary apps—deserve a place on almost any computer. There are times when a paid alternative makes sense, however.
Before you roll up your sleeves and start slinging software around, make sure to snag your web browser of choice. Browsers are largely free, and mostly fantastic already. For Windows users there is Ghost Browser , which lets you sandbox separate online identities while viewing them all in a single window. Ninite makes loading up a new computer a breeze. Run the executable, and Ninite installs all of them in turn, and it automatically declines the offers for bundled bloatware so many free apps try to sneak in.
No muss, no fuss, no hassle. Accidentally installing unwanted bloatware is one of the greatest dangers of free software, the sanctity of Ninite aside. For everything else, use Unchecky. The Windows Security software enabled by default in Windows 10 provides solid protection for most users, but no single antivirus utility offers bulletproof protection, especially against the latest and most clever threats.
App launchers let you activate software far faster than navigating Windows, even if you use the Windows key and search for an app by name. But Launchy can do much, much more: Open any file or folder in mere seconds, shut down your PC, or even kill processes and perform math calculations with the right plug-ins. Launchy is another Windows utility that is unto itself; however, the developers do accept donations, and we highly recommend tossing the developers a few dollars for this excellent program.
A lot of them cost money. You can even encrypt 7-Zip archives with a password to send them securely. If you spend all day unzipping massive archive files then maybe a faster utility like WinZip is worth it. For most of us, however, 7-zip is just great.
Your PC might have a DVD-playing program installed if you bought a boxed system, but if not, the simply wonderful VLC media player can play your flicks and music, and podcasts, and… for free.
It can even play some Blu-ray discs with a little fiddling. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.
Media Type Media Type. Year Year. Collection Collection. Creator Creator. Language Language. PC Magazine Volume 9 Number 10 May Topics: software, lan, data, disk, network, vga, memory, ibm, dos, hard disk, operating system, lan It is a prime Bulgarian on-line media source for gaming, Internet, and technology. It was established in and was the third Bulgarian computer games magazine after the brochure Top Games and the magazines Master Games and Gamers' Workshop.
It is the oldest computer games media in the country and is indisputably the most popular media for It was known for its "advanced" programs in comparison to most type-in magazines of the era, especially its main rival, ANTIC, another long-lived magazine devoted to the Atari 8-bit line.
It had fewer product reviews and far fewer ads, but much meatier technical articles. It focuses on cutting-edge PC hardware, with an emphasis on product reviews, step-by-step tutorials, and in-depth technical briefs.
Component coverage areas include CPUs, motherboards, core-logic chipsets, memory, videocards, mechanical hard drives, solid-state drives, optical drives, cases, component cooling, and anything else to do with recent tech news.
Additional hardware coverage is directed at From RetroPDFs. This all started when — after one too many bottles of Features p. Topics: disk, computer, byte, software, apple, data, program, system, byte publications, floppy disk, byte Nel ha festeggiato il numero assieme a un restyling del logo e il rilascio della nuova interfaccia del supporto ottico integrato.
Amiga World was a magazine dedicated to the Amiga computer platform. The first several issues were distributed before the computer was available for sale to the public. Negli ultimi anni della sua pubblicazione venne rinominata PC Open Studio e diffusa solo in abbonamento.
Nel corso degli anni ha cambiato diverse volte editore. Infine fu edita dal gruppo Il Sole 24 Ore. Ogni mese venivano pubblicate Kilobaud Microcomputing was a magazine dedicated to the computer homebrew hobbyists from the end of the s until the beginning of the s. But one day in November Wayne came to work, and found that his ex wife and the rest of the Byte magazine staff had moved out of his office and Secret Service.
Jego redaktorzy jako It was the first magazine published by Chris Anderson's Future Publishing, which with a varied line-up of computing and non-computing related titles has since become one of the foremost magazine publishers in the UK.
The publication, often abbreviated to AA by staff and readers, had the longest lifetime of any Amiga Computing. A magazine dedicated to the Amiga computer. Topics: Amiga Computing, Amiga, Magazine. It was noted for the quality and learnability of its type-in program listings. It published many games in BASIC and occasionally printed programs in standard, readable assembly language rather than the relatively obscure hexadecimal listings used by other magazines such as Compute!
Your Computer was a British computer magazine published monthly from to , and aimed at the burgeoning home computer market. At one stage it was, in its own words, "Britain's biggest selling home computer magazine". It offered support across a wide range of computer formats, and included news, type-in program listings, and reviews of both software and hardware. Hardware reviews were notable for including coverage of the large number of home microcomputers released during the The One was a video game magazine in the United Kingdom which covered bit home gaming during the late s and early s.
Like many similar magazines, it contained sections of news, game reviews, previews, tips, help guides, columnist writings, readers' letters, and cover-mounted disks of game demos. The magazine was sometimes criticised for It was affiliated to and shared editorial with the UK's Edge magazine. Next Generation ran from January until January Linux Journal was a monthly technology magazine published by Belltown Media, Inc.
Houston, Texas. It focused specifically on Linux, allowing the content to be a highly specialized source of information for open source enthusiasts. Linux Journal was the first magazine to be published about the Linux kernel and operating systems based on it. It was established in Processor Newspaper, the official paper of Processor. Sono popolari le periodiche offerte di arretrati venduti a peso 14 kg The magazine catered to a fairly technical readership and offered product reviews as well as programming information and coverage of more technical topics.
Starting out as the newsletter of the first successful national computer club, the Southern California Computer Society SCCS , then changing its name to Interface, it was staffed by volunteers before it became Interface Age under Computist magazine was an Apple-II oriented publication distributed and sold between and Created by Charles Haight of Softkey Publishing, the magazine was dedicated primarily to issues of copy protection, duplication of software, and matters related to the deprotection process.
Originally called Hardcore Computing , the name was soon changed after a young reader's parent complained about the adult-sounding title. Besides the main Computist magazine, Softkey also published related Commodore User, known to the readers as the abbreviated CU, was one of the oldest British Commodore magazines. A publishing history spanning over 15 years, mixing content with technical and games features.
Incorporating Vic Computing in by publishers EMAP, the magazine's focus moved to the emerging Commodore 64, before introducing Amiga coverage in , paving the way for Amiga's dominance and a title change to CU Amiga in Covering the bit computer, the magazine continued for Bajtek is one of the first popular magazines devoted to computer science in Poland. It was published between and The magazine ceased print publication in April Continuously published for 30 years, Computer Shopper magazine was established in in Titusville, Florida.
It began as a tabloid-size publication on yellow newsprint that primarily contained classified advertising and ads for computers then largely kit-built, hobbyist systems , parts, and software. The magazine was created by Glenn Patch, publisher of Nacque nel febbraio del ed era il primo magazine quattordicinale dedicato al PC mai pubblicato in Italia.
Miscellaneous Magazines and Newsletters regarding the Apple family of computers, kept in this collection when only a handful of example issues or single issues are currently available. They will be moved into other collections as needed. From apple2history.
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