Gizmo’s Tech Support Alert is a great resource for finding legitimate freeware that, oftentimes, rival applications you are required to pay for. A few that I use and highly recommend are: CCleaner: Formerly branded as “Crap Cleaner”, CCleaner is a system optimizer that cleans temporary files from Windows operating system and a number of 3rd party applications, repairs the registry, uninstalls/removes programs from Uninstall menu and allows user to cleanup start menu, etc. Defraggler: File [...]

Busy day at?Google as they took a shot at Microsoft and Mozilla with their Chrome browser and also released a major update to?Picasa. Please visit the Official Google Blog for more detailed information on both announcements. At a glance: Chrome: It shouldn’t come as a shock to see simplicity and user-friendliness reign supreme in Chrome. However, don’t be sand-bagged into thinking Chrome is a “bare bones” browser as there have been a number of subtle [...]