Services that can help you send large files are everywhere, it seems, but for some reason I find that I always blank out on which one is most appropriate to use when I actually need one. This post aims to provide an at-a-glance reference for ten →
Why Springpad is better than Evernote for managing your information
The past ten years or so has transformed the way we take notes and organize information. It is no longer sufficient to jot down notes on desktop sticky notes; we now need to access notes, bookmarks, clips, and tasks on our mobile devices as well as →
SlideRocket vs. Rvl.io – two Powerpoint alternatives compared
Do you need a platform to create and view slide-based presentations for business, art or pure entertainment? If so, you’re going to love this post: we’ve got a showdown between two free ways to make such presentations and give you an idea of which is better →
The best free disk imaging program: a comparative analysis (updated)
What is the best way to safeguard your computer and undo a system disaster? Most would agree that is done best by making a so called ‘disk image’, where your entire system partition is backed up and cloned, and the image saved on a different physical →
The best free data recovery tool: 14 undelete tools compared
We’ve all deleted files and folders by mistake, or formatted a drive, and subsequently realized that we wanted or needed some or all of the lost data. The good news is that, depending on your use of the hard drive after deletion, most or all of →
Five of the absolute best free image compression tools
Have you ever wanted to reduce the size of an image file without losing any of the sharpness, clarity or detail? There are a great many tools available for this process, known as image compression and it can be a real trial to sort through them →
Do copy acceleration utilities actually lower file transfer speeds? Our tests say yes
We’ve featured several file copy acceleration utilities on this site. Recently, however, we went in and did a head-to-head test to discover which of the many free options was the best at increasing copying speed. The results surprised us greatly: all of the tools we tested →
How to convert PDF to Word DOC for free: a comparative test (updated)
Last updated: Aug 6th 2012. This is our third update of this article, which we believe to be the best critical overview of TRULY free PDF to Word tools on the internet. With each update, a slew of tools are added and a number of the old →
How to legally sign electronic documents online: DigiSigner and SignNow compared
For one or two jobs and an occasional personal instance, I have had to sign documents electronically. There are a few ways to do so online, for little or even no cost at all so I decided to take a look at a couple of them: DigiSigner →
A comparison of FREE Cloud Storage Services
Now that the biggest tech companies in the world are taking aim at Dropbox (with Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon all offering their own cloud storage services), we thought we would compare the FREE cloud storage plans that are out there, in terms of how much free →
How to extract text from images: a comparison of 10 free OCR tools
Printing text to paper is done every day; on some occasions however the reverse is needed – getting the original text back from a scanned image or photograph, for further editing and use. This conversion is named Optical Character Recognition or OCR for short, and it can convert scanned books →
