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If you are wondering whether you can do good PDF to Word (DOC, DOCX, or RTF) conversion for free, the answer is: Absolutely. This...

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FREE OCR software: a survey of desktop and online tools

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The Best Free Antivirus for Windows – January 2016

I have been looking into the question of which free antivirus is the best for almost 10 years now, and the only way to...

Adblock v. Adblock Plus: two Chrome extensions compared

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The best free disk imaging program: a comparative analysis (updated)

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The best freeware file manager: a comparative analysis

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A Zip/compression program is an essential fixture on any computer. There are so many excellent free compression apps that I am always astounded when...

Five of the absolute best free image compression tools

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The best FREE ‘send large files’ services: 16 file hosting options compared

Services that can help you send large files are everywhere, it seems, but for some reason I find that I always blank out on...

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