Defraggler is a free defragmentation tool for optimising the performance of your hard disk. It does this by re-arranging file fragments so they’re all contiguous where possible, which translates into faster seek and save times. The commercial King of the Hill is Diskeeper, but it costs $29.95, which makes this puppy a bit of a bargain. Defraggler is slower than Diskeeper, but that’s probably because it analyses each file fragment to give you the option to optimise parts of your disk rather than the whole thing….

Instant Storm is a freeware program for making video screensavers from any Flash (.swf) file. The resulting file is something you can distribute as well as enjoy yourself, which is neat. Grab yourself some video footage with your camcorder or digicam, convert it to the Flash format with Internet Video Converter and Bob will be a very happy relative as you create a family screensaver treasure. Funkadelic!  InstantStorm is a Windows freeware tool for creating Flash based screensavers with many…

The developers at Checkpoint have got together with those at Zonealarm and created a new free security program called Zonealarm Forcefield. The product shields your PC from unwanted malware attacks, gives you a private browser function which removes all traces of your web movements and provides a ‘virtualization engine’ to prevent anything entering onto your system without your knowledge or approval (a bit like Sandboxie). I downloaded and installed it to test, but pretty quickly removed it when I realised that it…

Digital Camera Enhancer. A nice free utility to help improve the quality of your digital photographs. Focused only on skin tone, noise and light balance, but worth having in your tool chest nonetheless.  Free DCE does the hard job of noise reducing and automatic balance control for you. And it is free! The program works best if you have bad light condition (indoor, shadows etc..) and your image is somehow off. So if some of your images are already fine,…

Internet Video Converter. Free video converter which at first glance looks like a straight rival to Super. However look a little closer and you’ll notice some interesting and valuable differences. First the interface is significantly better than Super. Second it offers a few more easy to use features – e.g. one click video download from a huge selection of video sites (although the version I tested has a few glitches which hopefully will be fixed with the new version). It also…

Game Giveaway of the Day. One free commercial game given to you to download every day. Aren’t they lovely people?  our game service is online again and this week we will be bringing it back to full speed, that means a game giveaway every day. We are going to publish both old hits and new games. Get ready for shooters, arcades, strategies, puzzles and quests, we are working hard on adding new titles to our collection! Tags: game+giveaway+of+the+day, freeware, games

Nexus Radio is s ‘100% free’, iPhone and iPod compatible streaming radio service which offers one click recording of any of the over 6000 stations they stream. So we’re talking advertising funded Tivo for Internet radio here, which is somewhat interesting. The audio comes in 5.1 Surround Sound flavour, and there’s a useful little audio editor included so you can trim and fix recorded tracks. You need to download the free player, but it’s actually quite a nice application, with a simple interface and…