Newsletter Archives

• Freeware Spotlight — Staying at home edition

  Posted on April 27, 2020 at 01:00 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  BEST UTILITIES

  By Deanna McElveen

  We’re certainly living in a different world right now — social-distancing with friends, co-workers, and others; social-bonding with family.

  Those of us still working are in many cases doing so from home — some with the added complication of kids. And then there’s the drain on our bank accounts. All of which make the community of open-source and freeware software development more important than ever.

  To help you get through the current trials and tribulations, here’s a compendium of utilities and apps, for both adults and kids, that might make your stay-at-home experience a bit easier.

  Here we go …

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.16.0 (2020-04-27).

  Best Utilities AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Calculators, gaming, LibreOffice, TeamTalk, Video editing

• Freeware Spotlight — Win7 Games for Windows 10 and 8

  Posted on September 30, 2019 at 01:00 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  BEST UTILITIES

  By Deanna McElveen

  Moving from Win7 to Win10 is somewhat like moving to a new town. Sure, many of the big stores are in both places, but what about that favorite coffee shop?

  For Windows 7 users, migrating up can mean leaving behind some familiar versions of treasured games — good ol’ FreeCell, Hearts, Solitaire, Spider Solitaire, Mahjong, Minesweeper, and others — and wandering through the MS Store maze or the silliness of Win10’s “Solitaire Collection.”

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.35.0 (2019-09-30).

  Best Utilities AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Freecell, gaming, Minesweeper, Pinball, Solitaire

• Freeware Spotlight — AppleWin

  Posted on May 27, 2019 at 04:05 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  By Deanna McElveen

  In every Freeware Spotlight column, I write about useful and free utilities that can help you work a little faster or make your work a little easier.

  But as this is Memorial Day, we’re not gonna focus on work! Today, it’s a bit of fun.

  Read the full story in the May 27, 2019, AskWoody Plus Newsletter (Issue 16.19.0).

  Digital Entertainment Apple II, Battleship, emulators, gaming