Freevo is an HTPC (Home Theater PC) solution that allows the user to store all types of digital media collections such as music, videos, photos, etc. It also gives users the capability to manage these digital files through a remote TV interface. A built-in web interface enables the viewing of TV guides and the scheduling of recordings from anywhere around the globe. Freevo is completely DRM free and plays virtually all forms of video formats. It is adaptable to a standalone HTPC computer with TV plus remote and an ordinary Read More

Text messaging software allows individuals and businesses to send and receive text messages from a computer to many different cell phones, pagers, and PDAs at once. Many large companies use text messaging software to take advantage of the fact that nearly everyone has a cell phone and that millions of people send and receive text messages on a daily basis. For example, Paypal uses text messaging software to allow their customers to check their balance and send invoices from their phone. Likewise, Google uses text messaging software to allow its Read More

For high-quality free video editing software, the TopBits staff actually recommend two excellent Open Source solutions. When utilized together, these two video editing productivity tools provide a reasonably comprehensive digital video editing “bay”. Movica Movica is an ultra-compact Windows application that will allow you edit WMV and ASF files (using Asfbin) and MPEG files (using Mpgtx), which are two very decent command line editing tools. Movica provides you with a clean graphical user interface that makes the above two line editors user-friendly, and utilizes an exhaustive array of hot key Read More

Everyone understands that they need to manage their finances but many people do not keep up with this task as often or as well as they should. This is mostly due to the fact that many people are simply overwhelmed with their financial information and have no idea how to keep track of it. Some people hire personal accountants to manage their money for them but the majority of people cannot afford such luxuries. Fortunately, there are many free accounting programs out there that can manage personal finances almost as Read More

Survey software is a type of software that allows a user to create surveys for his/her website, blog, or profile of a particular social networking site. In addition to surveys, survey software allows users to create forms and polls and can even be connected to recurring advertisements in order to generate profit for the user. Survey software is often used by companies and other organizations who wish to receive feedback from their customers and members. This article will demonstrate the ease of use and effectiveness of survey software by listing Read More

Student software refers to a type of software that facilitates the needs of students around the world. Student software can include any program that aids a student in communication, education, safety, design, finances, or computer navigation. Student software is often free and/or open source so that students can access these programs without worrying about the cost. Student software can be used by students, office personnel, and anyone else who needs a strong collection of office programs. This article will list a number of these programs that are completely free to Read More

When companies and organizations wish to compile all of their customer or consumer information into one client, they use customer data integration software. Customer data integration software is used to integrate customer addresses, sales, demographics, customer needs, and features that would appeal to certain customers into one interface system so that the business entity can view all of this information at once in order to speed up production and make more sales. In this article, we will look at customer data integration software and various products available on the market. Read More

In the world of ubiquitous computing and internet connectedness there is always a real possibility of picking up malware or viruses. Antivirus software can help protect users from these threats through detection, scanning, and quarantine or deletion of whatever malware is found. There is a number of free solutions available if you don’t want to or can’t pay for such software. ClamAV Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for Unix. The main purpose of ClamAV is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). ClamAV provides a flexible and scalable Read More

Most of us have dozens of passwords of which we must keep track. Password manager software exists to help us keep track of those passwords by storing them in a secure database. Password Safe Password Safe is a tool that allows you to have a different password for all the different programs and websites that you deal with, without actually having to remember all those usernames and passwords. Password Safe runs on PCs under Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP). Password Gorilla Password Gorilla is a password manager that stores your login information, sorted Read More

File recovery software refers to a type of program that is capable of retrieving files that got lost because of computer malfunction, malware, or accidental deletion. File recovery software is very important as hard drives and other storage devices can get damaged or corrupted. When files are deleted from a storage device, the computer simply flags that information for rewriting and does not actually delete the files. File recovery software is able to find these hidden files in the user’s storage device and flag them as permanent files so that Read More