OPCUG Archived Reviews Use Ctrl+F to search this page. Products A-J
(The)123 of digital
imaging (electronic book review) Dec/05
ACDSee - A Canadian Image
Management System Feb/05
Acer Aspire One Take a look at
Acer's smallest and most portable notebook.
Feb/09
Acronis Disk Director
Suite 10.0 Modify disk partitions on
the fly. Apr/09
Acronis True Image 2009 ("Image is
Everything") Backup and restore your hard
drive with Acronis True Image 2009. June/09
Active Tray 1.1 (Divcom
Software)
Apr/04
Administrator's Pak v3.0 -
ERD Commander 2002 (Winternals Software)
Apr/02
Airnef Use Wi-Fi to
transfer photos, videos, and other file types
from your camera to your Windows or Apple
computer. Apr/16
Alpha Five v4.5 Relational
Database (Alpha Software)
Jun/02
AOPR Pro v3.03 (ElcomSoft)
Recover your lost passwords with Advanced Office
Password Recovery Professional. Apr/05
Ashampoo Burning Studio 6
Free Burn discs quickly,
easily, with maximum quality and minumun hassle.
June/12
Audacity ("Recording
Directly from a Sound Card") Jan/15
Audio CD MP3 Studio and HyCD Play&Record (It really is easy to make your own CDs) Jun/00
Auslogics'
BoostSpeed 5 ("Give
Your Machine a Boost") Its powerful tools
will clean up, speed up, and repair your system.
May/11
Auslogics Disk Defrag (Better Disk
Defragging – Upside Down?) A review of
Auslogics Disk Defrag, a freeware program from
'down under'. Oct/07
AxCrypt: File Encryption
with AxCrypt Jan/09
Backup Plus: Reduce Backup
Frustrations (Avantrix Inc.)
Nov/00
Backup Programs
("Finding a Backup Program") Our President, Chris
Taylor, compares several free and retail backup
programs and chooses one. Feb/16
Batch File Renamer (Ezyware)
Building a Better Image
Nov/09
BlackICE Defender
Bootable CD with no CD
(How to Create)! A review of two programs:
Total Mounter (Freeware) and Rufus (Open Source).
Feb/14
Bulk Rename Utility ("Batch
File Renaming") Mar/14 Call Control ("Blocking
those Da*n Telemarketers") A free Mobile App May/17
Cambridge Chemistry
Capture2Text ("On-Screen
OCR") You don't have to print and scan
protected text to do OCR. Just run OCR directly
from the screen with this open-source program.
June/14
CCleaner Really clean up
your hard drive, including your registry, with
this free program.Sep/06
CDBurnerXP Burn CD's and
DVD's for free – with CDBurnerXP Sep/09
CD-Finder Pro: "a
thing of beauty" Sep/03
CD-R and CD-RW Burning 101
- part 1 Oct/02
CD-R and CD-RW Burning 101
- part 2 Nov/02
Choosing a Digital Camera June/01
Connectix Virtual PC for
Windows Feb/02
ContextConvert Pro v1.3 Nov/03
Copying vinyl to CD for
less than five bucks May/05
Copying vinyl to CD for
less than five bucks – Part II June/05
Copying vinyl to CD for (one hundred and) five bucks (using Easy Media Creator 7) – Part III Sep/05
Corel Painter X Feb/08
Corel Snapfire Plus Corel's photo
manipulation program. Nov/07
Corel turns a big 10!
CorelDraw 10 May/01
Cryptxt v3.21 - Encryption
Software Sep/03
Defrag Commander Personal
Edition Feb/02 Desktop Restore ("Saving and Restoring the Desktop") Keep your desktop icons where you want them with this free program. Sep/18
Digital Image Pro 9 (Microsoft)
May/04
Digital Photography,
Expert Techniques (Book Review) (O'Reilly Books) Nov/04
Disk Commander v1.1 and
Remote Recover v2.0 (Winternals Software) May/02
DiskAlert (Executive
Software) May/02
Diskeeper 3.0 (Executive
Software) 25-Nov-98
Diskeeper 5 May/00
Diskeeper 6 SE Oct/01
Diskeeper 7.0 Feb/03
DOSBox
("DOS-in-a-Box") An Open Souce DOS emulator
Feb/15
Drivecopy (PowerQuest)
25-Nov-98
Drive Copy 3.0
& Drive Image 3.02 Sep/00
DriveCopy 4.0 Nov/01
Drive Image (PowerQuest)
27-Feb-98
Drive Image 4.0 Dec/00
Drive Image v.5.0 Mar/02
Drive Image 7 (PowerQuest)
Feb/04 Dropbox ("File transfer using Dropbox") Jan/18
EaseUS Data Recovery
Wizard Professional May/09
EaseUS ToDo Backup Free
6.5 A free and easy backup
program that can do incremental images. Mar/14
Easy Media Creator 7 (Roxio)
Apr/05
Easy Media Creator 7 (Roxio)
("Copying vinyl to CD for (one hundred and)
five bucks – Part III") Sep/05
Easy2Boot
("Multi-Boot for UEFI") Create a multi-boot USB
drive for new computers that don't support it. Mar/16
eClean 2000 for e-mail
legibility Mar/01
Electronic File Shredding Freeware to
shred those sensitive files or wipe an entire
hard drive. May/09
eMule A free Peer-to-Peer
program for sharing music and other files. Jan/05
Encarta Reference Library
2004 DVD Plus (Microsoft)
Jun/04
ERD Commander 2002 (Administrator's
Pak v3.0) (Winternals Software) Apr/02
E-Remove: A pre-processor
for incoming e-mail. Nov/01
Etherfast Cable/DSL
Router: A hardware-based router
Feb/01
EVEREST Home Edition:
What's inside the box? EVEREST Home Edition is a
freeware program that will tell you what hardware
you have in your computer. Apr/07
Excel 2007 - The Missing
Manual A book review Oct/07
Excel Compare: Identifying
Changes to Excel Spreadsheets (Formula
Software, Inc.) Nov/04
Excel Programming
with VBA Starter ("Looking a gift horse
in the mouth?") Book review. Apr/15
Exploring Linux - Part 1 A comparison of
the Ubuntu and Knoppix versions of Linux. May/06
Exploring Linux - Part 2 June/06
Exploring Linux - Part 3 Oct/06
Exploring Linux - Part 4 Nov/06
Exploring Linux - Part 5 Apr/07
Exploring Linux - Part 6 Sep/07
Exploring Linux - Part 7 Nov/07
Exploring Linux - Part 8 Jan/08
Exploring Linux - Part 9 Apr/08
Exploring Linux - Part 10 Jun/08
Exploring Linux - Part 11 Dec/08
Exploring Linux - Part 12 Apr/09
Exploring Linux - Part 13 Oct/09
Exploring Linux - Part 14 Feb/10
Exploring Linux - Part 15 Sep/10
Exploring Linux - Part 16 Jan/11
Exploring Linux –
Part 17 June/11
Exploring Linux –
Part 18 Sep/11
Exploring Linux - Part 19 Jan/12
Exploring Linux - Part 20 Feb/12
Exploring Linux - Part 21 Mar/12
Exploring Linux - Part 22 May/12
Exploring Linux - Part 23 November/12
Exploring Linux - Part 24 March/13
Exploring Linux - Part 25 May/13
Exploring Linux - Part 26 Jan/14
Fairstars CD Ripper ("CD
Ripping") A Freeware CD ripping utility
Nov/14
File Renamer Basic A freeware
program to easily rename batches of your digital
files. Oct/10
File Shredder and
HDShredder ("Wipe Out Old
Data") Remove all traces of data from your
computer with these free programs. May/16
FileZilla - Open Source
FTP Mar/05
Flash animations on the
Web: an introduction Dec/01
FolderSync – File
Comparison and Directory Synchronization Sep/06
FotoFusion Pro v3.7 Edit your photos
and arrange them in beautiful collages. Feb/07
FoxReader vs.
Adobe Reader (Foxit Software) Oct/05 Free Pascal ("A Free Pascal Compiler") Jan/19
Freedom Internet
Privacy Suite Mar/01
FreeFileSync ("File and
Folder Synchronization Revisited") An
alternate free file synchronization program to
Microsoft's SyncToy. November/12
GIMP ("Digital
Image Editing with GIMP") An open-source
digital editing program. October/12 GIMP Intelligent Scissors Cut an object out of a photograph for use as a stand-alone image with this open-source program. Jan/19
GIMP "Save as
JPG" Plug-in" ("Saving JPG Files in
GIMP") Apr/15
Gizmo Central
("Virtual CD Management") Jun/15 GlassWire A free firewall that monitors both inbound and outbound internet traffic. June/18
"Google Hacks: Tips
and Tools for Smarter Searching": A Book
Review Jan/06
Google Keyboard ("Speech to Text App") Jun/15 GParted – A little
open-source “partition magic” Nov/08 gps4cam If your camera doesn't have built-in GPS, this app can geotag your photos. Oct/19
Greenshot A small,
powerful, flexible screen capture program - and
it's free! Nov/13
HDShredder and
File Shredder ("Wipe Out Old
Data") Remove all traces of data from your
computer with these free programs. May/16
HDClone 4
(Mini-Review ) A free disk imaging
program. Sometimes you get what you pay for...
May/11
herdProtect This free
program uses 68 search engines simultaneously to
find malware on your computer. Sep/15
Hide in plain site Dec/01
High speed wireless internet, anyone?
(Storm High Speed Wireless Internet) Mar/01
HoDoKu (Bernhard Hobiger) Play SuDoKu on
your computer with this free program June/11
Homesite (Allaire
Corporation) 03-Apr-98
HyCD Play&Record and Audio CD MP3 Studio
(It really is easy to make your own CDs) Jun/00
IconRestorer ("Keeping
Your Icons Straight") Keep your on-screen
icons in their carefully arranged locations with
this freeware program. April/13
ImageRecall 3 (Lost your digital
photographs? - You need ImageRecall 3) Mar/07
Image Resizer Building a Better Image Nov/09
Images to PDF (i2pdf) Drop a
bunch of images into this freeware program and
have it create a PDF file. April/13
Incredimail Jan/02
InCtrl3 (Freeware: Neil
J. Rubenking, PC Magazine) 12-May-98
InkSaver (Strydent Software)
Sept/02
Internet Annoyances (a book review)
Apr/06
Irfanview32 Graphics
Utility Mar/02
iHateSpam (Sunbelt
Software) Dec/02
I-SIG reviews bookmark
organizers Mar/01 J5CREATE USB 3.0 DOCKING STATION (JUD481) Boomerang Feb/19
JPEG 2000 June/01
JSOff ("Toggling
JavaScript in Firefox") Stop annoyances
like video clip ads from loading in Firefox web
browser. Mar/16
Just for Fun – The
Story of an Accidental Revolutionary A book about the
early days of Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
Sep/06 Just Reminder ("Just
Remind Me!") A free Mobile App May/17
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