The veteran geeks among us, who have spent the better part of the last three decades behind a computer screen, all share one nightmarish computer tale: The Hard Drive that Died.
It is a dramatic tale of how precious data—potentially years’ worth of work—was lost forever. It can happen suddenly, through a lightning strike or [...]

We wrote previously about a way to mount ISO images in Windows without using a physical CD ROM drive (Create a Virtual CD ROM drive to Mount ISO Images). We have found a tool that is easier to use and is also free.
Virtual CloneDrive emulates a CD/DVD drive. Once the software is installed, Virtual CloneDrive [...]

You download an ISO image for some awesome free software you found and want to install it. You find you either don’t have any CDs to which you can burn the image or you don’t have access to a CD writer. Virtual CDRom can solve your problem.
Virtual CDRom is a virtual CD ROM driver utility [...]

FreeCommander is a handy, free software program that offers more features and ease of use for handling files than Windows Explorer. It provides a dual-pane interface that makes is a lot easier transferring files between drives plus other useful features.
Download FreeCommander at http://www.freecommander.com/fc_downl_en.htm.

Have you found the perfect color for a part of your website on someone else’s website? Color Detector is a free tool that provides a quick and simple way for you to get the Hex and RGB codes for any color you see on the screen.
Download Color Detector at http://www.cosmin.com/colordetector/.

You have probably found yourself wondering at some point how, even though you have a 500 GB hard drive, you have no space left on it. Where did all that space go? SpaceSniffer is a portable freeware program that can answer that question. It shows you a graphical representation of how folders and files are [...]