Great Mac OSX Freeware – Browsers – Which Browser?

Users will – all too often – come upon a site which performs poorly (or not at all) in their default browser. The simplest workaround is to access the site …

Great Mac OSX Freeware – Office Suites

There are a variety of freeware office suite packages available: including both lite browser-only suites and full-featured downloadable dmgs. Something to suit almost everybody really: most users being unaware of …

Great Mac OSX Freeware – Videoware – Handbrake Revisited

Handbrake is an excellent freeware video editor: it can handle a variety of useful video editing tasks, and includes a batch-editing feature. This post looks at some additional Handbrake features …

Instagram planning & post scheduling

Daily posting to Instagram cries out for an instagram feed manager: and believe it or not, there are some Freemium plans available that are well worth a second look. This …

Great Mac OSX Freeware – The Unarchiver

OSX incorporates its own Archive Utility into Finder: but the Archive Utility cannot open every kind of archive – for example, .rar files. Users who find themselves working with archives …

Great Mac OSX Freeware – Video – Blender

Apple’s iMovie is a brilliant video editor for beginners: but what can users do when they (inevitably) come across something that iMovie can’t? They should download and start using Blender, …

Great Mac OSX Freeware – Video – iMovie

OSX’s iMovie is a brilliant video editor for beginning users: it packs a surprising number of features within a user-friendly and well-designed interface, with intuitive controls that new users figure …

Great Mac OSX Freeware – Office Suites – LibreOffice vs OpenOffice

There are differences between LibreOffice and OpenOffice? Apparently. But the differences are so minor – both Office suites derive from OpenOffice.org  after all – that users will require all their …

Free Virtual Private Networks or VPNs

A Virtual Private Network (or VPN) is a discreet network defined inside the internet: secured by encrypted end-to-end tunnels between users and the VPN server. 1. Why do I need …

McGIMP = GIMP + G’MIC (+ more)

What is McGIMP? Why should GIMP users care about or want to use it? McGIMP, very simply, is GIMP plus. McGIMP is a recompiled GIMP installation made available to the …