Category Archives: Software

McAfee VirusScan Plus Free one year Subscription

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Nerd

McAfee is offering a free one-year subscription for its VirusScan Plus product. If your antivirus software is expiring soon or you want to try an alternative, then the price is definitely right. The offer expires December 31, 2008. A firewall … Continue reading →

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Get ZoneAlarm Pro for Free – One day Only!

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Nerd

On Tuesday, November 18th, you can grab yourself a free copy of ZoneAlarm Pro!  ZoneAlarm Pro is an antispyware, identity protection, and firewall for your PC – normally costing $40.00.  At 6 AM PDT, Tuesday morning this page: http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/sum/index.html will … Continue reading →

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Prevent Windows From Shutting Down with Shutdown Guard

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Nerd

We’ve all been there… you go to bed, leaving some programs open – maybe some of them unsaved documents.  The next morning you scream in agony because your computer was restarted from your friendly neighborhood automatic update service! Now, you … Continue reading →

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Software I Like: TreeSize Free

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Nerd

Have you ever wondered what is taking up the most space on your hard drive(s)?  It’s a pain to right click on each folder, getting the properties of each, just to see the size it’s taking up!  Like it’s big … Continue reading →

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FREE Codeweaver Crossover

Posted on October 28, 2008 by Nerd

Tuesday, Oct 28, 2008 Codeweaver is giving away Crossover Mac Pro, Games Mac, Linux Pro and Games Linux for FREE!!!!  Their servers are getting hammered, so they have put up a signup page for today’s promo: ** NOTE:  you must … Continue reading →

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Replace Vista’s Annoying UAC with Norton UAC (Beta)

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Nerd

Vista’s UAC can be annoying, and although I’ve shared with you how to make it less annoying, Norton (Symantec) has come up with a replacement UAC that is makes it much better! With one BIG feature – “Don’t ask me … Continue reading →

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SpiderOak – Secure, Easy, Online Backup/Share/Sync Software

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Nerd

As a responsible nerd, I cannot stress enough how important backups are!  Hard drives do fail, CD’s/DVD’s do scratch, and tapes do go bad.  My choice of backup is some sort of off-site backup.  What about security you might ask?  … Continue reading →

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