Terms such as Freeware, Free software, Open source, Shareware, Trialware, Adware, Nagware, etc are often used to define programs. Does one really know the difference between freeware and free software ...

Video production is rapidly becoming a part of mainstream business, whether you're shooting how-to videos for clients, video blogging for your site, or actually making movies for a living. Of course, ...

Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. In the rapidly growing digital arena, organizations are ...

Some computer programs or processes use code snippets that tell your machine's CPU to grab any unused memory available, which can slow your computer to a crawl. To prevent this from happening, deploy ...

Portland, Oregon-based Crowd Supply, a curated crowdfunding and e-commerce company that focuses on open-source projects, has launched a project to create the first pure free-software laptop: Purism ...

The best part about the Windows ecosystem is that it has a lot of cool, useful free software available for the operating system. Free software is the heart of Windows 11/10, and if you want to get the ...

Just because you're not forking over any money doesn't mean you're not paying a price for that freeware. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer ...

There are free and open source alternatives to just about every proprietary software package available today–the trick is just finding the right ones for your business. Luckily, fresh help is now on ...

We love our free apps, but some software is worth paying for. So should you cough up your hard-earned cash or not? Here are your best arguments. When you argue over specific software titles, you can ...

It was twenty years ago on Monday that I quit my job at MIT to begin developing a free software operating system, GNU. While we have never released a complete GNU system suitable for production use, a ...

As the saying goes, the best things in life are free: love, friends, and great software that works almost as well as a paid product. If you’re like me, you have probably shopped around for certain ...