Thursday, April 02, 2009

News and Free Software for Wednesday

Readers share their Security Baseline nominees

Windows Secrets readers have been giving me their feedback loud and clear: they hate Norton all-in-one products and love standalone antivirus, antispyware, and firewall apps.

Microsoft Rules Netbooks Now, Linux Lurks

Microsoft today sits comfortably atop the growing netbook market with Windows garnering 90 percent of netbook sales in November, December and January.  Can Linux survive?

Gmail: Expect bigger changes in next 5 years

Some thought Google's e-mail service an April Fools' joke when it arrived a half-decade ago. Look for Gmail's differences to increase in the next five years.

Recuva 1.25.409 (Windows)

Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted

Xobni 5342 beta (Windows), from Xobni Corporation - Free!

Xobni is the Outlook plug-in that saves you time finding email conversations, contacts and attachments.

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