Best free software

www.snipca.com/57260 What you need: Windows 10 or 11 The last time we included Any Video Converter (AVC) Free in this section (Issue 717, page 18), we explained how to use its new browser for download

www.snipca.com/57399 What you need: Windows 7, 8.1, 10 or 11 Winaero Tweaker was once our go-to tool for fixing Windows annoyances, but it’s been nearly 18 months since the last version. As a surprise

www.snipca.com/55189 Wintoys was by far your most-downloaded tool of 2025, rising from 12th place in 2024. This brilliant system-optimisation app (it’s only available from the Microsoft Store) was upd

If I compiled a tech ‘naughty list’ for 2025, a la Father Christmas, there’d be plenty to choose from. AI ‘slop’ would top the list, followed by ads on streaming services, cloud-hosting outages and my

In your answer to Tom Rathbone’s question about ebook formats (Issue 724, page 69) you could have mentioned the app ReadEra (https://readera.org). I installed it on my iPad earlier this year and it su

WinRAR will celebrate its 21st birthday in 2026, but perhaps it’s time this ageing file-compression tool was retired. In August, it was reported that a serious zero-day vulnerability in the software h