Best free software

Q Can you please recommend a program that will help me keep track of my books. I’d like a device I can scan the book with and then load it on to a database. Can it work with graphic novels too? Peter

Back in our Summer 2018 issue we showcased Microsoft Lens, a brilliant free tool for scanning documents using your smartphone or tablet. Sadly the company has recently announced that it’s retiring the

www.snipca.com/56242 What you need: Windows 10 or 11 It’s been eight months since the last major new version of Files, but this huge update justifies the wait. The brilliant file manager has been rede

It’s tempting to think that deleting a file means it’s gone forever – but that’s not really the case. Data can often be recovered from your hard drive for a long time after it’s supposedly been erased

In Issue 714 (page 42), we wrote about a new Firefox experiment called Link Previews. This shows previews of web pages before you click the links to open them, including the first few lines of their c

www.snipca.com/56404 What you need: Windows 10 or 11 Google Play Games lets you play more than 200,000 free Android games on your PC, using your mouse rather than a touchscreen. Launched in beta two y