Best free downloads for 2025

It’s always exciting to discover a free PC program that offers advanced features you usually have to pay for. It’s also interesting to try new open-source tools from independent developers on GitHub (

I used to save everything to my Windows desktop – files, documents, software, the lot. I thought it was the only way to know where they were, but it made my desktop a complete mess. What I do now Now

Firefox 139, released at the end of May, lets you customise your New Tab page by using your own photos as wallpaper. Previously, you were limited to choosing from the browser’s own selection of wallpa

Sometimes you want to consolidate as many apps and system tools into as few packages as possible. AnyTech 365 IntelliGuard Pro aims to do just that: it provides a wide range of system optimisation and

Privacy pioneer In March, Meredith Whittaker, president of encrypted messaging app Signal, learned about the Trump Administration’s Signal-gate scandal from a group chat. Slack-jawed, she read the Atl

Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs didn’t have the smoothest launch in May 2024. There was only one big feature, and that was Recall: this promised the ability for users to jump back through time to what they w