ARTICLE DATE: 01.31.07 By Tony Hoffman "Most software is expensive and bloated. Yet free software typically does one task and does it with precision and elegance. Among the thousands of free apps available on the Web, how do you find the best, most reliable ones for your needs?
"To produce this story, we asked PC Magazine staffers to share their best-loved free software and were inundated with responses."
Included are some AV programs, with comments, some "Productivity" stuff, and a few games. Notable, for some perhaps, are about a dozen FireFox add-ins, that might be of interest.
The link is to a magazine article, and they like to make you click through a bunch of "pages," so you can see all the ads. If you click on "Print" at the bottom of the first page you can get it all in one swell foop to scroll through. I'd link direct to the printable view, but I've found that it doesn't work well at this site.
At the top right at the link, the table of contents shows a "free software - at a price" entry that's recommended reading, perhaps. One of the editors did get bit by some malware, but the article puts it in context.
There's unlikely to be much here that isn't known by those with an interest in freeware, but having a bunch of addys all together might be of interest, and - you might find something new.