Carputers News and Computer Tips

An update to the Lotus Symphony 1.0 release came out this week.  According to the release notes, features have been added, the suite’s memory footprint has been reduced, and there are several bug fixes.  Check it out!

Edit 10/18/2008:

The Symphony Blog lists more “how-to” videos for Lotus Symphony users. 

Edit 11/29/2008:

Lotus Symphony 1.2 was released on 11/04/2008.  The Symphony Blog lists what’s new.

Edit 01/19/2009:

The Washington Post says that IBM Lotus Symphony is an Excellent-and Free-Office Suite in an article they published today. The article’s source is a mini-review written for PC World magazine by Preston Gralla.

PC Magazine’s Kyle Monson writes:

Each year, a team of PC Magazine editors, bloggers, and analysts assembles to find the best Web sites of the year. We pore over thousands of submissions from PC Mag staffers, proud Web admins, enthusiastic PR flacks, and readers just like you. We then painstakingly whittle the list of nominations down to 100 Undiscovered Web Sites.

There are definitely some gems here - enjoy!

The TechMixer blog recently posted a good list of free CD and DVD burning programs for use on Windows.  We’ve used all of the listed programs on several different Windows PCs with no problems or issues.

Our personal favorite,  BurnAware Free Edition, isn’t on the linked list above.

Edit 10/18/2008:

The Smashing Downloads blog lists 5 Free Smashing CD/DVD Burning Softwares for your perusal and use.

Edit 12/20/2008:

The makeuseof.com blog lists The Best, Free Alternatives to Nero CD/DVD Burner.

Edit 04/29/2009:

Download Squad lists 5 great free CD and DVD burning apps for Windows.

Courtesy of Google, we now have a custom Windows Freeware Search Engine.  Here’s a preview:

It can also be found at the top of our Links to Free Software page.  It has been customized so that the search starts with all of the freeware sites that we’ve linked to on that page and in this blog.  If you have a specific need for a program to perform a particular function, or if you’re just curious as to what’s available, give it a spin.

As always, please contact us if we can be of assistance.  We’d be happy to help!

These are the 100 top Web apps, 10 each in 10 categories, according to Webware users and the fans of the products that were finalists in the awards.