Tuesday 13 December 2016

Free Email Reminder Service

FollowUpThen lets you clear out your inbox by forwarding your emails to yourself to be received at a future date using an email addresses like nextweek@followupthen.com or weekdays5pm@followupthen.com
A free account is limited per month to 50 Followups, 5 recurring Followups and 5 tasks. See: www.followupthen.com

Tuesday 15 November 2016

Bitdefender Free Desktop Apps

Bitdefender now offers over 10 free security tools that can enhance your antivirus, especially if you are relying on the built-in antivirus for Windows or have no Mac antivirus. See: http://www.bitdefender.com/toolbox/freeapps/desktop/

Sunday 13 November 2016

Kaspersky Anti-Ransomware Tool for Business

Kaspersky Anti-Ransomware Tool for Business is a free tool that protects you against ransomware and cryptomalware immediately! Works with most security software – you don’t need to have Kaspersky Lab’s security installed to use this tool!
See: https://go.kaspersky.com/Anti-ransomware-tool.html

Friday 11 November 2016

OpenDNS Family Shield

OpenDNS Family Shield is FREE service that is applied your home router or computer network settings. Pre-configured to block adult content, together with built-in fraud and phishing protection. There is nothing for you to configure and no sign up is required. See: https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/

Monday 7 November 2016

LastPass Strong Password Generator


Use the online LastPass Password Generator to instantly create a secure, random password. Password generation is done client-side, on your computer and is never shared with LastPass.

NB - You do not need a LastPass account to use this service.

See: https://lastpass.com/generatepassword.php


Wednesday 12 October 2016

HTML5 Internet Speed Test

The SourceForge Speed Test is uniquely designed to test your current Internet connection speed for Latency/Ping, Jitter, Download Speed, Upload Speed, Buffer Bloat, and Packet Loss. Also, this HTML5 speed test does not require Flash or Java, and works on all devices including tablets and smartphones. sourceforge.net/speedtest

Thursday 6 October 2016

The No More Ransom Project

The “No More Ransom” website is an initiative by the National High Tech Crime Unit of the Netherlands’ police, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre and two cyber security companies – Kaspersky Lab and Intel Security – with the goal to help victims of ransomware retrieve their encrypted data without having to pay the criminals. See: https://www.nomoreransom.org/

Monday 19 September 2016

Free Network, Server & Application Performance Solutions

ManageEngine simplifies IT management with software solutions that are easy to use, easy to deploy, and very easy on your budget, with over 16 free IT solutions and 36 free tools. Typically fully featured, but limited to 10 servers / 50 users. See: www.manageengine.co.uk/free-tools.html

Tuesday 30 August 2016

Free Code Camp is an open source community that helps you learn to code through their self-paced coding challenges. Once you finish the first 1,200 hours of challenges, you’ll get to build a series of solutions for nonprofits. You’ll work in pairs, under the supervision of a volunteer project manager and a stakeholder. It takes about 2,080 hours to complete the Full Stack Developer certificate, for more info see: https://www.freecodecamp.com

Wednesday 20 July 2016

Run Your Android Mobile Apps On Your Computer

The FREE BlueStacks App Player is an Android Emulator that lets you run your mobile apps on a Windows or Mac computer. Optimized for mouse and keyboards, making messaging apps quicker to use, as well as being able to share files between Windows and Android apps. See: www.bluestacks.com

Wednesday 13 July 2016

Sync Files Between All Your Devices

Syncplicity is a leader in enterprise file sharing and collaboration, but still offers a FREE personal edition with a 10GB allowance to sync files between all your devices. Features include unlimited file size sync, unlimited devices, sync any desktop folder, file sharing and real-time document versioning and backup, all to a choice of public cloud locations (US or EU). See: www.syncplicity.com

Tuesday 28 June 2016

Apple Swift Programming Language

The Apple Swift programming language is now open source as well as free. Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns, suitable for mobile and desktop apps, scaling up to cloud services. See: https://swift.org/

Thursday 23 June 2016

FREE Webroot SecureWeb™ Browser for iOS

The FREE Webroot SecureWeb app for iOS protects you from malicious web sites and content with real-time anti-phishing protection that enables you to customize your protection level. Features an advanced URL reputation database, improved tabbed browsing and password management.

Requires iOS® 8.0 or later, compatible with iPhone®, iPod touch®, and iPad®, see: http://www.webroot.com/gb/en/home/products/ios

Wednesday 15 June 2016

Free Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) In Office 365

Protect your Office 365 admin account credentials (and any users) with the free Azure multi-factor authentication option included in your subscription. Second factors include the Azure Authenticator mobile app, SMS or phone call to a pre-assigned mobile, or App passwords for non browser clients (eg Outlook) and device apps that don't support MFA. Users can also trust devices for up to 60 days, for more info, see: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Set-up-multi-factor-authentication-for-Office-365-users-8f0454b2-f51a-4d9c-bcde-2c48e41621c6?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

Saturday 11 June 2016

38 Free eBooks From Microsoft Press

Microsoft Press have published 8 new free titles in 2016, covering SharePoint, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, SQL Server 2016 and Xamarin, with 38 titles available on the Microsoft Virtual Academy website. eBooks are available in PDF, EPUB and Mobi for Kindle formats. You must sign up as a member of the Microsoft Virtual Academy which is free, before you can download the eBooks. For more info see: https://mva.microsoft.com/ebooks#9780735697225

Friday 10 June 2016

Monitor And Block Bad Bots From Your Website

Bots can account for 50% of all web traffic and bad bots can affect your business. 4 different types exist: Hackers, Impersonators, Ad Fraudsters, Scrapers. A FREE DataDome account features bot traffic monitoring, unlimited hits/month, dashboard access and 72 hours of backdata. Paid accounts add blocking features, 1 month of backdata and support options. See: https://datadome.co/

Thursday 9 June 2016

Which Websites Support Two Factor Authentication (2FA)?

Protect your online accounts by enabling two factor authentication (2FA) so that a hacker would need your mobile phone as well as your username and password. Two Factor Auth (2FA) is a free online list of websites and services that support 2FA. Split into 25 categories and an option to request 2FA where it is not yet available. See: https://twofactorauth.org/

Wednesday 8 June 2016

Password Strength Check

Some passwords that we think may take ages to crack actually take minutes. Quickly check how long it would take for your password will be brute-forced with an average home computer and a botnet. Only to be used for educational purposes, do not enter live passwords. See: https://password.kaspersky.com/

Tuesday 7 June 2016

Manage And Protect Your Identity

Blur is an easy-to-use online privacy system with a FREE account option, features include encrypted passwords, masked emails, tracker blocking and auto-fill. Lets you easily generate a unique strong password for every account. If you don't want to give a website your email address the system lets you give masked emails, and then receive emails privately or block them as spam. The Premium version adds masked credit cards, masked phone and backup and sync features. See: https://www.abine.com/index.html

Monday 6 June 2016

Privileged Account Discovery for Windows

User accounts with full admin rights are a security risk. Privileged Account Discovery Tool by Thycotic is a FREE utility which discovers your Windows privileged accounts on the network and generates immediate, detailed reports. Passwords are never recorded or exposed, and sensitive information is never stored. See: https://thycotic.com/solutions/free-windows-privileged-account-discovery-tool/

Wednesday 1 June 2016

20GB Of Free Online Storage Space

pCloud is your personal online storage space for your photos and videos, music or important documents. All your files are available wherever you go, on any device - iOS, Android, Desktop, Web. Access it on your smartphone, your computer using pCloud Drive, or via any browser on my.pCloud.com. Sign up to instantly get 10GB of free online storage space, with up options to earn an additional 10GB. See: www.pcloud.com

Saturday 28 May 2016

alphr A-List

For over 20 years I have relied on PC Pro magazine's A-List of the best products they have reviewed. The online version pcpro.co.uk is now alphr.com and they recently posted an online version of the A-List, see: http://www.alphr.com/technology/1002673/a-list-the-best-tech-you-can-buy-in-2016

Friday 27 May 2016

Control Whether Windows 7/8 Upgrades to Windows 10

Never 10 is an easy to use FREE utility which gives users control over whether their Windows 7 or 8.1 will upgrade itself to Windows 10. Also removes ~6.5GB of installation files that may have automatically downloaded. See: https://www.grc.com/never10.htm

Monday 23 May 2016

FREE Single Sign-On (SSO) For Office 365

Connect Office365 to your Active Director using the Okta agent, and solve a multitude of login and user administration issues in a matter of minutes. No more password reset fiascos or profile sync challenges. Okta Cloud Connect is free forever for any number of users for one app. See: https://www.okta.com/office365/

Thursday 19 May 2016

FREE Windows Repair Tool

Tweaking.com - Windows Repair is designed help fix a large majority of known Windows problems left by malware even once removed including; registry errors, file permissions, issues with Internet Explorer and Windows Updates. Free for personal use, the Pro version adds features like automatic updates, an enhanced drive cleaner, memory cleaner and speed tweaks. Available for Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, see: http://www.tweaking.com/

Thursday 12 May 2016

Free Mobile & Web Prototyping

Marvel lets you quickly design, prototype and collaborate on mobile and web projects. Create screens directly in Marvel or add your images from Photoshop or sync designs from your cloud storage! Add gestures and transitions to make your prototype feel just like a real app or website. The free plan features unlimited projects and commenting on your first 3 projects. See: https://marvelapp.com/

Tuesday 10 May 2016

Emergency Virus Rescue Disk

Clearing a virus from an infected machine is never easy. ESET SysRescue Live is a free malware cleaning tool that runs independent of the operating system from a USB/CD/DVD. See: www.eset.com/int/support/sysrescue/

Tuesday 19 April 2016

Nik Collection by Google is now Free

The Nik Collection desktop suite which previously sold for $150, is now free. Comprised of desktop plug-ins that provide a powerful range of photo editing capabilities, from filter applications that improve color correction, to retouching and creative effects, to image sharpening that brings out all the hidden details, to the ability to make adjustments to the color and tonality of images. Plug-ins available for Adobe Photoshop®, Lightroom®, or Aperture®. Unfortunately Google sold the Nik Collection to DxO, see: https://nikcollection.dxo.com/

Tuesday 12 April 2016

Fix Outlook and Office 365 Problems

Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant for Office 365 works by running tests to figure out what's wrong. It can automatically diagnose and fix many problems for you, or it can tell you how to fix them yourself. I recently used it to fix a sync issue with Outlook 2016. See: http://diagnostics.office.com/

Tuesday 22 March 2016

FREE Online Cyber Security Classes

Everything you need if you are interested in learning cyber security, from the people who are doing it, the people who have done it, the people who have learned from it and the companies that are innovating on it, and all for free. Cybrary currently offers 159 FREE full-length online cyber security classes, with no time limits. See: www.cybrary.it

Wednesday 9 March 2016

Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4 for Windows 10

Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a small free portable utility for making over 200 tweaks to your Windows settings. While you may be able to access all these via the Windows 10 Settings app, the Registry Editor or the Group Policy Editor, this makes things easier by offering all useful tweaks from its single UI. See: www.thewindowsclub.com/ultimate-windows-tweaker-4-windows-10

Tuesday 8 March 2016

Microsoft Office Configuration Analyzer Tool

The Microsoft Office Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT) 2.1 provides a quick and easy way to analyze Microsoft Office programs for known configurations that cause problems. For any problems that are listed, there is a link (usually a Microsoft Knowledge Base article) about each problem so that you can read about possible fixes.Supports Windows Vista, 7, 8 & 10 with Microsoft Office 2007, 2010, 2013 & 2016. See: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2812744

Thursday 3 March 2016

FREE Team Communications

Ryver is a new free team communication platform that integrates chat with posts, allowing you to “promote” a chat to a more formal post. Every member can create teams and invite users with no additional costs. Available for Windows, OSX, Linux, Android & iOS, see: www.ryver.com

Thursday 18 February 2016

Cloud-enable Your Existing File Shares

Enterprise File Sync and Share without moving your data or changing your IT infrastructure. DatAnywhere is deployed behind your firewall, allowing you to access and work on data from anywhere, on pretty much any device, without using the cloud. 100% free forever for up to 5 users. See: http://www.varonis.com/products/datanywhere/

Wednesday 17 February 2016

Check Suspicious Files For Viruses

Metascan® Online is a free online file scanning service powered by OPSWAT’s Metascan technology, a multiple engine malware scanning solution. Check files up to 140MB with 43 anti-malware engines. Additional features include inputing a MD5/SHA1/SHA256 checksum to see if the hash has been compromised and scaning an IP address to determine if it has been compromised. See: https://www.metascan-online.com (also available as a Google Chrome extension)

Thursday 11 February 2016

FREE Team Communication Portal

The Slack messaging system is free to use for as long as you want and with an unlimited number of people. A free account lets you search and browse 10K most recent messages, includes 5GB of storage, 10 service integrations (Twitter, Google Docs, Dropbox, GitHub, etc) and multi-team support. Available as free native apps for iOS, Android, Mac & Windows, see: https://slack.com

Monday 8 February 2016

FREE WiFi Scanner For Windows

NetSurveyor is an 802.11 (WiFi) network discovery tool that gathers information about nearby wireless access points in real time and displays it in useful ways. Available for Windows only as freeware. See: http://nutsaboutnets.com/netsurveyor-wifi-scanner/

Wednesday 3 February 2016

Learn Digital Marketing Skills For FREE

Google's Digital Garage lets you learn the digital marketing skills you need to grow your business, your career or just your confidence. Currently split into 89 lessons covering 23 topics and completely free. See: https://digitalgarage.withgoogle.com

Friday 8 January 2016

Transfer Music From Your iPod

If you have an old iPod, you may no longer have the computer that held the original iTunes music library, which is a problem if your music was encoded from CDs. If your iPod has the one and only copy of your music, adding new tracks from another computer can end up removing the existing tracks. Copying the music off your iPod isn't easy, as iTunes is not designed for this, but PodTrans is a simple, fast and FREE iPod music transfer utility for PC & Mac. See: http://www.imobie.com/podtrans/download.htm

Saturday 2 January 2016

Scan Your System for Vulnerable Applications

Heimdal FREE is a security utility that scans your Windows computer every 2 hours for outdated software. The FREE version is limited to a list of 20 common applications with security issues, including Adobe Shockwave, Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, Adobe Air, Chrome, Firefox, VLC, Microsoft Silverlight, QuickTime, Skype, & Thunderbird. Available for all versions of Windows, see: https://heimdalsecurity.com/en/products/heimdal-free