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March 2008

Yet Another 8 Absolutely Cool, Totally Free Utilities

Enjoy our latest collection of excellent free/open-source utilities for your USB toolkit
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How and why, you might ask, does Comodo offer such a worthwhile product for free? In a forum posting on the company Web site, the CEO expresses his intention of offering Comodo Firewall Pro for free as a means to build corporate brand identity and raise customer awareness. It’s a smart strategy, and I have a feeling Comodo Firewall Pro will be around for a long time. Comodo Firewall Pro runs on Vista and XP, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

CamStudio
In “8 More Absolutely Cool, Totally Free Utilities,” you’ll find a sidebar for a utility called Wink—a good tool for building screencast recordings. Screencasts are digital recordings of computer-display output, often overlaid with audio or video. These types of tools are becoming increasingly popular as training and demonstration utilities. After you produce a screencast, an audience of thousands can watch it immediately. Since mentioning Wink in that article, I’ve discovered CamStudio, another strong contender in this space.

CamStudio is a solid utility for recording screencasts, interleaving audio and video simultaneously, then producing final content in Web-friendly Flash files for easy, cross-platform consumption. Having paid for commercial versions of such applications in the past, I’m quite impressed with Cam- Studio and look forward to it being a strong contender in this space.

Can’t Beat the Price
Commercial versions of all the utilities in this article would probably cost more than $500. Save that money and download these free and open-source counterparts, which perform just as well. Stay tuned for the fourth installment of this series, in which I’ll share more free software gems to make your job easier.

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Reader Comments
Great finds.
Would nice if the article contained links though

chiefbobkat March 04, 2008 (Article Rating: )


where's the rest of the article?

jkboyett2 October 06, 2008 (Article Rating: )


yep, it works now. Thanks!

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