Re: Freeware on magazine sites

de The Six Million Dollar Man 05/09/2006 10:22

Frank Bohan wrote:
> "Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:4c8l66F14co7qU2@individual.net...
>> In article <445e5f3f_3@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>, "Frank Bohan"
>> <franbo@sparkingwire.com> wrote:
>>> "Heinrich Himmelschrei" <Heinrich-_-Himmelschrei@web.de> wrote in message
>>> news:9qap52lb5s2qve6qs7ok54qa7uvb27ecdi@4ax.com...
>>>> "Frank Bohan" <franbo@sparkingwire.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know of any computer (or other) magazines which include any
>>>>> downloadable freeware on their sites? The location of the magazine is
>>>>> irrelevant.
>>> Thanks to all for replies. This query seems to have turned up some
>>> interesting sites.
>> Care to list the best of them (or all you have, with annotations)?
>> Could be a useful contribution to ACF.
>>
>>
>> Cheers, Phred.
>>
>
> I haven't had time to look at them thoroughly, but these four seem most
> likely to be useful. I discarded two, one was difficult to navigate, the
> other one was in German. It seems that uk magazines are the most helpful in
> putting
> programs online.
>
> Computer Active (mag) http://www.computeractive.co.uk/downloads/
> PC Answers (mag) http://www.pcanswers.co.uk/downloads/
> PC Utilities (mag) http://magnesiummedia.com/pcutilities/

The downloads at this site are capped at 2kbps. The cap is only removed
when you subscibe to their premium service for a fee of £1.99.

> PCPlus (mag) http://www.pcplus.co.uk/home

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