The best four-letter word is free — especially for IT pros. And these days, with so much open source tech around and so much good will toward developers who offer astounding and useful freeware, there’s a lot to wade through.
So with a little help from the CIOs and IT pros who write for my (author: Gina Smith) geeky techblog, aNewDomain.net, I found the best freeware out there and put it through its paces. It wasn’t easy to select just 10 freeware utilities for you. But I bit the bullet anyway.
In no particular order, here are top 10 freeware packages the CIOs and tech pros I interviewed are in love with right now.
1: Start8
2: Ninite
3: Oracle VM VirtualBox
4: Everything
5: Fing
6: LastPass Password Manager
7: Foxit PDF Reader
8: Wappwolf for iOS
9: Combofix
10: Stellarium
