Filed under: Business, Utilities, Windows, Freeware
Get WinBackup for free
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Feb 9th 2006
There is no shortage of backup apps for Windows, that's for sure.
There aren't that many for free, however, and certainly even less that are commercial products offering an app for
free. The catch with WinBackup is this: you can get version 1.86 for free, but version 2.0 will cost $49.95. See
how it works? Get 'em hooked on the stuff then jack up the price. I'm kidding, since 1.86 is pretty good to begin with.
Personally I wish more companies would do this. Why make previous versions go away? Release them for free, and sell the
new version on the merits of better features. Unless those features are too lame to justify the cost, ahem. Adobe used
to give away limited versions of Photoshop with scanners, and I think that has paid off, because Photoshop is as close
to ubiquitous as it gets for software.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
