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.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
