FreeTech

So, you’ve recycled an old PC, installed a free operating system on it or maybe it’s still running Windows, and the next step is to get hold of some office applications like a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation package.
Microsoft Office is an option, but it’s not free (the Home and Student edition currently costs £60) [...]

OK, so you’ve got hold of a free PC from a local business or the classified ads, but the hard drive is completely blank so you can’t even boot it up. What now? Given that this website is all about free technology, it’s a safe bet that you don’t want to splash out on a [...]

Getting hold of a very inexpensive or even free PC isn’t as difficult as you might think. One of the advantages of living in our modern throwaway consumer society is that technology is usually designed to be discarded and replaced once newer products become available. Because of this old technology, and particularly computers, lose their [...]