More of China's programmers are writing shareware--home-brewed, low-cost software--for fun and small profit, according to the official Xinhua news agency. Unlike commercial software from behemoths ...

What if you could walk out of a computer software store with a bushel basket full of programs and not pay a dime? And as you left, the clerk would hold the door open and say, "If you find anything in ...

How honest are people when they think nobody's looking? The Internet is a fine place to find out: The near-frictionless ease of sharing files online means that if you want to download something ...

Shareware allowed budding developers to distribute their games affordably and reach a wider audience through copying and ...

The end of the long-time software-sharing repository underlines that personal computing isn't what it used to be, as we keep moving apps (and desktops) to the cloud. Once upon a time, in the early ...

Software is computer code that tells a computer how to perform a specific task. There are many kinds of software, including operating systems, applications, and malware. Software can be distributed ...

Editor's note: This is the first of three articles on utilities for personal computers that will appear over the next several issues. Part 2 will deal with DOS utilities and part 3 with desktop ...

Its one-word title has become synonymous with the best of shooter games, and when Unreal first hit the market, the title not only stood for a PC program, but also did a pretty good job of describing ...

I just bought my first Windows box in about five years, and I miss all the freeware and shareware programs I had on my mac. Stuff like IRC clients and FTP programs and other apps that do other cool ...

Add or Remove Programs entry for KB Piano. KB Piano is a virtual piano software. Just press the keyboard's keys and you'll hear sounds coming out your speaker. You can easily configure it to play ...