Once upon a time, people were perfectly happy to install hard drives with a maximum capacity of less than 1 GB. Nowadays with operating systems alone taking up five times that, we’ve increased the standard size of a hard drive to over over 100 GB, with many computer users having between 500 GB – 1 TB of space. With all that extra capcity, our files are getting harder and harder to organise and keep track of. FlexTk aims to make file management easy with its range of tools designed to quickly maintain even the biggest file systems.

MozyHome is one of two online backup programs offered by Mozy, the other targeted towards business users. It uses the internet to backup your data. It’s a taken a while for online backup to catch on, mostly because of the bandwidth costs involved. The lack of decent upload speed amongst users has also been a problem that high speed connections are now quickly solving. This service could very well save your job or your home life when your computer crashes loosing important documents and family memories, so it’s worth taking a look especially as Mozy offer 2GB of backup for no charge at all.

Most people know about ZIP and RAR, two forms of compression that can make large files much smaller to make them easier to transfer over the net. It’s pretty impossible to use the net for long without running into a ZIP file, but about a 7-Zip file? If you’re curious, or if you’ve just downloaded a file that ends in .7z and want to know what’s going on – read on!

Email client Thunderbird is less known to the masses than Mozilla’s increasingly popular Firefox browser, but it’s still becoming a very popular tool. Thunderbird has a range of features that help you customize and organize your email. If you’ve been using a native client or indeed a web based service for a while, why not take a look at our Thunderbird review and see if you could benefit from the programs impressively large feature set.

Jv16 is an all-in-one system maintenance tool for Windows. Its features are generally geared towards cleaning, repairing and retaining your registry and file system and it can quickly complete tasks that would otherwise take hours. The software was previously only available on a trial basis and cost $30 to purchase. However, the program has recently become freeware, so it’s time for us to take a look at what the software can do.

AbiWord is part of a larger development project known as AbiSource, which aims to create an open source office suite that works across multiple different environments. Although AbiWord is the only practical piece of software to come from the project so far, it’s shaping up to be a very flexible and practical program which has versions that can run on just about Operating System available. We take a look at the program and see how its features stack up compared to those of Word and Writer.