{"id":1682,"date":"2008-04-24T11:25:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T15:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/04\/24\/nine-must-have-freeware-apps-rise-to-the-top\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:55","slug":"nine-must-have-freeware-apps-rise-to-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/04\/24\/nine-must-have-freeware-apps-rise-to-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine must-have freeware apps rise to the top"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-content\/uploads\/ws-monogram-logo.gif\" alt=\"ws-monogram-logo.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve linked to various <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/c\/?2118\">Windows Secrets newsletter<\/a> items in the past. It is an excellent newsletter and I highly recommend it. The issue I received today has a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/c\/?2129\">nine freeware apps that have been regularly centred out\/chosen in &#8220;best of&#8221; lists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The &#8220;best freeware&#8221; lists published by Web sites and magazines frequently trumpet dozens of programs, but the results reflect the subjective opinions of just one or two testers.<\/p>\n<p>To find the best of the best, I compared roundups of &#8220;great&#8221; freeware conducted recently by four reputable publications to find the programs that were endorsed by at least three of the reviews.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Out of the lists he looked at, only 9 programs were on 3 of the lists, and only 1 was on all 4. It&#8217;s a good read with links to each of the 9 programs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve linked to various Windows Secrets newsletter items in the past. It is an excellent newsletter and I highly recommend it. The issue I received today has a link to nine freeware apps that have been regularly centred out\/chosen in &#8220;best of&#8221; lists. The &#8220;best freeware&#8221; lists published by Web sites and magazines frequently trumpet &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommended-web-sites","7":"category-software-tips","8":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}