Software Reviews are a great way to speed up the process of selecting an application. At this site, I find and evaluate applications, then provide a comparison of the applications in a way designed to help you pick the one best for you!

Please feel free to recommend an application category for review.

I include both freeware and commercial software in my reviews. I'm a strong advocate of freeware (about half the software I use is freeware).

In addition to the individual category reviews here, I also keep separate summary recommendations for freeware and shareware applications in all categories.

Most Recent Reviews
Having just started (June 2007) this part of my site in June, I've been busy deciding what categories of software to review and which applications to include in the reviews.

In each category I've identified a recommendation but will be revisiting the recommendations as I work through the review process in each category.

Here are my most recent reviews:

Context Menu Shell Extensions	(Oct 2008)	- add right-mouse context menus features to Windows Explorer
Equation Parsers	(July 2007)	- evaluate user-entered equations at run time
Icon Extractors	(July 2007)	- view and icons found within files

Software Review Sites
These sites provide software reviews, similar to the approach I've taken at this site - comparisons of competing applications.

Top Ten Reviews KickStart News

My Software Recommendations
I've provide both freeware and shareware suggestions. I've also broken out PC Mag's Utilities, which are shareware to the extent that you have to pay an annual $20 fee to download any or all of the utilities they offer.

• Gary Beene's Freeware Recommendations
• Gary Beene's Shareware Recommendations
• Gary Beene's PC Magazine Utility Recommendations

Software Lists
These sites have gone to the effort to suggest their recommendations for software (no comparisons here of competing programs).

• Pricelessware 2007
• The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities
• 2007 Shareware Industry Awards
• The Great Software List
• Top 300 Freeware Software
• xtort.net

Software Directory Sites
These are sites which provide descriptions and downloads of freeware or shareware, listed in Google rank order as of mid-July, 2007.

Freeware	Shareware
Nonags AnalogX Sofotex Freeware Home Mihov Freeware Completely Free Software Freeware Web Top Quality Freeware The Free Site Pricelessware TuDogs Freeware Network A1B2C1 Free Computer Software Free Software 4 All Only Freeware FreeWR Solways' Page Freeware World Team OnlyTheBestFreeware Freeware Files FreewareFind Freeware Downloads Freeware Download Box Openwares	Tucows CNET Download.com SoftPedia Jumbo 5 Star Shareware Paul's Picks Shareware Junkies TopShareware Softpicks Net Shareware River PC World Download Soft14 Download-By.Net MajorGeeks Windows Shareware Hall of Fame The File Transit Rocket Download Free Downloads Center PC Download World Softforall Sofotex Soft32 Allen's WinAppsList SoftAwards BlueChillies