Freeware for Windows -- Where Did It Go?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday March 18, 2004 @08:32PM from the missing-in-action dept.

Talahamut asks: "The other day, I was planning on recording a radio show by running my stereo's output into my PC. Oooh, that sucks - WinXP's Sound Recorder limits you to 60 sec. recordings. Oh well, I'll just go online and grab a little WAV recorder. 30 minutes later, I'm frustrated because all I find is crippleware (time-limited, of course...) that records every format under the sun from any sound stream imaginable. What happened to the small home-brewed Windows utilities that used to be so easy to find online years ago? All the freeware sites I checked had nothing but commercial crippleware. Is there no place to find simple programs like that anymore?"

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Hey, do you feel the need to write your own? by gnovos · 2004-03-18 22:09 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Are you feeling up to writing the utility you need? No? Hmmmm, maybe that's where all the freeware went?

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