Thank you Gizmo! Enjoy your retirement!

Gizmo is retiring! Long Live the Team!
Many thanks for all you've done for Gizmo's Freeware and for us users, and may your legacy live on with the Team to follow in your footsteps.

Many thanks, ol' pal, for the foresight that birthed techsupportalert and the stick-to-it-iv-ness (thanks for that, Sister Mary Albert) that has been instrumental in its growth, development, and success. May you live long and prosper!

Always friendly if not the friendliest web visit of every day. Thank you for your presence, presents, and prescience. Best wishes always.

This site has been an invaluable resource for many years. Thank you, and enjoy your retirement.

I wish U all the best "sir" amd all the health and happiness u can find i really luv ur website and have folled it for a couple yrs now and it wa sreally helpful to me U take care and may god bless u Sir!!
al young

Thanks for all your time here! Enjoy your retirement and stay healthy!

I'VE FORWARDED MANY OF YOUR LINKS TO FRIENDS AND FACEBOOK. ALWAYS DESCRIBING YOUR SITE AS A TREASURE OF THE INTERNET. ENJOY AUSTRALIA, A LAND WHERE EVERYTHING IS TRYING TO KILL YOU. MANY THANKS FOR AN INVALUABLE SERVICE. LIVE LONG AND PROSPER. (i'M 75. STILL WORKING...YOU QUITTER).

This site has been an invaluable resource for many years. Thank you, and enjoy your retirement.

Open Source is great stuff. But I cannot condone software distribution that does not include everything required to install and run it. This program requires Java runtimes. I get that these cannot be distributed with the software due to license issues perhaps, but other software with the same limitations have the installer program actually go and get the required additional items making it EASY for the person installing and wanting to use the software to actually accomplish that task. Call it lazy, or careless programming maybe? It just makes for a poor end-user experience. If you are going to do something, then do it fully, IMHO. Moving on to some other program that actually works after I complete the install.

Thank you for all your work, and best wishes for your retirement!

All the best for your retirement. This DEFINITELY is a "go to" site for me ALMOST every day.
Many heartfelt thanks for your amazing dedication but as a 75 year old myself, I know exactly where you are coming from.
Happy 2021 and many years to come!!

I was introduced to the Tech Support Alert back in the day through the Internet Tourbus. I don't know what I would have done all these years without this wealth of information that has helped me troubleshoot problems, improve productivity, and manage my 'digital life' effectively. Gizmo, your work has been a gift to the world! I'm happy to see that the site will go on, leaving a long-lasting legacy. Many blessings to you in your retirement! May you enjoy a well-deserved permanent vacation! From a grateful Gizmo fan. :)

All the comments posted just about sum up what you have given so many people. Take care and have a happy retirement.

Thank you so very much for your many years of dedication. As a 75 year old, I too understand where you are coming from but still I am saddened by your retirement news.
Happy 2021 and many year to come!!! Take care my friend!

Thanks. Good luck.
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75? Time flies.

Happy retirement. You've made an impact on my life. I have found many good programs and start all searches here.

Many thanks for all the help you've provided over the years and for all the wee gems you've brought us.

Thank you. You're efforts have been invaluable to me since you began so many years ago.

Enjoy the well-deserved retirement! Everything you have done for all of us is so appreciated!

Thanks Gizmo for a great site. Have been a follower for as long as I have been on the 'net.
All the best for the future!

Thanks, goodbye, and enjoy your retirement!

Thanks Gizmo!
Your website is a thorn in the side of all those software webpages that put ‘commercial’ interests over helping the public

Your invention of an honest webpage without hidden agendas truly revolutionised how the public can obtain much needed information about FREE software

I can safely say your website revolutionised my life and how I can obtain maximal productivity from my computer

May TechSupportAlert live forever. Thank you to all the moderators who keep this dream alive

sounds good. already have read that post of yours too, Rhiannon.

Enjoy your retirement, and I will join the chorus of voices claiming this is the end of an era. Your insights, knowledge and enthusiasm for this stuff have been a great resource for more people than you'll ever known -- thanks for everything!

The end of an era. I remember when you first started with your freeware newsletter Ian and the TechSupportAlert site was little more than a basic repository for your newsletter archives. Although you probably won't remember, you and I used to communicate occasionally via email back in those days. You were, and always have been, a freeware guru with an extraordinary understanding of new and innovative freeware... and a thorough gentleman to boot. I sincerely wish you all the best in retirement and thank you for your years of helping us mere mortals.

Cheers... Jim in Oz

Congratulations, Ian/Gizmo!
You've accomplished something great here. And the fact that it will continue without you is a testimony to how your vision of quality free software has resonated with others.
I remember the hoopla around Windows Secrets, which was not much more than just that: hoopla. But your work has stood the test of time.
Many thanks.
Bruce Fraser

Gizmo has been a staple of mine since I first got internet. LOL
Thank you kindly!
Su

Happy trails Ian !...
love, hugs and spitty kisses from Wally in Bundanoon, Oz

By George!

All the best to you Gizmo, and thank you for this digital legacy that managed to survive through such rugged times!

Thank for all the years, best of luck in all you do in the future

I would also like to add the AceThinker Online Audio Recorder as one of the best streaming media recorder. It is an online app that can help you record music in high qualiy output. Here's the link of the tool https://www.acethinker.com/record-audio

i've checked the site mentioned above. not very much difference on them. both australia and ptio. priv australia tools also mentioned those things criticise by the that "lemy.ml". there are even the similar "mistakes" on both sites. like; duckduckgo, brave, etc.

WOW! *applause*
:-)

This is KEWL!!!
It looked lame and I almost didn't try it
THANKS!

I enjoyed listening to several of the forest sounds since they loop/repeat. It's pleasant background sound. Some were distinct enough that the repeating sounds bothered me a bit. If your ear picks up repetitive patterns easily the site may not appeal to you. As Sturgeon General mentions, you may enjoy my Noise, and there are many good collections of nature sounds on YouTube.

These recordings vary in length as you describe, but 'loop'. They are meant to be a soothing background (white) noise for relaxation rather than a full length movie. You may be more interested in an earlier posting also by Rhiannon from back in June...
https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/find-200-best-ambient-and-white-noise-sounds-site.htm
Here you find quite possibly the best sound generator period. I had my doubt to begin with, but this is the one!! You will not need any others after this one.
Thank you Rhiannon!!!

Confirming that Mozy is gone forever. Former Mozy customers were given the opportunity to purchase Carbonite storage at a discount back in April 2019. Mozy should be removed from the article on next revision.

i think up until now, this is the best overall radio streamer on windows for me.
it's simple. small file size footprint. yet quite powerful.
available both as installed or as portable application.

I have this installed, but my VPN will not allow communication. I have to disconnect the VPN every time I wantr to use YourPhone. Do you know of any work round which will enable this to work seamlessly?

As of version 10 the free Foxit apparently does NOT support PDF creation.

Thank you! That is a critical piece of information for me and everyone else who hasn't installed the toolbar before.

Thankyou for Sharing Above App. This is the first place I go when looking for a new app for my Android phone.

Did you follow the steps to install it using the directions at either of the sites mentioned in the article?
If you're having trouble finding the toolbar after going through the steps outlined at both sites post back and we'll see what we can do. Here's the sites that have the directions that are linked in the article above:

Want Faster Searches? Add Everything Search To Your Windows Taskbar!

Add Everything Search to the Windows Taskbar for even faster searches

I'm delighted you like it. :)

Me too. The toolbar interface is different than pinning the program to the taskbar but it's very well implemented I think. I've been using it for a few weeks and haven't found any hiccups. Nicely done.