{"id":64776,"date":"2026-05-16T08:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/?p=64776"},"modified":"2026-05-16T09:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:07:16","slug":"winrar-made-the-endless-free-trial-famous-but-these-apps-did-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/winrar-made-the-endless-free-trial-famous-but-these-apps-did-better\/","title":{"rendered":"WinRAR made the endless free trial famous, but these apps did better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WinRAR made the endless free trial famous, but these apps did better<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/winrar-made-the-endless-free-trial-famous-but-these-apps-did-better\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/winrar-made-the-endless-free-trial-famous-but-these-apps-did-better\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sublime Text<br \/>\nThe code editor that made developers normalize not paying<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sublimetext.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.sublimetext.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>VLC<br \/>\nThe media player that quietly became a full production toolkit<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details\/VLC_for_Android?id=org.videolan.vlc&#038;hl=en_NZ&#038;cjevent=4215df5b50fa11f1805f012c0a18b8f8\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details\/VLC_for_Android?id=org.videolan.vlc&#038;hl=en_NZ&#038;cjevent=4215df5b50fa11f1805f012c0a18b8f8<\/a><\/li>\n<li>KeePassXC<br \/>\nThe password manager doing the job of three paid apps at once<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/keepassxc.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/keepassxc.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>LibreOffice<br \/>\nThe office suite that made a $150-per-year expense completely optional<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Audacity<br \/>\nThe audio editor that professional podcasters refuse to stop using<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacityteam.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.audacityteam.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(And I&#8217;d like to add Irfanview)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WinRAR made the endless free trial famous, but these apps did better https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/winrar-made-the-endless-free-trial-famous-but-these-apps-did-better\/ Sublime Text The code editor that made developers normalize not paying https:\/\/www.sublimetext.com\/ VLC The media player that quietly became a full production toolkit https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details\/VLC_for_Android?id=org.videolan.vlc&#038;hl=en_NZ&#038;cjevent=4215df5b50fa11f1805f012c0a18b8f8 KeePassXC The password manager doing the job of three paid apps at once<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-64776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-freeware"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-24 01:23:36","action":"delete","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64778,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64776\/revisions\/64778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}