Most of our readers do not visit this site every day, and are likely to have missed some excellent articles; which is a shame, because while some of the posts we publish are written in the span of a day, others take weeks, even months to →
How to install freeware cleanly – a catalog of the most dubious crapware installation methods
The internet has brought about an explosion of free software that seems to just keep going strong. A lot of people wonder why so many people create and put out high quality software out there for free, and I am convinced that most of it is →
Apple’s new connector is a big mistake (and other reasons why I abandoned Apple and iOS)
Since the first iPhone was introduced we’ve purchased four iPhone models in our household as well as an iPad 2. Prior to the launch of the iPhone 5, I became the proud owner of an Android device (the wonderful Galaxy Note), but my wife still preferred the →
Today is Software Freedom Day: Sep15, 2012
These days, free software is everywhere. This site runs on Wordpress, a totally free content management system and blogging platform and is hosted on servers that run Linux, a totally free operating system. The database running in the background, MySQL, is also free, as are many →
Wunderlist 2 is on the way as Wunderkit is nixed
If you follow this blog you know that we are very fond of Wunderlist, the stylish, GTD-influenced task management app which saves your data in the cloud and can be used on mobile devices and for sharing tasks with your team. Not only did we award →
Brick Force – Is Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming dying or is it just evolving?
Massive Multiplayer Online Games, also called MMOs, have been around for some time now and it has been stated by some supposed experts that they are on the way out the door. The Internet community in general and the more than two billion people who play →
Google Project Glass: wave of the future or the downfall of civilization?
Imagine being able to access anything on your Android without touching it. Imagine being able to view anything on the screen without being anywhere near it. Imagine being able to send and receive messages, and all kinds of other alerts, directions, information all without moving your →
Google’s belligerent Panda: why the way Google does algorithm updates hurts small sites and gives larger sites an unfair advantage
Google’s last Panda 3.8 update which happened in late June 2012 took away two thirds of my traffic, reducing my readership to the same level it was more than 18 months ago, and making the site essentially unsustainable, a personal cash drain that cannot be maintained in the →
New WordPress theme implemented on Freewaregenius
If you follow this site regularly, then you would have seen the almost daily changes that have been going on for more than a week now. We finally moved away from the Hybrid theme framework over to Thesis. The reasons for this is that (a) I →
An interview with yours truly, on the Freemake blog
Freemake, makers of our absolute favorite free video conversion program and many other excellent free software titles, have just launched a tech blog of their own. One of the first articles is an interview with me, conducted via email, which was just published. Read it here. →
How much free cloud storage space do you really need? — SkyDrive’s 7 gig free plan examined
Do you have a free Dropbox or other cloud storage account? If so, how much of your free space do you actually use? According to the guys at Microsoft Skydrive, 99.94% of users who have had access to 25 gigs of free space only ACTUALLY use up to →
Support Donationcoder: 2012 fundraiser underway
If websites were judged on (a) the quality of their user-contributed content, (b) the extent to which their users were engaged in the topic, and (c) the likelihood that someone using the site was going to get value-added responses to their questions, then free software site →
