If you recently tried but was unable to log into this site, it may have been due to a Denial of Service attack that occurred on Monday the 21st and spilled into the day after. As I write this on Tuesday the 22nd, it is still →
Free Windows 8 Ebook Giveaway
The book is titled “Windows 8: 50 Questions and Answers You Need to Make a Decision”. Its purpose is to expand upon the unprecedented changes Windows 8 introduces to the Windows franchise, such as touchscreen support, a Windows store, improved security, and cloud integration (to name a few). This →
Software giveaways for the holidays: AnyTrans and Duke Nukem 3D
It’s the holiday season again, and time for free software giveaways for us 47% (joke). This time around in what might be the most random post we’ve put together on this site, we bring you two items: (1) AnyTrans: a handy utility for iOS devices that →
Why does Google hate this site?
Something happened the weekend before thanksgiving, Nov 17; a Google algorithm change of some sort that once again took away about a third of our search traffic (it was reported here). This comes on the heels of a first ‘Panda update’ at the end of June which →
Watch ‘The Lord of the Rings’ as a 90+ minute LEGO animated feature
The ‘Lord of The Rings’ epic is back, this time in LEGO form. You may be familiar with LEGO’s cutscene videos, which are little animated vignettes that are part of the commercial LEGO video games. Or these videos are released as part of the marketing for →
The best Freewaregenius articles of October 2012 (if you’ve missed them)
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 →
Play a revitalized Half-Life with the FREE Black Mesa Total Conversion Mod
Do you look back on the original Half-Life game with nostalgia and pleasant memories of blowing up aliens, squishing enemies with a crowbar and exploring the Black Mesa compound? You’re not alone, and that means that the total conversion mod called Black Mesa will definitely be →
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 →
