Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 70 Comments

There is an impressive range of excellent freeware Windows enhancements and tweaks. This posting will present forty three excellent additions to Windows that you will like.

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Freewaregenius’ clickmaps analysis
June 15, 2009 – 7:46 pm | 16 Comments

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I recently used created clickmaps of my new Freewaregenius theme in order to shed light on what people were doing on my site. The results were very interesting to me and, I would imagine, they would be interesting to a lot of readers, especially those who have their own sites or blogs. I therefore created this post to share these clickmaps as well as some of the insights that came out of them.

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Hulu Desktop: high quality, browser-free videos optimized for a “Media Center” style experience
June 3, 2009 – 12:58 am | 8 Comments

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Hulu desktop is a free desktop client for Windows and Mac that connects to the Hulu service and plays Hulu videos and programs within a sleek, feature-rich interface, without the need for an internet browser. It features a spectacular look-and-feel, high-definition video, and offers the ability to resume partially watched shows. It also supports standard Windows Media Center or Apple IR remote controls.

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Twingly Screensaver: visualize the blogosphere in real time
May 29, 2009 – 3:22 pm | One Comment

Twingly Screensaver ScreenshotThe Twingly screensaver is a free screensaver that displays blog postings visually on a representation of the globe in real time as they are published on the internet.

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Earth Album: browse the globe in pictures with this mashup of Flickr and Google maps
May 23, 2009 – 1:16 pm | 3 Comments

Earth Album ScreenshotClick on a world map to see images from all over the world using Earth Album, a free web service that is a mash-up of Flick and Google Maps.

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Announcing: Appnews.net
April 28, 2009 – 2:52 pm | 13 Comments

appnews logoAppnews.net is a project conceived and created by Andrey from Rarst.net in collaboration with Freewaregenius and Ghacks.net. It’s purpose is present a stream of the latest freeware software updates with links to postings/reviews of the software published on Freewaregenius, Ghacks, and Rarst.net.

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AnAppAday: 30 free apps created in 30 days
March 24, 2009 – 1:29 pm | 4 Comments

Jedi Window Dock ScreenshotAnAppAday is one blogger/programmer’s month long project where he created one app per day for 30 days straight. Using the pseudonym “The software Jedi” he did this during the period between 9/15/2006 and 10/14/2006 and published it on a blog.

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Evri Toolbar: add in-text related information and media to your browsing experience
March 10, 2009 – 8:42 pm | 5 Comments

Evri ScreenshotEvri is a service that indexes the web and delivers a different kind of search based on discovering relationships between entities. The Evri toolbar brings an Evri search box in your browser toolbars area. It also introduces Evri term highlighting, which enables you to hover over a highlighted term in your browser and get a floating, tabbed window containing a definition of the keyword, some connections it has to other entities, and the latest news articles, images, and videos that relate to it.

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Usernamecheck: check availability of a username in many websites at once
February 3, 2009 – 9:57 am | 12 Comments

Usernamecheck ScreenshotUsernamecheck is a free web service that checks the availability of your desired user name across more than 60+ sites (webmail services, social networking, video and music sharing, etc).

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