Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 71 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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TrackMania Nations Forever: impossibly fun stunt-driving game
February 22, 2009 – 10:43 pm | 7 Comments

Trackmania Nations ScreenshotTrackMania Nations Forever (TMF) is a freeware racing game that distinguishes itself by way of its impossible stunt driving. It can be played both single player and online, and was designed to be widely accessible. This game runs on the Microsoft Windows platform.

[Editor’s note: this review was written by Freewaregenius contributor Travis B. Check out his freeware games blog here].

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IpodMe: Ipod video converter that is reliable, portable, and lightweight
February 17, 2009 – 8:31 am | 22 Comments

iPodMe ScreenshotIPodMe is a free, open source program that can convert video into MP4 format suitable for iPod or iPhone playback. It is a portable, single executable which contains all the filters and codecs needed for it to do its job.

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PDF Split and Merge 2.0: a PDF editor with a visual interface
February 12, 2009 – 12:08 am | 9 Comments

PDFSam screenshotPDF Split and Merge 2.0 is a powerful free PDF editing program that can split, merge, and extract PDF documents. It employs a visual editing interface that allows users to drag and drop thumbnails of pages to arrange or combine them, and to edit pages (rotate, delete, etc) by right clicking on them.

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StExBar: toolbar that adds useful functions to Windows’ folder view
February 11, 2009 – 2:27 pm | One Comment

StExBar screenshotStExBar is a free Windows extension that adds a number of useful functions as a Windows explorer toolbar, including a filtering box, toggle show system files, copy names or paths, mass rename, and a command line console. It allows you to add your own functions to the toolbar (or as keyboard shortcuts) if you have an executable or script.

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Closure: a “philosophical” flash game about being and nothingness
February 9, 2009 – 9:32 am | 8 Comments

Closure is a free online flash platform/puzzle game with a philosophical twist. Except for a few deliberately placed light sources, the game environment is shrouded in darkness, and the only physical reality that exists in the game is that which you are able to see; all else is void.

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Free Disk Usage Analyzer: find where all your disk space has gone
February 4, 2009 – 1:33 pm | 16 Comments

freediskanalyzer screenshot1Free Disk Usage Analyzer is a free hard drive analysis tool that reveals those files and folders on your drive(s) that are occupying the most disk space. It displays ranked lists of both your top space-hogging files and folders.

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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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Vertor: a site for “verified” torrents
January 28, 2009 – 2:41 pm | 11 Comments

vertorlogoVertor is a torrent listings site with a simple premise: only display torrents that are checked to be free of viruses and malware and have been verified to contain the content that they claim. Offers media “previews” on the site such as 20-seconds snippets from audio files and thumbnails from videos.

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