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The Best Free Antivirus for Windows – January 2016
I have been looking into the question of which free antivirus is the best for almost 10 years now, and the only way to...
“The Bafflement Fires” – an experimental game designed to manipulate your world view
We’ve always been interested in the intersection between games and art, and have written up a number of games by Jason Nelson exploring the...
Get cloud access to anything on your PC, with TackaCloud’s ‘Personal Cloud’
Although Dropbox and other cloud services have gotten us used to accessing our files anywhere from the cloud, somehow there is always that important...
Introducing: The Ballerina Monsters
Are you missing Freewaregenius and wondering what we’ve been doing for the past several months? One project I’ve been working on is: “The Ballerina...
How to delete GMAIL contacts off your Android
It happens often that in the process of adding your Google accounts to your Android phone or device, you mistakenly sync all of your...
Is rampant cheating destroying Facebook gaming?
Cheating on Facebook games is a hard subject to tackle because it takes several forms, from the more ‘acceptable’ form of creating several accounts...
For those who come here for awesome freeware: check out NANY 2014
Every year the community of coders at DonationCoder come up with brand new freeware tools for a year-end event they call New Apps for...
How to convert STEREO audio files to MONO in batch, using free software
Typically, to convert stereo to mono, I would load up the audio files, one by one, into my favorite free audio editor (Audacity), and...
Ten ways to REALLY free up internal storage space on your Android
If clutter and insufficient internal storage space on your Android are getting you down, then read on: this article won’t just tell you to...
How to convert WEBP images to JPG, PNG (or any other format)
Why WEBP? The format introduces improvements on many fronts, according to Google. For example, it supports both lossy and lossless compression, and can result...
Looking for the absolute easiest way to root your Android? Check out ‘Framaroot’
After holding off for a long time, I recently decided to root my Android (a Galaxy Note I). Having had experience in jailbreaking my...
Send large files up to 1 GIG on FACEBOOK, with ‘PIPE’
Pipe is a free Facebook app that lets you send or receive large files up to 1 GIG in size from other Facebook users...
How to remove endless loops from a GIF
If you want to remove endless looping behavior from GIFs then read on. I recently had to insert several dozen videos into a PowerPoint...
How to convert PDF to Word DOC for free: a comparison
If you are wondering whether you can do good PDF to Word (DOC, DOCX, or RTF) conversion for free, the answer is: Absolutely. This...
