Seven great FREE Android widgets that you never heard of (part 1)
After a period of (mostly ambivalent) courtship, I am now officially in love with Android widgets. I have been guilty of suggesting that Android...
“Everything”: small, lightning fast desktop search for NTFS drives
"Everything" is a free, lightning fast file and folder name search program that offers right-click context menu integration.
It works with NTFS filesystem hard drives...
Share large files without file-size, download speed, or monthly bandwidth limits with the ‘Share’...
Share is a free, desktop-based large file sharing app that has no limit on file sizes, download speeds, or monthly download bandwidth.
However, files can...
Four FREE apps that can transform how you read the news
With the explosion of information and news sources that is the hallmark of the internet, application developers are coming up with creative ways to...
The Best Free Compression / ZIP program: a comparison
A Zip/compression program is an essential fixture on any computer. There are so many excellent free compression apps that I am always astounded when...
A comparison of FREE Cloud Storage Services
Now that the biggest tech companies in the world are taking aim at Dropbox (with Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon all offering their own cloud...
Copy Handler: speed up and control file copying and moving operations
Copy Handler is an open source program that resides in memory and significantly enhances the copying or moving of large files in Windows.
It introduces...
Ten ‘Chrome Experiments’ in WebGL that you MUST see
What are Chrome Experiments? Simply put, they are interesting bits of coding that use some of the latest open technologies (e.g. HTML5, Canvas, SVG,...
Teach your children to read using phonics – for free – at ReadingBear.org
Reading Bear is a completely free website that teaches you (or your children) how to read. It uses the most basic and simple parts...
Surf the net anonymously and go around firewalls and geo-restrictions with Ultrasurf
Ultrasurf is free, proxy-based ‘anti censorship’, ‘pro-privacy’ software. It tunnels through firewalls (whether at work or country-wide),
encrypts online communications, hides your real IP from...
The big list of free Kindle tools
There are quite a few programs and web services that can be really useful to Kindle owners. This post compiles 17 of these that...
How to install freeware cleanly – a catalog of the most dubious crapware installation...
The internet has brought about an explosion of free software that seems to just keep going strong. A lot of people wonder why so...
Latest posts
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...
