FREE OCR software: a survey of desktop and online tools

Printing text to paper is done every day; on some occasions however the reverse is needed – getting the original text back from a...

Free Giveaway: ‘YoWindow Unlimited’ weather app and screensaver

We’ve featured a number of giveaways on Freewaregenius in the past, but this one is by far the most exciting to date. You may remember...

Teach children basic programming concepts, with RoboMind

Give kids a playful environment that they can interact with freely, and a cute Robot that they can control via simple instructions, and …...

Send files to another computer, with FileDrop (Windows, Mac)

Imagine the scene: you are sitting in your living room/office/cafe and would like to send a file to someone’s computer who is next to...

Readefine may be the best desktop-based Google Reader client

Let’s face it: Google Reader is the world’s foremost RSS aggregator. If you do use it, you may have seen a number of desktop...

‘Rigs of Rods’ is a FREE vehicle simulator with accurate physics and sweet crashes

Have you ever wanted to see what it would look like if you crashed your car into a telephone pole? Are you a student...

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...

Listen to music on your PC or stream from music sharing sites, with Clementine...

Clementine is feature-rich music player that offers most everything you’ve come to expect from a modern player, such as smart and dynamic playlists, automatic...

Get automatic alerts whenever your chosen topic is Tweeted, blogged, Facebooked, etc … with...

Mention is a neat little service that will track any mentions of you, your brand, or your favorite topics across the internet, including Tweets,...

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...

Chat and collaborate on projects with Brosix Personal, a secure, private, encrypted IM client

Brosix Personal IM is a free private and instant messaging system. It is easy to use and has many of the features and bells...

Run your favorite Android Apps and Games on your Windows or Mac with BlueStacks...

BlueStacks Beta is a great program for Windows and Mac OS that will let you run your favorite Android Games and Apps right on...

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