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Samer Kurdi

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Has been reviewing software since 2006 when he started Freewaregenius.com

Stream YouTube videos to your desktop-based media player with SVPTube

Ever wanted to watch YouTube inside your favorite desktop-based media player instead of in the browser? Perhaps the latter offers some functionality such as...

Ten amazing Chrome plugins for Gmail

You can love Google or hate it, but the truth is that both Gmail and Chrome are terrific products, and possibly the best in...

Two insanely addictive FREE games for Android

Quick: how many games do you have installed on your Android, and how many of these do you actually play? Let’s face it, there...

Play full length videos in your desktop background, with DesktopMovie

This is not a ‘video wallpaper’ type software, like Windows Dreamscenes or Okozo; rather, DesktopMovie is a free program designed to play full-length videos with sound inside your desktop background and under your icons. The reason you would do that is up to you!

Block ads and prevent websites from tracking your online activity, with DoNotTrackPlus

It’s not a secret, and hardly controversial, but no sooner than you visit a webpage than it instantly starts collecting information on your behavior and demographics (e.g. location), and trying to infer your interests. If you want to block this activity, or if you merely want to know which scripts or services are tracking you, then Do Not Track Plus, a free extension for Chrome, Firefox, IE and Safari, is for you.

Upload to IMGUR image hosting service via right click, with ImgurUploader

The next time you need to upload an image to a forum or share it on Facebook or anywhere else, remember that you can do this easily from Windows’ right click 'Send-To’ menu, without going off to find image hosting services on Google, using open source program ‘ImgurUploader’.

Twenty five free online courses for learning iPhone and iPad programming

Do you want to learn to make iPhone or Android apps? If so then you’re in luck, as the internet is full of 100%...

Add tabs to Windows Explorer with TabExplorer

If you love having tabs in your browser, then how about adding tabs to Windows Explorer? TabExplorer is free software that adds simple, functional...

Do copy acceleration utilities actually lower file transfer speeds? Our tests say yes

We’ve featured several file copy acceleration utilities on this site. Recently, however, we went in and did a head-to-head test to discover which of...

Create a local, development version of your WordPress site on your hard drive: a...

If you have a Wordpress site, you may have imagined how useful it would be to have a development version of your site running...

How to Shutdown Windows without installing Windows updates

If you have a laptop and are on the move, or if you’re simply busy and do not want to wait for 10 or...

How to download mp3s from SoundCloud part 2: use SoundCloudMp3.com

SoundCloud is an amazing service, but how to easily download SoundCloud audio files? We previously gave you the answer in the guise of ‘SoundCloud...

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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...