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Samer Kurdi

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

Toggle hidden file and name extensions visibility via hotkey with HiFiTo

There are many hidden files on your system, and for the most part it is very good that that is the case; it keeps...

‘Screenshot Captor’ gets even better!

Ever used a program that was so great in so many ways, yet lacked one single, simple, seemingly insignificant feature that just frustrated and...

CloudDeck: just may be the mother of all SoundCloud desktop clients

If you’ve been following this blog, you may have noticed that we’ve been covering SoundCloud related apps quite a bit (e.g. our mention of...

Add a scrolling RSS ticker to your desktop with Snackr

If information is power, then surely adding more of it onto your desktop in the form of an RSS feed ticker is a good...

Twenty one interesting FREE image viewers that you’ve (probably) never heard of

This post will present 21 image viewers that you have likely never heard about, which run the gamut from full-fledged image organizers to small...

Download desktop skins, launchers, and widgets with ‘RainMeter Skins Gallery’

RainMeter, to quote our original review of it, is “one of the most powerful free desktop customization and widget engines on the Windows platform”. This...

Support Donationcoder: 2012 fundraiser underway

If websites were judged on (a) the quality of their user-contributed content, (b) the extent to which their users were engaged in the topic,...

MaxMax can change the behavior of maximized windows, keep parts of the desktop always...

Did you ever wish that a section of your screen could be kept from being covered with windows when you maximize them. For example,...

View photos from Facebook as magazine-style galleries with Pixable

Everyone likes photoblogs, right? But consider this: what if you took the photography from Facebook and other photo sharing sites and, with the click...

Listen to music from ‘The Hype Machine’ on your desktop with Hypegram

If you haven’t heard of ‘The Hype Machine’, what it is is a music sharing website that aggregates the music that’s posted on 1,500+...

Access your desktop remotely from your iPhone, iPad, or Android device with Jump Desktop

Have you ever wished that you could access your home desktop computer from your phone or tablet while on the go? Perhaps you had...

Crop unwanted elements out of images automagically with Seam Carving GUI

You may heave heard of ‘Seam Carving’, also called ‘content aware’ or ‘liquid’ resizing, a technology that can reduce, extend, and even crop elements...

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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...

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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...