The best Freewaregenius articles of 2012

We published many articles that we’re very proud of this year, and we’ve updated some older ones that we like a lot. In retrospect, our...

Optimize PDF’s for reading on your Kindle 3: crop then (optionally) convert to AZW

If you have a Kindle 3 (the one with the 6" screen) chances are that you love it, as I do. Except that reading...

How to enlarge images with no pixellization and minimal quality degradation (using free software)

Have you experienced a situation where an image you are interested in using is smaller than you would like it to be, whether it...

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,...

Omea Reader: may be the only RSS aggregator which lets you attach tags and...

Now that Google Reader users are looking for a replacement, we wanted to highlight Omea, a desktop-based reader and organizer for RSS and newsfeeds...

Uninstall programs completely and monitor installations with Comodo Programs Manager

This is an impressive uninstaller program that will scan for leftover files after program uninstallations to make sure nothing is left behind. It will...

PeerBlock: avoid detection when downloading from torrent or p2p networks

PeerBlock is an open source IP filtering application partially based on the PeerGuardian code. It is designed to prevent your computer from making undesirable...

Comodo Firewall

Another program in Comodo's stable of free software is it's Comodo Firewall, which provides protection against trojans, identity theft hackers, malicious scripts, and other...

Five FREE tools for Musicians (and music lovers)

If you listen to music and  find yourself thinking about the different individual tracks, or wondering how the song will sound if it was...

Ten of the best FREE online education resources that you should know about

We recently published an article that listed the free online learning resources offered by the best 40 colleges in America (here). In the process of...

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...

Useful functions for your right click menu [Part 1: media files]

The right click context menu in Windows, in my opinion, is one of the best interface devices ever conceived. The simple fact that you could...

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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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