How to read PDFs on the Kindle (or smartphone, or any small-screen device) –...
Converting PDFs to the Amazon Kindle is not a straightforward affair. While there are many tools that can do the conversion to another format...
Volume2: a beautiful volume control app
Let’s say you have a program that lets you control system volume via the mouse and/or via user-defined hotkeys.
Let’s also say that it can...
Software Mysteries (or: the rants and raves of a tech blogger)
I have installed and tested many hundreds of software titles since (and before) I started publishing this blog more than five years ago, and...
Pokki: put Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and other web services right in your Windows taskbar
You do not need a crystal ball to foresee that Facebook, Twitter, your friends, your contacts, your email, your news sources, all of these...
DriverPack Solution: install and update drivers in one click
If you’ve every had to reinstall Windows on a computer, you know what a hassle it can be to find and update all of...
MachStudio Pro 2: realtime 3D graphics rendering, now 100% free
MachStudio Pro 2 is a powerful 3D visualization package that had hitherto cost $4000 but recently been released to the public absolutely free.
Excellent news...
Adblock v. Adblock Plus: two Chrome extensions compared
Chrome Extensions are small programs that modify and enhance the functionality of the Chrome browser. The two most popular extensions listed in the Webstore are...
The best freeware virtual PDF printer: a comparison
PDF Virtual printers are a convenient way of creating PDF files. These programs can save any kind of printable document as a PDF file;...
Introducing my new blog: MoneyConfidence.com
My friend Imad and I recently created “MoneyConfidence”, a site whose mission is to provide smart and thoughtful advice about managing money.
It is still...
The best freeware file manager: a comparative analysis
File management in Windows (browsing, viewing, copying, deleting files etc) is an area where Windows Explorer is not sufficient for many people.
Explorer lacks several...
Noteworthy Shareware turned Freeware – May 2011
Another installment of this series (see Feb, Mar, and April 2011). Not a bad collection this time around, although (a) some of these didn’t actually turn freeware but...
DropIt: a magical little file sorter on your desktop
Imagine this: you have a video file on the desktop that you’d like to move to your video folder on D:; you drag and...
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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...
“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...
