Skip introductory video ad clips with AdBlock Video Firefox plugin
Everyone is familiar with the ad clips that are a mainstay of video/news services such as Hulu or NBC, that are shown before the...
Minus: share large files and photos with this stylish cloud hosting app
If I’ve seen one file sharing web service in the past few months I’ve seen a about twenty. But this one stands out from...
Fix the audio in podcasts or camcorder footage conversations with “The Levelator”
Have you ever heard recorded audio where the voice of the interviewer was so much louder than the voices of his/her interlocutors, or vice...
Instantly publish any message to a unique URL with ShortText
We’ve all heard about how blogs have given everyone a world-wide platform. Anyone who has something to say (and many who don’t) can broadcast...
Geo-tag your images and locate them on a map with open source software GeoTag
You may not realize it, but the pictures that you take with your GPS-enabled camera or smartphone (such as your iPhone), and many of...
Lazarus form recovery: never lose any text or comment typed into an online form...
Ever spent a long time typing in a review or a comment or filling out a long form on a website, only to lose...
Integrate Last.fm and Grooveshark into your desktop with GrooveWalrus
Another app that proves that our local music and the music we listen to online are becoming one and the same.
GrooveWalrus is a free...
Manage your tasks list on your PC, iPhone, and other devices with Wunderlist
Let’s face it: not only is the internet everywhere, but computers are now in everyone’s pocket. So it doesn’t really make sense to manage...
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...
Groovedown: download MP3s from Grooveshark quickly and easily
These days, there are many services where you can just type in the name of the song or artist you are interested in and...
Special Folder Manager 2: move special folders easily across partitions on Win 7 and...
There is a growing trend to move special folders, such as your “My Documents”, “My Music”, and “My Pictures” folders off the main OS...
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...
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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...
