A new theme for Freewaregenius!

Finally, a new theme. Although I liked the old Lightbreaker theme, I’d been wanting to move away from it for some time. After researching...

PDF to Excel Free: free PDF to Excel conversions

PDF to Excel Free is a free web service that is specifically designed to convert PDFs with lots of data tables into Excel files....

QuakeLive: Quake3 re-incarnated in your browser, completely free

Quake III is back! And completely free to play, right here in your web browser. For the uninitiated, this is a classic first person...

How to convert DVDs into iPhone, iPod, PSP or AVI formats (for free)

This article will describe an easy, straightforward way to convert DVD videos, including commercial/encrypted DVDs, into any of a handful of popular video formats;...

Announcing: Appnews.net

Appnews.net is a project conceived and created by Andrey from Rarst.net in collaboration with Freewaregenius and Ghacks.net. It’s purpose is present a stream of...

Four interesting, non-hierarchical freeware notes programs

This article will present four novel, free note taking apps: Treesheets, Tobu, Cintanotes, and MindRaider. Each one of these apps is unique in its...

VMWare Server: free Virtual Machine Infrastructure, step-by-step

I've previously discussed virtual server infrastructure with an article on Microsoft's Hyper-V which comes included with Windows Server 2008. Due to the performance hit...

LMMS: free, open source music sequencer & multitracker

LMMS is a free, open source music production software inspired by commercial apps such as FL Studio (FruityLoops) . It enables you to create melodies...

Close’n Forget for Firefox removes cookies and history when closing out a tab

Close’n Forget is a free Firefox extension that allows you to close out a tab or window and instantly erase traces of the site(s)...

The best free antivirus: a comparison

This posting will discuss which of the following three programs deserves the title of "best freeware antivirus program": Avira Antivir, Avast, or AVG. My conclusion:...

Blood Frontier: beta preview

A free total conversion built on the Sauerbraten engine, Blood Frontier is a multiplayer first person shooter currently in open beta testing. Multiplatform (Windows/Mac/Linux). Computer...

MindRaider: note-taking program combines hierarchical outlines, tagging, and visual “mind map” representations

MindRaider is a multi-platform, free note-taking program that combines a tree-like hierarchical organization alongside a "free form" structure based on tagging your notes. It supports...

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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...