Numpty Physics: a crayon-drawing physics game

Numpty Physics is a free, multiplatform physics game where the user has to draw objects that interact with the game environment in order to...

Postbox: a Facelift (and More!) for Thunderbird

I’ve been busy preparing for a transition of many co-workers to a Microsoft Exchange service lately. Until that migration occurs, we use a web...

Hulu Desktop: high quality, browser-free videos optimized for a “Media Center” style experience

Hulu desktop is a free desktop client for Windows and Mac that connects to the Hulu service and plays Hulu videos and programs within...

Greased Lightbox: Firefox script brings the “Lightbox” image viewing style to any photo website

Greased Lightbox is a free Firefox/GreaseMonkey script that delivers "Lightbox" type image viewing style (seen on sites like this one) to many sites that...

Earth Album: browse the globe in pictures with this mashup of Flickr and Google...

Click on a world map to see images from all over the world using Earth Album, a free web service that is a mash-up...

UpDown: Free Online Stock Market Game

I've been looking for a virtual stock market game to play for quite some time. I wanted something like a fantasy football of the...

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...

Songbird: an Open-Source, Cross-Platform Music Player

Songbird is a an open source, multiplatform music player intened to rival players such as iTunes; but does it have much more beyond the basics? (...)

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...

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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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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’

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