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The Football Playbook: an addictive tactical soccer puzzle game for iPhone

Samer Kurdi — Tue, 21 May 2013 01:12:29 PDT

There are two kinds of people: those whom soccer completely captures their imagination, and those who don’t. Both types, however, will like ‘The Football Playbook’, a FREE game of tactical soccer that accomplishes something remarkable: transforming soccer into an enjoyable and quite addictive touchscreen puzzle game. Read more »

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Vote: how do you like the (newest) site redesign?

Samer Kurdi — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:26:37 PDT

This blog has had five different themes in the span of twelve months, so please let us know what you think about the latest site design. It's been largely a process of trial and error, but it was also a collaborative one with readers and I Read more »

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How to Stream Videos From Your Home PC to your Android: an Odyssey

B.C. Tietjens — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:24:09 PDT

Do you have videos stored on your PC and want to view them on your tablet or other Android device without the hassle of copying and possibly converting them? Well look no further. I too wanted this and I set out to find out how to Read more »

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Born and raised overseas in a military family, B.C. Tietjens visited and lived in many places all over the world. He has worked on a number of journalism, fiction, and editorial publications and enjoys writing for different audiences , including such diverse subjects as relationships, technology, prestidigitation, self-improvement, entertaining children, and biographical stories. He currently writes primarily for Freewaregenius and enjoys the heck out of it.

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Kongregate Arcade App: brings TONS of free cool flash games to Android

Samer Kurdi — Thu, 16 May 2013 03:19:36 PDT

If you know Kongregate (an excellent site for free flash games), then let us introduce the Kongregate Android App, which brings you over 600 free games playable on your Android device absolutely free. Kongregate for Andoird is organized as an app market, and lets you choose and Read more »

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Start Menu Reviver: a superior start menu for both Windows 8 and Windows 7

Samer Kurdi — Tue, 14 May 2013 05:15:45 PDT

What if Microsoft had kept the start menu in Windows 8; what would it have looked like? In some ways ‘Start menu Reviver’, a Start Menu replacement for Windows 8 and Windows 7, seems like it was designed to answer that question. It provides the option for mouse or Read more »

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Has been reviewing software since 2006 when he started Freewaregenius.com

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Online presentations service Rvl.io becomes “Slid.es”, adds PRO accounts

Samer Kurdi — Tue, 14 May 2013 02:33:33 PDT

Rvl.io, a personal favorite of mine, as been rebranded as the much more logical and user friendly ‘Slid.es’. What it is is an online presentation engine that lets you create sophisticated, Powerpoint-style presentations in the browser, including uploaded images and media, and then view (or share) Read more »

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Launcher 8: brings the Windows Phone metro interface to Android

Samer Kurdi — Mon, 13 May 2013 06:20:00 PDT

I know someone, a sophisticated designer type who was given Nokia Lumia Windows phone to test and try out, and loves it. His take on the Windows 8 metro interface? That it is brilliantly designed, that the interface is excellent, user friendly, and easy to get to Read more »

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How to access the US Google Play Android app market from outside the US

Samer Kurdi — Sat, 11 May 2013 04:31:41 PDT

If you’ve ever found that an app you were interested in was only available in the US or some other countries but not your own, or if you’re disappointed with the tired ‘local’ apps that are forced on you every time you open Google Play, then Read more »

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Dragdis: a read (or watch) it later service that you should check out

Samer Kurdi — Thu, 09 May 2013 03:05:49 PDT

Dragdis is a web-clipping tool of sorts that can save browser items (clips, bookmarks, images, and videos) and organize them in virtual folders. It is a familiar concept that we’ve seen before in many guises, and Dragdis has some formidable, well known competitors (Pocket, Instapaper, Springpad, Read more »

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Fix blurry photos with SmartDeblur

Samer Kurdi — Wed, 08 May 2013 07:47:50 PDT

Your smartphone has more technology per square inch than anything humans have ever created, so why do 3 out of 10 pictures you take still come out blurry and unusable? If you have blurry pictures that you would like to fix and be able to use, then check Read more »

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Free Giveaway: AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional Edition

Samer Kurdi — Wed, 08 May 2013 06:27:30 PDT

If asked, I would recommend Aomei Partition Assistant Home Edition as my freeware Partition Manager of choice. But why settle for the free edition when you can get the full PRO edition for free right now, courtesy of Aomei and Freewaregenius? We offer the latest version Read more »

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Viber comes to Windows and Mac, allows free calls and texts from the desktop

Samer Kurdi — Tue, 07 May 2013 06:57:57 PDT

Watch out Skype, for Viber just might eat your lunch. Viber’s simple innovation was to combine VOIP with your contact list on your mobile, letting you make calls and SMS’s for free over WIFI (or a data connection). The obvious next step: a Skype style desktop Read more »

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Create and publish your own personal polls, with InstaPoll for iPhone

Samer Kurdi — Tue, 07 May 2013 05:27:16 PDT

Which is it: Android or iOS? Barca or Real? Coke or Pepsi? Blue or Red? If you’d like to design your very own such dichotomous poll and send it out for people to answer via SMS or email (and to iPhone users who have installed a Read more »

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zeZebra: right-click to share extremely large files on PC, Mac, iOS, and Android

Samer Kurdi — Mon, 06 May 2013 06:25:18 PDT

Two things we love: powerful functions in the Windows right click menu, and easy ways to transfer large files. ZeZebra is free software that combines both, but it is not your typical file file hosting ‘upload’ service; rather, it installs as a desktop client and lets Read more »

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Dungeon Party is madcap free MMO action that will make you smile

B.C. Tietjens — Mon, 06 May 2013 06:22:14 PDT

Do you enjoy MMOs? Do you love games that have an off the wall sense of humor? If so you’re going to love Dungeon Party, a free action MMO available on the Steam game network. It’s full of well rendered, goofy characters, nonstop action and tons Read more »

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BitTorrent Sync: synchronize folders on multiple PCs securely without uploading to a cloud server

Samer Kurdi — Thu, 02 May 2013 05:55:53 PDT

While Dropbox and other cloud services have made syncing folders on multiple devices ubiquitous, there is a way to do the same thing without uploading your files to the cloud, from one device to another straight while cutting out the middleman. This, at least, is what Read more »

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Get that ‘retro’ image look on your desktop, iOS, or Android, with XnRetro

Samer Kurdi — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:49:25 PDT

If you want that ‘Instagram’ retro photograph look for some of the many images on your destkop, then check out XnRetro, a free program available for Windows, Linux, and Mac, as well as mobile desktop apps for Android and iOS. XnRetro is as as simple as Read more »

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Create a text adventure and publish as a desktop or mobile app for free, with Quest

B.C. Tietjens — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:15:53 PDT

Do you remember games like Zork, Beuracracy, Infidel, and all those other great text adventures? Remember choose your own adventure novels? Ever wished you could create awesome interactive stories like that, and better? If so, you should check out Quest, free software that can help you Read more »

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What I learned after my recent site redesign

Samer Kurdi — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:18:55 PDT

You may have noticed that Freewaregenius has had a new theme design for the last 10 days. We wanted a more ‘visual’ look and feel different from the typical blog themes, and were curious to find out how our readers would react and how such a change Read more »

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Two more AWESOME free Android Games (part 5)

Samer Kurdi — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:53:56 PDT

Another in our series of recommended free Android games (which come in doubles because in this case more is more). This time around: Extreme Skater, an action packed, ad-supported side-scrolling skating simulation, and Flying Bob, totally free rope swinging make it to the end of the Read more »

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