[Giveaway] vlock: An Elegant Video Clock For Your Docked iPhone, iPod touch & iPad

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Have you ever used your iPhone or iPod touch in a dock? It’s a wonderful solution for showroom displays, parties, events, and even looks cool simply sitting on your desktop. That said, what would you want to be displayed on the screen of your device for such a scenario? If you own an iPad, iOS allows you to run a slideshow of the pictures from Photos app, but not everyone would be comfortable with that, and also, this slideshow remains exclusive to iPad, leaving iPhone and iPod touch owners behind. vlock is an answer, brining an elegantly designed video clock on your iDevice. Read past the jump for details.

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By Aatif Khan on January 27, 2012 Leave a comment

Blacksmith Brings Mac Desktop Spaces, Launchpad & Mission Control To Windows

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Previously, we have covered some very good desktop management applications, such as Desktop Panorama, WindowSlider and mDesktop. All of these desktop managers have their own strengths and weaknesses, some provide you with unlimited side ways scroll capability, while other allow you to preview all the virtual desktops to locate and manage the position of every running application. Today, we have another, very comprehensive, desktop management application for you, which allows you to have more than just multiple virtual desktops on your system. Blacksmith is a portable GUI extension tool and virtual desktop manager for Windows that provides you with the feel of Windows, Android and Mac OS X Lion operating systems. More on Blacksmith after the break.

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By Fawad on January 27, 2012 Leave a comment

SwitchMe: Create & Switch Between Multiple Android User Profiles

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Fahrbot Mobile is already a famous name among Android users courtesy of some very fine apps such as Call Master, Screenshot ER2 and Undelete. The renowned team is back with yet another remarkable app called SwitchMe that lets you create multiple user profiles on Android, each with a different set of system settings, user accounts and apps, and switch between with a couple of taps. The app seems to be inspired from the multiple user accounts feature that has been available to desktop users for quite some time now. By creating multiple user profiles on the same operating system (or ROM), you can use any one as your default profile, whereas other account(s) can be used for testing purposes, or simply, as a guest account. SwitchMe currently works only on rooted devices. Read on to find out more.

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By A. Rehman on January 27, 2012 Leave a comment

StreamDesk: Open Source Application To View & Manage Multiple Streams

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Videos streams are a great way for companies, as well as individuals, to get their message to people around the world. It can be anything from a news feed to the video of a live performance of a band playing in a concert hall. I, being a huge fan of the multiplayer game DOTA (Defense of the Ancients), follow a lot of video streams of international players showcasing their game play. If you follow, or want to follow, a lot of video streams, it can be a bit of a hassle to manage all of them from your browser. Instead of cluttering up your browser bookmarks, take a look at this stream manager. StreamDesk is an open source client that allows you to view and manage multiple video streams. Keep reading to find out more about StreamDesk.

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By Fawad on January 27, 2012 Leave a comment

How To Sync Multiple Calendars From Your Google Account With WP7

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A few months back, we covered a tip on how to sync multiple Google Calendars with your WP7 device. Although that method worked just fine for most Mango users, it was a bit complicated and difficult to follow. Thankfully, Google seems to have taken note of the matter, and official support for syncing up to 25 Google Calendars with Windows Phone 7 has been added by Google to their scheduling service. So, if you use more than one Google Calendars, read on to learn the easy method of syncing them to your Windows Phone device.

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By Hamza on January 27, 2012 Leave a comment

HDDScan: All-in-One Hard Drive Tool To Perform Surface Scan & SMART Tests

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Do you often face hard drive crashes and read/write issues while dealing with enormous volumes of data? Perhaps, it’s the time to put your hard disk through a series of tests to measure its overall performance. It happens quite so often that hard disk suddenly halts without showing any type of errors. Using conventional hard drive diagnostic tools in such cases don’t help identify the read/write faults and other like issues. What you probably need is a low-level hard disk diagnostic utility that can perform surface scan of all hard disk volumes to find the potential issues. HDDScan is a powerful, low-level hard disk scan and diagnostic program, which is developed to perform numerous hard disk performance-specific tasks. It supports all types of conventional hard drives including IDE, SATA, SCSI, RAID arrays and external storage mediums including, SD cards, USB, and external hard disks.

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By Usman on January 27, 2012 Leave a comment

GNews: Get Google News In Chrome & Receive Desktop Notifications

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Want to stay in touch with the latest top stories around the world while you work online? GNews, a Chrome extension, regularly notifies you with Google News based on your preferences and selection of different categories, such as Sports, Business, Technology, Top stories and more. The GNews button counter in the toolbar shows the number of new posts, whereas the real time desktop notifications keep you apprised of the latest happenings. Furthermore, the news are displayed along with image previews. A GNews button is added right in the toolbar, which, when clicked, displays news in a compact pop-up. When individual news items are clicked, original websites where the news content is retrieved from, are opened in new tabs. The settings can also be accessed from right within the pop-up.

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By Zainab on January 27, 2012 Leave a comment

Instant Eyedropper Is A System Tray Based Tool To View Color Codes

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Yesterday, we covered Plastiliq PixelPicker, an application that allows you to view color codes in 10 different formats, such as RGB, ARM, HTML, CMYK, HEX etc. It can detect the color of items on your desktop and lets you view its view in a lot of formats, which can be quiet useful during web designing projects. Plastiliq PixelPicker has its own interface and a memory footprint of around 31 MB, but if you are looking for something lighter, you can check out Instant Eyedropper. It is a system tray based application with a memory foot print of only around 1.2 MB, which allows you to view color values and automatically copy the values to clipboard in multiple formats, without having to access any interface. More on Instant Eyedropper after the break.

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By Fawad on January 27, 2012 Leave a comment

Send Free SMS To Anyone With Cross-Platform Messenger HeyWire [WP7]

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HeyWire is a messaging service which has been around for quite a while on iOS and Android. It is a very useful app, using which you can send free SMS to any number in the US. Even if the recipient is living outside the US, texts can be sent if they, too, have HeyWire, or any other service that assigns US numbers to its users (like Google Voice). HeyWire has extended its reach considerably now, as recently, the Windows Phone 7 client of the service was released. Read on to know of all the features HeyWire brings to the Mango platform.

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By Hamza on January 27, 2012 Leave a comment

Keep Track Of Files In Any Windows Folder With File Bookmark

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Sometimes file directories can have similar file names that can make it nearly impossible to identify a file from within a folder. File Bookmark is a Windows shell extension, which has been designed to bookmark files via the Windows right-click context menu, to find the right file(s) that you have opened earlier from a specific folder. It allows you to automatically mark the last bookmarked file from a folder, so you don’t have to manually look up the file within the folder’s content. This can be quite helpful to avoid  the laborious process of searching out several files from within numerous directories, and to deal with non indexed files (which can be hard to locate).

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By Farshad on January 27, 2012 Leave a comment

Cloud Service CX Launches Android App, 10GB Free Storage Up For Grabs

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The number of cloud storage services have begun to increase exponentially. With each new service that emerges onto the global scene, not only do users get a considerable amount of cloud storage space to store their data, but also the option to access all the saved content from virtually anywhere. To add to the users’ convenience, most services also have a dedicated mobile client that provides them with the option to remotely access, modify and share cloud content right from their devices. CX (Cloud Experience) is a relatively fresh entrant to the cloud service market. Apart from offering a larger than usual 10 gigabytes of free online storage space to each registered account, the service also lets you share data and chat messages with other users across various major platforms including Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android. While the official iOS client of the service was released a few months back, the Android variant has just hit the Android Market. More to follow.

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By A. Rehman on January 27, 2012 Leave a comment

GMail Search: Quickly Find Gmail Items From The Omnibar [Chrome]

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Gmail Search, a Chrome extension, lets you quickly search through your Gmail account right from the Omnibar. The extension helps you search your emails from your Google accounts directly from the address bar. Once the extension is installed, simple type “gs” in the Omnibar, and hit either the space bar or tab, then enter a query to search your Gmail inbox. The extension will display a list of all the emails and conversations that consists of the search keyword. The instant search feature displays results immediately, and provides users with fast access to currently signed-in Gmail account.

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By Zainab on January 27, 2012 Leave a comment

NextPVR Is A Personal Video Recorder, Player & Media Management Center

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Managing your media is very important for you to quickly find what you are looking for instead of wasting time in searching for the required music, video or image file. NextPVR is a Windows application that works as a personal video recorder, media center and media manager for you. It allows you to watch your favorite videos, listen to music and view images. If it’s a DVD or something you have got stored up in your collection in the hard drive, NextPVR plays it all. You can either play the files stored in your PC, or access the ones stored on other devices all across your home network. There is also a web interface which allows you to schedule and stream media from a remote location.

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By Fawad on January 27, 2012 Leave a comment

TextDropApp: Edit Text Files In Dropbox Directly From Your Browser [Web]

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TextDropApp, a web application, lets you edit and create text files in your Dropbox account directly from the browser. The app can especially come in handy for people who like to write while on the move. However, the service is limited to TXT files only. TextDropApp works seamlessly, and all you have to do is simply go to TextDropApp and give it permission to access your entire Dropbox. Once done, start editing or creating new text files and save them directly to Dropbox.

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By Zainab on January 27, 2012 Leave a comment

GonVisor: Viewer For Images, E-Books, Comics And Compressed File Formats

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GonVisor is a Windows application that supports viewing pictures, comics, magazines, content of compressed archives and e-books from various formats, including CBR, CBZ, CBA, CB7, ZIP, RAR, ACE and 7ZIP. With the help of this application, you can create a group of selected images, order/reorder them, add a description (such as the author’s name, date, comment etc), and password protect them. Details past the break.

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By Farshad on January 27, 2012 Leave a comment