How To Change Color Of An Object In Any Photo [Photoshop]

By Saad Sadiq | Published: September 2, 2010

Photoshop being a simple and pro shop for photos has one of the most basic tools known as the Color Replacement Tool. Its presence is known from older versions of Photoshop. Today we will look at the basic use of color replacement tool. Click the Brush Tool, in the main toolbar on the left hand side and select Color Replacement Tool. Read More…

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JayCut Is A Full-Featured Free Online Video Editor

By Usman | Published: September 2, 2010

Previously we have covered 5 awesome online video editing tools, featuring diverse features and options to edit videos on the fly. Every time we come across a new web-based video editing application, we can’t wait to test it out for you. JayCut is not new but the recent update brings a whole new user interface making it easier to edit videos. For those who are not familiar with JayCut, it is an intuitive online-video editor which offers a great number of  tools to edit videos and then publish them online. Now with the updates, you have Webcam and voice-over support, Slow motion effects, Green Screen feature (create effects used in movies), and lots of video colorizing options in a  revamped UI.

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LanSpy: Network Security Scanner To Scan Open Ports

By Usman | Published: September 2, 2010

LanSpy is a network security tool which comes with a fast port scanner to spy on connected nodes. Previously we covered Network Scanner which is an advanced application having enough tools to confuse an average Joe. LanSpy is developed for network administrators to keep check on a small scale network in an easy way. The port scanner displays information about all the open ports on remote computers along with the services using open ports.

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MuNO Is WebMail Notifier For Google Chrome Browser [Extension]

By Nakodari | Published: September 1, 2010

MuNo is a new extension for Google Chrome by the same developer behind the popular Firefox WebMail Notifier extension. At the moment, it supports email notifications from Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL. It also supports multiple Google Accounts, but for this to work you need to turn on multiple sign-in feature.

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SiteMonitor – Display And Log Website Status With Response Time

By Usman | Published: September 1, 2010

Back in March, we covered Growl Site Monitor, which notifies user via Growl (a system notification tool) about the status of any website. Site Monitor lacks this level of interactivity but offers a simple way to keep tab on websites status. It is a portable utility to monitor as many websites as you want whilst showing response time after specified interval.

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EditPad Is Highly Customizable Tabbed Text Editor [Notepad Alternative]

By Usman | Published: September 1, 2010

EditPad Lite is a light-weight text editor with some unique features like; Block functions (for inserting a file), flexible word wrapping, history for viewing previously created/accessed/modified files, extensive undo options, full-featured printing options (includes header/footer settings, page setup) and many more.

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Bring Outlook 2010 Inbox, Contacts, Calendar, Notes, And Tasks On Desktop

By Usman | Published: September 1, 2010

Outlook On The Desktop is an extremely useful application which brings the most important Outlook 2010 items including Calendar, Inbox, Tasks, Notes, and Contacts, right on the desktop. Since opening Outlook 2010 application each time to view Calendar, Inbox, Contacts, etc., is nuisance-driving, this innovative application eliminates the need of navigating through Outlook to access these items and offers a simple desktop solution. Previously we have reviewed a tool called DeskTask which only brings calendar and tasks on the desktop, Outlook on The Desktop puts the whole email client on the Windows Desktop.

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HTC HOME – HTC Sense Clock & Weather Gadget For Windows 7 / Vista

By Usman | Published: August 31, 2010

HTC Home is one visually aesthetic weather/clock widget which brings the famous HTC Sense to your desktop. Even though Windows 7 and Vista has a simple weather gadget, it lacks some forecasting features. HTC Home displays weather forecast for the next week along with a beautiful digital clock.

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Develop And Upload Websites Online With ShiftEdit

By Usman | Published: August 31, 2010

ShiftEdit is an online browser-based IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that packages multiple features for developing web pages. It supports website development in PHP, HTML, CSS and JS (Java Script). You can create, edit, and publish web pages, access and upload files through build-in (S)FTP client, and revise previously accessed/edited pages. It comes with couple of time-saving features like, code snippets and jump to line closing brackets to bring ease in coding.

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True Time Tracker Tracks Project Time To Calculate Work Efficiency

By Usman | Published: August 31, 2010

True Time Tracker is a small but powerful time management application that quietly runs in the background, noting down every step you’re taking to complete a task. It gathers information on website visited and applications started to let user measure time spent on working on/off the task.

It records the overall traffic size, total active/inactive time whilst offering an intuitive billing tool to correctly bill your work. You can save client information, rate your charging per hour and other task related information. The most significant feature is report generation, it is capable of creating an extensive productivity report for general evaluation.

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Stylebot: Change Appearance And Apply Styles To Web Page[Chrome Extension]

By Usman | Published: August 31, 2010

Stylebot is an advanced Google Chrome extension to simplify customization of web pages in order to make them more adaptable. It is quite similar to FireBug – the most preferred Firefox webpage inspection extension among web developers. The distinctive feature is that Stylebot allows user to save the customizations made to the web page presentation and appearance, thus letting you load web page elements in any possible way.

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GeeTeeDee Is User-Friendly Lightweight Getting Things Done Software [Windows]

By Nakodari | Published: August 30, 2010

At AddictiveTips, we are huge fans of Task Management software, not to mention the countless desktop and online tools we have already reviewed before. Today we came across GeeTeeDee, an awesome lightweight and straightforward task management application that keeps you focused on what is really important – Getting Things Done!

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Analyze Formulas And Improve Excel 2010 Trace Precedents & Dependents Feature

By Usman | Published: August 30, 2010

Arixcel Explorer is an Excel add-in for analyzing formulas in depth. It enables you to find out all the cells positions and values which are related with the formula in question. Even Though Excel 2010 has an built-in feature to seek out precedents and dependants of formula visually by pointing out the cells which are either dependent or precedent of the cell carrying formula. Arixcel Explorer takes this very functionality to the next level, letting you view all the cells, ranges and nested functions of the selected formula in the same hierarchy in which they are applied.

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SLAG-FS: Music Playing Gadget That Syncs With Windows Media Player

By Usman | Published: August 30, 2010

SLAG-FS is a music playing sidebar gadget for Windows Vista and Windows 7. It comes with two viewing modes, one is the normalized compact view and other is a full screen display. It syncs with Windows Media Player playlists, letting you enjoy and navigate through your music collection with a single click. The full screen mode is designed for those who love to listen to music on big display setups or on theater televisions through HDMI or DVI (Digital Visual Interface).

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PeStudio: Check Compatibility Of Application Before Installation [Windows]

By Usman | Published: August 30, 2010

PeStudio is a portable tool to validate application before installing it on your system. Before installing an application, it is recommended to verify the installer for any potential threats, risks, and other OS-specific vulnerabilities, it is developed to verify application on said scales by providing a detailed report on each application’s signed/unsigned and obsolete function and library. It also checks for compatibility problems and lets you know whether the application supports x86 system, x64 system, or both.

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