AirFM is a beautiful Adobe Air app that contains around 200 radio stations from all around the world. It has a simple yet eye-candy interface with three main tabs on top, Radio Stations, Radio Player, and Favorites.
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DirectX 11 GPU Benchmark Test
Windows 7 comes with DirectX 11 pre-installed, Microsoft has made it available for Windows Vista as well. If you bought a new DirectX 11 compatible GPU card and are looking to perform a benchmark test then give Heaven Benchmark a shot.
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Add Google Services Shortcut Buttons In Firefox Toolbar
Google Shortcuts is a simple yet handy add-on for Firefox that adds Google services shortcut button anywhere in Firefox toolbar. At first I had various Google services in speed dial for quick access, but with this add-on all services are neatly laid down in the toolbar.
Read MoreRcTunes – Control iTunes From Remote Computer
RcTunes is a small app that allows users to control their iTunes music playback from any computer over a remote network. If you want to control the iTunes on your main computer that is connected to home theater from any netbook or laptop, then this app will do the job.
Read MoreRun Multiple Versions Of IE Simultaneously With Internet Explorer Collection
If you often need to check different web applications for web browser compatibility, then Internet Explorer Collection will come in real handy for such testing. It lets you run multiple versions of IE on the same system simultaneously.
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Windows 7 App Launcher SE-TrayMenu
SE-TrayMenu is a free light-weight tool which sits in the system tray and lets you access the most commonly used applications from a simple interface. You can consider it to be an alternative to the Windows Quick Launch feature. It also lets you specify the global hotkeys to access everything you want with one click.
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Optimize & Boost Solid State Drives For Longer Life
Solid State Drives have been in the market for the past few years and have gained popularity with the passage of time. Their working mechanism is different than the normal drives as these drives don’t have any moving parts. While a traditional drive has drive motors to spin up the magnetic platters and the drive heads, solid state drives uses solid-state memory. This is why these drives ensure less power usage, faster data access and higher reliability.
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Windows 7 Virtual Desktop Manager
WindowsPager is not a new tool, but the latest update brings seamless integration to Windows 7. It is an opensource portable pager utility for Windows that creates four virtual desktops(also called virtual workspaces).
Read MoreSecure Password Storage Is Free Password Manager
Secure Password Storage is the LastPass for Windows desktop. For those who don’t know, LastPass is the popular Firefox password manager add-on. Secure Password Storage has been developed for the easy password storage and retrieval with maximum encryption.
Update: AddictiveTips now recommends LockCrypt, a free awesome password and information manager for everyone.
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Connectify – Convert Windows 7 Into Virtual WiFi Router
The Ad-Hoc Connection was first introduced in Windows Vista. We covered a complete guide on creating your own Ad-Hoc connection. This type of connection allowed users to share internet connection with other users quickly, thus creating a sort of WiFi. You can create this ad-hoc connection in Windows 7 as well.
Read MoreConvert Images To Video
Images to Video is a free portable tool that can quickly convert multiple images into a video. It supports four video formats, avi(mpeg4), wmv, flv, and mov. We previously covered a way to create AVI video from JPEG images, but the procedure has limited functionalities.
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PhiTodo – Impressive Simple Task Manager
It amazes me how many new to-do task management apps are out there. Everyone is trying to do their best to simplify the tasks. The most popular is Remember The Milk, a few days back we covered Doit.im which we assumed could be a serious competitor, and today we discovered another awesome task manger called PhiTodo.
Read MoreTop 10 Security Addons For Firefox
Firefox is growing faster than what most experts estimated, the number of users using it is now more than the entire US population. At the same time the number of malicious websites is also growing at an astonishing rate. The online security is vital, lets see what can be done to make your Firefox safer to protect you from online hacking, theft, fraud, etc.
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Clear Past Notification Icons In Windows 7
A few days back I covered a tool called Tray Cleaner that allowed users to remove all past notification area icons, but sadly there was some trouble using it in Windows 7. It did not remove the icons completely. So today I am going to share with you another method that has been tested to work.
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Indo Cleaner 2009 – Clear Most Recently Used Lists In Windows 7
Almost all applications whether it is a browser or any word processing software, manages the list of its recently used/accessed items. For security purpose it is always vital that you should hide the traces of your activity on your computer. Indo Cleaner is a free, light-weight tool which consumes minimum system resources and clears the MRU of Windows Explorer, Windows Applets, Web browsers (Firefox, IE, Opera), Windows Media Player, etc.
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Disable Internet Explorer 8
Internet Explorer 8 offers a bunch of cool features and no doubt it works much better then its predecessors. But if you are using some other browsers, such as, Firefox or Chrome due to their security and speed, then you might like to disable Internet Explorer 8 to conserve system resources.
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ProcDump – Process Dump Utility For Developers/System Administrators
As a System Administrator or Programmer you require precise logs for the activity and resource consumption for processes so that appropriate measures may be taken to resolve any issue relevant to the processes under observation. ProcDump addresses this requirement and provides the flexibility to gather valuable information in logs regarding the processes which causes CPU Spikes.
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SkyDrive Explorer – Access Live SkyDrive From Windows Explorer
I covered way to create a skydrive drive in Windows Explorer so that it can be easier to access the files. But the method required a 3rd party tool which was too complex for most users, it ran from the system tray and took quite some memory. With the arrival of Microsoft Office 2010, Skydrive will become a central location to store all documents.
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MHTML To PDF – Save Problem Steps Recorder In PDF Format
Back in July we covered a detailed post on Problem Steps Recorder in Windows 7. The big downside is that the output is saved in MHTML format. Not everyone is familiar with this format, so how are we supposed to share it with lesser educated family members or friends?
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