Yearly Archives: 2010

keySharky Adds Keyboard Shortcuts (Hotkeys) To Grooveshark

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If you are a Grooveshark addict, you will find that the keyboard functionality is missing. You cannot control the playback with hotkeys. keySharky is an extension for both Firefox and Chrome which adds this missing hotkey functionality to Grooveshark. The default hotkeys for Playback control are a bit unintuitive but they can always be changed from settings. Read More

How To Enable HDR Photos On iPod Touch 4G

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Are you a digital photography enthusiast who got all excited when first hearing about HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography support being introduced in iOS 4.1 but later got disappointed at hearing it was only being provided to iPhone 4 and you have an iPod Touch 4G instead? Despair not - there's no need for you to shell out your hard-earned dough to buy an iPhone 4 only to get HDR photography support. If you have jailbroken your device on iOS 4.x with Greenpois0n or Limera1n, you can easily enable HDR for your device by installing the iPod Touch 4 HDR Enabler utility from Cydia. For more information and the complete guide, continue reading after the jump. Read More

Motorola Identifies Droid X Froyo Bugs, Fix To Come Soon

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You might be dreading that you did something wrong while you updated to an extremely buggy official Android 2.2 Froyo, but it might not be your mistake after all. Matt from Motorola Support Forums has pretty much summed up all the issues nagging Droid X users after update to Android 2.2 Froy, and quite surprisingly, has claimed the responsibilities with “remedies to come soon” promise.

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Folder Lab Copies And Creates Folder Structure By Date / Day / Hour / Prefix / Postfixes

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Many a times, it is required to create a folder hierarchy to save specific types of files or to move files having specific title prefix/postfix with date/time stamps in a defined sequence. In such situations, an application which can create folders in bulk while abiding all  the specified rules will come helpful. Folder Lab is a minuscule standalone application that lets user apply pre-defined rules before creating directories in bulk. Since it offers a pre-defined set of rules, you'll be able to manipulate the batch folder creation in multiple ways. Read More

Bring Web Applications To Your Desktop With Prism

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Prism is a tool from Mozilla labs which is developed solely to bring your favorite web applications, such as, Gmail, Google Calender, Google Docs, Facebook, Twitter, Grooveshark, etc to your desktop. You can create a configurable application for most frequently visited websites to browse them fearlessly. Read More

Griffith – Advanced Movie Collection Manager With Loan Management System

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Last month, Najam covered EMDB a movie management software that saves all the related information of specified movies/dramas/sitcoms. The application seems great, has nice interface but with only one main data source - IMDb. Today we came across Griffith, a media collection manager which is written for avid movie fans to keep track of all the movies they’ve seen in the past. Furthermore, it supports a huge list of data sources for providing user with all sort of information pertaining to the movie, be it plot, review, stats, goofs, you can bring in any relevant data with a single click. Read More

HDMI Adapter For iPad, iPhone 4 And iPod Touch 4G Now Available

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There is some great news for all iPad and iPhone owners jealous of Android phones having the capability to out put content on their HDTVs, projectors and other high definition external displays through HDMI. Folks over at MIC Gadget have discovered a valid and fully functional HDMI Adapter for iPad, and the iPhone 4. This HDMI Adapter for iPhone 4, iPad and iPod Touch 4G can help you in displaying HD content from your iDevice to your HDTV or monitor or projector. Read on for more information. Read More

Make Real-Time Backup Of File Changes In Multiple Folders [Mirroring]

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Blue Fish File Mirror is a portable application that enables user to mirror & monitor multiple folders simultaneously for creating backup of every change (in selected folders) to root folder in real-time. It offers both a simple and complex way to configure the application’s preferences (INI file), which contains a list of folders to be monitored to back them up accordingly, you can change application’s preferences yourself by modifying INI file in text editor or use a GUI dialog to populate a list of folders to be mirrored. This application is for advanced users and administrators. Read More

Root Any Android Device And Samsung Captivate With Super One-Click App

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In case you were looking for a single click root for virtually every Android device, then there is some good news for you. Senior XDA member, CLShortFuse has recently posted a Super One Click Root utility app that not only allows you to root your Android handset but also gives certain useful options like Allow Non Market Apps as well as phone unlock code delivery. This application has been hailed by many of XDA members in the thread and according to app creator:
…I made it. I tested it. It works…
Apart from universally rooting several Android handsets, SuperOneClick provides a single click root for Samsung Captivate on Android 2.2 Froyo as well. Read More

Speed Up Daily Windows Tasks With Portable Quick Cliq [Productivity]

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Quick Cliq is written to speed up your daily activities; ranging from opening applications, web links, documents, shortcuts, to watching videos, listening to music, etc. This portable application launcher has a menu-based UI which contains all the specified links of files/folders/shortcuts, etc. According to the developer, users will not find such an application anywhere else, as it provides a list of features which increases user’s productivity effortlessly. It comes with a clipboard manager to manipulate the Windows clipboard content, you can let clipboard save only raw plain text (which removes text formatting). Read More

Delete Files By Date Removes Files By Date, Time, Format, And Size

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Previously we reviewed Deletist- an application which is used for deleting files/folder in bulk, the only drawback is that it requires you to specify a text file, carrying a list of file/folder locations to delete them at once. Delete Files By Date is another batch file deletion utility which brings comfort and a lot more options than Deletist. It is a simple tool which enables user to delete files in bulk by specifying date and time stamps. The application offers a wide range of parameters which you can apply in multiple ways to remove the files that were created on specified date range and have specific timestamps. Read More

Click & ShareIt – One Click Screencast, Audio, And Screenshot Sharing Tool

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Click & ShareIt is an ingeniously simple application which does exactly what its name suggests - It lets user share files online with a single click. This will come utterly helpful for those who frequently need to share screenshots, screencasts, voice recordings with their friends or co-workers. The functionality for recording screencasts, taking screenshots, and recording voice is build-in. You can share them with an extreme comfort, just perform any action, it will upload the file immediately on its live server, and generate the link to let you share it with others. Read More

Balabolka Brings More Text-to-Speech Voices, Saves Narration In Many Audio Formats

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Balabolka is all-in-one text to speech application which supports previous versions of SAPI-Microsoft Speech APIs to narrate the inserted text. Contrasting to other TTS (Text-to-Speech) programs, it offers a list of different voice qualities and other related controllers for altering voice parameters including the pitch, rate, shrillness, graveness according to your requirements. It lets user apply special voice substitution list to improve the voice articulation. You can also let it narrate the text in clipboard while it supports text reading in DOC, EPUB, HTML,ODT, PDF and RTF files. Read More

Search Information Across All Related Items In Outlook 2010 With Meshin Add-in

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Meshin is a semantic Outlook search sidebar (add-in) which is developed to address the core concern of users before they begin searching for particular data/information, e.g, finding all the relevant information against the search keyword including the conversations & people involved and attachments shared. The developer believes that such information is spread wide across the Outlook items, such as mails, tasks, conversations, and contacts, thus users have no other choice then to use one dedicated plug-in which is intuitive enough to mark out and find all the important data out of different Outlook elements. On the defined characteristic, Meshin shrewdly discovers, connects, and organizes information across all the specified locations. Read More

Fix GMT Time For Better Syncing Your Froyo /Eclair Based Android Device

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Although this fix might sound a bit too awkward and small, yet it can help you sync your Android device time with correct GMT pre and post hours. The GMT Time problem is actually applicable in geographic locations which need to add up hours as + 5, +6 etc. now you can rectify this problem by rooting your any Froyo or Eclair based device. Due to this GMT time bug, most of the time reliant applications such as twitter apps etc, do not work properly and you miss important stuff on time lines etc. Read More

Portable Grooveshark Desktop Application For Windows

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From all the online music services out there, Grooveshark is the most favorite at AddictiveTips HQ. We, like all other users, hate to open a web browser just to listen to music. So what is the solution? Grooveshark has their own Adobe Air app but it is for VIPs only. If you not a VIP member and also hate Adobe Air, the third party Grooveshark Windows Application is for you. Read More

Enable FM Radio On Rooted Nexus One [CyanogenMod Custom ROM]

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There is some delightful news for Nexus One owners running custom CyanogenMod Android 2.2 Froyo ROM. The latest nightly release of CyanogenMod ROM is packaged with some excellent stuff that includes FM Radio Support (courtesy MIUI) for the device, that has been lacking from the previous versions of CyanogenMod. Read More

Disk Drill Is Completely Free Data Recovery Software For Mac

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Disk Drill is a new application for Mac which not only recovers your hard drive, but also your partition, damaged files, photos, and any type of media. It can recover data from HFS/HFS+, FAT, NTFS, and other file systems right from your Mac. Apart from recovery, it also protects your data from unexpected loss by using build-in Recovery Vault. Read More