Monthly Archives: February 2011

Install Android 3.0 Honeycomb SDK Port On HTC Desire

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Android 3.0 Honeycomb causes some major drooling amongst Android fans out there. As always, the team at Xda-developers has come up with yet another Honeycomb SDK port, this time for the HTC Desire. Just a day back, we featured a guide on how to port Honeycomb SDK on Nexus One. This HTC Desire port is based on the one for Nexus One with  some modifications done to get a few things working. Read More

Gnome Activity Journal Keeps Log Of All Activities, Opened Files And Folders In Ubuntu Linux

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GNOME Activity Journal (formerly known as GNOME Zeitgeist) is Linux based application which is designed to easily find files from your local locations. It keeps a chronological journal, containing all the logs from user activity. These logs can be revisited anytime in order to find the exact location of files. For example, let say, you download a video from YouTube which is saved to a directory that you are having problem finding. Instead of downloading the file again or searching your system endlessly, you can simply open the Gnome Activity Journal and open the file from your log history by double-clicking the file name.  Moreover, it saves visited website history, messenger conversation history, email records and much more. Read More

Get Google Calendar Events Notifications On Desktop [Chrome]

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When it comes to remembering important dates and events, I don’t happen to have the brightest of memory. Therefore, I often add reminders on Google Calendar which alerts me every time an event is near. It alerts me by sending an SMS on my mobile device, but if I am too busy working on the desktop computer or watching movies, I miss them too. Checker Plus Lite for Google Calendar is a Google Chrome extension that provides desktop reminders for scheduled meetings, tasks and events from your Google Calendar profile. All reminders are displayed at Windows notification area above system tray with options to make the reminder display as conveniently as possible. Read More

Bring Macbook Multi-Touch Gestures To Ubuntu Linux With TouchEgg

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Touchegg is designed to bring multi-touch (touchpad) functionality to Linux based operating systems. In layman's term, it is an open source multi-touch gesture recognizer for GNU/Linux which is backed by C++, Qt and uTouch-geis library. With TouchEgg, you can define what type of actions are to be initiated for a specific multi-touch gesture. Numerous actions can be assigned for multi-touch gestures such as maximizing or minimizing windows, resizing applications, switching to desktop view, etc. It requires uTouch and evedev libraries, so make sure that synaptic package manager is installed on your Linux OS before you install Touchegg. The download package is available in DEB format and therefore can be easily opened with the Ubuntu Software Center. Read More

Classic Opera Adds Opera Tab Management Controls In Firefox 4

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One of the features included in Opera browser to close all the opened tabs without closing the browser itself has been greatly appreciated, as it allows Opera users to start opening a new set of tabs without re-launching the browser. Unfortunately, Firefox doesn’t allow user to close all the tabs, as doing so will close down the Firefox and you have to launch it again. Classic Opera is an extension for Firefox 4 which not only allow you to close down all the tabs but adds a bunch of useful options to manage opened tabs in numerous ways such as, clicking a tab will set the focus to previously opened tab in a queue, Shift + Click hotkey combination for closing the tab, direct referring to search engine with specific keywords, for example g to initiate Google search, and closing a tab in queue will open the previously opened tab instead of tab next to it. The feature list doesn’t end here. Along with nifty tab management controls, it also adds Open tab in background option in right-click context menu while enabling users to reduce the tab size in tab bar. In a nutshell, it brings mostly tab related features to Firefox from older versions of Opera. Read More

Open Image Source With Right-Click On Facebook Photo Viewer [Chrome]

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A while back, we covered an extension for Google Chrome, Revert Facebook Photo Viewer, to bring the Facebook classic photo viewer back. The newly designed Facebook photo viewer has been criticized by a great number of users, but there are also a handful of users who find the PhotoTheatre quite nice. If you laud the Facebook PhotoTheatre then you can add 3 useful options to right-click context menu of Google Chrome - Open Image URL, Show Image URL, and Show High Resolution Image URL, with Facebook Image Link. Why do you need this extension? Because you cannot save the image source with a right-click anymore. When you right-click on an image in the new Facebook viewer, you are actually right-clicking the image element. The extension offers an easy way to get the original source of image in both standard and high resolution image quality. Read More

Create And Mount Disk Images In DMG And IMG Format With QuickDMG

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Many users find it difficult to deal with Disk Utility (Mac’s native disk manager) especially when it comes to creating disk images. If you are having a hard time getting used to Mac built-in Disk Utility, try out QuickDMG – a miniscule application which focuses on quickly creating a disk image. It allows you to choose the disk image type from a wide range of available formats, including, UDIF zlib-compressed, UDIF bzip2-compressed, UDIF read/write, UDIF read only, NDIF compressed, and SPARSE (expandable size with content). It makes creating disk images process as easy as it can be. You would just need to drag a folder or a file over QuickDMG and choose the format to create a disk image in source folder. Furthermore, it launches Finder to quickly select multiple files and folders from arbitrary locations. Disk Images created with QuickDMG are compatible with almost all the Mac OS versions. Read More

Install Android 3.0 Honeycomb SDK Port On Google Nexus One

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Android 3.0 Honeycomb – the tablet version of Google’s Android operating system – has been successfully ported to run on Google Nexus One using the code from the Honeycomb SDK release. It is basically just an SDK dump at the moment with no hardware features implemented but if you want to test drive the Honeycomb interface on your Nexus One, read on for our complete guide.

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Set Your Favorite Web Content As Android Homescreen Background

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There’re tone of widgets and applications for you to keep on your homescreen which keep you updated about whatever you wish. Then again, there is the background, which is pretty static in terms of information. The Live Wallpapers have brought in excellent eye candy but except for that, some would say they’re not utilizing a lot of pixels. Read More

Monitor Your Heart Rate With An Android Device

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Are you a health freak ? Do you need to know everything that’s going on inside of you? Do you wonder what your heart is doing when you’re lying down or when you’re jogging ? I know what you’re thinking, we have heart beat monitors for that, but do you really want to carry another gadget when your Android phone can do it for you? Read More

How To Install EdenX Alternative Firmware On Notion Ink Adam

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The Notion Ink Adam comes installed with Eden - the default interface designed by the manufacturer itself. While Eden itself is a pretty neat interface to work on, there’s always room for customization. The Notion Ink Hacks team have developed a modified version of the same Android firmware. If you are interested to try it out, please read on: Read More

How To Root Motorola Atrix 4G With SuperOneClick

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Motorola Atrix 4G is the innovative dual-core Android phone that has yet to see its release and root access has already been achieved on it by a few who had early access to the Nvidia Tegra 2 powered device. If you want to root your Motorola Atrix 4G when you get it, here are the full detailed instructions. Read More

How To Edit Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Isolated Storage File

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Windows Phone 7 Isolated Storage Explorer is a free development tool that allows Windows Phone 7 SIlverlight developers to access and explore their application or project’s data stored in the Silverlight isolated storage file. It is a must-have for anyone developing for Windows Phone 7 on the Silverlight platform by providing easy access to the isolated storage file. Read More

TunesArt Controls iTunes From Mac Desktop, Downloads Cover Art And Lyrics

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If you listen to music a lot and want an application which offers sifting through iTunes music playlists with all the complementary features, check out TunesArt. It is designed to satisfy music junkies who love keeping all the music organized in iTunes. Being an iTunes on-screen controller, it lets you choose the playlist on the fly without having to manually select it from iTunes. Additionally, you can navigate through playlist tracks, view, edit and save lyrics, rate playlist items, initiate search and do a lot more from the desktop. The on-screen controller size is customizable. You can change the cover art size and can transform the art cover design into many interesting styles and shapes. Read More

Inspect Mac System Components, Clean System Files And Apply Fixes With OnyX

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Many Mac users use OnyX (a system optimization tool) to inspect their system for generic startup anomalies and other performance specific issues. OnyX has come a long way since its first release for Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). The latest version of OnyX supports Mac 10.6.6 Snow Leopard. Today, we will be putting some light on the latest version available for Mac 10.6. The very first change you will notice is that it can check some system components without requiring administrative privileges. Along with usage pattern, cleaner, for removing web history from installed browsers, has been significantly improved. You will also be to completely remove installed application caches as well as system caches without encountering any problems whatsoever. For those who never tried it before, OnyX caters to all the important components and applications of Mac, including, Finder, Dock, iTunes, etc. It allows you to check disk S.M.A.R.T status, run several tasks to perform system performance, tweak with Finder, Dock, iTunes, Login, Safari, and Spotlight parameters, clean logs, font cache and so on. Read More

Change Font Settings Before Converting Text Files (Log, HTML, TXT) Into PDF Format

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There are many tools available out there which allows you to convert text documents into PDF format, but what if you need to change the font family, size and font color before converting a document into PDF format? Batch Text To PDF is a PDF batch conversion utility which supports a wide range of plain text file formats, including, TXT, LOG, C, H (header file), CPP, CXX, JAVA, ASP, ASPX, HTML, JS, CSS, RB  and PY. Moreover, you can change the font related options, including, font size, font color and font family prior to converting text documents into PDF format.  The application claims to convert a large number of text documents in one-go.  Read More

Protect Confidential Files And Folders With SteadyCrypt Encryption Tool

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SteadyCrypt is a java-based open source encryption tool for quickly encrypting confidential files to prevent unauthorized usage. As far as features, tools and encryption algorithm are concerned, it is not comparable to widely used TrueCrypt, but users who wont like to follow lengthy procedure in TrueCrypt to create encrypted containers, will find it useful. Being a java-based application, it can work on any OS platform where JRE is installed. Moreover, it supports simple drag & drop behavior to specify folders and files which are to be encrypted. The encrypted containers are secured with a master password which has to entered after installing the application. Read More