Monthly Archives: May 2011

Paper War For Android – Two Players, One Screen And Loads Of Fun

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Bored? Got your Android smartphone or tablet handy and want to play a game, but tired of the same old collection of games that you have played again and again? If you're looking for a new casual game to help get the hours going in a jiffy, we've looked up one for you that looks like tons of light, casual fun. Paper War for Android lets you play as a cannon to destroy your enemy's cannon or aircraft, all designed with cool paper-drawn graphics. So what are you waiting for? Let's dig into it together after the jump. Read More

Automatically Reload A Page In Firefox After Local Files Are Changed

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Before any web page goes live or even a minor change is made, it is developed, tested, debugged and tested and debugged some more on a local server. Every time a developer makes even the slightest change, it’ not only made on a local system but viewed on it as well and to do that they all turn to the F5 button; refresh. For the ordinary person, refreshing your page isn’t such a big deal, but for developers, it’s one more thing for them to do. The Auto Reload Firefox extension can minimize the effort by automatically reloading the page for you, whenever a change is made. Read More

Reveal Files Hidden By Malware (Using System Attributes) In USB Drive

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Certain types of malware can hide your files and folders on a USB drive, resulting in data loss. Unhiding these files can be quite a hassle as the attribute is set as system instead of hidden. USB Hidden Folder Fix is a portable application, designed to thoroughly scan folders on a USB drive to unhide them. This can help you to regain access to your data and scan with your default anti-virus suite (i.e. if it fails to scan them in hidden form). Hence fixing the problem of hidden folders with infected files. Read More

Monitor And Resolve Hard Drive Problems With HDD Guardian

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Hard disk errors can often occur due to intensive and complacent use of hard drives. Sometimes a system is not shut down properly or a faulty application can lead to read/write errors. Moreover, power fluctuations, high hard disk temperature and multiple other factors can often result in hard disk damage. HDD Guardian is an open source application that alerts you in case of imminent failure, temperature threshold or vital parameter change of your hard disk. It provides instant overview of your hard disks health and allows you to identify if disk error checking should be conducted. All useful information are displayed, like the error rate, power cycle count, hard disk temperature, etc which allows you to take proper measures to protect your hard disk from damage due to variable factors. Read More

Switch USB Drive To Read-Only Mode With Wenovo USB Disks Access Manager

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By default, read and write permissions are enabled for USB drives. This often results in the activation of malware, when a USB is plugged in to a system. Therefore, if you want to check the content of a suspicious Pendrive, it is better to change the settings to read only mode (to prevent your system from getting infected). Windows does not have a native option to switch to read-only mode, this is where  Wenovo USB Disks Access Manager comes handy. It is a portable tool to set a USB to function in read only mode. Read More

Speed Up Your PC By Disabling Unwanted Programs With Startup Delayer

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Many a time a system slow down due to unwanted services and applications running in the backdrop which delay startup time and overall PC performance by consuming valuable system resources. Some of these applications and services can be shut down using Msconfig, nonetheless, some applications can be either hard to identify in the cluttered Msconfig window or simply do not show up in the Startup tab. Startup Delayer allows you to identify and optimize system startup routine by configuring programs order at system startup and by stopping unwanted programs and/or services. This open source app provides the option to set high program priority for important programs and delay the startup of others. You can also disable the automatic startup of selected applications and use an interactive startup mode with options to skip startup programs according to your requirements. Read More

Convert Physical Machines To Virtual Machines With VMware vCenter Converter

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VMware vCenter Converter is a free application to convert physical local and remote machines into virtual machines. The conversion is supported for both physical machines and virtual machine formats. vCenter has versions for Windows and Linux based operating system which includes Windows Server 2008. The conversion of physical machines into virtual machines takes place without disruption or down time, which means that you can convert physical servers into virtual servers without suffering from network disruptions. vCenter can be used to convert multiple virtual machines simultaneously, however, you might need some good hardware to ensure the process to be seamless. The supported formats for physical machine conversion into a virtual machine include Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Virtual PC and Microsoft Virtual Server. Backup images can also be converted into virtual machines such as a backup image of Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery or Norton Ghost can be converted into a VMware virtual machine. Read More

Enable Landscape Mode In Dialpad And Call Screen On Galaxy S II

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If you’re an Android fanatic, you must have come across various mods that enable Landscape view for applications that normally do not support that view. However, who would’ve thought we’d have the Dialpad available to us in the landscape view on the Samsung Galaxy S II? You can thank XDA-Developers forum member eitama for this awesome mod! More on the mod and how to get it on your device after the break. Read More

Overclock Motorola XOOM Honeycomb Tablet To 1.6Ghz On Android 3.1

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Earlier we covered a guide on overclocking Motorola XOOM tablet to 1.5Ghz. Now we have an overclock at 1.6Ghz thanks to Android Central forum member TDR who basically wrapped it up in a kernel developed by XDA-Developers forum member bigrushdog. Now many might wonder what’s the point of a 100Mhz increase? Not much, but this overlclocked kernel is meant for the new Android 3.1 Honeycomb OS. Read More

Speed Dial Through All Open Pages In Firefox With Scale Tabs

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Speed Dialing your favorite sites is probably one of the fastest ways of getting to your favorite site and a popular feature in Chrome and Opera. The feature hasn’t made it to Firefox just yet but Scale Tabs is an extension that lets you speed dial your way through all open tabs and windows. It makes it easier to find the tab you’re looking for and to switch between windows. The extension displays thumbnails (real time screenshots) of the tabs you currently have open. These thumbnails can be clicked to bring the tab to front, regardless of which window the tab is open in. Read More

Connection Checker For Android Fixes Weak WiFi/Mobile Network Signals

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Does it not feel infuriating when your WiFi or mobile network repeatedly taps out due to weak reception. Not only does this hamper your internet browsing experience, download tasks, music/ video streaming session or whatever relevant task you may have at hand, it drains the battery very much like an exhausted, famished jock gulps down an energy drink! If you have tried most of what the Android Market has to offer to rectify said issue, and are still looking for a viable solution to the notorious problem mentioned above, then you might want to check out Connection Checker - a free and easy-to-use Android tool that checks the network status after a user-defined time interval and automatically toggles the WiFi or mobile network Off in the event of weak or no signals till a stable connection is established. Read More

Track What You Have Loaned Or Borrowed With I.O.U Mate

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How often do you borrow or lend money? How about power tools? A lawn mower? As part of daily life, everyone occasionally borrows one thing or the other from a friend or a neighbor. Keeping track of all your debts and allowances can be difficult at times, especially if you and your friends constantly loan money back and forth and at the end of the week (or month) no one has a clue how much money they owe. I.O.U. Mate is a web service that makes it easy (and fun) to track little routine debts whether they’re monetary ($$) or non-monetary (lunch, gardening rake or a cup of sugar). Read More

Tincta – Alternative For Mac TextEdit With Programming Language Support

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Looking for Mac’s native TextEdit alternative which has a great deal of text editing features with programming language support? Have a look at freshly developed Tincta. It’s a tiny yet powerful text editor which is designed intuitively to fit the requirements of both novice and professionals. The main UI offers tab support and the navigation bar at left side holds all pen documents to make switching between them a lot easier. Apparently, it supports all major programming languages with options to customizable syntax highlighting color for, HTML, PHP, CSS,  Java, Python and more. Unlike other text editors with programming language support, it uses natively written coloring algorithm to quickly identify and highlight programming language syntaxes. Read More

Show Vertical Lines At Each Indent Level In Visual Studio 2010

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Are you working on a huge development project in Visual Studio 2010 and not satisfied with the way it shows code indentation? Comparing it with previous versions, VS 2010 offers a much neat way to properly indent code with classic collapsible and expendables options, but still, at times, it seems quite confusing to visually scan the code blocks of one exhaustingly long code file. Indent Guides is an open source add-in for Visual Studio 2010 which enhances the way the code intends appear in Visual Studio 2010 editor. In a nutshell, it displays a vertical line at each indent level, making it easier to scan the code. Read More

OhMemo – Small To-Do List Manager With Compact And Extended User Interface

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Automated To-do list managers have the capacity to organize list according to user-specified criteria and conditions, but what about the hassle one has to go through for defining the rules which will be applied over defined tasks? OhMemo is targeted towards users who like the concept of Getting Things Done rather than defining task organizing functions manually. OhMemo comes with two, one-click switchable, user interfaces – Compact and Extended View, to view and manage the listed task as per your liking. Read More

Fusion Is A Free Tool To Merge Photos With HDR Tone Mapping

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If you can’t afford professional-grade photography and image processing software, and/ or are tired of losing precious detail in your photos to unfavorable ambient lighting, we have just the thing for you. Fresh out of the oven, Fusion is a free, easy-to-use image processing tool that, with only a few clicks, allows you to automatically align and merge any number of photos with same or differing exposures using HDR (High Dynamic Range) tone mapping or simple summation. Merging multiple snaps of the same scene, each with a different exposure setting, you can preserve image details in both the brightest and darkest parts of the scene. Read More

Install English MIUI 1.5.13 Android 2.3.4 On HTC Desire [GSM]

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Earlier we had covered installation guides for MIUI 1.5.6 ROM based on various Android devices. A week later the developers updated the release to 1.5.13. HTC Desire was also one of the few devices that received the new MIUI 1.5.13 custom ROM. In case you’re unfamiliar with what MIUI ROMs are, you should see our guide on what is MIUI ROM for Android. More on the ROM and how to install it on your Desire after the break! Read More

Pros And Cons Of Using The New Firefox 4, Chrome 11, IE9 And Opera 11

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The recent browser wars between internet titans like Microsoft, Google and Mozilla has left users out in the cold. While these giant companies compete to upgrade their browsers to meet the latest technology requirements, they seem to be leaving their end users in a mess with lots of browser compatibility problems. If the Firefox 4 beta was not frustrating enough, the so called stable version has its own set of issues. Likewise, despite the fact that Internet Explorer 9 has received more than 10 million downloads, yet it requires being fast tracked to meet the user habits changed by Firefox and Chrome extensions. Even the light weight Opera seems to be following the Beta disaster of Firefox 4 by alienating its market niche of legacy hardware users. In this post, we will take a look at the pros and cons of using these browsers and provide you with a comparison of the advantages and possible issues you may face by using them. Read More

View Firefox 4 Browsing History In Tree View (Threaded View)

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How often has your browsing history failed to help you find a really great web page you visited? At times what you need more than browsing history is a browsing map. WheretoWhere is a Firefox extension that gives you just that. It maintains a hierarchical record (based on your browsing history) of pages you visited, where each page originated from and how you got to a site or page. Read More