Yearly Archives: 2011

Add Security To Your Dropbox Account With SecretSync Encryption

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If you’re thinking to deploy a security layer to your Dropbox in order to protect highly confidential data before being sent to Dropbox to sync them across all the configured systems, it’d would rather a time consuming process to first create encrypted container for holding classified info and then send it to Dropbox. An easy solution is provided by SecretSync. It’s a tool backed by 256-AES encryption algorithm which does nothing except encrypting your private data with a pass key and syncing it with your Dropbox account. Using that pass key, you can access your synced private data easily from anywhere, without worrying about recently revealed Dropbox security related issues. Read More

iTuneUp – Fix Performance Of Slow And Unresponsive Mac In Real Time

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If you’re facing some unexpected crashes, program halts and exceptions, with your whole Mac system going completely numb unless you reboot it, you must consider using an optimization and inspection tool to find out root cause of all such issues. iTuneUp is created to address such problems. It is a Mac optimization utility which offers a slew of inspection techniques to not only find and repair system and application crashes but also to boost overall performance as well. iTuneUp works on a simple principle. It consistently checks different areas of your system to optimize them without requiring your direction. The real-time monitoring also checks currently running applications for errors and attempts to repair them as they happen. Read More

Fix Windows Phone 7 Update Problem Caused By ChevronWP7 Updater

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If you manually updated your Windows Phone 7 device to the NoDo update via Chris Walsh’s ChevronWP7 Updater, there are chances that you are having or may have trouble getting the subsequent OTA updates on your device. And when we say trouble, we actually mean the update will fail. Such devices are being referred to as Walshed phones and are getting  the error code 81080005 when trying to update. For those with Walshed phones, Chris Walsh himself has developed a fix to help you get back on track. More on it after the break. Read More

Notification Bubbles – Floating Notifications On Android Homescreen

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Tired of dragging down the status bar for every little notification? Wish you could have them all floating around in plane sight? Notification Bubbles is a free, interactive live wallpaper for Android that displays Facebook, Twitter and SMS notifications on your homescree within floating bubbles. Read on for more information, our brief review and the download link. Read More

Download Online Videos Embedded Anywhere With GotClip

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GotClip is a one-click online video downloading tool that focuses more on instantly downloading video clips instead of setting up lengthy configurations before downloading online videos. It supports all major online video sharing platforms including, YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Veoh, Google Videos, MetaCafe and more. You can also download flash videos embedded in any forum, blog, personal pages, etc. Unlike many other video downloaders, it allows you to download multiple videos at a time without hassling with adding video URLs each time to download them. You can create a list of videos you wish to download, insert them into GotClip, and it will start downloading them in one go. Read More

Defragment Hard Disk Faster With Java Defrag

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The importance of disk defragmentation is often under estimated for speeding up a computer. Defragmentation reduces scattered files by physically organizing the contents of the mass storage device to store files in a contiguous region (if possible). Which improves the read/write rate of a hard disk due to defragmentation of files. Java Defrag is a portable application for quickly defragmenting NTFS and FAT32 hard drives. What makes open source Java Defrag different than other defragmentation applications is that it is less resource intensive and utilizes the standard Windows Defragmentation API for moving files on NTFS hard drives. Binding the files together in this way can provide a number of advantages, such as improving the loading time in games and reducing lags. Read More

MangaRipper Downloads Manga Comics From Manga Websites

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We have previously covered many Manga file viewers such as QManga (for Windows) and Comix (for Linux). This time we have an open source Manga downloader, called MangaRipper. It allows easy grabbing of Manga comic from an entered URL. What makes MangaRipper quite useful is that it can automatically download manga series from ‘read manga online' websites. It provides build- in links to Manga comic websites from where you can conveniently locate your favorite Manga comic to download. This is a good way of circumventing the need for looking up Manga Torrent files and having to deal with dead torrents. Read More

Dropbox Share Syncs Any Folder With Dropbox From Ubuntu Context Menu

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Dropbox is a great resources for saving and synchronizing data with the cloud. Sometimes it can be a bit annoying to crawl through various directory paths to locate a folder and then to copy it to the Dropbox folder separately. A more convenient method can be to use the context menu for this function. Dropbox Share is a Linux app which provides the convenience of syncing any file or folder from right-click context menu with Dropbox. Once a folder is sent to Dropbox, you receive a pop-up message displaying that the file has been moved. Read More

Minimize Evolution To Ubuntu System Tray With Patched Evolution Indicator

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Evolution is the built in mail client for Ubuntu distributions. Since long many users have been trying to find a way to minimize it to the system tray as some of it’s components are accessible from there. Patched Evolution Indicator is a simple app designed to get email notifications, even when the Evolution window is closed. It basically minimizes Evolution to the system tray, hence allowing you to receive email notifications without an active Evolution window. A new version for 11.04 Natty has just been released, whereas a version is also available for Ubuntu 10.10. Read More

Two Browsers In One – Run IE Inside Chrome

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Have you ever required both IE and Chrome browsers at the same time? It can happen. Once you use Chrome, you never really look back at Internet Explorer but you still have lots and lots of people who use the veteran  browser (IE)and if you’re a web developer or designer, you might find yourself returning to IE to make sure everything looks and functions just as well there as it does in Chrome. To make things easier to test and to minimize switching between windows, try the Chrome IE extension for Chrome. Read More

How To Root Motorola XOOM Honeycomb Tablet On Android 3.1

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The Motorola XOOM has started receiving the OTA update to Android 3.1, with some users updating their XOOM tablets manually because they didn’t want to wait. As is the  case with almost all Android updates pushed by a device manufacturer, this update be it manual or OTA, will remove root access on the Xoom. For all those who are now running Android 3.1 on their XOOM tablets, XDA-Developers forum member publicanimal has released the eagerly awaited root guide. More on rooting the XOOM on Honeycomb 3.1 after the break! Read More

Change Color Of Orange App Button In Firefox 4

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Being able to customize one part or the other of our most frequently used apps, programs (or toothbrush) makes life jus a little bit better. If you’re tired of looking at same old orange Firefox app button or you’ve found a really great theme but think the Firefox button’s color isn’t right, you can now change it using the App Button Color extension. Read More

Search Popular Sites Directly From The Address Bar In Firefox

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The address bar is no longer the address bar any more; browsers have integrated the address bar and search bar in one place and users today wouldn’t know how to search without this feature. So imagine if you had a really great address bar but you could make it even better? The address bar in Firefox lets you enter either a URL or any search in your default search engine; the InstantFox extension for Firefox lets you search Google, YouTube, Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay and for local weather and turns the Address bar into a calculator (because calculators just make things cooler). Read More

Movies By CraigWorks – Create Database And Stream Movies Remotely

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Movies by CraigWorks is a browser based application for organizing movie collections and creating a custom movie database with information obtained from sources such as IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Yahoo Movies, etc. Movies by CragWorks provides VLC integration and iPad support. The former allows you to integrate movie information with files on the hard drive, to play them in a click using VLC Player. The Remote Support feature provides a handy utility of playing movies in one location and remotely viewing them from another, which means that you can play a movie on your PC at home and watch it in a separate location (provided you have internet connectivity). All movies that are added to the database include complete movie, cast, crew and related information with related pictures. Other than movies, you can also create a database for your favorite TV shows. Read More

An Introduction To Modern Mobile Operating Systems

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Over the past decade, smartphones have taken the world by storm and recently, tablets have entered into the arena as well. These mobile devices are having a significant impact on our lives and are in fact redefining the way we access information and communicate with others. This is due to not only the hardware but the specialized software that these devices run and most importantly, their operating systems. In what follows, we will take an informative tour of modern mobile operating systems, their different types and usage across smartphone and tablet platforms. Read More

CleanMyPC Brings CleanMyMac’s System Cleaning Features To Windows [Giveaway]

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CleanMyMac for Mac is what CCleaner is for Windows. Many users who’ve used CCleaner on Windows consider CleanMyMac as to be the best comparable junk cleaning tool for Mac. However, there are certainly a lot of differences one can point out when it comes to deeply clean Mac and Windows with CleanMyMac and CCleaner, respectively. Almost all the Windows based cleaning tools, including widely used, Glary Utilities and CCleaner, lack at certain areas. This compels users to consider other cleaning utilities to clean junk off the system and to find all superfluous safe-to-remove files. Recently, the developers behind CleanMyMac have released its counterpart for Windows OS, called CleanMyPC, which brings almost all the essential cleaning options of CleanMyMac with other complementary features especially designed to find and remove junk from Windows system. Read More

Speed Up Visual Studio 2010 Build Time With VSSpeedster Parallel Mode

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Are you working on some massive web or desktop application development project in Visual Studio 2010 and hate waiting forever to compile the app? You must have applied numerous workarounds to reduce the overall build time and to get smooth IDE response. One method is to launch build in MSBuild with parallel mode to make use of all the CPU cores for each project, which is also quite a hectic task. Keeping aside a plethora of parallel build related errors which, sometimes, occur while compiling the project, it’s also laborious to manually revert back to non-parallel build mode. VSSpeedster is a small yet extremely useful open source add-in for Visual Studio which claims to significantly reduce the overall project build time. It changes build related commands to trigger parallel build in order to reduce the time involved in building one huge project. Read More

Snapshoter Is Screenshot Clipboard Manager And Editor

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We love to try screenshot taking tools which offer a seamless way to capture whole and specific screen area with a feature-rich screenshot editor. In the past, we have featured many screen capturing tools, having a whole lot of different features to capture screen areas and then to edit them. Shotty and Greenshot are already our favorite tools, but unfortunately, they both lack a much needed feature – screenshot clipboard history to automatically cycle through captured images (and use them in a required sequence). Snapshoter is a portable screen capture tool which offers all the essential screen capture features with an option to save them in unlimited screenshot stack. It provides the utility of saving as many screenshots as you want in a list which can be pasted with either a simple drag and drop or by using default Paste hotkey combination; Ctrl + V. Read More