Yearly Archives: 2011

Glow Hockey 2 For Android Brings Single Screen Multiplayer Game

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Sequel to the pong-inspired Glow Hockey for Android, Glow Hockey 2 adds a single-screen 2-player mode and alternate themes to the furious, addictive gameplay and attractive neon-like graphics of the original. That’s right. If your device supports multitouch, you can now challenge your friends to matches of virtual hockey – neons glowing, sparks flying, you slapping away your friend’s hand to score an illegal match point and all that jazz. Tip: always use your own device while challenging a friend. It gives you that “home turf” advantage all those sport savvy folks talk about. More info and less jokes after the break. Read More

ESET Mobile Security For Android Fights Viruses, Spyware, Spam & Theft

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ESET couldn’t have picked a better time to make a debut in the Android Market. Currently under yet another malware onslaught, the Market needs more major players from the system security genre to step into the foray. ESET Mobile Security is a comprehensive security suite for Android that includes an on-demand (user-requested) and on-access (event-triggered) scanner for viruses or spyware, SMS and MMS spam blocker, SIM authorization, remote control via SMS commands from an authorized phone number (or from Business Edition of ESET Smart Security and ESET NOD32 Antivirus), security audit, built-in task manager, automatic and manual security database updates and password protection for mentioned features. As of this writing, the app is in beta and available for free on the Android Market. However, there is no indication as to whether the final release will be free as well. Read More

Breaker Notifies You When It Is Time To Take Break While Working

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The best way to keep yourself productive while working is to take regular breaks after a certain number of hours. It’s a common fact that those who don’t take breaks to relax their nerves usually struggle hard to meet tight work deadlines. Moreover, sitting in front of computer for a whole day may severely damage your eyes and incur back pain. Breaker is a tool that notifies when it is time to take break. The application is meant for those who heavily work on PCs and usually forget about taking breaks within working hours. Unlike other similar tools, it allows you to specify the break timings in a loop. You specify pattern of taking breaks by entering work hours and break time interval. On the other hand, single configuration mode is available to keep break time intervals consistent across the work hours. After a specific amount of time, a message pops up over system notification area, asking users to take a short break. Read More

FTPbox Uses Your Host Server To Sync Files Across All PCs

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In the wake of hundreds of freely available cloud based services, Dropbox is considered to be the best cloud service primarily because of convenience it brings for sharing and syncing files. But as we all know about Dropbox data security related vulnerabilities that were revealed just recently, the best alternative would be using your own host server to sync files across all the PCs. FTPbox provides live real-time synchronization between specified local folders and your server via FTP. Just like Dropbox desktop app, you can install it on your PCs to perform file synchronization seamlessly. You specify local folder and it will start syncing its content with specified server location. In similar fashion, you have to configure it on other PCs to let it automatically download and sync data from the server. Read More

Recover Data From Corrupt Or Damaged CD, DVD, And Blu-Ray Discs

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In order to recover data from hard drives, optical discs, and other storage mediums, many of us choose Recuva for the job. It’s a famous recovery tool from Piriform to seamlessly find and recover corrupted data from partially damaged hard drives & external storage mediums and from corrupted optical discs. However, if Recuva, for some inexplicable reasons, fails to recover data from corrupt or damaged optical disc, one has to consider other tools for recovering data from optical discs. If you are having a bad luck with Recuva, you can opt-in for CD/DVD/BlueRay Recovery. Read More

Download CCleaner For Mac To Clean Trash And Junk From Your System

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Piriform’s tool CCleaner has finally been released for Mac. Currently in beta, CCleaner works just fine on Mac, supporting only two applications Safari and Firefox with slew of other cleaning options to remove Trash items, Recent documents, MRU lists, Temporary folders, Recent application lists and so on. Compared with Windows counterpart, CCleaner for OS X is however not very feature rich but provides Mac users with a quick way to remove junk off their system with a single click. The main UI is quite similar to Windows counterpart, nevertheless, you will see a way less features to clean junk data from your Mac. As stated earlier that it supports Firefox and Safari, you can clean browsing cache, internet history, download history, cookies, and saved form information. Check out CCleaner beta for Mac visuals after the jump. Read More

GinoPlayer – Desktop Music Player To Stream And Download Over 40 Million Songs

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The downside of online music and radio stations is that they rely on their native service without supporting other online services, and thus offer very limited music collection to search from. Secondly, most of them don’t allow you to download the music tracks. Today, we have an awesome desktop audio player for you, called GinoPlayer. It fetches music files from multiple online resources, providing the utility of streaming music from over 40 million songs. Aside from streaming music on desktop, GinoPlayer also lets you download songs to any local location. You can bookmark songs, search for specific artist to create temporary playlist and play them in shuffle mode. If you’re not satisfied with primary search results against your keywords, you can reinforce advance search by listing down more songs from different online music resources.

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Stop Firefox Memory Leak With Firefox Plumber

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If the programs running in your system were people, your memory would be the currency they used. It’s  one of those things that are hard to conserve and easily lost. Everything from your browser to the harmless widgets on your desktop are just sucking away at your RAM. Firefox, one of the most loved browsers of all time, is notorious for its memory leaks. If you leave Firefox running for even a few hours, its memory usage can almost double. It may seem like some far fetched urban legend but it’s true; Firefox eats your RAM even when it’s running idle in your system. Firefox Plumber is a desktop tool that (like any good plumber) claims to plug your memory leak allowing you to leave the browser running until the next predicted rapture while it ensures no memory leak occur. Read More

Design Desktop App And Web UI Prototypes With Mockup Builder

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Creating a half-way presentable sketch of anything to a client can take up a lot of time and one of the main reasons desktop app and web UI mock ups take so long is that they have to make sense and a bunch of scribbles on a piece of paper aren’t enough to impress a client. Mockup Builder is a free web app that lets you design mock ups for websites and desktop apps using a simple interface. It’s preloaded with a whole range of web and desktop app UI containers, media playback and track navigation buttons, buttons, text boxes, date picker, Gantt chart, breadcrumbs, site navigation controls, sample desktop app wizards, error message icons, vertical and horizontal scrollbars and so on. The Mock ups can be sent to clients for feedback or can be presented right from the app interface. Read More

How To Overclock Motorola XOOM To 1.7 GHz With TIAMAT Kernel

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Motorola XOOM was the first Android tablet that came loaded with Honeycomb. It was rooted, overclocked and modded within hours of it’s release and now there is more awesomeness available. Apparently folks over at XDA have managed to overclock their Motorola XOOM to a whooping and insane 1.7 GHz! And the best part is that after overclocking, the system remains safe and enhances user experience. We definitely recommend you going for this OC hack because the team behind its development has done the same for Droid Incredible, Evo 4G, Nexus One and HTC Desire with great success ratio. Read More

Ripple Lock Is Honeycomb-Inspired Lockscreen Replacement For Android

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Ripple Lock for Android is a lockscreen replacement app with an interface that takes after that of the Android 3.0 Honeycomb stock lockscreen. New to the Android Market, the app still requires quite a bit of refinement. The unlock animation, though quite stylish, tends to slow down at times and the status bar remains accessible while the lockscreen is active. Hopefully, said problems will be resolved in future updates. Read More

LookMobile – Access SMS And Contacts On Your Android Remotely From Browser

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As unlikely as it may seem and no matter how much you say it could never happen to you because you’re just too careful; there’s still chance a day might come when you forget to take your phone with you. If that  happened, many would run right back home to their phone as if they’ve actually left an infant unattended but for those who can’t make it back, LookMobile is a web service that can ease your separation anxiety by letting you access your messages, call log and contacts remotely from your browser. Read More

Fotobook App For iPhone Lets You View And Save Facebook Photos [Giveaway]

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Looking for a way to view your favorite Facebook photos offline, on the go? Ever wanted to set one as a wallpaper on your iOS device? Introducing Fotobook App for the iPhone and iPod Touch, a handy little app that allows you to browse photos uploaded by your Facebook friends and save them to your device. You can download individual photos or entire albums with just a few taps and view them later from within the app, share them with your friends via email or save them to camera roll. More after the break. Read More

Free Version Of Read It Later Released For Android

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Popular multiplatform web page/article archiver and offline viewer, Read It Later, came to Android roughly two and a half months ago with a $2.99 price tag. A free version of the app has just been released to the Android Market. With Read It Later Free, you can download a limited number of web pages and/or articles, view them later from within the app without an active internet connection, view articles in a uni-column format suitable for mobile viewing and share articles in said format via email. For those of you unfamiliar with Read It Later, the beauty of the app is that your Reading List is shared across all devices linked to your account. So if, for instance, you find an interesting article while browsing the web from your office computer, you can save it to your Reading List and read it later on your Android device on the bus back home. It’s the avid reader’s best friend. Read More

Enable 1080p HD Video Recording And Enhance Sound Capture On Galaxy S II

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Samsung Galaxy S II is quickly becoming one of the most favored Android handsets among users. The main reason for this likeability of this particular handset is it’s powerful processor complimented by easy customizations, hacks and modifications. Lately, XDA member Potatoman,  has released a modified version of Camera.apk for this phone that will enable you to increase video bitrate in 1080p HD and 720p. And another awesome fact is that now you will be able to use your phone’s camera or camcorder at lowest battery level and record audio at a whooping 1920 KBPS instead of crappy 64 KBPS. Read More

Unlock Locked Files And Remove Them From Mac Trash With FEmp

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It can be quite a hassle to manually unlock files in Trash to permanently remove them from the system, as for each locked file you need to provide admin password to continue the removal operation. Although there are a lot of ways to completely remove all the items present in Trash, but sadly none offers as simple solution as Femp to unlock all locked files and then to remove them. It's a tiny tool to quickly empty the Trash regardless of how many locked files are there. The application is developed for those who can't go through checking and unlocking each locked file present in Trash to remove them. With FEmp, you just have enter the admin password to remove all locked and unlocked items from Trash. Read More

Track Time While Giving Presentation With Trak [Time Management]

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In order to give presentation you should split up the content of the presentation into different sections, so that target audience would take note of all the important points and map them with respective presentation sections. Allocating equal time slices to each presentation section is utterly important to efficiently utilize the total given time. If your presentation doesn’t contain sections associated with time slices, you’d probably fail to keep track of time limit. Trak provides a customizable presentation progress bar on screen to keep track of sections and most importantly the total given time. It allows specifying total number of sections and allocating time slots to customizable segments, so you wont lose track of time which you want to spend on different segments of presentations. Read More

Scroll via Mouse Wheel Over Inactive Window With Always Wheel

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When dealing with multiple project workspaces, we sometimes need to move back & forth between different windows to find certain information, figures, stats, etc. This requires to first activate the window and then use the mouse wheel to scroll through the required app window. By activating underlying windows, all the windows in foreground get deactivated and eventually we lose focus on primary workspace. If you want to make scrolling through windows seamless; instead of activating window each time to scroll through passive windows, you can use Always Wheel. It’s a tiny Windows application which allows you to scroll through passive pages (underlying inactive windows) without having to activate them. This enables you to keep most important app windows up front all the time while others de-activated windows can still be scrolled through. Read More

Create Free HTML Based User Data Forms With Form Builder

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HTML Forms don’t just take a lot of time to create; making the form layout fit with a site design can often be frustrating. Form Builder is one among many other form builders that will make life easier for you. The free form builder gives you exactly what you need; a form. No annoying templates to choose from, you pick the fields and set variables yourself; preview the form and if you like what you see, have the site send you the code. Read More

Bookmark Places To Remember On iPhone With MatchBoxIt

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You never forget your favorite spots to eat or shop; what you have trouble remembering is that great new restaurant you went to on your horrible blind date. How do you find it again so you can enjoy the food with better company? Macthboxit is a web service that makes it easier to bookmark places using Google maps. The web service has a free iPhone app that automatically detects places in your vicinity so you can bookmark them. The service also lets you save places you find online so you can access them from your iPhone. Read More