Yearly Archives: 2011

Tango Video & Audio Chat Client Now Available For Windows

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Inspired from Apple FaceTime, Tango is a multi-platform audio and video chatting app available for Android, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. If you enjoy video calling via Tango on your smartphone and wish there were a way to use it on your PC, here's some great news for you. Tango has recently released its desktop client, which provides seamless audio and video calling with Tango contacts via both wired and wireless networks. As of now, Tango desktop client is only available for Windows but it will  soon be out for other operating systems as well. It offers a minimalistic, iOS-like user interface which gives you the feeling that you’re using Tango on your iPhone. However, you can switch between iPhone and Windows Standard UI design from within the application's Settings. Read More

OpenSubtitlesSearch Uses File Hash To Get Exact Subtitles For Movies

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OpenSubtitlesSearch is a Windows application, developed on QT4 framework to quickly locate and download subtitles of any given movie and TV Show. The application uses hash of the files to download exact subtitles. It fetches subtitles from OpenSubtitles.com and lists them on the main interface, from where you can pick the most appropriate subtitles file for the video in question. The hash matching mechanism of finding subtitles ensures that video and subtitles are synced with each other. Read More

MySQLBackupFTP: Create, Schedule & Zip MySQL Database Backups

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You may know that DBMS (Database Management System) backup tools offer a limited set of options to backup databases. That’s the reason why database managers rely on third-party, powerful database backup solutions which can automate the process of backing up all the system and non-system databases at convenient location. Take phpmyadmin as an instance, you may choose its Export tool to create backup of your database, but what if you want to create database backups on regular basis, or after every major update? Since it becomes tedious to manually pick output format followed by compression mode from Export tab to create backups, you may need a database backup automater like MySQLBackupFTP (a.k.a MySQLBF) to automatically perform the database backup operations. Read More

XEO CSS: HTML Editor, Visual Editor & Auto Code Generator For CSS

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There are multiple CSS code generators that allow you to add effects either to images, text or elements. These code generators are what they are and give you the CSS code only. Few of them allow you to chose how you would like to load the CSS in your HTML file. What they leave up to you is creating the HTML file and defining classes in it manually. XEO CSS is a CSS code generator and an HTML editor. It creates an HTML file and gives the option to either load classes from HTML, IDs from HTML to elment names from it. Changes to CSS are made via a visual editor and there is little or no coding involved. You can save multiple files by signing up to the service and resume editing them anytime. Read More

Stay Apprised Of The Latest News With Pulse Reader For Windows Phone 7

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Even with a young and developing app collection of 30,000, Windows Phone 7’s Marketplace has got most essentials covered. However, a lot of major multiplatform mobile apps are still to hop onto the WP7 bandwagon. Though that seems to be changing quickly with the advent of Mango. The much-awaited WhatsApp for Windows Phone came out last week, and now Pulse newsreader joins the list of apps that WP7 users have long been clamouring for. We have to admit that Pulse is nothing like the popular Flipboard app for iOS and Android, but still, for Mango users it has the potential to become their favorite news reader app, specially given the fact that Windows Phone does not have any official newsreader client of its own. Although no one can be certain what makes an app popular with users, whatever the reason may be, Pulse is pretty popular. The app does have an innovative interface, and some real customizable feeds to go with it. Read More

Mydiamarks: Bookmark Media & Share YouTube Video Timecodes [Android]

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Mydiamarks (or simply, My-Media-Bookmarks) is a free app for Android that lets users bookmark their favorite media including audio files (songs, audiobooks etc.) and even YouTube videos. The app has its own native player, music library, YouTube video browser/player and a library that contains all your locally saved bookmarks of audio files as well as the publicly shared YouTube bookmarks (timecodes). Bookmarking with Mydiamarks is simple. While playing some media, just stop/pause on your favorite spot, select the bookmark option and save the bookmark in the app's library. Read More

Record, Stream & Share Videos With TJUNKS Video Camera [Android, iOS]

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TJUNKS Video Camera is a cross-platform video sharing app for iOS & Android (with the BlackBerry client in the pipeline) that lets you record video clips and instantly share them with the other TJUNKS users from all over the world. Shared videos are streamed on the official TJUNKS TV website that can be accessed from within the app as well. TJUNKS Video Camera sports a wide range of features through which you can search for users & videos, comment on videos, get friend suggestions, follow others or be followed, connect to multiple social networking services, manage the TJUNKS Lifetime (validity period of your recordings on the server) and lots more. Read More

Hipmunk Tracks The Shortest Flight Routes To Your Destination [Android]

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Hipmunk is easily one of the simplest flight tracking apps for Android. The free app helps you search flights from almost all the popular airlines services across the globe and displays them on a timeline sorted by various filters. With Hipmunk, users can search for the cheapest and the most convenient flights to desired worldwide destinations, book one way/two way flights, purchase tickets directly from their device or get the booking procedure finished from your computer. Read More

Schedule Export Of Evernote Notes With Evernote Exporter

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Tired of manually backing up your data from Evernote every day? Evernote Exporter is an open source tool that can schedule the export of Evernote notes on a periodic basis. Using Evernote Exporter, you can avoid exporting your notes manually from time to time and rather schedule for automatically saving a backup of your notes in ENEX (Evernote) format. Read More

Postcard On The Run: Design & Mail Real Postcards From Your Android Device

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Love sharing postcards with your friends? Why take an entirely virtual route when Postcard On The Run is at your service? Postcard On The Run is an Android app that lets you design personalized postcards on your device (with images, signatures, maps and more) and send them to your friends in real. Yes, real postcards mailed directly to your contact's house. The price? Starts from as low as 99 cents per postcard that can be paid from within the app while the app itself is free. No address? Avail the in-app address retrieval service of Postcard On The Run to send address request to your friends via text message. It’s already been a month since Post Card On The Run was released for iOS users while the Android variant of the app has just made its way into the Market. Read More

White Pages For WP7: A Complete Contact Directory Of People Near You

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Another day, another location-based app for Windows Phone 7. White Pages is a free app which makes use of WP7’s location services (and a huge database) to provide its users with contact data of all the people and businesses near you, just like a big, old-fashioned telephone directory. And you get all that for free, right on your phone. With the White Pages app, you don't even have to know a business place's name in order to get information about it. The app lists everything in neat categories, and you can can usually get to the perfect place by simply navigating through the various categories listed in the app. White Pages works for both businesses and people, and you can perform reverse searches on it as well, meaning you will need to put in any phone number to view all its relevant details. Read More

Blind Shot: Take Photos Discreetly With Your Windows Phone 7 Camera

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People have always complained about the camera in Windows Phone 7. For one thing, it lacked touch to focus. Also, it was annoying that you could never mute the shutter sound. Mango has brought touch to focus and now the camera follows your device’s volume settings too (at least it does on our Samsung Omnia 7). Blind Shot is one of the first apps to take advantage of this new capability. If you want to snap pictures without alerting half the neighborhood, this app is for you. Not only is the sound muted, and flash disabled when you take a photo using Blind Shot, there isn't even a preview screen to go with the app, and that is why if someone takes a cursory look at your WP7's screen from over your shoulder, you won't be caught in your Paparazzi pursuits. Read More

ggrep: Grep Based Search And Replace Tool For Windows

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Grep is a command line utility which was originally developed for UNIX based operating systems. This text-search utility searches files or standard input for lines matching a regular expression. There are many implementations of grep available. One such implementation can be found in the form of a portable application known as ggrep. It is a search and replace tool to find text strings from codes, log files, and virtually any text file in your system. ggrep supports regex, search by file and folder match and auto detects encoding. The matching text from the search result is displayed in highlighted form and can be instantly replaced by another text string. ggrep, to some extent, has attributes similar to Find and Replace, however, simply being grep-based makes ggrep more effective than the former. Read More

Powerful Task Management App Conqu Now Available For Android

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Conqu is a free cross-platform task management app for Android, iOS & Blackberry that comes with a strong reputation of providing its users with a comprehensive set of features so that they can keep a close tab on their past and pending tasks through various time-based filters. Whether it’s a business matter that you want to get resolved instantly, an on-going project comprising of multiple tasks or a mission that you wish to accomplish in the long run, Conqu makes sure that you get it all listed under their relevant categories along with priorities, energy levels, due dates, tags and notes. The app supports archives for your various Conqu tasks and lets you delegate tasks to the relevant people (using their email addresses) once you log in with ConquSync. The app also has notifications for all the completed (by your contacts) as well as upcoming tasks. Read More

Firefox 8: Twitter Search, Tab Restore And Animations & Add-On Control

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One bug isn’t the end of the rapid release cycle, Firefox 7 may have been delayed a day because of a bug that didn’t stop Firefox 8 being released to the Beta channel. After promptly fixing the add-on issue in Firefox 7 with an extension and then an upgrade, Mozilla is back on its development schedule. Firefox 8 has integrated a security feature for third party add-ons, delayed loading restored tabs until they were clicked for faster start-up, integrated twitter as a search platform on the search bar and better add-on controls to manage the extensions you want to run on the new version.

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Time Out Tells You When To Take Breaks During Work Hours In Mac

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If your job includes using the computer for a better part of day, it’s advised to take a break of 10-15 minutes after every 2 hours to prevent eye and wrist muscle strain. Apart from lowering the contrast level of your monitor and taking measures to prevent RSIs, you need an application like Breaker for your Mac OS X to keep yourself notified about when to take a break. Time Out is a Mac app to remind you to take break after regular time intervals. The application offers two modes of taking rest; Normal Mode and Micro Mode. The normal mode alerts you to take a 10 minute break after every 50 minutes of continuous work while the latter is for taking a brief 10 second break after every 10 minutes. Nevertheless, Time Out is fully configurable and allows you to change break times and duration for which break lasts. Read More

PanoramaPlus: Lightweight Image Stitching Tool For Creating Panoramas

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When taking snaps for memorable moments the camera sometimes seems to be insufficient for capturing the whole frame of the beautiful imagery. This is often the case when one goes for hiking or picnic, as the scenery is too vast to be captured in a single snap. Obviously there are also other scenarios, for instance family snaps on birthdays often require taking multiple pictures separately as a single photo cannot capture the whole crowd next to e.g. a birthday cake. Joining such images on image editing tools involves quite a long procedure which can be easily avoided with the help of image stitching applications. Read More

Jupiter: Toggle Power, Wi-Fi, Video & Bluetooth Settings In Ubuntu

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Being able to configure hardware options from the system tray using an applet is much easier than searching numerous hardware settings from the Unity Dash or the Classic start menu in Ubuntu. There are a number of applets which provide the functionality to manage one or two kinds of hardware related settings from the system tray, however, their functionality is quite limited. Jupiter is an app-indicator applet for controlling power and hardware options of portable Linux computers. It provides quick access to common power and hardware options so that you can toggle settings to keep your laptop resource consumption to the minimum. The available options include settings for power, screen output, resolution, Wi-Fi , and Bluetooth. What makes Jupiter useful is the fact that it allows the utility to manage multiple hardware settings from a single system tray menu. Read More

Get Answers To All Your Questions With The Official Quora App For iPhone

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A few days back we covered Local Hero, an app that helps you get answers to any question from experts near you. But the whole location-based thing might feel like a restriction to some people and for that reason, you might consider trying out the latest Q&A app for iOS named Quora. While the app itself is new, the service isn’t. You can find solutions to just about any problem on Quora by inputting your searches in the form of queries (just like with Yahoo! Answers). The official Quora app is free, and comes with a bunch of really helpful features. The app is intelligent enough to voluntarily suggest search topics based on your past searches and current location, and comes with an elegant notification system that ensures that you can see the answer to your queries as soon as there is an appropriate response. Read More