Yearly Archives: 2011

Search, Filter And Edit Image Tags Using JPhotoTagger

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Windows Explorer lists down all the tags of selected images in the image preview pane, but it is both time consuming and wearisome to edit the tags of each image using the default options. It requires you to open the properties of each file, edit the metadata and save it separately. Using the default options can make the editing process very tedious for you. If you want to edit the metadata of image files, what you probably need is an efficient tag editor to speed up the task. Today, we have an application called JPhotoTagger that allows you edit tags of image files. It is a comprehensive image tag editing application that lets you effortlessly manage and edit images tags. Read More

SliderDock Now Allows Customizing Rotation & Animation Quality

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Back in 2009, we reviewed SliderDock, which is a stylish application launcher for accessing applications and websites by selecting them from a rotating ring (via the mouse wheel). What caught our eye back then was its unique UI, which provides a number of customization options for creating application/website shortcuts. Since our review, SliderDock has been updated with a host of new features and improvements. In this post, we will explore the new features of SliderDock. Read More

Gnome Skin Pack Transforms Windows 7 Into Linux

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One of the easiest and quickest ways to change the current look of your Windows is applying a new theme. New themes also give your workplace a fresh look and also provide eye-candy. If you however need much more transformation then a typical theme, then what you probably need are skin packs. Skin packs go deeper into customization and change various appearance aspects. We have covered a lot of skin packs in the past, another one we found recently is Gnome Skin Pack. It is a Windows 7 transformation pack to make your desktop look like Linux. The Skin Pack is part of a transformation packs developed by Hamed, who previously released many other one, such as iOS,  Mac OS X, Windows 8, Android and Windows Phone 7 Mango skin packs. Like other skin packs, it provides a simple wizard that guides you through the installation steps. You won't need to configure UI elements after installing the skin pack, as it adjusts all the elements automatically. Keep reading past the jump for pertaining details. Read More

UC Browser 8.0 Saves Cache To Cloud, Allows Faster Browsing [Android]

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UC Browser is a cross-platform web browser for mobile devices with support for all the renowned operating systems/platforms that currently exist. Be it Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile or any other, UC Browser has almost all the bases covered. Just recently, the company has launched UC Browser 8.0 for Android and a handful of other platforms. The browser (currently in beta) vows to enhance web browsing experience on your device through faster, smoother rendering of pages in multiple browsing modes. Users can opt to view pages with full-content support in PC mode or revert to the mobile/no-image view to save bandwidth. In addition, the browser boasts several other features such as full-screen browsing, URL-auto completion, real-time search suggestions from Google, customizable zoom level, image quality and browser orientation, in-page search, built-in download/file manager, better privacy controls, detailed Traffic stats, day/night mode support, extensive bookmarking, editable quick-dial buttons on homescreen and much more. Read More

IM / Social Network App WNM Live Adds Support For Voice Calls [WP7]

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The Windows Phone 7 community finally got voice calls for Mango a few days back with Mobile VoIP. And now, WNM Live, which is a pretty old and popular WP7 social network app, has added the functionality to make voice calls to your WNM contacts, and that too completely for free. Of course WNM Live still has all its social networking features, and you can use it to connect to strangers and friends alike, but the voice call feature has surely converted it into a utility app rather than an app that is in the Marketplace just for fun. Read More

Batch For iPhone: Easily Share Photos In Bulk To Facebook & Twitter

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At the launch of iPhone 4S, Apple proudly highlighted the fact that iPhone’s camera is one of the most used cameras in the world and the origin of most photos on services like Flickr. If so many people are using their iPhone or iPad to share photos over the web, then iOS must focus specifically on photo sharing. Although there have been enhancements in this area with the release of iOS 5, there is still room for further improvement. And that’s where third-party photo-sharing apps like Batch come in. Using this free iPhone app, you can share photos in tandem over your social network or simply save them to the cloud to be accessed at a later time. Batch can be thought of as a service that you can use for backing up your photo library with complete ease. Read More

Change Orientation Of Videos Using Free Video Flip And Rotate

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Technology sometimes feel to be moving with the speed of light. Our gadgets and handheld devices now has so much computing prowess that it simply wasn't imaginable a few decades ago. One of the most incredible advancement is the introduction of camera on mobile phones. Now, you probably don't feel the need to keep your keep both your camera and mobile in your pocket, when only one can suffice the job. Usually while recording videos, people don’t give a lot of thought to the orientation of a video when shooting with mobile phone camera. Due to the fact the most devices are now equipped with an integrated accelerometer, which changes the view as you reposition the phone. What if you made a video of an important event and while viewing realize that you were holding the camera upside down? Or perhaps in portrait mode? Well, recording a video in landscape perfectly seems okay, holding it in portrait is down right foolish. However, don't worry no more as Free Video Flip And Rotate lets you change the orientation of videos with a single click. It has seven predefined video rotate and flip options; rotate 90 CW (Clockwise), rotate 180, rotate 90 CCW (Counter Clockwise), flip horizontally, flip vertically, flip vertically with rotate 90 CW and flip vertically with rotate 90 CCW. Read More

Fount: Quickly View CSS Attributes Of Fonts Used On Websites

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All browsers come with tools that help developers test web pages and ensure the site(s) they’ve developed play nice. Additionally, there are also add-ons or extensions that help developers and the Firebug add-on for Firefox is one of the more popular examples. For each browser, you have different tools and there is little uniformity among them. The tools will all provide some basic features but it is safe to say some browser’s developer tools are better than those of others. While the world of built-in browser tools is vast, the fact is that they aren’t all used or needed to their full extent. You might end up opening the developer panel for very simple things like checking the CSS used on a web page. If you often have to find out the font-family, font size and style from webpages, we recommend using Fount. It’s basically a bookmarklet that works with its own web application (does not rely on another service) that lets you easily identify Font CSS styles (font family, size and style) applied over selected text. It comes useful in instances where you want to use font styles used on a specific webpage on your own websites. All that is required is to add the Fount-provided button to the bookmark bar. When you want to read font attributes, click its bookmarklet to view the font CSS properties in a tiny semi-transparent window. Read More

Full Screen Launcher: Homescreen Replacement With 3D Folders [Android]

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Love tinkering with the looks of your Android’s screen? Try Full Screen Launcher – a free homescreen replacement app for Android that takes an altogether different route to display your homescreen and the various contents that are present on it. Apart from sporting graphically appealing UI and a brand new concept of merging various homescreens into one large, unending wall, all packed with contacts, shortcuts, widgets et al, Full Screen Launcher provides you with 3D folders that are displayed on your screen as rotating cubes, whose each side carries thumbnails of the content that is present within. What’s best is that you can even place widgets, as well as contacts, within those folders, and access them in the same way as your homescreen or app drawer.The eye-catching animations and transition effects while navigating to various segments of the launcher and reflection of all the icons at the bottom of the screen are nothing but sheer feast for the eyes. The ability to zoom in/out of the walls (screens), effective support for the launcher in landscape/portrait orientation and the extension of all the elegant animations/effects to the app drawer are some of the other highlighting features of Full Screen Launcher. Read More

Volume Rocker: Easily Switch Between Multiple Customizable Volume Presets [Android]

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Android users looking for an effective way to manage the volume/audio settings of their device need not look any further than Volume Rocker. Sporting a customizable, extremely simple-to-use interface, Volume Rocker offers you with as a many as five (5) different volume presets, each carrying customizable volume/audio levels for your alarms, notifications, calls, media et al. Switching between various presets (audio profiles), too, is quite simple and requires just a simple swipe on a slider to jump from, say, normal to loud mode. Moreover, the app comes packed with multiple themes and displays the currently selected/active volume preset on your notification bar. Read More

Ask The Crowds: Create & Participate In Anonymous Polls [WP7]

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Ask the crowds is a rather simple app for Windows Phone 7, the sole purpose of which is to help you get answers to tricky questions and assist you in making choices when you just can’t decided between two options. Of course, creating polls to get people’s opinion on a particular matter is not a new concept by any means; you can do that on Facebook too. But with this app, you don’t have to rely only on the opinion of people you know. You can ask any user’s choice and that, too, while staying anonymous. For example, you can use Ask The Crowds to find out the public opinion regarding a particular event, movie or place. Read More

DVD Subtitle Extractor: Extract And Convert Subtitles From DVD & Bluray Videos

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DVD Subtitle Extractor is an open source application that uses OCR (pattern matching) for extracting subtitles from DVDs & Bluray (.Sup) and convert them to Advanced Substation Alpha format. This format is often used to store subtitles in MKV files (for soft coded subtitle editing). The application provides a wizard for subtitle extraction; it presents options to select program chains, subtitle tracks etc, to create MPG, D2V and BIN (native format of the application) files. DVD Subtitle Extractor can convert SUP (Bluray), SUB and IDX subtitles into Advanced Substation Alpha format as well. Read More

RadioEnhancer: Get Track Change Alerts & Remove Ads From Pandora [Chrome]

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Pandora is a famous online radio and music recommendation service that includes every type of music, but the visual ads on newly designed HTML 5 based Pandora interface can be really annoying. RadioEnhancer,formerly known as PandoraEnhancer, is a Chrome extension to get rid of all visual advertisements from the revamped HTML 5 interface. Additionally, it comes with features to send desktop notifications for song changes, select and copy lyrics to clipboard, remove "Are you still listening" dialog, disable tooltips, conceal header ribbons & promobox, and extend station listing. Read More

Decreased Productivity: Control What You Want To See On A Webpage [Chrome]

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A websites design directly impacts how much time someone will spend on a site. The website’s content also plays a major role but before anyone decides to explore content, they will have to be sold on the design. It’s safe to say that bad design discourages users from spending more time on a website. Decreased Productivity is a Google Chrome extension that enhances browsing experience by providing controls for numerous webpage elements. These controls help you define the webpage sections that you want to see and strip all those elements that you want to conceal such as images, animations and other multimedia content. You can change the default font for cloaked images, hide page favicons, change fonts and set the image opacity level for unhovered and hovered images. It also allows you to easily set the colors for the Background, Text, Link and Table Borders. Read More

Lion Designer: Change Mac Lion Mission Control, Dashboard & Launchpad Background Image

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Mac OS X 10.7 Lion comes with a number of new features and utilities including revamped Dashboard & Login screen, Launchpad and Mission Control. Although Mac OS X Lion lets you customize these utilities, it doesn’t provide a convenient option to change their color scheme and background images. Take Launchpad for an instance, the only way to change the Launchpad background image is by changing the desktop wallpaper. Mac OS X Lion doesn’t allow users to choose a separate background image for Launchpad. Similarly, Mission Control, Login Screen and Dashboard background images can’t be changed unless you fiddle around with their configuration files and replace the default images present in Resource folder with custom ones. Read More

CloudTune Lets You Stream, Share And Manage Online Music From Desktop

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The way we listen to music has changed in the last few years. Gone are the days when people used to store large music libraries in their hard drives and compact disks. More and more people are turning towards online music platforms including Grooveshark, Spotify and Last.fm, which provide massive databases of every genre of music. CloudTune is a audio stream player that lets you play and organize online music from your desktop. You can create playlists, search music, add tracks to favorites and share music on Facebook and Twitter. CloudTune stores your library, playlists and favorites in its repository, so that they can be accessed from anywhere. Other features include importing music from Last.fm and VKontakte, finding music videos on YouTube and searching lyrics of tracks. Read More

Preview Any Kind Of File In Ubuntu Linux With Globus Preview

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Gloobus-Preview is a Nautilus extension to get preview of audio, video, images, documents, code and text files. It is based on Apple’s Quicklook feature that provides instant access to a variety of file types without having to open them with associated applications. This enables sorting out junk files within numerous directories and opening different kinds of file types (such as pictures, music, video, code files etc), without requiring multiple applications to be installed on your computer. Gloobus-Preview is part of the Globus project that also includes two extra applications, namely CoverGloobus (to preview and toggle audio files) and Coverflow which is still under development and is being designed to visually browse the files. Read More

Recover All Types Of Deleted Files With Pandora Recovery

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Whenever you delete a file from a memory storage device, only the reference to the file data in File Allocation Table is marked as deleted. Until and unless more data is written over it, the content is not erased from the disk, and it can be recovered by making it visible for file system again. Pandora Recovery lets you find and recover all types of deleted files from memory storage devices. It provides you with an easy to follow wizard, which guides you through the recovery process. The application scans your memory drives and builds an index of existing and deleted files, which can then be recovered in a user-specified location. You can use search to find a deleted file if you remember full or partial file name, file size, file creation date or last accessed date. Pandora Recovery allows you to preview image and text files before performing recovery. Read More

Monitor Multiple Computers From A Single PC Using Computer Monitor

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When i first entered the world of PC overclocking, i would always run extensive stability tests, to maintain a perfect balance between CPU temperature and performance. Stability tests such as 24 hour our session of Prime95 burn-in test would require constant monitoring. When running such processes on multiple computers at the same time, it is both time consuming and inefficient to check if it encountered any errors. For instance, when you leave for work and you also need to keep an eye on if the stability test failed in between or not. With the advancements in technology, most of our tasks have been made easier, and nuisances, almost vanished. If you needed to keep a watch on running processes on a remote PC, such as the one i started earlier, then Computer Monitor might lend a helping hand. It is a Java based application that can remotely monitor computers on a network from a single PC. The application lets you set a password for your server to prevent unauthorized access to its screen and you can refresh the screen to view the current status of running apps and processes. It has two components; a Server and Client. You have to run the Server on the PC (server PC) which needs to be monitored from Client PC (secondary PC). Read More

Generate, Backup & Encrypt Passwords With Advanced Password Recovery

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There are a lot of applications available on the internet to manage and recover Windows Accounts, but today, we have an application that not only manages your Windows Accounts, but is a complete password manager and retriever. Advanced Password Recovery is a portable application to manage the operating system's accounts and passwords. It lets you change and remove all user passwords, generate random alphanumeric passwords, encrypt and decrypt any string or text with a password and recover Messenger, Windows, Office, Browsers and Wireless connection passwords and keys. In case you don’t remember the password of a User Account, you can delete and enter a new password for that account using Advanced Password Recovery. Read More