Yearly Archives: 2011

One Click Root For Motorola Droid RAZR On Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread

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We have confirmation, that the Droid Razr running Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread has been rooted, prior to its official launch date. This, is bound to make some Motorola fans excited enough to get one of these bad boys for sure. Easily the thinnest and sharpest looking Android phone around right now, the device just got a whole lot attractive. What one click root are we talking about? The very same one that worked on the likes of the Droid 3 and the Droid Bionic. According to our friends over at Droid Life, that very same tool, works on the Droid Razr and they even put up a picture up where the mobile terminal shows us the SU (#) symbol. Read More

iPadian Lets You Emulate iPad On Windows With Select Custom Apps

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Ever wanted to bring iOS UI to Windows? If yes, then try iPadian. It is a Windows application that clones iOS user interface. It comes with a custom app store, complete with a few pre-installed iPad apps. With iPadian, you get support for full screen mode, access to resources which provide free music and videos, Webkit browser, Social Chat, Facebook notification support and much more. Read More

gInfinity: Get 100 Results On First Page Of Google Search [Chrome]

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Google, by default, displays only 10 search results per page. While 10 may not be as bad, sometimes these top slots get occupied by irrelevant links and the actual, useful stuff can get buried deep within the subsequent pages. gInfinity is a Chrome extension that eliminates the need to navigate to next pages in Google search results, by pulling as much as up to 100 results on the first page. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and the following ten results will be displayed, and if you continue scrolling further, the process will be repeated until a total of 100 results are displayed on the very first page. Read More

How To Create Desktop Shortcuts For Websites In Ubuntu 11.10 [Tip]

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There are many favorite websites that one visits more frequently than any other. Normally, we type the URL of these websites, or retrieve their links from bookmarks. However, another quicker way of launching favorite websites is by creating desktop shortcuts for them. In this tip, we will tell you how to create desktop shortcuts for your favorite websites in Ubuntu 11.10. Read More

Cisco Connect Express: Manage Router Settings Remotely [Android, iOS]

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The world-famous network solution providers Cisco have just recently released Cisco Connect Express – an app for Android and iOS-powered smartphones that empowers users to remotely access, monitor and manage the settings of their Cisco-based routers. Using the Guest Access feature of the app, users can send invites to as many as 10 different devices to connect to your home Wi-Fi network and hence, the internet. Invites that carry a user-defined router password can be sent to visiting guests via emails or to your nearby friends via Bluetooth. In addition, users can use the app to upgrade the firmware and check out detailed information pertaining to their router. Need to remotely reset the IP address or change the password of your router? No problem. Using Cisco Connect Express, you can personalize router settings as per you liking and view all the devices connected to it. Read More

WebMail Notifier Sends Notifications For Unread Email Messages [Firefox]

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Are you tired of checking your inbox repeatedly, waiting for important emails? WebMail Notifier is a Firefox add-on that checks your webmail accounts, and sends you alerts for unread emails. When there are unread messages, the envelope icon on the Firefox status bar turns from grey to yellow, and displays notifications for unread messages. Right-click the envelope to open a pop-up sidebar or a pop-up window in order to view more details. Read More

Lapse It For Android: Capture & Share Time-Lapse Videos On The Go

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Fond of watching time-lapse videos of sunset at the seashore or clouds moving across the sky? Well, if you ever wished you could capture such time-lapse videos yourself via your Android device, then rejoice, for your wish has been granted. Lapse It (Native) is an Android app that captures consecutive snapshots at regular, user-specified time intervals, compiles them as a video file and hence, provides users with a chance to enjoy time-lapse videos on their devices on the go. The app, through its user-friendly interface and fully customizable video capturing, editing, rendering and scheduling options, allows simple and hassle-free capturing of quality time-lapse videos. With Lapse It, you may render your time-lapse recordings with different settings as many times as you like, save them to your device, push them to the online Lapse It galley or share them with your buddies. Read More

Tag Contacts & Add Images To Notes With Note Well For Windows Phone 7

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Windows Phone 7 has pretty deep Office integration and OneNote renders the use of other note-taking apps pretty much redundant. But nothing is perfect and there are gaps in usability which third-party apps can take advantage of and add to their own arsenal of features. Note Well is one such app which strives to bring some of the features that are not present in the Office hub by default. Using this free app, you can add images to the notes you write and tag people from your contacts list in your notes. Read More

LightExplorer Adds File And Folder Explorer To Notepad++ [Plugin]

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Text editors come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them allow you to perform basic editing, while others are more focused on the development side of things, meaning that they allow you to work easily with programming languages. For example, some of the text editors contain sample code snippets that allow you to save time while writing code. Instead of starting to write the code from scratch, you can use the sample snippets and just edit them to get the required result. Notepad++ is a text editor that works perfectly, both when you are doing simple editing on plain text, and complex editing on codes. It is becoming a more powerful and useful text editor with every new plugin that is being added to it . LightExplorer is an open source plugin for Notepad++ that enables a file and folder explorer inside Notepad++, allowing you to save time by navigating from within the application. LightExplorer has the ability to remember the position of folder tree from last session, allowing you to resume your work exactly from where you left it. While viewing a document, you can view the position of the current document in the tree, and add frequently used folders to Favorites for easier access. More on LightExplorer after the jump. Read More

Stop The Music: Remove Active Songs From WP7 Volume Bar & Lock Screen

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Windows Phone 7 has a pretty neat, comprehensive Music hub. Especially with Mango, there have been a few positive changes due to the enabling of multitasking in the metro OS. However, whenever you play a song from your library, it keeps showing in the volume bar even after you have stopped playing it. Also, on the lock screen, the music menu stays active until the phone gets rebooted. This is designed for users’ convenience, but could become a bit of a nuisance when you accidentally keep hitting the play button while the phone is locked. Using a free new app called Stop The Music, WP7 users can now get rid of the music bar without switching the phone off. That is not all on offer in the Stop the Music app, you can also use it to clear the playlist that is currently running in Zune on your device. Read More

Norton Bootable Recovery Tool: Recover PC When It Becomes Unbootable

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Sometimes, when any malware infects a critical system file such as boot.ini, your PC can become unbootable. The infection can occur on a random or gradual basis, and reach a high threshold, after which it becomes practically impossible to boot your system due to infected operating system files. In such a case, a wipe of your Windows OS followed by a re-installation may appear to be the only choice, resulting in data loss. Norton Bootable Recovery Tool is an application that has been designed to help your recover your PC, in case of such an infection. It allows you to create a CD, DVD or USB flash drive containing stand-alone Norton antivirus tools for recovering your PC by removing malware agents, specifically when your PC becomes unbootable. Read More

Makebadge: Create Business Cards & Badges In Only A Few Clicks [Web]

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Want to get a business card without going through the hassle of finding a professional designer, and paying enormous amounts in fees? Makebadge is one amazing web app that allows you to design business cards, badges and passes free of cost. It lets the average Joe make stunning cards, even without any designing skills. You can choose from different types of badges, sizes, colors and formats etc., or, to make things simple, just pick a template and start working on it. There is no limit to the amount of text you can add to a card, hence you can accommodate all your contact information quite easily. Furthermore, you can also add your company's logo or any other image that you like. Once your card is ready, print it, and you're good to go. Read More

DVD Collector: Scan DVD Barcodes To Keep Track Of Your Collection

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Windows Phone 7 was one of the most criticized mobile platforms almost as soon as it was launched, but with a few updates, it improved by leaps and bounds and now that we are on Mango, WP7 has finally become what it should have been in the first place. There were a lot of improvements in Mango (10 of which you can read about here) one of which was the revamped Bing search. The search menu now allows users to scan barcodes and find out all about them via online searches. So it was about time that third-party apps started taking advantage of this functionality. DVD Collector is a free app which allows its users to catalog their DVD collection by merely scanning the barcodes of the DVD’s covers. Read More

Sync Files & Folders Between Multiple PCs In Real Time: SYNCING.NET

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Files and folders can be shared with other users on the network by the native windows sharing options, but sending and receiving files that way can be a little inefficient if you need to constantly share files with multiple users. SYNCING.NET is a file and folder syncing application for PC’s that syncs selected folders in real-time within the network. It allows user to access emails, contacts, calendars and documents anywhere, just by syncing through the application. You can access the synced data even when you are offline. You can control bandwidth that SYNCING.NET uses and set folder size limits. It is completely compatible with proxy servers, and needs no additional hardware or software. Read More

Remmina: Feature Rich Remote Desktop Client For Ubuntu Linux

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Remmina is a GTK+ based remote desktop client for Linux. It has been developed particularly to fulfill the needs of system administrators and users who often require remote access to computers on the go. It supports many network protocols, including RDP, VNC, NX, XDMCP and SSH. Remmina maintains a list of profiles, and allows organizing connections in separate groups. This makes it easier to sort and launch remote desktop connections. Furthermore, it works quite well with higher resolutions in both window and full screen mode. It also supports working in multiple tabs, which helps track numerous established remote connections. Read More

Gem Collects Commonly Used OneNote 2010 Options & Functions In Single Tab

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OneNote 2010 comes with a host of features and tools to make note taking a breeze, but it doesn’t allow categorizing most frequently used options into groups, such as, print out, create new page, section & indented page, adjust size, arrange printouts, view inserted files and so on. Since it becomes quite a wearisome task to manually find these options from OneNote 2010 interface, you may need a plugin that can collect these functions under one hood. Read More

Announcify For Chrome Lets You Listen To Articles On Any Website

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Need to read one more article, but already feeling too exhausted? Announcify, a Google Chrome extension, can help you read and relax at the same time. It works by converting written text (on any website) to speech. Unlike other text-to-speech extensions, you don’t need to select any text, as this extension will read out the whole web page for you.You can hear your lengthy articles read out loud when you don’t feel like exercising your eyes. The extension allows you to change the speed, pitch and volume of the read-aloud voice. Read More

Asana Allows Free Project Management And Collaboration [Web]

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Are you looking for a service that can help you organize and track your projects? Or do you need a service that can help you stay connected with your team members at all times? Asana is a brand new web app for project management that lets you assign tasks to team members, set due dates and check comments on each task. It features a slick interface that allows easy navigation on the website. You can also set tags so you may find information about tasks easily. Furthermore, you can add details to each task, such as due dates, notes, attachments and assignees. Read More

Extract RAR And Zip Files In Batch With “The Extractor”

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The Extractor is an application for batch extraction of ZIP and RAR archives. The batch processing mechanism offered by this application is quite convenient, as you can drag and drop a number of files to quickly extract their contents in batch. While there are other applications like UnRarIT, which provide similar functionality, The Extractor provides much quicker extraction than UnRarIT. During testing, we found the extraction time for a 453MB file to be 11 seconds (approximately) by WinRAR and The Extractor, whereas the same file was extracted by UnRarIT in 15 seconds (approximately). This goes on to show that this program can be used as a viable free alternative to WinRAR for extracting RAR and ZIP files in batch. Read More

Diagnostics: Official System Diagnosis Tool For Samsung Devices [Android]

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Are you unable to make calls from your Samsung Galaxy S or experiencing connectivity issues with the Bluetooth of your Galaxy S II? Well, if you own an Android-powered Samsung device and are looking to get it diagnosed on-the-go, then Samsung’s official Diagnostics app might offer some help. Packed with device-specific troubleshooting tools and in-app support for firmware updates, Diagnostics can prove to be a handy utility and an able assistant for Samsung users. In addition, the app also displays the device’s system information and helps novice users get a better know-how of their device via a brief tutorial. Can’t find enough helpful content from within the app? No worries, Diagnostics can also connect you to the online customer support center (helpdesk) of the company. Read More