Yearly Archives: 2011

Anti-Theft App Prey Helps You Locate Your Misplaced Or Stolen iPhone

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We all value our iPhone and iPad due to the sizeable amount of money that has to be spent to get your hands on these gadgets. A proof of that is the number of protective covers and cases available in the market for iOS devices. Prey is an anti-theft service that, until recently only allowed users to track their stolen or misplaced laptops and Android devices, but now, has made its way to the iPhone as an alternative to Apple's very own Find My iPhone. Head past the break for details. Read More

Travel Expert Pro For WP7 Assists You In Planning Your Trips Abroad

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You have been saving up to go to some exotic location for your annual, two week vacation, but you are so busy with last minute details that you do not have the time to check the currency rates of your destination, make hotel reservations and note down the Flight number. Travel Expert Pro does all that for you on your  Windows Phone 7. You can search the details of any country, its ongoing currency rate, the latest news relevant to it, and map down a reminder about the route and flight that you have to take. You can also write additional notes or details related to the route you have to take for travelling to your destination. Read More

Backuplist+: Create Sets Of Files & Folders For Automated Backup [Mac]

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Time Machine is a feature in Mac that regularly backs up your hard drive, but setting it up, although worth the effort, is not something that a lot of people might consider doing. This is partly because not all data is equally important, and because the backups will consume precious space. Backuplist+ is a Mac app that is much simpler to set up, and ideal if you want to take periodic backups of particular files and folders to an external drive. The app not only backs up files and folders, but can also create backup images, ready for burning on optical drives. You can schedule backups at any interval of your choice, and as frequently as you want. Read More

Adjust Screen Brightness From System Menu Bar [Mac]

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You use your Mac for a lot of things - watching movies, reading, designing and what not - and it is well equipped to do all this, and more. The slight annoyance that you might often experience could be that the brightness of your screen, while great for watching a movie, might not be exactly suitable for reading. Brightness Slider is a Mac app that rests in your system menu bar, and allows you to control the brightness of your screen. More to follow. Read More

Insync: Dropbox-Like Client To Sync Google Docs With Multiple Desktops

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A while back, we covered Syncdocs – a Google Docs sync utility for Windows that allows users to not only synchronize local files with Google Docs account, but also view and share Google Docs files from Windows right-click context menu. Syncdocs operates from system tray, providing options to pause and resume synchronization of local files with Google Docs account, open Google Docs web interface, and filter file types that users want to sync. Today, we stumbled on yet another Google Docs synchronization application for Windows and Mac OS X called Insync that brings Dropbox-like sync features for Google Docs. Read More

How To Disable/Hide Google Search Bar In Android 4.0 ICS Stock Launcher

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Among the many features and interface elements that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich took from the tablet-exclusive Android OS variant, Honeycomb, is the static search bar that it displays at the top of its stock launcher. Being omnipresent (accessible from each of the five home screens of the stock launcher), it eliminates the need for you to make room for a search widget on the home screen. That said, users who don’t use the search application that often might consider it dead weight doing nothing more than making their home screen look all cluttered. XDA-Developers member oscillik has found a workaround that allows you to hide the search bar. Read on past the break to know how it’s done. Read More

The Social Radio For Twitter: Listen To Tweets & Music Side By Side

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New to the Android Market, The Social Radio For Twitter takes a unique and innovative approach to keeping you apprised of all your latest tweets. The app makes sifting through the 'text-based' tweets appearing on your Twitter Timeline a thing of the past. Instead, it reads them out to you as they come in. The app’s interface resembles the looks and functionality of a radio player that reads aloud Twitter updates, trending topics or any searched content, with your favorite music tracks playing in the background. The app, emulating the ways of a real radio broadcast, uses an audio fade-in/out effect on the TTS voice before and after reading a new tweet. That’s not all; the app supports reading various common emoticons and text abbreviations in tweets, and automatically detects the language of each tweet. Read More

Social Fixer: Modify Facebook Layout, Add Themes & Manage Chat Bar [Web]

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Facebook is the most popular social network in the world, with millions of users. Recently, Facebook has gone through a number of changes in its layout, and not everyone is happy with them, including myself. The most annoying and complained-about feature is the News Ticker, which continuously refreshes with a stream of updates from your friends. One thing I know for sure is that, lots of users would still prefer to go back to the old interface. Social Fixer, a web browser extension available for Chrome , Firefox, Opera and Safari, allows you to totally modify Facebook according to your preferences. You can modify your chat, add themes, hide & filter posts, customize the layout and much more. It has a massive collection of options that you can choose from. You will find 11 main groups, each consisting of multiple options. These include Popular, Layout, Posts, Display, Hidden Items, Chat, Theme, Filtering, Advanced, Styles (CSS) and User Preferences. Read More

Informational Tab For Firefox Adds A Progress Bar & Thumbnails To Tabs

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Want to know how much time a page will take to load? Informational Tab, a Firefox add-on, adds a progress meter and a thumbnail to each tab. This provides thumbnail style preview for each tab, and indicates unread/unviewed tabs. Informational Tab gives you a better browsing experience by visualizing how long a page takes to load. In addition to that, you can also view the thumbnails of webpages on tabs, which makes it easier to identify the contents for multiple tabs. The add-on also allows you to change the size of tabs, color of the progress bar, change the position of the close button, and more. Details after the break. Read More

Gow Is Alternative To Cygwin, Brings 130 UNIX Commands To Windows

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If you’re an avid Linux user and just started with Windows, you must be familiar with Cygwin, a tool that provides Linux-like environment on Windows, bringing the utility of porting tools running on POSIX, i.e Linux, BSD and Unix system to Windows OS. GOW (Gnu on Windows) is a small, easy to use, yet powerful alternative to Cygwin that brings more then 100 extremely useful UNIX applications and commands to Windows. It provides a total of 130 CLI-based UNIX commands, which can be run from Windows Command Line Interpreter. The application has been specifically designed to bring those UNIX binaries, which don’t have easy to use installers available for Windows. Read More

My Startup Delayer: Improve Windows Load Time By Delaying Application Startup

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When you turn on your PC, sometimes you might have noticed that there is a long delay before Windows becomes responsive. Before that time, you are not able to start using the computer. This can be quite annoying when you are in a hurry and just turn the computer on to grab an important file or send an important mail. The reason for your PC being unresponsive during the startup is that a lot of applications start as soon as Windows boots up. This puts a lot of load on the processor, as well as the memory, thus making the startup process quite intensive. To make the startup process a bit faster, you can remove some of the redundant and unimportant program entries from the Windows Startup, or you can use My Startup Delayer. It is a portable application for Windows that allows you to choose which processes are disabled and which are stared with a delay at Windows startup. It makes the applications launch one by one, making the PC responsive even during startup, since the processor and memory is not loaded up with multiple applications starting at the same time. It allows you to specify the number of seconds to start the applications after Windows Startup, and the delay between starting the other applications. You may also add custom applications in startup, enabling you to save time in opening the applcations that you use in a routine. Keep reading to find out more about My Startup Delayer. Read More

Search And Record Live Internet Radio Streams With Antenna

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Antenna is an Adobe AIR application that lets you find and tune into hundreds of online radio stations according to Country and Genre. Antenna has quite a unique user interface, as it comes with an integrated map, which displays the radio player showing where the stations are located. Using Antenna, you can add stations to favorites, rate them, and also download radio streams. Furthermore, Antenna provides station reliability indicators and  a search bar for quickly locating radio stations. Read More

Shift Nautilus Back And Forward Buttons To Left In Ubuntu [Tip]

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Some Nautilus users have been rather annoyed by the positioning of back and forward buttons to the right-hand side of the Nautilus file browser in Ubuntu 11.10. While there might not appear to be any easy way of getting this fixed, a developer has posted a tip on Ubuntu Forums to provide a quick solution. This tip posted by user “nyteryder79”, allows users to shift the back and forward buttons on the Nautilus file browser, back to the left. Read More

DiskAlarm Monitors Hard Drive Temperature & Alerts When Limits Exceed

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Heat kills and one of the greatest foes of your PCs' hardware components is probably heat. Excessive heat can kill them within minutes and without you even knowing it. Akin to temperature rise of CPU, GPU and motherboard - amidst certain system heavy loads, temperature of hard drives also increases significantly during heavy processing and read/write operations, and can even damage the hard drive (which though is rare the case) if no proper care is taken. For instance, your hard drive will start heating up if you’re running a virtual machine on your computer and might act abnormally. Likewise, hard drive temps go considerably high during summer seasons due to high ambient temperature, or in adequate system airflow. Manufacturers design each hard drive with temperature thresholds that they need to run within to function properly, and avoid damage to data and hardware. That is why it is important to monitor your hard drive temperatures while performing operations that require heavy processing or you might end up breaking one and then expect a long wait for the RMA process. Today, we have an application for you called DiskAlarm, which allows you to view the hard drive temperature, and sounds an alarm in case the temperature exceeds the specified limit. Read past the break for more details pertaining to its usage. Read More

Batch Download All TED Videos With A Single Click via TED Downloader

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TED (Technology Entertainment & Design) is a global set of conferences devoted to spreading ideas that address a wide range of topics. Various influential personalities have addressed the conference from time to time including Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Salman Khan, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, just to name a few. Due to this, the conference has attracted a large set of fandom and followers. Last year, we covered TED Grabber, an open source application that generates links for every TED video that can then be downloaded with any download manager, and supports downloading of subtitles in any language. If you found the download procedure a bit complicated and were looking for rather an easier solution then give TED Downloader a shot. It is another open source application aimed at simplifying the process of downloading videos from TED. Instead of grabbing each video individually, the application enables you to batch download all videos available on the TED website at once, in Low, Regular or High quality. Check out how TED Downloader works after the jump. Read More

How To Recover Your Lost SkyDrive Files To The Office Hub In WP7

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Being a product from Microsoft, Windows Phone 7 enjoys deep integration with SkyDrive and MS Office, and the two features are rather well-interconnected. The documents or notes you store in the Office hub of your WP7 device are synced directly with your SkyDrive account. However, as with any smartphone platform, stability issues might arise in any area of the OS. For the past few days, Mango users have panicked upon finding that their notes and docs stored in the Office Hub have suddenly vanished from their SkyDrive account. Any attempt to retrieve them, resulted in an error message, declaring that files can not be recovered and have been deleted from the servers. Fortunately, that is not the case, and these files can be recovered easily. Read on to find out how. Read More

Do For iPhone: Manage Your Projects & Collaborate With Team Members

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If you have ever been to a job interview, you must know how much emphasis most organizations put on teamwork and the capability to manage a group of people working on a particular project. They do so for good reason. Project management isn't an easy task, after all. To keep track of who is supposed to do what at a given time can get you in a spot of bother, and that’s why a little assistance in that regard is always welcome. Do is a web service meant to assist you in managing projects and collaborating effectively and without hassle with all your team members. The service has been around for quite a while, but now you can use it on the go with the official Do client for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Read More

SalaryBook For iPhone: Keep Track Of Your Earnings & Work Hours

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If, unlike me, you don’t trust your employer, SalaryBook is just the thing you have been looking for. Using this handy little iOS app, you can keep track of how much money you are making on an hourly, daily or monthly basis. The app comes with a real-time counter which will display your earnings in the form a constantly updating ticker. You can do a lot of other financial management using SalaryBook as well. Read on for further details. Read More

AutoPanorama: Easily Create Panoramic Photos On Windows Phone 7

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There was a time when it took an expert photographer to take panoramic photos of an outstanding view, and even that would be slightly flawed. Imagine how cool it would be take panorama photos without having to fuss about the right alignment of all the images? AutoPanorama for Windows Phone 7 does all the merging and aligning for you to create the perfect panoramas. You can make a panoramic photo out of more than 50 images! To assist you with alignment, the app offers a a slight preview of the previous image each time you are going to take the next photograph. The best feature of this app is its simplicity; you do not have to browse through a lot of options and screens to get the hang of it. Read More

What Is VPN & Tunneling; How To Create And Connect To VPN Network [Beginner's Guide]

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When it comes to deploying a highly secured and reliable data transmission system to meet the inter-organization and intra-organization communication needs, most organizations choose to adapt one among 3 types of networking techniques; Private Network, Hybrid Network and Virtual Private Network. In this post, we will look at each network type, and discuss Virtual Private Network, VPN tunneling, techniques & types of VPN and how to create and setup a VPN network. Read More