Yearly Archives: 2011

TaskUnifer Brings Toodledo To Desktop, Supports Windows, Mac, Linux

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TaskUnifier is new free open source, task management software which has a lot of different features to offer in comparison with previously reviewed variants, such as, mCheck, Doit.im, PhiTodo, Getting Things Done concept-based GeeTeeDee and Task List Guru. From the list, GeeTeeDee and Task List Guru stands apart mainly because the ease they both provide in organizing tasks. TaskUnifier is another addition to GTD based task management applications which is primarily geared towards management of users daily tasks and goals. It also brings synchronization with Toodledo - a task manager famous among iPhone users. The noticeable distinction is the way it manages users tasks, the whole working is based upon three concepts Project, Context and Goals. Tasks can be organized in Projects folders, Context refers to which sort of tasks you can perform at different locations, and Goals – a job that can be done by performing specific set of tasks. Read More

Webinaria Is Screencast Recorder With Build-In Video Editor

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There are 3 important characteristics which you must look for in a screencast recording tool - output video quality, ability to convert video into widely used format, and audio narration support. If you want these attributes in a simple yet powerful screencast recorder, check out Webinaria. It is a distraction free open source utility which works from Windows system tray, and has the ability to convert recorded video into FLV format on-the-fly. It can capture full screen, only active application, or defined size of screen. Unlike other screencast recorders, you can get required output video FPS without having to use any third-party converter to align video FPS with audio narration. Read More

Change Width Of Firefox 4 Tabs With Custom Tab Width

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Since there is no direct way to change the width of opened tabs in Firefox, Custom Tab Width jumps in to help. It is an extension for Firefox 4 which allows you to set the maximum and minimum width of tabs. You can decrease the width in order to easily fit more tabs in the window or increase the width if you are more comfortable with long tabs. Read More

Bring Gmail Priority Inbox Features To Outlook 2010 / 2007 [Add-in]

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Gmail Priority Inbox is, arguably, one of the best feature which filters out important emails from one huge inbox folder. Users looking for this feature in Outlook can tweak with its native features or create rules for implementing Gmail Priority Inbox-like filtration system on Inbox folder. Last year, we wrote a guide which explains how to mark important emails by using Outlook 2010 intrinsic conditional formatting feature. Today, we are reviewing an add-in called Priority Inbox for Outlook, which can mark important emails in order to organize them into customizable Outlook search folder. It uses an intuitive algorithm to identify important mails from your inbox and any other defined mail folder. According to the developer, it analyzes the pattern of past messages stored in your inbox folder to evaluate which sort of mails have more value to you. Depending upon the value, it categorizes mails in self-generated search folder called Priority Inbox. Read More

Automatically Tag iTunes Compatible Video Files In Mac With iDentify

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You must have noticed that after converting media files in iOS supported formats, all the associated tag information, a.k.a meta tags gets deleted. Since iOS devices read tag information not the original filenames, you might want to bring the tag information back. As far audio files are concerned, there are multitude of tools available to quickly tag your music files, but what about iOS supported videos files in MP4 and M4V format? iDentify lets you quickly tag iTunes compatible video file formats. Be it movies, TV serial episode, or plain music video files that you want to tag, it can add information to almost any kind of video by fetching information from online sources, like TheMovieDB, TVDB, and tagChimp. Furthermore, it supports Growl notification system, so you can keep tab on the tagging process and check how many files have been tagged during the process. Read More

Relocate Folder Data To Another Drive Without Changing Path With JunctionMaster

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Linking folders with each other in order to keep track of important files is synonymous to creating a simple shortcut in one location to quickly take a leap to other (linked) folder. Besides linking folders in a conventional way, hard linking let users save data wherever they want without changing the original path. The most interesting characteristic of creating hard links is that all the associated applications which are relying on data residing in linked folder can easily access it while, in real, the data is physically present in other user-defined location. This comes particularly helpful when you want to free some drive space without having to physically move files to other drive. JunctionMaster claims to make full use of NTFS capability of creating hard links. It allows you to quickly create hard links of folders from Windows right-click context menu, as well as, from a simplified interface. Read More

Install Android 3.0 Honeycomb Custom ROM On HTC EVO 4G

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SpyderComb is the first Android 3.0 Honeycomb custom ROM for the HTC EVO 4G that brings Google’s tablet-exclusive version of Android to the smartphone. It is presently in alpha stage with several features not working but still it is significant progress. For more information and to get Honeycomb up and running on your EVO 4G, continue reading after the jump.

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Network Utilities – Trace Routes, Ping Host And Run Nslookup

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Network Utilities is an application developed for network administrators who need to run multiple network-specific commands from one window. You can perform many network commands, such as, ping, tracert, and nslookup without the need of entering convoluted command lines. With Network Utilities, one can simply trace a route by entering the host name instead of entering entire set of tracert commands. Read More

Comix Is Brilliant Comic Reader For Ubuntu Linux

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Recently we reviewed QManga, which is a portable Manga Comics reader for Windows-based operating systems. A similar application for Linux users is Comix. It is specifically designed as a comic reader, however, it also supports generic images. It can read comics from ZIP, RAR and TAR archives, supports CBZ, JPG, PNG, GIF, TIF, BMP, ICO, XBM and many other formats. There are various options to enhance user's readability and viewing including,  full screen mode, double page mode, fit image to window width and height, and magnifying glass. Comix provides image enhancements, bookmarking , archive creation/editing, comic book library creation options and much more. Read More

Add Automatic Routes For VPN Connections With NetCatcher

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Some people require establishing a VPN-connection to get some tasks done or to access data from a remote network (e.g. their office network). In such a case, the IP range of the two networks (such as that of your ISP at home and your office network) may be different. For example, the DHCP server of your ADSL connection may have assigned your system with the following IP: 10.10.110.12, whereas your office network computer (to which you wish to connect via a VPN), may have an IP such as 10.10.50.50.9. Lets assume that 1.1.1.1 is your VPN-gateway and 1.1.1.2 is your VPN-connection IP-address. In this scenario, if you specify “use as default route” (in VPN-connections settings window), then the internet connection will be accessed through the VPN, i.e. the corporate network of your company. While disabling the “use as default route” option will mean that you will not be able to access the computer at your office. A remedy to this problem is NetCatcher. By using this application you can add routes automatically when the VPN connection is established, which will enable you to access the remote computer while retaining internet access from your home ISP. Read More

FileClipper – Easily Move, Copy Files, & Create Hard & Symbolic Links [Mac]

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We all know that when it comes to file specific operations, Finder of Mac OS X has only the ability to make aliases and copy files from one place to another. Many users rely on small scripts which can deal with such downsides to make Finder seamlessly make aliases, create hard & symbolic links, and to move files without having to drag & drop them from one window to another. If you’re not using any of the contrived scripts for each purpose, try FileClipper. It is an ingeniously useful application-bundle for Mac which offers 5 tools to perform file-specific operations, such as, move and copy files, make aliases to current location, and to create hard & symbolic links. The working of all the provided applications revolve around Mac clipboard which contains text in case you copied text off the webpage or word processor, and file links in case of copying file from right-click context menu. These tools play a middleman role in achieving the said functionality. For instance, it acts as a clipboard handler for moving file from one place to another, making aliases to specified location, creating symbolic and hard link of selected file and finally, copying the file from selected location to current opened location. All the mentioned functions are performed by respective applications, having names, Copy to Here, Make Alias File to Here, Make Hard Link to Here, Make Symbolic Link to Here, and Move to Here. Read More

InWatch – Sort Files By Their Names Or Types In Different Folders

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File categorization is one tedious task which can’t be performed unless you have a really good application which can automate the file copy and move operations. One folder in Windows and Mac which badly require file categorization is desktop, as it gets cluttered due to the fact that we usually throw almost every type of files on it. InWatch is the first application for both Mac and Windows, which is capable of solving such a mess for you. Being an efficient file categorization application, it allows you to specify type of files which are to be moved or copied to selected destination folders. Let me elaborate to give you an insight. You can, for instance, let InWatch observe desktop folder for music files. When you download, move or copy music file to desktop, it will immediately move the file to pre-defined destination folder, keeping your desktop clean and well organized. It doesn’t matter which type of files you want InWatch to look for in source location, it handles every file type smartly and perform specified action swiftly. Read More

Get Old Facebook Photo Viewer Back In Google Chrome

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Many users are ranting about the newly designed photo viewer of Facebook – PhotoTheatre, which, sometimes, lags in opening large photos. Revert Facebook Photo Viewer is an extension for Google Chrome, which as the name implies, can open photos in same classic Facebook photo viewer that you were using a couple of days ago. It works in a silent mode without requiring any settings to tweak with. Read More

QwikMark – Test CPU Speed & FLOPS, RAM And Disk Transfer Rate

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Benchmarking tools help user in testing several internal and external peripherals of computer system. Finding one complete benchmark tool which can test all the hardware and software specific capacities is a bit difficult, as many benchmark tools come with a different set of tests and configurations. As far as system testing is concerned, you must not be worried about more than 3 computing abilities, which are, CPU speed, memory, and data transfer rate. QwikMark is developed to test these basic computer abilities. It enables you to check CPU speed, CPU Flops, Memory bandwidth and Disk transfer rate while showing information on CPU, Main memory, and GPU memory under one window. Read More

Track Time You Spend On Tasks In Google Chrome

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Are you looking for an extension which can track time that you spend on different tasks while surfing on the web? Chrome Time Track for Google Chrome lets you keep tab on time that you will be spending on project tasks. It allows you to do all the basic time management operations, such as, add, edit and delete a task with an ease. The extension was designed to be simple and lightweight while it takes not more than a click to start tracking time for different types of tasks. All the listed tasks can be handled from its pop-up window. Read More

Install Any HTC Desire HD ROM On AT&T HTC Inspire 4G (Sound Fix Included)

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Despite getting released just a few days ago, the HTC Inspire 4G – which is essentially an AT&T version of HTC Desire HD with some minor changes – is getting quite some development already! It has been rooted and has got some custom ROMs for it already and now you can even flash pretty much any HTC Desire HD ROM to this Android device and fix the no sound issue with a quick hack afterwards. Read More

Steadyflow Is Fast Minimalist Download Manager For Ubuntu Linux

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Finding a download manager that can just get the job done is hard. Steadyflow is a GNOME based minimalist download manager, which supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and SMB. Developed to be clean, lightweight, and easy to use, it is a useful addition to the Ubuntu desktop. It merely requires a download URL in order to download content to a pre-defined directory. There is also a quick search box to locate previously downloaded files in directories. Read More

Croppr Enhances The Ability Of Chrome To Display Images

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We often come across images on the internet that are difficult to view due various reasons including their size, background color, etc. Croppr enhances the ability of Chrome to display images using build-in toolkit. All functionality, including, rotating, zooming, and flipping images are given in the toolkit that overlays the image. Images can be shared on Twitter and Facebook, or uploaded to Evernote. The standard options include, zoom, rotate, switching image background color and image printing. Read More