Yearly Archives: 2011

Install Android 2.3 Gingerbread AOSP ROM on Motorola Milestone

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The Motorola Milestone, was originally shipped with Android 2.1 Éclair and while there have been various custom ROMs for the installation of Froyo on it, CyanogenMod 6 and GOT are amongst the title contenders for the best Froyo ROMs of the said device. Recently, XDA Developer user edgardcastro has ported the standard Gingerbread from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) to the Milestone, allowing owners to install the latest version of Android on their device. Read More

Install Arabic / English Gingerbread Keyboard on FroYo Android Devices

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The default Android keyboard does not support Arabic input but with this custom modified keyboard, you will be able to input both English and Arabic characters on your Android phone or tablet. This Android 2.3 Gingerbread keyboard also includes an Arabic dictionary and comes with source code so that you could modify it if you want. It is meant for devices running Android 2.2* FroYo. Read More

Fully Optimize And Repair Your System With Glary Utilities

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Glary Utilities is a complete system optimization and repair utility that provides options for registry and disk clean up, privacy protection, performance acceleration, internet speed optimization, safeguard of confidential files and performance maintenance. The aforementioned features are available in its free version, whereas, it also has a paid version. It has an easy to use interface that can allow even a lay user to understand and use the available options for system maintenance and optimization. You can get a comprehensive list of categories and sub-categories for protecting, cleaning and optimizing your system in easy steps. For instance, its Cleanup and Repair module provides disk and registry cleanup, shortcut fixing and an uninstallation (for unwanted programs) options. Likewise, the Privacy and Security module provides file encryption, recovery, shredding and trace erasing features. In case you simply wish to perform system maintenance without going through the hassle of configuring advanced options, you can do so from the main interface in a few clicks, as explained below. Read More

Server2Go – Web Server That Runs From USB or CD/DVD-Rom

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Server2Go is a portable webserver that can be run from a USB or CD/DVD without installation. The web applications designed for Server2GO can be directly run from a CD/DVD-ROM or USB Drive without the need of configuring a PHP, Apache or MySQL server. It allows creating a standalone website or PHP application on a removable media device, which can be helpful for calculation programs, catalogue software CMS-based image campaigns and CBT (computer based training) lessons. Server2Go can be used with PHP software such as Joomla and Moodle. Although, it is particularly designed for removable media, it can, however, also be run from the local system drives. Read More

Map Serial, Windows MIDI Ports & Load DLS or UDP With Oxmidi

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Oxmidi is port to port mapper which can be used to links ports or to load DLS/UDP to send signals over the ethernet. This portable application can be used to link and configure different ports such as a serial port (RS 232, Com port), DirectMidi, Windows MIDI and UDP (over an ethernet). User can select ports such as DirectMidi for better sound quality or to load DLS or UDP to transmit convey via an ethernet. According to the developer, it was originally developed to link serial port (e.g RS232, COM port) to internal Windows MIDI port. Read More

Encrypt And Save Text Files With Cryptographic Text Converter

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Cryptographic Text Converter is an open source text encryption software that allows saving text documents in a password protected and encrypted format. All text files are saved in the native (.tc) format of the application. The encrypted data can be easily decrypted by a single click after logging in with the account credentials. The text is encrypted using 128-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). Read More

AthTek NetWalk – Network Monitoring, Packet Sniffing & Analysis

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AthTek NetWalk Personal Edition is a robust application to help in the administration of all kinds of networks. It is particularly useful for new network administrators who wish to gain in depth knowledge about network infrastructure and management. AthTek NetWalk contains graphical representations of the network with the use of advanced packet sniffing, to help project the network state in statistical and graphical format. Read More

Smarter Alarm – Futuristic Speaking Alarm Clock for Android

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If you have seen Iron Man 2, and have a well developed geeky side to you, you cannot help but envy all the cool gadgets that Tony Stark has installed in his house. What wouldn’t a geek do to get all those, no? While we cannot provide you with everything that the Iron Man has, we can perhaps take you just one step closer, giving you an alarm clock for your Android device that speaks to you, just like Iron Man’s wake up call instead of sounding the same alarm every day. Read More

How To Easily Create Your Own Android Clock Widget

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The Android world is filled with beautiful widgets, the most popular and widely used amongst them being clock widgets, battery widgets etc. It is a tedious task to browse all the available widgets and select one that matches your exact taste. XDA-Developers user thubalek has come up with an app that lets you create a heavily customizable clock widget, almost exactly as you want it to be. Read More

Control VLC Media Player from your Android Device

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Sometimes you’re sitting in a warm cozy bed, watching a movie on your big LCD Monitor placed alongside your PC at the other end of the room and the volume dies down or for some reason you need to pause it, what do you do? You get up, go all the way to the PC and do the necessary adjustments. However, as long as you’re using VLC Media Player and have an Android device connected on the same network over WiFi, you can use a remote control app for VLC player and control it while in bed, all from your Android device. Read More

Install Android 3.0 Honeycomb and Market on Nook Color

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HoneyComb is Google’s latest and finest development for the upcoming Android tablets and it can now be used on Nook Color, one of the best E-reader devices available today. The installation takes place on an External SD Card, which leaves the current default setup of your device untouched. if you want to try out HoneyComb without having to risk the integrity of your device or your warranty, read on. Read More

Pulse is an Innovative and Attractive RSS Reader for Android

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While the Android Market has a load of RSS Feed readers, Pulse News Reader stands out in the way the feeds are presented to the user. The presentation is both very innovative and aesthetically pleasing. The application was originally developed by a group of coders for iOS and has now been coded for the Android Platform. The strength of Pulse is not just its graphical superiority in presentation but also its integration with different type of feeds, both custom and predefined in the app itself. We recently went through all the features of Pulse and decided to highlight a few of them for you. Read More

Install Android 2.2 Froyo based CyanogenMod 6 on Motorola Milestone

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Motorola Milestone , unlike its cousin Motorola Droid, has been getting very little attention in terms of Custom ROMs. There’re only a handful available and some still lag in certain basic functionalities. If you’re a Milestone owner and are looking to upgrade your Éclair based device to Froyo , keep on reading. CyanogenMod Team , already famous for its excellent custom builds for a wide range of Android devices, offers a stable & much faster Froyo based Custom Android ROM with all features of the phone fully working, along with few aftermarket enhancements. Read More

Control PC Torrents from Android HomeScreen with Transdroid

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Sitting at a coffee shop, you see a movie poster or a friend recommends a movie and you decide to torrent it. You go home and either forget about it or start the download and wait for it to finish. Why cant you just reach home and start watching it immediately? You can! Transdroid lets you search for the torrent from any of your favorite torrent sites, add it up on your PC’s Torrent Client and start the download, all from your Android phone while you are sitting at the coffee shop and enjoying your latte.

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How To Root Notion Ink Adam & Get Additional Features

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While the Notion Ink Adam is an excellent Android tablet for most users as it is, there are always a few of us who like to squeeze that little extra from the device. The team at NotionInkHacks.com have been able to root the device along with adding a few additional features such as ADHOC networking, Flash integration optimization for the Tegra Processor, Google Market access & ADB remount for further customization of the device if required. Read More

Transfer MS Access Database To MySQL In 4 Simple Steps

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Looking for an application that can help you easily migrate your MS Access database to MySQL without having to follow any tedious procedure? Transferring databases from one system to another is always a headache regardless of how big or small the database is. Therefore, database managers and administrators look out for a simple tool that can perform an export and import operations with all the variations involved. If you’re planning to migrate data from Access to MySql, you’d probably have a lot methods in mind to port databases. Before implementing any of them, try MS Access to MySQL. It is an ingeniously simple utility for Windows that is designed to quickly port Access database to user-defined MySql database. It supports a wide range of database formats, including, MDB, MDE, ACCDB, and ACCDE database formats, and also shows you the MySql database hierarchy to choose the destination database path. Furthermore, password protected (encrypted) databases can also be exported on the fly without having to decrypt them. The application supports two transfer modes – Direct transfer and Dump file creation. In direct transfer mode, you need to enter the host address, port, DB username and password along with the DB name where data has to be directly ported, whereas the Dump file creation method lets you choose a local location to create SQL dump file for importing it later. Read More

ProcessRenicer Manages Application Process Priority In Mac

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ProcessRenicer for Mac lets user change the nice value of active applications. The nice value refers to the value which system kernel uses to compute the application threads priority. With ProcessRenicer, you can manage the CPU resources in a better way by preventing hefty processes of applications from hogging system resources. You can for instance restrict resources which are being utilized by Dock at normal level, so that it can’t consume more physical memory and CPU time. Read More

Discover Popular Content Of Websites With BuzzGrowl [Chrome]

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BuzzGrowl is a Google Chrome extension which can help users to keep abreast with trending topics of  the currently opened website. A small window, showing tweets from random people pops-up everytime when it finds something in relation with the website you’re surfing. For instance, if you’re checking out an article on Wikipedia, its windows at the bottom-right corner will let you know the articles which people are exchanging with each other over at Twitter. Since Twitter is widely used social media component for sharing information and news, BuzzGrowl would certainly be helpful for those who like to discover hot topics and articles of a website and keep a tab on news which is currently being circulated on Twitter. Read More

Erase Your Files Permanently With Secure Wipe

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Deleted data is recoverable even after it is removed from the Recycle Bin. Many data recovery software, in fact are designed to recover such data. This poses a potential threat to any confidential information being recovered by a malicious source. For example, you may wish to permanently remove all trace of confidential information before selling your PC or lending it to someone temporarily. Secure Wipe is an application that permanently deletes data from a specified directory or file. It is quite similar to the previously reviewed Moo0 Anti-Recover, however, it provides choosing file deletion parameters unlike the latter. Read More

ClipSize – Clear Clipboard Data And Monitor Size Of Clipboard

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Recently we reviewed ClipCube which copies data from the clipboard. ClipSize is a small utility that does just the opposite. It allows clearing the clipboard, as well as showing the memory being utilized by it. This can be quite helpful for users who have limited memory for their systems and use memory intensive applications such as video editing, graphic designing and desktop publishing software. Read More