Yearly Archives: 2012

Best Siri Cydia Tweaks & Add-ons

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Following the announcement and subsequent release of the iPhone 4S, an escalating hype began to surround one of its most prominent new features – the system-wide voice assistant that was instantly recognized by many as the game changer in speech recognition applications. Although the excitement died down shortly after, it was rekindled by the release of untethered jailbreak for the device, and the many Siri-exclusive Cydia tweaks and add-ons that began to roll out with it. Seeing as it’s been a while and a lot of tweaks have made there way to the store, we decided to compile a list of the best ones. If you own a jailbroken iPhone 4S, read on past the break for ways to enhance your Siri experience. Read More

Comodo Cloud Offers 5GB Of Online Storage Space To Android Users

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The ongoing week has seen some of the tech arena’s big players bring their online data backup solutions to Android users. It started with Zoolz, then Bitdefender joined in with their official SafeBox app, and now it’s another renowned internet security provider, Comodo, that has launched an Android client of their own cloud storage. Known by the name of Comodo Cloud in the Google Play Store, the app helps you access, explore and manage your personal Comodo cloud content right from your Android device. Each registered users gets a maximum of 5GB of free storage space that will last for a maximum of exactly one year from the date of subscription. Using the app, you can download/upload personal data and contacts to/from the cloud, and share required content with friends on the go. You can also access your Comodo cloud content from any web browser via the members area page on the official Comodo website. Read More

ArsClip Lets You Save Permanent Clipboard Entries & Edit Them

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Windows clipboard can hold only one copied item, whether a text snippet or an actual file. Whether it would be further enhanced in future Windows iterations or not, letting you add multiple items to clipboard, various third-party applications are already available that fill up this void. We have always emphasized on how clipboard managers can help you in various scenarios, especially when you're writing something and continues find the urge to copy paste items here and there, between documents. Previously, we have covered a lot of clipboard managers, including Clipboard Text Recorder with record ability, ClipX a similar tool and a highly minimalistic Free Clipboard Manager, that have their distinct functionalities, like managing clipboard through hotkeys and saving screenshots in clipboard. Another clipboard manager that caught our attention is ArsClip, a portable clipboard application for Windows that monitors the clipboard entries and records multiple entries. Pasting is done using a pop window accessible through a hotkey, or by holding down your right-mouse button. This small utility allows you to keep permanent entries in clipboard and edit each entry currently stored in the clipboard. More details on usage and screenshots of ArsClip after the break. Read More

Six-Guns: Third Person Shooter Set In The Wild West [Android Game]

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Six-Guns, developed by the popular mobile game studios Gameloft, was first released for iOS devices, back in December, 2011. Though the game was met with average reviews from the fans and critics alike, early anticipations were high for its Red Dead Redemption-like setting, stunning visuals and sandbox-style gameplay. Now, after almost three months since its inception, the game has finally landed on the Android platform. This third-person shooter is set in an Old Western Frontier and has open-world gameplay. Just like most Gameloft titles, the game’s size is quite large (please note that after the initial installation, the game requires 400 MB of free internal storage space for additional content download), but as this is a trending factor with todays’ mobile games, it won’t hold back most gamers. Saddle your horses and read on to find whether this game was worth the wait for Android users. Read More

PageEdit: Edit Any Website Within Chrome & View Changes Instantly

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PageEdit is a powerful WYSIWYG editor that lets you edit any HTML page in Chrome, and allows syntax color highlighting in source editing mode. The extension makes it easy to edit webpages and view them directly in the browser. PageEdit can particularly come in handy for web developers and designers who want to test or experiment with their own websites. Once you’ve installed the extension, click the button right next to the URL bar when browsing a webpage, and a toolbar with extensive options will be added to the top of the page. PageEdit also offers users with settings for the skin and toolbar options. The skin can be set as default, Office 2003 or v2 from a drop-down menu, whereas the toolbar can either be set as default or basic. You will notice that the basic toolbar offers you with fewer editing options as compared to the default one. Read More

PopList: Temporarily Save & Manage Tabs For One Time Use [Chrome]

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Do you often bookmark random webpages just so you can open them later and not necessarily because they are important or useful? If so then it’s likely your bookmarks bar is a messy one. Reopening previously visited webpages is considerably easier if you sync your browsing history but it is still time consuming to have to go through it all to find the page you were looking for. If this is the case then, PopList is a Chrome extension that is a fast and simple solution to bookmarking content on the web just for the sake of reopening it later or on another system. It brings together fast one-click saving of webpages that are instantly added to a pop-up. When you click the Add option, the title of the page is automatically added to the pop-up. The saved pages can then be accessed by clicking their title. You should note that once the saved pages are opened through the pop-up, they are removed from the list. PopList works by letting you bookmark webpages both for personal or professional purposes, without cluttering the bookmark bar. Read More

NVALT: Create, Link, Sync & Encrypt Notes Across Multiple Devices [Mac]

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The Stickies app in Mac is bare bone when it comes to features, and doesn’t sync across your other Apple devices. Similarly, you will find few other note apps out there that will let you sync notes between two devices. NVALT is a free Mac app that lets you create as many notes as you like, lets you link one or several notes within another note, supports basic text-styling attributes like bold, italicize, underline and strike through, and much more. It also allows you to encrypt notes, and sync them across devices via a third party service SimpleNote. Notes are saved locally to your system and not to the cloud. Only when you enable syncing are the notes uploaded to SimpleNote’s cloud server. Read More

Anti-Twin: Find Duplicate Files & Images With Percentage Matching

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Having multiple copies of files in your system takes up valuable disk space and makes it slow, while bringing up and opening the files you actually want to use. When downloading content from the internet, it is not unusual that you may download and store multiple copies of the same item, in different memory locations, wasting precious storage space. Manually deleting duplicate files can be a time taking and tedious activity and even after all that effort, there is a chance of some of the duplicate files being left behind. Today, we have an application for Windows that allows you to quickly delete all the duplicate files from your computer. Anti-Twin is a portable application for Windows that allows you to compare files. It searches for duplicate or similar files on your hard drive, and the duplicates that are found can be sent to the recycle bin or directly deleted from within the application. Less cluttering means more disk space to use and faster file retrieval. Keep reading to find out more about Anti-Twin after the break. Read More

Ericsson Apps: Android App Suggestions & Usage Monitoring In One Place

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While some apps are meant provide app recommendations based on user interest and preferences, others suggest apps according to the user-specified locations. Merging the concept of most of the aforementioned apps into one comprehensive package is Ericsson Apps by Ericsson Mobile Application Lab. Using the app, you can trace usage/popularity of various apps in your vicinity, as well as all over the world via a map. The app has the capacity to learn about all the apps installed on your device, and can present you with an overall statistical summary of app usage by their respective genre. Not only does it maintain a detailed chronological log of all the installed, used, or just the viewed apps, it can also offer you with a graphical representation of each individual app that is being used all over the world on a daily, as well as weekly, basis. That’s not all; the app also sports an option-packed recommendations segment from where you can find some very handy apps for your Android. Recommendations offered by Ericsson Apps are carved out according to the user’s own personal tastes and preferences. And did we forget to mention that the app itself sports a neatly designed, easy-on-the-eyes Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-style UI to present all the features and information? Certainly not! There’s plenty more that Ericsson Apps has to offer. Read More

uSketch: Apply Sketch, Color And Other Photo Filters To Images [Mac]

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Apps that add effects to photos are as common as perhaps water, so if you ever decide to use one, you want to make sure it offers you both a good range of effects as well as good execution. uSketch is a free Mac app that applies filters to your photos, and its interface alone will blow you away. In addition to its 19 filters that are 100% customizable, the app also has a wide range of sketch effects that are executed very well. You can use the app to take photos directly from webcam, or add ones from your system. It also lets you print, email and share photos on Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. Read More

Know Each Day’s Important Events & Holidays With On This Day [WP7]

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Even if you are not much of a history buff, certain days and dates do hold an importance in everyone’s life. Have you ever wondered which historical figures have shared the same birth date with you? Or on a fine Saturday morning, thought if today was significant in any way for any culture? On This Day is an app for Windows Phone 7 that will let you find out the significant events associated with the current date, as well as any given day. The events listed by this Mango app include birthdays, holidays, deaths and a host of other important happenings which you might be interested in. You can learn more about On This Day by heading past the break. Read More

How To Fix The Facebook Chat & Event Syncing Error On Windows Phone 7

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One of the biggest positives Windows Phone 7 has to offer is its Facebook integration. As of now, no other smartphone platform can claim to have the level of Facebook integration that WP7 has. The coolest part of Mango's romance with the blue social network is the availability of Facebook chat in the stock Messaging hub. So, it really is a big deal if anything goes wrong with Facebook chat in WP7. The issue we are about to discuss might not have been encountered by most Windows Phone 7 users, but the deep Facebook integration the Mango platform enjoys with the social networking giant makes error 83CF1109 an important problem. If you are wondering what error 83CF1109 is, wonder no more. You might have encountered it even without knowing. It is an error code which shows up when your Facebook account, which has been linked to your WP7, fails to sync properly, and the Settings menu always shows the message of “Attention required” under the “email & accounts” section. The consequences for this are pretty troublesome, as you might end up losing all the syncing of Facebook events with your phone’s calendar. In addition to that, other problems might start rearing their ugly heads too, like losing Facebook chat integration with the Messaging hub. Luckily, a fix exists, and you can find all about it by reading on. Read More

[Giveaway] Personal Finances: Complete Financial Manager To Maintain Your Budget

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Managing personal finances can be a tedious task if done manually. Recording everything on a piece of paper and then adding everything up at the end of the month, takes a lot of time and effort, not to mention the situations when you forget to write something down or lose the receipts or the paper where you had written down your expenses and income. Instead of manually doing it, you can keep track of your finances using Personal Finances. It is a portable application for Windows that allows you to easily manage personal income and expenses. The software helps you understand where your money is going and lets you determine the areas where you are spending the most amount of your income. It offers a wide range of functionality, and is suitable to be used by both beginners and professionals alike. Keep reading to find out more about Personal Finances. Read More

CardBox: Create, Scan & Store QR Code-Based Contact Cards [Android]

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CardBox is a free Android app, developed by Ericsson Mobile Application Lab, that lets users exchange contact information with each other via QR code-based contact cards. Using the app, you can generate unique a QR code that conceals your very own contact information including title, designation, company, email location, phone number, social profiles et al. QR codes created via the app can then be shared with other CardBox users. For this, the app sports a native barcode scanner that helps you fetch/read the information contained within the scanned QR code. A contact card scanned via CardBox can be stored permanently in the app’s native address book. Along with displaying just the contact-specific information, a contact card also carries its relevant QR code, so that you can share your contacts with other users conveniently. Not just that; the app also presents you with options to quickly dial, text and/or mail a particular contact. That’s not all; the app even maintains a detailed log of all the ‘QR code-based’ contact cards that you share with other over a course of time, and lets you tag various events to each existing record accordingly. You can also opt to secure the app using a password of your choice. Read More

Samurai vs Zombies Defense: Hack & Slash, Strategic RPG [Android Game]

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Here at AddictiveTips, we always recommend only those games that provide pure entertainment to our readers and Glu Mobile’s Samurai vs Zombies Defense for Android is simply no exception. This latest hack and slash, zombie-killing mayhem will take you to an exciting journey where you will play the role of a heroic samurai who must defend his village from, well, the zombies. The zombies come in large waves , hordes and groups, and you need to flank them in order to protect not only yourself from these gruesome creatures, but also your sacred village, using different gameplay elements commonly found in strategic role playing games. Read on to find out whether this game deserves a place on your device or not. Read More

Scan QR/ Barcodes & Get Product Details With All Code Reader [iPhone]

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QR code and barcode scanners are more widely used in Android, but iOS too has its fair share of such apps that let users get details associated with products by scanning their item codes. All Code Reader is an iPhone app which will make sure that you don’t need any other code reader once you have gotten your hands on it. The app is as comprehensive as any its genre, as it will let you scan both QR and barcodes, and then display information about the scanned product from a variety of sources. Read on to know all bout this extremely useful app for users of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Read More

Check My Links: Find Broken Links On Any Website [Chrome]

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Check My Links is a useful tool that scans all links that crawl through your webpage, and finds broken ones. This simple, but useful chrome extension, is primarily developed for web designers, developers and content editors. So, when you're editing a page with a large number of links, wouldn't it be rather useful if you could quickly check all the links and find broken ones? The extension works by scanning all links on a webpage and checks each one for you. It highlights links into two different colors, red and green, with broken one being red, whereas green links are the valid ones. Read More

Stop Folders From Appearing In “All Files” & Spotlight In Mac [Tip]

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We recently covered an app, Easy File Hider, worth $1.99, which allows you to change the visibility attribute of a file to Hidden. In the spirit of hiding things from the world and anyone who uses your Mac, here is a little tip to keep files from appearing in Spotlight search and in ‘All Files’ in the Mac Finder. The fact is, hidden files will be visible if you’ve enabled Mac to show them in Finder. They can be searched for from Spotlight, and if you were to view All Files in Finder, they will be listed with their respective file types. Hiding folders and their contents from Spotlight and All Files involves nothing more than a quick visit to the System Preferences. Read More

TimelineRemove: Hide Facebook Timeline For All Profiles [Chrome]

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Facebook timelines have been met with a mixed response. People who hate it are generally concerned about the items that will be pinned to your timeline for everyone to see unless you remove the ones you’d rather forget about. Aside from the embarrassing implications of timeline, many users have taken cover photos as a great way to express their creativity. That doesn’t mean everyone is now happy with the timeline though. If you don’t like the new Timeline feature on Facebook and want to view profiles in the old style, then TimelineRemove is the perfect Chrome extension for you. This tiny, but handy tool disables the new Facebook timeline feature and restores the classic look, without changing the timeline behavior for other visitors of your Facebook profile. The extension basically works by hiding the timeline, so you can view your own and others' profiles in the old style. TimelineRemove works automatically once installed, and a button is added to the toolbar that lets you toggle the timeline on and off, whenever you want. Read More

Task Manager DeLuxe: Display Processes In Tree View & Manage Startup

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Third party task managers offer extended functionality to the users which cannot be found in the default Windows Task Manager. Previously, Usman reviewed System Explorer, an advanced task manager which lets you quickly view and mange system and user processes and offers a multitude of features and options to let user view all the elements which are related with System processes in some way. Today, we have another portable task manager called Task Manager DeLuxe, which offers powerful features available in the default Windows Task Manager, along with a lot more enchantments. It offers browsing, monitoring and administration of Processes, Services, Sessions, Autoruns and System information & Performance domains. To view the sub processes of an application grouped together, you can switch the process view from normal to tree view. The application also lets you manage the Windows Startup without opening msconfig. More on Task Manager DeLuxe after the break. Read More