Yearly Archives: 2012

ZappoTV For Android: Browse Local/Online Media & Stream To Your TV

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ZappoTV Mobile Media Center is a comprehensive local and online media discovery, browsing and streaming app for Android and iOS-powered devices. Not only does the app allow you to view all photos and videos stored on your device and local network, but also stream content from numerous popular social media networks including Facebook, YouTube, SHOUTcast, Flickr, Picasa and lots more. What’s even better is that the app can be used to remotely stream media from your Android device to another, or an internet-enabled TV. After its successful debut in the iTunes App Store, ZappoTV has finally made its way to the Android Market. Read More

XXCLONE: Backup System Volumes While Retaining Self Boot Functionality

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Backup for system volumes can be performed with a number of applications. However, retaining the self-booting functionality of a volume can be difficult to achieve using conventional tools. XXCLONE is an application for copying your system volume to another, while retaining self-booting functionality. Using this application, you can even boot your system from the clone volume by swapping the disks. This can be particularly useful for disaster recovery, when the primary volume may have become redundant. XXCLONE is capable of copying data to and from FAT and NTFS volumes. It even supports USB drives, PATA and SATA. You can perform periodic backups with XXCLONE, or opt for a one-time disk upgrade/migration. Since XXCLOE copies files and folders, therefore, you can remain logged into Windows during the cloning process and also perform other usual tasks on your PC. XXCLONE also provides additional tools for duplicating the Volume ID, to repair non-bootable disk, creating batch files, etc. Read More

iFileX: Search Files By Name, Size, Modification & Creation Date [Mac]

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Spotlight search in Mac is, no doubt, one of the best utilities there is. It lets you search across any and all folders for all kinds of files, and remembers your frequently used files and apps so that the results are always more meaningful. While it is an excellent global search for the entire system, it does lack filters. iFileX is a Mac app that that lets you add several search criteria when you are looking for a file. Search can be narrowed down by name, modification date, creation date, size, folder or alias. You can also limit your search by specifying a particular location. Read More

Windows 7 App Launcher: Run Programs In One Go From Taskbar

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Ever wanted to launch multiple applications for performing routine tasks in one go, without having to manually create a batch script to invoke applications’ execuatables? Although the batch script file (.BAT) can be used to run multiple commands and applications, it’s a bit tiresome to manually add new applications to batch file and edit the existing applications’ paths. What you probably need is an application like Windows 7 App Launcher to effortlessly create application profiles, so they can be launched with a single click. It’s an app launcher that lets you add applications, shortcuts, files et., without going through the hassle of creating and editing the script. Since it has a GUI-based configuration console, all you need is to bring it up for adding new applications, changing the profile icons and editing the list of applications, files and shortcuts Read More

iZoom: Automatically Fit Webpage Contents To Window Size [Chrome]

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iZoom Chrome extension allows users to view entire webpages, even when the window size is decreased, and, increases the content size as the window's size is increased. It automatically changes zoom level to fit window width. The extension comes with three different zooming modes, Shrink, Grow and Shrink & Grow. For Shrink, the zoom is always 100%, unless window width is decreased and contents will shrink to fit. Grow, on the other hand, causes the webpage content to grow with the width of the window. Content will shrink and grow to fit window width, when the Shrink & Grow option is enabled. When you switch between modes, the current pages must be reloaded in order for the changes to take effect. In addition to the zooming modes, users can also exclude images, videos, flash elements and java applets from zooming effects. Exempted items can be added from the options, or simply add current page and host to exceptions from the right-click context menu. Read More

Cappuccino: Read, Manage & Share Google Readers Feeds [Mac]

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Google Reader, as a service, is widely used to manage feeds, but not everyone is a fan of the web interface. After the recent redesign of most Google services, there may even be fewer users of the design. It is for this and other reasons that people turn to apps for RSS feed management. Cappuccino is a Mac app that lets you mange all your Google Reader feeds, syncing with your Google account and pulling all your feeds. You can view each item as as feed or as it would appear on the webpage. Any item can be opened in Safari and shared via email, Facebook, Twitter and Google+. The app presents a clean reading interface in the Feeds view, is ad free, and has an excellent search feature. Read More

Create Videos From Memorable Pictures & Clips With ffDiaporama

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Home videos and memorable pictures are organized by many people in the form of videos that can be played back on media devices and shared with loved ones. For this purpose, pictures and videos are sent to editing professionals, for processing them according to the customer’s requirement. Unfortunately, many people are unaware of the fact, that the same tasks can be done with the help of some easy-to-use applications. ffDiaporama is a cross-platform application for assembling photos and videos and transform them into videos. It can read images and videos in many formats, including from a large number of cameras and camcorders. The program also comes with 140 transitions and a device database for generating videos for more than 50 different models of video viewing devices, including home cinema systems, smart phones and tablets. Read More

What’s the font? Identifies Selected Fonts On Any Website [Chrome]

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Want to know what fonts have been used on a particular website? Whats the font?, a Chrome extension, quickly lets you find the font name of any highlighted text on a webpage. With it, you no longer need to go through the lengthy process of checking the HTML and CSS of websites, trying to figure out what fonts have been used on the said page. The extension can particularly come in handy for web developers and designers who regularly need to identify font names on various websites. Once you’ve installed the extension, a What’s the font? option will be added to the right-click context menu. Simply highlight text on webpages, select the What's the font? option, and the font's name will instantly appear in a pop-up. Read More

Note&Do: Take Notes And Maintain To Do Lists In Microsoft Office [Add-In]

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While working on computer, it is not unusual to forget about something you had to do. It often happens that while working on a document, we get brilliant ideas to add to it, but can't recall them later. The usual thing to do is to either get a sticky note and jot down the idea on it, but finding a sticky note and pen or a pencil can take a lot of time, and distract you from the task at hand. If you create a text file on your desktop, there’s a fat chance that you will completely forget about the file after some time. Note&Do is an add-on for Microsoft Office that integrates with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint, & enables a Notes and To Do bar in the right side of the applications, allowing you to take quick notes by typing or dragging & dropping text, noting down tasks that need to be performed. Each note and task is universal, in the sense that when a note is added to one application, it is viewable in all supported four Microsoft Office utilities. Read More

Shoot Photos With Funny Overlay Effects Using Funny Faces For WP7

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Microsoft Research launched a fun-oriented Windows Phone 7 app pretty recently, named Face Swap. That app allowed user to choose a photo having two people, and then exchanged their faces with each other. Funny Faces makes changing faces a whole lot funnier and better. The app is based on augmented reality, and acts as a camera that overlays funny effects on the faces found in any view. There are some hilarious effects offered by Funny Faces, and you can find out all about them by heading past the break. Read More

Create Folders On WP7 Mango Without Desktop Connection [Homebrew]

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Even if most people think that the way apps are listed in Windows Phone 7 is pretty convenient, there is a considerable contingent of users who think having folders on their Mango phone is a good idea. If you have an interop unlocked device, you can create folders on WP7 by using our previously covered tool. However, it is a solution which is far from perfect, as no one is likely to connect their phone to a computer just to create a folder. Fortunately, now there is a better alternative for creating on-device folders. The homebrew named Folders has been developed by the folks over at Windows Phone Hacker, who created the desktop tool as well. Read on to find out how you can create folders on WP7 with complete ease. Read More

Task Management App Nozbe Updated With New UI, Provision For Free Local Usage [Android]

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Task and project management Android apps are abound in the Google Play Store. As with every other app category, the candidates belonging to this particular genre also keep constantly vying for the top spot. Then there is the ever-increasing threat of competition, meaning that the existing players simply cannot rest on their laurels. The only way to move is upwards, and for that, new features must be frequently added to the mix. The official Android client of the well-known web-based task-management service, Nozbe, has been updated to v2.0 with a complete UI overhaul and a bunch of improvements, such as better syncing and integration with content stored on Evernote, Dropbox and Box, easier access to your personal notes, to-do lists, inbox, projects, errands, reminders and lots more. In addition, the app has received quite a few much needed bug fixes and is now much more stable than previous versions. Read More

Ursa Spell Checker Monitors & Corrects Spelling Mistakes In Skype

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Skype is one of the most widely used applications for text, audio and video commination worldwide. Launched almost a decade ago, it has now become the number one source of VoIP communication world wide. Such popularity even led the Redmond giant Microsoft to acquire it. Other than the communication services, it offers a bunch of features, including voicemail, group video calling and screen sharing. In addition, the folks behind it development also recently added Facebook integration for seamless experience. However, Skype still doesn’t have any native spell checker to help you locate and correct misspellings and typos. To cope with this problem, today we have a third party application that does the job, called Ursa Spell Checker. It is a lightweight utility that checks written text, and enables you to correct any wrong spellings or typos, while sending messages on Skype. When wrong spellings are detected, the application provides you with a list of correct words to choose from. It has support for multiple languages, and can be enabled/disabled through hot keys. More on Ursa Spell Checker after the break. Read More

Official 2012 Australian Open App Released In The Android Market

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Cometh the 16th of this month (January 2012), focus of tennis fans from all across the globe will shift to the action from down under, as the first of the four major tennis tournaments of the year, the Australian Open Tennis Competition 2012, gets underway. To ensure that you do not miss out on any of the sizzling action from the hard courts of Australia, Tennis Australia, in affiliation with IBM, have released the official Android client for the tournament. Available in the Android Market by the name of 2012 Australian Open, the app packs enough statistical and multimedia content to keep you apprised of all the action from upcoming, live, as well as concluded, games. Latest news, live scores and radio commentary, updated fixtures and photo gallery, player profiles, interactive event guide and on-demand video coverage including player interviews, latest highlights, reviews and previews of matches, are among the numerous features that the app has to offer to the fans. Read More

85 Best iPhone & iPad Apps Of Year 2011 [Editor's Pick]

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iOS fans spent a large part of 2011 anticipating the launch of the next model of iPhone, which turned out to be the iPhone 4S. Apple also released iOS 5, which brought many game-changing new features to the platform. 2011 saw the rise of Siri as well, the personal voice assistant that quickly became every 4S user’s favorite feature of the phone. To complement the awesome changes iOS went through during the course of the year, a lot of really good apps were released for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. During 2011, quite a few of these came to our attention, and here is a list of what we thought were the best of the lot. Read More

How To Transfer Files, Settings & User Profiles From Windows 7 To Windows 8 [Guide]

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Migrating applications, personalized system and application settings, and other important data from old PC to new PC isn’t only time consuming, but also a wearisome task, as one needs to make a list of all the installed applications, Windows components, User Profile folders, System settings including Personalization, Color Management, Fonts, Accessibility, Keyboard and Mouse settings etc., and then manually transfer the settings and data to new PC. In the past, we’ve covered numerous applications such as Backup Utility, Backup Folder Sync and DataGrab, which let users effortlessly backup User Profile folders without having to manually transfer Documents, Pictures, Music, AppData, Roaming and other important folders. Applications like Special Folders Manager not only makes it easy to create copy of Users profile folders, but also help restoring them at their original locations with a click, but what if you want to migrate entire system including Settings, Applications and data saved in local drives from old PC to new PC? Read More

CrashPlan: Scheduled Data Backup To Local, Remote & Friend’s PC

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If you become the victim of a hard disk crash or someone steals your laptop, I’m sure that most of you would worry more about the data saved in the hard drive, rather than the device itself. Creating backups of your data is very important since, data backup acts as a life saver in these situations. If you don't have your data backed up in a secondary location, you will be left without gigabytes of important data. CrashPlan is a cross-platform application to backup and restore data to local and remote PC’s. It can perform scheduled backups to an internal or external disk, another PC connected to the network, or on a friend’s computer over the internet. Read more about CrashPlan after the jump. Read More

CleanGenius: Delete Logs, Caches & Unwanted Apps, Monitor Space Usage [Mac]

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MacCleaning is a simple memory monitor and cache cleaner for Mac, reviewed early in December 2011. In the brief period of one month, the app has been upgraded with two major features, and has been renamed CleanGenius Free. Like the previously-reviewed version, it has both a free and a pro version. New features added to CleanGenius Free are, an uninstaller that will allows you to uninstall multiple apps at once, and actively monitor free space on all mounted drives. In addition to the cache and log cleaner, the app monitors space consumption in your downloads, logs and cache folders. The menu bar interface still works, but the main window is where you uninstall apps from. Read More

Gyazo: Instant Screenshot Capture & Upload To Share Tool [Mac]

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There are a myriad of screenshot capturing tools available for Mac, and while the native screenshot functionality isn’t bad either, all you need to do is hide the abnormally wide window shadows that it adds, and you’re all set. As far as simple screenshots are concerned, you will find most apps, free or paid, to be effective, but when it comes to sharing a screenshot, very few will integrate the feature. Gyazo is a Mac app that lets you capture any part of your screen, uploads the screenshot to its online server, opens it in your browser, and copies the URL to your clipboard. Read More

O&O AutoBackup: Automatically Backup Files To USB Drive When Plugged In

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O&O AutoBackup is an application to automatically synchronize files and folders from a source folder to a removable media device such as a USB or external hard drive. For example, you can create a backup copy of your important office documents, so that they are automatically saved to a USB when changes are made to them. The data copying process immediately starts after you connect the removable device, and updates made to the original data are synced periodically. This enables creating backup copies of data on external media devices, so that you can keep the data available in portable format for later use. Read More