Yearly Archives: 2012

RealVNC: Control Remote Windows, Mac & Linux Systems Through VNC

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Just a few days ago, we covered OnlineVNC, a VNC solution that allows you to control a remote PC via a web browser. Today, we will look into another VNC application called RealVNC, which is quite different from OnlineVNC in terms of the way it allows users to interact with a VNC server. Both the server and client (viewer) come packed into a single setup file. Instead of using the web browser, you need the Viewer application to access the shared machine from the remote location. Moreover, RealVNC supports multiple platforms, namely Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX, and has paid Viewer apps for Android and iOS as well. RealVNC is very powerful, and becomes quite user-friendly too once you get the hang of the VNC connection's setup process. Read on for more details. Read More

BufferZone Pro Uses Application Sandboxing To Secure Your System

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Sandboxing is a highly effective way of protecting your PC from malware attacks and online threats. If you have used programs like Sandboxie or Avast’s Sandbox feature, for instance, you must have an idea what sandboxing is all about. In layman's terms, it’s a technique to safeguard your PC by putting programs in a sandbox, i.e., separating the programs from host system and put them in a virtual environment. Developed by Trustedware, BufferZone Pro is a Sandboxie-like security application that automatically puts your frequently used programs (especially those which are prone to external attacks) in a Bufferzone. It easily detects your web browsers (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Firefox etc.) and other applications like Skype, P2P programs, Instant messengers, and launches them in the virtual environment. Just like Avast's Auto-Sandbox feature, it runs sandboxed applications in a red-bordered window. In addition, it also has the ability to create state snapshots, which help users roll back to a previous state by restoring a snapshot. Details to follow after the jump. Read More

Rockify.TV Is Like Pandora For Music Videos [Web]

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Rockify.TV is a web application that allows you to stream the best videos based on your likes and social trends. The app learns what you enjoy and gives you a personalized video watching experience, so you can sit back, and enjoy an endless stream of high definition music videos of your liking without having to browse much. Once signed in, Rockify will let you set Channels and Artists of your choice as the sorting criteria. You may create custom playlists and channels for all your favorite tracks, save them for later and share with friends. More after the jump. Read More

Share Images On Facebook Directly From The Stock iOS Photos App [Cydia]

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iOS 6 might not be coming to your iPhone any time soon, but the rumors of its features are certainly thick in the air. One thing that the next major update of Apple’s mobile platform is almost sure to come with, is Facebook integration. A lot of people really appreciated all the Twitter-related stuff that iOS 5 flaunted, and now everyone can't wait to see what changes will be made with respect to Facebook integration. If you have a jailbroken iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, though, you don’t have to wait too long to try out one instance of iOS-Facebook combination. With the newly released FacebookThis Cydia tweak, users can post photos to Facebook right from within the stock Photos app! The tweak adds a new button in each photo’s options, and using that button, you will be able to publish photos to your wall without much ado. Admittedly, the Facebook option offered by the FacebookThis tweak is not as smooth or efficient as it would have been in an official update, it isn't too shabby either. Read More

Instagram for Chrome: A Light, Elegant Viewer For The Photo-Sharing Giant [Extension]

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iPhone is popular for a lot of reasons; it practically pioneered the design, technology and feature concepts we see in today’s smartphones, but the apps that are available for download are also a huge part of the user experience. Once insanely popular app for the iPhone is Instagram. Although it is now available for the Android platform as well, it was made popular on the iPhone. Even with the Facebook acquisition, the service has yet to have a web interface and the large database of pictures can only be accessed from your phone.  If you've been using an iPhone long enough, chances are high that you, yourself, might at some point have used Instagram, either to share your own masterpieces with the world, or to view those shared by others. Smartphone-only apps like Instagram are cool, but they end up breaking the experience when we want to check our feeds through our desktop. Imagine someone who just wants to browse through, say, Instagram's most popular feed, and doesn't want to be bothered with comments, likes, or the whole 'Instagram package', for that matter. That is where Instagram for Chrome comes in. It is a handy Chrome extension that lets you view Instagram photos and the likes and comments on them right from the Chrome toolbar. Unlike previously reviewed InstaBrowser for Chrome, this extension is lighter, better-looking and closer to the original Instagram interface. Read More

Photo Saver Automatically Uploads Captured Photos To Facebook [Android]

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Generally speaking, you’ll find two types of users out there – those who relish the opportunity to share on Facebook virtually anything they ‘like’, and those who don’t even bother taking a look at something just because it supports integration with said social network. If you fall under the former category, there’s now a very handy photo backup solution available for you in the form of Photo Saver. Fresh to the Google Play Store, this simple yet effective Android app has the capacity to automatically upload photos from your device to Facebook with ease. Uploaded content is stored under a dedicated Facebook Photos album, whose sharing option is set to ‘Private’ by default (for all the privacy-conscious people out there). However, automatic uploading of your fresh snaps is not the only feature that Photo Saver brings to the table. The app can also be used to create a generic backup of all the photos lying on your device upon request. Not only does Photo Saver let you control the backup mechanism, but also keeps you apprised of the last backup instance, as well as the total number of photos that have been backed up so far. Details to follow. Read More

Pixen Is A Simple Mac OS X Paint Tool With Supports For Layers

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Preview, the default image viewer in Mac, supports some very basic image editing functionality. There isn’t, however, any native Mac app that lets you extensively edit or even create an image with simple brush or shape tools, and that’s why you will see lots of apps vying for the spot. For those who love something that is visually pleasing to use as well as feature-rich, PaintBrush (read review here) is one option. For those looking for layer support and would like to do more with the image itself, there is Pixen, a free Mac app that lets you paint in layers. It allows you to create and edit layers on an image and has all the usual selection, shape and paint tools you find on regular image editors. Read More

A43: Windows File Manager With Built-In Quick Launch, Text Editor and Hex Viewer

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Gone are the days when the storage space of a PC was limited and we had to choose which files to keep and which ones to delete. Now, with massive storage spaces available even in personal computers and laptops, there is no reason for us to delete old files when copying or creating new ones. However, having so many files stored in your PC makes managing them and finding the required file a tedious task. The default Windows Explorer in Windows 7 provides you with file browsing, navigation and search options, but it lacks some advanced options, such as built-in archive explorer and extractor. Today, we have a portable file management utility named A43, which features a built-in text editor, supports archives, and includes an advanced file search function. It also lets you add frequently accessed folders as favorites, so that you can quickly open them without having to navigate through multiple locations. Read More

Archangel Prevents Accidental Powering Off, Adds Advanced Power Menu & App Install Alerts [Cydia]

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A few days back, we covered a Cydia tweak named Download Reminder (review) that notified of completed downloads, but just today, the newly-released Archangel has made it quite obsolete. We say so because like Download Reminder, Archangel too provides you with notifications each time an app download is completed, but that isn't it's only feature. The tweak acts as a shield against inadvertent powering off of your iPhone or iPad. This can prove to be an extremely useful feature if you are on a tethered jailbreak, or are using Gevey SIM unlock. Apart from that, users can even employ Archangel to replace the regular power down slider with a menu containing Reboot, Power Off, Respring and Google search options. More on that past the break. Read More

Spell-Checker: Notepad++ Plugin For Adding Spell Check Functionality

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Notepad++ is an open-source text editor that offers a slew of basic and advanced text & source code editing features that are not found in integrated notepad utility. It is very comprehensive and probably the best of its kind. Apart from supporting a number of programming languages, it includes a syntax highlighting feature, a great feature which simply enables application developers to easily detect and correct syntax errors in their source code files. It also supports an umpteen number of third-party plugins that help users extend native source code editing functions. The application is mostly favored by developers as it greatly helps then in programming and coding various scripts, however, there are lots of plugins available for people who are not coders and still find quite handy. Earlier, we have covered quite a lot of Notepad++ plugins, including details on how to install them. Today, we have another one at your disposal called Spell-Checker. Spell Checker, as its name implies, allows you to quickly correct spelling mistakes in plain text documents. The plugin supports multiple languages, including English, French, Spanish, Danish, German and more. Not only does it mark spelling errors, it also helps you fix spelling mistakes and even lets you ignore selected or all errors. Moreover, you can add new custom words to its dictionary after reviewing all the suggested words for the misspelled word. Don't stop reading for more details Spell Checker just after the break. Read More

NoteBar Is An iPhone-Inspired Note Taking App For Mac OS X

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NoteBar is a Mac app worth $1.99 in the Mac App Store that looks just like the stock iOS Notes app, even with the same features; you can add notes (the first line of a note becomes the title), long titles are shortened, notes can be searched and shared via email, exported as a text file, printed and copied to the clipboard. Even on the interface front, expect the buttons to be exactly where you find them on the iPhone app, with the only slight change being that the note background doesn’t look resemble a margined notebook page. Read More

[Giveaway] SoftOrbits Photo Retoucher: Retouch Photos To Remove Unwanted Blemishes

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Photo editing often involves too many tasks such as color correction, cropping, masking, layering, retouching and whatnot, in order to get the perfect image. Most of the high-end photo editors are stuffed with endless number of features (some that you don’t even need). However, if you are looking for a rather simple solution to quickly fine-tune your favorite photos, then go ahead and give SoftOrbits Photo Retoucher a try. This application provides you with a number of tools to quickly touch up your old photographs using tools like Spot Remover, Scratch Remover, Concealer Brush and Image Correction. Other noteworthy features include image cropping and a marker tool to remove unwanted objects in images. The application also lets you work with multiple images at a time. More details after the jump. Read More

Uniclau: Scan QR Codes With Your Phone To Log In To Accounts On Your Computer [Android, iOS]

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Email services, social networks, online file sharing services, corporate accounts, cloud storage services, blogs, media streaming sites and online documentation services etc. – a typical internet user’s life certainly doesn’t get any easier managing online credentials for so many different web services. Your web browser can, of course, hold all your accounts in its database to save you from the hassle of reinserting these credentials again and again, but the problem arises when you’re required to resort to a different computer or web browser to access your online accounts. Recalling password of each and every service correctly can be tough, whereas manually logging in to a stranger computer bears its own risk. What if you could use your smartphone to log in to the required service without having to feed in any password whatsoever? Uniclau is a free Android and iOS app that now makes such authentication to your preferred online services possible. Designed to work in combination with a dedicated Google Chrome extension, Uniclau serves as your trusted password vault that you can carry anywhere, and use to automatically log in to any preferred online account by just scanning a QR code. Details to follow. Read More

Bypass Facebook Social Reader App Install Requests To Read Articles In Peace [Chrome, Firefox]

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While browsing Facebook, we often come across articles shared by our friends from apps like Yahoo!, The Gaurdian or Washington Post. You might have noticed that when these links are clicked, you get redirected to the social reader’s app install request page, which accesses your personal information and posts on your behalf, including people you liked, articles you read and more.  Not only do these apps access your private details to learn your reading habits, but can also be very annoying thanks to their wall posts. If you want to read articles from various social readers but, at the same time, don't want to authorize a third-party application to access your basic information, then Unsocialize is just what you need. This Chrome extension and Firefox add-on adds an Unsocialize option to the right-click context menu, which allows you to open articles in a new tab without getting redirected to third-party apps and having to grant them access to your information. More after the break. Read More

faceMe Opens Files & Apps Using Your Webcam & Face Detection [Mac]

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Controlling your devices via simple gestures that are read through your webcam might seem a futuristic idea, but as recently covered app Flutter showed (read full review here), it isn’t that far away any more. If you think waving your hand infront of your webcam to trigger iTunes was cool, you’re going to love faceMe. It’s a Mac app worth $1.99, and is, literally, worth every penny you pay. Like Flutter, it too is triggered by what the webcam sees; only, instead of being limited to a single app, faceMe lets you launch an audio file, a video or an app, quit an open app, open a file or speak predefined text when it detects a face. More on this marvellous app after the break. Read More

Encode Videos Or Extract Their Audio Using Mac Finder [Tip]

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The Finder in Mac is generally just a file explorer with no hardcore features that would warrant calling it anything else, but it isn’t really as bare as it seems. As far as videos are concerned, the Finder can do much more. Specifically, you can use the Finder to encode and resize videos, as well as to extract their audio. The feature, built into Mac, requires no codecs to be installed, and works only on files that Mac supports. Hence, Flash files cannot utilize this encoding, but the common MP4s can be used without needing to think twice. Read More

Dolphin Browser HD v8.2 Adds Bookmark Gestures, Customization & UI Improvements [Android]

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Dolphin Browser HD, the favorite web browser of many iOS and Android users, has been among the few apps that have been consistently improving with each and every update. Living up to its reputation, one of the most downloaded Android browsers has just gotten even better with the latest update. The update sees the version count progresses to 8.2, and with that, Dolphin HD users are introduced to several other handy features, including the option to launch bookmarks through custom gestures, load images over Wi-Fi only, launch directly to the last closed tab, disable the Add-ons and/or the Bookmarks sidebar(s), and several routine performance improvements. That’s not all; the brand new progress bar (upon loading websites) and subtle animations upon opening and closing tabs brings some much-needed eye candy as well. Details to follow. Read More

Cisco DataMeter For Android: Monitor WiFi/Mobile Data & Get Speed Test Results Of Nearby Hotspots

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One of the world’s leading network solution providers, Cisco, has been catering to the network management needs of worldwide users for quite some time now. The company is no stranger to the mobile world either, since it has plenty of nifty apps available across the stores of both popular mobile platforms, Android & iOS. In November last year, we reviewed Cisco Connect Express that let Android and iOS users remotely manage their Cisco routers right from their mobile devices. Cisco DataMeter, currently in beta, is the company’s latest venture in terms of mobile apps that allows Android users to monitor and take control of their cellular and WiFi data usage. However, that’s not its only feature – the app has some very handy options that can help you with keeping a close tab on your device’s data usage habits. To summarize the app’s list of features, you get a built-in data monitoring, estimation and projection tool, WiFi speed test tool, test results of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots, graphical analysis of data usage, and plenty more. Read More

Jogobox Lets You Download From A Huge Database Of Free Classic Games

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There are two types of gamers, the ones that always want to play whatever is new and latest, and then those who simply love the old classics that they grew up with (Super Mario?). If you’re from the former category then this review might not be fascinating enough, but if you're one of those gamers who simply can't forget those classic hits and wonder if you could travel back in time to bring those precious experiences, then look no further than Jogobox. This free application is here to awake your childhood memories by letting you download classic games instantly and at no cost  The vast library of Jogobox houses thousands of games that are free to download and play, including titles like EA’s Red Alert, Sid Meier’s Civilization, Super Mario, Tombo Raider and what not. Moreover, it automatically moves all the downloaded games to the built-in library, so that you can easily play them from within the application interface. Read on for more details, with included screenshots. Read More

SoundHound Updated To v5.0 With Song Of The Day, Improved UI & Track Recognition [Android, iOS]

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The insanely popular online music recognition and discovery app for Android and iOS, SoundHound, has just received a massive update (to v5.0), in terms of both aesthetics as well as functionality. Along with retaining its reputation of identifying almost any song that is being played around, the new-look app now offers plenty of other interesting features that will certainly satiate your music appetite. From the Android app’s perspective, the Holo-themed UI is a definite plus, while the iOS variant has been beefed up with the option to play local music and display track info, including LiveLyrics, artist details and music video (if available). The homescreen of SoundHound on both supported platforms has been revamped to include a slick carousel that is dedicated to displaying featured SoundHound content. The app now also lets users stream a popular song on daily basis, completely free of charge. In addition, the LiveLyrics scrolling feature gets some much-needed attention, music recognition seems to be even quicker than before and the social media sharing feature has been improved. Read More