Yearly Archives: 2012

Gain Full Remote Access To A System With LiteManager For Windows

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In the past, we have covered a number of desktop sharing applications that allow users to access & control their PCs from remote locations. Using remote desktop sharing app, you can easily connect to source PC; whether you’re at work and need an access to your home computer, or enjoying your vacations and need to send files from your work PC to your client, just launch the desktop sharing app and connect to your remote system for performing the required tasks. Today, we stumbled across a comprehensive desktop sharing application called LiteManager, which lets you easily access your system from remote locations. It does so by letting you view and control connected remote computer's desktop from your display. Apart from sharing desktop with remote PCs, it enables you to control the desktop, transfer files between the connected machines, shutdown the remote PC, execute programs, initiate text communication via integrated chat app, remotely install MSI installation packages, and even access the Registry editor of the remote system. It packs both the Server and Viewer applications in a single installation package, and you need to install it on both source and client machines in order to share and access the systems from remote locations. Read past the jump for more details. Read More

JD’s Auto Speed Tester: Visually Analyze Your Internet Connection

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Ever wondered why your internet speed fluctuates frequently? You might’ve guessed the problem or used a web service like Speedtest.net to check upload/download speeds before contacting your internet service provider, but with JD’s Auto Speed Tester, an automated application for Windows meant to better analyze and depict results both graphically and in tabular format, you can accurately point out the missing dots in the internet speed variations story. Furthermore, it lets you perform numerous internet speed-related tests, generate an average-value based analysis report, save the result sheet in CSV format, and schedule internet performance checks. Read More

PicBackMan: Backup Facebook & Instagram Photos To Dropbox, Box & Image Hosting Services

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Image sharing is one of the most used functions on the internet these days. Hundreds of image sharing websites as well social networks are used by millions of people each day to share images among their friends family, and even random strangers. While the social networks, such as Facebook and Google+ allow you to share images with your friends and family, websites such as Flickr and apps like Instagram let you publish your albums for the world to see. When you have thousands of photos uploaded to various image hosting platforms, it is very hard to keep a backup of each and every image manually. PicBackMan is an application for Windows that lets you back up images from multiple sources (image sharing websites and social networks) by automatically uploading them to seven photo and storage services. Other than the images saved in online accounts, you can also upload images from local folders to different websites. PicBackMan supports backing up the pictures from Facebook, Foursquare and Instagram accounts and local folders to Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, SkyDrive, Dropbox, Box.net and Facebook. Read More

PDF Toolkit: Compress PDFs, Extract Text And Images In Different Sizes [Mac]

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Feature rich free PDF tools and/or editors are hard to come by. PDF is one of the most common formats for viewing image rich documents on a slew of devices and that leaves you with little choice except to pay up for a halfway decent PDF tool or use several free alternative apps instead of a single one. PDF Toolkit is a PDF editing app for Mac that normally costs $4.99 but is free this month (makes you love Summer, doesn’t it?). PDF Toolkit isn’t for editing a PDF file i.e., you cannot add or remove text and images from a file. What you can do is merge multiple PDFs into a single file. Unlike free tools that only let you merge 2 files into one, PDF Toolkit gives you the freedom to merge as many files as you want. It can extract pages from a file, either in order or as per user specifications and create a new PDF from the extracted pages. Additionally, you can extract text and images from a file and compress it on four different standards to reduce the size. Note that this compression does not mean adding it to a zipped file, compression with PDF Toolkit is different and discussed in detail below. Read More

CodecInstaller Scans Existing Codecs & Downloads Missing Ones Required By Your Media Files

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Windows 7, by default, comes packed with majority of the audio/video codecs that are required to play most media files. Even if a codec is missing, you can grab various third party media players, such as Media Player Classic, KMPlayer, VLC Player and GOMPlayer, or download a codec pack to do the job. Nevertheless, due to the wide-array of media formats, chances are, you still might have an important codec missing from your PC. To cope with this caveat, you can give CodecInstaller a try. It’s a feature-rich utility that aims to help you in three simple ways – scan the existing codecs in your PC, analyze a media file to find required codecs, and/or download new codecs from within the application itself. It’s fairly easy to use, and comprises a minimalist user interface. Details to follow after the jump. Read More

PocketCloud For iOS: Mac & PC Remote Access App With VNC Support

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There are more than just a few iPhone or iPad apps out there that let you remotely access and control your PC or Mac. However, most such apps are nothing more than a novelty, and it is usually pretty difficult to really do anything useful on your computer using your iOS device. The reasons for that can be manifold, like the lack of the ability to run applications on your computer and inconvenient controls. PocketCloud is an iOS app that counters all these issues in an efficient manner. The app truly lets you access all areas of your desktop. You can use it to surf the web through your computer’s web browser, or even to run applications or games. Imagine using Photoshop on your iPad! In addition, the app has support for VNC/RDP, which means you can directly connect to computers without a companion client by specifying their IP addresses. Read More

The Easy Way To Change Hidden iTunes Preferences In Mac OS X

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Apps and tweaks for iTunes aren’t rare to come by. Most iTunes apps allow you to control Mac's native music player from the Menu bar, while other, more advanced ones, let you access your library and even create playlists. These apps exist because it’s often annoying to have to switch app windows to change which song is being played, and also because iTunes itself is pretty heavy on system resources. As far as tweaks for iTunes are concerned, they are mostly for hidden preferences, i.e., things iTunes can do, but in Apple’s wisdom, should not be done, or something like that. The iTunes defaults are set to disable these hidden preferences, and to get them to work, you normally have to poke around in Terminal. Change Hidden iTunes Preferences is an excellent script for iTunes that is free to download and provides a GUI for managing some common hidden preferences, like enabling half-star ratings for songs, enabling Option+click for the mini player, globally setting the song/album view for all tabs, hide ‘Ping’ (which is now near extinction anyway), and more. The script does nothing more than modify existing options in iTunes, and doesn’t install additional apps. Read More

Freegate Lets You Access Blocked Websites At Optimal Speed

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Internet censorship is becoming more serious an issue every day. On a lot of forums, you can read people discussing internet censorship bills, such as PIPA and SOPA, aimed at taking away the internet freedom of users by introducing censorship, as well as anti-privacy laws. Other than this, some websites are not offered in certain regions. Same is the case with some of the videos hosted on YouTube. Sometimes, when you click a YouTube video link, you are greeted with a message that the selected video is not available in your region. Today, we have a portable anti-censorship application called Freegate, which lets you access websites blocked in your region. While most VPN applications affect the browsing speed, Freegate provides as fast a connection to websites that are not available in your country as you'd get for local domains. Moreover, if anyone tries to access a website containing adult material, Freegate detects the adult material, denies the user’s request and does not allow passage. Keep reading to find out more about Freegate. Read More

Foto-Mosaik-Edda Is A Highly Customizable Mosaic Creator For Windows

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Mosaic photography is something we all love. Whether you do it as a hobby or for the sake of your profession, it’s a unique, exciting and fun way to share your favorite photos with others on the internet. Today, we have a mosaic creator for you called Foto-Mosaik-Edda. This Windows application is designed to let you create fabulous photo mosaics using either your own image database or grabbing images directly from Flickr, which you can then poster-print in high resolution. It’s a feature-rich mosaic maker that comes with plethora of settings; for instance, the ability to set tile pixel size and tile count, image orientation, specify custom poster size in megapixels, tile format (digital cameras, DSLR cameras and HD), Flickr support, tile borders and many others. Is it worth a try? Read on to find out! Read More

MIUI’s MiHome Launcher Officially Released For Android 2.3 & 4.0 or Higher

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Back in May, we first caught sight of MiHome, the ICS-exclusive standalone homescreen replacement app based on the latest build of MIUI (v4.0). The launcher has been specifically designed for any Android device rocking Ice Cream Sandwich, meaning no luck for Froyo and Gingerbread users. While Froyo users might have to wait a tad longer to get their hands on the launcher, those with Android v2.3.3 or higher on their devices can rejoice, for a Gingerbread-exclusive version of MiHome has just been officially released in the Google Play Store. In fact, if you’re an ICS user, there’s a separate version of said launcher available in the market, too. If you didn’t get a chance to check out MiHome so far, you might be interested to know that the app has plenty of visual goodness and customization on offer. Both the recently released official variants of the launcher sport more or less the same set of features. Read More

Pinstagram: Retina-Optimized Instagram Viewer For iPad With Pinterest Integration

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Instagram is one of the most popular apps on iOS, and although the service released its official Android client recently, the majority of Instagram users are on iPhone and iPad. Owing to the service’s popularity, Instagram has got many third-party iOS clients in addition to the official one. The official app is so good, however, that it really takes something extraordinarily special to attract users to any alternative. Pinstagram.co just might be one such app, specially if you are a fan of both Pintrest and Instagram. This retina-optimized iPad app lets its users browse through their Instagram account with convinience, listing the photos in their feeds in a Pintrest-like waterfall view. You can perform several gestures to navigate in the app and view shared photos. The app also has options to let you share any Instagram photo over Pintrest, Facebook or Twitter with a single tap! Arguably, one of the best Instagram viewers for iPad out there. Read More

DiskDigger Now On Android; Lets You Recover Deleted Photos

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The team behind DiskDigger – a popular free data recovery solution for Windows – considers your Android data equally important, too, and hence, have decided to bring their nifty little tool to the Google Play Store. Currently available for rooted devices only, DiskDigger (beta) for Android caters to your image recovery needs. Sporting a minimalist interface, the app has the capacity to scan your device’s storage for deleted image files (in JPEG or PNG format), and lets you retrieve them in multiple ways. For instance, you may opt to restore the recovered files to a location of choice, or share them via mail. The developers vow to make DiskDigger as comprehensive a file recovery solution for Android as it is for your Windows PC, but as of now, if you’re too worried about losing those precious family pictures on your formatted SD card altogether, this handy Android tool can help you retrieve most (if not all) of them with ease. Read More

Instamap For Android Lets You Browse Geotagged Instagram Photos On Google Maps

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The release of the official Android client of the popular photo-editing and sharing app, Instagram, has to be lauded as a massive success. In a matter of a couple of months of its release in the Google Play Store, the app has seen an overwhelming response in terms of the number of downloads. In fact, Instagram now enjoys the status of being the best Android app from the social genre. Having said that, you can still find quite a few third-party Instagram clients for Android that focus on the features that the official app is currently lacking in. One good example of such app is Instamap that, at best, can be cited as a fine amalgamation of Google Maps and Instagram. Fresh to the Google Play Store, Instamap lets you explore geo-tagged Instagram photos on Google Maps. Using the app, you can navigate to virtually any part of the globe from where you wish to view various images shared by avid Instagram users. Whether you wish to explore your surroundings through Instagram-med photos, or want to check out the photographic taste of the users from Poland, Instamap is your best bet for now. Read More

AVG Family Safety For WP7 Released; Censors Inappropriate Web Content & Ensures Safe Browsing

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The rather strong presence of Internet Explorer as the stock browser in Windows Phone 7 has made sure that no other web browser app gains too much popularity in the Marketplace. It’s not that IE is the perfect browser for your Mango phone (it doesn’t even have private browsing), but most people are content with the convenience and efficiency it brings to WP7. AVG Family Safety is a new app (by AVG, the antivirus guys) that aims to go one step ahead of IE by offering the option to control content that can be browsed on your Windows Phone. If you are using the AVG PC suite, you can block any website on your phone (the WP7 app requires the same credentials as the PC variant), and in addition to that, the app also alerts users if there is malware on any website you visit. AVG Family Safety might be lacking some of IE’s flashiness, but it certainly does provide you with a more secure way of browsing the web. The app can be extremely useful for people whose children use their phone for surfing the net. Read on if you think AVG Family Safety can be of use to you. Read More

Typ-O: Mac OS X Text Editor With Grammar Check & Next Word Prediction

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Spell check, as we’ve often said before, is a life saver in many situations, and perhaps that's why it exists universally in Mac OS X. Another equally useful feature, though not natively present in OS X, is grammar check. Normally, what you have to work with is a spell check and auto-correct feature that will correct those little typos you make, but can seriously alter the meaning of a sentence if it doesn’t predict a word correctly. Typ-O is a three-in-one Mac app with a text editor that creates and saves files in RTF format, a spelling and grammar checker, and a quick typing tool that allows you to insert a word via the function keys on your keyboard, so that you don’t have to type them out. Typ-O supports both American and UK English, and German. It adjusts its suggestions and the degree of corrections it needs to make, based on your language skills. Read More

Free ShareShot: Take Screenshots, Edit & Optimize Them For Direct Printing & Web

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Screenshots are the basic need of every blogger. While explaining something, screenshots play the role of a visual aid, as well as confirmation for correct execution of any function that you are trying to explain in your article. For instance, if you are writing an article about performing a task which requires the readers to perform some step by step actions (a tip on how to install Windows 8 on VirtualBox, perhaps), providing the readers with screenshots of each dialog box, and the correct settings to choose in order to configure, make the process a lot easier than if only text were written. Here at AddictiveTips, we take special care in providing our readers with accurate and high quality screenshots within our posts. If you are looking for an easy-to-use screenshot tool that allows you to capture high quality images, check out Free ShareShot. It is an application for Windows that allows you to capture screenshots and edit them to highlight certain portions using conventional marking and annotation tools. It has four capture modes: Capture Region, Capture Last Region, Capture Window and Capture Full Screen, which can be triggered using pre-defined hotkeys. Read More

My Time Organizer For Chrome: Elegant Task Management Tool With Weekly & Monthly Schedules

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Looking for help in managing your time in an efficient manner? Do you wish to organize your time and activities a month in advance? Are you a person who makes to-do lists and then forgets where you put them? If so, My Time Organizer, a Google Chrome extension, is definitely worth giving a shot. It’s an application that lets you manage your time in the easiest yet the most stylish way. Through an interface governed by drag & drop, it allows users to add information about events, tasks and/or notes and receive notifications for upcoming events, meetings, lectures, tests, exams, etc. You can even edit the text using voice input. Read More

Set Up Google Chrome Metro App In Windows 8

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You may know that Windows 8 supports two types of applications - Metro Style Apps and Desktop Apps. In the Desktop mode, applications run normally as they do in Windows 7, but Metro Style apps, accessible from the Start Screen, are quite different from desktop applications. There are some apps, such as the Internet Explorer, that have the ability to run in both Metro UI and Desktop modes, depending on their launch location and default file association settings.  For instance, if you launch Internet Explore from the Desktop while it is set as the Default Browser, it will be launched as a desktop app, but if you launch it directly from the start screen, it will open  Metro Style Internet Explorer. A lot of people like to use either Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome as their default browser, instead of stock Internet Explorer. However, both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome were only available as Desktop apps till now. Recently, The Chromium Projects team developed a new version of Google Chrome that can be run as Desktop app as well as Metro Style App. Since it is in experimental phase, you may encounter some bugs and exceptions while browsing. In this post, we will show you how to download, install and run Google Chrome as a Metro Style App in Windows 8. Read More

VideoMach: Multimedia Converter With A Massive Set Of Editing Features

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Multimedia converters come in all shapes and sizes, but with the wide range of portable multimedia devices available nowadays, it often becomes difficult for users to play a specific video or audio file on all devices without having to convert its format. Today, we have a multimedia converter for Windows called VideoMach, which allows you to convert between a large number of audio, video and image formats, such as AVI, WMV, MPEG, FLIC, AC3, WAC, WMA, BMP, JPEF, PNG etc. Moreover, it enables you to extract audio and video from a media file, adjust video playback speed, decompile videos to save video and audio streams in separate files, apply effects to entire video stream or specific parts, overlay text and images over the videos, and add audio to animations and videos. Read More

Jobs Aggregator For Chrome Makes Job Searching A Snap

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Are you looking for a job? Seeking a job can be frustrating. Tired of spending hours searching thousands of individual job boards, career sites, local newspapers, and corporate sites? It seems like the job market is gradually picking up its momentum once again, so there is some hope. You probably just need to know where to look. Jobs Aggregator is exactly the kind of Chrome extension you need to install in order to hunt for jobs. It claims to help people find millions of jobs from thousands of company websites, job boards and newspapers. Read More