Yearly Archives: 2012

What’s New In Microsoft Word 2013? [Review]

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With the recent launch of Office 15 at a media event, new trends have surely been set. The flurry of Windows 8, its metro user interface and a clean and resourceful look has brought in criticism from around the world, but the overall balance is being seen in Microsoft's favor, as it embarks upon technology integration, cloud-connectivity, and modern, touch-friendly outlook. In what follows, we will inform you exactly where Microsoft Word 2013 from the Office 15 Suite aims to reform your experience with documents. It is surely time to embrace text-flow, PDFs, collaborations, and the world wide web through a resourceful Office App Library for the better. A cleaner discussion thread and Microsoft SkyDrive integration promise a unique experience for the novice as well as advanced users. Read More

What’s New In Microsoft Excel 2013? [Review]

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Some say that Office 15 is merely a polished look of the previous version, but a deep analysis of the Suite proves otherwise. Yes, times are changing and Microsoft is adapting with the new world by imparting a metro user interface initiated with Windows 8 and carried on in the new Office preview. With the modern feel and easy navigation experience acknowledged, cloud-based services using Microsoft SharePoint and SkyDrive allow you to collaborate like never before. Moreover, documents can be accessed on all devices from the mainframe to the touch-phone. A sleek and responsive workspace allows you to achieve productivity at a new peak. In this post, we will discover the new features in Microsoft Excel 2013 ranging from the new sharing options to Office Apps. Data organization has been simplified using Flash Fill, data analysis has been equipped with Quick Analysis and charting is now much more effective owing to the new Recommended charts option. Read More

WebSnap: Capture Selective Or Full Websites & View Them In A Live Widget [Android]

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With the previously reviewed SnowDeer Web Scrapper, we have already seen how to effectively capture snapshots of an entire webpage on Android. Though quite helpful in its own respect, said tool was effective only in situations that demanded grabbing snapshots of the complete page. What if you were to capture a specific area or elements of the required website? New to the Play Store, WebSnap is a promising Android app that makes capturing select parts of any webpage as easy as one-two-three. Just like SnowDeer, WebSnap comes with a built-in browser that you can use to explore and capture virtually any part of the required website. It also supports UA String selection to help you quickly switch between mobile and desktop layout of the current website. In addition, it provides easy-to-use navigation controls, supports pinch-to-zoom gestures, and lets you natively manage, preview and share your snapshots. All aforementioned features aside, the mainstay of WebSnap remains its nifty little dynamic homescreen widget that not only sports the captured view of your preferred website, but can also be set to automatically update as per user-defined intervals. Read More

Free Editor: Powerful All-In-One Document, Image, Hex And Resource Editor

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We often come to the need of editing various types of files but unable to find the appropriate software at disposal. Free Editor is a powerful editing software that does this job for you by letting you edit most types of files under one roof. The list of files supported by the program is staggeringly huge. It lets you edit Microsoft Office files, for instance, DOC, XLSX, PPTX, DOTX, DOCX, VCF etc, image files such as JPEG, RAW, ICO, GIF, TIF, PSD, BMP, PNG and so on. Several kinds of coding languages - for example JSP, CS, SQL, VB, KML, ASPX, PHP etc - are also supported by this tool. In addition, you can also edit some Windows extensions, including EXE, SCR, DLL, just to name a few, as well as other types of documents, such as EPUB, WPS, PDF, WPD, TXT, LOG, QIF, RTF, XML, BAT and so forth. With all this power under the hood, this is one of the most comprehensive file editing software solution I have ever come across. The application comprises of four major components, i.e., Document Editor, Image Editor, Hex Editor and Resource Editor. It’s quite a handy tool to quickly give touch ups to the supported files, should you not find the required application for editing them. The intuitive UI contains sufficient amount of options, and can be of great use for both novice and power users alike. Read More

Launch Multiple Apps & Websites With A Single Keyboard Shortcut [Mac]

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App launchers and shortcut creating tools are some of the best types of apps to use if you’re trying to organize the way you start work, simplify launching apps or maybe impress any onlookers when you’re working on your Mac. Either way, apps like these are very popular and occasionally pricey, and, sometimes, ugly and complicated, too. Launch it! is a free Mac app that lets you launch apps with shortcuts you add yourself for each one. You can record URLs to open as well and when the associated shortcut is pressed, the website is opened in your default browser. If the browser isn’t running, the app will launch it. Launch it! runs in the Menu Bar, has no Dock icon and is perhaps one of the easiest apps to configure. You can add as many apps and websites as you like. The app will not warn you if you record a shortcut that is already in use by the system and will override system shortcuts. Read More

Monitor & Tweak Key System Resources And Receive Alerts When Needed

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Although the Resource Monitor in Windows tries its best to provide real-time system information both in listed as well as graphical forms with emphasis on CPU, Disk, Network and Memory performance variables, it lacks user-friendliness, especially for the novice users. Moreover, there is little room for user customizations, tweaking and system tray monitoring alerts. AbpMon is an all-in-one system monitoring solution that allows you to keep track of performance variables. By setting thresholds, you can easily set alerts and specify the actions to perform if any issues occur. Using the application, you can acquire detailed information relevant to CPU and Memory usage, TCP/IP Input/Output, Virtual Memory, File data rates, Swap File, Active Windows, and more. The alert meter keeps a check on the overall performance by keeping in view, the user-defined alert level triggering alerts from the system tray whenever required. This is usually caused by Low Virtual Memory, Low GDI/User resource, large number of active windows etc. Read More

PhotoComic For iPhone Lets Anyone Create Comic Strips With Ease

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The release of movies like Avengers, Spiderman and Batman is a real testament to the popularity of comic books. Technology has changed and taken over a lot of things, but comics remain as popular as ever. People might have started reading them online, or on their smartphones, but comic strips still have a huge fan-following all over the world. It is natural to get ideas of your own if you are into comics, but most people never get down to creating these caricatures due to the lack of drawing prowess. PhotoComic is an iOS app that solves this problem, and using it, you will be able to create your very own comic strips. The app just needs you to provide it with a few photos, and all other tools are available within the app. The end result will leave you with a quite authentic-looking comic. The app is also perfect for captioning your photos and sharing them with your friends. Read More

Ocenaudio: Analyze And Edit Audio Files Across Different Platforms

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When dealing with audio files, quite often we face situations where modifications are needed for the track. If the music is too noisy, you would require an effect that would minimize the unwanted background sound. If you need to conceal audio or produce a remixed version, audio editing and analyzing tools are always ready to help you achieve this. Ocenaudio is a cross-platform, audio analysis and editing tool with an attractive and useful interface geared at empowering you in creating ripples in the required soundtracks. Supporting VST (Virtual Studio Technology) plugins, real-time previews of effects, multiple audio file management, powerful spectrogram feature and quick editing of large files are some of the many benefits, Ocenaudio has in store for you. Useful buttons appear as soon as you need them while focusing on parts of the audio segments had never been so easy. At any point, you can take audio snapshots for documentation purposes. Read More

Top 5 Android Apps To Tweet Longer Than 140 Characters

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As we all know, popular micro-blogging phenomenon, Twitter, allows users post tweets up to just 140 characters long. If you wish to post a message longer than that, you’ll need to resort to other web apps, such as TwitLonger, TweetExtend, RichTweet, TMI.ME, JumboTweet and EZTweets etc. Just like the Twitter web service itself, its official Android client doesn’t let users post a tweet longer than the conventional 140-character mark. Worse yet, Android users don’t have the luxury of resorting to a standalone app to post longer tweets, either. Although the previously reviewed Tweet Longer For Twitter app emerged as a worthy candidate in this regard, it didn’t last long in the market, leaving Android users yearning for an alternative solution. While we may not be able to present you with another standalone solution, we can bring to your attention several other third-party Twitter clients for Android that support integration with one of the aforementioned services, and hence, let you post tweets without taking the notorious character limit into consideration. Continue reading past the break to reveal the list. Read More

Install Official Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on Nexus S And Fully Root It

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Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean has finally started arriving on Google Nexus S in form of the JRO03E OTA update starting with select regions of the world but if you haven’t received the automated over-the-air update yet but can’t wait to get Jelly Bean on your Nexus S, we’re here to help! In what follows, we will guide you through installing the latest Jelly Bean up and running on your phone in no time. Read on for more details and the complete instructions. Read More

Experience Windows Phone 8 Start Screen On WP7 With W Phone 8 Simulator

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Mango users might not have recovered just yet from the blow Microsoft dealt them by announcing that Windows Phone 7 devices won’t be getting the Apollo update, but apparently the Windows Phone developer community still has enough passion left to come up with an app like W Phone 8. If you followed our coverage of the Windows Phone 8 event held last month, you might already know that one of the best changes expected to be released in the Apollo update is the revamped Start screen. Users will be able to resize live tiles to three levels (small, medium and large) and most of the tiles will be made double-sided. So, what has the W Phone 8 app got to do with all that? In fact, it has got everything to do with the WP8 Start screen! The app is a simulator of sorts that comes with a secondary Start screen having semi-functional tiles. Not only that, you can adjust the size and positions of all the pinned tiles just the way it will work in WP8, and there’s even a nice collection of accent colors to go with it. Read More

Add A Refresh/Stop Button To The Address Bar In Chrome For iPhone

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Everyone appears to be absolutely in love with the Chrome app for iOS. The first impression of the new iPhone web browser might be that it is perfect, and has got all the features anyone can possibly want. However, that is not the case. Although Chrome is better than Safari in quite a few areas, there are still things that could have been better in Google’s official browser app for iPhone and iPad. If you don’t believe that, and happen to think that nothing can be improved in Chrome, take a look at our post discussing some of the best Chrome-related Cydia tweaks available in the jailbreak store. The Cydia developer community isn’t satisfied with the Chrome app just yet, and the latest tweak released for the enhancement of the browser is named EasyRefresh for Chrome. If you have ever used the Chrome app on your iPhone, you are sure to have noticed that if you want to refresh any page, you have to go to the app’s options menu and tap the button from there. EasyRefresh solves this problem by adding a new refresh button to the address bar, just the way it works in Safari! Read More

Trapit Is An Intelligent Browser & Flipboard Alternative For Your iPad

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Flipboard rules the news reader category in iOS, while no web browser is as cool as the newly released Chrome app. Both these apps look particularly good on the iPad’s larger screen, and you would think that no new app can give them a run for their money. Well, Trapit is a new iPad app that combines the goodness of both these apps, and the end results are pretty awesome. Although the app does have a stunningly beautiful interface, it is not just all glitz and glamor. Trapit can prove to be a really time-saving and useful app that has the ability to learn your preferences with time, and will provide you with all the best and relevant results each day. Not only does the app let you create a personalized news feed, you can also use it to search for any particular keyword, and it will come up with elaborate articles from a vast variety of sources. Read More

Get Mac OS X Exposé Feature In Windows

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When we compare the features of Windows and Mac OS X toe to toe, OS X clearly wins out in most. It looks gorgeous, is more robust as well as more secure against viruses and other threats. This doesn’t imply calling Windows an inferior operating system at all, but the latter is still far from reaching where OS X already is. One of the most enticing features I find on OS X is Mission Control (formerly called as Exposé). Mission Control gives you a quick bird’s-eye view of all your opened windows to easily make a switch. As not everyone of us have the luxury to use huge screen real estate, it would have been nicer to have such a sleek option in Windows as well. Well, obviously you can use Alt + Tab or Win + Tab to quickly jump between your available windows, the method still feel a little primitive as compared to its OS X counterpart. Back in 2010, Aatif reviewed SmallWindows, which brings Exposé like feature to Windows. I found another such tool that holds much potential. This open source software is labelled Mission Control / Expose Clone W7 and it would definitely won’t hog your system’s performance while performing the said function. The application arranges live thumbnails of all your Windows, and piles up the similar applications in groups; for instance, all your web browsers are arranged in one pile etc. Read More

ReFind: A Bookmarking App For Your Frequently-Accessed Folders [Mac]

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App launchers aren’t uncommon for Mac, and many of these will allow you to mark folders as favorites for faster access. For the most part, these apps carry a price tag, and their free versions are often limited. Many simpler solutions exist; you can create and add a folder to the Dock and add aliases (shortcuts) for your favorite folders to it. The end result is a quick launch folder for all your favorite directories. The process is rather long, takes up space in the Dock, and is mostly manual. ReFind is a free Mac app that lives in the Menu Bar and allows you to bookmark folders that you frequently visit. Provided you access folders through the app's folder browser (which works entirely in the Menu Bar), the app learns which folders you access the most on its own. If you feel ReFind is cluttering the Most Popular category with too many folders, you can Bookmark a folder and access it from the app’s bookmarks. Read More

Auto-Lock Your Workstation After Regular Intervals To Enforce Breaks

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Working continuously for long hours makes you feel tired and can take a toll on your health. It is advised to take a break after some time to get up and stretch your legs. Moreover, working continuously does not increase your productivity; in fact, it is reduced due to your brain getting tired. If you work in intervals, it keeps your mind fresh and in the long run, enables you to perform a lot better. If your job involves sitting in front of the computer all day, taking small breaks after a while prevents eye and wrist muscle strain, too. The best way to prevent RSI is by taking regular breaks. Previously, we have covered a lot of applications that remind you to take breaks., such as Time4Breax, an portable utility that notifies you wen it is time to take a break and shutdowns the computer if you keep ignoring the notifications. Today, we have another application for Windows called Scirocco Take a Break, which reminds you to take breaks after specified intervals, notifies the user through visual, as well as audio alerts, and automatically locks the workstation when the timer reaches zero. More on Scirocco Take a Break after the jump. Read More

5 Noteworthy New Features In Firefox 14

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Firefox 14.0.1 is now available and it isn’t going to make as many headlines as its previous version did. There are changes both at the backend and the user interaction front line, the noteworthy 5 out of which will be detailed below. If you’ve already upgraded to the new version, you might have noticed something strange; you’ve upgraded to version 14.0.1 instead of 14.0. The reason behind this isn’t a patch for a bug detected at the very last minute. Rather, it is because Mozilla wanted to sync versions of its desktop and mobile browser. In summary, the new Firefox features will make your Google Searches more secure, improve your online gaming experience, help you choose which plugins to enable on a website, add full screen support for Mac, and the Awesome bar will autocomplete URLs. Read More

Get Voice Enabled Google Now On Any Android Device Running ICS

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A couple of weeks ago, we posted a method to get Google Now on devices running Android 4.0 or higher. Although said procedure was effective enough to give your rooted Android device a taste of the revamped and intelligent version of Google Search (now popularly known as Google Now), it lacked a very important feature: voice search. However, as is so often the case in the Android realm, a workaround is never too far away. XDA member SilentStormer has managed to come up with a solution that lets you use Google Now through voice recognition, too. As with the previous method, this latest solution is also meant to be working with just AOSP-based ICS ROMs, and hence requires a rooted Android device. It must be mentioned here that the solution mentioned in this particular post requires a couple of additional steps in order to get things sorted out accordingly. That said, should you be able to follow the process correctly, rest assured that you won’t be missing Jelly Bean on your device a great deal – not at least in terms of availing the much-revered Google Now functionality. Read More

Advanced World Clock Allows You To Keep Track Of Time Globally

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The world has indeed become a global village where the internet and social media have played an important part in connecting us all. However, we often find ourselves in a fix regarding time zones around the world. For example, if you want to call a friend or relative at a distant location, figuring out time may take some effort. If your work or business is spread over multiple locations in a manner that your clock cannot store such a big number of cities. In those times, the Advanced World Clock ensures tracking time effectively across the globe.  With multiple clocks on your desktop, sunset/sunrise times, day-night zone mapping and dial code support, you are in a position to communicate in a much better and effective manner. Whenever you feel that the built-in locations do not address your area of interest, you can easily add locations by specifying name and location. Read More

Math & Physics Equation Creator That Saves Output As Text And Images

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Not everyone has to deal with mathematical equations, statistical symbols or complex units. For the select number of people who do work with them on a daily basis, one frequent annoyance is the lack of symbol support in common text editors. While you might find some support for common symbols if you’re trying to write an equation that will be viewed across different platforms and in different programs, you are likely to find no support for these characters. Daum Equation Editor is a free Mac app that offers considerable support for writing equations. It is an equation editor that doesn’t just provide you basic symbols, but rather the correct equation format that you would use if you were to write it out with pen and paper. Take, for example, a scenario where you want to express 0.5 as an equation, you can write 1 over 2 using the divide symbol, but Daum Equation Editor lets you express it in the actual fraction format. The app lets you save your equation as either text or an image so you can later add it to a text editor. Read More