Yearly Archives: 2012

Flash Recovery & Kernel Images On Android While Booted

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A few select HTC and Samsung Android phones have just received an app that lets you flash kernel and recovery images straight from within the Android OS (while booted). The app, called Flash Image GUI, comes to us from XDA-Developers forum member joeykrim, and is basically a GUI interface for the Linux binary. The app can flash kernels, logos, and recoveries on the Samsung Moment, Intercept and Acclaim. Devices like the Samsung Epic however can only flash the kernels (zImage). The HTC Amaze 4G, EVO 3D CDMA & GSM, EVO, EVO Shift, Nexus S / Nexus S 4G and the LG Optimus get to flash kernels (anykernel & boot.img) and recoveries (zip or image files). Read More

How To Install ClockworkMod Recovery 5 On LG Nitro HD

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The Nitro HD gets CWM 5! Soon after the device was rooted, users had their hopes pinned on a custom recovery so that custom ROMs and kernels and more could follow. That day is here, thanks to XDA-Developers forum member bytecode64 who has released the CWM v5.0.2.7 for the Nitro HD. Installation is easy, and quick, so if you have a rooted Nitro HD – yes you need root access – let’s take a quick look at what this recovery has to offer. Read More

Enable USB Host Function On Samsung Galaxy S I9000 & Samsung Captivate

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The Galaxy S series, is surely a league of Android devices with seemingly unlimited development coming in from fans. USB host functionality has been a hot topic for a about a year now with more and more Android devices seeming to support the function, especially the newer Android devices. That said, Ice Cream Sandwich is all the rage right now, and would it not be awesome if the Galaxy S got USB Host functionality while running the ICS OS? Indeed it will be, or should we say it is, thanks to XDA-Developers forum member sztupy who took the kernel form Teamhacksung's ICS Build 14 and modified it to enable the USB Host function on the Galaxy S and the Captivate as well. Read More

Deploy Event-Based Network Monitoring Solution With IT Service View

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Amongst the list of network administration tasks, monitoring each connected device, including hubs, routers, switches, clients, member and main servers is probably the most complicated task, as it requires system administrators to manually check each devices in a deployed network architecture. There are certainly a wide range of network-related tools available for server editions of Windows that allow monitoring a set of network devices like hubs, switches and routers, but If you don’t want to install multiple network monitoring applications to keep an eye on all connected devices, have a look at IT Service View. It’s a simple, yet robust, Network Devices monitoring utility that supports client and server editions of Windows, allowing system administrators to monitor both small scale and large-scale network architecture without having to deploy a complex monitoring solution. Details to follow after the jump. Read More

Join The Dark Side Of The Force With Darth Maul Me For Android

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If you’re a Star Wars fan, then you must be brimming with anticipation for the upcoming 3D variant of The Phantom Menace. For those of you who don’t yet know, Lucasfilm recently announced that a 3D version of Star Wars: Episode I will be hitting theaters around the globe on February 10, 2012. To promote the launch of the film, the production company has released an app for Android smartphones that is sure to keep you entertained till the film is finally released. It’s called Darth Maul Me, and is its name suggests, it turns photos of you or your friends into the saberstaff-wielding, crimson faced villain from Episode I. For details, screenshots and more from the dark side of the force, proceed past the break, you must. Read More

Nandroid Browser: Open, Copy & Share Individual Files From Within NANDroid Backups

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When discussing the Android operating system, the term Nandroid backup is likely to gain a lot of attention by the users, since it refers to a procedure that you may undertake to create a complete backup of your existing ROM before flashing a new one. What this ensures is that, should you manage to somehow mess up things during the flashing process, you can always revert to your last used settings, thereby having your previous ROM in its purest state, complete with your personlaized settings.  Nandroid Browser is a free, fast and simple file explorer for NANDroid backups. Need to pluck a specific app/file from within an entire NANDroid backup package? NANDroid Browser makes it seem ridiculously easy. Using the app, not only can you browse through the contents of the backup package, but also open, view, extract and share any file within. As of now, the app supports accessing content within the IMG and TAR (ext3 and ext4) files found within standard NANDroid backups (including those created using the famous ClockworkMod custom recovery), and works on both rooted and non-rooted Android devices. Read More

Convert Music Samples, Transpose & Shift Notes With Midi Sheet Music

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A lot of people like listening to music, but some of them also like to play an instrument, Leaning to play music not an easy task and it requires a lot of time and effort to even get your head around the basics of a musical instrument. Like any other skill, learning the theory of music, including how to read the language is very important.  Today we have a tool that converts songs into sheet music. Midi Sheet Music is an open source application that allows you to play MIDI files and convert them to sheet music. The application plays the music files in MIDI format, and automatically highlights the current music note being played. It allows you to set different custom colors for each note, and plays the track on a user-specified speed. You can choose which instrument to show & which to hide from the sheet, and view the staves according to a different Key Signature, Time Signature and Transpose, Shift Notes, Measure length etc of tracks. It lets you enable and disable note letters along with the staves, and show/hide Measure Numbers of notes. You can save the staves as images, and print them from within the application. More on Midi Sheet Music after the break. Read More

Winc: Create Notecards & Sync Them Over Wi-Fi With iOS Device [Mac]

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Scribbling down little notes in the form of cards has been a long standing practice that helps you remember the gist of anything you’re trying to learn, particularly if you’re cramming one night before an exam of any sort. Of course, with information being available online, it takes time to either print it out or write it down on a card. You can save the information on your system, but not being able to take it with you everywhere kills the purpose. Winc is a Mac app that lets you create notecards, supporting text and images, and can be synced with iOS device over Wi-Fi or via the app’s online service. Read More

View And Comprehensively Edit PDF Files With BabyPDF

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Although there are a number of handy PDF viewers, such as Adobe PDF, they do not allow extensive PDF editing. For this reason, one has to use a separate application for performing PDF related editing. Most PDF editors, such as CutePDF, simply allow converting all kinds of file types into PDF format, rather than allowing to edit existing PDF files in a comprehensive manner. Hence, such applications are more of PDF writers rather than PDF editors. People who use PDF writers, may require converting the PDF document to another format (e.g., TXT Format), and then using a PDF writer to convert the document back to PDF format after editing. BabyPDF is a an application that acts as both a viewer and editor for PDF documents. It comes with basic controls that enable you to adjust the appearance of the documents which you are working with (in the viewing mode), whereas the editing mode allows modifying the PDF file's content. Read More

Addon Manager Fix: Quickly Access Your Installed Add-Ons [Firefox]

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There are thousands of add-ons available for Firefox, and if you regularly need to manage your installed add-ons or plugins, then Addon Manager Fix can be of great help. It works by modifying the appearance of Firefox’s Add-on page, and reduces the height of all the items, which makes it easier to view more items at a glance, without having to scroll down the page. The default page displays the menu to the left and the installed items on the right. The add-on listing uses quite a bit of space, making it difficult to find add-ons. This simple tool solves the problem and lets you manage add-ons in a more effective manner. Read More

Super Start: Speed Dial & To-Do List For Firefox New Tab/Homepage

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If you really like the speed dial feature of Chrome but favor Firefox as your primary browser, then you’ll love Super Smart. This Firefox add-on adds a speed dial feature to Firefox, and provides users with visual bookmarks, giving them the ability to quickly open frequently visited websites with ease. It also comes with a simple to-do list that acts like a reminder, so you never forget your important tasks. With Super Start, you can quickly add your favorite webpages to your start screen, and open them with only a click. Also, the page is fully customizable; you can add up to 170 websites to the speed dial, add notes, change the background color or simply set your favorite image as the background. Read More

Webmaster For WP7: Keep Track Of A Website’s Analytics On The Go

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If you are a blogger, or are running a monetized web service, then you must know the importance of keeping an eye on your website’s page rank and other analytical statistics. However, it is not always possible to sit in front of a computer to view all such information. So, if you are on Windows Phone 7, now you can use the newly released free app, Webmaster, and see any site’s page rank and all other relevant stats. Not only that, the app also keeps the sites you visit saved in its homepage list, and you can keep track of their page rank at a single glance. Webmaster is the sort of app that can prove to be useful for both serious website admins and ordinary visitors. Read More

View Color Values In Multiple Formats With ColorToy

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One of the things enthrall graphics designers the most, is the perfect combination and blend of colors. For this very reason, HEX and RGB values of colors help them out. Inputting a determined HEX color value is easier a job instead of manual adjusting the colors. In addition, HEX values make it lucid to import and export color palettes between various tools. We have covered tools to help you extract HEX and RGB values of colors from images, for instance, both Pictures to Color and Color Finder provide HEX value extraction and a lot more. However, if you want a simplified solution and only require to find the values of a random color, give ColorToy a try. It is a portable application that allows you to select and preview a color by defining its RGB values in Floating Point, RGB or HTML syntax, or through separate sliders for each. Once the required color is selected, ColorToy enables you to view formatted results of the value of colors in Floating Point, Decimal, RGB, HEX, Delphi, C++ Builder etc, form. You can copy any value to clipboard by simply clicking it from the list. More details to follow after the break. Read More

SKITUDE For Android Provides Navigation & Real-Time Info For Avid Skiers

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With the arrival of winter season, avid mountaineers, skiers and snowfall lovers head to the snowy mountains and ski resorts to have some fun and adventure. Fresh to the Android Market, SKITUDE is arguably one of the most informative and feature-packed skiing apps out there. The app keeps you apprised of all the potential points of interest and hazards that you might come across during your ventures. The highlights of the app include a detailed list of worldwide ski resorts, forecast weather and snow reports, real-time social feeds, emergency dialing numbers, location tracking, and information about availability of services/facilities near resorts of interest. That's not all; you can also keep a track of your skiing/snowboarding activities via in-depth statistics and recorded data. The app caches content so that you can access it while offline. Read More

Audiobook Cutter Free Edition Provides Arbitrary Splitting Of Mp3 Files

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When compiling MP3 audiobooks and podcast files into smaller segments, one requires separating them. This can normally be done either by re-encoding the files, or by using complex audio editing applications. Alternatively, one can use an audio file splitter to simplify this task. Audiobook Cutter Free Edition is an audio file splitter to chop down large MP3 audiobook files into smaller segments, without having to edit or re-encode them. The aim of this application is to split MP3 files for easily creating audiobooks that are more manageable, and divided in appropriate segments. For example, you can use this application to manage your long audiobook recordings that can be cut with just a click. Read More

Transfer Office Files To WP7 With A Single Click Using This Homebrew

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The Office hub in Windows Phone 7 is pretty awesome, and is the perfect place for anyone wishing to create documents on the go. The integration with SkyDrive makes it even better. However, there is always room for improvement in everything. Most people still have majority of their documents on their desktop systems, and there is no streamlined way of getting Word files to your WP7 device, other than emailing it to yourself, or using SkyDrive. Both these methods are not good if you don’t have an active data connection on your mobile device. BookUploader is a tool for devices having interop unlock, and using it, you can transfer Word and PDF files to your WP7 with a single click. The method used by BookUploader is pretty similar to flashing XAP files to your Windows Phone, with the only difference being the fact that you get to flash Office files to your device rather than apps. Read More

How To Get Absinthe Untethered Jailbreak On iPhone 4S & iPad 2

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The wait is finally over, as the jailbreak “Dream Team” has revealed their Absinthe untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2, Apple’s yet-to-get-a-jailbreak A5 devices. The package has been released, as of now, for Mac OS X only, with a Windows release to follow suit shortly. Chronic Dev Team has released the Absinthe jailbreak tool. Other tools may follow in the hours to come. For now, read past the jump for out step by step guide on achieving an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0 or 5.0.1 on your iPhone 4S and iPad 2. Edit: Absinthe for Windows and Linux is now available. Download link and updated instructions after the break. Read More

CyanogenMod 7 ROM For Motorola Droid X2 [Download & Install]

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The Droid X2 gets CM7! Ok so the world is moving on to bigger things, ICS and ICS based CM9 and CM7 is more of an old news today. The Original Droid however just received a port of CM9 but this port of CM7 to the Droid X2 is actually huge, as it has now opened up the possibilities of further AOSP ports and ROM development for the device where ICS based ROMs are now very much a possibility. This CM7 ROM is based on Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread and is the Droid’s first taste of a completely Blur free ROM. Credit to dragonkillerz for bringing this out to the public and giving hope to the Droid X2 owners. Read More

Rooted Stock Android 4.0.3 ICS ROM For Motorola Xoom [US Wi-Fi Only]

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Shortly after the official Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Motorola Xoom started rolling out, a lot of eager users are still left in the dark. However, with a lot of users, not having root access is another major factor to not updating the device to ICS just yet. Thanks to XDA-Developers forum member stachre, users can now manually install a rooted but stock version of the Android 4.0.3 IML77 ICS firmware on their Xoom. This ROM is specifically meant for the US Wi-FI model only, and not the 3G/4G models or non US Wi-Fi models. Read More

Fix Regional Wi-Fi Problems On Android 4.0 ICS With WiFix [How To]

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Apparently the Ice Cream Sandwich craze in the Android world has come with its own shares of small and minor issues. However, Wi-Fi connectivity, is not something minor and the lack of it can put a lot of eager ICS users in a spin. There are reports of people in certain countries having problems with Wi-Fi when they have their SIM cards inserted in their devices – not like that’s an option – and it doesn’t matter what make or model the device is. Luckily XDA-Developers forum member fardjad has recently released a solution that fixes this issue for a lot of people facing this issue. Read More