Yearly Archives: 2012

InstaCC: Get Photography Challenges & View Instagram Images On A Calendar [iPhone]

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If you like photo effects and filters, there are iOS apps that offer more variety than Instagram. If you like photo sharing, you are sure to find networks that have more reach than Instagram. However, if you combine both these features into one app, you begin to understand the reason behind Instagram’s popularity. People love Instagram due to its intuitive interface and the way photo sharing works in the app’s own network. Although the official Instagram app is pretty good, that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for third-party clients of the service. Having iPhone apps like InstaCC provides Instagram fans with an alternative way of browsing through their photo feeds. Not only that, InstaCC also spices up things by providing users with different photo challenges to capture their imagination. At times, everyone is bound to run out of ideas about photos they should post over their network, and InstaCC will help you get over this mental block by suggesting topics for photos. Read More

TabExplorer: Add A Colorful Multi-Tab Interface To Windows Explorer

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There are many third party applications available that allow you to have a tabbed explorer to navigate through your files and folders. The advantage of having a multi-tabbed file explorer, instead of the regular one offered by Windows, is that the copy and paste functions, as well as browsing through multiple folders at a time, becomes easier. For instance, if you want a copy a file from one folder to another, the process requires you to open the source folder, then copy the file, navigate to the target folder, and then paste the file. On the other hand, if you have a multi tabbed file browser, you can just open both folders simultaneously and just copy the file from one folder to another. Why Microsoft has not yet added this option to the default Windows Explorer is something only they can answer, but instead of waiting for them to add it, you can use TabExplorer. It is an application for Windows that adds tabs to it and converts it into a tabbed explorer. It has the option to run on Windows Startup, too, so you will always have that extra utility. Keep reading to find out more about TabExplorer. Read More

Relevance: Intelligent Twitter & Facebook Feed Aggregator For iPhone

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If you really want to be the first to know all the latest news, having an RSS Reader is never enough. A feed reader can give you details regarding any story, but it is not necessarily the first place where the news items are posted. You might be a bit surprised, but social networks (specially Twitter) provide a more efficient means of gathering quick updates related to just about any subject. A news channel or website might tell you about the Olympics opening ceremony, but you will have to look at your social networks in order to get a real feel of the event. This is the concept upon which the new Relevance app is based upon. This nifty little iOS app combines feeds from your Twitter and Facebook accounts (with Tumblr and Google Reader support to be added soon). The app does not show posts from your social networks in a chronological order. It tries to come up with posts that will be of more interest to you, or are more relevant to your preferences. Not only that, users of Relevance can also teach the app about their likes and dislikes regarding different authors. If you like a post from any particular person, you are likely to be shown more posts from them in the future. Read More

Pencil Project: A Powerful & Easy-To-Use GUI Prototyping Tool

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Planning and sketching ideas before taking them to implementation is a useful quality that developers have learned to value. In website development, the concept of a wireframe, which is a diagram or sketch of a website ready to be handed over to a graphic designer, resonates with this need. On the other hand, prototyping deals with laying out a plan before execution for successful product development. Pencil Project is a useful GUI prototyping tool that equips creative individuals to lay out, sketch, analyze and finalize their ideas using a wide range of elements, including common shapes, basic web elements, Sketchy GUI, stencils and more. These can then be exported in PNG, SVG, HTML, PDF and ODT file formats for applications in various development domains with an artistic yet technically sound plan, ready for finishing. Read More

Powerful Two-In-One Tool For Taking Screenshots & Recording Screencasts

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Since the inception of AddictiveTips, we have covered plenty of screen capturing utilities for almost every platform. While there are tens or maybe hundreds of screen capture tools available to download, and new ones keep on coming every now and then, their use is timeless, especially for software reviewer like me. Albeit, you can download separate tools for capturing screenshots and screencasts, having both options in one package has its own good reasons. One such tool from the latter is Screen Capturer. This compact freeware application for Windows is a compendium of both screenshot and screencast capabilities. Screens can be captured in four different modes, including Full Screen, Current Window, Window and Region, and can be chosen to sent to clipboard or printer (in case of screenshot), or save as image/video file or as an email attachment. It doesn’t have a plethora of features or lets you tinker complicated settings, but the application is fairly easy to use. It also supports hotkeys to easily perform your desired operation. Read More

GooPatient: Effectively Manage & Backup Your Personal Health Records

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It is a frequent incidence where patients are often found searching for their medical records and prescription before going to the doctor. Amidst the blame-game that follows, quite often you may wish for a safe, organized, private and effective way of managing health records for the entire family. GooPatient allows you to create health profiles with your own medical card (ready for printing), health journal (organized using hash tags like in Twitter), conditions and treatment tracking, webcam shots for a closer insight to the symptoms, and contacts management for an efficient way for taking care of yourself for good. You can easily attach files and set health levels with each record for a complete picture of the relevant data at one place. Lost your reports? Log in to GooPatient online and get in control! Read More

Free Viewer: Open & Work On 100+ Document, Image And Archive Formats

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In versatile environments, you may feel the heat against the tide of file formats ranging from documents to images, media to archives each requiring a unique application to open and process information. Finding the right version of the appropriate software, buying, maintaining and updating them to attain full benefit costs you both time and money. Don’t worry, Free Viewer is here to help. It supports over 100 file formats coupled with document editing capabilities (supporting Microsoft Office, WordPerfect and Open Office formats), image viewer and editor (supporting RAW, PSD and other image formats), media player (Video, Audio and Flash file support), and a powerful file archiving tool (supporting Compressed and XPI files) . Forget everything else, all you need is to open the required file and modify it according to your requirements. Read More

Tomahawk: Powerful Cross-Platform Music Player With Online Streaming

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In the world of music, incredible things keep on happening. Some drive in through technology, while others may come from innovative ideas from the open source community. One groundbreaking effort is made by the folks behind Tomahawk. On one side, it’s a beautiful looking music player to enjoy your local music collection, just as you’d expect from Winamp or iTunes. On the other, and which actually makes it stand out from the crowd, it’s an online music streaming application that sanctions you and your friends to enjoy the same music, at the same time. It is a cross-platform, open source application, which supports various Content Resolvers – Tomahawk plugins, to be more accurate – that help you instantly search music from supported services, including Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, Last.fm, Jamendo, Grooveshark, Dilandau, 4Shared and so on. It’s celestial feature is that it allows you to subscribe all these services from a single place, right on your desktop. It even lets you connect to your Twitter followers and Google Talk friends for instant collaboration of music. Whenever you search for your desired song, Tomahawk uses a combination of subscribed Content Resolvers, in order to make your songs readily available, so you can stream it just like you’d stream music from a P2P client. Read More

Google Handwrite: Enter Search Queries By Scribbling On Your Smartphone

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After yesterday’s GTalk outage, Google appears to be on a roll today. In addition to the huge Google Earth update for iOS, Handwrite has also been unveiled a few hours ago. Handwrite is not an app, it is just a feature that has been added to Google’s web interface for smartphones. For now, Handwrite supports iOS and Android devices, and if you enable it on your phone, you will be able to write your queries in the search engine rather than typing them. This use of freehand scribbling certainly improves the time in which you can search for a particular keyword, and is more convenient than typing. If you are already making up your mind about Handwrite and all its potential downsides (not the least of which is the fact that people will have trouble entering longer queries), then wait a little more and read the rest of the article. Google has thought of just about everything. Read More

DestroyFlickr: Complete Desktop Manager For Your Flickr Account

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Flickr is a image hosting service that allows users to upload their photos, share them with others and follow photo streams put up by other people. Other than that, the service is also hugely popular among people who need a third party platform to upload images in order to use them in their own websites. The best thing about Flickr is that in order to view the images uploaded to it by other people, you don’t have to register with the service. You can view any picture uploaded by any user, as long as he has chosen to share it publicly. However, once registered, you get the privilege of uploading images to your own account. Others can follow you, check out what you are uploading and comment on the photos. Previously, we have covered some very useful desktop tools for managing online services, without accessing them from your browser. DestroyFlickr is an Adobe AIR-based desktop utility that allows you to control all aspects of your Flickr account. The application enables you to manage your Profile, follow activity of your Contacts, download images to your computer, View, delete and edit (change name, add description) your own images, and have an overall view of all the streams added to your account. Read More

Google Earth For iOS Updated With 3D Maps & Tour Guide For Popular Places

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Most Apple critics have accused iOS 6 to be a collection of features “borrowed” from Android and other apps or tweaks. While this might not be entirely true, there are a few things that have been around for quite a while longer than what Apple’s iOS 6 event would have you believe. One example that often comes up in these arguments related to feature-stealing is the 3D view added to the stock Maps app in the next iteration of iOS. 3D view has already been around in Google Maps for quite a while now, but the Google Earth app for iPhone and iPad did not have any such feature until yesterday. Now, however, the app has received an update that brings 3D view of a few select cities to iPhone 4S, iPad 2 and the new iPad (all A5 devices). Not only can you fly over entire cities in 3D mode thanks to this update of the app, a new feature named Tour Guide has also been added to the mix, which suggests places that are worth a visit, and even comes up with textual instructions related to the destination. Read More

DeadMouse: Ditch Your Mouse & Use Keyboard To Navigate Web Links

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If your computer's mouse deserts you, leaving you helpless, don’t despair. DeadMouse is a fun way to ditch your mouse and survive against the tide of information coming your way through the system. It is a unique Chrome extension that enables you to type any keyword you wish to explore. In actual, it detects the typed keyword and searches it on the active webpage in Google Chrome. As soon as a match occurs, the respective link text starts wiggling. Press Enter and you’re good to go. Using this simple yet modern approach, you can survive online (independent of your mouse or touchpad) controlling the flow of information via your keyboard. With powerful features like fuzzy-matching on link text, Shift+Enter hotkey to open a new tab, tab-cycle in case of multiple matching and accessing links just by typing etc., life without a mouse seems to be much more fun than ever before. Read More

What’s New In OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion? [Review]

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Mountain Lion, the latest installment in Apple's OS X, was released yesterday and brings the version to OS X 10.8. Available to download from the Mac App Store for the promised $19.99, it is a 4GB download and boasts some 200+ features as per Apple’s official page. We aren’t going to sit and count off each one on our fingers, but here’s a look at what’s new and noteworthy in the OS. Apple hasn’t just thought of what new features users need, it’s also executed them well keeping in mind the smooth UI it is well known for developing and maintaining.  The new OS integrates better with its mobile counterpart, iOS, and even borrows a couple of features from it. Apps have been added or renamed to create a better, more integrated feel between Mac and iOS devices but with Apple, it is safe to say that no functionality has been lost. Twitter has been integrated and the promised Facebook integration will arrive later this year in Autumn. Some features of the OS, though not many, are tied to iOS 6 and while they are still there, will not be fully functional until the latest version of iOS is released to the masses. Read More

Path For iOS Updated With Book/Movie Sharing & More Photo Editing Options

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Love it or hate it, Path is one of those iOS apps that has been in the news ever since it was released. Everyone adored it at first, until it was discovered that the app uploads the address books of all users to its servers, and that, too, without properly asking for permission. While that issue was quickly resolved, and the CEO of Path Inc. apologized to everyone, the fan-base of the app surely took a hit. Fortunately, the app is still more popular than most of the others of its genre, and looking at Path’s latest update, we can’t help but imagine the number of its admirers increasing dramatically. While Path was initially a social network just for sharing photos and music, apart from having check-in options, it has now been revamped to include books and movies in the share list as well. This means that users can write their own reviews for things they are reading or watching, and then share those entries with their Path network! The update has also made it possible to manage notifications more thoroughly, and brings major improvements to the app’s camera. Read More

Oogwave: Plan, Coordinate And Execute Collaborated Tasks & Projects

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Managing teams and projects with deadlines in mind, usually compel the system managers to download and pay sizeable amounts for utilities that facilitate in achieving coordination and collaboration for the better. You may have downloaded a project management tool, a chat client coupled with online storage for effective monitoring till the rightful task completion. Oogwave is a free web application that provides you with a wide range of services in a user-friendly, integrated manner. With work and project planner, internal communication, personal tools for tasks and notes, team chat and details, you are in a much better position to increase overall work productivity. Moreover, group discussions, commenting and alerting features add life to your workspace, while the group timeline lays out tasks with time for the entire team, enabling accomplishment of collective goals. Read More

Groove 2: Rediscover Your iPhone Music Library, Get Missing Album Art & New Mixes Of Favorite Songs

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Unless you pay particular attention to it, the Music app in iPhone and iPad can be a real mess. A lot of songs have their album art and artist info missing, while the alphabetical arrangement of tracks might lead the user to completely forget about some decent songs. Groove 2 is an app that addresses all such pesky music-related issues. The app is just another iOS music player on the surface, but once you start using it, Groove will take care of just about everything that has got anything to do with your iPhone or iPad’s music library. The album art and other song information will be fixed, you will be able to learn more about your own music collection, and on top of all that, the app can create smart mixes of songs and artists that you like! Read More

Kurupira: Block Websites & Programs, Disable Internet And Track Usage

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Are you worried that your kids are wasting their time on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube? They spend more time playing video games and less in School? With Kurupira Web Filter installed on your PC, you won’t need to be concerned any more. It is an application and website blocking tool that lets you easily blacklist certain URLs and your computer programs, so nobody can access them. In addition, you can control how much time your kids are allowed to spend on the internet via blocking it for a particular period of time in a day or on certain days. The application is quite handy to keep an eye on your children, so they don’t lurk around on various harmful websites, containing material about violence, pornography, profanity, online games and so on. This also prevents a number of viruses and worms from entering your PC, as such websites usually contain various malicious threats. In addition, you may also seize access to selected software on your PC, for say, applications containing your important projects, media players, games etc. Kurupira comprises straightforward usage and is quite easy to configure, too. Furthermore, it can track and show a complete history log, as well as graphical reports regarding application and domain usage. Read More

SecondKey: Correct Typos, Expand Acronyms & Auto-Capitalize Words Anywhere In Windows

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While typing, it's common to make mistakes. If you are typing with a lot of speed, you can miss a letter or hit a wrong key, which results in the wrong character being entered or omitted altogether. Programs such as Microsoft Word, Windows Live Writer etc, have built in auto correction feature that changes a word to its correct form, if entered with the wrong spellings. Smartphones also have this feature, mostly enabled by default, that they automatically correct the words entered with wrong spellings, saving you the trouble of erasing, and then writing the whole word again. If you search for a word on Google, and you don’t know its correct spellings, Google suggests to you the word with correct spellings. However, there are a lot of other applications, like the Windows Notepad, that do not come with the auto corrections. Today, we have an application for Windows that allows you to have autocorrect with almost all applications. SecondKey is a tool that automatically corrects typos, capitalizes words and expands text, all according to user preferences. It lets you enable and disable the features on offer using hotkeys and sports a built-in typing test to analyze your words per minute and mistakes. Read More

AUPEO! Radio: Intelligent Music Discovery & Streaming For Windows Phone

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Fans of music streaming services and online radios have got access to a few decent apps on Windows Phone 7, but the absence of giants like Pandora means that the Mango platform still has a long way to go. Having said that, another way of looking at the situation could be that the Marketplace has a vacuum that can be filled by any good app released for music streaming and song discovery. Many people are already saying that AUPEO! Radio can prove to be the app that makes all Windows Phone users forget all Pandora. For one thing, AUPEO is not limited to US only, and works around the world. In addition to that, you don’t need to sign up for any account if you want to stream music. The app supports an amazing number of genres and subcategories, and if you like any song in the radio, you can purchase it for offline playback via Amazon store. AUPEO! is intelligent enough to learn from your music history, and will play songs according to your taste after a while. Read More

[Giveaway] gKrypt Uses GPU To Perform Super Quick File Encryption Operations

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When dealing with sensitive data, you may feel satisfied by locking the relevant files and folders using strong password keys, but this measure fails to serve the purpose against the tide of file unlocking tools available across the web. Popular encryption tools like TrueCrypt and Bitlocker address this concern by encrypting files, folders and disk drives, but the advanced interface and the steep learning curve discourage the novice users from taking such risks. gKrypt provides a unique approach to encrypt and decrypt files, instantly. It does so by preferring GPU (NVIDIA, AMD supported) over CPU for encryption operation, yielding super fast speed coupled with AES encryption techniques to secure your data for the better. Read More