Yearly Archives: 2012

Clipboard.com’s Official iPhone App Lets You Bookmark & Share Clipboard Content

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Bookmarking services and apps are not something that incite a lot of excitement among users, because there are plenty of them already available out there for almost all platforms. iOS is no exception to that, of course. However, despite the sheer number of apps in the App Store, something worthwhile still manages to pop-up in every category, every now and then. The official Clipboard for clipboard.com is a shining example of such apps. The app is a bookmark manager, but it doesn’t do anything as run-of-the-mill as sorting browser bookmarks. Like its web counterpart, Clipboard allows you to copy anything from anywhere on your iPhone, access and share this content, along with anything copied from your computer, under one hood. Everything sent to the app can be viewed in text form or as HTML content; plus there's the old-fashioned way of saving it as a bookmark. The best thing about the app? It is not limited to Safari; any area of iOS that allows the copy/paste Action menu can be used to import content to Clipboard. Read More

How To Replace S Voice With Google Now On Samsung Galaxy S III

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Got yourself a Samsung Galaxy S III and not too happy with its own voice assistant S Voice? Would you rather prefer the excellent Google Now app to take over all your voice-based assistant needs on your SGSIII? You’re looking at the right place. In what follows, we will show you how to install Google Now on your rooted Galaxy S III running Ice Cream Sandwich and completely replace S Voice with it, for a fully integrated Jelly Bean-like voice search and assistant experience. While Android has had pretty good voice control built-in since late 2010 from Android 2.2 Froyo onward, it wasn’t till Apple released Siri with the release of iOS 5 and iPhone 4S, that voice control of smartphone became virally popular. Since then, we have seen various Siri clones appearing for Android. We even brought you our roundup of several of those. With the Galaxy S III, Samsung decided to ship its own voice assistant S Voice, which was very well received as a decent and viable Siri alternative. Read More

Get A Lag-Free PC Gaming Experience With Wise Game Booster

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When we mention electronic entertainment, the things that instantly come to mind are games, movies and music. Being an avid gamer myself, I know what it feels like when a game lags. There are many tools available out there that can help you optimize your PC for gaming. We recently came across a fairly new PC optimization utility called Wise Game Booster. It assists you in resolving performance issues in games by optimizing your system processes and services. It lists down all the processes, threads and services that can be suspended or turned off in order to reserve maximum system resources for your games. Upon launch, it analyzes both user and system-initiated processes and services, and marks all those services and processes that may interfere with games. You can choose to suspend the processes and services or force-stop them with a click. Read More

Get RSS Feed Alerts In Mountain Lion Notification Center With News Notifications

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OS X Mountain Lion's Notification Center is largely dependent on other apps supporting it, and since not many do, we’ve seen an influx of apps that redirect Growl notifications to Notification Center. The Notification Center presents a lot of opportunity for app development and for users it is an excellent feature that they would likely want to put more creative uses. Since there is nothing wrong with Growl and a new version of the app for Mountain Lion has recently been submitted to the Mac App Store, you can rest assured it isn’t going anywhere. That leaves you with Notification Center and a world of possibilities. Demonstrating just one of the many uses you can put Notification Center to is News Notifications, a Mac app worth $0.99 in the Mac App Store that lets you put RSS feeds in the Notification Center. Read More

Privacy Manager Is A Control Panel For Chrome Security Settings & Junk Data Cleaning

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Having too many extensions installed in Google Chrome can be very messy. Personally, I prefer to keep only those extensions that can perform two or more functions for me, instead of using multiple single-feature extensions, just to keep things tidy. Recently, I came across a feature-rich extension for Google Chrome called Privacy Manager, which allows users to manage privacy settings, manipulate security options, and perform browser temp data & history deletion operations from a single window. In addition, it also lets you quickly open any active page in incognito mode (private browsing mode). Read More

Free Video/Voice Calling, IM & File Sharing App AireTalk Comes To Android

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Android users have countless ways to interact with their friends over the internet using various VoIP calling, feature-packed instant messaging and remote file sharing apps. While the likes of Viber, WhatsApp, Skype and the official mobile clients of all renowned social networks are most users'  first choice, there are certain relatively less known yet equally formidable alternatives out there, like BeMe, Parlingo and PingMe. Sporting simple looks and most of the features provided by the aforementioned names, AireTalk by PingShow is a cross-platform communication app for Windows, Android and iOS-powered devices that contains almost everything that one could wish to have in a quality IM app. You can make free voice & video calls, chat via texts, use the app as a walkie talkie, share multimedia content and files with your buddies, and trace your contacts’ location on map in real-time, over both Wi-Fi and mobile data. Though, that's not where AireTalk's list of features ends. Continue reading past the break for further details. Read More

TrackSeries Is A Modern UI TV Guide For Windows 8

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Missed that epic finale of Game of Thrones? Want to know when the first season of Arrow will be aired? If you find it hard to keep track of your favorite shows, with TrackSeries, you won’t have to manually add your favorite shows and upcoming TV series to your track list. The Modern UI-based TrackSeries is probably the most fascinating TV guide available for Windows 8. It lets you keep a tab on all the seasons that you’re following. The app is designed to provide complete information for selected series, including episode details, air date, episode length and what not. Being a Windows Store (Modern UI) app, it will give you the best experience on both desktops and tablets. Read More

MX Player For Android Gets Background Playback & New Hardware Decoder

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MX Player, the out-and-out favorite video player of most Android users that plays almost all renowned file formats, has just received a massive update in the Google Play Store. Currently standing at version 1.7, the powerful video playing and streaming app by J2Interactive has been updated with a brand new logo, Vietnamese language translation, a new & more powerful hardware decoder called H/W+, added support for Tegra 3 devices, x86 CPU, FFmpeg build, enhanced audio/video sync (with software decoder), improved seeking speed, and plenty of bug fixing. However, the most significant feature addition in the entire update remains background playback, meaning that the app is now capable of persistently running videos in the background, too, allowing users to enjoy just the audio part of it. To avail the background playback feature of MX Player, all you need to do is hit Menu > Play > enable the Background play option while playing videos in full-screen. Please note that the aforementioned hardware acceleration might not be supported on all Android devices. Instead, if your device supports hardware acceleration, you’ll be prompted by the app upon first launch whether you want to set it your default hardware decoder or not. More details on the update past the break. Read More

Open YouTube Links In The New YouTube App For iPhone With YTOpener

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The release of iOS 6 has spelled out the end of Apple’s partnership with Google, at least in terms of the stock YouTube app for iOS. While there is no pre-installed YouTube app in iOS 6, Google has already launched its own official YouTube client in the App Store. The new app is way better than its older counterpart, and has received positive feedback from most of its users. The interface is sleeker, there are more features, and the video player is about as good as the desktop version of the video streaming service. While there can be no denying the fact that the app sports all these awesome features, there are areas where iOS users are sure to miss having the stock YouTube app. Since the new YouTube app is a third-party one, no external links will open in it automatically, whether you receive them via SMS, email or some other means. You will need the help of the new Cydia tweak YTOpener to force that functionality in your jailbroken iPhone. Thanks to this tweak, all YouTube links you click on will be opened in the new YouTube app, rather than Safari (if you are on iOS 6) or the stock YouTube app (if you are still on an older iOS version). Read More

Modern Reader Is An Exquisite Google Reader Client For Windows 8

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RSS feeds provide an undisrupted route to keep a tab on your frequently visited websites. Different folks rely on different feeds readers, with Google Reader standing as one of the most popular sources amongst all. There are a bunch of different Google Reader clients available for download, some inheriting a clean interface while others focusing on features and settings. As Windows 8 is already in the offing (check our Windows 8 RTM hands-on), many Modern UI-based Google Readers are also taking a plunge into the Windows Store. Not a while ago, Fawad reviewed Flux for Windows 8, a tile-design Google Reader client for Microsoft’s latest OS. If you’re on a hunt for something even better, Modern Reader is definitely worth giving a try. This elegant Google Reader app for Windows 8 is a treat to the eyes and lets you easily manage and read all your feeds without accessing desktop, or web browser, for that matter. The interface looks exquisite, but is further customizable via few different selectable themes, the developer has thrown in. Let's explore more past the jump. Read More

Maluuba: Android Search Assistant With Modern UI & Event Management

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The number of Android voice assistants and search apps, such as Vlingo, Google Now, Nuance’s Dragon Go!, Iris, et al, has grown to a point where one needs a very succinct analysis of what exclusive features a new entrant supports. Maluuba, the brainchild of the company with the same name, is the latest to join the list of the apps mentioned above. Sporting an eye-pleasing Windows 8-style UI, the app accepts voice and text input to help you with virtually anything on your Android (Update: Now available for Windows Phone as well). Using Maluuba, you can explore nearby food points, conduct general knowledge search queries, request for navigation to desired destinations, get business information, ask for detailed weather forecasts, manage & interact with your contacts via phone calls, mails, text messages & social media, post to various social networks, launch apps, get upcoming event details, play music, set reminders, alarms & calendar events, get movie showtimes, maintain routine schedules, and search across the wide world for web to get accurate answers for your queries. In some areas, the app can help you through its built-in features, whereas for all unsupported features, it presents you with the choice to head over to the concerned apps. Like most aforementioned solutions, Maluuba is quite effective in certain aspects, but can also leave users desiring for more in others. How? We shall explore past the break. Read More

Auto-Resize Images When Sharing Through Email & Other Online Services

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Screenshots are a very important part of blogging. Images are important to get the message across to your readers and give them a better understanding of what you are trying to say. They come in handy in several situations, such as during coverage of new applications, explaining a tip or tweak, and writing a guide. Images, in general, are shared these days using various online services. You can use email, a social networking website, an image hosting service, or simply an instant messenger to send the desired picture to others. However, uploading and sharing images comes with some limitations. For instance, while attaching pictures in an email, you have to keep the total size of attachments below 20 MB for most services. With the high quality images that devices these days are capable of capturing, 20 MB might not be enough every time. In order to attach more pictures in an email, you have to shrink them to a smaller size, but if there are a lot of pictures, it can be a tedious activity to resize them all. Today, we have an application called RoboSizer that automatically changes the size and resolution of images as you upload them. Read on to find out more about RoboSizer. Read More

Stop Incoming Emails In Gmail & Set An Auto Response With InBox Pause [Chrome, Firefox]

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Email is one of the fastest means of communication there is, and that’s probably why you get so many of them. For all purposes, firing off an email takes considerably less time than it would to perhaps talk to someone. Often, your inbox might get cluttered with single line messages asking for follow-ups, confirmations or just what you might be having for lunch. While email is an effective way to communicate, there is no mistaking the fact that it can get overwhelming. At some point, office email can go from being irrelevant and unimportant to distracting and counterproductive. InBox Pause is a browser extension/add-on, available for Chrome and Firefox, that aims to fix all that. It plays on the same concept as an ‘out of office’ message that you can set when you go on an extended vacation. The extension allows you to stop all incoming messages from reaching your Gmail inbox. Each time you receive a message, the sender is sent an automated reply, informing them that the message is not going to be read immediately. You can pause/unpause your email any time via the extension’s button that is integrated in Gmail interface. Read More

Goal Go Flag For iPhone Trains You To Adopt Any New Habit

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There are many iOS users out there who can’t stand the sight of a badge on any of the app icons on their iPhone’s Springboard. They just have to oblige to the app’s wish, and get rid of the unwanted badge. This is one of the things upon which the Goal Go Flag app is based. The app can be treated as just another reminder/to-do app, but, in fact, it has the potential to do much more for its users. The main objective of Goal Go Flag is to make users adopt the habits of their choice. The app will send you reminders during the day to ensure that you perform the desired task at least once daily during the period you choose to follow the app’s habit cycle. It comes with Facebook integration (optional), bringing a social touch to the whole thing, so that you can boast of your achievements to motivate yourself. Read More

This Windows 8 Modern App Lets You Create 2D Barcodes Using Presets

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Barcodes are machine readable graphics that can contain any type of text-based information. It can be any form of data, including price of an item (barcodes are mostly used for identifying consumer products), URL of a website, download link of apps for smartphones, someone’s phone number, etc. In the beginning, barcodes only consisted of parallel vertical lines, but now we have them available in different forms, such as QR codes, mostly used as direct links to Android apps. To extract information out of a barcode, you need special equipment; scanners that you might have noticed while shopping for groceries. Smartphones of today also has the ability to scan barcodes for extracting information, such as URLs, links to apps, VCards, YouTube video links etc. Both 2D and 3D barcodes can be easily created using software designed specifically for the purpose. At AddictiveTips, we have covered a lot of QR code generators for Windows, like BarCode Generator, an application that is able to generate and export barcodes as images. Today, we have an app for Windows 8 called Barcode Generator that allows you to easily create 2D barcodes containing different types of data, such as an Email, Phone number, Twitter ID, YouTube video link, VCard, URL etc. Read More

Jailbreak iOS 6 GM On iPhone 4 & Other A4 Devices Using redsn0w 0.9.13dev4

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Although we know almost everything about iOS 6 by now, thanks to Wednesday’s release event, and the availability of the update’s beta versions for developers, the majority of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users will have to wait till the 19th of this month to get their hands on the next iteration of iOS. If you do have a developer account, however, then you most likely have the iOS 6 GM already flashed to your iDevice. Apple released the GM soon after the iPhone 5 event ended, and the build does have a few features that were missing in the earlier betas. As is the case with every update of iOS, the quest for its jailbreak began as soon as the first beta of iOS 6 came out. Until now, only a tethered jailbreak for iOS 6 GM is available, and that, too, just for A4 devices. So, if you happen to be using the GM build of iOS 6 on an iPhone 4, the original iPad or iPod touch 4G, you can now use the latest version of redsn0w (0.9.13dev4) to jailbreak your device. Read More

Manage Your Android Device, Flash & Mod ROMs From Your PC Using UniFlash

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Do you flash custom ROMs and mods on your Android device frequently? Do you also modify your current ROM to customize it to your taste? Are you always doing this on the command prompt, transferring files using ADB and flashing using fastboot or recovery? Now there’s a way for you to do all of that and more right from your PC without having to meddle with command line tools directly, thanks to free tool UniFlash. In what follows, we will guide you on using UniFlash to flash, mod, hack and manage your Android device. Read More

noozy: Zune Style Android Media Player With Podcast & Sound Processors

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Elegant and power-packed Android music players are plentiful in the Google Play Store, and quite a few of them try to replicate the looks and functionality of Microsoft’s Zune player, such as the previously-reviewed InstaMusic and Fede’s Music Player. The latest to join the club of Metro-style Android music players is noozy – a sleek freemium that not just possesses powerful audio playback capabilities (courtesy of enhanced sound technology imported from the Noozxoide Laboratories), but also supports playing videos. In addition, the app lets users subscribe to, stream & download podcasts, listen to live audio broadcasts from noozy.live & last.fm services, and keep a close tab on the world's leading tracks, artists & albums. noozy also happens to be a great online music discovery tool that suggests tracks based on whatever you’re currently listening to. Users can get listen to samples of recommended tracks, browse complete albums of suggested artists, and purchase their favorite albums from various global music stores. Die-hard music lovers can also keep an eye on their favorite artists’ biographies, top tracks, album reviews & playlists, and get recommendations for similar artists. We’re not done with the app’s features yet; continue reading past the break to find out what else noozy has on offer. Read More

Bananatag Tracks Sent Emails & Provides Detailed Statistics For Them [Web]

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Particularly useful for users looking to get feedback for email-based advertising or awareness campaigns, Bananatag is a web application that not only lets you track your emails, but also shows detailed analytics including click, open and detailed location stats. With Banatag, you no longer need to keep wondering whether the recipient has read your email or not. The service notifies you via email whenever a recipient opens a tracked email or clicks a link within it. You can sign up for free, but the free account is only for a single user and is restricted to tracking only five emails per day, using all available metrics. Read More

Wise Program Uninstaller: Powerful Third-Party Application Remover

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Microsoft works hard on improving their operating system, which can be noticed by comparing Windows Vista and Windows 7, but they always overlook the add remove program tool. Uninstalling a huge application software suite from Windows, using Window's native tool, can be very irritating at times, as it might not be on the uninstallable programs list of the add remove program tool, and even if its there, upon uninstallation, it might leave behind its residues of registry and system files. To deal with this problem, most users opt in for third-party tools like Geek Uninstaller, Revo Uninstaller etc. Today, we came across a similar utility called Wise Program Uninstaller, which lets you easily remove software and their left over data and registry entries. Read More