Yearly Archives: 2012

Seesmic Ping: Schedule Posts For Multiple Social Network Accounts [Android, iOS, WP7]

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From the team behind  renowned desktop, web and mobile social network (Facebook and Twitter) aggregator, Seesmic, comes Seesmic Ping – an Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7 app that lets you schedule updates for multiple social networks to a date and time of your choice. The app lets you attach images and URLs with each post, save posts to drafts, or schedule them to be published from as many different social media accounts as required. As of now, the app lets you post to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Salesforce. Read More

Paste Text Like: Change Format, Text Case & Remove Blank Spaces From Clipboard

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It seems as if Windows native clipboard utility will never get support for keeping multiple items at once and users who find the need to continuously copy paste text snippets always have to look for third-party solutions. Earlier, we have covered numerous clipboard tools, for multiple operating systems, including Clipboard Magic for Windows, and TetBom for Mac OS X, both of which happened to be quite useful. Most clipboard managers are capable of recording multiple clipboard entries, whether text snippets or files paths, letting you keep spamming that Ctrl+C before pasting the required text anywhere. Last year, we also covered a software called Dolphin Text Menu, an on-screen text cleaner that performs a range of text-specific operations over any text editor, including  append and prepend text to lines, delete blank lines, change text case etc. We found it quite handy and unique, and tried to look for other similar alternatives. Today, seemed to be our lucky day and we have an open source tool for you called Paste Text Like, which lets you perform all the aforementioned functions over the clipboard content. More details regarding Paste Text Like after the break. Read More

Klick Todo: Easily Create, Prioritize, Schedule & Track Tasks [Android]

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Who would want a task management app that requires you to sift through multiple screens, menus and options in order to define a simple to-do task? The simpler the interface of a task management app, the better it is. Previously reviewed Any.DO is a very good example of what an ideal task manager should look like. Fresh to the Android Market, Klick Todo is yet another fine addition to the list of clutter-free and easy to use task management apps for Android. In all, the app provides you with a solitary homescreen on which you can list all your tasks, set priority levels, relevant reminders, and scheduled date/time for each with just a few taps. Read More

Babylon Translator: Translate Text Between Over 75 Languages [WP7]

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If you are a Windows Phone 7 user, then Google Translate might no longer be your only option for converting text from one language to another, because Babylon Translator is here. The app performs translation between more than 75 languages, provides definitions for individual terms in a language of your choice, and sports an additional currency conversion feature. This official Babylon app for Mango phones just might be the most comprehensive translation tool released in the Marketplace yet, and is even better than the Bing translation app in most regards. Read More

RedNotebook: Journal With Calendar Navigation, Custom Templates & Word Cloud

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Just a few days ago, we covered a cross-platform task manager named Conqu, which allows you to manage the tasks by providing a comprehensive set of features, including Quick Add, Tags, Dates etc. Today, we stumbled across an open source application called RedNotebook. It is not exactly a task manager, but more of a journal where you can record just about anything you want. You can write pending tasks, note down important events or use it as an everyday e-diary. It includes calendar, customizable templates, save and export options and a word cloud. You can manage the entries via tag feature, which helps you quickly search the journal entry you want to view or edit. More on RedNotebook after the break. Read More

How To Backup & Restore WP7 SMS And Export Them To PC [Homebrew]

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Windows Phone 7 Mango has a lot of features (not to mention the endearing metro interface) that have made many people fall in love with the platform. Take the Messaging hub for instance; it's efficient, simple to use, and even integrates with Facebook chat. Though, till now, there hasn't been an easy way to back up and restore texts before and after, say, factory resetting your device or trying something risky. SMSBackup is a new Homebrew that provides you with a simple way to do just that, provided you have interop unlock on your WP7 device. In addition to that, it presents backed up messages in a human readable format, unlike some of the other available solutions that give you nothing more than an XML file. Read More

Hide All Mac Applications & Finder Windows With A Single Click

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Last year, we reviewed HideAllApps, a Mac app that lets you selectively minimize open applications and Finder windows. The app is meant to hide windows that you aren’t working on and apps that might be distracting. Hide All is a similar Mac app that lets you minimize all app and Finder windows with the click. It is meant to quickly clean your desktop of all open windows, so you don’t have minimize them one by one. The app has a simple interface'; four buttons that allow you to minimize all windows, to restore the windows you’ve minimized, and to hide the app itself or quit it. Read More

IBM Docs Is Google Docs Like Online Office Suite With Advance Share Options

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IBM Docs is a Google Docs like, cloud-based Office productivity suite to create and manage documents, spreadsheets and presentations. It not only lets you easily create professional-looking documents, but also share them with others. Moreover, it allows you to add users for collaborating on documents in real time; you can also restrict collaborators from editing specified section(s) of the document. IBM Docs comes with advanced document share options, letting you share your files with only community users, keep documents available for both registered and unregistered users, and privately share files with specified individuals. Read More

simpLoupe: Zoom Webpage Content To Read Smaller Text [Chrome]

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Using the default zoom function to enlarge the content of a webpage isn’t always effective. It enlarges ads and images as well and you may only want to see larger text. It can also result in elements in a webpage overlapping each other. A simple magnifying glass might be more helpful since it would allow you to magnify what you want without upsetting the elements on the page. simpLoupe is a Chrome extension that acts as a magnifying glass you can control with your mouse. It lets you zoom the content of any webpage to easily read smaller text. Since it mimics a magnifying glass in functionality, it will enlarge anything (text or image) that it is moved over. Using the Ctrl+Alt+L hotkey, you can bring up the magnifier. Read More

TopHat Folders Menu Lite: Access Your Favorite & Most Used Folders From Menu Bar [Mac]

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A while back, we reviewed TopHat App Menu, a Mac app that lets you view and access your favorite and frequently used apps from the menu bar. TopHat Folders Menu Lite is a Mac app from the same developer that enables you to access your favorite, frequently accessed, and recently opened folders from the menu bar. Favorite folders can be added by dragging them over the app window. You can open the folders from both the app’s window and menu bar. When accessed from the menu bar, the app shows the folder hierarchy, letting you browse the folder’s content and open any sub-folder or file with a click. Read More

Get Date, Calendar & Time From Multiple Cities In Mac Menu Bar [Paid]

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Very few of us work without a clock on our screens; some either check it regularly to ensure they are not late for something, while others check it to see how much longer until the work day is over. For whatever reason, many might find that the default clock displayed in the Mac menu bar, is somewhat bare bone, displaying only the current time. The Clock is a Mac app available for $2.99 in the Mac App store that will add a feature rich clock to the menu bar. The app not only lets you see what time it is, but also lets you view the day and date. Clicking the clock opens a full calendar, and you can add clocks from different cities and time zones to it. The app also has a feature to view how much time you have left until business hours in a particular city are over, and it lets you set break alerts to make sure you take a break at regular intervals. Read More

Fiddler: Monitor HTTP Traffic For Any Application & Filter Data Tracking

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Ever wanted to know which servers the HTTP requests traverse while reaching a specific web server? Fiddler is a comprehensive web debugger for Windows, which tracks and logs all HTTP connections, and data exchanged between your network interface and internet. The application gives insight into files, connections, cookies and other objects that were exchanged during each session. Apart from inspecting the HTTP traffic, it also sets breakpoints and manipulates both incoming and outgoing data to let you view the data that is being downloaded and uploaded. Moreover, the application is capable of tracking traffic from all applications that support proxy connections, processes, and especially web browsers to view send and receive requests.  Additionally, it can be used to debug internet traffic from mobile devices including Android, Windows Phone & iPhone. Read More

Avoid Entering Redundant Text With xType Text Expander [Mac]

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Redundancy is something we all try to avoid at both work and home. In fact, eating, sleeping and going to the bathroom are perhaps the only redundant things we can’t avoid. For all other purposes, we try and keep things from getting as repetitive as possible, and these efforts extend to typing text. xType is a text expander for Mac that lets you record abbreviations for frequently entered text. Whenever you type in the abbreviation, it automatically enters the text associated with it. In the event that you have used the same shortcut for multiple text snippets, it will list all the ones that correspond to it on your screen, and you can chose which one you want to enter. The app allows you to restrict each shortcut to work in a particular app, so that it doesn’t conflict with normal typing behavior. Read More

InstaMusic: A Free, Metro-Style Music Player For Android

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Windows Phone might not be the most popular mobile OS right now, but that does not mean it doesn't have anything that users of other platforms would want to see on their devices. Take WP7’s stock music player, Zune, for example. The visually appealing Metro interface of the player alone is enough to put any of its current counterparts to shame on any given day. The Android Market already has a handful of music players that replicate the looks and functionality of Zune Player. However, most of them are either paid (Ubermusic, for instance) or cluttered with too many needless features. That’s not the case with InstaMusic – the latest addition to the list of Zune-style music players for Android. What sets it apart from its competitors is the fact that it’s free, minimalistic and brings several new and handy options of its own to the table. Read More

Install Rooted Android 4.0.3 ICS Official Leak For Galaxy S II I9100

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While the Samsung Galaxy S II is all set to receive its due share of Ice Cream Sandwich officially sometimes this quarter, waiting is not always an option for eager and avid Android fans. There have been a few leaks of ICS for the Galaxy S II before but this time, the device gets Android 4.0.3 (I9100XXLPB) where the build date is the 29th of January, and while still an Alpha/Beta release, this ROM is looking really stable and ready to be used as a daily ROM according to the folks over at Sammobile. Read More

Gameloft Live! Is A Social Platform & App Store For Gameloft Android Games

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Android gamers seem to be receiving lots of love from gaming giants these days. Just recently, Valve Corporation released the official Steam client for Android, and now Gameloft has introduced Gameloft Live! – a highly interactive social platform and app store for Gameloft games. Apart from its name, Gameloft Live! somewhat takes after Xbox Live! with respect to features as well. The app lets you connect to and socialize with the entire Gameloft community, keep in touch with friends via chat, create your own 3D animated avatar, view the Gameloft product catalog, get access to exclusive game deals and discounts, check out upcoming game promos, and win perks and rewards for playing games. Read More

Resize Chrome Browser Window To Various Screen & Mobile Resolutions

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Windows resizer is a Chrome extension that resizes the browser window in order to fit various resolutions, which can be easily customized. The extension can come in handy particularly for web developers and designers, as they can test their layouts on different browser resolutions. Once you’ve installed the extension, you can access all the different types of resolutions by clicking the button in the toolbar. You will find a wide range of resolution categories displayed in a pop-up, such as iPhone, Old Computers, Current computers, Netbook, Laptop and more. Read More

music2pc: Download Music From A Library Of Over 100 Million MP3 Songs

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Whether listening to music while working increases or decreases productivity is a much debated topic. According to some studies, listening to music seems to impair task concentration as well as the ability to remember, while others believe it helps in drowning out the background noise, thus resulting in more concentration and better work performance. Personally, I also listen to music while working, and in my opinion, it allows more concentration as long as the track is not too distracting. In the end, its all about what you are used to while working. If you belong to group that listens to music while working, we have a music downloader for you today. music2pc is a portable application for Windows that allows you to download your favorite music from a massive library of over 100 million MP3 songs. Read More

FreshBatch: Rename Part Of File Name & Convert File To Any Format [Mac]

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You will find numerous Mac apps that let you batch rename files; what most of these apps do is to let you enter a renaming syntax for multiple files and increment each file with a number based on the syntax you’ve provided. There are relatively few apps that allow you to rename only a part of the file name and retain the rest. FreshBatch is a free Mac app that gives you two amazing features; it allows you to rename any part of a file name, and is much like the Find and Replace option in Microsoft Office. It is also a format converter. Read past the jump for details. Read More

SuperCompass: Find Your Direction & Overlay It With Camera View [WP7]

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Windows Phone 7 does have its perks, but there is no denying that some basic features are missing in the Mango platform. Take compass, as an example. While iOS does have a stock compass app, WP7 has to rely on third party options for this purpose, but luckily, quite a few are available. SuperCompass is a new addition to the Marketplace, and brings a lot of new options to the mix in addition to just an ordinary orientation indicator. The app makes navigation a whole lot easier by overlaying the compass with camera view, as well as maps. The Maps hub in WP7 employs Bing maps, and is pretty good for casual navigation. However, if you can even see yourself tagged at a particular place in the maps, you won't be able to determine the direction that you are facing. This can prove to be a crucially important piece of information in case you are told to go North from a specific point in the map. Sure you can go to a compass app and find the direction from there, but SuperCompass ensures that you get the compass right over the maps and don't have to navigate away from Maps. Read More