Yearly Archives: 2012

Flypad: Turn Your iPhone Into A Remote Control For Racing Games On PC

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Not too long ago, mobile phones were only meant to make important calls and send short messages to your friends and loved ones. The technological world has surely come a long way in a very short time, and smartphones of today claim and seem to be able to do everything for us, other than making us coffee and doing our laundry (which, looking at the current pace of technological development, might be available in a few years time!). They have put everything from listening to music to playing games, task management to browsing the web, in the palm of our hands. One of the groundbreaking inventions in smartphones are their unique and ever growing lists of apps. Smartphones app has broaden up their functionality and are acting as a gateway between user and their interaction with the phones. Today we have an application that lets your iPhone communicate with your PC in a very innovative manner. If you play a lot of racing games on your PC and don't like the idea of using your mouse or keyboard, for that matter, then Flypad might change the way you do your virtual races. It is a cross-platform application that turns your iPhone into a remote control for playing racing games on your PC or Mac. Its designed for those who like to play racing games using joysticks or gamepads, but don't have enough dough to buy one. Read More

NotesTab: Elegant Note Taking App That Sits In The Mac Menu Bar

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A note taking app is never hard to find, but finding one that you love and can start using instantly is a little tough. Many people might just forgo using a note taking app because they don’t like it and go with a simple feature deprived text editor. For those that have yet to find a note taking app with an appealing interface, NotesTab is Mac app with an elegant interface and is free for a limited time. The app sits in the menu bar and doesn’t have to be launched each time you want to create a note. It supports keyboard shortcut (Control + N) to open its dashboard, and quickly lets you add a new note. You can edit the shortcut key to suit your preference  and keep the app visible at all times hide it when another window is active. Read More

Vonage Mobile Brings Free VoIP Calling & Texting App To Android & iPhone

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When talking of quality VoIP service providers, it is hard to look past Vonage. To cater to the needs of smartphone/tablet users, Vonage just recently released its Android and iOS apps, allowing users to make calls and send text messages to other Vonage subscribers over the web (Wi-Fi, 3G & 4G networks) on the go and for free. With Vonage Mobile, users can register for an account using their phone numbers (just like WhatsApp & Viber), and connect with friends anywhere in the world, provided they too have the app installed. The app automatically detects other Vonage users from your phone’s address book. Apart from using a high-definition audio codec to improve call quality, the app lets you send unlimited free text messages, keeps a detailed log of calls and texts, displays caller ID and network strength/quality for calls, lets you send invites to multiple contacts in one go, and cancel incoming calls by replying with a quick (predefined) text message. That’s not all; the app provides low rates (30% less than Skype) for calls to numbers that don't have the app installed, and allows you to purchase credit using your Android Market account. Read More

UnoTelly Lets You Visit Websites Blocked In Your Country

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Internet censorship has been in the limelight for the past few weeks, due to the SOPA & PIPA bills originated in US and ACTA from Europe. What's the reason behind those bills and what political tensions are ensuing such change is just another debate. However, according to Wikipedia, “Internet censorship is the control or suppression of publishing of, or access to information on the internet”. A lot of times, when visiting a website, or specially when browsing on YouTube, instead of the website or the video itself, we see a message saying that the particular item is not available in our country. Suddenly you turn extremely furious, and if the video was of something great importance to you, it looks like it ruined your day. What is most annoying about seeing that message is that there is no explanation as to why the particular content is blocked. Both religious and political aspects for that matter, can cause the blockage. Finding out the reason is probably something beyond your control, but what you can still do is actually visit the website or watch the video using tools such as SecurityKiss and TunnelBear, which grant you access in one way or the other. Another addition to the family is UnoTelly, a portable application for Windows that allows you to access a lot of blocked website, including Hulu, Netflix, ABC, Fox, CBS etc. More details on UnoTelly up ahead. Read More

LaunchBoard: iOS-Inspired Chrome App Launcher [Browser Extension]

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The Chrome web store doesn’t just have extensions, it’s also home to a large number of Chrome apps. Although some of these apps are truly apps that work in the browser alone, the majority of them are in fact links to their respective websites and services. This means the a lot of the apps are little more than shortcuts to the web interface of a particular service. It makes you wonder why not just access a website from bookmarks instead of going to a new tab, then a couple of pages to find the right app and then launch it. The problem is that there is a lack of ease in accessibility. LaunchBoard is a Chrome extension that is inspired by iPhone’s app launcher that aims to solve this very problem. This simple tool scans Chrome for all your installed Apps, and displays the icons and titles of enabled apps in a slick pop-up. Read More

The Tennis App: All The Latest Tennis News, Scores & More On Android

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We at AddictiveTips love covering sports apps occasionally, and our detailed coverage of the official US Open and Australian Open Tennis Championship apps for Android and iOS are perfect examples of how keenly we follow our tennis. However, those apps were tournament-exclusive. The Tennis App is a free app that has been bringing the latest news, live scores, results, fixtures, player rankings from the entire tennis world to iOS users for quite a while, and is now available in the Android Market as well. Aggregating all the up-to-date content from ATP and WTA, and featuring latest news from some of the biggest news sources, The Tennis App keeps you apprised of news both on and off the tennis field. Read More

Access Facebook News Feed, Photos, Events & More In Chrome, With Live Notifications

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Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with friends and family, but sometimes while we are busy working online, we just can't bother opening Facebook in a new tab. Facebook!, a Chrome extension, is a great way to be constantly updated with Facebook notifications, posts and more. Once you’ve installed the extension, you will be able to access feeds, statuses, calendar, photos, live notifications and much more through a compact pop-up. After installing the extension, simply click on the little Facebook button in the toolbar and you will be redirected to the login page, and once you're logged in, you can access your entire account within the compact pop-up. Another great feature is that, the extension has no ads or banners, whatsoever. With it, you can view posts, comment, update your status, track events, birthdays, view photos inside the pop-up and get instant notifications when you get a message or invite. It works exactly like the normal Facebook site, but works much faster. Read More

Now Remove Locked Files & Apps Left Over Data, Check Viruses With FreeFixer

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FreeFixer is a powerful Windows application that enables you to remove apps’ left over data, and potentially dangerous applications, scripts and hidden payloads that can cause serious damage to the system. Since our review of FreeFixer back in 2009, the application has seen quite a lot of improvements in terms of both file removal options and features, including show file path and owning process that prevents file from deletion, improved error messages, support for additional companies, manual file registration, file authenticity check, virus check report from VirusTotal.com, increased file upload size limit and a lot more. Read past the jump for more details. Read More

Find The Online Popularity Of Anything With Social Mints For WP7

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A few days back, we covered a Windows Phone 7 app which went by the name of Webmaster. That app was all about keeping track of ay website’s popularity by viewing its usage statistics and page ranks. However, online popularity is a concept which is not exclusive to just webpages, and a lot of users want to know which topics are being discussed all over the web these days. Social Mints is a search engine app for Mango, but it is unique because using it, you don’t search for meanings of terms, but rather their popularity. The app will let you know exactly which topics are trending these days, and which celebrities & movies are most discussed right now. Read More

Weather Stats For WP7: View The Climate Data Of Any City In the World

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After reading the title of this post, you might be thinking along the lines of “Here comes yet another weather app for Windows Phone 7”, but think again - Weather Stats is not just any weather app which will tell you if it will rain in your city today or not - there are many other apps for that (like AccuWeather and Weather Channel). Weather Stats is all about information, and detailed data. This useful Mango app showcases the climate data from just about all the weather stations in the world. Not only that, the app is also really useful if you want to learn the average temperature and rainfall values of any part of the world. Read More

SMARegisTry: Backup And Restore Windows Registry Hives & Keys With A Click

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Unlike Mac OS X and Linux-based operating systems, Windows includes quite a smart, yet vulnerable, database of configuration settings for user profiles, system utilities, user apps and device drivers called Registry. Windows Registry acts a central database repository for almost all applications and system utilities that are allowed to access and make changes to system-wide locations. Since malicious scripts, viruses and malwares attempt to modify Windows Registry for exploiting administrator rights to perform low-level operations, it’s highly advisable to backup critical Windows Registry hives, so that when a virus/malware modifies Windows Registry, you can restore them to prevent any irreparable Windows faults. SMARegisTry Backup is a miniscule, portable application that allows you to not only backup entire registry hives and sub keys, but also restore the backed up registry hives with a click. Read More

Tilt-Shift Generator: Achieve Realistic Tilt-Shift Effect On Images

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Tilt-Shift photography is the use of camera movements on small and medium format cameras, and the use of tilt for selective focus, for simulating a miniature scene. Sometimes, the term is also used when the shallow depth of field is simulated with digital post processing. Normally, a tilt-shift lens is required to achieve the desired effect optically. This special tilting lens for simulating a macro shot or a miniature scene costs a huge sum of money, and if you don’t have that kind of extra money to spend on it, it is easy to produce the same effect digitally. The great thing about applying the tilt-shift effect using digital post processing is that, neither you lose the quality of an image, nor you gain anything if you use an expensive lens for the job. Artensoft Tilt-Shift Generator is an image editor for Windows that produces convincing, natural looking tilt-shift scenes and works as good as a real lens. Read More

clip.share: Send And Receive Clipboard Text From Mac To Any Device

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Do you rely on a Wi-Fi network to send text from your Mac to your iPhone? Or perhaps on a Bluetooth connection? What’s wrong with this picture? Nothing, if you’ve got an iPhone which is a cinch to connect to your Mac, or you know you will always have access to secure Wi-Fi for sending clipboard text over. Should either of these options ever fail and you need a simple free solution, you have clip.share, a Mac app with clients for Windows PC, Android phones and the iPhone that uses your Google email and the good ole internet to send and receive clipboard text across devices. The app is simple; you sign in and choose which links you want to send. It gives you desktop notifications when a new link is received on your Mac, and gives you Push notifications on your iPhone. Read More

Lona Converters: Convert Audio/ Video Files One By One Between Several Formats [Mac]

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In the Mac world, you will find gorgeous displays and beautiful buttons, making up the pretty side of a Mac. The slightly ugly side is that you will have to pay up some serious cash whenever you need to download even a mildly useful app. The Mac app world is rich in choice, but it costs to buy those apps. This isn’t to say that you can’t find free apps, but they are just a little hard to find. Lonasoft is a developing company that you can thank if you need to convert either audio or video files but would rather do it for free instead of buying an app for it. Lona Music Converter is an audio converter that allows you to convert audio files between 11 different formats. Lona Converter, however, is a video converter that lets you convert videos into 39 different formats. Both apps are free, and convert files one by one. They both have a pro version available as well, which lets you convert files in batches. Read More

Skype Auto Recorder: Automatically Record Voice Calls From Defined Contacts

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In our guide to supercharge your Skype experience, we recommended CallGraph Skype Recorder to capture voice calls and save them at defined output location. The application comes handy in situations where you need to control voice call recording from an on-screen recorder, as it allows you to start, pause and stop the recording with a click. It records all the voice calls that you accept, and doesn’t allow specifying Skype contacts whose calls are to be recorded automatically. Today, we came across an open source extension for Skype, namely Skype Auto Recorder, that lets you apply voice call recording filters, so you can record voice calls of only specific contacts. Moreover, the application starts recording voice calls as soon as you accept them, and saves the recording in MP3 format. Read More

Picturethrill: Apply Daily New Wallpapers From Bing, NASA, NatGeo & More

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The desktop wallpaper has a lot of importance for someone who spends most of his day in front of the computer screen. The right desktop background can have a very pleasant and positive effect on you, which is directly proportional to your productivity and efficiency in your work. If your job revolves spending most of your time spending with animals, wallpapers containing animals might boost more energy in you and you end up doing your job more efficiently. Moreover no one likes to look at the same old boring screen everyday so its worth changing your wallpaper on daily basis. Realizing the fact that how important applications of new and fresh wallpapers are, we have been covering a lot of automatic wallpaper changing utilities lately, such as Color Desker, My Daily Space Wallpaper, Mourao Wallpaper Changer and Kuvva. Today, we have another open source wallpaper application called Picturethrill, This gorgeous looking application will automatically downloads new wallpapers from five websites and applies a new desktop background on your computer screen each day. Keep reading and see if its worth a try. Read More

Network Sorcerer Is One-Stop Client PC Control Utility For Small Networks

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Network administrators of small scale networks, ranging from 10-50 systems connected to one server, often require a standalone network suite that can automatically administer all the connected systems. There are many network tools available to control the client operations such as system shutdown, restart, hibernate, wake-on-LAN, send critical messages and more, but what if you don’t want to switch between network utilities to perform required network tasks. If you’re using a variety of tools to control each aspect of the deployed network, check out Network Sorcerer. It’s a comprehensive application that has been specifically designed to handle small networks. Providing a unified administration console, it lets you perform client PC-related tasks right from system tray, including ping hosts, shutdown, suspend, restart, and hibernate, and send direct messages. Moreover, these options are highly configurable; you can select the options you want to access from system tray. Details to follow after the jump. Read More

Lists Notes For Android: To-Do List Manager With Custom Categories

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ListsNotes is a multipurpose note-taking and task management web service that provides the users with option to create and manage custom wish lists, to-do lists, personalized notes, or a list of virtually any noteworthy aspect of their life. Using the service, you can also save reviews and ratings of almost anything you tried out just recently, such as the delicious meal that you had from a nearby restaurant, a video game that you played with your neighbor, a book that you read, or a movie that you watched this weekend. Keep accumulating a handful of reviews, and let the app present you with a comprehensive summary of your whatever you like the most in an assorted manner. To help you with note taking chores, the app supports defining custom labels and subcategories within each category. Using Lists Notes, you also get the option to sync all the notes with your Facebook account in one go. To cater to the note taking needs of Android users, the official Lists Notes app has been released in the Android Market with all aforementioned features that is surely going to help them access, create and carry their personal notes with ease. Read More

DirectorySlicer: Split Directory Into Small Folders & Create Hardlinks

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Organizing folders that contain thousands of files surely takes a lot of effort and time, as one has to manually move files to separate folders, and then perform required file management operations. If you often deal with such situations where files in a specific folder need to be moved to multiple locations, DirectorySlicer may prove to be of great help. It’s a miniscule, portable application that allows you to divide directory’s content according to defined size. Supporting optical discs’ size presets including CD (650 and 700 MB), CD-90 (800 MB), DVD (4.7 and 8.5 GB), Blu-ray Disc (25 and 50 GB), it shows a complete structure of source and output folder with size of each sub-folder. Read More

iRamDisk: Create Virtual RAM Disks In Mac & Mount As Drives [Paid]

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You may, or may not, have heard of creating  vRAM disks and making your system faster. A Virtual RAM disk can be created using the internal hard disk memory, or you can just buy one. For those of you that know what RAM is meant to do, understand that a vRAM disk is a virtual disk that can can read and write to files faster than to your hard disk. The simplest reason (and there are many other complex ones) to the added speed is that a virtual drive isn't a separate machine component that requires actual moving parts to read and write information. For the truly tech savvy who know the ins and outs of creating RAM disks, there is an entirely different world of information out there. For simpler users, more specifically, Mac users, there is iRamDisk, an app worth $1.99 in the Mac App Store which allows you to create virtual RAM disks and mount them as regular drives. Read More