Yearly Archives: 2012

Sequenzetto: Affix Numerical Sequence To Folders & Files [Mac]

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In the past, we’ve covered multiple apps that make it easy to rename files in bulk. Files are normally renamed on a given pattern or syntax that the app defines and where the user enters the variables. What most file renaming apps do is change the entire name of the file altogether. We recently recommended FreshBatch to replace a word or character in a file name with one of your choice. Sequenzetto is a Mac app that lets you add numbers to all files or folders, within a folder. It retains the original file name and simply adds numerical prefixes to each item. Read More

BuildApp Is A Comprehensive 3D House Modeling App For Android

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Developed by DivisionSystems, BuildApp is a highly productive and simple to use 3D house modeling Android app that lets you design, edit, visualize and share your house plans on the go. Using the app, you can develop the virtual (interior and exterior) plan of your entire house in 3D using essential designing and measurement tools. To help you present your plan, the app even lets you take a virtual tour of the house. That’s not all; the app offers ample customization and easy controls for designing of plans. Read More

Retain Clipboard Items After System Reboot Using ClipboardZanager

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The Windows Clipboard is one of the most used features of Windows. Everyone uses it on daily basis, multiple times a day. The Ctrl + C/ Ctrl + V commands are very useful for quickly copying and pasting text, URLs etc from the source location to the destination. However, the biggest limitation of the default Windows Clipboard is that it can only hold one entry at a time. It means that whenever you copy a piece of text, the old one automatically gets deleted from the memory of Windows. Previously, we have covered a lot of useful clipboard managers, including ClipX, a clipboard manager that allows you to copy a large number of text and image entries and Free Clipboard Manager, which lets you take & save screenshots and text in clipboard item library. However, almost all of them have one common issue; the clipboard memory is wiped as soon as you turn off the computer. Today, we have a clipboard manager named, ClipboardZanager that lets you easily manage Windows Clipboard and save multiple items in its memory at a time, including text snippets and images. What makes it different from other clipboard tools is that it has the ability to retain clippings even after you reboot the system, allowing you to easily recover and use the clipboard data. Read past the break for more. Read More

Backdrop: Take Screenshots With Clean Desktop & Run Pixel Test [Mac]

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We recently covered Screenshot Helper, a Mac app that assists you in taking screenshots. Backdrop is a similar app that lets you choose any one color as the desktop background or any image. The image/color is superimposed on your desktop such that it hides all the icons. Additionally, the app also allows you to run a pixel test on your screen to identify dead/stuck pixels. For a user defined interval, the app fills the entire screen with red, green, blue, white and black colors are off. You can choose to keep the icons on your desktop and use the app to put a cleaner wallpaper on the desktop. The app can hide icons across multiple monitors by applying the background color or image you’ve chosen over all displays. Read More

Fotobounce: Share Photos & Organize Them via Face Recognition

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Digital cameras have allowed us to shoot hundreds of photos without worrying about changing the camera roll, but having a huge amount of photos means that you need to manage them to avoid cluttering up your system, and also to easily access the required photo from the collection. There are a lot of great photo managers available out there that provide you with multiple options to manage large photo collections. Today we have a simple, yet powerful application called Fotobounce, which lets you organize all the images stored on your computer and share them with your friends and colleagues. The application allows creating a private network with your friends and family, letting you choose what is to be shared with others. Additionally, it makes use of face recognition technology to help you easily tag and organize your photos. Using this feature, it automatically identifies friends and family members, and allows you to transfer the tags to Facebook. Details to follow after the jump. Read More

Image Resizer/Scaler: Drag To Resize Images On Websites [Firefox]

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Images available on the internet come in different sizes and resolutions and should the size of the image be too small, you have to zoom in a web page to get a better look. Although a simple solution, it also means the rest of the content on the web page will be enlarged and take up space. Image Resizer is a simple Firefox add-on that provides users the ability to resize or scale images on any website by simply dragging them. The extension is basically built to help those who often come across websites, which have either very small or very large images. Using Image Resizer, you don't have to manually zoom in/out the page; it resizes only images without changing the default size or view mode of the page. To increase the size of the image, hold the left mouse button on the image, and start moving the mouse outward towards the bottom-right to increase the size. To return the image to its original size, right click it. You can also maximize the image by double-clicking it. Details to follow after the jump. Read More

Cycle Through Recent Tabs Using User-Defined Hotkeys [Chrome]

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Although Google Chrome comes with a feature to open recently closed tabs, it doesn't provide a convenient way to open recently visited/viewed tabs. If you open a lot of tabs while surfing the web, Recent Tabs may help you navigate through opened tabs. It's an extension for Google Chrome that allows you to easily switch between last viewed tabs by displaying them in a pop-up window. Alternatively, you can choose to use Ctrl+Q hotkey combination to open the recently viewed tabs. The extension displays the recent tabs in the order you access them. You can also change the number of recent tabs to be displayed in the pop-up window, from the Options. Read More

MRKAlarm: Android Alarm Clock With MP3 Playlists, Calendar Integration & More

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Android users yearning for a better alternative to their device’s stock alarm app have plenty of options available to them in the Android Market, such as previously reviewed Wake N Shake. Adding to the list of highly innovative and feature-rich alarm apps is XDA member malrok37’s MRKAlarm, which lets users set multiple alarms on their Android device, supports integration with your calendar events (with an option to define Quiet Hours for alarms), provides you with the option to set a custom MP3 playlist for your alarm tones, as well as a custom time interval to louden the alarm gradually. With each added alarm, you can associate a specific agenda from your calendar, set its priority level, and define various rules to trigger alarms for tasks that include/exclude specific keywords. Read More

Voice Share For WP7: Record & Share Sound Clips To Earn Achievements

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At times, the simplest of apps could prove to be really popular among users, as they provide just the right balance between fun and usefulness. Voice Share for Windows Phone 7 just might be one such app. The concept behind the app is nothing really new, but the developer has combined a lot of different features to create a pretty neat product. The app lets users record voice clips, and then share them with friends via SMS or on Facebook. This might sound a bit boring, as there are many other voice recorders available for Mango as well, but Voice Share has the edge over them in the sense that it lets you add graphical badges to your shares, and has an achievements system of its own, giving it a game-like feel as well. Read More

Dotastic For WP7: Compete Against Your Friends To Finish Your Tasks

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It is a known fact that we do better in every field when there is a sense of competition among people. It can get a bit boring if are stuck doing your mundane tasks all by yourself, but now you can spice things up with ease, as there’s an app for that. Dotastic is a reminders and to-do list app for Windows Phone 7, but it differs from all of its competitors in the sense that rather than just listing your pending chores, the app posts them to your Facebook account, and asks your friends to compete against you in a race to finish the tasks earlier. Depending upon the nature of the task, your friends can even help you accomplish the reminder, and then rate the quality of your work. Read More

PolyMagic For iPhone: Customize Polygon Frames For Photo Collages

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Photo editing apps are truly available in abundance today, and it is actually hard to choose the one that fits your needs. If you happen to be into more than just adjusting the contrast, sharpness, or cropping and resizing a photo, PolyMagic may just be the app that causes you to play around with your photos to creatively construct collages on the go. Yes, the app mainly focuses on letting the user easily and quickly make a collage. Earlier, we covered an app named Nostalgio, which served the same purpose as PolyMagic, but the former does not seem as polished as PolyMagic, owing to a few very useful features. We will show you what that is, and, more importantly, walk you through the app step by step. Read More

Autodesk Design Review: View And Annotate 2D & 3D DWF Models On Android

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In an attempt to help Android users with reviewing and redlining their DWF (Design Web Format) models on the go, Autodesk – the team behind the famous AutoCAD and DWG file editing, viewing and sharing tool, AutoCAD WS – has just released the official Design Review app to the Android Market. Using the app, you can now view your multi-sheet, 2D and 3D DWF models on the go, layer-by-layer, instantly switch to a preferred model view/perspective with a simple tap, add markups (callouts and text notes) to the designs, and easily explore every single portion of each model using simple zooming, panning and rotation controls. In addition, the app lets you access your Autodesk cloud content (for subscribed users only), and keeps a log of recently accessed documents. The app might be new to the Android Market, but its iOS variant has been around for quite some time now. Read More

iBoostUp: Clean Junk, View System Crashes & Startup Items And Optimize Mac

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In the past, we have featured numerous system repair and performance optimization tools for Mac OS X, including OnyX, Magican, and IceClean, which enable you to check fatal system exceptions, repair errors and, and perform various system cleanup operations over entire system to boost the overall performance. If you’re looking for an automated system optimization and cleanup tool to check system for Disk, Memory, and Network issues, and apply quick fixes, iBoostUp is probably just what you need. iBoostUp isn’t meant to replace your existing system optimization utilities, and it can work in conjunction with other tools without showing any issues. It comes packed with a powerful system cleaner to purge system and applications’ left over superfluous data, and browsers’ temp & cookie files. Moreover, it lets you check disk performance and attempt to fix network and internet connectivity issues. More on iBoost after the break. Read More

Perform Real Time Sync, Backup Large Storage Mediums With DSynchronize

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Earlier, we have covered a lot of data backup and synchronization utilities for both Windows and Mac OS X platforms, including DFIncBackup, O&O AutoBackup, Ocster Backup, Simple Backup Utility and Backuplist+. Data backup utilties help users not only create exact copies of important files and folders, but also restore data without having to manually copy each backed up folder and folder back to source folders. Moreover, most file backup applications come packed with synchronization feature, enabling users to create bi-directional sync jobs to sync specified folders in real time. Today, we came across another powerful application called DSynchronize, which lets you create, customize and execute file backup and synchronization jobs. Apart from providing all conventional tools and features to seamlessly back up data, it includes two special options, namely Antifragmentation and Ignore file path errors, which allow you to backup large volume of data from one storage medium to another without facing any issues. Read More

How To Share Windows 7 System Folders Across The Network

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Unlike previous versions of Windows, including Windows XP and Windows Vista, Windows 7 allows you to easily share files and folders over network without having to follow tedious process of setting up IP address on network PCs. The inclusion of network groups, such as Homegroup, Work and Public type of networks make is easy to share files with others on same network. In Windows 7, you can easily share files and folders over Network from right-click context menu, but what if you want to share system-wide locations like Programs Files, AppData and other core system folders with others? Since Windows 7 applies strict security policy over system folders, users on network can’t gain access to such folders when shared from a Windows 7 PC. In this post, we will guide you through the process of sharing system files and folders on a network, so that you can easily access them from other PCs on the network. Read More

HotKey Resolution Changer: Change Monitor Resolution Using Hot Keys

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Just as monitors are designed in various sizes, their display resolution also varies from size to size. Larger displays usually sport higher the resolution and vice versa. Although, LCDs are designed to work best at their native resolutions, sometime we do find the need to change resolution (especially if you still own old CRTs). Thankfully, Windows allows you to change the resolution of your screen from its display properties, but you have to open display settings and change resolution manually, and then save the changes to completely apply it. Some people can find it to be somewhat a tedious task. Previously, we reviewed an application called Display Changer that allowed you to change to the resolution of your own choice, rather than the ones pre-included in Windows, by specifying the desired parameters including width, height, depth, refresh rate, fixed output, rotate and positions including left, right, top and bottom. Today, we have another app at your disposal called HotKey Resolution Changer. It is a portable application for Windows that lets you change the resolution of your monitor through hotkeys. Keep reading to find out more about the application. Read More

ShortStop: Avoid App Keyboard Shortcut Conflict In Mac [Paid]

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Keyboard shortcuts add convenience to how we use an app and our system as a whole. Many users, who need to work on different projects and use multiple apps at the same time, will use a combination of  mouse and trackpad gestures and keyboard shortcuts just to get things done faster. It is for this reason that many of us have a soft spot for app that support keyboard shortcuts and get butterflies if we can edit a shortcut to our own liking. While these shortcuts are great, they sometimes end up conflicting with other apps and more power apps might even conflict with universal shortcuts. ShortStop is a simple Mac app available for $2.99 in the Mac App Store that allows you to toggle between apps and their enabled shortcuts. You can set the system to ignore shortcuts that are associated with an app, and enable them as per your requirement. Read More

Proximity-Based Temporary File Sharing App Swarmbit Comes To Android

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Swarmbit is a location and time-based cross-platform file sharing app for Android and iOS that lets users remotely share files from their devices with other app users over the web. Using Swarmbit, you can choose to share your data publicly (using your email address) as well as anonymously. In addition, you are in control of whom you wish to share your personal data with, for how long should the shared content remain valid, and the maximum radius (in terms of area) from where shared data can be accessed. Shared files are stored in the form of personalized folders on the Swarmbit cloud from where they can be accessed anytime you like. The app supports importing and sharing content from Dropbox and SugarSync; a feature that makes Swarmbit an even more valuable file sharing tool. Read More

Permanently Embed Subtitles In Video Files With Free Movie Subtitler

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If you are a fan of anime’s, you must have seen or at least heard about the show ”Death Note” (and if you haven’t watched it yet, you must!) . It was the first anime show that I watched and I loved it. At that time, the fact that I couldn't speak or understand Japanese did not bother me in understanding the anime just because I had the subtitles available for every episode. The existence of subtitles have enabled us to watch and understand a lot of awesome movies and TV series in foreign languages. Most players adding subtitles to any video just by dragging and dropping the SRT files over the player, but what will you do if you want to watch the video on a DVD player or a device which does not support reading SRT format? If you are looking for a solution to this problem, try Free Movie Subtitler. It is an application for Windows that allows you to permanently embed subtitles in videos. It means that you do not have to have, and run, separate files for video and its subtitles. Instead, the subtitle file will be merged with the video file and converted into one new file. Read on to find out more about Free Movie Subtitler. Read More

Syrinx: Twitter Client With Keyboard Shortcuts & Tweet Filters [Mac]

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Just a couple of days ago, we covered Itsy, a simple Twitter client with a clean interface and growl notification support. Syrinx is a Twitter client for Mac that doesn’t have as great an interface as Itsy, but supports keyboard shortcuts and allows you to filter out tweets that contain a particular word. The app lets you edit tweets before retweeting them, show the number of unread tweets on the Dock icon, bookmark new tweets, favorite them, send and view messages, change the text, row and background color and enable Growl notifications for new tweets. You can choose to either bookmark or open a new tweet when you click its Growl notification. Read More