Yearly Archives: 2012

Cymera: Camera Replacement & Photo Editor With Face Detection & Auto-Retouching [Android]

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Laced with a variety of photo editing, enhancement and sharing tools, Cymera is the latest and one of the best camera replacement Android apps to hit the Google Play Store yet. Cymera presents you with a plethora of photo shooting modes, camera lens types, and number of post-processing image enhancement and correction tools. Apart from presenting users with a handful of commonly used image editing tools, Cymera lets you embellish your photos with a slew of snazzy stickers, comic masks and fancy frames and vintage-style photo filters. Cymera supports automatic facial recognition (for captured photos), and lets you apply various face effects to retouch portraits. The app also has a neatly designed native image gallery using which you can view a timeline of all your photos, jump directly to the app’s feature-rich image editor, and share the best images across various social media networks including Facebook, Twitter and Weibo. Images can be captured in silent mode (wherein the camera shutter is silenced), and you have the choice of immediately editing a snapped photo or performing post-processing operations in batch. Read More

How To Show Hidden Files & Folders With A Hotkey In Windows 7 & 8

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Operating systems are designed to keep various system and other critical files hidden from the user. This helps to keep those files safe from unintentional deletion, thus preventing any system failure or data corruption. Almost every major mobile and desktop platform uses this feature. But this doesn't mean that you cannot access those files and folders. For instance in Android, various third party tools allow access to hidden files. Similarly, Linux-based OS such as Ubuntu, Fedora etc, allow you to toggle viewing of hidden folders on and off through a simple shortcut key – Ctrl+H. However, to perform the same function in Windows, i.e., show or hide hidden files, one has to open Folder Options and navigate to View tab to hide/unhide files and folders. Wouldn’t it be better, if you could hide and unhide files and folders via a hotkey combination akin to Ubuntu? This can save a great deal of time. Moreover, if you frequently find the need to toggle the hide/unhide option, simply pressing Hotkey is ten fold better than hopping onto Folder Options every time. One third-party tool that provides this facility is ToggleHiddenFolders. It is a miniscule, AutoHotkey-based application designed specifically for Windows that silently runs in the background and allows you to hide/show hidden files and folders using Win + H shortcut key. Keeping reading to find out more about ToggleHiddenFolders. Read More

Photo Enhancer: Hide Photos In Any iOS Album & Reorder Camera Roll [Cydia]

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Apple maintains a pretty tight control over almost all areas of iOS, specially if you don’t have access to the Cydia store. One thing which has always bugged a lot of users about iPhone is the way it handles photos. In very old versions of iOS, it was not even possible to delete albums without using iTunes, and then there were all those Photo Stream horror stories. When you look closely, however, it is evident that the problems encountered by the Photos app in iPhone, iPad and iPod touch can be resolved with only a few minor changes, and those changes are just the thing Photo Enhancer brings to jailbroken iDevices. Using this fresh tweak, you will be able to do two things; first, Photo Enhancer gives users complete control over the way albums appear in the stock Photos app, and you can even change the position of Camera Roll. The second, and more important feature the tweak brings to the Photos app, is the Hide button, which will let you hide all the photos in all the albums. Read More

noodzy: Hashtag-Based Control For Facebook, Twitter, YouTube & Gmail [Web]

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noodzy is a smart bar that lets you add simple tags to manage popular social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, YouTube and more. By having all your favorite and most frequently used social media services added to a single Noodzy account, you can easily share your messages and status updates with your online buddies without having to open multiple tabs. Using this nifty web app, you can perform multiple functions, like update your status, open Google to enter a query, view your wall or your friends wall right within the same interface, play YouTube videos directly on the bar and more. Read More

UserAssistView: View All Applications & Links Opened By Any PC User

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Not sure what's eating your system's memory? Recently installed an application and now your system runs like a tortoise? It's a malware perhaps but how would you know? We have a software for you that might help. UserAssistView is a portable application that finds which programs are being run behind your back on your PC. It is developed by Nirsoft, a renowned developer for making light weight, simple and highly efficient programs for its users. This multilingual application provides useful information regarding different aspects of all the applications currently eating your computer’s memory. Read past the jump for details. Read More

Easy Color Replace: Change Specific Colors In Images

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Choosing the right color while working on a graphics project, such as a website, is a must for making it look pleasing to the eye. Making sure that people spend more time on your webpage is a hard job, and a slight mistake in terms of graphics being too dull or too bright can turn people off. Previously, we have covered some great applications that enable you to pick the right color for your project. Some of these applications, such as Pictures to Color and Color Finder, allow you to extract colors from images, ColorToy lets you find the HEX and RGB values of a random color, and Instant Eyedropper enables you to view color values of items on your desktop and copy them to clipboard. Easy Color Replacer is an application that allows you to replace colors in existing pictures. More on this unique tool after the jump. Read More

Add Notes For Each Conversation/ Email In Gmail [Firefox]

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Gmail’s interface cleverly deals with long email conversations by turning them into threads. It makes it easier to catch up on a conversation or to quickly go over a long one before you address the latest issue regarding it. The feature is pure genius and sure beats having to manually search your email for old conversations. The only problem that arises is when conversations get too long for you to skim through them quickly and that’s when you realize how convenient it would be if you could post a virtual post-it note on a conversation and write everything you need to know on it. While many note taking add-ons exist, none let you separately add notes for each conversation, none except Gmail Notes Sidebar. It is a nifty little add-on for Firefox that works with a the help of a web service at its back end. Gmail Notes Sidebar allows you to create notes for each conversation or email in your Gmail account. With Gmail Notes Sidebar, you can create notes to, let's say, summarize key points in a long conversation thread, or record notes from a follow-up. The add-on works via a separate web service which you will have to authorize to connect with your Gmail or Google Apps account. Notes are stored on the web service’s own servers and not to your Gmail account or local drive. Read More

Create Notes & Access Google Docs Through A Pop Up [Chrome]

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Notebook Professional is a simple note editor that can be used to copy selected text from a webpage, create to-dos/notes or simply jot down your ideas for later use. With it, you can create, manage and organize notes with a simple, list interface. NoteBook Professional automatically saves the entered text along with the time and date, whereas notes that are created by selecting text and sending it to the extension view the context menu are saved with the first few words of the text as the title. You can also switch between the HTML and Visual Editor mode. You can clip both images and text, and open Google NoteBook, or Google Docs. Read More

ForgetNot!: Reminder App With Desktop Notifications & Pre-Event Alerts

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If you find it hard to keep an eye on your tasks, events and other schedules, or may feel regretful of missing your sweetheart’s birthday every year, then worry no more, as ForgetNot! will keep a record of all your important events and tasks. You can set as many reminders as you want in the application's built in reminder database, and the program will keep notifying you of all upcoming events using alarm and notifications. You may also set as many number of events as you like, such as birthdays, weddings, business meetings, concerts, travel times and what not. This is quite a simple and easy to use utility. Please note that this program is Java-based so you will need to have java installed in your computer. Read More

LockDate: Change Date Format, Color & Font On iPhone Lock Screen [Cydia]

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The interface of iOS is designed in such a way that even the slightest of changes you make to it can make your iPhone look like a completely new and refreshed device. There are many themes and fonts available in the Cydia store which let jailbroken iOS users customize their devices, but those may not always give you the level of control you might like to have over your iPhone or iPad’s looks, or you may want to change just one aspect without actually using an entire theme package. That is why a tweak like LockDate can be a lot of help for people who are customization fans. This tweak will allow you to personalize the date which is displayed on the lockscreen of an iDevice. The functionality might sound too trivial, but you just have to look at the level of customization on offer in LockDate. Using the tweak, you can change date format, color, fonts and even the calendar format. More after the jump. Read More

Enhance YouTube’s Music Search With Filters & Artist Information [Chrome]

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seevl For YouTube is a Chrome extension that lets you explore music in a contextual way, by providing you with intelligent music suggestions and connections between artists on YouTube. With it, you can tailor what you want to listen to by browsing artists, labels or genres, or by combining all these features together to find new ones. seevl uses relations between artists and gives you automatic recommendations based on your current music track. Additionally, it offers you with artist biographies, fact-sheets, information about collaborations, influences, genres, record labels, and lets you learn how everything is connected. Read More

Download Email Attachments Of Any Format From Within Gmail For Android

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The official Gmail client for Android is perhaps the most complete one out there, which is why most Android users don't find the need to look for third-party Gmail clients. However, one thing that doesn’t sit well with the app’s users is its incapacity to let them download mail attachments of all formats, which is a big disappointment considering the flexibility that defines the platform. Yes, there is an option to view/save image files, directly install APKs, and perform some basic operations on a handful of other attachment formats, but you can't download, say, DOC or MP3 files. Good news is that you can fix this with Gmail Attachment Download – a free plugin for Android’s official Gmail client that does exactly what its name implies; it lets you download almost any type of email attachment to a desired folder on your device’s local storage. As their are third-party Android apps out there for opening even the rarest of file formats, this feature can prove to be very handy, for instance, when you receive a DOC file in an email and have an app on your device that can view or edit it. Read More

SwipeBack: Swipe-Based Alternative To Back Button In Apps [Cydia]

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There is no universal, software or hardware, back button in iOS, like the one present in Android and Windows Phone 7 devices. This lack of a dedicated button is mostly compensated by the back button developers incorporate within apps, and even stock apps have them to assist users in navigating their iPhone. SwipeBack is a Cydia tweak that brings a much cooler alternative to the back button for iOS devices, and if you have this tweak, you will be able to use a single swipe to go back one step within the app. The gesture control and visual effects in SwipeBack are pretty similar to the ones in the popular Zephyr, but while that tweak was for switching between apps, the more recent one is just about letting users navigate within apps. Head past the break to learn more. Read More

Verity: Protect Your Kids By Blocking Harmful Websites & Applications

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Monitoring the internet use of children has become almost a necessity for parents if they want to ensure that their child is not being exposed to adult or harmful material. Internet is now filled with so much time wasting and potentially harmful content that you can easily lose focus whether your child is doing his school work or browsing around the YouTube or other streaming sites. How much monitoring and control there should be, is, however, a debatable topic. And depends on the country and culture you're part of. Previously, we have covered some nice parental control and monitoring software, such as Qustodio, Weblock For Kids, The Web Blocker, Activity Monitor and Cyberoids Web Blocker. All these aforementioned tools are quite handy to keep your children safe from various forbidden activities on the internet. Verity is another such parental control software that allows you to monitor and track the computer and internet activity of your child. You can block websites and applications with parental controls and track activity by user, program, keystrokes, mouse clicks and screenshots. It lets you view what you kids are doing on the computer and online in an easy, non-invasive manner. More on Verity after the break. Read More

Transparency: Make App Icons Invisible & Remove Badges/ Labels [Cydia]

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Not every iOS app or Cydia tweak has to be there for productivity and usefulness, as if that were the case, the whole genre of Games won’t have existed. There are things other than games, however, which do not let you perform some really unique task on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, but still is pretty cool. We are, of course, talking about cosmetic tweaks and apps. If you have a jailbroken iDevice, then the level of customization you gain access to is amazing. It is possible for jailbroken users to customize just about any part of iOS, and that is exactly what Transparency is all about. The newly released Cydia tweak lets users change the appearance of the Springboard of their iPhone in ways which previously required a lot of different tweaks, or were too complicated for ordinary users to accomplish. Using Transparency you can render the app icons invisible, remove badges from them and customize even something as small as the shadows and reflections behind the icons. Read More

EWeb Balance: Record Inventory, Debtors/ Creditors & Other Financial Transactions

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If you’re an owner of a company or even a small scale business, you would have already known the hassle of maintaining multiple transactions of your clients and other associates, and keeping track of everything related to debit, credit and inventory management. But you need to worry not as EWeb Balance is here to help you out. It is a small tool that will help lifting that burden off your head by providing a simple and easy to use interface to keep all your business transactions in check. The application will let you enter and maintain all the Sale, Purchase, Debit and Credit transactions. Additionally, you can also check your current inventory, Check and Cash balances, and your Debtors and Creditors to keep an eye on your receivables and payables, respectively. Keep reading after the jump for further details about the usage. Read More

MediaSpeak: Hear The Name Of Each Song As It Starts Playing [Cydia]

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Having an iOS device without music is like having French fries without ketchup. There are many things you can use your iPhone for, looking at the number of apps available in the App Store, but a large portion of most people’s day is spent listening to songs on their iPhone or iPod touch. Due to this fact, there are many apps and Cydia tweaks that allow users to make the stock Music app a bit more useful and efficient than it already is. Every music-related tweak might not bring features that are too important, but most of them are useful to some extent. MediaSpeak is one such tweak for jailbroken iOS devices, and with this tweak, you will be able to hear the name of each song every time the next track in your playlist starts playing. This can be really useful if your phone is in your pocket, or if your attention is not on the screen. Read More