Sys Information: The Ultimate Guide To Your System Resources

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In order to fully solve a problem, you must understand the problem first. Similarly, to properly decode system notifications, errors and bugs; you must understand the system to an extent, beyond the scope of the default Windows System Information facility. The default utility categorizes system resources by compiling information regarding hardware resources, components and software environment variables. Sys Information, on the other hand, is a system information utility relying on a smart retrieval method, automatic update feature and comprehensive details regarding system resources. It illustrates real-time processor and RAM usage while providing details of drivers, task management and battery utilities, coupled with the conventional component details in a user friendly manner. Read More

UltraSlideshow Lite: Easily Create Stylish Flash Slideshows In SWF, HTML Or XML

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In such a fast-paced world, you would surely yearn for a quick and attractive way of viewing slideshows of your memories while having the flexibility to share them with others. UltraSlideshow Lite is a free application that allows you to create flash slideshows with frames and templates to organize your photo memories with a relevant background music. You can easily upload your photos and the soundtrack to this utility, and everything else is done automatically. With the ability to export in HTML, XML and SWF formats, you can easily embed and share your slideshows both offline and online. Moreover, it allows you to make unique flash presentations through video editing-like tools such as titles, frames, transitions, etc. Read More

Schedule System Tasks & Launching Of Applications With Z-Cron

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Better resource management requires automation for efficient scheduling and execution in order to save time, which itself is a limited resource. If you could schedule important tasks of your system, you could save both energy and usage. For example, instructing your computer to automatically shutdown or wake up according to the specified time, would result in conservation of energy. Z-Cron (similar to Unix Cron) supports a wide range of programs with an extensive function library. Parameter-based starting/stopping of applications, auto-saving of websites, copying/deletion of files, archiving, compressing and auto-backup are some of the features that make it unique from the other tools available out there. You can specify when to start or stop any specific job in light of daily, weekly, monthly scheduled startups or shutdowns. Read More

Qiqqa: PDF Management & Research Tool For Better Academic Progress

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Managing PDFs have become an essential in creating, reviewing and collaborating academic work. Usually, PDFs are notorious for poor metadata (title, author, publication, etc.), which makes it difficult to to deal with hundreds of documents. In such large virtual libraries, the importance of tags, keywords and annotations comes to light. Qiqqa is a powerful tool made to address the needs of academicians (students, faculty and researchers to name a few), worldwide. Equipped with powerful OCR (Optical Character Recognition) feature, it adds value to PDFs by making them susceptible to comprehensive searches as well as abstract and keyword extraction. It allows easy integration with your computer as well as popular programs like Zotero, Endnote and Mendeley via the BibTeX format for import/export. Furthermore, it syncs your libraries and documents with the Android app for access, on the go. Read More

Bubbles: Create, Edit & Share Your Thoughts via Personalized Letters

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Ever felt the need to send handwritten personalized notes to someone on the internet? Usually, you would write a document, scan it and send the documents using your favorite email service, as an attachment. For sharing, you would turn towards an appropriate social media website to create an impact. Bubbles, an online application, lets you achieve all this with just a click. Just choose the privacy level of your document, draft, letter etc., and from the comfort of your browser, you can publish rich documents with pictures, drawings, signatures or collages. In addition, you can associate yourself with like-minded people to share, plan and organize ideas, connected to their respective organizations with easier access details. Read More

Crystal AEP Protects Your System Against Drive-By (Unintended) Download Exploits

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From home-based users to large scale industrial organizations, the relevance of the Internet has exposed systems to a variety of vulnerabilities where viruses, malware and hackers easily penetrate through firewalls to gain and exploit root access of the systems. Usually, a conventional antivirus compares programs and data with a database of known ‘bad’ programs to detect and kill viruses, but, on the internet, an unsuspecting user may follow directions on a website of interest, yielding installations, which actually fall through the security cracks of the system. Another popular penetration method used by malware is through ‘drive-by downloads’. These exploits aren't caused by any user interaction and come into effect due to malicious websites, escaping through internet-exposed software (such as your browser) to the system. Crystal Anti-Exploit Protection prevents attacks that originate without any user interaction and works in coordination with your anti-virus to present a highly secure usage experience. Read More

TimeGT: GTD-Based Time Management Utility With Cloud Sync & Backup

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Each one of us have our own ways of managing time to get the maximum output. Productivity consultants like David Allens have proposed simple yet powerful methods of achieving efficiency. Through David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) approach, we realize that most of us reserve valuable parts of our memory for remembering the tasks at hand and the relevant details, undermining our individual performance. By getting such details out on paper or the virtual space, you can free up your time for more important challenges. Once, this is achieved, thinkers like Eisenhower have proposed methods of prioritization with respect to the importance and urgency matrices. TimeGT is a free utility that lets you achieve maximum output through these useful techniques. Read More

RetroShare: Private, Secure Platform For File Sharing & Messaging

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IM (Instant Messaging) platforms are notorious for the lack of privacy and security, as viruses and bugs can easily penetrate into the system. Most users find it hard to verify the identity of the peers (seeming too good to be true). With these cases set aside, formal communication on the internet regarding sensitive matters, require an extreme level of security, identity verification and privacy.With SOPA and other regulations in view, interest in anonymous file sharing applications is rapidly increasing and slowly finding precedence over public networks like Bittorrent.  RetroShare is a server-less cross-communication platform, which provides file sharing, forums, channels and chat; authenticated by GnuPG and secured by OpenSSL encryption. With secure email, Video or VoIP and other sharing features, this powerful application allows you to communicate in all forms without any eavesdropping or unwanted monitoring. Read More

Yodiz: Project Management With Collaboration Through Social Media [Web]

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In the field of software application development, project management techniques like scrum (agile software development method) possess a unique role in addressing the challenges of monitoring and managing progress, virtually, with emphasis and importance on each team member’s work contribution. Using this technique, high performing individuals can be encouraged while weak performers can be addressed for the overall good of the team. Yodiz is a cloud-based project management tool that is based on the scrum method. With role-based specialized interfaces, agile management and issue tracking coupled with a smooth signup and extensive support experience, this tool is great for all efficiency enthusiasts. By collaboration on social sites, Yodiz aims to connect business professionals to the social media as a means of better time-utilization with respect to team interaction. Read More

Sentry Vision Security: Remote Webcam Surveillance & SMS/Email Security Alerts

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Security and surveillance are usually ensured at home by setting up expensive technology in the form of cameras or processing and alarming systems. Addressing these concerns, Sentry Vision Security achieves the very same results with your webcam attached to your system. With advanced features organized in a simple interface, it enables you to set alerts and responses in case of any unwanted activity. So, when you leave your room, just activate your webcam with this software running in the background. It will automatically detect any movement in your room and send you a time-stamped SMS, e-mail or sets off an alarm in order to ensure security. The activity video and audio can then be reviewed whenever needed, from the recordings folder. Moreover, remote access and broadcasting features enable you to control the actions and observations from virtually anywhere. Read More

Aciqra Is A Virtual Planetarium For Students & Fans Of Astronomy

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Ever gazed at the sky and wondered why and where stars lie? Ever wanted to get to know of the night sky personally? If you’re an aspiring astronomer, the accurate sky mapping must be an integral part of your analysis. Aciqra is a simple yet powerful desktop utility that displays millions of stars for your calculations, mapping and deductions. You can easily zoom in or out depending on the body of interest. The application has over 2.5 million stars in its database and other celestial bodies such as planets, deep sky objects and the like; coupled with tools like angle indicator, night vision, atmospheric refraction correction to accurately interpret the layout of our universe. Read More

TraderClock Lets You Effectively Monitor Stock Exchanges Worldwide

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Glued to the news-strip of your favorite business channel or website? Monitoring multiple trading clocks closely for better analysis and decision-making? Praying that you are the first one to chase the stocks as soon as the market opens? All of these needs are addressed by an application that is bound to transform your life as a stock market trader for the better. TraderClock integrates multiple markets with their start and end times on a single stylish clock that easily finds its place on your desktop. With automatic notifications informing you whenever a market of your interest opens or closes, this powerful utility enables you to follow intricate details of the global stock market from the comfort of your desktop. Upon hovering your cursor on the clock, all relevant details including the current stock index along with percentage change and graphical trends come to view. Read More

Collusion: A Firefox Add-on Allowing You To Visually Track Your Online Activity

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If you’ve enabled cookies on your browser, the online activity undertaken is usually sent from websites to third-party tracking websites. This creates a network of company-tracker linked list, which can be used to construct your long-term usage history. Although this is a major privacy concern by some, Collusion, an experimental Firefox add-on, lets you access this information for better and safer activity. Moreover, understanding the concept of intricate dependencies within websites has been simplified by the user-friendly animated layout coupled with relevant information displayed on the sidebar. Using this add-on, you can easily identify websites using third-party cookies, to track your activity while monitoring a spider-web of data dependencies, which motivates you to further pursue your online interests. Read More

Create And Automate Timelapse Videos Using Webcam Timelapse

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Many of us have been left awestruck after watching time-lapse videos where the flow of time can be accelerated in order to give us a better view of changes in areas of interest over time. Now, creating, modifying and processing time-lapse videos through your webcam has been simplified and made accessible through the Webcam Timelapse tool. Although this utility appears simple, it equips you with advanced functionality through features including Daily SelfPic, Adjustable delay, Avi video creator, reverse video mode, manual capture mode and the like, making it relevant for time-lapse and stop motion applications. If you want to see yourself grow in age over the years, you don’t need to consistently record all your activities anymore, just use the Daily SelfPic feature, which takes your picture at a specified time every day, so that it can be compiled for a final video time-lapse all through your webcam. Read More

Daum PotPlayer: A Worthy Alternative To VLC, KMPlayer & Media Player Classic

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Judging and reviewing a media player is often a challenging task, as different features have separate levels of priority in each user’s mind. One might rank the loading speed higher than a stylish user interface, while another may downplay such points as immaterial in contrast to format support. With this consideration in mind, we have found the new PotPlayer fairly attractive for multimedia users, worldwide. An attractive interface coupled with advanced features, comprehensive format support, quality control and a minimum impact on your computer’s performance, has brought great respect to this apparently-nascent software. Unfortunately, unlike its peers (like VLC Player or Media Player Classic) etc, PotPlayer currently only supports Windows. Read More

Local Website Archive: Find and Save Website Data From Multiple Opened Browsers

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Previously, we reviewed software that download website data along with files including SiteSucker for Mac OS X and  HTTrack for Windows. These software save web pages in a structured way that corresponds to offline archives in the form of subfolders of a main directory. Local Website Archive distinguishes itself by automatically extracting information from currently active pages as well as supporting a manual operation. Moreover, its Firefox add-on effectively acts as a bridge between your browser and the desktop application, saving useful information in a well-organized search-friendly manner. It has the ability to download web pages from currently opened, popular browsers like Google Chrome, IE, Firefox, Opera and IE-based browsers, email clients and other online tools. For instance, if you open websites in different browsers for testing purpose, you can easily download all the websites opened in your browsers without having to manually use Ctrl+S hotkey combination for saving the web pages. Read More

How To Stretch And Enhance Sounds Without Losing Quality

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Ever wanted to stretch your favorite soundtracks beyond imagination? From studios to garage bands, sound stretching has profound applications due to spectral smoothness, special effects and features like binaural beats. Now, you can stretch a 4 minute audio to a unique 4 hours high quality listening experience using Paul’s Extreme Sound Stretch. Supporting popular audio formats including WAV, OGG, MP3, it enables ease of operation with advanced post processing effects to give ambient epics. The stretching amount is unlimited and the complexity can be increased according to the requirements. Unlike other audio manipulation tools, it loads onto your system smoothly and has negligible effect on the overall system performance. After adding the required audio file, you have the liberty to select the stretch parameter as well as the audio output size. Read More

Paymo: Cross-Platform Solution For App Usage Tracking & Billing

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For everyone interested in resource optimization when dealing with multi-tasked problem solving both indoors and outdoors, Paymo is a fairly useful and powerful application that is available for Windows, Mac OS X, iOS and Android, which enables you to achieve the collective goals of project management, time tracking and online invoicing with a few clicks. The activity track can be shared for the relevant office-bearers via RSS feeds, while documents can be uploaded through the file storage provided with the account. Now, your data can easily be synchronized automatically, on the go. With feature-rich tools, Paymo Plus manages simultaneous tasks using a simple time tracking technique. Its desktop widget records timer-based task-specific information, while Paymo's Android and iPhone apps allow you to take note of time utilization during and between meetings. So, if you're a freelancer, convincing your employer of your hard work coupled with activity-based charging. The task set-rate and application usage then become an accurate basis for online invoicing through Paymo's built-in Invoice and app usage features. Read More

Browser Forensic Tool: Analyze The History Of All Installed Browsers

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For those of us making good use of the internet, usage history is a vital feature in browsers to remember useful searches and links that aren’t bookmarked or didn’t get that opportunity due to a browser crash. Many of us, use multiple browsers at various moments in time depending on the ease of functionality. Video streaming may be done on one browser, while work related data on another. This scatters the history among various browsing streams and makes it tedious to search and retrieve links scattered in the past. Browser Forensic Tool is a powerful utility that lets you perform local browser history searches based on multiple user-specified keywords or categories, helping you determine how many times a particular keyword is appearing within the history each installed browser. Read More

WindowPad: Arrange Application Windows At 9 Different Screen Positions Using Hotkeys

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Dealing with multiple programs and organizing them in an efficient manner requires a worthy utilization of the screen space available. Although the AeroSnap feature introduced with Windows 7 attempts to address this need, utilities like TickClick for Windows and reSizer for Windows enhance this mobility capability. WindowPad is a useful application that has a negligible impact on your PC performance, yet provides you with the ability to use hotkeys, command line and window dragging options to move, resize and organize program windows for handling multiple tasks simultaneously. Sitting silently in the system tray, WindowPad can easily enter into Debug, Suspend and Reload mode with a single click, as per requirement in sync with a dynamic hotkey command support feature. Just like aforementioned tools, it associates numpad keys with screen areas, allowing you to easily snap active window at the required side of the screen. Read More