Fatima Wahab

Mac Editor
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Select Colors Within Mac Apps By Entering HEX, RGB Or HSB Codes

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Apps that allow you to customize their appearance, whether that of their interface, or of the content they deal with, use Mac’s default color chooser whenever they give the option to change colors. Mac’s color chooser is nothing like the ones you’re used to seeing on the web. The default color chooser has quite a few options for picking colors; a color disc, color sliders, palettes, a full color spectrum, and of course, the crayons. Though it is feature rich and supports RGB and CMYK color models, the color chooser won't just let you enter HEX codes to choose colors. You can try the web color palette, but if you’d like something a little more familiar, then you need Antetype Color Picker. It’s a color picker that lets you choose colors by entering an HSB, RGB, or HEX code. Read More

Collect & Organize Music From SoundCloud, YouTube & More With Whyd

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We reviewed Songdrop as a great way to gather all the songs you listen to online. The web service is like your online music folder that allows you to save music from online streaming services. Whyd is a similar service with a much simpler interface. It’s currently invite-only, but you can sign up for an invite  and it shouldn't take too long for it to arrive. Whyd works with a bookmarklet for your browser and lets you add songs from SoundCloud, YouTube, and any service that links directly to song files. The songs you add can later be listened to directly on Whyd. The service supports playlists as well as subscribing to other users and listening to music they've saved. Whyd isn't storage space for your music; rather it’s a way to gather all the online music you listen to in a single place for easy access. Read More

Google Keep vs Evernote vs OneNote vs Notes vs Simplenote

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Now that Google Keep is live, it wouldn't be right if we don't compare it with other popular note taking services out there. In our detailed review of Keep, we've mentioned that its features are rather basic at the moment, especially if you compare it with note taking giant Evernote. However, Evernote isn't the only impressive notes service out there, and it’s only fair to broaden our comparison. After considering just what features does it takes to make a good note taking service, we ended up with quite a list. Not all services here share the exact same feature set, but each of them has its own pros and cons and as a user, this comparison should give you a quick idea of which one of them is right for you, and whether switching to Google Keep will work for you, or should you stick with the one you're currently using. Read More

Previeweet For Chrome Shows Image Preview Thumbnails Over Tweets

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Twitter lets you view images and play videos directly in the tweets, which works great and keeps you hooked to your timeline. Instagram has recently been removed from the list of services that Twitter shows directly shows you images from, but many other popular services are still supported. Previeweet is a Chrome extension that one-ups this feature in Twitter and allows you to see a thumbnail preview of tweeted images without having to open the tweets first. The thumbnail will sometimes be accompanied by a badge to show you which service it’s been shared from. Clicking the thumbnail loads the image in Twitter. Read More

Hands-On With Google Keep: Notes & To-Do Lists For Web & Android

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Google’s new note-taking web service Keep is now live, along with its Android app. Keep lets you create notes and to-do lists that sync over Google Drive. Notes may contain text, voice or images. Notes and lists can be color-coded, and are searchable. With Keep, Google aims to let you collect and consolidate all your thoughts, ideas and useful information together that will be synced and accessible across all your computers through your browser, and across all your Android devices using the Keep app. Let's take both the web service and its Android app for a spin and see what it's all about. Read More

Create Facebook & Google+ Cover Photos With Quotes Using QuotesCover

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Google Plus, Facebook, and Twitter profiles all have one thing in common - cover pictures! Cover pictures work great in tandem with profile pictures, since you can use one image to express yourself and another to represent your profile, without compromising the visibility and impact of one over the other. The only problem is that creating even a mildly interesting cover picture can be quite a challenge to many. If Paint is the only image editor you can use well, creating a good looking cover picture will not be a walk in the park for sure. QuotesCover is a web app that lets you create cover photos for Facebook and Goolge Plus using different quotes, fonts, layouts and color schemes to make them look great. You can add background images as well and customize almost everything about the image. QuotesCover creates templates for printing posters and cards in various sizes as well. Read More

RapidReddit Is A Chrome Reddit App That Auto-Hides Visited Links

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Once you start Redditing, time can goes by super fast. It would go by even faster if you didn't have to filter out the links you've already clicked and could focus solely on the unvisited blue ones. RapidReddit is a Chrome extension that lets you Reddit faster. The extension basically lets you browse Reddit in a way that every link you click opens in a new tab and at the same time, gets automatically removed from the main page. In addition, you are shown not just the overall karma but also the exact number of upvotes and downvotes for each individual link right on the main page. While it may still appear similar to browsing the Reddit main page itself, it's actually the RapidReddit tab that is showing you the links, and removing the ones that you visit. Read More

View Enlarged Facebook Photos By Hovering Over Them In Chrome

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Magnifier for Facebook is a Chrome extension for viewing enlarged photos on Facebook without having to open them in the photo viewer. The extension lets you zoom into images and disable the theater view in Facebook’s photo viewer. You can view the enlarged image by moving your mouse over its thumbnail preview, or by right-clicking the image and selecting to open the image in a new tab. As its name implies, Magnifier for Facebook also zooms in on the image so that it appears larger than its actual size, but the zoom feature can be disabled or tied down to a shortcut key for toggling it. Read More

Add Page Content Or Position-Sensitive Bookmarks In Firefox

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If you've ever bookmarked a webpage and later forgotten the reason why you had done so when you first found it, you aren't the only one. A useful webpage's bookmark entry doesn't always tell you why it’s useful, and it’s easy to forget even if you've put it in the right folder in your bookmarks library. Advanced bookmarks Add-on for Firefox helps you remember why you saved a webpage, by letting you save a web page to a scrolled position of your choice, or to a particular text snippet on that page. These bookmarks are stored separately from your other bookmarks and Advanced bookmarks Add-on adds its own Bookmarks manager for these position and content -sensitive bookmarks. Read More

Tweewer: News App & Google Reader Alternative Based On Twitter Lists

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With the imminent demise of Google Reader just a few months away, the inevitable is happening: people have started to come up with unique ways to replace it. Not surprisingly, Twitter has formed the basis of one such solution provided by Tweewer, a web service that lets you view tweets by accounts in a Twitter list as if they were news items. Tweewer lets you view a tweeted link as it would appear on the website, or open the link in a new tab. You can retweet a news item, which is somewhat akin to the share function in Google Reader, and easily add a list of your choice. Read More

Save Website Links To Read Later & Archive Them When Done [Chrome]

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If your bookmarks bar is a mess, you can start cleaning it up by removing duplicate bookmarks, and if you would like a convenient way to sort bookmarks when you save them, try saving bookmarks with a few keyboard shortcuts. Though while helpful, neither of these methods solve the problem of clutter accumulating later in your bookmarks as you keep on saving more. If you would like to just save bookmarks so you can read them and be done with them once read, you need OX: Bookmarks. It is a Chrome extension that treats your bookmarks much like Gmail treats you emails. The extension basically saves all bookmarks you create from it to an ‘OX’ folder on your Bookmarks bar, and then manages them for you based on read/unread criteria. Like emails that you haven’t read or archived, OX: Bookmarks shows you a list of unread bookmarks each time you open a new tab. Once you’re done reading a page you've bookmarked, you can archive it, which moves it to an ‘Archive’ folder, from where you can also delete it later if you want. Read More

Capture Periodic Screenshots Of Multiple Displays On Mac With Click

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Like every modern OS, OS X has a built-in feature for taking screenshots, making it easy for anyone to capture them. Even if you aren't happy with the default screenshot feature, you have a large number of apps (both free and paid) to choose from for the purpose as well. Click is a free app for Mac that is essentially a screenshot tool but it does what ordinary screenshot tools don't - it takes periodic screenshots of your Mac in the background, and supports multiple displays. Each display is captured separately, and you can customize how often the screenshots are taken. If you've ever needed to take periodic screenshots while watching a video or playing a video game, Click is the tool to help you do just that. Read More

How To Get The Classic Menu Back In Firefox

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Firefox and Chrome are compared frequently enough, with Chrome’s minimal interface often becoming the winning point in many comparisons. Chrome sure is cleaner; it has fewer buttons, only one toolbar, and an easy-to-use settings page, but that doesn't necessarily make Firefox a lesser browser or filled with bloat. Firefox doesn't aim to be the ‘simple’ browser that Chrome is, but it still gives you a really clean interface to work with and a lot of flexibility that Chrome can’t always match. The Firefox menu button is one great example of this flexibility; you can choose to work without any toolbars but still access all your options from the Firefox menu button. In its current form, the menu button gives you a very concise list of options but it isn't always easy to navigate, especially if you don’t use it often enough. If you've been using Firefox for a long time, you might even miss the old menu. Firefox Button Classic Menu is an add-on that restores that old menu, making it easier to navigate. Read More

Export Multiple Gmail Messages As A Google Doc For Easy Batch-Printing [Chrome]

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Emails have all but replaced paper in many offices, but we aren’t free of paper entirely; not yet, anyway. There's always that rare occasion that calls for the printing an email; it might be needed as part of some essential work process, some legal or governmental procedure, simply some personal use like printing out a receipt for an online purchase. The fact is that emails are seldom printed, but printed at times nevertheless. Now printing an email is no big deal, but what if you need to print a whole bunch of them, like an entire email thread? Gmail Print All for Chrome is a Chrome app that makes it easier to print emails in bulk. It asks you to select a label from the ones added in your Gmail account and then exports all the emails in that label to a document that is saved to your Google Drive. You can then download the document and print it out with ease. Read More

Best Free Google Reader Alternatives For Web, Windows & Mac

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Google Reader will be gone soon and the faster you start looking for ways to move on, the better. It isn't going to be easy though; scores of developers have created apps or services that integrate and sync with Google Reader. The feature itself was not merely important, but rather considered by many to be an integral part of any worthwhile RSS reader. Times have changed though and with Reader soon to be no longer available, it’s time to consider alternatives. Understandably, Google Reader users might be looking for either a web service or a desktop app to fill the void, and we've compiled a list of free options for each platform: web, Windows, and Mac. Our Emphasis was on two key features - the app or service must be free, and it should be able to import from XML files since that is what you get when you backup your Google Reader subscriptions. With only two exceptions in our list that only partially meet these requirements, we’re hopeful you will find something that’s just right for you. Read More

How To Export Google Reader Feeds And Import Starred & Liked Items

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Google is retiring Google Reader, and we just don’t know what to do with our lives - well, our RSS feeds actually - anymore. Fortunately, the grace period before Google Reader goes the way of the dinosaurs gives us ample time to back up our feeds in order to jump ship to an alternative, and Google has provided a simple way to do so. This post details how to export and save your current Google Reader subscriptions so that they can later be imported to any RSS service or app. In addition, we'll also show you how you can back up the items you've ‘starred’ in Google Reader for later access. Read More

Get Email Alerts & Mac Menu Bar Shortcuts For Multiple Gmail Accounts

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Mac users who aren’t happy using the default Mail app have the choice to use other desktop email clients like Thunderbird or Sparrow. Many are satisfied with just using their email service’s web interface. If you’re a Gmail user and like to stick to its web interface but at the same time receive notifications for all your emails, Mail Ping is an app worth $1.99 in the Mac App Store that might interest you. The app works with Notification Center in Mountain Lion to give you alerts every time you receive a new email. The app supports multiple accounts, just like Gmail’s web interface, and allows you to open your inbox or the compose message page for any of the configured accounts from the Menu Bar. Read More

Cryptocat Brings Its Private, Encrypted Group Chat To Mac

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Two of the most important things the internet gave us are anonymity and cat pictures. While you do have the choice and many methods to remain anonymous on the internet, being so doesn't necessarily mean you’re entirely untraceable. Cryptocat is a web service that works via its browser extensions to provide you with a way to have truly secure and private conversations, and the service has just released its first desktop app for the Mac platform. Cryptocat is a free app available on the Mac App Store that lets you initiate a secure private conversation, join one initiated by someone else, or chat with many people in a public lobby. Read More

Sync Visited Reddit Links & Unviewed Comments Count Between Browsers

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Work breaks may involve a quick walk to grab lunch, a short power nap, or a small browsing session on Reddit. The great thing about Reddit is how you can browse it all you want while at, and by the time you get home, there will be new stuff on the front page. The bad thing is that most of the links you viewed earlier won’t have gone too far down the line, but it will be hard to tell which ones you've visited, if you use different computers at home and at work. Synccit for Reddit is a web service that works through a browser extension to sync your visited Reddit links history between browsers and mobile devices and through the 'reddit is fun' Android app. In this post, however, we'll only be focusing on inter-browser syncing. All you need to do is create a free account with the service, add the different devices on which you want your Reddit history to stay synced, install the extensions on the devices, and you’re good to go! Read More

OneTab Lets You Save & Close All Chrome Tabs To Restore, Export Or Import Later

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We’ve covered quite a few extensions for backing up your open tabs; Sesh is one excellent Chrome extension we reviewed a couple of years back that saves your session as well as the tabs you have open across multiple windows. Each of these extensions have one unique feature or the other to offer. OneTab is a Chrome extension that is a similar backup tool for the tabs you have open in a window, with the added benefit of being able to import and export saved tabs. Although it lacks a sync feature, its import feature will allow you to transfer tabs between browsers on different systems. You can store as many different sets of tabs as you like, and each exported set is marked by the date and time it was saved. Apart from restoring tabs, you can remove all tabs, or selective ones from a session. Read More