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Best Apps, Tips & Tweaks Of The Week [05.19.2013]

Awais Imran — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:00:31 +0000

It’s that time of the week again when we round up the most popular as well as the less-popular but useful apps, tips and tweaks that you may have missed during your hectic workweek. This time around, we discuss announcements made at Google I/O 2013, Cydia for Android, Hipstamatic’s take on Instagram, and an unreal file manager for Windows, among other excellent apps and tips.

Google I/O 2013 Announcements

This year’s Google I/O was unusually grand in terms of the quantity and quality of product announcements. Among other smaller announcements discussed in our latest Ask The Readers poll, Google launched Play Music All Access, unified Talk and Google+ Hangouts / Messenger into Hangouts for Android, iOS and Web, and redesigned Google+.

Unreal Commander Is An Extremely Powerful File Manager For Windows

Windows’ built-in File Explorer will suffice for the vast majority of desktop users out there, but those of you who are always on the hunt for a better solution will find it in Unreal Commander with its dual-pane, tabbed layout, built-in FTP client, file hash checker, splitter and archiver, folder synchronizer and more!

What Is Cydia Substrate, Winterboard For Android And How To Install It

Cydia enjoys great prominence in the iOS jailbreak community. Earlier this week, its equally prominent developer – Jay “Saurik” Freeman – released Cydia Substrate for Android that, in the future, as developers show more interest, will allow users to apply nuanced tweaks to their rooted Android smartphone. You can also install Winterboard on top to allow for deep theming options.

Adobe Photoshop Express Released For Windows 8 And RT

Entire books have been written on how to use Photoshop’s full-blown desktop app, and they still don’t cover each and everything available. Thankfully, Adobe does have an easier-to-use, more basic photo-editing app called Photoshop Express for iOS and Android that has now been launched for Windows 8 and Windows RT.

Start Menu Reviver Combines Windows 7’s Start Menu Structure With The Looks Of Windows 8 Start Screen

We have covered plenty of apps that bring back the Start Menu of Windows 7 and earlier to Windows 8, but none of them feel as at home in the Modern UI of Windows 8 as Start Menu Reviver. It effectively combines the structure of Windows 7’s Start Menu, with the looks of Windows 8’s Start screen.

Auto-Set Google Now Backgrounds As Android Wallpaper Based On Time Of Day With GoogleNowWallpapers

Are you a big fan of Google Now’s excellent in-app wallpapers? GoogleNowWallpapers for Android allows you to set these wallpapers as the background for your home screens. What’s more is that these wallpapers can be set to change dynamically based on local time.

Hipstamatic Oggl Builds On Instagram With Real-Time Filter-Lens Combos And More

Instagram may be singlehandedly dominating the photo-sharing market on mobile right now, but it’s a fact that Hipstamatic started the whole trend of sharing photos from your iPhone after applying eye-catching filters to them. Now Hipstamatic hopes to get back some market attention with Oggl.

Capture Hands-Free Panoramas On iPhone 5 With Any Panorama App Using Autopano

We have discussed Cycloramic before on these pages. It’s an app for the iPhone 5 that allows you to take hands-free panoramas; the app uses custom vibration patterns to rotate the iPhone 5 on its own. Autopano is a jailbreak tweak that uses the same tactic but works inside any panorama app of your choice.

Send Facebook Chat Stickers From Google Chrome With Facemoji

I don’t quite understand the idea of using Stickers in Facebook messages on iOS and Android (oh, wow! Big emojis! Yay!), but those of you who do and would like to be able to send them from a desktop browser should check out Facemoji for Google Chrome.

Set Any Tweet To Self-Destruct After Set Time With Efemr For Twitter

I recently discovered that there are Twitter users out there who actually go through their tweets at the end of the day to clean things up, deleting tweets they feel ‘pollute’ their profile. Well, if you are one of these people, you may want to check out Efemr to set your tweets to self-destruct after a certain period of time.

Find The Right Fonts For Your Project, Test And Compare Them Online With FontPro

Useful for web designers: FontPro is a free font-testing and discovery service that makes the task of finding the perfect font for your project a whole lot easier.

Popular Tumblr And Twitter Mashup ‘Pheed’ Now Available On Android

Take Tumblr’s multimedia sharing features and combine them with the fast and real-time nature of Twitter, and you get Pheed (pronounced the same way as ‘feed’). After a successful launch on iOS devices, it has made its way on to Android smartphones and tablets.

Collaborative Video Sharing App “Vyclone” Now Available On Windows Phone 8

Just when you think everyone has run out of compelling new ideas for mobile video sharing, an app like Vyclone comes along with “collaborative video sharing”, where users record video clips of a single moment and then create “multi-angle” movies without any extra effort. Vyclone was previously available for iOS and Android only, but was launched for Windows Phone earlier this week.

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Best Apps, Tips & Tweaks Of The Week [05.12.2013]

Awais Imran — Sun, 12 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

It’s that time of the week again when we round up the most popular as well as the less-popular but useful apps, tips and tweaks that you may have missed during your hectic workweek. This time around, we discuss Viber’s new desktop apps, a unique new launcher for Android, an amazing new widget system for iOS, and a near foolproof method for recovering your Facebook account, among other excellent apps and tips.

Viber Expands To The Desktop With New Apps For Windows And OS X

Viber is wildly popular on mobile platforms, giving services like WhatsApp and Skype a run for their money. Earlier this week, they updated all their iOS and Android apps, and launched desktop clients on Windows and OS X. Among many other useful features, the new desktop apps support free desktop-to-desktop video calling.

Splay Launcher Is A Unique Android Home Screen Replacement; Offers Novel Pie Menu-Like Navigation

We have seen our fair share of Android home screen replacements and launchers over the years, but none of them have really surprised us the way Splay Launcher did the first time we tried it out. It completely changes the interaction dynamics of a homescreen launcher by making everything accessible with a jog dial of sorts, allowing for easy one-handed operation.

Launch Desktop Apps From Mozilla Firefox With Easy Access

Modern browsers are quickly becoming the most used application on desktops and laptops, so it’s no surprise when we see an add-on like Easy Access – developed by Mozilla itself for Firefox – which allows you to launch desktop apps from within the browser. It’s a good, time-saving trick that is sure to be useful to many.

Velox Adds Widgets & Notification Popups To iOS App Icons [Review]

Velox realizes a very popular wish of many iOS users: the ability to glance at information and perform basic tasks from and of an app without launching the app itself. By swiping up on an app’s icon, you can do things like reply to the latest messages, write a new note, take a photo, check the weather, toggle WiFi, Do Not Disturb, and a whole bunch of other things – all without launching the relevant app itself.

Combine Google+ Hangouts With Remote Desktop App For Remote Access & Troubleshooting

Google+ Hangouts has received a new add-on that allows you to remotely access the desktop of a specific user from an ongoing Hangouts session, while other people in the same video chat can act as spectators. Great for remotely troubleshooting problems on your relative’s PC!

Share & Discuss Recorded iOS Gameplay Videos With Everyplay

Everyplay is an interesting new service for iOS gamers and game developers. Developers can include support for Everyplay in their games for recording gameplay and sharing it to Everyplay’s own network, or Facebook and Twitter, and then gamers can view these videos, and discuss tips and tricks using the excellent Everyplay app.

Access and Sync Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive And Box With Cloudii App For Android

Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive, Google Drive… with so many great cloud services available today, it isn’t uncommon to see people actively using two or more at a single point in time. For these people, the new Cloudii app for Android will be quite useful, as it allows you to access and sync data from all four aforementioned services.

Compress JPEG Images And View Before / After Result Side By Side With VJC For Windows

Compressing images for faster website load times is something we regularly deal with here at AddictiveTips, so a tool like GFsoft’s VJC that allows you to compress JPEGs and view – side-by-side – the original and the compressed file is quite useful.

View The Most Popular Songs On Twitter And Download Track Previews With #trending For Windows Phone

Twitter has been following an ‘iOS first’ policy with their latest apps, i.e. Vine and #music, so third-party developers working on other platforms have been using this opportunity to come up with their own solutions. Developer ashterisk has done exactly that for #music on Windows Phone by launching #trending with which you can view the most popular tracks on Twitter, listen to and download 30 second samples for setting as your ringtone.

Splitr For iOS Plays Separate Songs For Each Earphone Earbud

For times on a long road-trip when you have two people but only one iOS device and pair of headphones, Splitr can play separate songs for left and right earbuds so you and your friend can listen to your own music simultaneously!

Watch 4 Idle Can Launch Programs And Batch Files When Your PC Goes Into Idle Mode

To my surprise, there are a large number of people out there who leave their PCs on during the day and night despite not having anything for it to do. With Watch 4 Idle for Windows, you can have your PC perform certain actions like going into standby mode or running a certain program when it goes idle. We recommend combining this with the 6 productive tasks your PC can perform when you aren’t using it for making the world a slightly better place.

Convert MP3, WMV, M4A/AAC Songs To Ringtones On Nokia Lumia Windows Phones

Nokia has updated their Ringtone Maker app for Lumia series to support conversion and trimming of not just MP3 files, but also WMV and M4A into ringtones for use on your Windows Phone device.

How To Reset Lost Facebook Password With The New Trusted Contacts Feature

Facebook recently introduced a very important security feature called “Trusted Friends”. With it, you choose three people in your friends list who can help quickly recover your account in case it is wrongfully taken over by someone with malicious intent. In our post linked below, we discuss the criteria for selecting “Trusted Friends”, and the process of recovering your account with these friends.

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The Best Apps, Tips & Tweaks Of The Week [05.05.2013]

Awais Imran — Sun, 05 May 2013 15:21:06 +0000

It’s that time of the week again when we round up the most popular as well as the less-popular but equally useful apps, tips and tweaks that you may have missed during your hectic workweek. This time around, we discuss an awesomely easy way for transferring files from PC to Android, Google Now for iOS, a new digital jukebox for Windows, and a significantly improved Facebook app for Windows Phone, among other excellent apps and tips.

Effortlessly Send Files From Windows, Mac & Linux To Android Using QR Codes With qrSend

Wireless file transfer between PC and Android has never been as easy as this. You right-click on a file on your PC, generate a QR code for it, scan it with your Android phone, and download it right away. The developer seems pretty enthusiastic about their app, so it’s only going to get better in the future.

Google Now Finally Launched On iOS In The Form Of A Google Search App Update

Google Now – the amazingly accurate virtual search assistant – is regarded as the most attractive new feature in Android 4.1/4.2 “Jelly Bean”, so it is nice to see it finally make its way to iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

Continue Using Windows Live Messenger Without Switching To Skype With Messenger Reviver

Microsoft has been coaxing Live Messenger users into shifting to Skype for a long time, but recently they have started forcing them to switch over. I have made the switch myself, but if you just do not like Skype, you may check out Messenger Reviver 2 for Windows that modifies your Live Messenger installation so as to bypass the annoying update dialog.

Facebook Launches Fresh New Beta App For Windows Phone 8, We Go Hands-On

Facebook’s Windows Phone app has always lagged far behind its iOS and Android counterparts, but Microsoft is now making concerted efforts to bridge that gap. This can be seen in the form of their new beta app, which looks like a decent mix of Facebook for Android/iOS and the “Modern” design aesthetics of the Windows Phone platform. It’s a bit unstable at the moment, though.

Nemp Is A Themable, Portable Music Library Manager & Media Server With Cover Flow And A Built-In Tag Editor

iTunes isn’t the only music jukebox app on Windows, you know. Nemp is a good alternative (among more than a dozen others) with iTunes-like Cover Flow, built-in tag editor, in addition to the usual features you would expect from digital jukebox. What’s more is it can act like Media Server so you can listen to your music remotely!

Emphasize Lets You Change UI Accent Color Of Individual iOS Apps; Is A Free Alternative To Accentify Jailbreak Tweak

Accentify – the iOS jailbreak tweak that lets you change the default UI color throughout iOS – has an excellent free alternative in the form of “Emphasize” from renowned developer Ryan Petrich. We highly recommend you give it a whirl, as the results are pleasing to the eye.

BetterDesktopTool Brings OS X Expose / Mission Control-like Features To Windows

For folks who have shifted to Windows from OS X and miss Expose / Mission Control: BetterDesktopTool is a free alternative that lets you view currently-open windows from a bird’s eye view. It’s a feature that many power users rely on to increase productivity.

Onavo Protect Makes Web Browsing Safe On iOS; Doubles As A VPN Service

No matter how much money you pay for a top-of-the-line security suite, if you don’t practice basic computer security hygiene, malware is going to get inside your PC, or someone is going to scam you. iOS is pretty secure against the former type of security threats, but for the latter, you will need common sense and, if you like, an app like Onavo Protect that directs all internet traffic through a VPN to protect you against scams and unsafe websites.

Fidelity Investments Just Might Be The Best Stock Market App For Windows Phone 8

We have played around with quite a few stock market apps for Windows Phone, but none of them are as impressive as Fidelity Investments with its lovely UI, stock tracking and news reading features.

Switch Between Chrome Tabs Using Mouse Wheel With Tabman Tabs Manager

I normally have at least a dozen tabs open in Firefox, and switching between them is not a very easy task. Those of you on Chrome with similar browsing habits can, and should, check out the neat Tabman Tabs Manager add-on with which you can switch between tabs using mouse wheels. It also includes a search bar for quickly finding a particular tab.

Easily Plan A Vacation Trip To A New City With Tripmatic City Guides & Maps For Android

Tripomatic – the popular trip-planning web service – recently launched an app on Android for planning trips on the go, which can help make the tedious process of planning a good vacation trip to a new city (or cities) a much easier task.

Save Power And Monitor Battery Life On iOS With BatteryDoctorPro

Battery saving iOS apps don’t get any better than this! With BatteryDoctorPro, you can switch between different power profiles, toggle WiFi, mobile internet, display brightness from Notification Center, see how much load a certain app puts on your CPU and RAM, clear app cache, free system RAM and do a whole lot more for better battery life. The fact that it is free just seals the deal.

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The Best Apps, Tips & Tweaks Of The Week [04.28.2013]

Awais Imran — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:22:14 +0000

It’s that time of the week again when we round up the most popular as well as the less-popular but equally useful apps, tips and tweaks that you may have missed during your hectic workweek. This time around, we discuss a novel way of syncing files between two computers, an app that helps you maintain good posture when using your Mac, three Facebook-related apps and tweaks, and Tumblr’s newly released app for Windows Phone 8, among other excellent apps and tips.

Securely Sync Unlimited Files Across Two Computers With BitTorrent Sync

BitTorrent’s Sync is a new kind of file-syncing service that eschews Dropbox’s upload to cloud, download to all your devices process for a more direct method: files are synced between two computers directly over Peer-to-Peer protocol. This way, no third-party service gets access to your files and you have virtually unlimited storage.

Use Facebook Chat Heads From iOS Home Screen Or From Within Any Other App With MessageBox

One of Facebook Home’s more fascinating features is the ability to reply back to your friend’s messages from the home screen or from within any other app using “Chat Heads”. Facebook’s iOS app received them a couple of weeks ago, but their use was limited to within the app. Now, if you’ve got a jailbroken iOS device, you can install MessageBox to use Chat Heads anywhere outside the Facebook app.

View Word, Excel & PowerPoint Files In Google Chrome With Office Viewer

Browsers these days have built-in support for reading PDF files, but what about the equally, if not more popular, Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets or presentation slideshows? Well, if you install Chrome Office Viewer on your Chrome (Beta), you will be able to view these files without leaving the browser!

Record Voice / Phone Calls On Android With MP3 InCall Recorder & Voice

Call recording should really be built-in to today’s smartphones, but since that’s not the case, you will have to resort to third-party apps like the excellent MP3 InCall Recorder & Voice.

Feedly Reader For Google Chrome Lets You Enjoy The Google Reader Look And Feel In Feedly

In the past few weeks, online RSS reading service Feedly has enjoyed a great influx of new users coming over from the soon-to-be-shuttered Google Reader. Those of you who miss Google Reader’s look and feel may like to check out Feedly Reader for Google Chrome.

Maintain Good Sitting Posture When Using Your Mac With Nekoze

We are spending hours upon hours on our PCs daily, and – among many other things – it is killing our backs. We can significantly reduce the damage being done to our spines by taking a break every 20-30 minutes, and maintaining good posture. For the latter, we recommend Nekoze (currently OS X only) that monitors your posture using your webcam, and alerts you whenever it detects slouching. When will they release this for Windows?

Indigo Is A Powerful Virtual Voice-Powered Assistant For Android & Windows Phone 8

The virtual assistant craze that was ignited by Siri for iPhone 4S back in 2011 has decidedly died down a fair bit by now, but that isn’t stopping developers from making new ones. Indigo is a new virtual assistant for Android and Windows Phone 8 that includes all the usual features you expect from such a kind of app, along with the ability to converse naturally.

Clear Individual Notifications Or Turn Them Into Reminders With Abstergo For iOS

Abstergo is a two-in-one jailbreak tweak. It allows you to clear notifications individually (like on Android), and also allows you to turn notifications (and messages in the Messages.app) into reminders.

FBPrivacy Adds Useful New Privacy-Oriented & Other Features To Facebook And Messenger For iPhone

I don’t quite like Facebook’s “Seen” feature that tells you when your recipients saw your message/group post. If you have the same opinion, and are interested in a bunch of other awesome features like being able to disable the “Typing…” alert, attaching multiple photos in messages, seeing timestamps for each message, and more, you should definitely check out FBPrivacy for your jailbroken iOS device.

Official Tumblr App Now Available For Windows Phone 8

Windows Phone 8’s stigma of having no app support from big companies is slowly but surely being rid of, as services like Tumblr launch good quality native apps on Microsoft’s burgeoning mobile platform. Tumblr’s Windows Phone 8 maintains the signature “Modern UI” look, while having just about every feature of the more mature iOS app.

How To View Recently Added Bookmarks in Google Chrome

Firefox users have a nice “Recent Bookmarks” feature for – you guessed it – viewing your most recently added bookmarks. Chrome doesn’t have this option built-in, but you can get the same functionality with a nifty add-on from the Chrome Web Store called – yes, you guessed it again – “Recent Bookmarks”.

How To Chat With Your Facebook Friends From OS X Messages/iChat App

With over a billion active users, Facebook Chat is the IM service for chatting with your friends. If you would like to use said service using the built-in Messages/iChat app on OS X, you can follow our simple two-step guide to set things up.

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The Week’s Best Apps, Tips & Tweaks [04.21.2013]

Awais Imran — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:42:10 +0000

It’s that time of the week again when we round up the most popular as well as the less-popular but equally useful apps, tips and tweaks that you may have missed during your hectic workweek. This time around, we discuss a new music discovery service from Twitter, an excellent weather app from Yahoo!, a retro console emulator for Windows Phone, and a useful AppleScript for quickly saving snippets of text as notes, among other excellent apps and tips.

Twitter Launches New #Music Discovery Service Powered By Spotify, Rdio And iTunes

Twitter has always wanted to be an online media company. First they launched Vine, now they’ve introduced an interesting new service called Twitter #music: an online music discovery service powered by Twitter’s active userbase of artists, thought leaders, and of course, the people you follow.

Yahoo! Releases Gorgeous New Weather App With An Elegant UI And Detailed Data

Yahoo!’s new CEO Marissa Meyer is working hard to make Yahoo! and its once-famous array of services relevant again, especially in the highly competitive mobile space. The slick new Yahoo! Weather app with its gorgeous UI and wealth of weather information including detailed daily/weekly forecast, precipitation maps, wind speed and more is good evidence of that.

How To Enable Two Factor Authentication For Your Outlook.com Email Account

Microsoft has finally introduced two factor authentication for Outlook.com users. This will significantly beef up your account security, so we strongly recommend you enable it right now!

How To Make Any App Or Window Stay “Always On Top” In Windows

Sometimes, when you have useful data in an app that you’re regularly referring to while using another software, it makes good sense to have that app and its data always appear on top of other app’s windows. Now, this feature isn’t built into every piece of software on Windows, but that isn’t a problem since you can use a neat little script called Window On Top to enable Always On Top behavior for any app/window with a keyboard shortcut.

Set A 360 Degree Panorama “Photo Sphere” As A Live Wallpaper On Any Android Device

Photosphere Live Wallpaper for Android does exactly what its name implies: it turns 360 degree panoramas (made using Android 4.2 or above) into live wallpapers that can pan around based on how you hold your device.

View Weather, Latest News, Apps & Frequent Sites In A Google Now-Like Layout On Chrome’s New Tab Page

At first glance, it looked like something straight out of Google’s HQ: “New Tab Page” for Google Chrome brings a Google Now-like look and feel to your new tab page with an attractive voice-activated search bar, most visited websites, news, weather and your apps.

Just.me For iPhone Combines Messaging With Great Social File Sharing Features

Yet another free messaging app for iOS? What can an app possibly do at this point to stand out from the dozens of already established (or slowly dying) services like Viber, WhatsApp, KIK etc.? Well, you can make a private social file sharing network out of it that doesn’t require your friends to sign up to make use of it.

OpenSignal For iPhone Helps You Find Nearby WiFi Networks & Ranks Cellular Networks By Coverage

Network signal apps have previously been limited to Android and jailbroken iOS devices, but OpenSignal changes that by bringing just about the same experience available on the App Store. It helps users see useful information about WiFi networks around them, and also helps decide which wireless cellular company offers the best coverage in their area.

Save Selected Text To OS X Notes App From Right-Click Menu With This AppleScript

With this AppleScript, you can quickly save any bit of selected text as a note to the Notes app in OS X.

Get High On Nostalgia With VGBC8: A Game Boy & GB Color Emulator For Windows Phone

Until more big game development companies decide to give due attention to Windows Phone, you can always fill the void with games from the 1990s. VGBC8 is a recently released new app for emulating Game Boy and Game Boy Color games on Windows Phone powered smartphones. There are plenty of high-quality titles, such as the Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros and Pokemon series, which have aged surprisingly well.

Le Dimmer Dims Everything On Desktop Except Currently Active Window For Enhanced Concentration

This can come real handy for people who find themselves easily distracted by other, currently-open applications: Le Dimmer dims all other windows or apps – as well as the Desktop – except the currently active window.

Grabby By Ryan Petrich Adds Four Customizable App Grabbers / Shortcuts To The iOS Lock Screen

iOS 5.1’s Camera Grabber added quick access to the camera app from the lockscreen, so the jailbreak community thought, “Why not allow other apps?”, and they delivered soon afterward in form of multiple tweaks, each with its own interpretation of how app grabbers should work. “Grabby” is a similar new tweak that adds four customizable icons for messages, phone, music and the camera.

Invite Friends To Upload Content To Your Dropbox, Google Drive Or AWS Account With EntourageBox

Services like Jumpshare are great for sharing files with your friends, but what if you want a dedicated folder on Dropbox or Google Drive where all your friends can easily share files with you without first being invited individually? EntourageBox allows you to do exactly that!

Enable ‘Torch Mode’ Or Manually Adjust Flash Intensity Before Taking Low-Light Photos With PhotoTorch For iPhone

My solution to the problem of mobile camera flashes washing out photos taken at night is just not to use flash at all, but there’s a more sensible solution available for jailbroken iPhones: PhotoTorch. It allows you to adjust the intensity of your flash before taking a photograph. This way you can get the optimal flash intensity based on the low-light scenario at hand.

Mix Songs Like A Real DJ With Crossfader for iPhone

Crossfader eschews standard buttons and UI elements you would expect from DJ apps in favor of actually asking users to tilt and rotate their devices around like an actual DJ.

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The Week’s Best Apps, Tips & Tweaks [04.14.2013]

Awais Imran — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:20:19 +0000

It’s that time of the week again when we round up last week’s most popular as well as the less-popular but equally useful apps, tips and tweaks that you may have missed during your hectic workweek. This time around, we discuss an AirDrop-like app for Windows and Mac, a tool that bypasses WiFi tethering restrictions on Android phones without root access, and how to get global autocorrection in Windows, among other excellent apps and tips.

FileDrop Lets You Share Files Between Windows PCs and Macs On The Same Network Through Drag & Drop

Implemented in a style similar to OS X Lion’s “AirDrop” feature, FileDrop allows you to quickly share files between PCs running Windows or OS X on the same network. Although it is missing a couple of features, we like it because of its cross-platform nature – there are FileDrop apps coming soon to iOS and Android as well!

View Every Bit Of System Information In One Place With PC Hunter For Windows

PC Hunter is an overwhelmingly powerful application for Windows XP and above that shows you more information about your system than you can handle. It informs you about currently running processes, network traffic, registry files, startup items, and kernel modules, among dozens of other more technical things – great for when you’re looking for ways to optimize your system’s performance.

Hotspot Control Enables WiFi Tethering On Your Android Device Without Requiring Root Permissions

Android smartphones sold through wireless carriers often have their built-in WiFi tethering / portable hotspot features disabled, but you can get it back with respected Android hacker/developer Chainfire’s new Hotspot Control app. Works even if your smartphone is not rooted!

Screenink Is A Powerful New Screenshot App With Layered Annotation And Freehand Selection

If you thought your screenshot app has all the features you’ll ever want, wait till you check out Screenink (Windows and OS X) with its ability to do things like drawing custom shapes, making free-form selections, measuring lengths of and angels between on-screen objects, pick colors and more, all in a Photoshop-like layered editing interface.

Turn Any Android App Widget Into A Persistent, Floating Panel With Overlays

Tiny Apps, Floating Browser etc. are dedicated custom widgets that float on top of other apps. Overlay’s developers thought, “Oh, that’s cute!”, and released an app that can turn any widget into a floating app you can use while you’re in other apps.

Drag And Drop Web Content For Later Viewing With dragdis For Firefox, Chrome And Safari

Similar in concept – but noticeably better in execution – to Evernote’s Web Clipper, dragdis is a new service that allows you to save interesting images, videos, pieces of text and whole websites for viewing them later. It’s better than Evernote’s Web Clipper, because the process of saving items is as simple as dragging and dropping them onto one edge of the browser, and the UI for viewing your items later on is easy on the eyes.

Cinemagram Brings Its Vine-Like Short GIF/Video Sharing App To Android

You may think Vine by Twitter is the first app to come up with the idea of sharing short video clips, but the fact is Cinemagram did it first. Now, Cinemagram has been launched for Android in the hopes of taking back some of the short video sharing service market that Vine is currently dominating.

Buzz Launcher For Android Boasts Crowdsourced Themes, Multi-Themed Layouts And More

Being able to freely theme your Android device is one of the many reasons why Android enthusiasts are so enthusiastic about their mobile platform choice. In addition to other niceties, such as layouts that allow a different theme on each home screen, the new Buzz Launcher’s main feature is theming, and crowd-sourced theming at that, too, so you can freely share your creation with people from all over the world.

Get Widget-Like Playback Controls For iOS Music App On The Home Screen With MusicWidget

MusicWidget for jailbroken iOS devices cuts down on a few swipes and taps by displaying a widget with previous, play and next controls along with basic track metadata whenever you double tap the Music app icon.

Force Google Chrome For OS X To Launch In Incognito Mode Every Time

If you often find the need to jump right into private browsing after launching Chrome, this AppleScript script can save you a few clicks. It creates a special app shortcut that launches Chrome directly in Incognito Mode.

How To Get Autocorrect And Text Expansion Throughout Windows With WordExpander

If you rely on autocorrect for text input on your smartphone and wish to get the same functionality on your Windows PC, you should definitely check out WordExpander. The application supports both word and phrase replacement can be loaded with a dictionary for regular autocorrection as well as libraries for replacement of abbreviations, Medical Transcription and more.

LightMail Is An Elegant iPhone Mail App With A Unified Attachments View

Sparrow’s demise on iOS has led to an increased influx of third-party mail apps. Mailbox, Gmail, Mail Pilot and now, a new app called LightMail. It nails the basics: multiple email account support, push notifications, intuitive gestures, and includes a nice option to view all recently received attachments in one place and sort them by type – something I hope other mail clients implement in the near future.

Experience iOS Status Bar, Notification Center And Banner Alerts On Android With Espier Notifications

If you want your Android smartphone to look more like an iPhone, you should install Espier’s group of iOS-mimicking apps: Espier Launcher, Espier Screen Locker, and finally, the new Espier Notifications, which replaces Android’s status bar, notification drawer and notifications with the iOS status bar, notification center and pop-up/banner alerts.

Quickly Rename Icon, Clear Badge, Clear App Cache & Backup App Data With IconTool For iOS

IconTool for jailbroken iOS devices is a useful tweak that displays options for clearing an app’s cache, backing up its data, etc. when you triple tap an icon in “jiggle mode”. We like it because it combines multiple tweaks into one tweak, while providing quick and easy access.

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Best Apps, Tips & Tweaks Of The Week [04.07.2013]

Awais Imran — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:50:32 +0000

It’s that time of the week again when we discuss last week’s most popular as well as the less-popular but equally useful apps, tips and tweaks that you may have missed during your hectic workweek. In this week’s roundup, we have a hack that can significantly boost YouTube streaming performance, a gesture-based keyboard replacement for iOS, a pseudo Notification Center for Windows Phone, and a new music-streaming app from Nokia for Windows 8 and RT users.

Nokia Launches Awesome New Music Streaming App For Windows 8 & RT

Nokia’s amazing new Music app for Windows 8 easily fills the void left by popular music-streaming services like Last.fm and Spotify. For just $3.99/month, you can get unlimited song skips, offline playlists, high-quality audio and plenty more interesting features that aren’t available anywhere else! The service comes with a free 7-day trial, after which you may purchase a subscription or continue using the app to play local audio files.

Make YouTube Streaming Significantly Faster With This Hack

YouTube’s streaming performance appears to have really decreased over the past few months on some ISPs. Thankfully, there’s a (bit of a hit-or-miss) reversible hack you can apply on your PC that can make slow buffering a thing of the past!

Tiny Apps For Android Combines Five Handy Floating Tools In One App

Because of their huge displays, small apps that “float” over other apps are suitable on Android smartphones and phablets. Tiny Apps is a package of floating widgets for playing music, painting, doing basic calculations, recording sound clips and taking notes.

Open Command Prompt As Administrator In Current Path With ELE

This is for those of you who live in the command line: ELE allows you to quickly open a Windows Command Prompt window with Administrator access in whatever directory you have currently open in File Explorer or even within CMD.

TouchPal Is A Swype-Like Gesture-Based Keyboard Replacement For iOS

If you happen to be interested in the Swype-style of gesture-based input available on Android, where you string letters together in one gesture form words, then you should check out the free, new TouchPal keyboard replacement for jailbroken iOS devices. Despite having its “beta” tag taken off, it still feels like a work-in-progress in certain parts. But it’s an alternative, and alternatives are always fun to check out!

Unification Is A Combined Notification Center For Windows Phone Apps

Users’ need for a unified notification center on Windows Phone 8 may be (temporarily) met with the new Unification app for Windows Phone 8 that integrates with third-party apps so it can act as a makeshift notifications drawer / center. The list of supported apps is pretty slim at the moment, but will improve in the future. The team behind the app also plans extend the unification of notifications beyond apps to platforms with apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 7.

Pinnacle Lets You Go Back To An iOS App’s Main Page Or See Navigation Menu History By Holding Back Button

Pinnacle is a new jailbreak tweak for iOS that allows you to go back to an app’s main page by tapping and holding the back button, provided it uses the stock UI framework. There’s also a Navigation History feature with which you can jump back to a certain part of the app. It’s the sort of tweak that makes you think, “Why didn’t Apple build this into iOS?”

Camera360 Comes To Windows Phone 8; Boasts Impressive Live Photo Filters And A Neat Interface

Instagram has been a no-show on Windows Phone for a long time now, so it is up to apps like Camera360 to fill the void. It allows you take photos (with real-time filters), frame them, do basic photo-editing, and then share them on Facebook, Twitter and Flickr.

Get Notifications When New Webpages Use Specific Keywords With Talkwalker Alerts

Google Search and Gmail aren’t going anywhere soon, but you may never know about less-popular services like Alerts. With that in mind, Talkwalker Alerts is a good, free alternative that allows you to be notified whenever a new webpage is published that includes a specific keyword(s) of your choice. Very useful if you are careful about maintaining a clean online identity.

Get iOS Lockscreen Experience On Android With Espier Screen Locker

Espier is known for their iOS Springboard-like launcher for Android, so this new iOS-like Lockscreen app for Android from them is no surprise. Save for one bug and a lack of customization, it works surprisingly well!

Use Aviary’s Photo-Editing Features Directly On Facebook Photos With Fly Photo Editor For Chrome

Aviary is popularly known for their excellent photo-editing apps on iOS, Android and Windows, and now you can get their features in Google Chrome with Fly Photo Editor for Facebook. With this extension, you can quickly apply filters on your Facebook photos to give them that special hipster feel without ever leaving your browser.

RecordMyScreen Is A free Alternative To DisplayRecorder For iOS

DisplayRecorder is every app reviewer and developer’s favorite screen recording tool for iOS. RecordMyScreen is an excellent, free and open source alternative to it with a slightly limited featureset, but since it combines open source with a vibrant developer community, I have a feeling it will grow wings real soon.

Create Cross-Device Mosaics On iPhone, iPod touch And iPad With Mosaic.io

Cross-device mosaics are the heart of some pretty amazing magic tricks and you can now create your own with mosaic.io. Not just that, the app lets you combine the displays of multiple iDevices for inter-device file sharing as well.

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The Best Apps, Tips & Tweaks Of The Week [03.31.2013]

Awais Imran — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:16:41 +0000

It’s that time of the week again when we discuss last week’s most popular as well as the less-popular but equally useful apps, tips, and tweaks that you may have missed due to the busy-ness of the hectic, modern workweek. In this week’s roundup, we discuss an iOS-oriented web app that looks and works like a native app, a browser-based screen-recording app that can work outside the browser, and an interesting new app that aims to ensure a complete, duplicate free contact book, among other cool apps, tips and tweaks.

Screenbird Is A Full-Fledged Screen Recorder App That Works From Your Browser

Although it is launched from a web browser, Screenbird is not limited to record your display’s proceedings within it. The app also comes with a nifty “Do Over” feature, and easy-to-use online sharing options. Screenbird successfully crosses the line between web apps and desktop apps.

HyperSwitch Is A Windows-Like App Switcher For Mac With Previews

This will be especially handy for Windows power users working on OS X: HyperSwitch allows you to quickly switch between apps in a Windows-like multitasker, except with more powerful features like, for example, being able to manage playback in iTunes.

Experience Android 4.2 Jelly Bean-Style Toggles On Any Android Smartphone With AnTek Quick Settings

Only a very small fraction of Android users are on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean right now, so those of you on Android 4.1 and earlier may be feeling left out on features like the lovely toggles in the 4.2 Notification Drawer. Well, fret not! You can get the same toggles (and a whole lot more!) on your older Android smartphone with AnTek Quick Settings.

Remotely Manage Photos In Your Android Gallery From Chrome With SnapPea Photos

Android has quite a few accomplished remote data management apps, but there are very few that are completely focused towards remotely managing your photos. SnapPea Photos is a Chrome plugin that works with the all-purpose Android remote management app SnapPea, allowing you to not only wirelessly transfer photos between your PC and phone, but also to view them in a slideshow, rotate, and delete them.

Forecast Is A Mobile-Optimized Weather Web App With Precipitation Maps

If you think web apps are no match for native apps, get ready to have your mind blown. Forecast is a weather web app for both desktops and mobile platforms developed by the folks behind the popular Dark Sky app for iOS that looks and performs just like a native app.

Get Lock Screen Widgets & Dynamic Wallpapers On Windows Phone 8 With “Lock Widgets”

Very few apps take advantage of Windows Phone 8’s ability to set dynamic wallpapers based on a selected source, and there is only one real good app that enables lock screen widgets: the new “Lock Widgets” by Jaxbot. With it, you can see weather and battery information right on your lock screen!

Play Starcraft: Brood War and Caesar III On Android With Winulator

Smartphones are starting to become powerful enough to emulate somewhat recent PC games. Winulator is a Windows app emulator for Android that can, with a bit of help, run two classic real-time strategy games – Starcraft: Brood War and Caesar III. The following link explains how to set it up on your device.

For Public PC Admins: Automatically Restore Windows To Pre-Defined State After Reboot

If you happen to be the administrator of, say, an internet café, you’ll want to use Reboot Restore Rx. The app automatically restores a PC to a pre-defined state after every reboot so that any changes made to it by temporary users – installing crapware, changing important settings – are easily reverted.

This Jailbreak Tweak Auto-Updates iOS Apps In The Background

“Auto App Updater” is a very useful new jailbreak tweak for iOS that automatically updates apps in the background, something Android users have been enjoying for a long time.

Group Chrome Tabs Into Windows Based On Title, Hostname And URL With TabJuggler

Current tab management in browsers like Firefox and Chrome is far from perfect. Once you open more than a dozen tabs, things get really out of control. Many extensions have tried and subsequently failed with the problem; TabJuggler for Chrome is a new extension for Chrome that attempts solving it in a fresh new way.

Karma Is A Full-Featured Reddit App For iPhone

Karma is a new contender for the title of the Best Reddit App for iPhone – currently held by “Alien Blue”. It attempts to simplify the whole experience of using Reddit by offering the most important, basic features in a very easy-to-use user interface. It’s also completely free!

addappt Updates Your iPhone Address Book When Contacts Edit Their Own Profiles

It’s not easy keeping your contacts up to date and complete. I once sync’d my own, carefully-edited contacts with Facebook, and since then, there are dozens of duplicates and even empty contacts that I simply can’t be bothered to fix. With that in mind, Addappt for iOS cleverly updates your contacts based on information included by your friends themselves!

Run Android Apps In Full-Screen Mode With Quick Access To Notifcations & Navigation With full!screen

Useful for Android phones with virtual buttons: full!screen allows apps to expand to use the full, available real-estate offered by your display while ensuring you can quickly see your status bar, go back to the home screen and access the multitasking app list thanks to elegant, customizable, translucent buttons visible in the corners.

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The Best Apps, Tips & Tweaks Of The Week [03.24.2013]

Awais Imran — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:00:35 +0000

It’s that time of the week again when we discuss the most important as well as most popular apps, tips and tweaks that we covered last week. This week’s roundup includes a hands-on review of a brand new service from Google, a new browser plugin for improved tab management, and a powerful new photo editor for Windows 8 / RT, among other things. Check it all out after the jump.

Google Launches Keep: Notes & To-Do List Syncing Service For Web & Android [Hands-On Review]

Last week, Google launched a new service called “Keep”, which allows you to sync notes and to-do lists between your Android smartphone and your desktop. The overall concept is similar to Evernote, but it is way behind in terms of features. We discuss this in detail in our hands-on review. Be sure to check out our post comparing Keep with OneNote, Notes, Simplenote and Evernote as well.

Launch, Backup And Uninstall Modern UI Apps From Windows 8 Desktop With Windows App Boss

If you feel that the process of managing Modern UI apps from the Start Screen is too cumbersome, you should consider checking out Windows App Boss. It allows you to quickly install/uninstall apps, and even take full backups in form of snapshots, so you can revert to the app’s current state later on if you like.

Intab For Google Chrome Lets You Open Links In Adjustable Sidebar Within Same Tab

Browsers with tabs support have been around for a decade now, but we still haven’t really cracked tab management; order turns into chaos after you open more than a dozen tabs. Intab for Chrome aims to solve one small part of the problem by allowing you to open a link within the same tab. It’s well-crafted and works nicely most of the time.

Official Reuters App For iPhone & iPad Impresses With A Great UI

If you want to stay updated on international news under topics like Politics, Business, World, and Technology, you simply cannot go wrong with Reuters’ impressive new app for the iPhone and iPad. It has a lovely user interface, and an interesting new Watchlist feature for following the stock market.

Intelligent Ringer Dynamically Adjusts Your Android Smartphone’s Ring Volume Based On Ambient Noise

It’s an excellent idea with an equally excellent execution: your phone adjusts its ringer volume based on ambient noise levels to ensure you never miss an important call while you’re at a noisy party, and that you don’t get jolted awake when the phone rings in the middle of the night.

Popular Aviary Photo Editor Now Available For Windows 8 And RT

Aviary’s Photo Editor is among our favorites on iOS and Android, and now they have launched it on Microsoft’s new operating systems for both desktop and tablet users. The app elegantly balances comprehensive photo-editing features with an easy-to-use user interface.

Play PSP Games On Your iPhone And iPod touch With PPSSPP Emulator

Playing PlayStation Portable games on a touch-screen only device isn’t convenient at all, but the very idea of being able to play full-fledged PSP games like God of War, Wipeout, Virtua Tennis, Lumines on a smartphone is enough to generate considerable excitement. PPSSPP emulator is a work-in-progress app at the moment, but it is still worth checking out.

Trovebox Saves Your Facebook, Instagram And Flickr Photos Under One Roof For Safekeeping

Trovebox acts as a bridge between your shared photos on Facebook, Instagram, Flickr and online storage services like Dropbox, Box.net, Amazon S3, CX and Trovebox itself. This ensures your photos remained backed up while allowing you to see your shared photos from a single app.

Get ‘Remind Me Later’ Options For iOS Alerts, Mail, Messages And Safari With AnyReminder

AnyReminder is a notable new jailbreak tweak for iOS that brings the Phone app’s Remind Me Later feature to other stock apps.

Create A Personal Dashboard And Sync It Across All Your Windows 8 / RT Devices With Qool

With qool (pronounced as “cool”), you can make your own dashboard/workspace with sticky notes-like “tiles” that can be anything from basic reminders, results of a brainstorming session, etc. in the form of images, videos, audio clips and more. This dashboard can then be synced across all your Windows 8 and RT devices for ubiqutous management.

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The Best Apps, Tips & Tweaks Of The Week [03.17.2013]

Awais Imran — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:00:05 +0000

It’s that time of the week again when we round up last week’s greatest apps, tips and tweaks; this is the part where you make yourself a nice, warm mug of Chai Latte, get comfortable in your favorite seat and start clicking through to all of these amazing articles you missed during the busy workweek.

The Official Twitter App For Windows 8 And RT

Last week, Twitter finally released their long-awaited app for Windows 8 & RT. To our surprise, the app is surprisingly good. It has the same feature-set as its popular cousin on iOS and Android, in addition to Windows 8 / RT-specific features like Snap View, Live Tiles, Charms Search and Share and more.

Swap Faces Within Photos & Videos In Real-Time With Yahoo! Face Stealer

Yahoo! Japan has come up with a surprisingly entertaining app called “Face Stealer”, which allows you to swap faces with people like Mona Lisa, Albert Einstein, cartoon characters, or just about anyone else as long as you have a clear photo of them in your Camera Roll. What makes Face Stealer so darn good is how it does all this in real-time with your phone’s front-facing camera, and not just in photos but in videos too.

Change Size & Position Of The Windows 8 Start Screen With ImmersiveTaille

ImmersiveTaille is yet another Start Screen customization tool for Windows 8. Using this open-source app, you can specify the Start Screen to be displayed in Desktop mode in a size and at a position of your choosing.

HTC One All-In-One Toolkit Offers Bootloader Unlock, Custom Recovery Installation And Root

HTC One is the best flagship Android smartphone of 2013, hands down. It has me considering jumping back to Android, despite being so very deep in the iOS ecosystem. The fact that you can now unlock its bootloader, install a custom recovery and enjoy root access further tips the balance in its favor.

Quickly Queue Songs In iOS Music App With Cyueue By Saurik

His Beardliness, Jay “Saurik” Freeman – popularly known for being the man behind alternative app store Cydia – has developed a new tweak called Cyueue that allows you to queue songs the way you can in iTunes 11. It’s the sort of tweak that makes you go, “Why didn’t Apple include this in iOS in the first place?”

Repix For iOS Is An Innovative Photo-Editing App With Amazing Filters & Effects

What? Another photo-editing app for iOS? Don’t we have enough of them already? Well, not yet! With selective filtering, lovely array of brushes, tasteful use of gestures, and an elegant overall user interface, Repix instantly won our approval. It’s also completely free!

How To Upload Vine Videos Longer Than 6 Seconds

Vine’s six-second limit is there to encourage brevity, but if you have an idea that just cannot be summed up in six seconds or less and you absolutely need to post it on Vine and Vine only, then you can follow our step-by-step guide to learn how to do so. Keep in mind that this isn’t recommended, as your video will eventually be taken down.

MessageMe Is An Excellent Mobile Messaging App For iOS And Android With Great Sharing Options

With the likes of WhatsApp, Viber, KIK, Hike etc. dominating the free instant messaging market on smartphones, what’s a new cross-platform messaging app to do for attracting users? MessageMe believes the answer lies in a graceful user interface and powerful sharing options like the ability to share music, voice clips and doodles, in addition to the usual photos, videos and user location.

Open A Private Tab Within Normal Browsing Window In Mozilla Firefox

Every modern browser today has some sort of private browsing mode where it doesn’t log your activity, but no one allows you to open them in the same window along with your other normal tabs, that is unless you have Mozilla Firefox and you are willing to install the very useful “Private Tab” add-on.

View Customizable Pop-up Notification Alerts For Any Android App With Notify Me!

iOS relied on pop-up style notifications for many years before Apple introduced the Android-like Notifications Center in iOS 5. If you somehow happen to like in-your-face pop-up notifications and want them for your Android smartphone, you should check out Notify Me! from the link below.

ColorBug Is The Best Color Picker For Windows We’ve Come Across So Far

There are plenty of color pickers available for Windows, but no single application is as good in helping web designers and programmers do their job as ColorBug. You can take a temporary screenshot of your area of interest, and then zoom in to the exact pixel whose HEX color value you wish to use in your design. There are various other format options like C++ and RGB, and even a feature that allows you get ready-to-use CSS code for gradients.

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The Best Apps, Tips & Tweaks Of The Week [03.10.2013]

Awais Imran — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:30:05 +0000

It’s that time of the week again when we round up last week’s greatest apps, tips and tweaks, and this is the part where you make yourself a nice, warm mug of Moroccan tea, get comfortable and prepare yourself to start clicking through to all of these amazing articles you missed during the busy workweek.

Run Windows 8 Modern Apps In Windowed Mode On Desktop With Stardock ModernMix

Windows 8’s full-screen “Modern” apps don’t quite work well with large monitors since they waste too much space, but thanks to a new app called ModernMix, you can run these apps in windowed mode so you can easily use multiple Modern apps at once right within the desktop environment.

Shady Contacts Lets You Hide Sensitive Call Logs And SMS From Stock Android Apps

If you happen to have friends or family members who regularly play around with your Android smartphone, and if you have certain contacts you don’t want them to see, then Shady Contacts is what you’re looking for. It acts as a hybrid, secure phone / messaging app that you can use for stealthily contacting people without leaving any traces in your stock Phone and Messages apps.

Reset Your Forgotten Windows Login Password The Easy Way With Lazesoft’s Recover My Password

For folks who have forgotten their Windows password, we recommend checking out Recover My Password. With it, you create a bootable image, copy it to a DVD or flash drive, restart your PC with it and then let the software do its work. After sometime, you’ll be able to reset your password and log in to your computer. It’s the easiest password reset method we’ve come across so far!

Browse 500px And Set Photos As Lock Screen Wallpapers On Windows Phone 8 With Shoopix

With no first-party apps from Instagram and 500px, Windows Phone users have to rely on third-party developers to offer native apps to use such services. Shoopix is one such app that allows you to view and download photos hosted on 500px, and – thanks to Windows Phone 8’s lovely, dynamic lock screen feature – set them as your lock screen wallpaper.

Official 9GAG App Now Available For Android

After Reddit and StumbleUpon, 9GAG is the most popular social, entertainment website in the world. They recently released an app for iOS, and now they’ve ported it over to Android. It’s not as powerful as some of its third-party alternatives, but it’s great if all you do on 9GAG is scroll through the day’s top submissions.

Opera Releases New Browser Beta With Redesigned UI, WebKit Rendering Engine And Other New Features

Opera Browser Beta was released earlier this week, just under a month after the company’s announcement of their decision to move to a WebKit-based rendering engine. In our hands-on look at it, we discuss its lovely new UI, smooth performance and other useful new features.

Remove Facebook Suggested Pages And Posts In Firefox With This Add-On

To keep you engaged, Facebook often pushes suggested pages and posts to your News Feed. I tend to find them useful, but if you have the opposite opinion and you use Mozilla Firefox, then you should check out the “Remove Facebook Suggested Pages and Posts” add-on.

Turn Your Android Device Into A Live Linux Distro USB Of Sorts With DriveDroid

Live USBs? They’re so ten years ago. Live Smartphones? Now that’s something new! With DriveDroid, you can download images of popular Linux distributions directly to your Android smartphone, which you can then connect to a PC to boot into them. An additional blank USB option in the app even allows you to copy and use Windows installer images in the same manner. Apps like these are the reason why Android enthusiasts are so passionate about their platform choice.

Sync Photo Albums Between Facebook And Your PC With Drop N Sync

Facebook hardly offers the most powerful photo sharing experience, but there’s no doubt that it’s the world’s most popular service for doing so. With Drop N Sync, you can share photos on Facebook like you would use Dropbox. Just put your photos in a folder, and Drop N Sync will upload them as an album on Facebook. Conversely, it can download your currently uploaded albums to your PC to keep everything in sync.

How To See All Notifications On Your Android Lock Screen

With Notification LockScreen Widget for Android, you can see all entries in your notifications drawer on your lock screen, in case you don’t like the idea of unlocking your phone to see the latest notifications. The widget is optimized for Android 4.2 but works on earlier versions as well.

Read Free, Animated Graphic Novels On Your Android Device Or iPad With NARR8

If you have any belief in comics as being a good story-telling medium, you should definitely check out NARR8 for Android devices and the iPad. It comes with an excellent collection of free, animated and interactive graphic novels that are quite fun to read.

Send Photos & Videos Directly From iOS Keyboard With QuickPhoto

Jailbreak tweak “QuickPhoto” improves the process of sharing photos in popular messaging apps by reducing the number of steps involved from five to just two. It’s one of the those small UI tweaks that you feel Apple should have included in iOS long ago.

Assign Custom Vibrations To Specific Contacts With Vybe For Android

With custom vibrations for specific contacts, you can identify the person calling or texting you without having to take out your phone from your pocket, even while it is silent. Vybe For Android allows you to quickly create custom vibrations and assign them to different contacts. We came across some usability issues with it, but the developer has promised to rectify them in upcoming updates.

Get Detailed Information About Your Carrier’s Cellular Coverage On Your iPhone With Signal 2

Developed by respected iOS hacker and jailbreak developer planetbeing, Signal 2 for jailbroken iOS devices shows you detailed information about your nearest cellular tower. If you are dissatisfied with the signal strength indicator in your status bar, and know your telecom engineering terms, you should give this app a go.

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The Best Apps, Tips & Tweaks Of The Week [03.03.2013]

Awais Imran — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 13:00:22 +0000

It’s that time of the week again when we round up last week’s greatest apps, tips and tweaks, and this is the part where you make yourself a nice, warm mug of Kashmiri tea, get comfortable and prepares yourself to start clicking through to all these amazing articles you missed during the busy workweek.

TheftSpy Is The Most Powerful Anti-Theft Remote Management Tool For Android We’ve Seen Yet

TheftSpy takes mobile anti-theft solutions for Android to the next level. In addition to your usual location tracking, remote data access / wiping, locking, rebooting, shutting down, etc., you get all sorts of amazing never-before-seen features like the ability to remotely take screenshots, take photos using front-facing camera, push full-screen pop-up alerts and toast messages, encrypt your data, read WhatsApp messages, record audio using device mic and a whole lot more! It’s absolutely nuts!

Pixplit Is A Collaborative, Social Photo Collage App For iOS And Android

Pixplit is an interesting new app for mobile devices that allows you and your followers to collaborate on photo collages (which the app calls “splits”). You start with incomplete splits, share it with your followers so they can include a photo of their own to complete it. If done correctly, it creates some very interesting results.

AGTweaker Lets You Customize Aero Glass Effect Opacity & Blur In Windows 8 Using A Simple GUI

We’ve covered plenty of little tweaks for Windows 8 that promise to bring back Windows 7’s Aero Glass transparency effect, but nothing comes close to Aero Glass for Win8. It’s only limitation is its inflexibility and console-based UI that, thankfully, can now be avoided if you use AGTweaker.

Desktop-Level Photo And Image Editing Comes To iOS And Android With Adobe Photoshop Touch

Photoshop is the Mac Daddy of image-editing applications on the desktop, and now most of its most popular features are available on iOS and Android with the new Photoshop Touch. We discuss its pros and cons in our hands-on review!

AssistantEnhancer Brings New Siri Commands To Your iOS Device

AssistantEnhancer for iOS devices adds all sorts of new, very obvious commands to Siri, like being able to make emergency calls, searching the web for images by keyword, viewing basic system information, performing searches within apps, managing Pandora or Spotify music and more.

Yandex Launches Yandex.Store: An Excellent Alternative To Google Play Store

Yandex.Store is yet another Google Play alternative for Android. It has currently over 50,000 free and paid apps in it with big names like Angry Birds, Soundhound, Skype and Opera. In order to ensure security, all apps are verified by Kaspersky before being made available for your perusal.

Iperius Backup Is A Powerful Backup Tool With Advanced Scheduling, Filters, Email Alerts And More

Iperius Backup is an unusually elegant backup management app for Windows XP and later. It differentiates itself from other such apps by allowing you to create independent backup jobs, plan them in advance, set different parameters, launch system tasks before and after backups and much, much more.

Get Customizable Live Wallpapers On iOS With LivePapers Jailbreak Tweak

Live Wallpapers on Android are quite aesthetically pleasing. While iOS users don’t have any full-blown alternative to it, there are tweaks like LivePapers that allow you choose from a limited set of animated, interactive wallpapers.

ClockworkMod Superuser Is An Awesome New Root Access Management App With PIN Protection, Multi-User Support And More

Superuser, SuperSU and now ClockworkMod (CWM) Superuser, the competition for the best Android root management is getting pretty serious. Koush’s CWM Superuser is unique compared to the other two in that it is open-source, has multiuser support, PIN protection and the ability to handle concurrent Superuser requests.

Quickly Remove Unwanted Browser Toolbars & Add-Ons With Avast Browser Cleanup

Leading computer security company Avast Software a.s., has launched a useful new utility app for removing unwanted toolbars and add-ons installed in Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Google Chrome.

PAUL Aggregates Media From YouTube, CNN, ESPN ScoreCenter, Last.fm, Facebook And Twitter For Offline Viewing

PAUL automatically downloads videos and music from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Last.fm at scheduled times for viewing offline. It’s great for viewing the latest and greatest items from your favorite sources without having to go into each and every app each morning.

Status Snapper For Chrome Takes Quick Screenshots Of Facebook Statuses, Blur Names And Share To Imgur

Status Snapper is a Google Chrome plugin that allows you to share hilarious Facebook status updates on social news websites like Reddit after applying blur/pixelation effects to names and other private info for anonymity.

Wimoweh Prevents OS X From Sleeping Indefinitely Or While Running Certain Apps

OS X Mountain Lion automatically puts your Mac to sleep when it is idle. We’ve discussed terminal-based commands and tweaks to delay sleep mode, but they aren’t as good as Wimoweh, which allows you to prevent Sleep indefinitely or while running certain apps.

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