There is no better way of keeping yourself motivated to achieve your goals, and sharing them with the world. In this way, not only can you prevent yourself from going astray in pursuit of your dreams, but also serve as an invaluable source of inspiration for others. Based on said concept, ididit! is an online service that provides you with a unified platform for sharing your ambitions with the world. You can update your progress or distance from your goals, share success stories, and in return, extract motivation from the experiences of others. The service lets you announce your goals to the entire community, specify the deadlines by which you wish to intend to complete the goals, get timely notifications for each individual goal via a reminder, and share your entire progress on Facebook, Twitter or through email. The service released its official iOS client in the iTunes App Store last month, and now the Android variant has been released to the Google Play Store. Details to follow.
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By A. Rehman on May 14, 2012
The PDF document content can not be altered easily, but sometimes we need to convert a PDF file back to an editable format such as TXT, RTF, DOC(X) etc., in order to make make changes to the document. FlipPDF To WORD provides this facility and does the job in an efficient manner. It enables you to convert multiple PDF documents into DOC (MS Word) format, in one go. The application also provides Hot Directories Mode, which automatically converts PDF files to DOC format as soon as you place a PDF file in a specified folder. Apart from the GUI, it comes with a CLI mode to quickly perform PDF to Word conversions from the Windows CMD utility. More details after the jump.
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Time is among the most popular and well-respected publications on the face of the globe, and with the advent of technology, the weekly magazine has moved into the cyber world with a pretty good website, and online versions of its issues across all major platforms. As can be expected, Windows Phone 7 didn’t have an official Time app till now, but that has finally changed, and now, you can browse through the service’s latest articles via TIME Mobile, the newly released official Time client for Mango phones. The app isn’t too cluttered, like most other news-related apps, but you can still control almost every aspect of its usage. There are separate sections for articles, videos and photos, and the best thing about TIME Mobile is the fact that you can save any item for offline viewing.
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The Cydia store is certainly an active place, and every few days, a new tweak is bound to create a lot of hype among the iOS jailbreak community. These days, this tweak happens to be Dashboard X (recently reviewed here). After all, who wouldn’t want to have some truly gorgeous and useful widgets on the Springboard of their iPhone? Dashboard X is a rather new addition to the Cydia store, and hence, far from perfect. For example, many people have complained that the widgets obscure app icons, as there are only a few empty spaces available on the Springboard. Also, what if you want the first screen of your iDevice to consist of nothing but widgets? All these problems can be solved using a simple Cydia tweak named HomeSpringPage. The tweak performs the sole task of adding a blank screen on the first slot of your Springboard, and you can use that screen for placing all the Dashboard X widgets you want.
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In the past, we have covered a number of backup tools – such as Exiland Backup (reviewed here) and Cobian Backup (reviewed here) - that let you easily back up your files to a specified location by simply making backup tasks. WinDataReflector is a backup application that enables you to create backup & sync jobs and execute them with a click. Its mainstay feature (i.e., file synchronization) lets you compare files that are added to the backup job. This feature may come useful in instances where you want to check whether all the files in the source directory have been copied to target location or not. Additionally, it supports two-way synchronization, which keeps both source and target folders synched. For instance, if you place some files in the target folder, it will automatically copy them to source folder and vice versa. However, you may configure how this sync feature works from within the application. Apart from manual file backup and sync, you may also schedule these jobs for a later time. Additionally, the tool fully supports NTFS file security to help you easily move files along with encryption information to the destination folder.
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Sharing Ecards is great way to comfort and cherish those you love. They are easy to personalize and help you stay connected with your friends and family. There are numerous web apps available nowadays that allow users to create & customize their greeting cards in a few simple steps, but if you’ve been looking for a desktop application that does the same, then Fried Cookie’s Personal Cards is worth a shot. It offers a great UI and a simple way to create and customize Ecards. The application comes packed with a number of samples, for birthday cards, anniversary cards, holiday cards, thank you cards and more. Additionally, you can send Ecards via email or share them on Twitter and Facebook from within the application. Read past the jump for more.
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Windows Phone 7 offers deep integration with quite a few services and social networks, and provides a good way of managing and viewing all your accounts in one place. One of the services integrated with Mango is LinkedIn, and many of the features of that social network can be accessed from the Me tile. However, that cannot be considered a replacement for a dedicated LinkedIn client for WP7, as there are many things that can’t be done via the People hub. So, it is good news for Windows Phone users that the official LinkedIn client for Mango phones has finally been released. The app contains everything you may expect from an official client for such a popular service, and has “Metro” stamped all over its gorgeous interface.
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YouTube is probably the best source of online music if you don’t want to browse through a lot of websites, looking for a working link. That is why there are many YouTube clients on Windows Phone 7, and some of them even let users download songs as MP3 audio files. However, surfing through YouTube or similar services still requires some time and effort, and the conversion of video to audio is often not smooth enough. Fildo is a new WP7 app that promises to be every music-lover’s dream come true. The app comes with an impressive collection of MP3 songs that you can stream or download to your device. That’s not all; Fildo can be used as an alterative to the Music + Videos hub of WP7, as you can create playlists, listen to songs in the background or under lockscreen, and view lyrics for each. READ MORE
Just recently, we’ve been treated to quite a few feature-rich Android alarm apps, such as iHome Sleep (read review), PipeUp! Voice Alarm (read review) and Morning Routine (read review). However, when it comes to the amount of features and extent of customization, none of the above come even close to the fresh entrant, Alarm Clock Ultra. It’s not your run-of-the-mill alarm app. Alarm Clock Ultra is laced with goodies, including fully customizable alarms, eye-catching themes, multiple homescreen widgets (depicting current time & upcoming alarms), various time presets to enjoy a Quick Sleep (nap), slick stopwatch and timer, built-in egg timer to help your mom prepare you a boiled egg of preferred hardness, option to dismiss/snooze the alarm by solving mathematical problems, playing games or by just shaking your device, and lots more. Details to follow after the break.
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By A. Rehman on May 12, 2012
Taking a page out of Apple’s Mac App Store, Microsoft has begun to build its own app store, the Windows Store, for Windows 8 applications. Right now, the number of apps in the latter is nowhere near the amount available for Mac users. Just like the other app stores, Windows Store also features both free and paid apps, and anyone with access to your system can easily download them to your computer. If you are looking for a way to temporarily disable Windows Store, you are at the right place. In this post, we will let you know how you can disable the Windows 8 Store for all user account holders on your PC.
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In today’s world, getting information regarding any subject is fairly easy. These days, the question is not “How to get information?”, but “Where to get it?”. Technology has endowed us with a lot of sources for latest news and other up-to-date information. Even the age of television is passing, and now many people depend on their smartphones for staying in touch with all the important happenings. Even Windows Phone 7, a platform that is not known for the choice of apps in its Marketplace, has got a decent number of news apps. Newser is a new app for WP7 Mango devices that shows the world how news apps should be made. Not only has it got an absolutely gorgeous interface, the way it presents news to its readers is quite unique as well. The sole aim of Newser is to keep users interested in what they are reading. The news items are concise, and the app provides a unique voting system for them, which involves user reactions instead of the regular thumbs up/down or numerical rating. The app offers way more than that, so read on to find out everything about Newser.
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Nirsoft (short for Nir Sofer, its original developer) is one of the most renowned developers from the Windows community. The company keeps releasing some of the most useful utilities on Windows, NirLauncher (reviewed here), WakeMeOnLAN (reviewed here), NetBScanner (reviewed here) etc., just to name a few. VideoCacheView is another one of their handy tools, which has particularly gained a lot of popularity among YouTube aficionados. In case you’re unfamiliar, it actually allows you to save the audio and video stream from your browser’s cache to the local hard drive, so you can watch them later while offline. The application supports almost all the major web browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera, and automatically scans their cache folders when it is launched. Yes, we already know that you can use various alternatives to get the job done, but due to YouTube’s frequent alteration of their API, most of these applications are left in the dust. A recent change made by YouTube automatically splits certain videos into multiple parts. The video hosting site may never explain why this change has been made, but our guess is that it is to prevent users from downloading videos. Though, no need to worry, as VideoCacheView’s latest update is here to save the day. Read on past the break to find out how.
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Reading a publication on an electronic device rather than a paper book has been termed both better and worse by different groups of book lovers. Paper book readers argue that reading a book using an electronic device, such as Amazon’s Kindle or Barnes & Noble’s Nook, does not ‘feel’ as right as reading a paper book. Whereas, a very strong argument against paper books is their effect on the environment, as massive amounts of trees are needed to produce that amount of paper. Nevertheless, the fact remains that eBook software they do not reproduce content exactly as intended by the author. Blio is an eBook reader that lets you read the books just as their authors formatted and designed them. Other than reading books, the application allows you to manage your eBook library, bookmark favorite books, look up the meaning of words and phrases within books on the internet, highlight selected content, add notes and more. You can also use the built-in text-to-speech feature to let the application read books aloud. More on Blio after the break.
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Normally, whenever you want to take a better look at a particular image or link on Reddit, you have to open it in a new tab, and then switch tabs in order to return to the main page, which is neither convenient nor efficient. Seeit!, a Chrome extension, solves this common problem by providing you with preview capabilities for Reddit. The extension adds a button to the URL bar for all Reddit pages, and allows you to view images and read articles in a scrollable, resizable pop-up window by hovering over their links. Not only does it let you access content on the same page, but also lets you minimize interesting images/articles to the bottom of the website, so you can return to them at a later time.
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By Zainab on May 12, 2012
Organizing multiple tasks and actually getting them done on time is not easy, but with KabanFlow, you can easily keep your task list organized and get a quick overview of your current work situation. It is an intelligent web app that is free to use, and once you’ve signed up for it, you can create boards, add tasks, assign them to others, move tasks across different categories, manage subtasks, add comments and much more. The app allows you to create as many shared or private boards as you like. When working in a team, whenever someone adds, deletes or moves a task, the changes can be viewed by all the other team members in real time. KabanFlow allows you to observe tasks that are in progress, completed on the present day and otherwise-done. Additionally, the app supports the popular Pomodoro technique for time management.
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By Zainab on May 12, 2012
