Create Video Slideshows From Images In Seconds With PhotoPixar

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The basis of every social networking service is sharing. We share everything with the world and our friends, including images, videos, articles, our own thoughts etc, and comment on things shared by others. Whether this change in the way we interact is for the better or for worse is a debatable topic, because on one hand, people have begun sharing a lot more than they used to, but on the other, they now meet a lot less than they used to. So, there is an increasing gap in actual, interpersonal social contact. Social networking services like Facebook and Google+, and the now obsolete MySpace and Orkut, have been mostly used for one thing – Photo Sharing. These days, pictures of any event, both important and unimportant, are uploaded to Facebook almost in real time. PhotoPixar is an application for Windows that lets you create video slideshows of photo albums in minutes with effects, audio and captions.

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By Fawad on February 8, 2012 Leave a comment

yasp! For Android Is A Student Planner With A Backup Plan

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In previously reviewed student planners such as Studious, My Class Schedule and Student Timetable, we have already seen some very handy timetable managing options that are available to students owning Android devices. However, lack of simplicity and good aesthetics seem to have left many users longing for a better alternative. Fresh to the Android Market, yasp! is a fine-looking student planner that vows to fill said void, and add a few goodies of its own. Apart from sporting an uncluttered interface, and conventional timetable scheduling and note-taking features, yasp! brings a contingency plan concept to the table. Using said feature, you can define an alternative timetable that would take effect if the original schedule doesn’t work out. Details after the break.

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By A. Rehman on February 8, 2012 Leave a comment

Hide My Tabs: Mask Page Titles & Favicons For All Open Tabs [Chrome]

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Some organizations and companies restrict browsing certain websites that are not related to work, such as Facebook or YouTube. We all have been bored with work at one time or the other, and some entertainment can always be relaxing during such a situation. However, we always need to keep an eye out for our supervisor, or any other snitch, who might be passing by. You can close the browser window, but that would be too obviously suspicious, won’t it? Hide My Tabs, a small, simple Chrome extension, helps you in such a case by quickly altering the title and favicon of all your open tabs, without closing them. The current tab will readily appear as the Google homepage. After installing the extension, a button is added to the toolbar, so whenever you feel somebody’s prying eyes, click this button and alter the titles of all your open tabs.

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By Zainab on February 8, 2012 Leave a comment

How To Flash MAGLDR & Custom ROMs To Samsung Omnia 7 And Samsung Focus

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The concept for Windows Phone 7 custom ROMs is nothing new, the Dark Force Team has developed ROMs for first-gen HTC phones using Mango (as discussed here), but now it appears that they are taking things a step further, and Samsung users can enjoy their work as well! Just yesterday, DFT released Sammy Rainbow, which is the MAGLDR for Samsung Omnia 7 and Samsung Focus (first-gen Samsung WP7 devices). If you are wondering what MAGLDR is, read our detailed guide on the subject. This release has paved the way for custom ROM development for Samsung WP7 devices, and even presently you can flash the Freedom custom ROM, which is pretty awesome to say the least. Read on to learn how to install MAGLDR on your Samsung WP7, and then flash a custom ROM through MAGLDR.

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By Hamza on February 8, 2012 Leave a comment

Retato Receiver: Tilt Or Rotate Your iOS Device To Control Your Mac

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We recently covered Mobile Mouse, a Mac app with an iOS client that allowed you to turn your iOS device into a mouse for your Mac. The feature rich app allows you to use your device as either a mouse, a keyboard or a track pad. While the Mac app itself  is free, the iOS device carried a trivial price tag of $1.99. If you find this price isn’t something you want to pay, and that you don’t need as feature rich an app as Mobile Mouse, you can try Retato Receiver. This free Mac app is accompanied by a free iOS client app that allows you to control any six functions that you define yourself. It makes use of the accelerometer and gyroscope in the iPhone, and allows you to send commands to your Mac by rotating and flipping it. While not likely to replace your mouse, it can control any number of Macs at once, and can be useful when running or testing special apps that need to be controlled simultaneously.

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By Fatima on February 8, 2012 Leave a comment

Read Google Reader Feeds In Full Form [Chrome]

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Google Reader is a popular web-based RSS and atom feed reader that displays partial content for certain feeds. To view full content, you have to click the links, which are opened in new tabs. Not only is this process a bit complicated, but it also opens a large number of tabs  in your browser. Super Full Feeds for Google Reader, a Chrome extension, solves this problem and allows you to read full content feeds in Google Reader. Once the extension is installed, a Super Settings button is added to Google Reader. Settings can be changed for individual feeds, and you can convert truncated feeds into full feeds. Moreover, you can view feeds in three different modes; directly from the source feed, an entry link in an iframe, or the Original Feed. You can even pre-fetch content for unread items, so that they load in the background while you are reading other entries. Super Full Feeds For Google Reader picks the actual page and embeds it inside Google Reader. The extension also provides users with a few keyboard shortcuts, such as 8 for readable content, 9 for iFrame content and 0 for original feed content.

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By Zainab on February 8, 2012 Leave a comment

Dashlane Is Your Personal Internet Assistant, An Alternative To LastPass

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When it comes to selecting a personal information and account password manager, there are numerous applications available at your disposal. For most users, who want a powerful, as well as simple, online password manager, LastPass is the obvious choice, while others keep their personal info and account credentials secured from external attacks using KeePass and 1Password. Today, we came across a personal internet assistant and online accounts manager called Dashlane, which allows users to securely manage personal information and online passwords. Packed with form filler and automatic login features, Dashlane provides one-stop solution for accessing and managing personal information and online accounts credentials. The application includes a comprehensive set of features and tools to help you easily organize online account user logins and passwords, enabling you to automatically fill the user login details, including username and password, and add new user logins without having to bring up the dashboard. Details to follow after the jump.

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By Usman on February 7, 2012 Leave a comment

think with Google: Find Articles, Videos & Insights On Latest Trends & Technology [Web]

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think with Google is a simple service that lets you look into industry trends and insights by letting you browse articles, interviews with leaders, case studies and other data. think with Google’s mission is to engage the industry in conversation about the digital world and its future, discover new ways to approach business and better ways to serve customers. Think with Google is comprised of three main categories, Think insights, Think Quarterly and Think Voices. think quarterly is a place for innovators who lend their insights on the digital future, whereas think voices lets you listen to industry leaders who share their ideas about the current global issues. The last category, think insights, is an online resource that covers topics from consumer behavior to digital media trends.

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By Zainab on February 7, 2012 Leave a comment

Cartoon Camera: Real-Time Sketch Photo Effects For Android

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You might’ve come across quite a few Android photo editing and styling apps that let you apply various effects and filters to your images to give them a cartoonish or drawn look after they are captured. New to the Android Market, Cartoon Camera by Fingersoft is a handy camera replacement app that lets you preview said effect live within the camera’s viewfinder. That is, the app applies the effect to whatever the camera is looking at in real time, so that you know exactly how a photo is going to turn out before you capture it and even lets you adjust the Sensitivity of the effect. Details to follow.

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By A. Rehman on February 7, 2012 Leave a comment

Official WordWeb Dictionary App Makes Its Way Into The Android Market

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WordWeb Software is regarded highly among Windows, Mac and iOS users for the comprehensive English dictionary and thesaurus tool that it offers to each platform. While the official iOS client has been around in the iTunes App Store for quite some time, the Android variant has just been rolled out into the Android Market. The mobile client of WordWeb Dictionary lets users view definitions for both words and phrases, complete with examples of usage, pronunciation, synonyms, sentence structures, and related words online as well as offline. Other salient features of the dictionary include easy navigation between words in an alphabetical order, pattern-based search (exclusive feature), real-time search suggestions, help for frequently confused terms, bookmarking favorite words, random word meaning, integrated support for browsing Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Answers.com and Google for further references, advanced search filtering and lots more.

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By A. Rehman on February 7, 2012 Leave a comment

QTranslate: Hot Key Supported Text Translator & Text-to-Speech Utility

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When browsing through different websites, we often stumble upon text in a foreign language. Almost everyone knows about Google Translator and its usefulness when viewing web pages in another language, but wouldn’t it be easier if you could translate selected text without visiting Google Translator in your browser? If you are looking for an application that allows you to translate text between different languages, check out QTranslate. It is a portable application for Windows that not only lets you translate text to and from different languages, but also servers as a text-to-speech tool that also reads supported languages once they are translated. It supports multiple translation services, including Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, Promt, SDL, Yahoo! Babel Fish and Yandex Translate.

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By Fawad on February 7, 2012 Leave a comment

HearYoutube: Convert YouTube Videos To MP3 Audio On Any Device [Web]

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HearYoutube is a neat tool that conveniently lets you convert YouTube videos to MP3 format, allowing easy extraction of audio from videos. The service is free and requires no account; all you need is a web browser and a YouTube URL for the video. The video is converted to audio in only a few minutes, and you are instantly provided with a download link, which makes the website workable on any device as long as it has a web-browser and allows downloads from the internet. HearYouTube works seamlessly and simplifies the whole process of downloading & converting YouTube videos using multiple services.

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By Zainab on February 7, 2012 Leave a comment