BackUp Gmail: Regularly Download Email Messages To Mac Drive [Paid]

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Google released Gmail Offline a while back, a Chrome app that allowed you to view your Gmail account offline. The app was meant for Chrome alone, and all other browsers were pretty much left out. What’s more, the app wasn’t a backup solution. BackUp Gmail is a Mac app available for $1.99 in the Mac App Store that allows you to back up all email messages in your Gmail account to anywhere on your hard drive. The app is nothing more than a downloader for all your inbox messages. You can set up a regular time interval for when the app will back up messages, or enter a given time when the app will perform a backup daily. The messages are readable in Apple’s default mail client, and not encrypted in any way. It works for both Gmail and Google Apps accounts.

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By Fatima on February 7, 2012 Leave a comment

ToggleLink: Easily Select Text From Links On Any Webpage [Chrome]

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Copying text from links can be quite annoying, as we have to first carefully put the cursor at the beginning or end of the link, and slowly highlight it. As we do this, we also have to make sure we don’t accidentally click the link. ToggleLink: Select Text From Link, a Chrome extension, makes things easier and lets you convert links on webpages to text, so that you can easily copy, select or highlight them. The extension basically toggles the link and helps you select the text. Once you’ve installed the extension, all you have to do is press Shift and hover your mouse over the link. The URL will instantly be converted to text, and you will easily be able to copy all or some of the text. You may want to quickly copy the text, as it changes back to its original form after five seconds.

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By Zainab on February 7, 2012 Leave a comment

Dashboard For Chrome: Take Notes & Perform Calculations via A Pop-up

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Often, while we work online, we need to jot down important tasks, reminders, contacts or perform simple calculations. *Dashboard For Chrome* is a extension that offers users with a compact side-by-side notepad and calculator with an autosave feature, as well as a handy search tool. The extension allows you to take notes and everything is automatically saved. The search toolbar supports multiple search engines, such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook and more. The numbers on the calculator have a similar layout to your numeric keypad, so you can easily use it to enter numbers. Moreover, the cursor focus is always on the notepad, so press tab for it to go to the search toolbar, and again to go to the calculator.

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By Zainab on February 7, 2012 Leave a comment

ManageMyFiles: Rename Multiple Files Individually With Status Check [Mac]

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We have covered multiple batch file renamers that allow you to rename files on a given syntax, and recently, we covered FreshBatch, that allows you to replace any set of regular characters in a batch of files with any other character. ManageMyFiles is a free Mac app that lets you rename files individually but forgo the need to click each one. Files are added by dragging & dropping them on to the app’s interface, and editing the file name. Once you’ve renamed all files in the list, click the Commit button and the files will be renamed at the source. Although small in functionality, if you have to rename a lot of files, each one with a unique name, this app can be very useful.

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By Fatima on February 7, 2012 Leave a comment

Aligner: Adjust Horizontal & Vertical Position Of Desktop Wallpaper

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If you are a fan of custom wallpapers, you must’ve noticed that most wallpapers do not match the aspect ratio of current resolution. Sometimes, the favorite part of your wallpaper gets cut from the background. A while back, we covered an application called BackGrounder, which allows you to easily scale and trim images, enabling you to create custom wallpapers. Today, we have another application , namely Aligner that lets you align the wallpaper on your desktop according to your preferences. You can use this application to choose the part of wallpaper you want to keep in the center of the screen. Moreover, it lets you move the wallpaper anywhere on the desktop, in Top, Bottom, Left and Right direction.

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By Fawad on February 6, 2012 Leave a comment

SmoothCursor: Set Different Speeds For Mouse & Trackpad [Mac]

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Do you use both an optical mouse and a trackpad with your Mac? Both devices have separate system settings available, but the settings for a Mouse allow you to control the tracking speed, the double-click speed and the scrolling speed while those for the trackpad let you set up touch-gestures. So far as cursor speed and acceleration is concerned, they are same for both Mouse and Trackpad. SmoothCursor is a free Mac app that allows you to set separate acceleration speeds for trackpad and mouse. It has three different modes that allow you to choose how the settings will be implemented.

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By Fatima on February 6, 2012 Leave a comment

StreamLife: View Your Facebook, Twitter Feeds & Call Log In One Place [Android]

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The concept of aggregating your social network feeds, and posting to all of them from a single platform is not new to Android. Seesmic, TweetDeck, Social Jogger 2, Sendible, ZeroPC Cloud Navigator and ChannelCaster are just a few examples of apps based on said concept. However, what we hadn’t seen so far was an app that combines your social media feeds with your call log until we came across StreamLife. With StreamLife, you get posts and notifications from your Facebook and Twitter accounts, and detailed history of all your phone calls displayed on a single screen. In addition, you can post to both social networks from within the app or through its nifty homescreen widget.  More to follow.

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By A. Rehman on February 6, 2012 Leave a comment

Pictomaphone: One Of The Most Comprehensive WP7 Photo Editors Out There

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Windows Phone 7 might not be able to compete with Android and iOS in amount of apps any time soon, but there are a few apps in the Marketplace that keep reminding users of the perks of owning a Mango phone. There might not be many options for editing images in the Pictures hub, but there are many third-party apps which will let you do that, and out of all those apps, Pictomaphone might be the best in the Marketplace yet. More after the break.

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By Hamza on February 6, 2012 Leave a comment

SpinZip: Create ZIP Files With Custom File Count Or Archive Size

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SpinZip is a portable application for Windows that allows you to create ZIP files in three unique ways; User Specified Size, Specified Number of Files per ZIP, and One file per ZIP (auto-named). The application is developed for users who often need to send ZIP files via mail, and require selecting files manually from the source to prevent exceeding email attachment size limit. It can also come handy in situations where one wants to compress a large number of files without having to select them from multiple locations.

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By Fawad on February 6, 2012 Leave a comment

PhotoSweeper: Compare Images On Your Mac & Find Similar Ones [Paid]

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Removing duplicate images from disk isn’t easy, not only do you have to go through hundreds and hundreds of pictures just to see how many similar ones you have, but you also need to pick out which one you will keep. PhotoSweeper is a Mac app available for $4.99, which analyzes images for similarities. You can check for similarities based on six different criteria; Bitmap, Histogram, Time Interval, Time + Bitmap, Time + Histogram and Duplicates Only. It also lets you  restrict the comparison to be between similar file formats.

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By Fatima on February 6, 2012 Leave a comment

Watch Channels From All Over The World With TV for Google Chrome

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Want to watch TV on your computer and surf the web at the same time? TV For Google Chrome is a handy Google Chrome extension that lets you stream online TV channels directly from the browser. It provides TV channels from all over the world, and allows you to choose genres ranging from business, religious, educational, sports, music, news, movies, lifestyle, entertainment and more. Moreover, the channels are updated regularly and are sorted by, Countries and Categories (genres). All you need is to select the country, and then select the TV channel. It will open a separate window, and start streaming the TV channel right away.

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By Zainab on February 6, 2012 Leave a comment

Privacy Protector: Manage App Permissions On Non-Rooted Android Devices

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There is no denying the fact that among all mobile operating systems, Android is perhaps the most vulnerable to malware attacks courtesy being open-source. The biggest threat comes in the form of certain third-party apps that have the propensity of bypassing various security checks within the OS, and hence, leak out valuable information to outsiders. To tackle this issue, numerous apps are available in the Android Market that let users decide which apps should be allowed to access specific hardware and/or OS actions. However, most existing solutions, such as LBE Privacy Guard and Permissions Denied, are meant  to work only on rooted devices, leaving users with non-rooted devices much to long for. Not anymore, though; XDA member houzuoguo has finally carved out a viable solution for users with non-rooted devices in the form of Privacy Protector. The app lets you decide which user apps should be allowed to access the internet and/or GPS. More to follow.

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By A. Rehman on February 6, 2012 Leave a comment