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Stylish Social Photo Album App Whip Comes To Android

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ArcSoft – one of the leading multimedia software developers of the modern age – is famous among Windows 8 and iOS users mainly because of the much-revered photo editing app, Perfect365. Another Windows 8/RT and iOS app that has managed to gain a lot of traction in a relatively short time is Whip – a visually-rich and customizable social photo album editor and slideshow generator by ArcSoft that offers plenty of stylish templates and background music tracks. An album created with the app is referred to as a ‘Whip’ that can be viewed as a slideshow in a magazine-style interface, complete with flip-page animations and user-selected background sounds. You can create & share your own personalized albums, or enjoy Whips shared by other users of the app. After a considerably long delay, the official Android app of Whip has finally made its way to the Play Store. Let’s take a look at the features that Whip for Android has to offer. Read More

Create, Download, Randomize & Backup Custom Boot Animations On Android

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When talking of tweaking your smartphone’s UI and firmware settings to the very core, hardly any OS comes close to Android. From boot animation to system and sound profiles, Android users have the liberty to tinker with virtually any aspect of their devices as they like. Speaking of boot animation customization, previously-reviewed AniBoot by SoCal Devs is a fine example of how easy it is to download and install custom boot animations on Android. If, however, you felt somewhat unsatisfied with the various animations that the app had on offer, or wished to have some more control over modifying the settings of your favorite boot animations, then you must give Boot Animations by JRummy Apps a try. This particular solution from the developers of ROM Toolbox, BusyBox Installer, Root Explorer and numerous other nifty apps, offers arguably the most comprehensive collection of custom Android boot animations that can be configured in a number of ways. There are more than 300 different high quality stock and custom boot animations that can be downloaded from the online servers. Whether you’re looking for the stock Honeycomb, ICS or Jelly Bean boot animation, some custom Android ROM goodies, a random animation upon rebooting your device, or itching to create custom animations out of your own select GIF images, this app has you covered. Read More

WinOptimizer: All-In-One System Optimization Tool To Speed Up Your PC

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Most system maintenance utilities are developed to make it easy for you to manage your data and optimize the performance of the PC.  As you use the PC, random data keeps piling up, including temp files, logs, registry values, startup entries etc that slow down the data send and retrieval speed. Therefore, it's recommended to frequently clean the hard drive from junk data to make sure that the system keeps running smoothly. In order to optimize PC performance, one needs to deploy a system maintenance and optimization solution that can automatically scan the disk for junk files, remove invalid registry keys, detect internet tracks and empty cache folders, disable unauthorized data transfers and so on. If you've been looking for one such utility, look no further than WinOptimizer.  Read More

Collector Notepad: Easily Catalog & Manage Collections With Photos

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Among many habits that people have for leisure and entertainment, collecting a particular type of item is a very common one among people. Specially the previous generations of humans, when computers and smartphones were not that common, collecting things used to be a very popular past time. People still collect different items, such as stamps, coins, buttons, key chains etc. If you are one of the dying breed of collectors, it is very important to manage your collections and have complete information for each item. One part of collecting items requires you to know where each item came from. When the quantity of collectibles is still low, it is not that difficult to remember where they came from, and when they were acquired, but when the quantity increases, you have to start taking notes if you want to remember the history behind them. Collector Notepad is an application for Windows that allows collectors to catalog their collectibles in a simple way. Read More

Kinoma Play: RSS Feeds, Social Media, News & Events Explorer [Android]

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You might have come across numerous multipurpose Android apps, but few would’ve been as comprehensive and multidimensional as Kinoma Play. Apparently an ‘app’, Kinoma Play vows to provide users with almost all the most-sought after tools, apps and services under one roof. Be it aggregating content from your various cloud storages, social media sharing/streaming networks (including Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Foursquare, SHOUTcast, Last.fm), online news and weather service providers, Wikipedia info, Google Reader, or others, Kinoma Play ensures that you can have all the core information on hand upon requirement. Using the app, you can quickly take a glance at the up-to-date activities from your social and real world, check out the interesting places to explore nearby you, listen to your favorite songs (along with getting handy suggestions), launch the app’s native app drawer, and share the best content with your mates on the go. That’s not all, the app features a host of miscellaneous daily-use tools and apps that can be downloaded and availed natively via Kinoma Play. Read More

ZeroPC Photo Connect: A Social Photo Aggregating & Sharing Android App

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From the team behind ZeroPC Cloud Navigator – a cross-platform all-in-one cloud data aggregator – comes another nifty Android app called ZeroPC Photo Connect that serves as a universal standalone aggregator and management tool for all your photos stored on your device’s local storage, as well as various social media sharing networks. Be it Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Dropbox, Box, Instagram, Picasa, SugarSync, Evernote or any other popular online sharing platform, Photo Connect automatically fetches and aggregates all the photos shared on each supported service, and lets you view them on a specially designed chronological timeline, so you can easily scroll through the best moments of your life via memorable photos. The app also features a unique virtual album mash-up option, using which you can easily tag, manage and share the best photos from selected sharing services with your friends and family in an instant. In addition, the app supports automatic syncing of all the photos between your device, associated online services, and the ZeroPC cloud itself, so that you never have to worry about losing your invaluable snaps. More to follow. Read More

Daminion: Powerful Multi-User Media Management Software For Small Teams

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Backed by powerful search capabilities and intuitive cataloging features, Daminion is a multi-user media management solution for people working together on collective data. Daminion takes a fresh approach to handle and organize 3 most commonly used multimedia file types, including, image, video and audio. The concept is to ensure that each supported item on your PC is secured, tagged, and available from within a unified interface. The application has been written to solve both generic and complex item cataloging issues, such as, untagged items, inefficient search and filter features, tag synchronization across all like items and so on. Daminion lays a staunch foundation for users to seamlessly organize their multimedia files without having to manually manage their files, filter media file types, input meta tags, rate files, etc. Read More

Organize Files / Apps In Multi-Level Categories With Stuff Organizer

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Stuff Organizer is an open source, multi-purpose item cataloging application for Windows which allows saving source directories of ebooks, movies, music, games, with option to add and set up new categories for any kind of item. It's different from previously covered GCstar and Booxter because it stores, finds and gives quicker access to frequently used user and system directories. Stuff Organizer comes packed with ISO, 7z, RAR, and ZIP plugins to automatically unpack compressed archives. After extracting the items, it cleans the redundant files, such as, file_id.diz, SFV and .NFO files and places the required items in selected category. Read More

Catalog, Sort, And Organize Your Book Collection In Mac With Book Hunter

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Book Hunter is an all-in-one book catalog manager for Mac which makes managing book libraries a lot easier for you.  Since we all come across a situation where we forget the complete title of the book or author’s name, and after involving much effort in remembering the names, we end up recollecting everything about the book but the book title. If you’ve faced difficulty in remembering the name of book or author in the past, it wont happen again with Book Hunter, as it integrates online book resources to pull out complete information of the book by entering only a part of publisher, author or book name. It also contains a loan management system within the book information form to quickly trace out the borrowers. It collects multiple libraries to separate different genres. Read More

Organize And Track Movies, Music, And Book Catalogues With Booxter

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Streamlining items like, e-books, movies, and music become necessary before creating one separate catologue for each type of item list. Seemingly, collection manager is one such type of utility which you should opt-in to make catalogues look tidy and well organized. Unlike many other item collection managers, Booxter offers simplicity in organizing books, music, comics and movies. It is geared towards both novice and power users alike, who love to collect every its & bits of information regarding movies, books, and music. They can for instance create a music library for entering details of album, artist, genre, series, format, location, album tracks, year of release, cover art while description and rough notes can also be jotted down to mark significance. With each type of library, it has an entry form which covers all the aspect of the item type. Be it movies you want to track down, read comics, or check out music info, you can easily search through the categories to find the required information. Read More

Manage Movies, Music, Books, And Video Games Collection With GCstar

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In the past, we have reviewed EMDB – an application to sync movies information with IMDb and to catalog them in a real-life looking movie shelf. As far management of movies goes, we found some bugs related with retrieving information from revamped IMDb UI. GCstar is an elegant collection manager which is quite different in comparison with EMDB. While allowing users to keep a track on saved movies, it lets you create a list of almost everything that you wish to collect and manage.  Be it movies, songs, books, anecdotes, vehicles, TV shows, or video games, you can organize each type of collection with an ease. Since collecting and entering information regarding books, music, or movies is quite laborious job, it supports a huge array of online resources to fetch required data without much effort involved.  Data optimization and update feature are also available to keep users updated with latest content and to import data from various kinds of catalogs available online. Read More

Incollector: Save And Tag Information For Quicker Access

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Tagging is useful for remembering important content, it is a phenomenon which is primarily used to view, manage, and group-up all the relevant content instantly. It happens frequently that you save miscellaneous text, serial numbers, source codes, etc on different locations and in different file formats such as; text editors, Word documents, and so on. If you’ve been having a hard time to find the information on time, then give Incollector a shot. It brings an ultimate solution of this very problem by providing seamless tagging feature. Read More

Analyze, Fix And Clean Up Your iTunes Music Collection With TuneUp

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My iTunes music collection is pretty much messed up, and so is everybody else’s. I have been looking around for a solution to fix my music collection, most of my albums have missing cover art and half my songs don’t have proper details. I tested different tools and software, but all pretty much failed to clean up my music collection. Finally I came across TuneUp and planned to give a try. It is an add-on for iTunes developed specifically to clean up your music collection and find missing cover art. Read More