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Quickly Translate An Entire Webpage From Firefox Right Click Menu

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Chrome users have it made; whenever you find yourself on a webpage in a language that isn’t your default, the browser automatically offers to translate. But Firefox users, while they don’t enjoy an inbuilt translate option, needn’t fret about copy-pasting entire paragraphs to a translation web service, either. Using the right-click context menu, you can translate either selected text via Translate Menu or, better yet, the whole page, via the TranslateWebpageAtGoogle add-on. Read More

Delete All Empty Folders In A Directory From Its Right-Click Menu

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Empty folders are a nuisance, especially empty folders within other empty ones. They make it harder to search for something important. Usually, I’m content with letting them be, because locating each and every empty folder on your system just isn’t worth the bother. Tools like Empty Folder Cleaner speed up the process a great deal, but their bulky interfaces and extra features can prove to be a handful for some. If you want to satisfy your cleaning instinct with nothing more than a click, try out Sub4Del - a nifty, semi-portable tool that lets you delete all empty sub-folders within a directory of choice right from its right-click context menu. Read More

Save Selected Text To OS X Notes App From Right-Click Context Menu

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Browser extensions and add-ons that allow you to save selected text as notes are one of the easiest ways to save useful text snippets for easily retrieving them later. However, these notes are mostly confined to your browser. Outside the browser, there are apps that can run in the background and collect text from your clipboard. In OS X, you will notice that there is a system wide-option to select and search for text in Safari from any app. With the help of Automator, you can create a similar service that can be used to select text in any app and create a note in the default Notes app with it. Read More

Get The Old Style Right-Click Context Menu Back In Chrome

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Following its last update, Chrome did something rare: it made a UI change that modified the appearance of the right-click context menu. The new look is not bad in any sense; in fact it feels quite nice and clean. When I first saw it, I thought it had something to do with one of the extensions I had installed, though a little looking around made it clear that the change was brought about by the browser itself. As pretty as the context menu is now, not everyone might like it because they might have grown accustomed to the old one. If you miss that old appearance and are having difficulty adjusting to the new look, getting it back is super-simple. Read More

Get An Enhanced Windows ‘Open With’ Menu With Better App Suggestions

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When faced with a situation where the limitations of tools provided in Windows itself do not let us to perform something efficiently, a little bit of Googling can often help in finding a third-party solution. The right-click context menu of Windows Explorer offers the 'Open with...' option to let you open a file with a program of your choice. The 'Open with...' option is the default actions for files that don't have any association, but it can also be useful for files that can be opened with multiple apps that you have installed. Through the years, we haven’t seen a lot of improvement in the 'Open with...' feature, and if you are not satisfied with the current options, check out OpenWith Enhanced. It is an application for Windows that replaces the native 'Open with...' dialog box of Windows with an enhanced version that offers more options. Read More

View Image Size, Dimensions & Date From Right-Click Menu In Chrome

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If you’ve used Google Image Search lately, you must have noticed that images in the search results can now be viewed directly on the search result page itself. Information about the image including it’s size and dimensions is also shown, giving you a good idea on whether it is suitable for your use or not. If you would like the same functionality for images anywhere on the web, Image Size Info is a Chrome Extension that gives you just that. It adds a ‘Image Size Info’ option to the right-click context menu for all images, which opens a small pop up in your tab displaying the image’s URL, dimensions, the size it’s currently displayed in, and its file size. You can also open the image's source directly. Read More

Add ‘Keep On Top’ & Other Handy Options To Application Window Menu

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In the past, we have covered several tiny Windows utilities that help you with your workflow by providing quick access to certain actions. For instance, Peek Through allows you to make any window transparent and even click elements of the underlying window through it, and Volumouse lets you control several system components using the mouse wheel. Applications like these give you greater control over your system without interfering with its normal functionality. WindowMenuPlus is another similar tool that adds a set of options to the right-click context menu of every window. These extended options allow you to keep the window on top, move or  maximize it to a particular area of the screen, change its transparency, kill its process, view extended information about the program, change the process priority, and minimize the window to system tray. Keep reading to find out more about WindowMenuPlus Read More

Quickly Uninstall Unwanted Windows Apps From Right-Click Menu

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Here at AddictiveTips, we try to bring our readers several application reviews each day. Before writing the post, we test the application in question extensively to make sure that whatever we are writing depicts the truth about the tool in question. The process involves installing a number of apps, testing them, and then picking out the best ones for the day to share with our readers. By the end of the day, all this ends up in a lot of unneeded software installed on the system, adding to the clutter and making the computer run slower. The default Windows uninstall utility allows you to uninstall applications from your computer, but you have to open the dialog box and look through the list of installed application before you uninstall them. We have covered some very useful uninstallation utilities such as Revo Uninstaller that includes additional clean-up tools, and Geek Uninstaller that removes all residue along with the application, including registry entries and context menu integrations. However, today we present you a simpler solution called Windows Uninstaller that lets you perform the task right from the context menu of installed applications, without ever opening another dialog box. Read More

Copy Path, Resize Images & Install Fonts From Windows 8 Context Menu

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Some elements of Windows drastically improve productivity. The right-click context menu (a unified feature that is also present in Linux and Mac OS X) proudly stands among those elements. Earlier, we covered various applications that let you edit the context menu and push in various shell extensions and program shortcuts, not available by default. For instance, Menu Uninstaller adds uninstall command to the context menu to remove an application without going to Add / Remove Programs in Control Panel. Likewise, Context Menu Editor can add app shortcuts for quick access. Today, we stumbled upon another one such tool called ShellTools. It’s a powerful yet lightweight shell extension that can add a set of useful options to right-click menu. It can enable a wide-array of commands, such as Resize image, Install or Uninstall font, Copy size, Copy path, Show hidden files, Show file extensions, File note and Refresh icons. Read More

How To Sleep, Restart, Shutdown Windows 8 via Right Click Context Menu

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Accessing power options in Windows 8 takes way too many steps. You first drag your mouse to the top right corner to activate Charms, click on Settings, click on Power and then click on Sleep, Shutdown or Restart. This can be reduced to just two steps by using Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts like ALT+F4 or Win+I, but it still isn’t as quick as one would like. With that in mind, SkyKOG on XDA Developers came up with a simple solution: put the Power options in the right click menu. Find how how to apply his ‘hack’ after the jump. Read More

Cooltweak: Resize, Watermark & Share Images From Windows Context Menu

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Even simple tasks in photo editors (like image resizing and watermarking) become twice as complex if you’re not sure what you’re doing (let me not get even started on Photoshop). Amidst such situations, you’re better off with simpler solutions. Previously, we have covered some very cool and user-friendly image editing software that increases productivity and costs less effort. Cooltweak perfectly emulates that idea, and is designed to make photo resizing and watermarking images not farther than contextual menu access (could it get any simpler?). It also lets you share photos on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Picassa, without even firing up the web browser. The application integrates itself in the right-click context menu of Windows, and effectively allows you to access everything from the sub-menus. The sub-menus themselves are also fully customizable to create custom actions. Read More

Amelita: Use Context Menu Options From The Mac Menu Bar

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Right-click context menu shows the app-related settings and options in a menu, and that's why the options we see vary accordingly. Some options in the context menu are recurring, but being the context menu, it needs to be called separately in each app. Amelita is a free Mac app that runs in the menu bar and consolidates context menu options. It includes several of its own functions that allow you to send a command from one app to the other without having to launch the applications. A very common example of this would be text copied to your clipboard. You can paste this text to a number of apps, and Amelita makes it easier to do so. Pasting is of course an option you have available in the system context menus; Amelita also adds additional options that can be used with different apps. Read More

AnyMenu: Open Frequently Used Files & Programs via Middle Mouse Button

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Shortcuts placed on your desktop allow you to have an easy and quick access to the frequently used applications, files and folders. Right now, when you have to open a program, for instance Skype, you just click either its desktop icon, or taskbar shortcut, depending on where you have placed it. Now, imagine if, instead of just clicking the shortcut, you had to open up the Windows Explorer and locate the Skype installation folder inside the Program Files directory and run the application from there. A lack of shortcuts would have taken a lot of time to perform simple tasks. However, like me, a lot of people like to keep their desktop as clean as possible. Shortcut Managers are a decent solution to this problem. They allow you to have both have shortcuts and keep your desktop clean at the same time. Today, we have a simple, portable application, called AnyMenu, which lets you have a custom shortcut menu that can be brought up by clicking the middle mouse button. You can add custom shortcuts for files, folder and applications, and create submenus for organizing similar shortcuts together. Read More

Search For Research Papers On Selected Text From Right-Click Context Menu [Chrome]

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Researching or writing papers can not only take a lot of time, but also requires you to browse multiple journals, databases and websites. RightClick reSearch is a handy Chrome extension that makes research easier and helps you write great papers, without having you to visit multiple websites. This nifty little tool adds a search for option to the right-click context menu, which lets you access the popular research databases of Google Scholar, IEEE Explore, Springer and PudMed databases. After installing the extension, whenever you come come across a term for which you would like to find papers, all you have to do is, highlight it and select one of the mentioned options from the right-click context menu. RightClick reSearch will then instantly display a list of related research publications in a new tab. In addition to that, you can also quickly search the same term on multiple websites, without having to manually type URLs and enter terms into search fields. Read More

File Type Manager: Add Or Edit Default File Type Actions & Remove Property Sheet Entries

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A while back, we covered an an extremely useful application called ContextEdit that lets you edit right-click context menu of any selected file type. The application has the ability to read all registered file extensions from Windows registry to let you easily modify default actions, such as open, open with, print etc. Today, we came across another similar Windows utility called File Type Manager, which allows you to not only modify the default context menu entries of the selected file type, but also to register new file actions as well as edit default/existing actions. Using the application, you can, for instance, associate text files including .txt, .log, .csv etc., with MS Word or other text processing applications. It even lets you remove unnecessary property sheet entries of all file types. For example, if you want to disintegrate a third-party application's tab/options from file's property sheet, just select All Files from the list, expand Shell Extensions >PropertySheetHandlers, and delete the superfluous entries. Read past the jump for more details regarding the usage and a few screenshots. Read More

Spread Helps You Speed Read Selected Text From Any Website [Chrome]

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Speed reading is a technique that attempts to increase rate of reading without greatly reducing comprehension or retention. There are many apps out there that claim to speed up your reading, or at least teach you how to do that, However, most of these solutions are either paid or too complicated. Spread, a Chrome extension, has been designed to improve your reading speed by loading selected text into a neat pop-up, letting you read articles faster. It also offers customization options for reading speed, number of characters and font size. Not only does this nifty little tool provide you with a great way to speed read through text, but also read text without any clutter or distractions. After installing the extension, simply highlight text and select the right-click context menu option to start speed reading. Read More

Edit Right-Click Context Menu Of Any File Extension With ContextEdit

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The right-click context menu of Windows is aimed at increasing the productivity of users by providing easy access to different file/folder related options. Apart from some general options like copy, cut, rename etc., it provides you with additional options related to the specific file type. The information required to recognize the file type and display its related options in context menu is saved in the Windows Registry. Last week, we covered a context menu editor called 7CMenuEditor.INC (reviewed here), which allows you to add custom application shortcuts and URLs to the desktop context menu. The HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT registry hive contains information about all file extensions and lets you add & remove context menu entries of any selected file extension. However, if you want to add entries to the context menu of multiple file types, it becomes quite a tedious and time consuming task. Moreover, messing around with the Windows Registry is not advisable for novice users. Read More

Define Parameters & Switches For CLI Apps From Windows Context Menu

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Most system and network administrators use the Command Prompt to run system and third-party Command Line Interface applications with pre-defined or custom parameters in order to tailor the operation of an application. However, to use Command Prompt, one has to manually open it, navigate to the application's location, and run it with required switches. If you often require using Command Prompt to run applications and scripts with different parameters, then Run With Parameters may help you quickly launch any application with custom parameters defined by you. It is basically a right-click context menu extension for Windows Explorer that allows you to enter parameters for the selected application; all you need is to right-click an application, select the Run With Parameter option from the context menu, enter parameters and hit OK to customize the app launch or functional behavior. Keep reading to find out more about Run With Parameters. Read More

Clipular: Capture & Catalog Parts Of Websites As Clippings & Bookmarks [Chrome]

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Rather then copying or downloading images, text, links and other content manually when browsing, you're better off with Clipular, a Chrome extension that lets you pick tools such as scissors, camera and a clipboard so you can cut and paste the web in a new, fast and elegant way. You can use Clipular to collect and bookmark anything, such as a specific comments, photos, paragraphs from an article, or a screenshot of the entire webpage, for later viewing. Clipular lets you pick your scissors, camera and clipboard with a click, just like how you reach for those on your desk. Once you’ve clipped a part of a page or taken a screenshot, the clippings are saved and displayed with auto-generated titles and source links. You can then click these source links and view content at a later time. Moreover, quick notes and tags can be added to each clip, without any pop-ups or interruptions. Note that all links are encrypted for security and privacy. Read More

Briteclick: Search, Reference & Shopping Through A Customizable Sidebar [Extension]

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Wouldn’t it be great if we never had to leave our email or current webpage to access relevant information from various sources? Briteclick is an innovative search tool that makes finding information and completing tasks on the internet much easier and faster. After installing the extension, all you have to do is highlight keywords and get intelligent search results, neatly organized in a slick sidebar. This Chrome and Firefox extension lets you instantly view results from popular sources, like Google, YouTube, Wikipedia, eBay and much more. Briteclick tailors results based on the keywords you search and presents them in a convenient sidebar, so you never have to leave the current page to open multiple tabs. Read More