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Copy Changed Files Creates Incremental Backups Through Time & Binary Comparison

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We have covered a lot of applications that allow you to make incremental backups of your data. For those who are not familiar with the incremental backup technique, it checks only those files that are new, or have been modified and then copy them to the target location. This technique is not only efficient, but also reduces the time it takes to create the backup of the source folder(s). Consider yourself in a situation where you are editing multiple documents present in a folder. Now, if you create a full backup of the folder every time you make changes to one or two documents, it will surely waste a lot of your precious time, but using incremental data backup technique, you will be able to copy only modified and new documents from source to target folder. Copy Changed Files is an application for Windows that allows you to create incremental backups of your files and folders. It copies only the changed files, and offers two simple methods, namely date and time check and binary comparison for comparing the old files with the new ones. Keep reading after the break to find out more about Copy Change Files. Read More

Textaizer Pro: One Text Mosaic & ASCII Art Generator To Rule Them All

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For those of you who aren't familiar with ASCII art, it's a form of graphic designing wherein a photo is made entirely out of the characters from the ASCII chart. Basically, it is text-based visual art that can be created with any text editor. However, manually creating ASCII art takes up a lot of time and requires a lot of concentration. If you want to convert an existing photo, for instance, a photo of yourself, into ASCII art, you can use a software to do the job for you. Previously, we reviewed ASCII Generator (an open source application that lets you convert images to text-based art, allows adjustment of density levels, brightness, contrast and dither of the converted images). Today, we have a similar application with a much more extensive set of options. Meet Textaizer Pro, a text mosaic and ASCII art creator for Windows; perhaps the best, most comprehensive one we've come across so far. Read More

WiNToBootic: Drag & Drop ISO Images To Create Bootable USB Drives For Windows Installation

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Before the use of USB flash drives to install Windows became common, we could only install Windows on our computers using CDs. At that time, installing an operating system using a USB flash drive sounded like a thing of the future, but today, it is as common as using a CD. Newer versions of Microsoft Windows, like Windows 7, can be installed in two ways: directly from Windows XP and Windows Vista, and by using a bootable USB/CD. If your PC doesn’t have any operating system installed, then you may need a bootable USB drive to boot the system into Windows installation setup. Today, we have an application for you called WiNToBootic, which allows you to make a bootable NTFS USB drive for installing Windows. The application focuses on speed and convenience, allowing you to write ISO images via drag and drop. Furthermore, unlike other bootable USB creators, WiNToBootic provides a Quick Format option, which saves you the time you would've spent performing the operation yourself. More on WiNToBootic after the jump. Read More

Create, Access, Delete & Mount Shadow Copies On Any Windows Version With Z-VSSCopy

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For those who are unfamiliar with the terms Shadow Copy or VSS (Volume Snapshot Service), it is a technology included in Microsoft Windows. What it does is it automatically creates backups of your data, with an option to lets you do so manually. Both Windows Vista and Windows 7 can create copies of your files and folders, which allows you to retrieve the previous versions in case they are accidentally deleted, modified or manipulated in one way or the other. In computers running Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating systems, this service is active by default. Microsoft has only included the privilege of accessing shadow copies in Windows Ultimate, Business and Enterprise edition, leaving other editions of the OS to dust. Back in January, I reviewed an application for Windows called Shadow Explorer. It is a tool that allows Windows Home version users to access shadow copies according to time filters, and provides a unified interface to explore and export them. Today, I have a similar application for users of Windows 7 editions who need a third party solution. The application is as called Z-VSSCopy and allows you to perform even simpler administration of shadow copies. Read More

Create Image & Video Slideshows With Narration Using ezvid

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Slideshows are a great way to display, as well as share pictures with others. You must have seen hundreds of videos on YouTube containing a picture slide with some cool music track in the background. Previously, we have covered some great slideshow creators, including Slideshow Creator and PhotoPixar which allow you to create video slideshows of photo albums in minutes with effects, audio tracks and captions. However, they lack the options to control the time an image appears in the slideshow, and are not capable of including videos in your creation. This is where our new find, ezvid, comes in. It is a slideshow creating tool for Windows that allows you to generate slideshows from images and videos, put an audio track in the background and record narration over it. It also allows you to increase or decrease the time each image appears on the screen before switching to the next one. You may add a text tile and upload the slideshow to YouTube directly from the application. Read More

Quickly Generate QR And Micro QR Codes With Free QR Creator

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Probably, one of the very useful inventions of mankind are Bar-codes . Bar-codes are machine-readable, data-encoded images that contains user-specified pieces of information related to an item, requiring a special equipment or scanner to extract such information. Barcodes, albeit introduced back in 60s, didn't come to mainstream usage up until the last couple of decades. Barcodes are similar to UPC (Universal Product Code) which you find on various tangible product packages. A barcode can contain any type of data, ranging from the price of an item, the URL of a webpage, to the download link of a mobile app. They are not only quite convenient for the end user to use, but also help in keeping the embedded information secure and immune to any manipulation. Barcodes are now being used a lot in the form of QR codes (made famous by extensive use in Android Market), to distribute links among users. Usually squarish in shape, they usually comprise of three small squares at the corners. Previously, we have covered some very good QR code generators, such as BarCode Generator, which allows you to generate and export QR code images in multiple formats. Today we have another QR code generator called Free QR Creator, that allows you to quickly and efficiently create QR code and Micro QR codes. The application supports output in BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and EMF image formats. Read More

Fluid: Turn Any Website Into Standalone Mac App

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Bookmark feature in web browsers provides one of the easiest way to visit our favorite websites While it is convenient to open your favorite websites, it is just as easy to lose it among other opened tabs. Fluid is a free Mac app that lets you transform your favorite web apps into Mac OS X apps, allowing you to launch them from desktop. Think of it as bookmarking a website, only instead of being saved as a favorite link in your browser, it is saved as an executable app, which can be launched from anywhere on your system. Needless to say, Fluid functions as a web browser but instead of allowing you to universally explore the internet, it is meant to browse sites that you’ve added. The app uses a website’s favicon as the Dock icon to distinguish different sites. Read More

IMGDissolver: Cross-Platform Slideshow Creation Tool With Transitions & Filters

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To avoid the complexity of hard to understand applications, most of the people avoid creating professional slideshows by themselves, and mostly hire others to do the job for them. However, contrary to the common belief that professional looking slideshows cannot be created easily, there are a ton of free and easy to use applications that allow you to make slideshows in just a few steps. Previously, we have covered some very useful tools for creating slideshows, such as, PhotoStage for creating professional slideshows with any media file and the default Windows application called Windows DVD Maker available in Windows Vista and Windows 7. All these applications are limited to Windows, but if you want a cross platform application for creating slideshows, try IMGDissolver. It is an easy to use open source application for Windows and Linux operating systems that can be used for creating slideshows, DIVX and DVD of your photos and videos. Read More

iBooks Author: Apple Releases eBook Creation App For iBooks [Mac]

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Reading on an iPad is unquestionably fun; the device itself is enough to tempt you to read, even if you’d rather wait for the movie. To make it better, Apple has iBooks, an iOS app available for free in the App Store that makes reading both fun and interactive. The app itself is extremely popular, and now Apple has released iBooks Author; a Mac app that lets you create ebooks in all their splendor for reading in iBooks. The app might just be a publisher’s dream come true; it comes with six templates that can be modified, you can add just about any kind of content, be it movies or audio files, slideshows, charts, tables or 3D objects. The templates are fully equipped to support basic book elements, like glossary, preface, table of contents and more. It additionally lets you import whole chapters from a Pages and/or Word file. Read More

Multi Photo Quotes Builder: Create Custom Text & Image Screensavers

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Working with Windows OS for the past several years, the word Screensaver must not sound something unfamiliar to you. They come packed with Windows itself and you can even download numerous others to satiate your appetite. In case you don't know, screensavers were originally introduced in order to avoid phosphor burn-ins on CRT and plasma monitors, and save the screen colors. Well, you can always Google about the cause behind these affects, screensaver pretty much help in reducing it. They done so by either blank out the screen, or fill it with moving pictures after a specified time of inactivity on the computer. As time changed and we moved to LCDs, the need for screensavers vanished, and now, they are mostly used for their aesthetic qualities instead of the aforementioned function they were originally intended to perform. Albeit you can download various screensavers off the web, should you need to create one of your own, one software that might help you is Multi Photo Quotes Builder. It is an application that lets you create custom screensavers using images of your choice. The screensavers are created as EXE setup files and you are allowed to add custom Name, Label, Author, URL, Pre-Installation and Post-Installation Messages. Find out how to creates custom screensavers after the break. Read More

Fotowall Is Easy-To-Use Application For Creating Photo Collages

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Collage is a technique used in art that involves creating an image by using a number of other images, or forms. A collage is not only confined to creating an image using other images; you can use newspaper cuttings, images, text, photographs, parts of other artwork, and basically anything you can find to create a collage. For instance, if you have a collection of, say, a thousand images, using a collage making application, you can align them in any form offered by the application in order to create a beautiful looking collage out of them. Previously, we have covered some very powerful collage making applications like CollageIt, Shape Collage and Cas, that let you create a collage of all specified images in different shapes and sizes. Fotowall is an open source collage making tool that lets you make collage arrangements with your pictures, add text, add images directly from internet, adjust stacking, and apply looks and different types of effects to the image both individually and to the whole collage. It allows you to rotate and resize images, as well as apply presets for CD Covers, DVD Covers, Apply Decorations, Set Titles, Add Background and apply Random placement of images in the collage. Read More

TextImages Lets You Create Images From Text For Format Conservation

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When developing a website, it is a major concern for web designers that the font should be displayed in the correct and desired size and style on the webpage. For instance, if you want to create a webpage with all the titles in the same font, you can specify your desired font in the HTML document, but it will not ensure that the particular font will be displayed correctly on everyone else’s computer, and more notably, on every browser. The other user might not have the same set of fonts installed in their computers as you, resulting in messing up the look of your webpage. One solution to this problem is creating images of your text, and uploading these images instead of plain text to your webpage. TextImages is an application for doing just that. Read more on TextImages after the break. Read More

Picuzo Editor Is Drawing Tool & Picture Editor Combined In One

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Remember a decade ago when we were fond of creating, drawing and editing images, and all we had was Windows very own Paint? Internet has revolutionized things in all aspects, and today, we have multitude of web applications to perform almost every task that we can think of. One such web application is Picuzo Editor, which lets you create and edit images, make drawings and manipulate images, all online. You can create vector art with this web service as well. It also lets you import your photo albums from your Facebook account, Dropbox, Picasa, DeviantArt, Flickr etc, as well as your hard drive. You can save your edited images and drawing on Facebook, your PC, as well as the Picuzo Editor server. Read More

Convert Normal Images to 3D Images With Free 3D Photo Maker

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The rate at which technology is moving is simply unprecedented. One sector where it has made so much progress is distribution of image, audio and video content. Image and video hardware, and software are making leaps in technological advancement each day. Similar to our move from SD to HD content, latest of the major breakthroughs being the 3D technology in images and videos. Although first introduced in cinemas (IMAX or Real 3D), 3D technology has finally made its way to consumer electronics. Now we can see both photos and videos in breath-taking 3D. 3D technology works by providing a slightly different image to each of your eyes, mimicking the actual vision if the object was placed in front of a person. The brain works and fuses the images together, creating the illusion of depth, i.e., 3rd dimension. Even though tech pundits still don't call it the real 3D, its still something which is making progress by leaps and bounds. Did you buy a new 3D screen and now want to experience all those snaps you took in Sydney, in 3D? We have a software for you that might come in handy. Meet Free 3D Photo Maker, an application that lets you create 3D images from normal 2D images using either two images, or a single image using algorithms such as Optimized Anaglyph, Color Anaglyph, True Anaglyph, Gray Anaglyph and Yellow-Blue Anaglyph. Read More

How To Create Free Online Chatrooms With TinyChat

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Is Instant Messaging banned in your office or school? TinyChat is a free online service that lets you create chat rooms instantly. You can create a temporary chat room and invite your friends to join it with one simple link. There is no restriction on the number of people who can join your chat room. And the best thing is, no registration is required while creating or joining the chat room. Sounds unbelievable, right? Here is how you can create your own chat room within seconds. Click on create a free chat room button, and it will begin creating a chat room for you. Every chat room has its own link. Read More

How To Create Fully Customized And Professional Looking DVD With DVDStyler

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DVDStyler is a free cross platform DVD authoring software that allows you to create professional looking DVDs with full customization. The user interface is pretty simple and easy-to-understand, you will get used to it after navigating around for a few minutes.

To begin, first select the background image, then go to File Browser tab and drag the videos you want to add to the preview window(see screenshot below).

You will have to resize the videos once they have been added, they will also get a title assigned to them automatically. Now finally add some buttons by going to Buttons tab. Once done, you will have to right-click these buttons and go to their properties to edit text, change colors, define action, etc.

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Create Free Professional Flowcharts, Sitemaps, And Diagrams Online With LovelyCharts

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Do you plan to buy a software to make professional looking flowcharts, sitemaps, or diagrams? You don’t need to pay for it. LovelyCharts is a free online service that lets you make professional flowcharts, sitemaps, people diagram, network diagram, and some basic symbols. This powerful service is online and free, thus making it possible to do work from home and while traveling.

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