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Secure Folders With Bluetooth, Remove Duplicates & Rarely Used Files With PC Manager

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Is your PC running out of memory? Time to get rid of some duplicate files that you've been pilling up for a while. Applications that get rid of duplicate files like Auslogics Duplicate File Finder, DeDupler, BitFinder and DoubleKiller are sure to be handy, but recently I came across PC Manager and found that it does a lot more than simply trashing clones. PC Manager is a Java-based application that not only lets you find and remove duplicate files, but also offers tools like rarely used files remover, files securer via Bluetooth, and password generator. Read More

Imgur Album Downloader: Download All Images From Any Reddit User Profile

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The image hosting juggernaut, Imgur, is quite popular among the internet users. It’s frequently used by millions around the web for all kinds of image hosting, specifically a trend among the Reddit users. The beauty of Imgur is that you can find any type of required image for free and there are hundreds of thousands of them. One way to grab images is one by one, via your web browser, but if you were looking for a desktop program that could let you download all Imgur images posted by a specific user on Reddit, then look no further than Imgur Album Downloader. The Java-based tool is developed to download all Imgur images from any Reddit user, in batch. All you need is to specify the URL to Reddit user profile, and it will automatically start downloading all the images posted by specified Reddit user. In addition, you can also download images from Imgur in bulk, and choose to save the download history to instantly check the number of downloaded image galleries. Details to follow after the jump. Read More

PhotoGrok: EXIF-Based Image & File Viewer With Metadata Filters

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EXIF, or Exchangeable Image File Format, is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound and other important tags commonly used by digital cameras, scanners and other systems, which handle recorded image and sound files. You can view this metadata information in the default Windows properties of images and other files. The default Windows Explorer lists down all meta data of images in the Details view, but it is a bit limited in its EXIF data representation. Handling an image collection using just the default options can be a bit difficult for a professional photographer. PhotoGrok is a Java-based application that allows you to view images and other file types grouped together according to metadata. More on PhotoGrok after the break. Read More

PilotEdit Lite: Advanced Text Editor That Can Handle Files Larger Than 50 GB

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There are a host of text editors out there for Windows. Simpler text editing tasks can be performing using the default Windows Notepad, while for the complex ones, you can use Notepad++, an open-source text editor massively reviewed (and favored) on AddictiveTips. Previously, we covered a text editor for Windows, called Intype, which lets you perform advanced tasks using a host of sample code modules of several programming languages, including HTML, CSS, C, C++. Java, Perl, PHP, Python, SQL and a lot more. Today, we have another text editor called PilotEdit Lite, which doesn’t provide options to work with as many programming languages as Intype, but has a more focused approach. It works as a Text Editor, HTML editor, PHP editor, Java editor and Hex editor. The software can handle massive files - even those larger than 50 GB - and offers customizable syntax and keyword highlighting. More on the application past the break. Read More

Treeviz: Analyze Disk Space Usage Through 7 Different Tree-Based Data Structure Visualizations

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In order to keep your data in order, it's important to know where each file is saved on your hard disk. Windows Explorer shows you basic folder and file structure, but it does not provide you with a complete overview of folders' and sub-folders' sizes. A bird eye view, that lets you instantly check which files and folders are consuming your hard disk space, greatly helps in freeing up unnecessarily used space. We have previously covered TreeSizeNet and  TDP x-Ray Lite, where the former shows files and directories in a tree format along with each folder's size, while the latter displays file and folder sizes on a color-coded pie-chart. Treeviz is another application that allows you to analyze disk space usage. It lets you view the data structure, including files and folders, in a tree form. You can analyze how your entire data is being distributed on the storage medium. The application also reads the sizes of files and folders, letting you quickly identify all the heavy-on-storage folders, effectively helping you clean junk files and folders from the disk. Read More

Tumblr downloader: Batch Download Images From Tumblr Feeds

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Microblogging is becoming an increasing social networking trend. First came the Twitter, which made this internet phenomenon far-famed. Then back in 2007, Tumblr was launched, the brainchild of David Karp. Tumblr is one of the widely used social networking website, that has seen some incredible popularity since its inception. It holds various multimedia content shared by people using the service, who post the content in their microblogs, either private or public. Previously, we have covered a lot of batch downloaders for some famous image, music and document uploading websites, such as Google Books Downloader for downloading Google Books in PDF format, SciLor’s Grooveshark Downloader to download your favorite music from grooveshark.com, Picassa Album Downloader for downloading public Picasa albums, fbDownloader to download Facebook photos from your albums, Flickr Photo Downloader for batch downloading images from Flickr and Image Collector for grabbing exotic images from different websites including Picasa, deviantART, imgur, PhotoBucket and 4Chan. Today, we bring you Tumblr downloader, an open source tool that allows you to grab images from one or multiple Tumblr feeds in batch. More after the jump. Read More

SharpShot Is One-Stop Tool For All Your Basic Image Editing Needs

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These days, image editing is done both professionally and for fun, and to cater to the needs of this diverse market, both free and paid application are available for people to choose from. The differentiating factors between these applications lie in the level of customization, methods of interaction with the image and the learning curve of the application. Even though Photoshop and Gimp are very useful applications for editing images, their main strength can also come off as a weakness when you only want to perform basic editing functions to an image. SharpShot is a multi-platform, portable application that allows you to easily edit images without any major complications that usually come with comprehensive image editing tools, such as Photoshop or Gimp. Read More

Slow MP3: Control Speed, Transpose, Transcribe & Play Karaoke Of Songs

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Seldom we find an application with flat fleeting fun, but it looks as if today is our lucky day. If you are someone who loves to play an instrument, but has difficulty in figuring out the chords, notes of fast solo’s or learning new songs, check out this cool application that might pump in some serious music adrenaline in you. Labelled as Slow MP3, it is a java-based music player that lets you to do a lot more than just listening  to your favorite songs. As promoted by the developer, it is a music player for musicians. The application is packed up with some awesome functionalities such as it allows you to play MP3 and Wave files, transpose songs, slow down the playback speed, play the song in karaoke mode and transcribe it to view the chords - what more could you want? In addition, it allows you to generate loops, that said you can play a selected part of any song over and over again at user-specified speed to make it easier for you to listen and figure out its chords and notes. Read more about Slow MP3 after the break. Read More

Find And Change Text In Multiple Files With Multifile Search & Replace

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Replacing text in a single file is easy; you just open a file, find the text, and replace it with the required text. The process is simple when there is one, or only a couple of files that need to be edited, but what if you have to replace text in more than just a couple of files? Consider there are 500 files that need to be edited. Opening 500 hundred files one after the other, replacing some text in them, and saving them would waste a huge amount of your time, and that for performing such a trivial function. Instead of going through the exercise of opening each file, what you can do is use a software that allows you to find a certain text in multiple files and replace all of it in one go. Multifile Search & Replace is a Java-based application to find and replace text from multiple files at a time. It can identify words used in more than one file, and replace all of the words in one go. It can come especially handy if you need to edit, say, the name of a company in some official documents, because the original name was changed, or change some lower case words into upper case ones. The tool allows you to search files according to folders, and allows you to perform recursive search including sub folders. Apart from searching and replacing words, the application displays the location of files where the text was found, and backups the original files before making any changes, in case you want to undo the operation. Read More

JaxtrSMS: Send Free SMS To Any Local & International Mobile Number

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Sending SMS messages to any local destination may not be a big issue for most mobile users, thanks to carrier offerings and smartphone applications that allow internet-based messaging even in cross-platform scenarios. However, two limitations/issues associated with such an approach usually exist. First, in most cases, the recipient has to be a user of the same app that you’re using (e.g., Viber or TextFree), and second, the same app may not be available for one particular mobile platform, thus greatly reducing usability for the users of said OS. Enter JaxtrSMS – a free, cross-platform application that not only provides diverse platform compatibility, but also lets you send text messages to virtually any mobile number on the planet, irrespective of whether the recipient uses JaxtrSMS or not. Details to follow after the break. Read More

Screencast-O-Matic: Record & Upload Screencasts To YouTube [Web]

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Screencasts are digital recordings of your computer screen. You may think of them as video screenshots that record and show the changes happening on your computer screen in the form of a video. You can add screencasts to your content in order to deliver your message to users in a better way. Screenshots also serve the same purpose, but screencasts give a clearer picture to the readers about what is happening and what they have to do. On YouTube, you can even find complete video guides, for example, guiding you how to root your Android phone, or install ROMs on it. Previously, we have covered a lot of applications for screencast tools, such as Rylstim Screen Recorder, an easy to use tool for recording your screen. Screencast-O-Matic is a web-based screencast recording application that lets you create screencasts, add narration, upload them to Screencast-O-Matic & YouTube and save your screencasts to your hard disk drive as a video file. Read More

NoScript Provides Enhanced Security Features For Firefox [Add-on]

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Want a more secure browsing experience for Firefox? NoScript, a Firefox add-on, gives you extra protection by allowing you to execute JavaScript only for trusted domains of your choice. You can simply add websites to whitelists, and prevent exploitation of security vulnerabilities. Furthermore, the add-on allows you to easily enable or disable JavaScript by right clicking and accessing the context menu. NoScript blocks script driven objects by default, but you can always change these default settings. It has many advanced features and is quite extensive, including enforcement of HTTPS usage, cross-site scripting filters, ClearClick protection and a firewall like component called Application Boundaries Enforce (ABE). Read on to discover more about this nifty add-on. Read More

Get Satellite TV Channel Schedules With TV-Browser

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A while back, we covered MyTVrss, which is a web service for keeping track of your favorite TV Shows. Recently, we came across a similar, yet more comprehensive, desktop application, known as TV-Browser. It enables users to obtain TV channels' schedules from its online database, including BBC World, ESPN, Cartoon Network, ANIMAX, AXN, Sky Sports and more. You can add programs to favorites (from TV Channel schedules), and install plugins for acquiring program details, reminders and the like. Moreover, it is a cross-platform application, and therefore is compatible with Mac- and Linux-based OS. Read More

Monitor Multiple Computers From A Single PC Using Computer Monitor

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When i first entered the world of PC overclocking, i would always run extensive stability tests, to maintain a perfect balance between CPU temperature and performance. Stability tests such as 24 hour our session of Prime95 burn-in test would require constant monitoring. When running such processes on multiple computers at the same time, it is both time consuming and inefficient to check if it encountered any errors. For instance, when you leave for work and you also need to keep an eye on if the stability test failed in between or not. With the advancements in technology, most of our tasks have been made easier, and nuisances, almost vanished. If you needed to keep a watch on running processes on a remote PC, such as the one i started earlier, then Computer Monitor might lend a helping hand. It is a Java based application that can remotely monitor computers on a network from a single PC. The application lets you set a password for your server to prevent unauthorized access to its screen and you can refresh the screen to view the current status of running apps and processes. It has two components; a Server and Client. You have to run the Server on the PC (server PC) which needs to be monitored from Client PC (secondary PC). Read More

Get Daily Comics From Multiple Online Sources With ComicDaily

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ComicDaily is a Java-based application which provides daily comics from various online sources. It contains a list of comics which can be viewed on a daily basis including famous newspaper comics such as Hagar the Horrible, Peanuts, Calvin and Hobes, Beetle Bailey and others. Unlike previously reviewed ComicRack and Comic Books Reader, it does not display content of CBR or CBZ but rather provides newspaper comics on a daily basis from several online sources. It also has a built-in calendar which allow users to view selected comics (e.g. Peanuts) from previous dates. Since it is a Java based application, it can work with a number of platforms including Windows, Mac and Linux. ComicDaily focuses on being a comics reader which provides famous comics published in daily newspapers. Unfortunately, many comic readers have ignored such comic strips in the past and for this reason ComicDaily serves as a unique and fun application for newspaper comic strip fans. Read More

Run Java / J2ME / MIDP Applications & Games On Android With JBed

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The desire to port famous games from one platform and play them on another one is something that most hardcore gamers have had for quite some time. Quite obligingly, the developers, modders and hackers have also been smart enough to achieve said purpose with some degree of success.  Apparently an app, JBed is a Java emulator for Android that lets you run Java files on your device. Developed by XDA Developers member mohammadN, JBed comes in the form of a flash-able ZIP package and according to developer’s claims, it should run on most Android devices. The app adds new dimensions to the possibilities that can be achieved through Android as users can now run almost any Java MIDlet on their device. Read More

RSSOwl Portable Is Free Desktop Feed Reader With Tabs

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RSSOwl Portable is an open source RSS feed reader which allows viewing RSS feeds within convenient tabs. This Java based application provides easy options for importing your feeds from an XML or OPML file to ensure that you don’t have to amass feeds from scratch. You can even open webpages (from feeds) within tabs. Like any RSS reader, it provides the utility to add, organize, update and store information in the form of feeds, as well as customize viewing options, such as, color, font and language change. What makes RSSOwl different from common feed readers is that it provides the utility to open feeds in multiple tabs, as well as browse webpages. Read More

Defragment Hard Disk Faster With Java Defrag

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The importance of disk defragmentation is often under estimated for speeding up a computer. Defragmentation reduces scattered files by physically organizing the contents of the mass storage device to store files in a contiguous region (if possible). Which improves the read/write rate of a hard disk due to defragmentation of files. Java Defrag is a portable application for quickly defragmenting NTFS and FAT32 hard drives. What makes open source Java Defrag different than other defragmentation applications is that it is less resource intensive and utilizes the standard Windows Defragmentation API for moving files on NTFS hard drives. Binding the files together in this way can provide a number of advantages, such as improving the loading time in games and reducing lags. Read More

Protect Confidential Files And Folders With SteadyCrypt Encryption Tool

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SteadyCrypt is a java-based open source encryption tool for quickly encrypting confidential files to prevent unauthorized usage. As far as features, tools and encryption algorithm are concerned, it is not comparable to widely used TrueCrypt, but users who wont like to follow lengthy procedure in TrueCrypt to create encrypted containers, will find it useful. Being a java-based application, it can work on any OS platform where JRE is installed. Moreover, it supports simple drag & drop behavior to specify folders and files which are to be encrypted. The encrypted containers are secured with a master password which has to entered after installing the application. Read More