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X-Screamer Radio: Listen To & Record Screamer Radio Stations With Ease

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There are certainly a host of desktop applications and online services available out there that let you tune in to your favorite radio stations within a few clicks. If you’re a fan of music, then you might have heard about Grooveshark, Pandora and Spotify, but when it comes to top online radio services, Screamer Radio also needs no introduction. X-Screamer Radio, is a portable desktop application that lets you listen to the massive library of radio stations available on the Scream Radio website. There are almost 400,000 different radio stations that you can listen to from within a unified interface. Apart from streaming online music tracks, it also lets you record any tune from a selected radio station. The application keeps a log of all the radio stations that you stream, so that you can instantly jump to these stations without having to look for them every time. Read More

Sleep Timer: Automatic Shutdown With Countdown, Inactivity & Time Modes

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A lot of times, we have to leave our computer turned on overnight for a download or a file transfer that's taking ages to finish. You can let your computer run if you are sure to be around it when the download or process completes, but a lot of times, we have to go out with friends, go to sleep or leave for shopping and are unable to wait, or be there, when the download, file transfer, scan, defragmentation or any other time consuming process gets completed. Unnecessarily keeping the PC on for long periods not only wastes a lot of energy, but its also adds up to your energy bill. To cope with this nuisance, automatic shutdown applications are a great way to avoid keeping your PC on when its not needed. A lot of auto shutdown tools come with self triggering timers, which when triggered, perform the defined tasks (shutdown or restart in our case). Just a few days back, we covered DShutdown, a tool that allows you to turn off both local and remotely connected computers. However, if you are looking for a simple and more importantly, a portable tool that can shut down, restart or put your PC in hibernate mode at the required time, try Sleep Timer. More details jump past the fold. Read More

Run Multiple Instances Of Windows Media Player At A Time

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Even though some users like to replace the Windows Media Player with a third party media player as their default choice, some simply like to stick with it, as Windows Media Player is also a very decent choice for accessing and organizing your media collection. Moreover, Microsoft is also on the continuous improvement and enhancement of Windows Media Player features, with every new iteration. The main reason for people switching to other media players is that it lacks various advanced features and codecs that are available in powerful players VLC, Winamp and KMPlayer, by default. For this reason, it is quite common to see someone using a third party player for watching movies and using Windows Media Player for listening to music. One of the very interesting features lacking in Windows Media Player is the ability to run multiple instances of the application at a time. This means that, using Windows Media Player, you cannot run multiple media files at one time, a feature that most third party media players have. If you are an absolute Windows Media Player fanatic, and want to have multiple instance feature at your disposable, then give Multiple Windows Media Player a shot. It is a portable application that lets you run multiple instances of Windows Media Player 12 on Windows 7. Every time you launch Windows Media Player, will open up in its own window, letting you select different media files for each. Read More

QTranslate: Hot Key Supported Text Translator & Text-to-Speech Utility

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When browsing through different websites, we often stumble upon text in a foreign language. Sometimes, the website is available in multiple languages and can be switched using a drop down menu or a button placed somewhere on the landing page, however, a lot of times, the website is only available in a single foreign language. What you can do is use a language translator for converting the complete website into a language you can understand. Almost everyone knows about Google Translator and its usefulness when viewing web pages in another language, but wouldn’t it be easier if you could translate selected text without visiting Google Translator in your browser? If you are looking for an application that allows you to translate text between different languages, check out QTranslate. It is a portable application for Windows that not only lets you translate text to and from different languages, but also servers as a text-to-speech tool that also reads supported languages once they are translated. It supports multiple translation services, including Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, Promt, SDL, Yahoo! Babel Fish and Yandex Translate. Read More

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

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One of the methods we use amidst sharing a group of files is to archive them a under single file. Tools like WinRAR and 7-Zip come in handy in such situations. They allow us to pack the files together, so the receiving part can download and extract the files in on go. Such software are also helpful in reducing the size of a file via their various file compression techniques. If you were looking for an easy to use file compression utility then try SpinZip. It 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. 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

Convert Music Samples, Transpose & Shift Notes With Midi Sheet Music

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A lot of people like listening to music, but some of them also like to play an instrument, Leaning to play music not an easy task and it requires a lot of time and effort to even get your head around the basics of a musical instrument. Like any other skill, learning the theory of music, including how to read the language is very important.  Today we have a tool that converts songs into sheet music. Midi Sheet Music is an open source application that allows you to play MIDI files and convert them to sheet music. The application plays the music files in MIDI format, and automatically highlights the current music note being played. It allows you to set different custom colors for each note, and plays the track on a user-specified speed. You can choose which instrument to show & which to hide from the sheet, and view the staves according to a different Key Signature, Time Signature and Transpose, Shift Notes, Measure length etc of tracks. It lets you enable and disable note letters along with the staves, and show/hide Measure Numbers of notes. You can save the staves as images, and print them from within the application. More on Midi Sheet Music after the break. Read More

Launcher: Manage Shortcuts For Applications, Files, Folders & URLs

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Shortcut managers allow you to access your frequently used applications, files, folders, URLs etc, directly from the desktop, without cluttering it up. Having too many icons make the desktop look dirty, and the wallpaper gets permanently hidden behind them. Shortcut managers let you keep the desktop clean, while having access to your favorite shortcuts. Some days ago, we covered a portable shortcut manager called Quick Pop Menu that let you manage and access shortcuts for frequently used applications. Even though it is a great application, it only supports application shortcuts. If you want a portable shortcut manager that can handle application shortcuts, as well as website links and shortcuts to local files and folders, give Launcher a try. It is a tool for Windows that allows you to easily create shortcuts for your favorite web pages, frequently used files & folders and applications. You can run applications, with command line parameters, directly from the Launcher menu. If you are fond of having a lot of shortcuts, you can group them together into separate folders. The application allows you to create unlimited folders for organizing shortcuts into separate categories. More on Launcher after the break. Read More