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OCR To Word: Extract Text From Scanned Images & Save As MS Word (DOCX) Or TXT File

Many of us are waiting for technology smart enough to let us download a car, but in the meanwhile, we’ll have to settle with taking pictures and printing them or scanning our old photographs to preserve them beyond their physical existence. For most people who own a scanner, its use is limited to scanning items. [...] (more…)

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Smart Analysis Of Windows Local Services For Malware, Rootkits & More

Windows default services and those started by other third party applications have Local System privileges. It enables them to perform operations of higher priority that cannot be executed by normal processes. Due to this, malware is sometimes able to keep itself running as services taking advantage of the higher privileges for controlling the target system. [...] (more…)

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NoVirusThanks Uploader: Upload & Scan Files With Multiple Antiviruses

There’s a saying that prevention is better than cure. That is the main principle that antivirus programs work on, but there are situations where just having an antivirus is not enough. With thousands of new viruses coming out each day, it is possible that a new viruses slips out of the database of the antivirus [...] (more…)

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DriverIdentifier: Scan & Update Drivers For All Connected Hardware

Updating hardware drivers for your PC ensures that your computer works at maximum. You should update your hardware drivers on a regular basis to avoid any compatibility issues, glitches or system crashes. However, locating drivers for each hardware component connected to your computer and searching for updates to the applications installed on your system can [...] (more…)

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Scan Tailor: Perform Batch Editing & Adjustments On Scanned Pages

Scanning documents is a great way to save them in digital form and ensure that they won’t get destroyed or misplaced. The issue with scanning documents is that we have to set everything manually, and if anything goes wrong, we have to scan the page again, which can be quite annoying. Scan Tailor is an [...] (more…)

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DiskScanner: Visualize Memory Hogging Folders In Disc Graph [Mac]

Last year in December, we covered an app called DaisyDisk worth $9.99, which is well beyond the upper price point for paid apps and easily warranted a giveaway. For those who missed our giveaway, or didn’t score a license, here is a free alternative. DiskScanner is a Mac app that does pretty much what DaisyDisk [...] (more…)

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[Giveaway] CleanGenius: Delete Logs, Caches & Unwanted Apps, Monitor Space Usage [Mac]

MacCleaning was a simple memory monitor and cache cleaner for Mac, reviewed early in December 2011. In the brief period of one month, the app has been upgraded with two major features, and has been renamed CleanGenius Free. Like the previously-reviewed version, it has both a free and a pro version. New features added to [...] (more…)

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QR Journal: Scan QR Codes Using Your Webcam [Mac]

QR code readers are more of an Android thing. Sure, you can scan them on an iPhone, but they made their mark on Android long before debuting on anything from Apple. Regardless of the ‘whose idea was it first’ debate, QR codes are now widely used. QR Journal is an app for Mac, allowing you [...] (more…)

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SkinScan For WP7: Scan Skin Aberrations To Check For Malignancy/Cancer

The ozone layer is getting thinner with each passing day, which means we have to be more wary of the sun and chances of contracting skin cancer than ever before. It’s not possible to visit a dermatologist every week. SkinScan  for Windows Phone 7 can scan the moles on your skin, and see if they [...] (more…)

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Automatically Organize Your Documents After Scanning With FlashJetScan

FlashJetScan is a a utility to scan and automatically organize documents in selected source directories according to pre-defined name and date stamps. It automatically detects all connected scanning devices, and manages documents in a logical order to help users easily find them afterwards. You can create multiple categories and label them to automatically sort and [...] (more…)

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Create Digital Copies Of Your Receipts With Lemon For iPhone

No matter how careless you are with your stuff, some things are just too important to lose. Receipts of your purchases can save you from some serious troubles and are helpful in keeping track of your buying habits. However, in today’s almost paper-free world, it is becoming increasingly difficult to preserve and maintain these small slips of paper [...] (more…)

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Norton Bootable Recovery Tool: Recover PC When It Becomes Unbootable

Sometimes, when any malware infects a critical system file such as boot.ini, your PC can become unbootable. The infection can occur on a random or gradual basis, and reach a high threshold, after which it becomes practically impossible to boot your system due to infected operating system files. In such a case, a wipe of your [...] (more…)

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Magican: Comprehensive Tool To Clean, Optimize & Monitor Your Mac

Magican is a massive system optimization and cleaning utility for Mac OS X that includes a host of system information tools, cleaning features and system optimization options to keep your Mac stable and free from superfluous data, obsolete PowerPC apps and scripts, uninstalled applications’ log files. Since Mac OS X, like any other OS, doesn’t [...] (more…)

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Make Pictures Look Like Scanned Documents With Cam To Scan

What happens when you need to send a scanned copy of an important document on a short notice, and find yourself without a scanner? An option is to attach a captured image of the document, but not only would that look unprofessional, it might also be unacceptable for your recipient. If you ever find yourself [...] (more…)

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Delete Startup Items Which Are Added By Programs Without Your Permission

Many a times when we install an application, it registers itself to start at system startup without asking us. This results in slow down of the Windows startup time. It can be quite a hassle to individually locate the advanced options of each application to prevent them from starting at Windows startup. In such as case [...] (more…)