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Schedule Text Messages, Emails, Tweets & Facebook Posts On Android With Schemes

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Productivity is all about management and scheduling. And if you’re doing everything on a timely basis, why not have the ability to communicate with friends and family on a planned time? That’s what Schemes aims to address. In short, it is a very simple yet handy Android app that lets you schedule four types of outgoing communications: SMS, emails, Tweets, and Facebook statuses. The best thing is that all of this is done without any unnecessarily complicated steps. By the way, did you know that the name of this app is actually an acronym? Read on to find out what it means! Read More

Have Your PC Auto Copy Files Between Multiple Folders On A Schedule

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Windows 8 includes various new features that weren’t available in previous iterations of the OS. One of those features is a revamped file copy and move window that not only tells you about the file transfer speed in real-time, but also lets you pause and resume the operation any time you want. However, many third-party apps still go beyond this, offering additional features like boosting speed, or allowing you to copy/move files from a single source directory to multiple destinations simultaneously. SceduledCopy is an interesting file copying utility that allows you to set time schedules for multiple file copy operations in one go. Being a portable app, it also eliminates the need for any installation and lets you use it anywhere from your USB thumb drive. Read More

Bedtime Help Ensures Your Kids Are Off Their PCs When Its Time To Sleep

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One thing is very common among most internet users, once you start browsing through different websites, time seems to fly. You keep browsing the social media and different entertainment websites and there’s always more material available to go through. One of the most time consuming websites, speaking from personal experience, is YouTube. You can click link after link from that Recommended Videos section and there will always be more interesting videos than you can watch. This can be a good cure for boredom, but can greatly hamper productivity when you are trying to work. It can affect your performance in multiple ways; waste your time when you are trying to work, or keep you up late at night, resulting in lack of sleep. Kids, who have their own computers, tend to stay up till the better part of the night. Today, we have an application that is developed to counter exactly that and allows users to force a system lock at a specified time. Bedtime Help allows you to set reminders for bedtime, and if reminders are ignored, it automatically takes system power actions such as Shutdown, Log off etc. Read More

Simple ShutDown Timer: Schedule Mac Shutdown, Restart & Sleep

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Mountain Lion’s new features have earned a lot of attention and plenty of detailed coverage online. As far as new features go, Mountain Lion is one kitty that loves to nap, so much so that you need a Terminal command to stop Mountain Lion from going to sleep. If you aren’t that crazy about going to Terminal and then calculating the exact number of seconds needed to delay your system going to sleep, you will be glad to know there’s an app for that. Simple ShutDown Timer is a Mac app worth $0.99 that not only lets you schedule what time your system goes to sleep, but also allows you to schedule a system shutdown and restart. You have the option to choose both the date and time to set up a system sleep or shutdown schedule. Additionally, it requires your account password to create a schedule, preventing guest users from scheduling the system sleep and shutdown task. The app is available on a trial that allows you to run the app for only ten times before you have to buy a license. Read More

DFIncBackup: Backup Tool With File Mask, Schedule, Encrypt & Compress Features

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DFIncBackup is a powerful file backup utility for Windows that enables users to create highly customizable backup tasks and run them simultaneously. Supporting local and remote locations, the application can create backups in highly compressed and encrypted ZIP archive containers to prevent unauthorized usage from any external source. Moreover, the application presents an overly simple wizard to collect backup task requirements from user; it includes a number of backup options ranging from backup type (incremental and differential), source and destination folder, schedule options, file compression and encryption, and file change monitoring options. In short, DFIncBackup provides a comprehensive backup solution, carrying all the features and options that one would need to create backup tasks according to the requirements. More details to follow after the break. Read More

CrashPlan: Scheduled Data Backup To Local, Remote & Friend’s PC

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If you become the victim of a hard disk crash or someone steals your laptop, I’m sure that most of you would worry more about the data saved in the hard drive, rather than the device itself. Creating backups of your data is very important since, data backup acts as a life saver in these situations. If you don't have your data backed up in a secondary location, you will be left without gigabytes of important data. CrashPlan is a cross-platform application to backup and restore data to local and remote PC’s. It can perform scheduled backups to an internal or external disk, another PC connected to the network, or on a friend’s computer over the internet. Read more about CrashPlan after the jump. Read More

LaunchOnTime: Schedule Apps To Start At A Specified Time [Mac]

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If you diligently follow a work schedule (or try to follow one, at least), it is likely that you battle both your weak will and the force of procrastination when it’s time to get started. It usually isn’t easy to stop browsing Reddit, or close Facebook, and get to work. In the event that you do get down to a particular task, and find it somewhat annoying - if not time consuming - to launch a bunch of apps that you’ll need to get started, then LaunchOnTime is an app for Mac that will automate app launch for you, and help you get to work faster. Read More

Connection Planner: Schedule Profiles For WiFi, GPS & More [Android]

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Connection Planner is a simple yet very useful Android app that lets users schedule and lock status of various connections or profiles for Wi-Fi, mobile data, Bluetooth, GPS as well as airplane and silent mode. By automatically disabling/locking Bluetooth and GPS as per scheduled timings, not only can the app save you quite a few minutes (or even hours) of battery life, but also prevents any apps from using these connections without your permission. Similarly, by automatically activating silent/airplane mode on your device, Connection Planner saves you from the hassle of toggling these profiles manually while you’re at work or travelling. Read More

TimeMachineEditor: Schedule Time Machine Backup On Defined Day & Time

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A while back, we covered TimeMachineScheduler that enables users to replace the default Mac OS X Time Machine backup interval with custom backup schedule. The application has the ability to skip the backup operation within the user-defined time range and auto-mount the backup drive to seamlessly backup the system data. Today, we have stumbled across another Time Machine tweaking application, namely TimeMachineEditor, which has a slew of Time Machine backup schedule options. Unlike TimeMachineScheduler, it doesn’t require you to disable the Time Machine from System Preferences to tweak the system backup schedule. You can create a complete backup plan by specifying the day and time for creating regular backups. Other advance options to make daily, weekly and monthly data backups are also available. Read More

Change Mac Time Machine Default Backup Time Interval Using TimeMachineScheduler

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Mac OS X native backup utility, namely Time Machine, offers the easiest solution to backup data on external storage mediums and Time Capsules, but doesn’t allow changing the default backup time interval. If you’re looking for an application that can replace hourly backup schedule with custom backup time interval, TimeMachineScheduler is what you probably need. It’s a standalone application that lets you disable the Time Machine default backup interval function, and replace it with user-defined backup schedule settings without having to fiddle around with com.apple.backupd-auto.plist. You can set backup interval from 1 to 12 hours, and skip the backup operation within the specified time range. Read More

Make Manual And Scheduled Backups With FBackup

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FBackup is a backup utility for Windows that can create and manage backups of files and folders. The backups can be sorted on local, removable or remote locations. It allows you to protect your data by scheduling tasks and password protecting your backups. The data can be stored in original form, or in compressed archives to save disk space. Filters are available to exclude temporary data from your backups and run predefined backup tasks such as My Documents, My Pictures, Outlook Express etc. Read on to find out more about FBackup. 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

Set Automatic Volume Adjustment Schedules With Volume Concierge

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The PC volume has a funny behavior. The same level of volume sounds low in the day time, but if you try to play something without lowering the volume at night, it seems as if the volume is a lot higher. It can be annoying for you, as well as for other people, specially if you share a room. If another person is sleeping in the same room, you can disturb him due to the high volume. To avoid such situations, what you can do is use an application that automatically changes the volume levels at pre-specified times. If you ever had problems with volume of your PC being too loud at odd times, Volume Concierge is here to help. The application has been developed to automatically change the volume of your PC. All you need is to define the time and volume percentage to schedule volume control rule. The application lets you set days and time to run volume control rules at scheduled intervals. You can add multiple schedules for different date and time, turn each schedule on/off and edit them. The application also displays a warning if one schedule comes in conflict with another. Read More

My Class Schedule: Planner & Score Calculator For Students [Android]

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Android-using students have been in luck the past few weeks with so many student planners coming to the Android Market - School Schedule and Studious, just to name a few. While both the aforementioned apps  as well as other apps from the genre come with extensive class management features, not all of them sport a homescreen widget neither do any of these apps offer help to calculate your marks for a particular course. This is where My Class Schedule comes in.  Read More

Manage Advance Outlook 2010 Mail Search & Schedule Tasks With InboxEx

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InboxEx is a powerful add-in for both Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010, which is geared toward those who perform numerous basic and advance Outlook tasks, such as schedule meetings, search mails, set appointments, add and sync events between Outlook and Google Calendar, share calendar events with others, etc., on daily basis. InboxEx is designed to help users manage their office emails and reply them in timely manner. Since Outlook 2010 native search feature requires all mailboxes to be indexed for initiating thorough search, it may become quite wearisome task to find important messages and then filter them by different message elements. InboxEx provides an efficient search feature that lets you filter search results for search keyword by name, subject, sender, recipient with options to quickly navigate between search result pages. Read More

Add Multiple Sync Jobs To Run Them At Once With Folder Replica

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Folder Replica is a job-based file synchronization utility that lets you create a list of sync jobs for different folders and locations and process them in one go. Folder Replica provides 3 sync modes; Backup Advanced (from Folder A to B), Folder Sync (Union of A and B folder data), and Copy Missing files (from A to B) along with a complementary mode to Delete Duplicates in B (target folder). For user’s convenience, the interface is divided into 2 panes, representing folder A and B sections, respectively. Just like any other backup utility, it provides you with a preview of sync job results before actually executing them. This enables you to check out all those files and folders which will be affected by the sync operations. Additionally, it allows you to schedule sync/backup jobs on specified days of week. You can mention the time of day to automatically run scheduled sync jobs and enable logging to find the problems it may face while performing the data synchronization operations. Read More

Task Till Dawn – Schedule Launch Of Apps, Files And Scripts In Mac

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Do you launch a certain set of applications with 3-4 important files everyday on your Mac and want to change this habit of manually launching applications and files from different locations? Task Till Dawn provides one of the best ways to do it. Task Till Dawn is basically an application launch scheduler which provides a dozen of options to schedule the applications, files and scripts run, at defined intervals. With this application, you no longer need to find required applications from Application folder or search through Finder windows to open specific files, just schedule their launch and it will automate the rest of steps that you’d have taken to launch application, run scripts, or to open files the default way. Read More

QtdSync Is GUI For rsync; Schedule Backup To Local Path Or SSH Server

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QtdSync is a portable backup application with scheduling options to backup data to a local or remote location. It is actually a GUI for rsync which functions in two modes; Differentiell (which only backups changes) and Synchronize Only (which saves the backup folder with updates of the newest version only). You can create multiple backup sets and restore them later at your convenience. QtdSync works on both Windows and Linux based operating systems, but Windows users get additional features like folder binding, configuration of multiple virtual folders and drag/drop support. Read More

Movie Night Out – Your Personal Movie-Night Assistant [Android, iOS]

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Movies are a great way to spend some quality time with your friends and family but how often can you pick out the perfect movie title that would end your week on a merry note? Developed by National Cinema, Movie Night Out for Android and iOS is a free app that could come in as a handy assistant if you are looking to spend your weeknight watching a movie of your choice in a theater nearby you. With Movie Night Out, you can search for the best movies from latest and upcoming releases, check out trailers, catch up with all the movie previews and reviews, search for the theaters in your area, locate a nearby restaurant to enjoy a nice dinner after the movie, book tickets in advance and share the most alluring movie titles with your friends via Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. You can check-in at your favorite theater and plan all the events of the night through the integrated Movie Recommendation feature. Read More

Quick Event For Android Converts Simple Text Into Calendar Events

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Ever since I laid my hands on my first Android device, one of the few things that really had me flustered was the Calendar application and its many features. The large number of separate fields that have to be filled just to add a simple meeting with one of your friends to the calendar can turn out to be quite a hassle and can easily distract you from the actual purpose itself. Quick Event for Android is an intelligent app that extracts all the required parameters (date, time, duration, location etc.) for a calendar event from simple text entered by the user and adds them to their respective fields within the native calendar. Effectively, Quick Event works in the same way as Google Calendar’s much-applauded Quick Add feature. Read More