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How To Create Backup At Remote Location When PC Stops Booting [Beginner's Guide]

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Earlier we discussed a few ways to diagnose Windows problems and fix the issues when PC fails to boot up using Ubuntu Live USB, including reset Windows 7 admin and standard account password, perform disk wipe operation, repair lost partitions and recover hard disk data, and run anti-virus scan over entire hard disk to fix booting issues. If you've persistent Ubuntu USB, you could fix various kind of issues which are generally hard to identify on Windows, such as removing virus-infected read-only system files and services, but before you start repairing your PC using Ubuntu Live USB, it’s recommended to backup all the important data at remote location, so that you can fearlessly perform the system repair operations. In the past, we showed you how to clone an entire hard disk and make IMG (image file) of hard disk partition and then restore at defined location. This time around, we bring you a step-by-step guide on backing up important files and folders on network when PC fails to boot up. Read More

Grrrabit: Grab Regional Screenshots, Share Online & Save Locally [Mac]

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Screenshot tools are pretty much a desktop thing. With most tools, the general premise is that a screenshot is meant to be taken and used on your system, and not for sharing most of the times. Grrrabit is Mac app that is different; as opposed to features for capturing your screen, active windows or screen areas, the app only allows you to capture any region on your screen, draw on it, copy the image to your clipboard, and upload it online to the app’s service with a public sharing link. Screenshots that you take are saved both to your local system, and uploaded to the service. Read More

Soundtracker Brings Its Location-Based Music Discovery App To Android

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Soundtracker is an interactive online music discovery, distribution and sharing service featuring no less than 11 million high quality songs. Apart from managing and listening to your favorite tracks, you can use Soundtracker service to explore music shared by your Facebook/Twitter friends as well as from users nearby. The official mobile client of Soundtracker is available across all the popular platforms, with the Android Market being the latest to receive its very own variant. Using the Soundtracker Radio app, you get a chance to search for, access, and share your favorite music stations (artists) from anywhere. It also lets you learn about the musical taste of other users, and make friends with them, chat with them, and comment on their tracks. Another added feature in the mobile client is the ability to displays lyrics of the songs that you're listening to. The app also sports a handy homescreen widget that lets you switch tracks, and share them with your friends right from the homescreen. Read More

Appkik Is A User-Friendly App Manager & System Optimizer For Android

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Fresh to the Android Market, and boasting quite a few handy application and task management features, Appkik ensures that you do not have to resort to multiple managers to keep a tab on all the various apps installed on your device. Be it system apps or third-party apps, using the neatly designed and easy to use interface of Appkik, you can instantly search for, access and manage all with sheer convenience.In addition, the app lets you backup, uninstall and share apps in batch, move installed apps to SD card, and kill any apps running in the background to optimize the performance of your device. Apart from providing you quick access to all the apps via various categories/filters, Appkik also maintains history of all uninstalled apps, and lets you retrieve them from the Market. To help you access some of its key features right from the homescreen, Appkik also provides you with a nifty widget. Read More

PhotoLikr: Create/Manage Picasa, Minus & Other Online Photo Galleries

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Photo viewers are spread in thousands across the internet, but actually a few ones feel handy and unique. For us, a photo viewer should be aesthetically pleasing and should hold a few unique features, to consider it worthwhile for a review. PhotoLikr is probably one such software, which seem to have much potential. It is an image viewer that lets you review, rate and upload your images to Google+, Picasa, Gmail, PhotoOnWeb and Minus. Your friends can then rate your images and help you in sorting them out according to their ratings, its like those Hot or Not games you'd often play with your friends. The application allows you to share individual images, whole folders or set custom filters according to the Total number of votes, Likr Score or Personal rating. Once an album has been viewed, rated, liked and disliked by your friends, you can choose to either move low rated images to recycle bin or move best rated images to a new folder. PhotoLikr supports all popular image formats such as JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, PSD, TIF etc, and lets you specify the default resolution of pictures before uploading. Read More

Official Client For Cloud Service YouSendIt Arrives In Android Market

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With more than 23 million registered subscribers from all across the globe, YouSendIt is easily one of the most extensively used online file syncing and sharing web services. Apart from updating its existing desktop and iOS clients just recently, YouSendIt also introduced brand new clients for Mac and Android to ensure that users of almost all renowned operating systems can avail the quality cloud computing features that it has to offer. Like its other variants, the official YouSendIt client for Android is also meant to provide you with instant and secure access to all the data stored on your cloud. Using the app, you can manage your files and folders, open, modify and add signatures to your digital documents, capture and upload photos/videos and share folders with your mail recipients (with user-defined access privileges for each). That’s not all; you can secure the app itself using a a 4-digit PIN. Read More

Minus Now Lets You Connect With Users & Play Any Audio/Video Format

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Photo sharing has pretty much become a common internet phenomenon. From Flickr to Imgur, Twitpic to 9gag and Imageshack to Tinypic, you will find countless photos being shared by people around the world, in every passing minute. Perhaps that's the reason social network giant Facebook adapted it as a mainstay feature. However, sharing photos is cumbersome task and one has to go through the hassle of sign ups and other procedures to get the job done. Minus changed all, and we here at Addictive Tips, have been closely following the progress of Minus since it first came out just as a web service. We have seen it start as a web-service, which grows towards desktop and android app, and then integrate into Windows ‘Send To’ Menu, and finally get Browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox. That's some serious milestone it has successfully achieved. Should you unaware of the service, Minus is a file sharing web service that makes photo sharing just a matter of dragging images over your browser. Minus keeps on getting updates from time to time and it has received another one, including new features such as Explore to see what others are sharing, Galleries that allow you to play all video and audio file types and add tags & comments to images, and Dashboard has been revamped to become Home for all your uploading and following activities. Read More

Share Where You Are & What You Are Up To With Path For iOS

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Sharing with friends and loved ones is what social networking is all about, and when we are multitasking, like listening to the latest background score from Michael Nyman, taking a photo, working and chatting with a friend, we might want to share all of this, and more, simultaneously. Path for iOS lets you do this on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, and also lets you update your physical location. The the good thing about this app is the variety of ways in which you can add your friends to your 'path.' You can add people from your Facebook account, add those who are already using Path, or even invite people who have an iOS device via SMS or email. Signing up is pretty easy, as it requires only your email address, and you're good to go. Read More

Play Your Entire Media Collection On TV And Mobile With TVersity

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The Windows Media Center is a complete solution for handling all the media found in your computer. You can view images, listen to music, watch videos, and do a lot more with the stored media using Windows Media Center. Moreover, it also allows you to watch, as well as record live TV. Using selected programs, such as Netflix, you can also stream videos and television programs. However, if you are not a fan of Windows Media Center, we have another application that lets you play, as well as stream media. TVersity is an application that lets you play your media on TV and Mobile. It lets you stream audio, video and image content over DLNA/ UPnP A/V devices, or you can just use a web browser to access the media. This enables you to video your personal media on Game Consoles, Set-top boxes, Blu-Ray Players, Networked TV’s, Phones and Tablets. The issue of device limitations is solved with automatic real-time transcoding. Using just a browser and a media player, you can navigate your library, and play any media content of your choice. Read More

Moving Floats: Point Your Android Device Towards A Place To Identify, Explore & Discuss It

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Based on the concept of crowd sourcing images and ideas on various topics from the people in your vicinity, displaying all the useful shopping deals from nearby, keeping you apprised of upcoming local events and letting you know all the famous places around you, Moving Floats is a new location-based Android app that can certainly help you know your place and the locals better. Although there are quite a few apps already present on the Android Market that employ the aforementioned concept, Moving Floats brings something unique to the table. It includes an "explore mode" wherein users can point their devices towards a place to identify it and view ongoing discussions and uploaded images relating to it. Read More

SaveMeeting For Android: Record/Share Audio & Speech-To-Text Transcripts Of Meetings

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Want to share the transcripts or audio recordings of a recently concluded business meeting with your colleagues? Why not do it with SaveMeeting – a cross platform mobile app that lets you easily record and share the audio, transcriptions (speech-to-text) and other details of your meetings right from your device. All recordings are automatically uploaded to the SaveMeeting cloud, thereby helping you as well as your colleagues to instantly access shared data anytime and from anywhere. Each recording is listed under a meeting date specified on calendar that can be accessed via the company’s website. Initially released as an iOS-only app, SaveMeeting has just made its way into the Android Market. Read More

Create, Manage & Sync To-Do Lists On The Go With Any.DO [Android]

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With so many various task management apps already present on the Android Market, each packed with some amazing goodies of its own, what features can a new entrant bring to the forefront to attract the users? Well, for one, better aesthetics, user-friendliness, home screen widgets, online synchronization of your tasks and may be, added customization. Any.DO is a free task management app for Android that serves complete justice to aforementioned criteria. The app lets you create, prioritize and share your to-do lists on the go and in fine style too. The task management proficiencies of Any.DO aside, it’s the visually appealing UI of the app that serves as one of its greatest strengths. It is clean, uncluttered and easy-on-the-eyes (very un-Android-like, to be honest). Read More

Drawpr: Drop And Share Files Without The Hassle Of Signups [Web]

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Want to quickly share files without going through the whole e-mailing process? drawpr is a brand new file sharing web app that allows you to upload your files in only a few simple steps. Just drop your files in the bucket to upload them, copy the link and send it to anyone you want, or simply share on Facebook. drawpr is a quick and handy tool that makes file sharing, accessing and storing a lot more easier. No sign up is required, although the service does recommend it. Furthermore, you can make your files password protected. Read More

Share Large Files via Email By Uploading Them To WinZip Servers

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There are many web services that allow sending large files via email. Such services often upload the attachment to their servers, and provide a URL of the file to the recipient. Unfortunately, these services are often restricted by a 25MB (in general) upload limit. Recently, WinZip has come up with a new service christened ZipSend, which allows up to 2 GB (per email) of file transfer. Before you get carried away, however, it is worth mentioning that the 2GB limit is only available in the paid version, while the lite (free) version provides up to 50MB of free upload. What ZipSend basically does is that, it zips attached files and sends a link to the recipient to download the file from WinZip servers. This means that you can avoid flooding your friend’s account with heavy mails, and also circumvent the 25MB upload limit. What makes ZipSend quite unique from other web services of it’s kind, is the fact that it provides a plugin that integrates with MS Outlook, as well as Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo mail. Read More

CodeTwo NetCalendars: Create Group Calendar To Let Network Users Collaborate On Tasks

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Need to share details of office appointments, events, meetings and work schedule with your team members but don’t want the fuss of having to manually manage and update each event? CodeTwo NetCalendars is an application to streamline the management of office appointments, events and schedules that you want to share with others. It lets you create a group calendar, which can be accessed by your team members connected on network. Not only can you share the calendar with others, but you can also allow your team to work on it at the same time. Once the calendar is shared on network, users can access it, make changes to events, create new events and update the existing appointments. It automatically syncs all the changes made to calendars, so that you won’t have to manually open the calendar from shared location to view the latest event details. Read More

Voxer Brings Its PTT-Based IM Client To The Android Market

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Looking to instantly share your texts, photos and location with friends, supplemented by real-time voice/audio messages? Why not do it via Voxer – a PTT-based instant messenger for iOS and Android that lets you quickly share voice messages with friends in real-time (just like a walkie-talkie), or record your messages to send them automatically upon connecting to the internet. In addition, the app lets you pick multiple contacts to initiate a group chat, and alerts you of all your new messages and friend requests via notifications. Read More

Turn PC Into Virtual WiFi Hotspot With WiFi HotSpot Creator

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With the advent of Wifi, internet usage was revolutionized, getting rid of tangled wires. Every device comes out today contains a Wifi, from your PC to smartphone, laptop to tablet and TV to Blu-ray players, it seems as if Wifi has now dominated our lives. The beauty of Wifi is that you can get instant access to the internet wherever there is a hotspot. However, sometimes we need to access internet in places where Wifi hotspot is simply not available. Luckily, there are various tools available for Windows that turn your PC into a Wifi hotspot, so it would work exactly like a Wifi router or access point. If you have been looking for one, then today is your lucky day. Try WiFi HotSpot Creator, a handy tool to create a WiFi hotspot and share your internet connection, so WiFi enabled devices like laptops, smart phones, and tablets, can connect to internet via PC. It auto-enables the ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) option of your current connection to seamlessly turn your PC into a WiFi hotspot; you don’t have to go through the tiresome process of opening Network & Sharing Center. Just launch the tool, enter the connection name and passphrase to create your WiFi hotspot. Moreover, it creates WPA/WPA2 PSK based secured connection, allowing you to connect those WiFi enabled devices which cannot connect with wireless ad-hoc network. More details ahead after the break. Read More

Perform Lengthy Tasks With One Click Using Click.to For Mac

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Earlier this year, we featured Click.to app for Windows which significantly saves you tedious mouse clicking to perform lengthy tasks, such as, sharing images and files on social media platforms, searching YouTube videos, sending selected text to default email client’s compose window and more. For those who aren't familiar with Click.to, it’s a user-centric application that provides a list of actions for text, images, documents and items in clipboard to instantly perform them over the focused item. Click.to has recently released the Mac version which supports both Mac Snow Leopard and Lion. Like its Windows counterpart, Click.to for Mac can be used to quickly share Mac OS X clipboard items on Facebook and Twitter, initiate Google and YouTube search for selected text, send text to Mac Mail app compose window and so on. Read More

GChat Pix: Share Images Through Google Chat Via Drag & Drop [Chrome]

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Gmail Chat is an absolutely amazing feature that lets you chat with your Google contacts without needing a desktop client. It might not be your preferred chat medium when you’re home and have the luxury to install any chat client you want but at work, things are different. At work you might not have the freedom to install any app that you want and that’s where Gmail Chat is so useful. Although Google Chat allows you to chat with any of your Gmail contacts without requiring the desktop client, it doesn't allow sending files. The only option with Google Chat is to send file as email attachment. GChat Pix is an extension for Chrome that allows you to send files through Google Chat. It uses its own server and uploads the file you want to send to it. It then pastes the link to the file in your browser window and you can share it on chat. Read More

Locate ‘N Share For WP7: Find And Text Your Current Location To Anyone

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If you are one of those people who are bad at memorizing directions (like me), then having a smartphone with any maps app must feel like a real blessing to you. However, if your navigation skills are as bad as your memory, such apps won't do you much good either. That’s the philosophy Locate ’N Share seems to have been based upon. It’s a free app for Windows Phone 7 that is designed to help people find where they presently are and text their current location along with complete directions to anyone. Read More