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Post To Facebook, Twitter & Google+ From Android Notification Shade Using notiShare

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Android apps that have their own widgets are often preferred by users over others that don't, due to the ability of using many features from the home screen or lock screen using the widgets. A prime example of this can be seen in the high popularity of social networking apps with widgets that they allow you to post instantly from your device’s home/lock screen. Though what if your preferred social network mobile app – whether official or third-party – doesn’t sport a widget at all? Lack of widgets or a quick sharing/posting method is mainly the reason why most users ditch an app regardless of how feature-rich it otherwise is. Fresh to the Play Store, notiShare is a free Android app that vows to offer a viable solution to this problem by adding a dedicated ‘new post’ widget/shortcut to your device’s notification dropdown. Using the app’s notification panel widget, you can instantly navigate to the new post sharing screen of your preferred official or third-party social networking apps. Read More

How To Add Call & Text Shortcuts For Any Contact To iOS Home Screen Without Jailbreak

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A lot of Cydia tweaks let users skip the hassle of opening the contacts app, searching for a person and then making a call. You might be able pin contacts on your iPhone’s SpringBoard for easier access, or even making calls using simple gestures. Unfortunately, all these goodies are usually reserved for jailbreak users only. Having said that, there are always alternative ways for iOS users who like keeping their devices Cydia-free. You might not have considered it possible, but there is a rather simple method for pinning a contact to any iPhone’s Home screen for making calls with a single tap. You can also use the same procedure to create a shortcut for sending texts to a particular person directly, without having to find their thread or start a new one manually in the Messages app. Read More

AddNote: Select Text Anywhere In iOS To Save It As A New Note In The Stock Notes App

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Developers and tech-savvy people measure an operating system’s efficiency in terms of processing time, but a common user just cares about the number of steps it takes to perform any given task on a smartphone or computer. AddNote is an addon for the Action Menu Cydia tweak that has been designed for the convenience of all jailbreak users who often find the need to quickly create notes for, say, things they're reading on the web. The functionality offered by AddNote might not appear too significant at first glance, but when you think about it, almost everyone can make use of a tweak like this. AddNote adds a new button to the text action menu of jailbroken iDevices, tapping which allows you to save any selected snippet of text as a new note in the stock Notes app. Users are saved a lot of trouble by the tweak, and you just have to hit the AddNote button after selecting the desired text to make it magically appear as a new, standalone note in the stock Notes app. Read More

ViPad: Tabbed Aero UI Launcher For Program Shortcuts And Bookmarks

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With every new version of Windows, Microsoft tries to give it a new faceplate (Windows 8 anyone?), usually with more customization options, eye-candy and enhanced ergonomics to easily access your applications. Some people however, go one step beyond to what the default settings offer, towards the third-party utilities to quickly access their frequently used applications, URLs, and file shortuts. Well, today’s recipe is certainly for those folks who want a gorgeous looking application launcher, with aero glass effect. ViPad is a free application that provides a glass-like window, which houses different tabs to place all your program shortcuts and web bookmarks. Read More

FlashTray Pro: Launch Applications, Folders, URLs & More via System Tray Or Hotkeys

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Shortcut managers, application launchers and context menu editors all have one thing in common: they all simplify and enhance your Windows experience. These applications provide a detour for easily accessing your favorite or frequently used programs, without cluttering up your desktop with shortcuts. We love minimalistic desktops, and believe you people too. In earlier posts, we have covered a lot of applications that allow you to easily access different programs and menus through hotkeys, right click context menus, or the system tray. These are probably the most accessible places to launch your applications. Today, we have another application launcher and hotkey macro utility called FlashTray Pro, which allows you to instantly launch applications, files, folders, URLs and system options from the system tray menu. Moreover, the application has a collection of small utilities, including a Color Picker, Character Map, Screen Magnifier, Calendar Studio and Windows Sizer. The shortcuts can be accessed from both the system tray as well as through user-defined hotkeys. More on FlashTray Pro after the jump. Read More

Add Application & URL Shortcuts In Windows Context Menu With 7CMenuEditor.INC

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Little features of Microsoft Windows, such as the right-click context menu, increase productivity without the user ever even noticing. Imagine the time it would take for you to access all the features included in the context menu by navigating to different dialog boxes and windows. The context menu allows you to use different features of the operating system by providing you with item-related options. For instance, if you right-click your desktop, you will have a different set of options than what you will get when you right-click, say, an image file. This way, the context menu doesn’t get cluttered with all unrelated options. We have covered several context menu tools that let you increase the utility of desktop and Windows Explorer context menus. Today, we have a similar portable software, named 7CMenuEditor.INC, which allows you to add custom application shortcuts and URL’s to the desktop context menu. You can choose the position of the new shortcuts in the context menu, as well as specify if you want them to appear in the normal right click context menu or the extended (Shift + Right click) context menu of Windows. Read More

FSL Launcher: Tabbed Shortcut Manager With Backup/Restore Support

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The Windows 7 taskbar and Jumplist feature certainly provide a quick and convenient way to access most frequently used applications and files, but if you're already dealing with a cluttered taskbar, then you probably need an efficient application launcher to categorize your favorite applications and regularly accessed files. We've covered a lot of useful application launchers, such as Gizmo Toolbar (lets you enable multiple toolbars on your desktop in different styles and themes and provides you with extensive customizations to change the style, color, size, font, opacity, behavior, placement etc., of shortcuts) and MadApp Launcher (allows you to add application shortcuts, and access them via hotkeys). Today, we stumbled across FSL Launcher, an application launcher that supports adding application shortcuts via drag and drop, and categorizing them under separate tabs. It allows you to group similar items, like applications, URLs, files and folders together, and provides you with options to create, delete, rename, back up and restore the icon groups. Read More

Get An Invisible iOS 5.1 Lockscreen Camera Slider On Any iPhone Or iPod Touch [Cydia]

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As trivial as it might sound at first, the new and revamped lockscreen camera button in iOS 5.1 is among the biggest talking points in the latest iOS update. In older versions of iOS, users had to double-tap the Home button to make the camera icon appear on the iPhone’s lockscreen. In the new version of the operating system, however, the camera shortcut is always visible and ready to be used. The method of using the shortcut has changed, and instead of just tapping the button to launch it, you have to use the shortcut as a slider to bring up the camera app. iOS5.1 Camera Lockscreen is a Cydia tweak which brings this new camera button to all iOS devices, even those which aren’t on iOS 5.1 yet, but with a slight twist. If you install this tweak, there will be no button, but rather, the whole lower part of the lockscreen becomes a slider that can be used to bring up the camera. Read More

Nifty: Add Custom Global App Specific Buttons On Mac [Paid]

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Keyboard shortcuts make it easy to use apps, but sometimes, it’s hard just to remember what shortcuts you’ve set. Often, the same shortcut does different things in different apps and that complicates things further. What’s needed is a universal system for managing these functions, possibly an app wearing a golden ring with something like ‘One shortcut app to rule them all’ engraved on it. Nifty is a Mac app, available for $4.99 in the Mac App Store, that adds a dynamic toolbar on your desktop. The buttons on this toolbar change as different apps are active. The toolbar shows all open windows of a particular app, and lets you add buttons of your choice. These buttons can be app specific; they will appear only when that particular app is active, or they can be global; they will appear regardless of which app is active. Read More

Launch iOS Camera App With An Activator Gesture Using CamFast [Cydia]

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iOS users are pretty obsessed with launching their iPhone’s camera quickly, and that is why iOS 5 included a shortcut for launching the camera app straight from the lockscreen. This search for camera shortcuts is pretty understandable, owing to the fact that the cameras incorporated with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices are pretty good and extensively used. No one likes fumbling through their iPhone trying to find the camera app icon while their target moves out of the camera range. That is why one Cydia developer has gone a step further than adding a mere shortcut for camera, and now it is possible to launch the camera in your iDevice using any gesture of your choice, thanks to the newly released tweak named CamFast. Read More

Dammit: Speed Dial To Open (Stacks Of) Apps, Files Or Folders On Mac [Paid]

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If you use either Opera or Chrome, you are probably familiar with the speed dial feature that allows you to quickly access your frequently visited sites. As far as browsers are concerned, this is a highly useful feature. Imagine having something similar on your desktop for your frequently-used files, folders and apps. Dammit is a Mac app available for $2.99 in the Mac app store that implements this very idea on you desktop. Mac users might question what the point of such an app is when you have Launchpad for launching your apps, but Dammit, literally, lets you use your number pad to open corresponding files/folders and apps. You can create stacks (groups of shortcuts, nine in each stack) and swipe through them using four finger swipe. The app runs in the background and can quickly be brought to front using custom shortcuts. Read More

Add App Shortcuts To App Switcher Tray With Appswitch [Cydia]

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Accessing and launching apps on iOS devices is pretty convenient, as rather than going through a long list of icons, you just have to switch between various screens and get to the desired app. If that’s not enough for you, it is possible to look for an installed app via Spotlight search. However, if you have many apps on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, it is possible that you find both of the above stated methods a bit tedious, specially when you use only a handful of apps regularly. It is possible to pin such apps to the dock of your device, but what if there are more than 4 apps which you use frequently? That’s where the new Cydia tweak Appswitch can come in handy. This tweak lets you pin 4 additional apps to the App Switcher tray, and can be considered as an extension to the dock. Read More

XLaunchpad: Mac-Like LaunchPad For Apps & Folders [Windows]

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The really great thing about loyalty to any platform is that no matter what happens, you will always love what you’re working on. The really annoying thing about platform loyalty, however, is that you will always love what you’re working with, even if it isn’t worth the love. If you’re a loyal Windows PC user, it isn’t likely that you’ll ever admit that a Mac might have one or two things that you would kill to have on your system. Whether you stick to Windows for the price, the flexibility, the free applications or just because it is more awesome than a Mac, you may still have heard of Launchpad, a Mac feature that makes it easy to launch apps installed on your system. XLaunchpad is a Windows application that adds this feature to your PC. Read More

30 New Hotkeys For Windows 8

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Hotkeys allow you to save time by quickly accessing menus and performing different tasks, which may take more time when done with mouse. Windows 8 Consumer Preview was launched some days ago, and along with the new user interface, also came new hotkeys to access the new menus included in Windows 8. We thought it would be nice to compile a list of shortcuts that you will find very useful while using Windows 8. Some of the shortcuts are same as Windows 7, but a lot have changed, too. Keep reading to find out some easy access hotkeys for Windows 8. Read More

URL Notification: Send Links To Notification Bar For Easy Access [Android]

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Most desktop and mobile web browsers these days offer the option of bookmarking URLs for the sake of accessing links to our favorite webpages with ease. However, if you do not fancy bookmarking URLs of webpages that you won’t be requiring to access more than once, then you must try URL Notification. The purpose of URL Notification is simple; to save you from cluttering your bookmark list with any such URLs that you need to access only on a temporary basis. To help said cause, it lets you send a shortcut of all such URLs from an Android browser to the notification bar. Once that is done, you may continue with your routine browsing chores, and when required, you can pull down the notification bar, tap the URL shortcut, and instantly open it with the browser. No need to remember, bookmark or note down the URL separately. A good thing about URL Notification is that it lets you add multiple instances of URL shortcuts to the notification bar. URLs shared via URL Notification remain present on the bar for as long as you don’t wipe your notifications, utilize them, or power off/restart your device. Read More

KeyboardExt: Quickly Locate & Launch Applications Using Hotkeys

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Both shortcut management and hot key applications are created in order to make using Windows easier and quicker for the users. Keyboard hotkeys allow you to perform the required task in a lot less clicks and key presses than normally required, and a shortcut manager lets you have a lot of program, file and folder shortcuts on your screen without cluttering the desktop. KeybardExt is an versatile application for Windows that allows you to completely manage keyboard shortcuts, launch applications, send keystrokes to applications and extends Windows Explorer keyboard shortcuts. It has built-in capability to handle and manage screenshots and can also be used as a quick way to search for items in your Start menu. The tool allows you to quickly locate and launch applications, open documents, play MP3 files and access other files from system folders. Users are allowed to choose the applications to run from locations, such as Start Menu, Quick Launch, or other user defined locations. The application provides you with a replacement for Start/Run dialog box, lets you create hot keys to be used with specific applications or globally and much more Read on to find out more about KeyboardExt. Read More

ShortStop: Avoid App Keyboard Shortcut Conflict In Mac [Paid]

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Keyboard shortcuts add convenience to how we use an app and our system as a whole. Many users, who need to work on different projects and use multiple apps at the same time, will use a combination of  mouse and trackpad gestures and keyboard shortcuts just to get things done faster. It is for this reason that many of us have a soft spot for app that support keyboard shortcuts and get butterflies if we can edit a shortcut to our own liking. While these shortcuts are great, they sometimes end up conflicting with other apps and more power apps might even conflict with universal shortcuts. ShortStop is a simple Mac app available for $2.99 in the Mac App Store that allows you to toggle between apps and their enabled shortcuts. You can set the system to ignore shortcuts that are associated with an app, and enable them as per your requirement. Read More

SiriLaunch: Add A Shortcut For Siri In Notification Center [Cydia]

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Despite having its critics, the buzz around Siri just refuses to die out, and that is evident from the number of Siri-related Cydia tweaks which are coming out these days. While most of those tweaks might be for porting the witty voice assistant to non-4S devices, there are a few which go beyond that and try to bring something completely different to the mix. SiriLaunch is one example of such tweaks, and it lets jailbroken iOS users add a Notification Center shortcut for launching Siri quickly. With this handy little tweak, you can customize the placement of the shortcut within the NC, and have a quick and convenient alternative for launching Siri. Not everyone might be a fan of holding the Home button of their iPhone to see Siri, and that is the problem that has been resolved by the SiriLaunch tweak. The method of launching Siri offered by this tweak requires a single touch aimed at the new button in the Notification Center. Read More

SpotTweet: Send Twitter Updates From Spotlight Search [Cydia Tweak]

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If you tweet a lot, then having an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch is just the thing for you, owing to the impressive Twitter integration on offer in the latest version of iOS. There is now an option for tweeting in just about every area of the platform, and within most stock apps, but if you want to compose a tweet and send it to your account without any fuss, you will have to rely upon some of the third-party options available for users. There is Twicon, Tweet Time and many other apps and tweaks which are designed for speed and efficiency when it comes to tweeting. SpotTweet is the newest addition to this category, and using this Cydia tweak, you can compose and send a tweet from the Spotlight search area in an iDevice. Read More

Turbodo: Create Universal Mac Shortcuts To Open Files & Apps [Paid]

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Keyboard shortcuts are dead useful. The universal application of Command + C, Command + V etc., across different OS, is a proof of just how convenient they are. Turbodo is a Mac app worth $4.99 that takes universal shortcuts to a new level. It allows you to create shortcuts for just about any file, folder and app on your Mac. The app runs unobtrusively in the System Menu Bar, and no matter which app you are working in, or which desktop space you’re on, the app enforces the shortcuts you create. You can open and execute several files and apps from just one shortcut. The app has a drag & drop interface for adding executable items. Read More