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Get Update & Price Drop Notifications For Any iOS App With Apps Notifier

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Ever since Apple started its crackdown on app discovery tools, vendors have started coming up with ingenious ways of slipping past the stringent App Store scrutiny, and pushing out apps that might help you in keeping your iPhone interesting. A few days back, we covered AppShopper Social that adds a dash of user-collaboration to app discovery. Push notifications are an important part of any app like AppShopper, but there are other tools available for different platforms that are designed to work in the background, and only alert users whenever there is something worth checking out in the app collection. For Android, Amazon App Notifier serves a similar purpose, whereas iPhone owners can now give the new Apps Notifier a shot. You just have to add your favorite apps to the Apps Notifier watch list, and then wait for any updates or price drops to come along. There's is no need to even repeatedly come back to the app, since it is based almost completely on push notifications. Read More

Set iPhone Apps To Auto-Update In The Background At Regular Intervals

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No matter how annoying that App Store icon badge seems at first, app updates are important. If you are in the habit of ignoring updates for a long time (like many iOS users), you might be missing out on some great new features of your favorite apps and games. A majority of users don't like updating apps out of sheer laziness. It only takes about three or four taps to initiate an app's update process, but some people just don't consider even this much effort worthwhile. For such procrastinators, Cydia store now has the perfect tweak. Auto App Updater makes sure all of your apps are always up-to-date, and you don’t even have to launch the App Store for the tweak to work! Auto App Updater works in the background and installs updates for any app you want. Read More

Update Freezer Makes It Easy To Disable Updates For Popular Applications

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Most users have this habit of instantly updating their applications whenever a newer version gets released, no matter if it’s in beta testing phase. This sometimes can lead to adverse effects, as beta updates are often too buggy and can even drastically decrease your system’s performance. A few applications though, like Firefox or Adobe Flash, often prompt you to update to newer versions, and same is the case with Windows update notification balloon that does nothing, but disrupts your work flow. Obviously, we don’t recommend disabling the updates entirely, but as they say “Precaution is better than cure”, same goes for early updates. So how do you cope with such nuisances? If you've been looking for a way to forcibly block the application update prompts, Update Freezer is probably what you need. This light-weight, application is designed to block auto updates for some of the most popular applications, including Firefox, Skype and Java, as well as tools from Google (Chrome anyone?), Windows updates and Adobe (Air, Flash, Photoshop etc). Since it's a portable application, you can use it while on the go, whether you’re at office, vacations or at some place where the internet bandwidth is expensive, and you want to temporarily disable auto updates. Read on for more details. Read More

Curiosa: Keyword-Based Cydia Update Alerts In iOS Notification Center

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The Cydia store houses a lot of useful tweaks and apps, which strive towards making jailbroken iOS devices better for general users. Despite the importance of the Cydia store, there are not many ways of customizing it, or making it better for your own usage. So, it is good to see the new tweak named Curiosa that is focused on tweaking the Cydia store itself. You might have noticed that the only way Cydia shows new changes and available updates to its users is via a badge on its Springboard icon. This is a pretty unintuitive method, as the badge is only refreshed when you launch the store and update the Changes section. On the other hand, Curiosa not only automates this process of refreshing, it will also send you notifications whenever newer updates are available, and comes with Notification Center integration to top it all off. Read More

Schedule & Queue Messages For Facebook, Twitter And LinkedIn [Chrome]

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You‘ve no doubt come across apps and extensions that allow you to manage Facebook and Twitter accounts at the same time. With the recent change in Twitter’s API, some of you might just be in the market for a new app or service to manage both your Twitter and Facebook feed. GrabInbox is a Chrome extension that works in conjunction with a web service. It lets you manage your Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn feed and also schedule status updates and messages. It allows you to choose what type of activity you want to monitor for each account and gives a single dashboard to view it all.  The scheduling options let you schedule messages for a later date and time. GrabInbox lets you easily share any webpage that you browse across your social networks. You can queue links and schedule posts for a later time and date. After you install the extension, a button is added right next to the URL bar. GrabInbox allows you to post the same links on multiple sites without having to open several tabs. You may add Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin accounts along with Facebook Fan pages. Read More

Mingly: Stay Connected With All Your Social Networks Through Gmail [Chrome]

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Do you often forget to send birthday wishes to your contacts, or find it hard to stay connected with friends on all your social networks? Mingly, a Google Chrome extension, is an amazing relationship management tool that can provide you with the perfect solution. It simply turns your Gmail inbox into a social network by organizing all your contacts from the most popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, letting you stay better connected and knowing absolutely everything about your friends and the latest happenings around you. Furthermore, you can set reminders for events and view birthdays. The registration process is very simple; all you need to do is sign in with your Google account, and then connect your social networks with Gmail. Read More

Make Updating Ubuntu Easier With Update Manager Indicator

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Updating the Ubuntu operating system can sometimes be a headache. Usually, the default update manager pops-up when new updates become available and one often leaves many unwanted updates checked before executing the update process. Update Manager Indicator is a system tray indicator which helps you manage all your available Ubuntu updates and provides an easy drop down menu for selecting desired updates. Update Manager Indicator also provides bubble message (NotifyOSD) notifications for new updates when they become available. Read More

Receive Carrier Independent Windows Phone 7 Updates On Samsung Devices

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Any operating system that is completely static can not survive for long in today’s world. Everything is changing constantly, along with the needs of customers and users . That is why new OS updates are the norm no matter what OS you are taking into consideration. Windows Phone 7 is no exception with updates getting rolled out on pretty regular basis. But with WP7 expanding across different carriers and mobile manufacturers, the whole process is getting a bit slow. This does not mean that it’s entirely Microsoft’s fault, in fact most of the times even when an update has been released by Windows, some carriers delay it for their users. But luckily, there is a way to remove this limitation. Read More

Changelog Droid – Updated Changelogs For All Your Android Apps In One Place

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Most apps that you've installed on your Android device keep updating at frequent interval, however, keeping a close tab on the details of these updates isn't the easiest of the tasks.  Changelog Droid is a free (ad-supported) tool for Android users who like to stay updated and informed of all the modifications made to their favorite apps off-late. By checking out recent changelogs of all the installed apps on your device in one place, you can save yourself from the hassle of wandering around in the Android Market, collecting updated information of apps individually. Instead, Changelog Droid fetches all the important information for you from the Market and displays recent changes to apps in a categorical way including version updates, bug fixes, newly added features, release date and more. Read More

Get Updates For Any Windows Phone 7 App [Troubleshoot]

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There is no operating system in the world that can be labelled completely bug-free, and Windows Phone 7 is no exception to this assertion. Hardly a day goes by when some small (or at times, pretty big) bug isn’t discovered somewhere in the system or for some specific app on WP7. Recently, there have been complaints that for lots of apps whenever an update is launched it does not show up in the Marketplace for quite a while. But there is a way to force updates to show themselves in the Marketplace. So, if you haven't seen that sought-after update badge on the Marketplace hub in quite a while, there might be something for you in the guide posted past the break. Read More

Schedule Update, Backup, And Restore Hardware Drivers With SlimDrivers [Windows]

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SlimDrivers provides a facility to update the installed hardware drivers. However, Windows 7 has an intuitive way of updating/installing all the build-in drivers but there are many manufacturers which are not catered by Windows Update. SlimDrivers comes useful when you want to schedule or need to manually update hardware drivers from non-supported manufacturers. Read More

Update Your PC Applications Automatically With R-Updater

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It can be difficult to keep track of updates for all your installed computer applications. R-Updater simplifies this task and provides a convenient solution for keeping all your software programs up-to-date. The portable application offers a user-friendly interface. Upon launching the program, it will instantly check your system to create a list of all applications currently installed. After populating the list, it will scan the applications for their updated versions. You will be prompted for updates that are found. Read More

Disable Install Updates And Shutdown Option In Windows 7/Vista

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If any updates have been downloaded and are available for your Windows operating system then you see the Install Updates and Shut Down popup notification option before shutting down the computer, but what if you don't need this option even if the updates are available. Below I have explained the step by step process to disable this setting, it involves some small changes in the Windows Registry.
Editor's Notes: I don't recommend disabling this option since keeping Windows up-to-date is the best way to secure the computer. This can only come useful to those professional users who have full control over their computer and don't want to install specific updates at the moment.
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How To Configure Automatic Updates In Ubuntu Linux

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If you are using Ubuntu, then by default Automatic Update will notify you about the latest updates available almost daily. If you want it to automatically update without notifying you or prevent future updates, you will need to configure it manually. Now, lets explore how can we customize the settings of Automatic Updates. Read More

Disable Windows 7 / Vista From Downloading Automatic Updates

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Do you want to manually download the updates from Microsoft and want to disable Windows 7 / Vista from downloading updates automatically? I feel really annoyed to see Windows downloading automatic updates while I am working on the internet, the biggest problem arises when I need more bandwidth and Windows Update is sucking half of it. In this case, I have to disable my Windows from downloading automatic updates. Read More