Folder Axe

Folder Axe 5.2 can help to split up your folders into multiple smaller ones, like same file types into a single folder-by size, date, type, name or file group. This can be very useful if backing up important data, or you want to, say, find all the word documents stored on a specific directory, etc. Its many other features include

Split by amount (Specify the number of files each resulting folder is limited to)

Split by size (Specify the size limit of each resulting folder) Sort Mode Explanation

Split by name (Created folders based upon the first x number of characters in file names)

Split by file type (Files split into folders according to their extensions)

Split by file group (Files split into seven different groups) See the File Groups page for more info

Split by date (Files split into folders by date property)
Include files in subfolders (Optionally)

Compress resulting folders into Zip files, even protect them using AES-256 bit encryption

Set the naming scheme for the resulting folders

Remember chosen folder during session

Process folders of any size, fast!

Automatic update checking

Requirements:
.NET Framework 4.x

Folder Axe at http://bkprograms.weebly.com/downloads.html

A Search Engine that Saves the Rainforest!

Ecosia, powered by Bing and Yahoo, while helping to quench your thirst for knowledge also helps the environment cause by donates a huge chunk of their profits to work in the Amazon.

You can check it out at http://www.ecosia.org/

Blekko, a new search engine

Already acclaimed as a worthy challenger to Google, Blekko, assure the developers, slashes out spam, content farms, and malware. It has a tool called a slashtag that organizes websites around specific topics and improves search results for those topics.

The Blekko Web Search Bill of Rights is as follows:

Search shall be open
Search results shall involve people
Ranking data shall not be kept secret
Web data shall be readily available
There is no one-size-fits-all for search
Advanced search shall be accessible
Search engine tools shall be open to all
Search & community go hand-in-hand
Spam does not belong in search results
Privacy of searchers shall not be violated

You can check out Blekko at http://blekko.com/

5 very useful Mozilla browser Features

In case you didn't know, here are 5 very useful Mozilla features-


1. Customize search with Smart Keywords

2. Open multiple Web sites at launch

3. Bookmark an RSS feed

4. Take your settings on the go

5. Master keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures


To know more about each one of these features visit
http://tinyurl.com/42ymcus

“Angry Anna” game

“Angry Anna” game

A devloper/group of developers have released a game along the lines of the popular game “Angry Birds”.

http://angryanna.com/

Source: http://www.comptalks.com

Applications for iPad

On this page, http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/best-ipad-apps,  you will find the best 102 iPad apps for all your needs. These have been categorised too, like,


Movies | Audio | Browsers & Internet | Drawing | Photography | Finance | News & Reading | Educational | Productivity | Remote Control & Remote Access | Social | Travel | Health | Games | Other

10 Popular and Best Android Applications in India

Rajesh Selva's article "10 Popular and Best Android Applications in India"
informs us about

1. Indian Rail Info app - lets you check PNR status, check trains and seat
availability, fare enquiry etc.,

2. Raaga.com - a popular destination on the web for Indian music.

3. Travel buddy - a personalized travel kit application

4. NDTV on android - stories, videos from NDTV India

5. Money control - information about Indian finance & global markets.

6. Bollywood Ji News & Photos, latest update about Bollywood news, movie
reviews, gossips etc.,

7. iMobile - official android apps for ICICI bank accounts.

8. News Hunt - read news about politics, entertainment in your language, and
more

9. The Times of India - latest news coverage including photos, videos from
India.

10. AG Indian newspapers - choice of Indian news papers

The article can be browsed at

http://hellboundbloggers.com/2011/08/22/popular-best-android-apps-in-india/

SnapDraw

SnapDraw is a screenshot capture - editor - annotation tool. As far as its basic screenshot tool. However, its editing and annotation features do stand screenshot capture abilities are concerned, probably, you would the same in any apart from many others. You can check out the entire features at http://www.crossgl.com/asc_features.htm, before downloading the 16 MB SnapDraw at http://www.crossgl.com/SnapDraw-Free-Installer.exe. 

By the way this tool used to cost $30.00, now being offered free.

SketchBook® Express

Autodesk SketchBook® Express for Mac is a fun and intuitive drawing application. Use professional-grade tools and brushes to create and save flattened images to your Mac. Updated: Aug 05, 2011 Current Version: 5.2.1 Size: 35.9 MB Languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean,  Spanish Autodesk © Autodesk Inc. Get a taste of the SketchBook Pro experience with SketchBook Express, for Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later, free on the Mac App Store

Miro Video Converter

The developers of Miro Video Converter confidently say that it can convert almost any video to MP4, WebM (vp8), Ogg Theora, or for Android, iPhone, and more. Miro Video Converter, say its developers, has presets that will convert video to the correct sizes and formats for popular phones, iPods, and other media players. The supported devices include-

Android Phones

Droid / Milestone
Nexus One
G1
Magic / myTouch
Droid Eris
HTC Hero
Cliq
Behold

Apple Devices

iPhone / iPod Touch
iPod Classic
iPod Nano
iPad

Other

PSP


Micro Video Converter Windows Version 2.4 can be downloaded at
http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/download_win.html

Micro Video Converter Mac OSX version can be downloaded at
http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/download_osx.html

SoftMaker Office

SoftMaker Office is a complete and full-featured office that comes with a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a presentation-graphics program. Its features include


     A Microsoft Word compatible word processor that's easy to use.

     A Microsoft Excel compatible spreadsheet that opens and saves all    
     your Excel workbooks, has a couple of time-saving functions.

     A presentation-graphics program that not only lets you access all
     your PowerPoint files, but also has many additional features.

You can now download a fully functional and permanently usable version of the SoftMaker Office 2008 office suite at

http://www.softmakeroffice.com/register_en.htm

The developers hope users would upgrade to SoftMaker Office 2010 after they try out SoftMaker Office 2008, being offered free.

Shortmail

Shortmail is totally new, provides an email identity where relationships can be magically better.

As the name implies, Shortmail is email – only shorter, messages must be less than 500 characters. People wouldnt mind this limitation as they are getting used to length-limited communications through Twitter and SMS. Limiting messages to 500 characters puts the burden of conciseness onto senders. The other features include

Spam gets almost entirely eliminated at the root.
Emails can be presented in a more conversational format.
Email data becomes more structured.

Shortmail at http://shortmail.com/

I am yet to check this out, if you do, please post your feedback.

SpellCheckPlus

SpellCheckPlus is a grammar checker that finds common spelling errors and grammatical mistakes in English. It is a state-of-the-art tool that analyzes your text and provides valuable information about errors in written English. Unlike other online spellcheckers, Spellcheckplus.com is able to detect problems with words that sound the same (e.g.: there versus their, its versus it's , etc.), incorrect use of correct words (e.g.: never mined instead of never mind), punctuation/spacing (e.g.: with out instead of without), capitalization (e.g.: saturday instead of Saturday) and hundreds of grammatical errors, e.g.: I have went instead of I have gone. The site is particularly adept at catching commonly confused words and "slips of the pen", e.g.: pier pressure instead the correct peer pressure, road to hoe instead of the correct row to hoe, etc. The purpose of the site is not to catch every grammatical error imaginable, but rather to identify the frequent stumbling blocks of standard English. SpellCheckPlus is even able to identify a number of errors typical of second language learners, e.g.: I am student instead of I am a student. Simply type (or paste) your text into the window below and hit the "check text" button at http://spellcheckplus.com/

Explorer Toolbar Editor

Explorer Toolbar Editor is powerful and easy-to-use software that helps you add or remove buttons from the Windows Explorer toolbar in Windows 7. Unlike other existing programs, Explorer Toolbar Editor supports multiple folder types and displays the current set of buttons for each one. Also, you can use it to reorder the toolbar buttons.

Explorer Toolbar Editor allows you to:

- view current button sets for each folder type
- add/remove buttons to individual or all folder types
- change the order of buttons on the toolbar
- restore the default set of buttons

The 224 KB Explorer Tool Editor (zip file) can be downloaded at
http://tinyurl.com/3mcbhsw
 

Create and publish HTML Websites without writing codes!

With Adobe's Muse you can design and publish HTML websites without writing codes. Professional looking websites can be created as easily as one creates layouts for print. Now in Beta, Muse, an Adobe Air application, can work on both on Mac and PC.

http://muse.adobe.com/

FireFox 6 Final Version

The final version of Firefox 6 (FF6) is already available for free download ahead of the scheduled release date on August 16, 2011.

For Windows at
http://tinyurl.com/3z7ozzl

For Linux at
http://tinyurl.com/3zdljbo

For Mac at
http://tinyurl.com/3dwseul

fTalk

As regular Facebook users we understand how difficult it can be to stay in touch with all of our friends. Enter fTalk which makes the job easier without even opening the Facebook! fTalk is 


Fast and Accessible
No need to open any broswer
Get notified when friends come online
Update your status right from the app
Free and easy to use
Cool emoticons




http://www.ftalk.com/

Hide folders in Mac

Hide Folders, with a click, conceals files and folders with all their contents. The utility can protect your files avoiding them to be being modified, seen or erased by other users. Hide Folders needs to be used just the normal way a Mac user does.

Hide Folders is free. Its pro version has advance features, costs $21.95.

http://www.apimac.com/sw/hide_folders.dmg

SUPERCOPIER

SuperCopier, an alternative to the native Windows file copier, is lightning fast, customizable, and includes features like these -

File prioritization.
Transfer resuming
Copy speed control
No bugs if You copy more than 2GB at once
Copy speed computation
Better copy progress display
A little faster
Copy list editable while copying
Error log
Copy list saving/loading

You can download SuperCopier 2.2 Beta at http://sfxteam.free.fr/SuperCopier22beta.exe

Preview Pane in Gmail

If you find it irritating to open an email and then find it useless, try Google's new feature which lets a user to enable a preview pane in Gmail.

More at

http://www.comptalks.com/how-to-enable-preview-pane-in-gmail/

WhatInStartup

This utility displays the list of all applications that are loaded automatically when Windows starts up. For each application, the following information is displayed: Startup Type (Registry/Startup Folder), Command-Line String, Product Name, File Version, Company Name, Location in the Registry or file system, and
more.

 It lets you to easily disable or delete unwanted programs that run in your Windows startup. You can use it on your currently running instance of Windows, starting from Windows 2000 and up to Windows 7. as well as on an external instance of Windows in another drive.

 WhatInStartup also supports a special "Permanent Disabling" feature - If a program that you previously disabled added itself again to the startup list of Windows, WhatInStartup will automatically detect the change and disable it again.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/whatinstartup.zip

The Levelator

The Levelator® is an application which adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file - checks and levels the variations from one speaker to the next.A compressor, a normalizer and a limiter The Levelator® is simple to use - Drag-and-drop any WAV or AIFF file onto The Leveler's application window, and a few moments llater you'll find a new version which just sounds better.

You can check out The Levelator® which can run on Windows, OS X (universal binary), or Linux  (Ubuntu), at http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator

Record and Share minutes of a meeting, instantly, well almost!

MinutesIO, a web service, lets you record minutes of a meeting. There is no need to be connected to the Internet at the time of the meeting as the drafts are saved in your browser,  sent when you're online again. Minutes.io also uses secret URLs. You don't need to sign up. And, it's free!



Check it out at http://minutes.io/

A Universal and Portable File Converter and Processor

File Blender, is a Universal and Portable File Converter and Processor. It is a Video Converter, Image Converter, Audio Converter, PDF/TIFF Splitter and Joiner and more.

File Blender Actions

File Blender is a command line wrapper. The main download file is already configured with these action packages:

Video Converter (AVI, WMV, FLV, MP4, ...)
Image Converter (BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, TIF, ...)
Audio Converter (MP3, WAV, FLAC, OGG, APE, M4A)
PDF/TIFF Splitter and Joiner
JS/CSS Minifier and Obfuscator
PNG Optimizer
TTF to EOT Font Converter
HTML/XML Tidy
Encrypt and Decrypt any file

Detailed File Blender Actions can be browsed at
http://sector-seven.net/fileblender-info

File Blender can be downloaded at
http://sector-seven.net/assets/software/fileblender/fileblender.zip

ShortText.com

It is a simple tool to post text online, with minimum fuss. No sign ups, no sign in, just instant web presence for your information.

Scenarios where shortText.com can be deployed/used

To post more than 140 characters on Twitter.

Instant blogging.

Throwing a party? Post the details here and share the url with your friends (remember to make the post private).

Want to provide more information about yourself or your company in forums/email/visiting cards/banners? shortText it and put a link.

People always bug you for directions to your office or home? shortText it and just provide the link to whoever needs it (make it private).

Instant message has a size limit? Quickly shortText it and IM the url.

Emails getting filtered out at work? shortText the content of the email and just send the url.

Store hard-to-remember information online.

Publish code, research work, ideas, rants and raves; quickly.

ShortText anything which you find yourself typing again and again.

ShortText short lived webpage content which you would have to save locally otherwise. Find it later by searching for relevant keywords.

Don't have a website? Create your own shortText url to promote your product or provide promotion details.

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Here's a url which I created to detail how to peel boiled eggs easily, it is http://shorttext.com/LfNom1, check it out!
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http://shorttext.com/default.aspx

Real-Time File Sharing Serice

Ge.tt is a real-time file file publishing and sharing service. Ge.tt can turn
any type of file into web content and let you share it instantly. No need for
special software or plug-ins. You can share documents, video, music and photos
in the browser making them instantly available for the recipient. You can also
re-use and keep track of the materials that you previously shared.

http://ge.tt/about

Which is Better: LED or OLED?

Light-emitting diodes have been around for years. They’re getting better, but they still have a ways to go. Enter the organic light-emitting diode (OLED), which generates light within the screen itself. 

Which is Better: LED or OLED?  Find out by reading the posby Chris Pirillo at  http://tinyurl.com/3fj8n5c

HTTPS Everywhere

HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension, developed as as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, encrypts your communications with a number of major websites. The plugin currently works for:

Google Search
Wikipedia
Twitter
Facebook
bit.ly
GMX
Wordpress.com blogs
The New York Times
Paypal
EFF
and some others

Firefox users can get it at
https://www.eff.org/files/https-everywhere-latest.xpi

FAQ at https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/faq/

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Sourced from PCWorld Daily News

OpenTTD

OpenTTD is a clone of the commercial game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Over the years it has remained one of the highest rated Linux games of this type. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.

You’re given a world that’s populated by several small towns, mines, factories, etc. Each of them is a source of supply or demand, and your job is to build an efficient and profitable transportation system to keep everyone happy.

OpenTTD is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.0

http://www.openttd.org/en/about

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Sourced from MakeTechEasier.com

A New Photo Sharing App With A Video Twist

GLMPS (pronounced “glimpse”) automatically captures a video clip with every picture you take and then creatively packages them together so you can fully experience and share life’s moments. GLMPS, an iPhone application, combines the ease of snapping an old fashioned photo with the richness and depth only video can deliver.

You’ll need an iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, or iPod Touch to capture and share with GLMPS. More about it, at http://blog.glmps.com/faq

CatchFree

CatchFree – a site that maintains an organized list of websites that offers free services. Every product featured on CatchFree.com has a non-expiring free version, and the CatchFree community votes up the best choices for each specific need. The vision of CatchFree Our vision is to create a network of the best CatchFree apps and services, where users can easily navigate from one great solution to another. Passionate users already spread the word about the best free apps and services, and we want to help them combine forces so that even more people can discover them. To check out the categories under which the free services are offered, visit
http://catchfree.com/categories

Soluto

At some time or other we have all experienced it -  our computers sluggish or unresponsive at times, for no apparent reason. And, it is very frustrating too.

Soluto can  pin-point which mysterious process is hogging the PC’s resources. Soluto harnesses the power of the crowd to learn which actions really eliminate frustrations and improve user experience, and leverages this user wisdom for the benefit of all PC users.

Using Soluto could help improve your PC experience. Learn more about Soluto, at http://www.soluto.com/About/

Longman English Dictionary Browser

This is a web browser designed exclusive to Longman English Dictionary Online, with full of examples and precise definitions. It displays the search results for the selected keywords when Control+ Shift + D keys are pressed.

It is portable and can run from a removable drive. The search speed may give you an impression of being a bit slow at first. It is because LEDO separates pages for different parts of speech andtheprogram combines them into one. Once the program build the cache, it should become quite fast.

Platform - Tested with Windows XP and Windows 7. Should work with2000 and Vista.

The freeware version of this much acclaimed English dictionary can be accessed at http://www.ldoceonline.com

Subscription required to access LDOCE premium!

Lazarus

Losing text or comment on an online form has happened to many of us, at sometime or the other. This application can help not to lose any text or comment typed into an online form. It is a free browser extension (for Firefox, Chrome, Safari) that runs in the background and saves text entered into online forms as we type, enabling to quickly retrieve in case of an error or for any other reason, if we need to.

Once installed, the Lazarus icon appears in every form field that we browse, and hovering over it displays a dropdown of saved entries that can be accessed easily. 

Download of Lazarus at http://lazarus.interclue.com/download

Sourced from FreewareGenius

AppRemover

AppRemover is a free utility from OPSWAT that enables users to remove antivirus, antispyware and other security applications, as well as left over files remaining from incomplete uninstallations. There's no more a need to mess around with your registry.

Release 2.2.16.1 for Windows 2000, 2003, XP (32 / 64 bit), Vista (32 / 64 bit), 2008, Windows 7 (32 / 64 bit), at

http://www.appremover.com/get/appremover.exe

Release Date: July 12, 2011.

AppRemover has been downloaded 1304899 times. Tested malware-free using the free online scanner at Filterbit.com

http://www.appremover.com/faq

5 top extensions for Google Chrome

Just in case you were not aware, here are 5 top extensions for Google Chrome, all of them available in the Chrome Web store- 


1: AdBlock Plus 

Originally created for Firefox, AdBlock Plus blocks banners, pop-ups, ads, YouTube video advertisements, and other bothersome images. AdBlock Plus also lets you to enable advertisements for specific sites.


2: Screen Capture (by Google) 

Screen Capture lets you grab entire pages or selected areas and annotate them with highlights, drawings, and borders. Then, quickly save your screenshot, or share directly to Facebook or Picasa. Simple, convenient, and seriously useful.


3: Read Later Fast 

Technically an application (the extension is coming soon), this add-on can be used to to read an article later on, just right-click the page, select "Read Later," and it'll be added to your queue. When you're ready to catch up on your reading, open the app in your browser, and read the articles in a beautiful interface.

Read Later Fast also syncs your items with other computers, iOS devices, and Android devices.


4: Xmarks

Xmarks syncs your bookmarks and open tabs across multiple browsers, especially useful if you use more than one browser. 


5: StayFocusd

 StayFocusd restricts the amount of time you can spend on addicting sites, letting you focus on more important things like work. There are many customizable options there too, including adding exceptions for certain days and times.

Clipping, aggregation and sharing web content easily.

Bundlr is a new and free tool for online curation: clipping, aggregation and sharing web content easily.

With Bundlr you can create bundles of any kind of content: articles, photos, videos, tweets and links. Cover real-time breaking news from your sources. Wrap up an event with a collection of online feedback. Build a page where you pick the most relevant content on your area of expertise.

http://gobundlr.com/tutorial