When talking about cricket matches, we use two options to get the scores. One is watching it live on the cricket or web. Next option is to check espn cricinfo. Today we have got a nice little app that shows cricket match score cards on your desktop similar to cricinfo live scorecard for desktop. Previously we had told you about the Cricinfo chrome extension that allows you to get live cricket scores on your browser.

We had also discussed about Live Cricket score mobile app from Espn Cricinfo. Do you know what ? If you own or write about cricket on your blog, website then you can embed live cricket scores on WordPress blogs. Now coming back to the topic, today we have a small freeware that displays live cricket match scores and full details in a simple intelligent user interface.

Live Cricket is a simple free app that shows live cricket score on your desktop. Totally ad free and shows every detail about the teams, scores, individual person scores, current run rate, bowling details etc. All you need to do is, just download and install it. It sits on your right side of your desktop screen. When you click it, it displays the current on going match with score details.

If you double click it, it displays the full scorecard with all batting and bowling details. You can change the update frequency with the settings. As said above, it sits on the right of your screen, you can move it up and down anywhere on the right side. Sad that it can’t be moved anywhere towards left or center. But you can pin it so stay at top always.

Download Desktop Ticker Live Cricket Score app

Also Check :

Live Cricket Scorecard Mobile app
Embed Cricket Score Widget on WordPress
Cricinfo Browser Extension

Live Cricket Score Updates on Desktop with Scorecard Ticker is a post from: Madras Geek

First you should know ‘What is astigmatism?’ A defect in the eye or in a lens caused by a deviation from spherical curvature, which results in distorted images, as light rays are prevented from meeting at a common focus. Now the simple meaning is, an inability of the lens to focus properly. Normally called bad vision. When people working with computer screens for a long time normally affect with eye problems. You can test or check how good is your vision through online eye test. A simple online eyesight check will give you a rough idea.

Here is a free online service that allows you to do eyesight test online or astigmatism test where you can test your vision online for free. As said, it gives you a rough idea and not any accurate results. After the free online eyesight test you need to consult the doctor eye specialist to show accurate results and the treatment.

How To Test Eyesight Online

First lets check out how to do eye test online before we check out astigmatism test online. This is completely a online vision acuity test or a regular eye test. This online test works on 15inch. 17inch and 19 inches monitor.

Go to this link ‘The Online Eye Exam’

Make sure you have flash player plugin installed for it to work.

Also instructions to note down before you take the test online. Not to squint your eye, sit back at a distance and start taking the test online.

When you no longer able to read the letter, hit the stop button.

Now this exam is only meant to give you an idea of where your eye power lands. Scroll down in the site and take the test.

Select your monitor size, screen resolution and move back. Keep yourself away 3 feet from the red dot shown on the screen.

You will come across an online Snellen chart with alphabets size decreasing with each time you click “next” button.

At some point of time, if you’re not able to read the letter, hit the stop button. It gives you a score ‘Rx with a comment’.

Astigmatism Test Online

Now astigmatism test online, before that you should know what are the symptoms of astigmatism. Normally a blurry vision or distorted vision (objects may appear stretched) are some symptoms of astigmatism. A simple online test will let you know whether you’re affected by astigmatism or not.

Go this link ‘Astigmatism test online’ and see the image below. If the some areas of the image appear lighter or blurrier than other areas, you may have astigmatism.

The best treatment for astigmatism is Glasses and contacts will improve astigmatism to near perfection.

Astigmatism Test Online, Testing Eyesight Online is a post from: Madras Geek

Microsoft Excel is one of the widely used applications in the corporate world and features more than 300 functions and keeps saving lot of time. Today apart from their in-built use of excel formulas to add, subtract and multiply, lets see how to add calculator inside MS Excel app. To save a little more of your time, here is a quick tutorial to add calculator to MS excel toolbar for perform quick calculations. This trick will work both in 2007 and 2010 versions of MS Excel.

This isn’t any third party excel addin to MS Excel environment, it simply adds calculator to the quick access toolbar of MS Excel. Step by step instruction to add Calculator to MS Excel 2007 & 2010. Currently the instructions are based on excel 2007, but it will work on 2010 too.

Open Microsoft Excel Spread sheet

Click the icon at the top, Go to Excel options.

Select Customize > Choose the commands from > Commands not in the Ribbon

Select Calculator from the list > Click Add > It adds in the quick access toolbar.

Now hit OK.

You can access the calculator from the quick access toolbar to perform some quick calculations.

Also see : Recover Office Files with Corrupt Office Text Extractor

How To Add Calculator to MS Excel 2007, 2010 is a post from: Madras Geek

While trying to learn about some stuff about my car, found this site very useful which has alot of how to videos for your car. It helps you to know your car better and things to work when it gets repaired. Just driving alone is not supposed to be your selection, when it gets stuck at some place, you need to know what caused it. So learning and fixing things by yourself will always help anytime.

CarCareKiosk is a simple website that focus on how-to videos for your car that are high-quality, concise and free. You can take better care of your car only if you knew a little bit about it. Car Care Kiosk with its simple user interface any one can learn more about their vehicle using their free videos.

Using the website is so simple. All you need to do is, just hit the web page and use their search box to find out videos related to your car. You can enter your car name with the model number and year. Or else you can use their ‘Search car from a list’ option and select year, make and model.

Once you’ve done with your car name, model etc. Below you can see three big tabs with Maintenance & Repair which has a list of categories and the videos. All the videos and categories are listed to your specific car and you can select one from them to watch the video.

It really helps you to learn right from changing oil, checking air filter, brake fluid, transmission fluid, tyres, steering, etc. If you can’t find what you are looking for, just click the link below and it helps you to send them a feedback or suggestion.

The next two tabs ‘Monthly Checks’ and ‘Roadside Emergency’. The monthly checks displays a list of items that you need to check with your car for smooth running and performance. Monthly spending a 15 minutes on your car will help you to prevent upto 70% of highway breakdowns.

The Roadside emergency will help you to guide with videos when you face any sudden repair in your car. This tab displays list of videos that every car owner should know to help themselves when they face some issues on the road such as funny noise, leaking fluid, flat tyre etc.

If you’re really willing to contribute some car videos, then you can use their upload tab to record your car videos. The team will review them and publish it on their website. If you still find difficult to fix issues on your car after watching videos, you can use their Mechanic tab to find mechanics near your location. Just enter your zip code and distance within and it throws a list of mechanics available near your area.

Car Care Kiosk

DIY Car Videos : Fix Your Car with Car Care Kiosk Videos is a post from: Madras Geek

We had talked alot about kids app for desktop and smartphones. Today we are going to see a useful website that displays best iPhone, iPad apps for your kids. If you’re looking for best iPhone and featured iPad apps, here we had already told you about it. Also adding to it, some of the best android apps for kids too. Not only kid, this site really helps to discover some great apps for school students as well growing kids who loves to play with tablets like iPad. The website really saves some time if you’re looking out for a kids based app or apps for students school classroom.

Before that, Check out some useful related links :

Best Android apps for Kids

Kids coloring app & games

100+ destkop toys for Kids

Smartots is a useful website that displays some of the best iPhone and iPad apps for kids and school childrens. It helps parents to choose the best apps for their kid to play on iPhone or iPad and as a parent you get reports on what your child is learning. It’s one of the best ways to enhance your child’s learning with fun activities also you get some insightful app reviews by teachers.

Smartots is a recommendation engine for Kids iPhone and iPad apps. All these recommendations are directly from the teachers and parents. All the educational apps can be filtered based on the subjects such as math, language, science, social, music, art etc.

Apart from filtering based on the subjects, you can also filter apps based on the age. Seemyou can filter only with these two options. Subject and age. It displays all the apps (both paid and free) and lists out the apps with teacher’s reviews.

When you click on the specific app, you can find out whether the app is smartots enabled or not. Because, only smartots enabled app can send you reports based on your kids activity and progress in the app. As a parent, you can eceive tracking and progress reports, as well as relevant app recommendations based on your children’s activity.

If you’re a teacher who love to contribute and review apps, then simple signup with Smartots and you can submit, post your review on the app page.

Smartots

Find Kids iPad apps Reviews with SmarTots is a post from: Madras Geek

Sometimes company stores large data of their employees in a spreadsheet and with some huge data when a excel sheet gets corrupted, its so annoying and devastating experience. How to cover excel corrupt files ? Recovering a damaged excel file isn’t a tough job unless you have proper tools with it. Previously we had told you about Recovering Office files with corrupt office text extrator and repairing corrupted mov files. Today we have a excel recovery software that recovers damaged excel files.

Excel Recovery is a free software that helps to recover damaged or corrupted excel spreadsheet files. Microsoft itself recommends several methods to recover the damaged excel files, but most of the time it doesn’t work because we don’t do it properly. The main issue is that, manual work has lot of steps to recover a damaged file.

Instead of it, you can always rely on trusted third party softwares like Excel recovery that does the job in minutes without any hassle. Excel Recovery is such freeware that inteds to recover damaged excel files. You need to simply install it and start recovering damaged excel files.

Once you’ve installed, open it. It has a browse button where you need to browse the corrupted file which you’re looking out to recover. Once you browse the corrupted file and upload it to the recovery tool, it searches for the previous versions of the same excel file in temp folders etc. If it is found, then the below dropdown shows the list of previous versions. Choose a file from the list to attempt recovery.

If there is no previous version, then you can try to recover using another method. It is like, you need to browse the corrupted file and try to save the file in different format, so that you can safely recover the data inside the excel file. There are many file formats available such as SYLK and HTML.

If that doesn’t work too, then you can try to open the corrupted file in Excel Viewer, MS Open and Repair or MS Open and Extract Data. The Excel recovery tool comprises alot of tools and methods in single pack.

Till now we had talked about 3 methods, if all these methods don’t work, then you have some more advanced techiques such as opening the file in Safe Mode, opening it with Word Pad, trying extractions outside of Microsoft’s software and even a zip repair.

So before losing the hope, we should try these methods and tools to recover the excel sheet. I always strongly suggest to use dropbox, so that you sync you files in the cloud storage. If anything corrupts in your pc version, you can safely use the backup version from the cloud storage.

Download Excel Recovery

Recover Damaged Excel Files with Excel Recovery is a post from: Madras Geek

If you’re a person who puts your smartphone on heavy usage like having minimum 5 to 6 apps running on background everytime and also trying many new apps from the market ? You’ve probably come across situations like your android phone gets hanged up due to buggy apps or too much memory consumption. Now there are many free tasks killers apps that allows you to kill apps at one click and free up some memory usage. There by, improving performance and also battery’s life.

These apps force quit app running on background and apps that consume too much memory eating up all the resources. Basically to improve phone’s performance when it gets slow – we need two things to be done immediately. Force close an app that makes the phone slow down and get rid of those damn sprint apps that keep auto-opening.

Fast Reboot app for android does the job pretty well. It doesn’t actually reboot your android device, instead it reboot by closing/restarting all core and user processes and thus frees up memory. Your phone should be much snappier after using Fast Reboot.

Just install the app, hold and drop it on your homescreen. So when ever you feel your phone slows down, just hit the app icon, it simply reboots all the apps and frees up some memory. You don’t need to root your device, the app is totally free.

Fast Reboot app

Quick Reboot Android Phone with Fast Reboot App is a post from: Madras Geek

Dropbox is a very useful app that allows you to backup files, access files from anywhere at anytime. It has support for Win, Linux, Mac, Smartphone devices android, iphone etc. Now if you want to use it on Kindle fire, lets check out how to install dropbox on Kindle fire. To install an app on Kindle fire, you need the app to be on amazon app store. But, dropbox isn’t available in amazon app store.

We can easily install Dropbox on Kindle fire without rooting Kindle fire device. Before we check out the step by step instructions on how to install and use dropbox for Kindle fire, here are some useful links related to dropbox users.

Dropbox clone with 10Gb Free Storage

Real time dropbox encryption

Send screenshot to Dropbox

How to Install Dropbox app in Kindle Fire

You slightly need to tweak your kindle settings to install apps from unknown sources (apart from amazon app store).

First tap the gear icon at top and click More

From settings > select device

Set On for installation of apps from unknown sources

Now open your Kindle browser, go to Dropbox.com/android

Download the dropbox android apk file

Install the app > open and login with dropbox credentials

Access all your dropbox files and folders.

You can pin the dropbox app to your favorites for quick access.

How to Install Dropbox app for Kindle Fire is a post from: Madras Geek

Today we are going to review a unique small app that is most useful for music composers and music mixers. On the past, we had written about 7 Online music tools for musicians, today we have a simple jar app that allows music composers or any one who has music interests to play with the music transposition, transcription, ripping into karaoke etc.

This tiny app allows you to slow down a mp3 file, has option to create a karaoke from mp3, removing voice from audio or extracting vocals from the songs. Adding to it, for upcoming music composers, it provides a music transcription software inside it. You can also transpose music & slow down mp3 without changing pitch etc. Let’s check out!

Slow Mp3 is a simple java app (.jar file extension) so make sure you have java upto date in your Pc to work properly. Once you download the SlowMP3.jar file and double-click it. The app opens and using the file > open > import an mp3 file into the app.

The app supports only mp3 or wav audio file formats. You can also drag the file and drop into the interface. Now on the top bar, you can see options like Volume, Speed, Transpose. Volume is for increasing / decreasing the sound.

How to slow down a mp3 file

Speed is to slow down the music. With speed slider, you can change the tempo. Minimum setting is half the original tempo. Maximum setting is the original tempo.

Transposing music online free

With the transpose slider, you can change the pitch of the song. I hope the people related to music will understand. Others can try out your hand using the app.

Apart from this, there are two small buttons Sharp & Smooth. It is used for change the quality of the pitch shift / time stretch algorithm. Sharp is good for percussive sounds, smooth is good for sustained sounds and bass.

Music transcription software freeware

Atlast comes the Transcribe feature. You could see a piano buttons at the bottom of the app. If you click the option ON, it shows the notes that are currently played in the music. Transcribing is off by default. You can switch it on by pressing the small On icon in the corner of the Transcribe tab.

How to create a karaoke from mp3

How to remove voice from audio ? It is also called separate vocals from music or removing voice from audio. You can also easily extract vocals from songs using the Karaoke option in Audio > karaoke. When you click the option, the mp3 file rips off all the vocals from song and plays only the music.

The center position where it shows the audio waves, you can use the mouse wheel to change the playback position and also you can set loops by holding mouse button and dragging in the waveform display area.

Slow Mp3 app

Music Transcript, Music Transposition Tool with Slow down MP3 is a post from: Madras Geek

Sometimes when our gadgets or mobile phones starts to show odd behaviour such as black screen of death, hanging in between tasks, locked up situations and so on, our only thinking would be to do a factory hard reset so that our beloved device returns back to the original default settings. Before you make a factory reset, we may try to find out the instruction to do a clear factory reset. Today we found a website that has factory reset instructions for almost all devices.

Factory-Reset.com is a simple interface which holds a huge database of Factory reset instructions for almost all devices that are in the market. It has listed more than 100+ devices and has all their factory reset instructions guide.

The site has been categorized among 26 types of equipments from game consoles, router, GPS units, Bluetooth devices, laptops, tablets, TV, Printer, projector, E-reader and more.

You can browse through the website via categories (list of equipments) or through list of manufacturers. At the same time you can find the instruction guide of your favorite device via its manufacturer name. It has listed all the manufacturers A-Z and you can find the factory reset guide from them.

Now start fixing the device problem yourself. Factory-Reset.com

Restore Factory Settings Guide for Devices is a post from: Madras Geek

Junkbox app on Facebook is something creative and similar to what you do in Ebay like Sell, buy stuff. But, everything totally happens inside Facebook. You can sell your stuff through facebook, browse all your friends treasure and its completely private within your facebook friends and fun.

Junkbox app allows you to clean your junkyard and put those items on sale in Facebook. You can make a money out of your unwanted stuff on facebook. All you need to do is, Create your JunkBox and start to sell! Get your junk on Facebook and make some money with some help from your friends.

First, open Junkbox app, grant access to your profile. Once you grant permission and authorize the app, upload the treasures, tell every one about it and make some money out of it. It´s private. Only your Facebook friends have access to your JunkBox.

Now once you’ve granted access to your profile, just do a page refresh and the app shows your Junkbox profile. In the upper right, you will find the Add new item button. Click on it and start adding your items description, photos, price tag etc.

You can invite your friends from the Junkbox interface. Make your friends know about JunkBox application, so they will know what you have to sell and you will know what they have to sell.

On the left pane, you can see an option ‘Automatic seller’ where it is checked already. With the Automatic seller you do not have to worry about posting your treasures on Facebook. The JunkBox will post automatically once a week and let your friends know about your treasures.

Suppose, if your friends had something to sell, you can get to see it (check the below image) and when you the button ‘I want it’, you can connect with your friend to deal about payment options. If he/she isn’t in your friends list, then it will prompt you to send a friend request first.

Junkbox is a excellent place to sell all your unwanted stuff on Facebook. With 800 million people on Facebook, will you find it difficult to sell a product ?

JunkBox : Sell Goods, Make Money on Facebook is a post from: Madras Geek

On the past we had seen many extensions that helps you to save some ink while print by avoiding graphic, ads or whatever you think that is not necessary to be printed in the sheet. You can easily edit the web page before printing it out. Similarly today we have a bookmarklet that allows you to highlight any content on the webpage and just by on-click it removes the content and prints only what you want.

Printliminator is a handy little bookmarklet for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. Printliminator allows you to highlight a webpage and select only the elements which you wish to print. You can install Printliminator in seconds by just clicking and dragging it into your browser’s toolbar.

Once you’re done with the bookmarklet on your bookmarks bar. Now before you print a web page. Go to the web page and click the bookmarklet. It brings up a small sticky note kind of interface with 4 options.

The 4 options are, you can remove all graphics from the web page in one click, send the exact web page to printer, Apply print stylesheet (which makes the web page in a plain white background and only with the content text visible. You can also edit the blocks hovering the content). And finally a undo option.

Watch a quick demo video to understand better.

Printliminator

Highlight Contents, Print WebPage Without Graphics, Ads with Printliminator is a post from: Madras Geek

If you’re looking for a virtual girl friend to date online, then you have it in iPhone as a simple app. My virtual girl friend iPhone app is a funny, flirty dialog based dating simulation game for iPhone and iPad. The game goes like this, it has number of models to choose from based on your choices you can pick up your companion.

Once you pick up your companion you start the game. With the unique personalities and expressions, the app displays more than 100+ beautiful virtual girl models. You can customize them such as changing dress, skin color, hair color, face, clothing etc and start engaging in a conversation.

You can talk with her, take her to a movie, play a game of mini golf or even a strip club. Each action has reward points and also has an opposite reaction if you misbehave :P lol .. Make a note : She even responds to your touch!

The goal of the game is to win her heart over. Over all, the app allows you to virtually date any female of your dreams. The game consists of 20 levels and there are various way to interact. It includes Hi res 3D graphics and 360 degrees of viewing.

My Virtual Girl friend iPhone app. Enjoy Forever alone :P

Virtual Girl for dating with My Virtual Girl Friend iPhone app for Valentines Day is a post from: Madras Geek

Facebook team has launched a new cool tool that allows you to create a movie from your Facebook timeline. Yes, Facebook timeline feature is an awesome stuff where it lets you to dig the past easily with its rolling type interface categorized in years & months. So with this interface, you can view your Facebook timeline as a movie. You don’t have to add images or content. It grabs everything from your Facebook profile and creates a movie itself. Adding all your memories and making a video out of it.

Timeline Movie maker is a simple web app from Facebook that allows you to create a Facebook timeline movie using its own movie maker tool. You don’t have to add, edit stuff. It automatically grabs everything such as status, news feeds, photos tagged, photo albums uploaded and mixes all your nostalgic memories and brings you an awesome movie.

You need to simply grant the app permission to access personal data from profiles and it brings you a one minute movie featuring highlights from your profile. Why is Timeline Movie Maker asking for these permissions? From Timeline Movie Maker: Timeline Movie Maker needs to access your posts to populate your timeline movie with photos and stories.

Once you grant access, the app loads all the content, image stuff and creates a video. Once the movie is initially viewed for one time, it displays options to edit and replace images, videos etc.

You have options to change the sound track such as Nostalgic, Cinematic, Romantic, Playful. Also you can replace images from your tagged or albums. Once everything is done, click the ‘Remake your movie’ button to generate the new movie of your Facebook timeline.

Timeline Movie Maker

Create Facebook Timeline Movie with Timeline Movie Maker is a post from: Madras Geek

We had told you alot about YouTube downloader extensions for browsers and apps for smart phones and basic multimedia phones with internet access. Today we have YouTube mobile downloader for android that lets you to watch or download YouTube videos for android phones. The default YouTube app in your android phones lets you to only watch videos and subscribe, favorite videos. But, if you need to download the video right away the only option is by downloading the video through some third party apps.

WonTube is a simple free Youtube downloader app for android users. You can download youtube videos to view offline anywhere. Let’s check out what WonTube offers. Before that, you must check out these links below

Chrome Extension to Download YouTube videos

Chrome YouTube Downloader

How to download YouTube video from any mobile

Keep tube app for downloading YouTube videos

WonTube app allows you to browse YouTube video directly. Also it has a button that provides one click download option where you can download video to your phone in one click. You manage your downloaded videos using the in-built library function.

Now the interface is simple. It directs you to the mobile interface of YouTube (m.youtube.com) where you can browse the videos and select a specific video which you need to download. When clicking the play button over the video, it provides you with two option. To play the video or you can download the video directly.

When you click the download option, you can choose the Quality of videos (HD is supported) before you download them to your android phone. Video which you have downloaded will be listed in the library panel.

WonTube app

Also Check : Windows Phone 7 YouTube Downloader

Nokia N8 YouTube Downloader

YouTube Downloader for Android Mobile is a post from: Madras Geek