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20 Features Of KMPlayer That You Probably Don’t Know About

Waqas — Wed, 30 May 2012 10:00:46 PDT

When it comes to choosing a media player that supports a slew of audio and video formats, there are certainly many applications at your disposal. While most users opt in for widely popular VLC player, many of us look for a media player that comes packed with better media organization features. KMPlayer is a media player which has seen a lot of improvements in the past few years. It offers a stupendous amount of audio and video processing related features, eye-candy GUI, (the now recently added) 3D video playback support and a powerful rendering engine. While it has the ability to play almost all types of media files, it also includes most of the decoders that are essential to render a wide range of media files and supports external decoders that can improve both the video rendering quality and color reproduction. Keeping all that in mind, we decided to go ahead, into the very depths of KMPlayer itself and unearth twenty awesome features that you may not know about.

KMPlayer is designed to be user-friendly and offers a gorgeous looking UI design. While it supports various skins, the default skin itself is a treat to the eyes, sporting a dark framed UI design. Even if you’re not so fond of the default skin, custom skins are the way to go. It gives a freedom to the skin artists to design their own skins the way they want. When I said ergonomics, I really meant it. The welcome screen lets you ogle and control everything right from there, giving you the ability to directly jump to your Media Library, Facebook & Twitter, Supported Service Apps and other Misc. Services.

Topnotch Media Files Organization

Most users place their media files randomly, while others may like their media library to be organized, containing separate sections for both audio and video collection folders. KMPlayer lets you manage both your video and audio files using its robust Playlist Editor. You can create different playlists for your music and movies by clicking either Music or Video options present in the home screen, under AlbumArt section. Creating a Video Playlist is quite easy, after selecting it from the home screen, you will be taken to the Video Library. Simply click the Import button to the left to open Add Library Settings window. Now click Add library, input your library name and click Ok. You can create as many different video libraries as you want. Once done, select them and click OK to proceed to Add Folder Settings step, from where you just need to assign a source folder to your libraries.

The same procedure applies to creating a Music library. You just need to follow the similar steps, as you did for creating the Video Library, only this time choose the source directory containing your music files. It’s worth mentioning here that the application also allows you to add custom Album Arts to your libraries.

During playback, you can also shuffle songs as well as choose to repeat your albums.

3D Support; Play Local & Online 3D Videos

The jump from SD to HD video content was certainly an achievement, and technology giants are already putting the efforts to move the consumers from 2D to 3D video technology. Due to the growing popularity of 3D videos, KMPlayer has now added 3D video content support, so that you can enjoy your favorite 3D movies. Apart from Blu rays, it includes 3D Movie Plus service app that allows you to watch 3D movie trailers, commercials, and even documentaries from Discovery 3D World.

Whenever you’re playing a 3D video, you can set various 3D video-related parameters by right-clicking on the screen to open the context menu, and heading over to 3D screen control settings. As 3D content can be viewed using different technologies, you can select your preferred configurations from his menu. In addition, you may also adjust subtitle settings by hovering the mouse pointer over a 3D subtitle control. Additionally, the program supports various 3D plugins.

Service Apps

The Dev-team has now included a Service APP feature, which includes various applications including Billboard, 3D Movie Plus, K-POP Hot100, EveryonTV, VIKI etc. The Services Apps are designed to work from within the player, so there are no separate pop up windows to annoy you. Furthermore, you can take a glimpse of various commercials, games and upcoming events. Another feature caught our attention during the test run was an upcoming SERVICESTORE, a yet to be launched service app store that will allow you to install service apps from within the interface.

Control Box For Audio, Video & Subtitles

KMPlayer also includes a Control Box, which can be accessed from right-click context menu (or using Alt + G hotkey combination). The Control Box allows you to tweak and alter a number of settings. It contains a total of six buttons at the top, containing Video, Equalizer, Subtitles, Playback loop, Frame Capture settings, and Preferences. You can apply some basic video effects and configure settings such as brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, screen rotation, flip, video resizing as well as apply video effects like Motion blur, Soften, Sharpen, Mean UV filter, Mean Y filter, Gray Scale and so on. The Frame Capture (or Screen Capture) feature provides an added advantage of instantly capturing Video and Audio streams and a single video frame to save as an image file.

Clicking both the Video and Audio Capture options open separate settings console, from where you can define the output parameters such as Encoders to use, File name, output location, output format etc. Although sometimes certain video containers include multiple audio streams such as in AAC, DTS, AC3 formats, you can choose which encoder to use by clicking the Audio button on the Control Box, in Capture menu.

Subtitle Control and Customization

While most media players let you customize subtitles settings as well as change its position, KMPlayer is no exception either, as it includes some of the most advance subtitle customizations and control options. You can easily sync any out-of-sync subtitle files in real-time, from control box. You can also click More button to open Explore/Edit Subtitle window to specify some custom settings, for instance font size and color, typeface as well as fine tune the synchronization. Additionally, the Effects button houses a few different effects to overlay your sub files with applied effects. Apart from basic Bold and Italic text styles, you can use effects like Transparent, Fade, Shadow as well as subtitle background and outline to make subtitles look more prominent on the screen.

Another worthwhile subtitles-related feature is its ability to Sync, Resize, Align and Reposition the subs using simple hotkey combinations, and that too in real-time. For instance, if you want a somewhat smaller font size, simply press Alt + ] on the keyboard to reduce subtitle font size. The hotkey shortcuts can be seen from within the application. If you head over to the Preferences, you can customize subtitle-related options from its own separate (Subtitle) section. You can configure a number of options related to Subtitle Processing, for example, Output Method of Subtitles, Font Rendering Method and Rasterizer Output. Expand the Subtitle Processing button to access advanced settings related to Subtitles Font Style, Alignment, Folder Setup and Multi-Sub etc. It’s worth mentioning here that it also allows configuring separate settings for different subtitle files.

DXVA (DirectX Video Acceleration) Support

DirectX Video Acceleration, casually known as DXVA, is a Microsoft API for Windows OS and Xbox360 video game console. It’s included to allow video decoding to be Hardware Accelerated. To get more details regarding DXVA or whether your GPU supports it or not, check our review of DXVA Checker here. KMPlayer supports DXVA playback, but there is a tweaking involved to get it working. It requires you to configure an external decoder namely MPC Video Decoder (a video decoder from Media Player Classic). Simply grab the MPCVideoDec from here and unpack the file in your KMPlayer installation folder. In KMPlayer preferences window, head over to Decoder Usage > Internal Decoders and click Select None button under the General tab.

Now, select External Video Decoder from the left, click the External Decoder Search button to open External Decoder/Filter Management window. Now, click Add External Codec button at the bottom left. Next up, you need to head over to MPC Video Decoder file that you unpacked in a KMPlayer installation directory, and then choose MPCVideoDec.ax file to add it as your external decoder. Make sure both H.264 and AVC1 are enabled, as shown in the screenshot below, and then click OK.

Under External Video Decoders panel, select MPC Video Decoder from H.264 video and AVC1 video drop-down menus.

Finally, click Video Processing from the left panel and head over to Renderer tab, and select either Enhanced Video Render (EVR) or VMR9 Renderless, depending on the type of OS you’re using, as video Renderer from the drop down menu. Lastly, select Bicubic A=-0.60 (PS 2.0) for VMR9 Video Scaler (although its optional) and set VMR Renderless Setup to Use 3D texture surfaces and click Close to complete the process.

Seamless Playback For Split Videos

Sometimes when we download a movie from the online sources, the movie itself is split into several parts. Now one way would be to join the parts using a file splitter & joiner app, which itself is a time taking procedure. KMPlayer saves you the time you would’ve spent merging the video parts. KMPlayer supports Seamless playback of videos divided into parts. Just head over to Preferences > Seamless Playback and there you will be able to configure Seamless Playback feature. The configuration includes selection of file extensions for playback and tweaking other options under the Condition section. Keep in mind that the application uses Internal Source Filters to play the split video parts without interruption.

Extensive Video Processing Settings

Apart from sheer video processing power, KMP also allows you to tweak with video filters. The comprehensive Video Processing settings are more than enough even for power users. Expand the Video Processing settings in Preferences window, and you will see options like Input Colorspaces, Output Colorspaces, Basic Video Filters, Resize (Oversampling), Deinterlacing, Postprocessing, Luma/Chroma Offset, Sharpen, AwarpSharp, Blur/Levels, Reduce/Add Noise and Rare Filters.

If you’re using DXVA compatible graphics card, then you will definitely love the types of shaders you can apply to your videos. From right-click context menu, go to Video (Advanced) > VMR9 Pixel Shader menu, and select various pixel shaders such as Deinterlace, Denoise, 16-235 to 0-255, Edge Sharpen, Contour, Letterbox, Sharper, Sharpen 5×5. If you want to apply multiple shaders at once, simply click Stack to open Shader Stack console to mix as many shaders as you want.

Advanced Audio Processing

KMPlayer also includes a slew of advance audio processing features for audiophiles. You will find all the supported audio tweaking options in the Preferences window. It not only contains an integrated Equalizer, but also includes different ambience effects. Simply head over to Audio Processing > Freeverb to enable a number of spaciousness and ambience sound effects using the sliders. It includes Room size, Damping, Wet level, Dry level, Width and Mode sound effects.

Often, while watching a movie, we notice low volume level in certain scenes. KMPlayer also lets you resolve this problem. In Volume settings, you can boost the default volume to as much as 400% or specify custom output level for different channels. However, it must be noted that the amount of audio distortion depends on the quality of audio and the audio equipment you’re using. Additionally, the media player also fully supports AC3Filter (reviewed here), a powerful and feature-rich audio decoder that is used to decode AC3/DTS/MPEG audio formats.

Support For Multiple Instances (Watch Multiple Videos Simultaneously)

Most media players only allow users to watch a single video at a time, but we found another great feature in KMPlayer that lets you watch multiple videos at the same time. To do so, simply head over to the Preferences window and then under General settings, disable Disallow multiple instances.

Now every video that you play will open a separate instance of KMPlayer, thus allowing you to play as many videos as you want, at the same time.

Quick Bookmarking

The quick bookmarking feature lets you quickly bookmark your favorite part of movies and music videos. It lets you instantly bookmark any sequence, so that you can resume the playback from where you left off. All you need is to press the P button on keyboard, and your bookmark will be automatically saved. You can create as many bookmarks as you want. When you play the video from bookmarked time, open the video, and from right-click context menu, head over to Bookmark/Chapters menu to play your media files from bookmarked time.

Winamp Plugins Support

If you’re an avid Winamp user, then you will be glad to know that KMP also supports numerous Winamp plugins. The program’s Preferences lets you setup different Plugins from Input, Video DSP, Audio DSP, Visualization, General Purpose and DScaler sections.

Intuitive Screen Controls

The Screen Controls menu (accessible from right-click context menu) houses a number of distinctive screen settings, ranging from configuring aspect ratio, video size to the players’ transparency level. It includes a Desktop Mode that allows you to run the current video as desktop background. Furthermore, you can use hotkey combinations to adjust video related screen settings such as change video size, zoom in/out, move videos up/down and right/left and more.

Customizable Keyboard/Mouse Actions

It’s good to see that KMP lets you make use of both the keyboard and mouse to perform various playback and video control functions. You can even customize these controls according to your preferences. Under Keyboard/Mouse settings, it lets you change default keyboard & mouse actions. This feature is quite handy if you don’t like the default hotkey combinations for various playback actions. Moreover, the Keys/Global Control panel allows you to create custom hotkey combinations to quickly jump to a particular settings window or perform a certain task.

Quick Backup & Restore Of KMPlayer Configuration

You can quickly back up and restore KMPlayer configuration using Export Preset option. Simply head over to the Preferences console, click Export Presets button at the bottom to save the configuration file (REG file) at specified output location. Since it creates backup file in REG format, you can easily restore the settings by just double-clicking the registry file.

System Filter Manager

The integrated System Filter Manager lets you see the hardware & software components and filters which are being used to play the media file. It may come quite handy in instances where you want to resolve any audio and video rendering issues. You may also enable/disable any filter you want. You can simply press the Tab key on the keyboard to bring up the playback information panel, which shows you details regarding video and audio decoders being used, video resolution, audio stream, video renderer etc.

Custom Skins

Skin customization options let you tweak the overall outlook of the KMPlayer interface. It not only allows you to customize default skin, such as changing its color pattern, but also lets you download additional skins from KMPlayer official forum. Applying a new skin changes the player skin as well as various KMPlayer’s UI elements such as right-click context menu, button colors and shades etc.

Media Information Integration

From right-click context menu, click Media Info (or use Alt+J hotkey combination) to open Media Information console. It shows you extensive meta data information regarding the media file being played. All the information is grouped under General, Video and Audio sections, It helps you quickly detect the audio and video codecs required to play the media file. It also displays resolution of the video, aspect ratio, number of audio channels , bit rate, sampling rate, compression mode, audio language and more.

TV Tuner Card Support

KMPlayer also allows you to play TV channels using TV tuner devices available in the market. This gives you a flexibility to customize TV channels as per your likings. However, you will need to setup both your TV device and KMPlayer, in order to make them work together.

Games

Audio/Video playback-related feature set is the obvious mainstay of media players, but how many of them actually allow you to play games? Yup! KMPlayer does have this ability; it allows you to play 2D games absolutely for free. As of now, there is only one game available to play, Frontline Defense 2 – a tower defense, highly addictive game, with primitive graphics and intuitive controls. Hopefully, developers will add more games to the Game section.

So there you have it, a media player that not only offers an eye-candy interface, but also packs a tons of features that surely make it one of the best media player. We’ve tried to cover some overlooked, yet brilliant features, and may have missed out on many. If you think that there is a feature worth adding to the list, let us know in comments.

Relive: Sync Photos Between Android, iOS & Windows PC, View Them In A Timeline

A. Rehman — Wed, 30 May 2012 07:00:39 PDT

Relive is a cross-platform photo aggregating and exploring app for Android, iOS and Windows-powered devices. Unless you’re one of those few users who always carry their entire photo collection with them, Relive can prove to be a more than able companion, since it serves as an online photo aggregator as well as a reliable photo backup solution. The app aggregates photos from your smartphone, tablet, computer and even Facebook on its own cloud, and helps you easily keep in sync with all your various photo albums, regardless of the platform you’re currently using. Apart from collecting your photos under on roof, Relive also lets you explore all the photo albums by year, week, month or source on your mobile device and/or a web browser.

Before proceeding any further, let us inform you that in order to use the Relive service, you must authorize it to access your Facebook account. The maximum cloud storage limit has not been specified, which presumably means that you can trust Relive to hold together your entire collection of photos from all the various platforms.

The desktop client of Relive is currently available for the Windows operating system only, and is more of a setup wizard rather than being a standalone photo-browsing application, since it only serves the purpose of ensuring that your photos from all associated devices (and Facebook) are in sync with the computer, and vice versa. Other than that, you can access the Relive service from virtually any desktop browser by just providing your Facebook credentials.

Once your photos from various devices are synced together, you can browse them in all aforementioned different ways. Under each supported category, your photos are displayed as various thumbnails on a horizontally scrollable slider.

Just like the desktop client, the mobile app of Relive also requires minimal configuration. In fact, once you authorize the mobile app to access your Facebook account, it begins aggregating images from the device itself as well as from the Relive cloud, and presents them on its homescreen. By default, the app’s homescreen is set to display pictures by their relevant source device. However, by tapping All Pictures, you can easily browse your photos by day, week, month or year. The mobile app also lets you batch share photos with the desired email contacts. What’s even better is that the mobile app lets you explore the entire photo collection even if your device is not connected to the internet. However, photos synced via Relive are only accessible from within the app’s interface, and not via the gallery.

Provided you’re simultaneously logged in to multiple devices with your Facebook ID, Relive automatically detects newly made changes to a photo album on the corresponding device, and updates the cloud content accordingly. So, there you have it; a neat and simple little method of keeping in sync with all your precious images scattered across various platforms. Although, in its current form, Relive is already quite a nifty tool, we’d love to see the app’s developers take the concept even further, and add support for more cloud and social media sharing services. Needless to say, support for Mac and Linux-based computers will do Relive a world of good.

Relive is available for free for all supported platforms, and can be downloaded via the links provided below.

Download Relive for Android

Download Relive for iPhone, iPad & iPod touch

Download Relive for Windows

Audiolip Is Like Twitter For Podcasts; Lets You Share 15-Second Audio Recordings [Web]

Zainab — Wed, 30 May 2012 06:00:33 PDT

Audiolip takes the micro-blogging concept (the one that drives Twitter) a step forward, and allows you to record micro-podcasts up to 15 seconds long, which can then be shared with all your buddies on social networks the likes of Twitter and Facebook. Using the service, you can listen to, share, interact with and add replies to every recorded message available. Additionally, you may add new podcasts and comments directly from the browser, or via a toll-free number if you live in the US or the UK. More after the break.

audiolip comes with a basic-looking interface, which is easy-to-use. To the left of the homepage, you will find Newest, Popular and Random options. Each podcast comes with country details and sharing options. When you hover your mouse over a podcast, you will be able to access the audio reply and comment options. Note that you can always reply back with text if you don’t want to record your voice. Moreover, you can click the Load More button displayed at the end of the page to retrieve older messages.

At the top right corner of the page, you will find a Create micro-podcast option, which, when clicked, lets you record a message of up-to 15 seconds long.

Once you’ve recorded your message, it will instantly be published and you will be able to share it on Twitter or Facebook, depending on your preference. In addition to that, all your micro-podcasts can be accessed from your Public Profile, which also allows you to add comments, replies and download a podcast as an MP3.

The service is free and only requires a simple sign-up, after which you can post as many micro-podcasts as you like. Visit the link below to share your voice and ideas with the whole wide world!

Visit audiolip

Liked this app? You might also want to look through our showcase of web applications reviewed so far.

Cookiepix: Create Collage Desktop Backgrounds; Apply Several Effects To Individual Images [Mac]

Fatima — Wed, 30 May 2012 05:55:57 PDT

Finding a simple plain textured desktop background or a complex color rich one isn’t difficult, but nothing beats family photos or anything else that you may have personally snapped. Cookiepix Lite is a free Mac app that lets you combine your favorite pictures and create a desktop background out of them. The app is much like a collage maker that can help you create a wallpaper featuring whatever images you want. It comes with several styles that you can apply to images, and also has color and corner effects for better customization (where the latter simply makes the image look as if it were folded from a corner). Images can be zoomed in to focus on a particular spot, tilted and placed one over the other. More after the break.

Launch Cookiepix Lite and drag & drop images to it. You might want to add them one by one to make arrangement easier. Each image that you add to the app can be selected individually, and different effects can be applied to it. From the Border section, select whether you want the image to appear horizontally or vertically, and choose one of the eight border designs. Add a background pattern and then select a photo effect. For an image that is selected in the pane, there appears a small box of three sliders, which allow you to zoom in and out of a particular part of the image. Once you’ve added and arranged the images you want as your wallpaper, and have applied effects and borders accordingly, go to File > Save and Set Desktop. You can simply save it as an image by selecting File > Export Picture.

Your desktop should come out looking something like this (see screenshot below), but it is largely dependant on the number of images you’ve used. The images are arranged on the left, but can be dragged out to any other position. This is to ensure you have a clean spot for all you icons.

Cookiepix Lite is, as the name implies, a lite, feature-restricted version. The full version of Cookiepix has more themes for you to work with. However, no watermarks are added to images created in the lite version, too, as it is limited only by number of available themes and nothing else.

Get Cookiepix Lite From Mac App Store

NPPEasyMenu: Notepad++ Plugin That Lets You Search For Menu Options

Fawad — Wed, 30 May 2012 05:55:56 PDT

Notepad++ is one of the most powerful alternatives to Window Notepad, which supports a wide range of programming languages with syntax highlighting and code editing features. Being an extensible application, it supports a number of plugins, which not only extend its native text & code editing functions, but also allow users to quickly use off-the-shelf code modules in their development projects. If you’re an avid Notepad++ user, and have installed a number of plugins, then you must’ve been dealing with a lot of menus and options’ dialogs. Since Notepad++ doesn’t provide an option to quickly search a menu or options’ dialogs, it becomes quite a wearisome task to manually search menus for accessing the required options. NPPMenuSearch is a plugin for Notepad++ that allows you to quickly search for a particular option from the available menus. For instance, if you are looking for the Settings dialog box of a particular plugin, use the NppMenuSearch’s search box to find the option or settings window you want to open.

To install the plugin, open Plugin Manager from Plugins menu. From Available tab, select NppMenuSearch and click Install.

Once installed, it will add a search bar to the toolbar. You can easily change the position of the search bar on the toolbar by dragging it over the required section.

To search for a particular menu, just enter its name, and it will display the search results. The results box displays the complete path of each option related to your query, neatly stacked in different categories, such as Menu and Preferences. Clicking any search result will open the Menu or Preferences dialog box.

NppMenuSearch is an open source plugin that works on all versions of Notepad++. Testing was done in Notepad++ 5.9.5.

SmallBanners Slims Down iOS Notification Banners To The Size Of The Status Bar [Cydia]

Hamza — Wed, 30 May 2012 05:50:50 PDT

It is not only Apple that can pay attention to even the most minor iOS details; the developers over in the Cydia store can do that as well, and pretty reasonably. iOS is a pretty good-looking platform, but in some cases, these good looks can lead to inconvenience for users. Take the banner notifications as an example. Although the banners look really sleek, many people think that they take up too much unnecessary space and could have been way more compact than they currently are. If you are one of those people who don’t like the layout and size of banner notifications, SmallBanners can make things perfect for you. This newly-released Cydia tweak automatically trims down all banner notifications, restricting their height to that of the status bar.

Basically, SmallBanners takes away all the bells and whistles from your iDevice’s notifications, leaving them with just the bare essentials. A banner notification usually consists of three parts.

The icon of the app to which the notification belongs.
The name of the sender, or app.
The actual message of the notification.

SmallBanners removes the second part (sender name) completely, while minimizing (and in some cases, completely removing) the app icon. The only part of the banner that remains the same is the actual message, and that makes perfect sense because that’s what a notification’s actual purpose is! This new minimalistic version of notification banners completely cover the status bar, but don’t stretch beyond that.

The tweak can be downloaded from the BigBoss repo in the Cydia store, where it is available as a free download. You can’t configure anything, as SmallBanners supports just one banner size, and that is applied to all notifications automatically as soon as you install the tweak to your iPhone.

Twic: Nifty Twitter Client For Chrome With Multiple Accounts Support

Zainab — Wed, 30 May 2012 05:35:20 PDT

Having more than one Twitter account could mean too much hassle, as you may have to switch from one account to another all the time. Signing in and out of Twitter each time you want to switch can not only be time consuming, but also quite irritating, and that’s what desktop-based clients are usually helpful for. Twic is a minimalist Twitter extension for Chrome that allows you to manage multiple accounts at once. After installing it, all you have to do is authorize Twic to access all your Twitter accounts. Once done, you will be able to switch between multiple accounts without having to log in and out repeatedly. The extension’s pop-up bubble lets you check the number of unread tweets right from the Chrome toolbar. Additionally, you can scroll through the pop-up to reply to tweets or simply post your own with inserted links.

After installing the extension, connect your Twitter accounts with Twic by clicking the (+) icon. After that, you will be able to switch between accounts by left-clicking them. You can also remove particular accounts with a right-click and view the count for the number of unread tweets for each account.

The extension lets you read tweets in a scrollable pop-up, enter text for your own tweets and reply to others. Note that clicking the Twitter icon displayed at the top right corner opens Twitter in a new tab.

The Settings allow you to change the Avatar size and enable Images, Geo Info, Tweet time, Make a link to a tweet and Twitter client options.

Overall, Twic is a handy extension for all those who use multiple Twitter accounts and find it difficult to switch between them continuously. The extension quickly lets you check tweets from numerous Twitter accounts at the same time, and is a must have for Twitter fanatics.

Install Twic For Google Chrome

If you liked this extension, you might also want to take a look at the other Chrome extensions we’ve reviewed so far.

First PDF: Convert PDF To Word (DOC), Text & Several Image Formats

Waqas — Wed, 30 May 2012 05:05:27 PDT

Looking for a PDF manipulation tool that can quickly convert PDF documents into Word and Text format without having to manually configure conversion settings? Try First PDF. It’s a simple, free Windows application that allows you to not only convert PDF documents to DOC and Text format, but also to export them in different image formats, namely PNG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, GIF and Multi TIFF. The application may prove to be extremely useful in instances where you want to convert a PDF file to an editable MS Word DOC file or if you want to embed a specific page of a PDF document into your website, as an image. As far as PDF to DOC conversion is concerned, it has the ability to preserve the text formatting as well as other applied text styles without changing the original structure of the document. More details after the jump.

The supported output file formats (Word & Images) are grouped under their respective sections. It houses two main tabs at the top (PDF to Word and PDF to Images). The PDF to Word tab allows you to convert PDF document into DOC (which actually retains all the text format and images in the document) and Text format. To perform PDF to DOC conversion, select Word option from PDF to Word tab, and then drag the files that you want to convert over the List with PDF files section, present at the left side of the window. It will also provide you with a preview of the selected file. Afterwards, click Browse to select your output directory as well as output file name, and click GO button to start the conversion process.

Likewise, in order to convert PDF file into an image file, select PDF to Images tab and drag the PDF files over the application. Now, from the drop-down menu to the right, specify your output format followed by DPI (dot per inch) value. Once done, Click Browse to select the output directory and then press GO.

Although the program successfully converted most of the files we threw at it, it did take a great deal of time while converting some large sized PDF documents into DOC format. The application works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Testing was carried out on Windows 7, 64-bit OS edition.

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DXPurge: Auto-Remove Junk Files While Transferring Data From Mac OS X To Windows

Waqas — Wed, 30 May 2012 05:01:21 PDT

Often, when you transfer files and folders from Mac OS X to Windows via flash drives, memory cards and external drives, Mac OS X creates junk files (like .DS_Store) in each folder present in your removable storage medium. Although these files usually remain hidden to the user, they consume precious storage space, and since these files have no use in Windows, you may want to get rid of them. Removing all the junk files yourself may prove to be quite a tedious task, as one has to enable the show all hidden files option from the Folder Options dialog, and then manually remove the hidden, junk files. Wouldn’t it be convenient if you could quickly delete all the junk files in one go? DXPurge does just that. It’s a Windows application designed to get rid of junk files transferred from Mac OS X to your external storage medium. All you need to do is to drag the folders that you copied from Mac over the application window, and it will automatically remove all the junk files present within them.

The screenshot below displays a set of files imported from Mac OSX, contained in a USB flash drive.

Now what you need is to drag the folder over the application window and it will instantly remove the unwanted files. You may drag multiple folders at the same time. It also lets you enable Create Zip option to create a copy of all the files present inside the folder.

After successfully purging the folder, you will now see that your folder only contains files that were originally meant to be moved.

You may also select Preferences from Help menu to bring up the settings console, which contains 3 tabs namely Settings, Export and System. Here, you can enable/disable Don’t prompt me for confirmation when accessing web sites and Create a Zip archive options. Additionally you can specify custom folder for the Zip archive from Export tab.

The application is available for free and supports both 32-bit and 64-bit OS editions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

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Official Ticketmaster Android App Released In Google Play Store

A. Rehman — Wed, 30 May 2012 04:41:02 PDT

Ticketmaster is a well-known online ticket booking and distribution service that helps users find places of entertainment from their selected regions and lets them instantly book tickets to their favorite events with utmost ease. The service released its official iOS client in the App Store a few months back, whereas the Android variant has just arrived in the Google Play Store. Just like the web service itself, the official mobile client of Ticketmaster is also packed with plenty of user-friendly features, budget-friendly booking deals and timely event alerts. If you think that the mobile app is all about letting users search for and book tickets of their favorite events, you’d be underestimating its comprehensiveness big time! The app brings forth several other exciting features that we shall look at in detail after the break.

When launched, the app determines your current location and lists all the scheduled events from the nearby venues under the Events tab on its main interface. However, you can switch to another location of interest by just entering the desired area code or city name. Wondering as to what entertainment categories are supported by Ticketmaster? Hit the menu button in the top-left side of the app’s homescreen, and you’ll see for yourself. Ticketmaster lists events from a variety of entertainment-oriented categories, including music, arts & theater, family events, and sports activities etc. Under each said category, there are several subcategories that users can pick from to customize the events list as per their liking.

The app also lets you manually search for events from preferred artists, teams, venues or date, and helps bookmark favorite events on the go. Each listed event can be added to the calendar right from within the app. Moreover, it can also provide you with detailed ticketing information and venue description of a selected event. Contact numbers of most of the supported venues are also provided, alongside their respective location details that include parking info and box office data. If required, you can also get directions to your favorite venues right from within the app.

For each individual venue, the app displays list of all upcoming events, lets you check for ticket availability, find tickets from your preferred seating and pricing category, view seating charts, request for accessibility seating, and most importantly, place booking orders for your favorite events.

The official Ticketmaster mobile app also lets you closely follow your favorite artists. In this regard, it lets you add artists to your favorites list, check artist biographies, view list of their upcoming events, keep a tab on their past events, listen to their live performances from previous events, and watch their music videos.

We’re not done yet – Ticketmaster also keeps you informed of all ongoing sale offers regarding various concerts and events via real-time notifications, and offers last-minute booking offers for your favorite events.

While both the Android as well as the iOS variant of Ticketmaster share almost the same set of features, one aspect that is currently missing from the Android version is that it doesn’t scan your media library at all to find and list events as per your personal artist collections. The app is free in the Google Play Store, and requires Android v2.2 or higher to run. Download the app via the link or QR code provided below.

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EasyMCC: Adjust Display Brightness, Contrast & Color Temperature

Fawad — Wed, 30 May 2012 04:40:56 PDT

Just like other OS platforms, Windows contains brightness controls to adjust the glare on your computer screen. The Windows Mobility center (can be accessed by hitting the Win + X hotkey) provides you with quick access to Display Brightness controls. However, sometimes, adjusting the brightness of your monitor isn’t enough. Applications like f.lux (reviewed here) automatically adjust the display temperature according to the time of day, but it doesn’t provide an option to manually tweak color temperature levels. Today, we came across a portable application for Windows called EasyMCC, which allows you to quickly adjust the Luminance, Contrast & Color Temperature of your computer screen. It even lets you tweak the Red Gain, Green Gain and Blue individually to create your own color temperature setting. Read past the jump for details.

The utility provides you with a simple interface, containing sliders for changing the levels of Luminance, Contrast, Color Temp, Red Gain, Green Gain and Blue Gain of the monitor. The Color Temperature option has a drop down menu with four different color temperature presets named 6500K, 9300K, User 1 and User 2. If you select the User 1 or User 2 option, you can create a custom color temperature by adjusting the levels of Red Gain, Green Gain and Blue Gain.

The Presets button allows you to save presets, you can restore the Luminance/ Contrast, Color or everything back to normal from the Restore button, while the Power Mode button lets you Turn the DPMS (Display Power Management Signaling) On/ Off and Power off your monitor.

It is a portable application that works on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

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Easy Alarm Clock For Android Offers Multiple Alarm Presets & Widgets

A. Rehman — Wed, 30 May 2012 04:30:30 PDT

If you find adding your task reminders and alarms to your current Android alarm clock app more hectic than the tasks themselves, you need to take a look at Easy Alarm Clock. The app is exactly what its name says: an extremely easy and user-friendly alarm clock app for your Android device. It makes the task of managing your various alarms and reminders immensely easy by presenting multiple alarm presets and homescreen widgets. All it requires you to do is just feed the task/event details to the relevant preset, and have your reminders finalized. In addition, it offers plenty of customizable options for your alarm sounds, titles, notes, reminder types, repetition intervals, volume levels etc. More than any other facet, it’s the app’s simplest way to keep you apprised of your upcoming reminders that makes it a true blessing, especially if you have too many reminders to take care of in a short span of time.

Easy Alarm Clock is certainly not the only alarm app in the Google Play Store, but it ranks quite high on the list of some of the most useful and efficient ones. Before proceeding any further, let’s take a quick look at the various alarm presets that you get with this app:

Wake Up
Anniversary
Birthday
Greetings
Credit card
Conference
Countdown
Ring once
Custom
4th, Monday (to set an alarm on a specific day of the selected week of a month)
Days left (countdown to an event scheduled for a specific date)
Chime (hourly alarm)

The app sports a simple interface that lists all the various added alarms per their scheduled order. The UI of Easy Alarm Clock seems to have been inspired from Windows Phone’s Metro UI, as it displays each individual alarm and alarm preset via a separate tile. The largest tile at the top of the app’s homescreen shows the latest upcoming reminder, along with the time left for the alarm to go off. Tapping anywhere in the middle of the smaller tile displays alarm details and the options to disable, edit or remove it, whereas tapping the icon of the alarm lets you disable it without removing from the list entirely.

Let’s now see various options present on the app’s new alarm screen. To add a new alarm, hit the + button on the largest tile. Next, select your preferred alarm preset. While setting an alarm, you can set the alarm time, repeat interval, date, advance alarm reminder time, ringtone, sound level, title and remarks. It must also be mentioned here that for each individual alarm type, the app presents you with relevant title presets, too. For instance, in case of a birthday reminder, you can easily choose the person from your family or friends for whom the reminder is intended. In addition, it also lets you record and set your own sounds as a particular alarm’s ringtone, alongside the traditional custom MP3 selection and predefined options.

Taking a look at the app’s homescreen widgets, you get four different-sized widgets, each serving a unique purpose. For instance, there is a widget that keeps you reminded of your deadlines by showing the time left for all such reminders. Then there is a widget that is dedicated to just displaying your next alarm. A third type of widget offers you quick controls to add a different type of alarm right from the homescreen, while the last type of widget can display reminders for the current day and let you add new reminders.

The list of features of the app just doesn’t end here; Easy Alarm Clock lets you create local backups of your entire list of alarms and reminders, allows you to restore a backup instance of choice, and maintains a detailed log of all your previous alarms.

Oddly enough, for an app based solely on the concept of alarms and reminders, it does not support the snooze feature – not even for your simple routine alarms. That said, the app is likely to impress you with most of the features that it does support.

Easy Alarm Clock is absolutely free in the Google Play Store, and can be download via the link or QR code provided below.

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RapidLinks: Create A URL List & Access It From Anywhere Using An Activator Gesture [Cydia]

Hamza — Wed, 30 May 2012 04:15:36 PDT

It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance and usefulness of Activator. It plays an essential role in the working of many Cydia items, and the latest to benefit from the gesture control tweak is RapidLinks. This new Cydia tweak allows users to create a list of their favorite URLs, which can then be accessed from anywhere in iOS by simply performing a selected Activator gesture. This means you don’t have to launch Safari, tap the address bar and then key in the address of your favorite websites; you just have to use the designated gesture to access them all from one place. Head past the break to learn all about this time-saving and useful Cydia tweak.

RapidLinks is available in the ModMyi repo of the Cydia store, and once you have installed it to your iPhone or iPad, it is configurable via the menu it adds in the stock Settings app. The setup for the tweak is pretty simple. You can add up to 5 URLs to the RapidLinks menu, which can be achieved by entering the web address and defining a URL in each respective field. Make sure that the entered addresses are in the http:// format, as the links won’t work otherwise. Once you have done that, choose the Activation Method from the first menu provided in the options list. Any Activator gesture can be chosen as the activation method for RapidLinks. Past all the configuration, hit the Apply button and wait for the device to respring.

Now, you can access the URL shortcut list from anywhere by simply performing the chosen activation method. The list layout is pretty neat, and you won’t regret installing RapidLinks on your iDevice, especially given the fact that it is available as a free download.

Falco GIF Animator: Create, Edit & Apply Effects To Animated GIFs

Fawad — Wed, 30 May 2012 04:05:02 PDT

A GIF or Graphics Interchange Format image is one of the graphics image formats that can be used to create small animations and video clips. It supports a separate palette of 256 colors for each frame, and you can use a GIF animation tool like AnimateGIF (reviewed here) to create GIF animations. It is a very popular image format on the internet, as it enables users to create animations without using any complicated image or video editing application. Today, we have a tool for Windows named Falco GIF Animator that not only lets you create GIF images, but also provides you with a load of image editing options and tools (Color selection Tool, Fill Tool, Text Tool), Image Improvement utilities (red eye remover, soft glow, motion blur), and Image Effects (grey scale, sharpen, emboss, mosaic etc.).

The application includes a wizard to guide you through the process of creating a GIF animation. To start the wizard, open File menu available at the top left and select Wizard. The first step of the wizard lets you add images for creating the GIF image. It also allows you to change the sequence of the images in the list. You can use Move Up and Move Down buttons to change selected image’s position in the list. Once you’ve arranged the images in the required order, click Next.

If images are not of the same size, then you can use the second step of the wizard to choose the image frame’s position that you wish to add to your GIF animation. It lets you place the smaller images at the top left corner of the frame, the center of the frame or stretch the image.

The third and final step of the wizard allows you to specify the time interval for displaying each image in the GIF animation. Just enter the time interval (milliseconds), and click Finish.

All the selected images will be added to the main interface of the application. You can use different types of image editing tools to fine tune your GIF animation. You will find some image editing options and tools from Image, Tools, Effects and Image Improvements menus, while you can use Image resizer, Exchange Color, Erase Tool, Stamp Tool, Pencil Tool, Cartoon, Red Eye Remover, Whirl & Pinch, Motion Blur, Emboss, Mosaic, Adjust Brightness, Adjust Contrast and Invert Colors from tool box, present at the left side of the window. Once you’ve edited the image, click Play on the toolbar to watch the GIF animation. The application allows you to save the image in GIF, ICO, CUR, ACVO, TIFF, JPG, PNG and TGA file format.

Falco GIF Animator works on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, windows 7 and Windows 8.

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Proto: Keyboard-Only File Manager & Application Launcher For Windows

Waqas — Wed, 30 May 2012 04:01:29 PDT

If you watch a lot of movies, you must have noticed how actors using computers never seems to touch the mouse or trackpad, getting their jobs done in a jiffy using just the keyboard (The Matrix, anyone?). All that surely looks cool in films, but if you really like to get your tasks done in a quick and efficient manner, especially without using the mouse, then you should consider giving Proto a shot. Developed by Mieszko Lassota, this file launcher and management utility is reminiscent of the Windows CMD (Command Processor) utility. You can manage your files and launch applications using just the keyboard. According to the developer, it’s based on Humane Interface and is aimed at people who favor working using a keyboard over a mouse and value speed in everyday computer tasks. Although there is some sophistication involved during the first run, but once you get a hold of how it works, this nifty application will prove to be extremely useful.

It enables you to instantly move between directories, copy & move files, launch applications and files, search for files & folders, filter the search results, and copy path and files to the Windows clipboard etc. All you need is to learn some basic command usage and input methods to use the application at its full potential.

Proto sits in the system tray, allowing you to quickly open the main interface. The home screen looks just like Windows Command Line Interpreter, however unlike CMD, you can navigate between files and folder by simply using the cursor keys. You can show and hide the application window using the Alt + ` hotkey combination. It also lets you create tabs for different directories, a feature that works the same way as in most GUI-based file managers. Just press Ctrl + T to open a new tab. Likewise, you may create as many tabs as you want, and navigate between them using the Ctrl + Tab key. It’s worth mentioning here that everything in Proto supports hotkey combination. However, the developer has provided a complete list of shortcuts as well as screencast on a product page to let you easily understand the usage of the application. The Search function is pretty fast, for instance, if you want to go to System 32 directory, simply select your Windows installation directory and type Win (enter) then s32 (enter), and it will open Windows/System32 folder.

The application recognizes each alphabet separately during the file and folder search, thus when we type s32, it means something related to S and then something related to 3 and so on. It also comes with a number of different themes, so if you don’t like the default skin, you can apply any theme of your choice using the Ctrl + F10 key.

You may also create a new folder in any directory; simply hit Ctrl + N and enter the directory name for the new folder. Other noteworthy features include Regex Renaming to rename multiple files using regular expression, an integrated Calculator to perform basic and scientific calculations, file compression and decompression support using 7zip and Disk Space chart.

In a nutshell, Proto is a console-based file manager that helps you perform routine mouse intensive tasks using only the keyboard. The application works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

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If you liked this application, you might want to look through our showcase of file management software.

Create & Save Online Code Snippets With Tagging Support [Web]

Zainab — Wed, 30 May 2012 04:00:23 PDT

SnipSave is a simple yet useful web application that can be used to create code snippets, which can be saved and used in the future for various projects or purposes. These code snippets let you save time and can be especially useful when you have to use the same code for numerous projects. The app allows easy tracking, storage and management for all types of codes. Moreover, SnipSave allows you to search for code by entering queries in a search box displayed at the top of the page. The app only requires a simple sign up and has an easy-to-use interface, which quickly lets you create, edit and delete code snippets.

SnipSave has a basic-looking interface that lets you access your profile and quickly create snippets. Click your profile button displayed to the right of the page, select My Snippets option and hit the Create New button. You can then enter a title, type or paste the code and add tags for it. Once done, hit the Create Snippet button displayed at the bottom of the page, and you’re good to go.

All your code snippets will be saved under your profile and you will be able to edit, delete and access them whenever you want.

SnipSave is a handy utility for web developers who work on multiple coding projects and often have to re-use the same code. The app is free and only requires a simple sign up.

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Doit.im Mini: Group Time-Defined Tasks By Projects & Sync Them [Mac]

Fatima — Wed, 30 May 2012 03:43:34 PDT

Doit.im Mini is a free Mac app for managing your tasks. It allows you to group tasks by projects and runs unobtrusively in the Menu Bar. The app’s interface is just one of the main reasons to give it a try, so elegant and simple it is. To use the app, you have to sign up for a free account. Doit.im Mini can be accessed easily via the built-in keyboard shortcuts that you can modify to suit your usage. Additionally, the app allows you to quickly add tasks via the ‘Smart Add’ feature, which has shortcuts and syntax support for quickly recording the time and deadline for a project or a task. The syntax is simple and allows you to append time and date to a task in addition to adding a new project.

Launch the app and click Don’t have an account to open the sign up window. If the app fails to register your account with the information you enter, alter the username you’ve chosen. The app does not prompt you if there is a problem with the user name – an annoyance, indeed – but nothing you can’t work around. You will also need to verify your account before you can begin syncing, which is done via a link emailed to you.

Doit.im Mini comes preloaded with a bunch of tasks that help you get through the basics of the app. Interface-wise, the app is divided into two tabs; Uncompleted (should read ‘Incomplete’; the grammar nazis will come calling) and Completed.

The Uncompleted category has three buttons at the top for managing which tasks you view. The Inbox button lets you view currently active tasks, the Today button lets you see all tasks for the day, while the calendar like Scheduled button lets you view all tasks that are due any other day except the current day. Tasks can be scheduled for an indefinite date and they go to the Someday category, which is the cloud like icon. The Completed tab has two buttons; one that allows you to see completed tasks for the day, and one that lets you view tasks completed in the past.

A plus button at the bottom left allows you to add a new task. You can enter a title, a deadline (All Day option must be unchecked for this), enter a project name and make a note. Click Save when you’ve added your task. Projects allow you to group different tasks.

To add a smart task hit Control+Command+N or select Smart Add from the app’s menu bar icon. Type ? to view the complete syntax and how to use it.

Doit.im Mini lets you modify the shortcuts for adding new tasks, marking a task as complete and more from its Preferences. You can also set the app to start at login and choose the auto-sync interval.

The app is definitely feature rich and excellent for keeping tasks synced across Macs. The interface is simple to use and most things are self explanatory.

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Popbuzz.me: Read Google News In A Facebook-Like Timeline [Web]

Zainab — Wed, 30 May 2012 03:42:50 PDT

Popbuzz.me is a news aggregator that organizes and displays Google News feed in a Facebook-like timeline. The interface comes with multiple categories such as Entertainment, Technology, Business, Sports and more. It also ranks news into different groups, such as All, Good, Great and Awesome, so that you can filter out unpopular items and read your favorite content. Popbuzz.me uses a social filter that sorts the news based on the number of Facebook likes, tweets and Diggs. It basically takes the buzz from across the web and provides you with a better way to discover some interesting news, without having you to spend long hours on multiple news websites.

While Facebook’s timeline may be loathed for a social experience (and rightly so), it serves pretty good for a new service. Popbuzz shows multiple categories at the top of the page, such as World, Business, Entertainment and Technology. You will also be able to filter news by four different options, which include All, Good, Great and Awesome. In addition to that, the app integrates 5th village, a service that we recently covered. Each news item, when clicked, opens in a new tab and comes with Comments.

As you scroll down the page, newer items are automatically loaded and the interface displays content in a chronological order. The app will allow you to stay always up-to-date with the latest happenings around the world. All in all, Popbuzz is a nice service that lets you view and read news in a unique and interesting way.

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If you liked this app, you might also want to look through our showcase of web applications reviewed so far.

Photosynth Comes To WP7; Lets You Create & View Amazing 360 Degree Panoramas

Hamza — Wed, 30 May 2012 01:00:28 PDT

Photosynth, the immensely popular photo app for iPhone, is an official Microsoft release, and that’s why its absence from the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace has been a source of constant annoyance for Mango users, especially given to the fact that the official client for the photo-stitching service has been around in the iOS App Store for a long time. Finally, the guys over in Redmond have paid attention to their own mobile platform, and Photosynth is now available in the WP7 Marketplace! The app can be used to view the gorgeous 360-degree panorama images that characterize Photosynth, and not only that; you can use the app to create your own panoramas, too! Of course, there are a few shortcomings and limitations when you compare the WP7 client with the iOS one, but overall, the app is everything users have always wished for. Read on for details and screenshots.

Before we discuss all the good features offered by Photosynth for WP7, let’s highlight the biggest drawback it suffers. The app is not fully compatible with most Windows Phone 7 devices (even our Lumia 800 didn’t qualify). Don’t get too disappointed though; even if your phone lacks a gyroscope or some other component important for the app, you will still be able to use all the features of Photosynth – just with minor performance degradations. I believe most people can live with that.

So, after you have gone through all the notifications and permissions in the Marketplace, you are ready to shoot some seriously awesome panoramas. If you want, it is possible to sign up for a Photosynth account before proceeding (requires nothing more than the linking of your Live ID with the app). However, you may shoot photos even without an account. Just go to the app’s main screen and tap the preview window provided there. Photosynth comes up with a lot of tips and tricks regarding shooting, but if your device is fully compatible, things shouldn’t be too difficult. Just stand in one position (in the middle of the room, if you are indoors), point the device’s camera towards one corner, and let the app capture the image (the frame will turn green, followed by the camera shutter sound). Just keep moving the camera in a circle until all the area has been captured. Make sure you shoot every area of the grid, and populate the checkered background completely. You can also prompt the Photosynth cam to capture a view manually by tapping the framed area. If you make a mistake, or a moving object comes into one of the frames, hit the undo button. When all is done, hit the checkmark in the bottom bar.

Almost as good as the app’s camera is its viewer. The Featured section of Photosynth lists some of the most popular 360-degree panoramas that have been publicly shared by other Photosynth users. The sidebar in the viewer lets you jump to any particular frame of the image. If you want to manually probe the whole scene, tilt your device (if it sports a gyro) or just swipe across the screen to navigate around the image. The panoramas can be shared over Facebook and Twitter as well, thanks to the free Photosynth.net service.

Photosynth for WP7 might not be perfect yet (the interface looks quite unpolished), but it certainly gets the job done. So, if you own a Windows Phone, you just have to give it a try by heading to the following link, where it is available for free.

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MLookerCL: Media Viewer That Supports Slideshows & Video Playlists [Mac]

Fatima — Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:11 PDT

Most free file viewers are just apps that allow you to read a particular set of file formats, and stay restricted to one particular genre of files, like audios, videos, images etc. Any other sophisticated features are likely to be sitting behind a price tag. MLookerCL is a free Mac app that is, at the core, a viewer for all types of media files. In functionality, it allows you to create playlists of audio or video files you want to view, and play multiple images in a slide show. The app allows you to view basic file information via a simple shortcut and can compress JPGs. Additionally, MLookerCL will allow you to play videos as a desktop background.

When you launch the MLookerCL, your screen, except the menu bar and Dock, will go black, and that is no cause for alarm. Image Viewer is accessible in this mode from File > Open. To view information for an image, hit the Command+I shortcut. The up/down arrows let you view the next/previous image, and Option+ left/right arrow keys allow you to scale the image size, with the right arrow increasing the size, and vice versa.

Before you start viewing videos, you might want to visit the app’s preferences first. You can manage the screen’s transparency, the file compression rate and how much an image is scaled down. The only option relevant to videos is the Movie on Desktop setting. If you check it, your videos will be played as a desktop background.

Browse and open any video from your hard drive. To create a playlist, go to Playlist > Show List and a window will open, allowing you to add as many videos to the queue as you want. From the Window option, select ControlBar and you will be able to view a seek bar and play/pause buttons on a video. Videos can be repositioned on the screen by clicking and dragging with your mouse.

As long as Movie on Desktop is not enabled, you can move the video to any part of the screen. If you enable the Movie on Desktop option, it will remember the position. The play/pause and seek bar will no longer be functional, and you will have to quit the app to stop a video from playing.

The app shows file information for videos as well when you hit Command+I. As far as simple file viewers go, MLookerCL does take it up a notch and is worth a try, at the least.

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sRemote: Remotely Execute Commands To Control PC via Gmail Account

Waqas — Tue, 29 May 2012 07:00:59 PDT

If you’ve ever wanted to control your PC from a remote location (when you don’t have ready access to the hardware itself, like on a vacation), you can do so now by sending certain predefined commands through your Gmail account. Indeed, it sounds more a gimmick, but this is what sRemote has to offer. It’s an application for Windows that allows you to control and perform certain actions on your PC, such as shutdown, restart, log off, take screenshot etc, by sending various commands in an email subject field. It does so by continuously monitoring specified Gmail account, where the actual commands that are to be executed are sent, and applies the actions on the PC where this program is being run. The application may seem a bit difficult to configure at first, but once you get a hang of its options, it becomes fairly easy for you to monitor your PC from a remote location. Read on to find out how it works.

Upon initial launch, you will need to input a master password to access the application. It uses this password to verify the actual user of the PC where commands are to be executed. It’s worth mentioning here that this is the password that you will need to enter along with the commands in order for them to work. Just enter the password, and click Proceed to open the application’s main interface.

You will see a miniscule application window. First off, you need to configure your Gmail accounts, so click Gmail Settings at the bottom left.

Here, enter emails IDs for the account you want to monitor as well as the account where you want the notifications to be sent. The recipient email address is required to let users know if the command was successfully executed. You can however, enter the same email ID in both fields. Additionally, also provide the password for the monitored account and click Save.

You can start the monitoring by clicking Start Monitoring button and leave the application running, as closing it won’t allow it to perform the commands. It supports a number of different commands, all of which are listed on the product page.

The supported commands are screenshot(), shutdown(), logoff(), abort(), restart(), play(path) etc. Whenever you enter a command you also need to input the master password in the following format

password();command();

The tool works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Testing was carried out on Windows 7, 64-bit OS edition.

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CaptureToCloud: Save, Share & Organize Online Content, Convert It To Google Documents [Web]

Zainab — Tue, 29 May 2012 06:36:59 PDT

CaptureToCloud is a clever cloud application that integrates some of the major Google apps and Chrome bookmarks, as well as DropBox, and is optimized to work seamlessly with all of them. It will enable you to capture, share and organize all kinds of digital media, including websites, images, articles, links, bookmarks, files etc. The web app makes sure that important information is always accessible from any internet connected device. Your captured media can either be shared with your colleagues, or you can post it to Facebook, Twitter or email. Moreover, saved media can be converted to a Google Document or even viewed in a clutter-free layout. CaptureToCloud will also monitor specific URLs for any changes and support uploading Chrome bookmarks to the cloud. Content may be saved to the service from your browser’s toolbar or the right-click context menu. More after the jump.

You can use the Chrome extension or Firefox add-on to capture all types of content, like web pages, images, articles, selected text, video links, maps and URLs. These are then stored in the cloud, and you can access them later from any device. The pop-up allows you to save an entire Web page, URL Only or Selected Content. CaptureToCloud keeps the website in its original format, and all the links and images in the page are preserved. Once you’ve captured your desired content, you will be able to access it by clicking the Library option displayed to the top left corner of the pop-up. Alternatively, you will be able to access all the capture options from the right-click context menu.

Next, you will be able to access all your saved content from your Inbox. Note that new collections can also be added by right-clicking the library option, and once they have been created, you can drag & drop individual items from one collection to another. Moreover, all your Chrome bookmarks can be uploaded to CaptureToCLoud and accessed from any internet connected device. Additionally, it lets you view all your Google Doc documents and is integrated with Dropbox, which allows you to access all your files right from within the app’s interface.

The app has two collapsible sidebars on both sides. The one on the right allows you to view all your added files or items for Google Docs or Dropbox, whereas the one on the left lets you switch between the integrated services. Each individual item that you add to CaptureToCloud comes with a drop-down arrow, which, when clicked, lets you perform multiple actions, like convert documents to Google Docs, view articles in a clutter-free interface, monitor URLs for changed content, find similar content on the web, post items to a stream and much more.

The CleanView changes content to a more readable format without ads, sidebars and other clutter.

CaptureToCloud functionalities just don’t end here; the WebDVR feature lets you capture content continuously, so you don’t have to stop at each point to save important content. This can specially be useful when you’re busy researching a topic or browsing something important that you would like to check out later. The app is free, and you can sign into it via your Google account. Visit the link below to build a library of your favorite items, which you can access later from anywhere and share with anyone.

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Install CaptureToCloud Add-On For Firefox

Liked this app? You might also want to look through our showcase of web applications reviewed so far.

Hive Locker: Custom Android Lock Screen Replacement With Online Theme Library & Quick Access Controls

A. Rehman — Tue, 29 May 2012 06:08:19 PDT

Fresh to the Google Play Store, Hive Locker is a free, custom Android lockscreen replacement app with polished looks, an online theme and wallpaper library, and plenty of user-friendly features that help make your Android device’s lock screen productive as well as visually appealing. The app lets you explore and download various catchy lockscreen themes from its online repository and embellish your device’s lockscreen with a custom background image. It also supports its own neatly-built notification center that can display notifications pertaining to the total number of unread text messages, as well as the message content. The app also comes with its own built-in pattern unlock to help you secure your beloved Android. Moreover, it can be set to show/hide the status bar on the lockscreen, play various audio tones upon unlocking the device, and last, but not the least, brings several quick access controls that can be used to unlock straight to your favorite caller, messaging and camera app, toggle the flashlight On/Off, or circle between various sound profiles. Details to follow.

All said features apart, it’s the app’s flashy looks and sparkling animations that make it a stand-out contender among all its counterparts. Most of the supported themes and wallpapers are of high definition quality, and appeal with their pleasant aesthetics.

All aforementioned customizable settings are accessible from the app’s main interface. Apart from activating/deactivating the app’s lockscreen service, you can use said interface to head over to the app’s native theme and wallpaper library. While the theme library screen lets you explore the local and online offerings, the wallpaper library screen provides the additional option of selecting a custom background for your lockscreen. As of now, all online content is available for download for free. Once you stumble upon the content of your liking, you can download it to your device, and set it as the default theme/wallpaper right from within the preview screen.

Looking at some of the other settings available on the app’s main interface, we have the option to enable/disable the app’s notification settings for viewing unread message notification count and message content. Also, from the same screen, you can enable the app’s pattern unlock feature, set the default time and date format, and toggle various options On/Off, such as hiding the status bar on the lockscreen, enabling vibration, and playing sounds upon unlocking the device.

Now, let’s shift our focus to the lockscreen itself. Each chosen lockscreen theme is slider-based, and is set to display the current time and date, by default. In case you opt to avail the app’s native pattern unlock feature, you’re required to first clear the slider unlock and then provide the correct pattern in order to unlock your device. Provided your device is currently in charging mode, you can keep an eye on the current charging level via a green progress bar at the bottom of the lockscreen.

Various on-screen indicators (star, ring, dot etc.) on each individual lock screen serve as the button to launch the app’s quick access controls screen. Various controls present on this screen let you instantly unlock to different aforementioned apps or toggle the flashlight, as well as different sound profiles; all with a mere tap.

Hive Locker is available in the Google Play Store, and can be downloaded via the link or QR code provided below.

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Unlockize: Get 6 Awesome Unlock Animations On Your Jailbroken iPhone

Hamza — Tue, 29 May 2012 04:30:07 PDT

The awe-inspiring lock screen Cydia tweak, Unfold (reviewed here), hasn’t grown old yet, and already there is a new boss in town. Although Unlockize is based on the same principle as Unfold, the newer tweak is six times better than the latter! We say six, because that’s exactly the number of lockscreen animations offered by Unlockize! Each animation is as good as the one offered by Unfold, and there’s even one that is identical to the unfold animation made famous by the former. Not only can you choose any of the available animations when using Unlockize, the tweak is intelligent enough to automatically switch between animations if the user has chosen more than one. So, if you have a jailbroken iPhone, head past the break to know more about Unlockize and get a preview of each of the animations in the tweak.

Unlockize is available in the BigBoss repo of the Cydia store, and once you have installed it to your iPhone or iPod touch, the first of its listed animations (fold to unlock) will become active automatically. The tweak doesn’t have any Springboard icon of its own, and is completely configurable via its menu in the stock Settings app. The first toggle in the Unlockize menu is there to let users toggle the tweak, while the following six will let you choose your favorite animations. Unlockize consists of these animations.

Fold to unlock: Exactly like the Unfold tweak.
Slice to unlock: The screen is revealed in fragments, giving the whole thing a sliced effect.
Fade to unlock: Pretty self-explanatory
Open blinds (tall): Vertical slices to show the Home screen.
Open blinds (wide): Horizontal rendition of the previous animation.
Checker to unlock: A combination of Fade and Slice to unlock.

If you choose multiple animations simultaneously, Unlockize makes sure that each one gets its turn. The lockscreen will alternate between all the chosen animations. One thing we did notice, though; the Slide to Unlock text remains the same, no matter what animation you select. Fortunately, that’s the only apparent bug in the tweak, and everything else works pretty smoothly. Like Unfold, Unlockize supports passcode lock, and if you have one set up on your iDevice, the lockscreen will go away to reveal the passcode screen rather than your Springboard.

Although Unlockize is clearly the superior tweak when compared to Unfold, it is not available as a free download in the Cydia store, and will cost you $1.99. Also, Unlockize is not compatible with iPad. Still, if you have a jailbroken iPhone and a taste for personalization, Unlockize is a dream come true.

Proximity-Based Group Collaboration App Kibits Released For Android

A. Rehman — Tue, 29 May 2012 04:21:58 PDT

Kibits is a cross-platform group collaboration and socializing app for Android and iOS-powered devices. The app, having made its mark among iOS users, has just hit the Google Play Store. Using Kibits, users can easily and instantly create private conversation groups (called Kibits), and invite their friends or nearby users with whom they can share text messages, photos, videos, music files, URLs, locations, and notes etc over the internet. Whether it’s about indulging in private file-sharing activities with just your family members, or collaborating with your workforce that is scattered in various parts of the world, Kibits has you covered. There is no restriction on the number of different groups that can be created or joined, and for all the activities going on within each individual group, the app keeps you apprised through real-time notifications.

Conversation sessions within each group are archived, which means that you have complete access to the shared messages and other content all the time. What’s even better is that the app maintains separate log of your conversations and shared files within each individual Kibit, and lets you download, like/dislike, comment on, and re-share all the content.

When launched, the app prompts you to log in with a valid Kibits ID. New users can sign up for a new Kibits account using their Facebook or Email ID.

Once logged in, you’re taken to the app’s main interface that lists your active Kibits (if any). Along with each Kibit (group), you can view the total number of active participants, total number of shared messages and files, and the type of the group (proximity-based or contact-based). To start a new Kibit, hit the relevant tab at the top of the app’s main interface. If you wish to create a proximity-based Kibit, the app lets you specify the exact diameter (in miles) on map from where you wish to include the nearby users.

Whatever the requirement is, all you need to do is specify a desired name for your Kibit, invite the required participants, and you’re good to go. Once a Kibit is successfully created, you’re taken to the messaging interface that is split into two main tabs. As mentioned earlier, all your conversations and shared items are maintained separately by the app. The Conversation and Gallery tabs on the messaging screen are there to serve exactly said purpose.

The app also lets you invite new participants right from within the messaging interface. By tapping the + button in the top-right side, you can opt to share whatever supported content you want to. A unique aspect about file-sharing via Kibits is that it allows you to pick content that was originally shared in another Kibit, or on another date, and share it with the participants of any other Kibit. Along with shared content, the app lets you add custom caption, and in case of URLs, it also presents you with a native web browser.

It doesn’t just end there; from within a Kibit, you can pick a specific participant that you wish to remove from the group, or want to send a custom reminder to. Each individual Kibit can last for just a specific event, or you may keep participating actively within a group for as long as you like. To quit a group, hit Menu > Leave Kibit.

The possibilities are endless, considering the simple yet extremely handy concept that Kibits follow, and the fact that the app is cross-platform, you can expect most of your mobile device-owning contacts to be already on the network, participating in different activities within various groups.

Kibits is free in the Google Play Store, and requires Android v2.2 or higher to run. The app can be downloaded via the link or QR code provided below.

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LameXP – Audio Encoder: Powerful, Feature-Rich Audio Converter For Windows

Waqas — Tue, 29 May 2012 03:50:30 PDT

Although MP3 is one of the most widely used audio file formats, sometimes we need to convert audio files into other formats to enhance audio quality and reduce file size. The audio file formats, including MP3, AAC, MP4, FLAC, OGG, WAV etc, all offer a different audio quality and size combination, and it’s up to the user to select which file format they are most attracted to. This is where audio converters and encoders jump in, providing an easy solution for users to convert between different audio file formats. LameXP – Audio Encoder is an open source application that lets you convert audio files between a wide range of audio formats. It basically provides a GUI for different audio encoders, and packs all supported encoders and audio CODECs in one installation package. You can quickly convert audio files in batch and set the output audio quality based on compression. However, advance users will also be pleased by the program, as there’s a separate Advanced Options tab sporting a number of different settings that can be tweaked to create the perfect output. More details inside.

The interface consists of a total of five tabs including Source File, Output Directory, Meta Data, Compression and Advanced Options. To convert audio files, go to Source Files tab (if you’re not already there) and the click Add File(s) to add your source files. Clicking Show Details button at the bottom right opens Meta Information window that contains metadata information of the track; for instance Title, Artist, Album, Genre, Year, etc. Moreover, it gives information like Container, Compression and Duration of the input file.

There is another way you can use to add your files, i.e. by simply dragging the files over the Dropbox present over the system notification area. You can add multiple files if you want, as the program lets you convert multiple audio files in one go.

Now head over to the Output Directory tab to select destination folder for the output files. You will find some shortcut buttons for some frequently used output folders such as Home Folder, Music Folder, Desktop Folder. You can also create a fresh directory by clicking Make New Folder button.

Under Meta Data tab, you can enter custom information to be embedded into the output file. Simply select the field you you want to enter information under Property column and click Edit button to input the value. From Options section, you may enable/disable Write meta information to encoded files and Automatically generate playlists file (.m3u) options.

The Compression tab lets you choose file Encoder/Format, Rate Control Method and Quality / Bitrate for the output file. The supported encoders include Lame MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-4 AAC, FLAC, Aften A/52, DCA Enc and Wave (PCM). You can choose between Quality-based (VBR), Average Bitrate (ABR) and Constant Bitrate (CBR) for Rate Control Method. Finally, move the slider left or right, between Minimum and Maximum to set bitrate quality.

If you want further tweaking down the road, simply go to the Advanced Options which houses an extensive set of configuration options for the output file. Obviously this section is aimed at the power users to let them tweak the converted files. All the settings are divided into separate sections ranging from configuring up LAME Algorithm Quality and Bitrate Management to Volume Normalization and Tone Adjustment. When you have configured the preferences, click the Encode Now! button at the bottom left to start the encoding process.

The application supports both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems, including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

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myManga: Manga Comic Reader With Automatic Downloads For New Episodes

Fawad — Tue, 29 May 2012 03:24:38 PDT

The Anime and Manga art has a huge fan following. Popular manga series, such as Naruto, Bleach and One Piece have also been aired on TV, while some of them, like Death Note, are so popular that full length movies have been created based on the manga series. Just like some people like to watch movies and TV shows, manga series also has a very huge fan following, and a lot of people like to read their favorite comics on a regular basis. In the past, we have covered manga readers including CoView (reviewed here) and MComix (reviewed here), both of which require you to have the manga comic books to read them. There are a lot of sources on the internet that allow you to download manga comics, but if you are looking for an application that allows you to download as well as read manga comics, look no further than myManga. It is an open source application for Windows that allows you to download and read your favorite manga comics. myManga can automatically download the next available episode/ chapter as soon as you finish reading the chapter or episode. Keep reading to find out more about myManga.

The application is still in beta phase, and the developer is eager to add more features in next release. The interface has 5 tabs at the top namely Library, Reader, Queue, Search and Options. The Library tab holds all the downloaded comics.

To add comics to the Library, go to the Search tab and search for any comic that you want. To download a comic, just click download button in front of the comic name to start downloading the comic to your library.

The Queue tab lists down all the current download tasks and the ones which have been completed.

Details about the downloaded comic can be viewed in the Library pane by clicking the details button on the top left. It lists down all the available episodes of the selected comic series and other relevant information.

Once the first episode is downloaded, click its title to start reading in the Reader tab. The Reader provides you with only the basic options such as zoom the page in and out.

myManga works on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

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TalkTyper Lets You Talk To Your Browser For Speech-To-Text Conversion [Web]

Zainab — Tue, 29 May 2012 03:16:36 PDT

TalkTyper is an easy-to-use web application that allows free speech-to-text dictation right within your browser. The app provides speech recognition, making voice dictation available to you. It’s doubly useful, as not only speaking faster than typing, but also because the tool serves well for accessibility scenarios, or when you lack a good keyboard (or a position to use it, anyway). All you have to do is click a button, speak, and your dictation will automatically be transcribed in a matter of seconds. TalkTyper supports a number of languages, including French, Spanish, Turkish and Arabic, making it even more useful and practical for people from various linguistic backgrounds. More details after the jump.

To start off, click the microphone button and dictate one sentence at a time. TalkTyper will recognize your speech, and output text will appear in red color at the top of the page. If you want to hear it, you can click the Speaker icon, and if your speech wasn’t recognized correctly, you may click the Alternatives button to view other recognitions, or just try again. If the text is correct, click the arrow button, and it will be added to the lower box as accepted transcription.

Once the text has been added to the text field at the bottom of the page, you will be able to access Copy text to clipboard, Add punctuation, Print, Clear Text, Send an email and Tweet this text options. The copied text can then easily be added to your email, tweet, document, or anywhere you want.

The Settings allow you to enable Safe Mode, Simple Grammar and AutoSave options. In addition to that, you can change the Font Style and the Font Size from the drop-down menus.

TalkTyper can not only be a handy tool for people who suffer from disabilities like dyslexia or dysgraphia, but also be ideal for people who have to type a lot and wish to give their hands a rest.

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Liked this app? You might also want to look through our showcase of web applications reviewed so far.

Fotor For iPhone: Massive Camera App With DSLR-Like Focus, HDR, Photo Effects & Collages

Hamza — Tue, 29 May 2012 03:07:02 PDT

It is quite an old (read: wrong) notion that photos taken from a smartphone camera can never be as good as the ones shot from even the cheapest standalone cameras. The camera quality of smartphones has evolved tremendously over last few years, with Nokia’s latest PureView technology being testament to what you can achieve optically on a mobile device. However, although most stock cameras are rather restricted, smartphone cameras have a host of supporting apps to go with them, and these apps have the potential to make your photography seem absolutely professional. Since iOS sports the largest collection of apps among smartphone platforms, it is understandable that some of those apps are just about perfect for the camera in iPhone. Fotor is one such app that combines a photo-editor with a fully-featured alternative camera for iOS devices. Some of the features in Fotor (like post-shooting focus, the Anti-Ghost option and the HDR mode) are good enough to give whole apps a run for their money. Read on to learn about everything Fotor has on offer.

Camera: The camera in Fotor offers many options that are not there in the stock Camera app in iOS. Both back and front-facing cams are supported by the app, and you can zoom in using the slider located to the right of the screen. To bring up other options, hit the settings button in the bottom bar. The options offered within the camera app include grid overlay, timer, HDR (we’ll come to that later), multiple shots and voice-triggered shooting.
Album: You can use Fotor to manage your snaps pretty thoroughly. Not only do the photos shot through the app’s camera appear in the Album menu, you can also import as many images as you like from your iPhone’s camera roll.

FX & Frame: The FX & Frame menu lets users edit both camera-shot and imported images. Editing options include rotation and cropping of photos. If you want to give the picture a completely new look, just choose the effect of your choice, select its intensity and hit the apply button. The photo effects are divided into a lot of genres, like Simple, Styled, Classic and Analog. Each effect can be personalized to some extent via the sliders that come up after you select it.
Big Aperture: This is probably the best feature of the app. It works pretty much like the previously covered AfterFocus (review), and using the options provided here, you can change the focus area of any photo even after it has been shot. Just select the aperture size, and change the location of the focus reticle using two-fingered move gesture. The intensity of each aperture can be changed using the slider provided below the preview screen.

HDR: If you are looking to shoot extremely high-quality photos, use the HDR mode available in Fotor. In this mode, the app automatically captures two images (one over exposed, and the other under exposed) and then merges them to come up with a stunningly high-definition image. You can make the photo look even better by changing the contrast and brightness levels. Another feature available in HDR mode is Ghost Reduction, and if you toggle that on, the app will automatically remove any blurred, moving objects from the scene.
Collage: There are 3 ways of creating collages in Fotor. You can stitch photos, use any of the available templates or go for a Free Collage that offers some pretty good background themes for the overall mesh.
Color Splash: In this menu, users can highlight any chosen color while converting all others to black and white.
1-Tap Enhance: In case you can’t put your finger on the exact problem with a photo, use this menu and Fotor will do everything for you automatically.

Fotor is an iPhone-optimized app, and has gone free for a limited time. You can grab it by heading to the following download link.

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TheFolderSpy: Monitor & Receive Email Notifications For Folder Changes

Fawad — Tue, 29 May 2012 02:28:15 PDT

You may know that Windows constantly changes, renames, modifies and removes certain files while you perform tasks using any User or System utility. It’s certainly impossible to keep track of all the files that are being crearted, changed, deleted from the system. However, if you want to monitor the files for changes in a particular folder, check out the previously covered Folder Monitor (reviewed here), Directory Monitor (reviewed here) and Watch 4 Folder (reviewed here). File monitoring applications help users view the changes made to the specified set of files without having to manually check each file’s property sheet. TheFolderSpy is a simple, yet powerful folder monitoring application that allows you to monitor multiple folders for changes, and notifies you whenever it detects changes in files’ contents/attributes. Using the application, you can easily monitor files to check whether it’s been renamed, modified or even deleted from a specified folder, or not. Apart from providing you with an on screen notification, it also allows you to automatically send information about the change to a user-specified email address. More on TheFolderSpy after the break.

Upon first start, you need to configure the application for monitoring the required folders. From the Setup window, you can Add Item, Edit, Remove, Save Items list and Setup Email. When you add the folders, it shows information like File Type to be monitored, current state, detect change types etc.

The Add Item window has options to add the folder to be monitored, monitor the sub-folders, enter specific file types to be monitored, execute a particular app when a change is detected, choose the types of changes detected, As stated earlier, it also lets you send email to specified recipient when it detects a change in folders. Here, you can enable Send email if change detected option to send the file change notification via email as soon as it detects one.

Once everything is set up, click Close to save the settings and start monitoring the selected folders. The changes will be displayed in the main window of the application. If you have selected the email option, an email will be sent to specified email address each time a change is detected.

TheFolderSpy is a portable application that works on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

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