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[Android] Can’t hear your own phone? Increase the volume of your speakers and headphones with Volume+
Many phones max out at a pathetically low volume level. Is yours one of them? Don’t try to strain yourself to hear it anymore–Volume+ is a free app that’s here to help. It raises your volume level by exploiting Android’s native equalizer settings and artificially boosting the volume.
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Read More »[Android] Fly to France! Travel to Tahiti! Fool your friends and set your GPS location to anywhere you want with Fake GPS Location
Haven’t you always wanted to visit France? I certainly have, and with Fake GPS Location, I can treat myself to a fake vacation wherever I want to. It’s a free and very simple app that lets you spoof your location to anywhere you want in the world, and in conjunction [...]
[Android] Get a sleek futuristic wallpaper with Honeycomb Live Wallpaper
Honeycomb was the first version of Android in which design actually mattered. In it, the sleek modern style that continues on in Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean was first discovered, and with it came a series of live wallpapers from both Google and developers wishing to further the cool [...]
[Windows] Disable USB reading or USB writing with one click with Phrozen Safe USB
USB drives are great–a great way to transfer viruses and sensitive files from one computer to another, that is. If you’d prefer to keep other people’s data off of your computer and your data on it, you can easily disable thumbdrives with Phrozen Safe USB with just a single click.[...]
[Windows] Lower your computer’s volume automatically with Volume Concierge
Are you an evening computer user? Many people are, but at the same time, many people choose to sleep or otherwise rest during the same time. If someone in your household or workplace doesn’t want your volume up high at certain times of day, set your computer to automatically lower [...]
[Windows 8] View and learn about the 118 elements with the Periodic Table
Chemistry students everywhere are always in search of a better periodic table–one that shows them everything they need to know without overcrowding the already small squares. Due to their linkable, expandable nature, computers are a natural candidate in the competition, and with Periodic Table, you can quickly get all of [...]
[Android] Fit the falling blocks together in the fast-paced puzzler Rebirth
There are numerous fast-paced puzzlers and acade games out there, and many of them are pretty fun. However, for the most part, there’s not too many original puzzle/acade games: they’re all either Tetris clones or some other knockoff. If you’re looking for something you haven’t already played, pick up Rebirth–it’s [...]
[Android] Feedly is a beautiful Google Reader and RSS app for following all of your favorite sites
Avid internet users have a multitude of websites they read on a regular basis. Over the years they spend surfing, unfortunately, the websites pile up and up, and the time it takes to read them grows with it. Many people turn to RSS feeds to let them browse quicker, as [...]
[Android] Get a beautiful new clock and weather widget with One More Clock Widget Free
Chances are you still have your phone’s default clock widget enabled. How very boring! The beauty of Android’s widgets system is that you can make your homescreen look however you want, and part of that is choosing the perfect clock widget for you. Try One More Clock Widget: it’s a [...]
[Windows] Pick a video, song, or file at random with Pick Me
Are you trying to pick just one movie or video to watch tonight? Best of luck! If you were perhaps using a random number generator like Pick Me, however, you could eliminate the overwhelming number of choices and just sit back and relax. It’s incredibly easy to use, and is [...]
[Windows] Collect all of your Windows utilities in one place with Puran Ultilities
Every Windows computer ever, no matter how meticulously kept up, has some amount of useless or junk data on it. Be it in a temp file somewhere, or even a failing hard drive, Puran Utilities lets you seek out disk problems with Disk Check. But Puran Utilities is more than [...]
[Windows 8] Play checkers with your computer in Modern Checkers
Are you a fan of checkers? If you are, you’ll probably be disappointed to hear that there is not going to be an official Microsoft release of checkers for Windows 8. However, that doesn’t mean that other developers can’t come in and create their own versions of the game–and that’s [...]
[Android] Manage your phone’s volume from your home screen with Volume Control Widget
Did you know your device has not one, not two, but four volume levels that are all controlled independently? Managing them can be a real pain sometimes, and you might accidentally make a loud sound blare out of your device one day if you’re not careful. However, with Volume Control [...]
[Android] Surf your way to the light at the end of the tunnel in Subway Surfers
Since March, Android users have been able to play the extremely famous game Temple Run. Subway Surfers, while not nearly as famous, is now making its ways to Google’s shores as well, and was released into Play Store today. Much like Temple Run, you play as a person running along [...]
[Android] Test the speed of your phone against others in Qualcomm’s new Vellamo Mobile Benchmark
Is your phone feeling a long in the tooth? Everyone knows that means it’s time to run out an buy a new one! time to see if it’s really your device, or just your mind fooling you. Often, devices can be just as fast as they were the day you [...]
[Windows 8] Bring Windows Gadgets back to Windows 8 with 8GadgetPack
Microsoft changed thousands of things between Windows 7 and Windows 8. Not the least of the differences is the omission of Gadgets. Originally introduced in Windows Vista as the Sidebar, they were eventually reduced down to just individual gadgets in Windows 7, and taken out entirely in Windows 8. However, [...]
[Windows] Clean up and tweak your dirty context menu with Right Click Enhancer
Every time you right click on a file or folder, it brings up the context menu. In there, age-old programs that you thought you took off of your hard drive 10 years ago lurk around, waiting for you to accidentally unzip your files with the wrong program. Only a few [...]
[Windows 8] Bring scientific calculator functions to your computer with Calculator²
Many people use scientific calculators only once or twice a month. This means that the rest of the time, they’re sitting, occupying space, for vast amounts of time. Ditch the physical device and start using your extremely powerful computer as a calculating machine with Calculator² for Windows 8.
One of [...]
Read More »[Android] Look up current and historic currency conversion rates with Money Informer
Going on an international business trip soon, and finding yourself freaked out about that currency conversion thing? Don’t! Money Informer is a free app that lets you know the current conversion rate between virtually any two countries in the world, and a chart of their historic exchange rates.
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Read More »[Android] Securely back up all of your photos, videos, contacts, messages, and more using G Cloud Backup
One of the coolest things about Android is its deeply integrated synchronization with Google. All of your settings, contacts, and emails are instantly uploaded to secure servers off in Googleville, USA, where they’re safely stored in case you need to access them to either download onto a new device or [...]
[Android] Track any package from any shipper with Package Buddy
Shopping online is fun and, dare I say, addicting. But when you’ve bought a dozen different things from a half a dozen online shops, you’re inevitably going to lose track of when they all arrive and all of the individual shipping numbers. Keep track of not just your packages, but [...]
[Windows] Translate from English to Gibberish with Translator Boomerang and repeated usage of Google Translate
In recent years it’s gotten popular to showcase how odd and mechanical online translators can be by repeatedly translating from English to another language, back again, and then to another language multiple times. But finding a good webapp that does that can be annoying, and they tend to disappear or [...]
[Windows] Instantly hide all open windows and cycle through them one by one with PutAside
On Windows 7, hitting the Win+D keyboard shortcut automatically minimizes all of your windows and shows the desktop. It has some pretty big issues, however: it’s either all windows at once, or none at all. You can’t hide only Chrome or only Notepad, leaving Command Prompt and Paint open. You [...]
[Windows 8] Browse the internet’s front page Reddit with the first full-featured Windows 8 Reddit app Snoo
The internet is an amazing place, and its self-purported front page Reddit.com is a great way to discuss the latest in almost any subject area, technology, or game. And, of course, cat pictures. Lots of cat pictures! A hallmark of every good platform, then, is a good Reddit app. It [...]
[Android] Get a greeting and a calendar notification every morning with Enjoy Your Day
Having my own personal butler would be awesome. I could just ask them about my schedule every morning, and instantly know where I needed to be and when. Unless dotTech starts paying a lot more, however, that’s not going to happen. Instead, I can use the free Enjoy Your Day [...]
[Android] Got Jelly Bean? Get a set of cool new copy-pastable emotes with Look of Disapproval
Are you rocking an all-new Galaxy Nexus or Nexus 7? If you are, you know just how cool it is to be running the latest version of Android with all of its cool new features. One small feature among the thousands of little tweaks is much improved support for special [...]
[Android] Play a quick game of Reversi on your phone or tablet with Reversi Free
Board games were an integral part of most people’s childhood, but after they grow up, they tend to sit more on the back burner of life. Since the invention of the modern smartphone, however, they’ve made a comeback in the form of quick little games for you to play on [...]
[Windows] Detect and monitor file and folder modification, creation, and deletion with FolderChangesView
There are thousands of tiny filesystem changes across your computer every second, but for the most part, they’re entirely invisible. It’s when a file gets modified in special places that they’re cause for alarm or celebration, and FolderChangesView lets you do just that: monitor folders for the creation, deletion, or [...]
[Windows 8] View and download the magnificent Astronomy Picture of the Day in one beautiful, sleek interface
The world is a beautiful place. So is space. Every day for the last several years, NASA has been republishing one photo a day on their Astronomy Picture of the Day service, and it’s been brought to dozens of devices through the use of dedicated apps and services. However, no [...]
[Windows] Annoyed by high ping times? Lower them dramatically with Leatrix Latency Fix
Windows is the world’s most popular gaming platform. Through markets like Steam and Origin, as well as the traditional box-and-disc market, it’s remained at the top of the food chain for many years, too, including the segue into the multiplayer world. Properly running a multiplayer game, of course, requires a [...]
[Android] Play as a pig in a rocket-propelled cart in Farm Breakout
What happens when a mischievous pig finds its way into a truffle warehouse? You end up with a eccentric game in which you race up and around curves, spins, and even over giant spinning rocks. That’s the idea behind the quirky new game Farm Breakout, in which you pilot a [...]
[Android] Light up your homescreen with shapes using the new wallpaper PartGen Live Wallpaper
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Boxes are everywhere in PartGen, an all-new live wallpaper by ZnevSoft. However, it doesn’t have to be that way. It’s a free wallpaper that lets you set a collection of shapes as your wallpaper, and those shapes are customizable to your liking: get them in any color, and in a [...]
Read More »[Android] Get Chubby the bird back to the nest in time for dinner in Chubby Bird
One day, Chubby was relaxing in the forest when he got a text message. It was time to go home to dinner! There was only one slight issue: he had a very hard time flying, and the sky was littered with obstacles. Help him get home by flying him across [...]
[Windows] Automatically resize photos and images while uploading with RoboSizer
Are you being crushed by annoying internet speed caps or bandwidth caps? WinBit Software was, so they created RoboSizer. It automatically resizes and compresses photos and images based on easy to use profiles, allowing you to keep your upload times low and your browsing fast.
RoboSizer actually intercepts any file [...]
Read More »[Windows] Compress and decompress files with Haozip
There are thousands of compression tools available all across the internet. Many, like 7-Zip and WinZip, are incredibly popular for no particular reason. What makes 7-Zip better than PeaZip? What makes WinZip better than ALZip? Haozip is another one of those free compression tools, and like 7-Zip, is free and [...]