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[Android] Fix out-of-focus or shaky photos with Fix Photo Blur
I love using my smartphone to take photos. There always seems to be a moment I want to catch on camera. That being said, I am not known for having the steadiest hand in the world. Not only that, but life comes at you fast. You don’t always have time [...]
[Windows] Easily save online videos with VideoCacheView
Have you ever watched a video online only to be unable to find it later? Don’t you wish there was a way that you could pull up all of the videos you have watched online automatically? Well, now you can thanks to VideoCacheView. This is a program that can [...]
[Android] Boost battery life with Deep Sleep Battery Saver
Deep Sleep Battery Saver is an app that aims to improve your overall battery life. This app is perfect for power users who are constantly using their devices and subsequently, constantly running out of battery life. It is also great for those who simply forget to plug in their phones [...]
[Windows] Check your computer for malware infections with Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool
Scanning your computer for malicious software is always a good idea. More than likely, if you are like me, you have more than one program that you use to scan your computer. Well I have another one for you: Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool. This is a portable [...]
[Windows] Best free Microsoft Word alternative (best free word processing program) — LibreOffice vs Abiword vs Kingsoft Office vs Jarte
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Are you tired of paying lots of money for expensive programs to handle your document editing needs? The programs reviewed here today are all free and offer functionality that easily rival commercial offerings such as Microsoft Word and for the most part are simpler to use. So… what is the [...]
Read More »[Windows] Compress videos, audios, and images with File Sizer
Is your computer almost full because of a ton of videos, audios and pictures? If so, File Sizer is perfect for you. This is a program designed to compress and convert pictures into smaller formats. After compressing all of your pictures and videos, you can be sure that you are [...]
[Windows] Check for viruses on your computer in less than a minute with 60 Second Virus Scanner
Checking for viruses on your computer is important. Even with the best anti-virus software, there is a chance that you can still become infected. However, a lot of people don’t run as many checks as they should because they take too long. Well, that is not the case with 60 [...]
[Windows] Backup browser settings and profiles (Firefox, Chrome, IE, Opera, and more) with Hekasoft Backup & Restore
Have you ever lost your profile settings for something like your internet browser? It can be a real pain, right? Well, it doesn’t have to be thanks to Hekasoft Backup & Restore. This is a free program that not only creates a backup file for your programs, but helps [...]
[Android] TrueCaller will identify unknown numbers (i.e. Caller ID)
TrueCaller is an app that will attempt to show you who is calling you when the number is not in your contacts. This is great for those who get calls from unknown numbers repeatedly. It is becoming more popular due to the increase in spam calls targeted at mobile phones.[...]
[Android] Use Changelog Droid to keep track of changes made to apps with updates
Changelog Droid is an interesting app that allows you to see before and after updates for all of your apps. This app is perfect for those times when you need to see the support that the developer has been giving an app over the course of its life.[...]
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Read More »[Windows] Speed up your downloads with Download Accelerator Plus
At first look, Download Accelerator Plus seems like your everyday, run-of-the-mill download accelerator. However, after using it for a while, I can say that it does go above and beyond many of the other accelerators I have used in the past. Not only because it works, but because some of [...]
[Windows] Securely erase all data on hard drives, USB drives, or floppy disks with Active@ Killdisk
Do you want to delete things off your computer and external devices without any hope of it ever being recovered? Well now you can with Active@ Killdisk. This is a program that doesn’t just delete data off your hard disk; it destroys the data so that it can never [...]
[Android] Make multi-tasking easier and more intuitive with SwitchApps
Experience multi-tasking at a whole new level with SwitchApps, an app designed to make multi-tasking easier and more intuitive. This app is perfect for power users who are underwhelmed by Google’s stock multi-tasking. It is also great for users who want access to their favorite apps quickly and easily.[...]
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Read More »[Windows] Best free video player program
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The ability to play video is one of the most utilized features in today’s media enthused world; therefore, you would think people would pay more attention to the quality of their video player. However, the sad fact is that the majority of people usually use Windows Media Player or iTunes [...]
Read More »Watch Youtube videos in VLC media player to skip ads, control playback speed, and multitask [Tip]
So you are a Youtube junkie yet you find it annoying to watch Youtube in your browser for multiple reasons, such as the inability to multitask while watching videos. Want to know a better way to watch Youtube videos? Through VLC media player.
WHAT IS VLC MEDIA PLAYER?
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Read More »[Windows] Best free PDF to Word converter (PDF to DOC or RTF)
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Presentation is often a key element when it comes to sharing documents or files. The issue is, when you put together a document in a word processor, there is no way of knowing how the person you are sending the document to will view it; depending on what word processor [...]
Read More »[Android] Gain complete control over your device’s volumes with Smart Volume Control
Smart Volume Control is an app designed to give you total and complete control over all of the volumes on your phone. This app is perfect for people who need to constantly have different volumes on their phone. It is also great for those wishing to customize the volume profiles [...]
[Windows] Extract any type of archive or compressed file with Universal Extractor
Universal Extractor is a program that does just what it sounds like. It extracts stuff, and not just a little bit of stuff, a LOT of stuff. The program is not supposed to be a replacement for a general purpose archiving program (like 7-Zip), as it cannot create archives. However, [...]
Incompetent jackass employees is why you shouldn’t shop at Best Buy
I’ve never really been much of a brick and mortar type shopper. In my world, if it can be bought online and delivered in a reasonable amount of time, then it should be bought online. However, if the price is right, I do venture into stores occasionally. A few days [...]
Read More »[Android] Advanced Mobile Care comes with 7 useful tools to optimize smartphone performance and increase security
Advanced Mobile Care is an app designed to improve the overall usability of your mobile device. This app is great for those who have difficulty keeping up with their phone. It is also great for those who are tired of juggling separate security and performance enhancing apps.[...]
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Read More »Microsoft plans on releasing one new Windows version every year, starting with ‘Windows Blue’ in 2013
Until now, Microsoft and Apple have had different ways of updating their desktop operating systems, Mac OS X and Windows. Apple works off a 1-2 year release cycle and prices each consecutive update $30-$50. Microsoft, on the other hand, has no set release cycle. Microsoft releases new version of Windows [...]
Read More »[Windows] EditPad Lite could be the perfect free text editor to replace your aging Notepad (or Wordpad)
If you’re looking for a good alternative to Windows Notepad, then you will be happy you stumbled across this program. EditPad Lite is a great freeware text editor that has been developed as a replacement for Notepad. It is able to do everything that Notepad can do with some extra [...]
[Android] Block ads on your phone or tablet with Adblock Plus — root not required!
If you have a rooted Android phone or tablet, there are multiple ways to block ads such as using AdFree Android or AdAway. However, what about people who don’t root their devices? For the longest time people without rooted devices simply couldn’t reliably block ads. That has now changed with [...]
[Windows] Quickly split large folders into smaller ones with Folder Axe
Do you have some large folders on your computer that you wish you could easily split up into smaller folders? Well now you can with Folder Axe. The program was made with this one propose in mind, and it allows you to accomplish this goal in many different ways.[...]
Windows 8 is doing well: 40 million copies sold in one month, upgrades are faster than Windows 7
Despite all the Windows 8 hate and doomsday predictions, Windows 8, as it turns out, is doing very well. Tami Reller, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Marketing Office of Microsoft, has revealed Windows 8 has sold 40 million copies since it was released on October 26, 2012. In other words, [...]
Read More »Qatar plans on building this awesome stadium for football’s FIFA World Cup 2022 [Amazing Photo of the Day]
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Football (real football, not American football; also known as soccer) is the most popular sport in the world, often providing (some) solace to even the most volatile regions of the world. Arguably the most significant event in football on the international stage is the FIFA World Cup, which is played [...]
Read More »Megaupload helped FBI take down a video pirating website, then FBI used that same evidence against Megaupload
Megaupload was taken down by the FBI (and New Zealand authorities) on January 19, 2012. One of the accusations leveled against Megaupload by the Feds was (is) Megaupload ignored Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) take down requests for pirated content stored on Megaupload servers. As an example, in a document [...]
Read More »[Windows] Create folders by simply dragging and dropping files on top of each other with Smart Folders
Creating folders on your Android folder is super easy. How would you like to have that same functionality on your Windows desktop? Well, for those of you who said yes, Smart Folders is here to save the day. This program can help you easily create folders by just dragging and [...]
[Windows] Find duplicate images on your computer (even if they are different formats) with Image Deduplicator
Do you have multiples of the same picture saved on your computer, or at least want to find out if you do? Well there is a program for that! Image Deduplicator can help you find duplicated images on your computer, even if they are saved in a different format.[...]
Police raid home of 9-year-old girl, take away her ‘Winnie the Pooh’ laptop because she used The Pirate Bay
What happens when a 9-year-old girl illegally downloads some songs off the The Pirate Bay? Her home is raided by the police and her laptop is confiscated. Yep, that is what recently happened to a family in Finland.
As the story goes, in 2011 a young 9-year-old girl wanted to [...]
Read More »These images (plus video) show the evolution of cells phones from 1997 to 2010
If you were old enough (or even born — I wasn’t) back when cell phones (or mobile phones, as some of you non-Yanks like to call them) came into being, I’m sure you remember something a lot bigger, heavier, and less reliable than today’s modern phone — smartphone or otherwise. [...]
Read More »How to recover data from corrupted Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX)
With today’s built-in redundancy measures, it is much harder to corrupt a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document than it was in the past. However, corruption still happens. What to do when you have a corrupted Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document? If the document is DOCX, XLSX, or PPTX format, then [...]
Did the US (or Israel) hack the office of French president, Nicolas Sarkozy?
French magazine L’Express is reporting that, last May, the computers in the offices of Nicolas Sarkozy (who was still president back then) were hacked by the “Flame” malware. This is that same malware that made headlines for being developed by the United States and Israel for intelligence and disruption purposes [...]
Read More »[Windows] Make excellent collages with Photo Collage Max
Making calendars, greeting cards and photo walls can be hard if you don’t have the right software. The good news is that Photo Collage Max is here to help. Although the program comes off feeling more like a demo (because of the watermarks), it is definitely worth checking out. It [...]
Study shows people who illegally upload copyrighted content are not doing it for the money
A new study by researchers from Boston’s Northeastern University and the French Eurécom claims that uploaders of pirated content (aka copyrighted content) to cyberlockers (or file sharing sites — like MegaUpload) aren’t doing it for the money. This is in contrast to what the MPAA claimed last year, saying that [...]
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