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Get Real Time Feeds from Websites with FeedMyInbox
One Platform to Organize Online Content: Social Folders
Personal Encryption Tool Free: ToolWiz BSafe
Free Partition Tools and Data Recovery: Eassos PartitionGuru
Batch Upload Videos with DailyMotion Mass Uploader

Get Real Time Feeds from Websites with FeedMyInbox

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 03:00 PM PST

FeedMyInbox provides you a free service where you can subscribe to feeds from your favorite websites. Though the limit on the free account subscriptions is 5 websites. FeedMyIndex gives you real time feeds from various websites you have subscribed to. It is not at all necessary that the website you are subscribing through FeedMyInbox has a RSS feed option. FeedMyInbox has software that can convert a URL into RSS feeds where whatever is updated on the website will come to you as a feed in your mailbox.

How to subscribe to real time feeds:

Firstly, go to website where you will find a box to put your website URL and also your email address.

After you give your email address you will be asked for the specific feed you want to receive on your email because there can be more than one type of feed available from any website. The types you want to select can be done by selecting them from the list provided.

Once you click the submit button the application will send you a confirmation email to your email address where you have to confirm that you are the one who selected the FeedMyInbox application.

The best thing about FeedMyInbox is that it allows the users to subscribe to more than one feed from any particular website and along with it also allows adding more websites from which you want to receive further feeds.
On the other hand the downside is that it allows only 1 feed per day from a single type of feed from any website unless you log in as a user in the website of FeedMyInbox. When you sign up for the FeedMyInbox you are still allowed only 5 feeds per subject and hence your work is limited to certain extent.
You can remove this limitation by paying a premium price and can get unlimited access to huge number of feeds.
Once the feed arrives in your mailbox you can get to view all the details of updates on any website just by reading through or if possible by clicking the link that gives access to the whole description of the feed.
For ease of use you can add the bookmarklet provided by FeedMyInbox to your bookmarks bar.

Overall, FeedMyInbox is a good app to get real time feeds. Try this app out before opting for any other just for their great method of providing you with latest updates of your favorite websites.

Get Real Time Feeds from Websites with FeedMyInbox was originally published at I Love Free Software

One Platform to Organize Online Content: Social Folders

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 01:00 PM PST

Social Folders is a free client-server application with the stated purpose of helping you organize online content. Social Folders lets you create a local backup of your online data and can upload files to your social networking accounts. You are also able to transfer files amongst your social networking accounts. All you have to do is connect your social accounts with this service.

Organize Online Content in One Place

The premise behind Social Folders is that as long as you have it running (by default, it loads at startup), it will silently connect to a range of your social content online. Sites such as Flickr, Photobucket, Google Docs, and YouTube, are a few of the sites that the makers of the software say it works with.

When you upload new images or documents to the sites that you add to your Social Folders account, the program makes note of the upload and, once the upload completes, notifies you that you have just uploaded content to one of your monitored services. I don't know about you, but if I just went through the steps to upload images to my Photobucket or Flickr account, or took the time to upload a video clip to my YouTube feed, I don't need a program to tell me that I've just done that.

New Online Content Stored in Social Folder Locally

Here's another program feature that I don't understand. I've just uploaded a number of images from my hard drive to Flickr or Photobucket. This means I have them stored on my hard drive already. So, why do I need to have them downloaded to another folder, on my hard drive? That just takes up extra space. If you take a large number of pictures and upload them to your sites, you're going to run out of hard drive space pretty quickly.

Problems Experienced with the Software

When I initially downloaded and installed the software, I uploaded images to my Photobucket account and copied other images to my Social Folders Photobucket folder on my hard drive. I then told the program to refresh my services. Nothing happened. No photos were downloaded from my Photobucket account to my Social Folders Photobucket folder locally. The images I manually copied to the local folder weren't uploaded, either. After completely uninstalling and reinstalling the software twice, it will now download images from my Flickr and Photobucket accounts to the local folder, but it still isn't uploading images to either account when I copy images to the local folder. But I also have three folders each for Flickr and Photobucket on my hard drive.

I sent the developers a message regarding the issues I've been having, thinking that maybe it was an issue the software has with my 64-bit version of Windows Ultimate. They told me the software has no known issues with any operating systems and that they will look into it. They also verified the path to my Photobucket and Flickr folders.

These are the only services I use that the software works with. I have literally thousands of photos on them, plus on my Facebook account, which I didn't connect to Social Folders. Currently, I have over 3 gigabytes of images on Photobucket alone. All of them are also stored locally on my drive in a special images folder.

If Social Folders were to have worked the way it reads, I would now have each and every one of those images stored in four different folders on my computer. That doesn't count the ten to fifteen gigabytes of video clips I have on YouTube (again, not connected). I can keep track of what images I have uploaded to my accounts quite well, without needing to have multiple copies of them on my system. I just don't see the need for a program like this, unless it were to only store shortcuts to the images, which would save huge amounts of hard drive space on my system.

One Platform to Organize Online Content: Social Folders was originally published at I Love Free Software

Personal Encryption Tool Free: ToolWiz BSafe

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 11:00 AM PST

ToolWiz BSafe is a free personal encryption tool. This personal encryption tool helps you in protecting your private documents by encrypting them. It creates a virtual safe which works like a regular drive where you can store files. The files stored in this virtual safe are encrypted on the go and cannot be accessed without the right password. So you can be sure that all your files will be safe with this personal encryption tool.

Lets look at some features of this personal encryption tool:

It is completely free for home use.
It creates a virtual disk on your system.
The storage is however done in a specific folder in your computer.
You need to know the password to open the information which is stored in that virtual safe.
It is very lightweight and does not affect the performance of your computer.
You can create multiple numbers of safes on your computer.
You can define the size and volume of the safe that is the maximum amount of files that can be stored in the safe.
You can also change the password of the safe later on.

How to use this personal encryption tool:

You need to download the software by clicking on the download link provided on the website.

After downloading the software you need to install it and then launch it.
On launching you will see a screen where you can create a new safe or you can open an existing safe.

Once you create a safe you have to define a file which will contain the safe and also the volume of the safe.

Then if you want to open a safe you have to open the file containing the safe and also have to give the password for the safe.

ToolWiz BSafe is a useful personal encryption software and can store any private file you have securely. Go ahead and give it a try, its free!

Personal Encryption Tool Free: ToolWiz BSafe was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Partition Tools and Data Recovery: Eassos PartitionGuru

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 09:00 AM PST

Eassos PartitionGuru is a free software to manage partitions on your system and help with data recovery. Partitions are ways to divide a hard drive or other type of storage media. Thinking of your hard drive as a house, the partitions on it would correspond to the various rooms in the house. A partition manager is a type of software that allows you to work with these partitions. Some partition managers only allow you to create and delete partitions. However, Eassos PartitionGuru is a much more powerful manager.

Lost Data Recovery:

Sometimes something catastrophic happens and you end up losing data. Files and partitions get deleted, either accidentally or because of some sort of catastrophic failure. Usually, when a partition or file is lost, the data is still there, but the file system pointers have been corrupted or removed. PartitionGuru can help you recover from most problems like these. It can help you recover a lost or deleted partition, as well as deleted files. If you have been careful to use the software to create backups and restore points with the software, and you're not able to recover the lost partition or files. Then you can use PartitionGuru to restore your system to the state it was in when you created the last backup or restore point.

Works with Multiple Drive Types:

Many pieces of software of this type only work on physical hard drives. PartitionGuru works on hard drives, USB flash drives, and media cards. The software works on both MBR-type partitions and GUID Partition Table (GPT)-type partitions, supporting up to 9.4 zettabytes. Whether your drive or media is formatted in File Allocation Table (FAT) 16 or 32, New Technology File System (NTFS), PartitionGuru will work with it.

Many people who are considered 'power users' like to try out new software in a virtual environment. This allows them to use the software and not worry about viruses, corruptions, or other errors making it so they can't use their computer. Many partition managers won't work with software such as VMWare, VirtualBox and Virtual PC, but PartitionGuru does.

Advanced Features of PartitionGuru :

PartitionGuru has a number of advanced tools that provide you with a variety of useful information. There's a data allocation table that allows you to see the level of fragmentation on your drive without running a different utility. Some of the other information that's available from the software includes the overall capacity of the drive, the amount of space that is used and available, the total number and size of the cluster on the drive, used and free clusters, and a large amount of other information.

The Negatives :

Eassos PartitionGuru is a pretty cool little piece of software, but even if you decide to purchase the paid professional version, it doesn't allow you to resize partitions on the fly. This means that if you move or change the size of a partition on your hard drive, you're likely to lose much of the data on the drive.

The only warning concerning data loss that I saw while playing with the software was as I was installing it I was told that if I had data to recover, I needed to make sure to not install the software on the partition where the missing data is at.

Free Partition Tools and Data Recovery: Eassos PartitionGuru was originally published at I Love Free Software

Batch Upload Videos with DailyMotion Mass Uploader

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 05:00 AM PST

DailyMotion Mass Uploader is a free tool to batch upload videos to the DailyMotion website. DailyMotion is providing competition to YouTube in the video hosting arena. DailyMotion allows slightly better categorization of uploaded videos. Being newer, it also doesn't have the lag that YouTube has due to the millions of visitors per hour it receives. The DailyMotion Mass Uploader is a tool that will allow you to batch upload videos to DailyMotion.

Small Installer Package, Surprise Free Installation

Unlike many of the tools available for YouTube, DailyMotion Mass Uploader is produced by the same people who brought you the DailyMotion website. This means you can more readily trust the contents of the installer package don't contain malicious software in them. The installer utility is small, at less than a megabyte and a half. Unlike many freeware and shareware software packages, this one doesn't try to install toolbars, change your homepage, or change your preferred search engine as you install the program. This is a pleasant surprise. Many shareware/freeware coders help support themselves by adding these nasty little surprises to their installer packages, getting paid by third parties in the process.

Batch Upload Videos tool has Uncluttered Intuitive User Interface

I really liked the interface for DailyMotion Mass Uploader. There's no learning curve. Install and launch the program, and you're a few clicks away from uploading as many videos as you want to the DailyMotion website. Multi-select, using either the Control or Shift key, is enabled, of course, making selection of a number of videos easier. I would have been very disappointed if this feature had not been enabled. Once the files have been selected, the first one automatically begins to upload. Upload speeds are mostly limited to the speed of your outbound connection.

Add Tags, Descriptions, and Categories on the Fly

By default, the title of your uploaded videos will be their filenames. You can change this during the upload though. You can also assign the video to a channel during the upload. If you have any tags you wish to add to help people find your videos, these, as well as a detailed description, can also be added during the video upload process.

What I Don't Like

DailyMotion is a subscription/membership service. This means, that unlike YouTube, you are required to have a DailyMotion account before you can start posting videos. On YouTube, you only need to have an account to help people find and follow you and your videos.

Also, DailyMotion Mass Uploader doesn't seem to know how to count very well. As you can see from my screenshot, I added four files to my upload queue. However, the program said I added three. Notice, it says three in the queue, with zero completed or failed. Also, it seems to not count the file being actively uploaded. These seems like simple problems, but they make me wonder what else is wrong?

Batch Upload Videos with DailyMotion Mass Uploader was originally published at I Love Free Software