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Single Inbox Application To Manage Multiple Social Networks

Posted: 07 May 2012 06:00 PM PDT


GrabInbox is a free online application which acts like a single inbox and helps a user to manage multiple social networks easily. Manage social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn accounts and other fan pages. With GrabInbox, you can also have your Facebook and Twitter messages scheduled for free. It is like grabbing every inbox from different social networking sites into a single inbox or a single account.

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People nowadays love keeping in touch through social channels, adding comments, liking pictures, posting tweets and following people. Isn’t it messy and annoying to open every account you have in different social networking sites just to be updated. You then wish to have a single inbox or account wherein you can manage multiple social networks and to solve this dilemma, here comes GrabInbox.

GrabInbox is a single Inbox web application run by two developers for you to manage multiple social networks easily.

Features Of  This Single Inbox Application:

With GrabInbox, you can do the following:

  • Manage multiple social networks.
  • Add multiple fan pages, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts.
  • Easily manage all multiple accounts you have added.
  • Post or share messages, links and other updates in all your social channel accounts at once.
  • Schedule messages into different social networks.
  • Get notified and be updated with every reply and new message without monitoring every social networking site.
  • View updates with tabs that you can freely customize.
  • Share favourite web pages using bookmarklet and plugin.
  • Read notifications and account content with an easy-to-use interface and manageable layout.

How to Manage Multiple Social Networks using This Single Inbox Application?

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If you are new to GrabInbox, select "Create New Account" to have a free account. After signing up, GrabInbox will then send you an email to verify your account. Once done, you can now add new accounts to get started.

If you want to add any of your Twitter, Facebook, Fan Pages and LinkedIn accounts, just click the corresponding button found in your page. You can also add multiple accounts in any of the said social channels. You will then be required to put your time zone for GrabInbox to identify the right time of when to post your updates. Then select the tabs you want to monitor like Top News, Most Recent and Wall.

You will get notifications when there are updates on your selected tab. You then have to provide your own timeslots on when to schedule your posts. You can also click the "Queue" button in the status update panel to try this scheduling option. After adding your social accounts, the number of wall posts, news feed and most recent posts will then be visible in your update window.

In a single click, you can now view posts and manage multiple social networks easily. By going to "Analytics", the number of retweets on each tweet will be displayed including the list of users who retweeted your tweets.

With GrabInbox, you can now manage multiple social networks at once. You can also check out MultiMi reviewed by us.

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Single Inbox Application To Manage Multiple Social Networks was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Anti-Censorship Software To Access Blocked Websites: Freegate

Posted: 07 May 2012 02:00 PM PDT


Freegate is a free anti-censorship software which allow users to access blocked websites which have been barred by the authorities of their countries. It's working is based on the detection of servers and proxy settings, effectively finding a way for you to access the blocked websites.

It can be frustrating for users not to be able to access certain blocked sites. Freegate is the perfect software choice for those who want to access blocked sites.

Setup and Installation Of This Software To Access Blocked Websites:

The setup file was downloaded at a lightning quick speed. The software hardly took up a space 1.7 MB and its installation was fairly quick.

Interface and Working Of This Software To Access Blocked Websites:

Freegate is a very simple software, with a tiny interface. Four tabs of Server, Status, Tunnel and Settings are provided. The server tab states the servers which are available for you and tries connecting you to the quickest server. Status tab states the version of the software, developer's name and the IP address of your browser. Under the Tunnel setting, you can select the mode of proxy acquisition. The server search is undertaken from the selected tunnel. If proxy mode is selected, the software sets the IP address for the browser; while for Classic mode, the software doesn't set the proxy address for the browser.

Settings tab allows you to configure the software. You can set your default browser, proxy setting, choose to start Freegate when your computer starts. The last option is especially beneficial if you always access websites which are blocked by your company; as soon as your PC starts. A more settings tab is also provided, for finer details.

Pros and Cons Of This Software To Access Blocked Websites:

The strength of this software is its ability to open or access blocked websites. It connects you to the fastest server available, while also providing the list of other servers available; at the same time.

The negative aspect, well the software may not run in some countries. Sometimes network connection problems may persist, depending upon the firewall settings of your computer. It’s important to add exception for your software in the firewall program. Anti-Virus software may also block the operation of the software.

You would also like to check out TunnelBear reviewed by us.

The Final verdict

Freegate is a free version of anti-censorship software, which allows you to view or access blocked websites. This is an absolutely critical factor for those, who cannot access certain websites in their respective countries. It's a must if you want to access websites, which have been blocked by your country.

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Free Anti-Censorship Software To Access Blocked Websites: Freegate was originally published at I Love Free Software

Tomahawk player: The New and Amazing Social Music Player

Posted: 07 May 2012 12:30 PM PDT


Tomahawk Player is a free and standalone music player to play and share music with others. I recently came across this awesome music player known as the Tomahawk player. The great thing about the player is the ability to play music from anywhere. Earlier, to maintain a library for music was very tough, and sharing it with your friends was considered as copyright infringement. Even if it was possible, restrictions were made for the users. Due to this, tomahawk player was launched.

Using this music player you can not only share your personal collection of music, but you can access other user library and add them to your personal library. Frankly speaking, this software maybe new but it is very good and I did like it very much.

Also, check out Shuffle music player reviewed by us.

Source Code Of This Music Player:

Personally, I feel that if this music player wants to improve on its functionality, then the source code must be available. As Tomahawk is free and open software, the source code is also available to download. Software enthusiast like me who want to look at the code this is a dream come true. Even if you are simple user you can look at the source code, and realize the amount of hard work that went into making this smart music player. I feel this is the greatest advantage of this software.

User interface Of This Music Player:

The interface is easy and simple to use. To scan a particular partition on your system for searching music is simple. Under the settings section and under the Collection control you can achieve this.

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Adding music To This Music Player:

The main feature of this music player is to integrate the different libraries from different sources on the web, it is done smoothly. To do this, go under the Setting section and click on the Resolvers section. If you have not already added source it will be seen as the following:

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Click on the "get more resolvers" and you will be able to see lots of resolvers, which includes YouTube, Last.fm, Jamendo and many more. But firstly, you need to install these plug-in to fully achieve the functionality. If you already have Last.fm account, you can directly go the Last.fm section under the Settings control, and provide the username and password.

You would also like to try free online music player.

Download This Music Player:

You can download the software by visiting the link below. This software is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux platform, which I find very interesting because users from different platform can use it, as some software nowadays doesn't target many platforms. The downloading process is easy and simple.

Installation Of This Music Player:

The installation process is easy and simple, and you will not find any difficulty in installing it. The latest version, which I used, is 0.4.2 and the size is about 34MB for windows platform. Different versions of Linux are supported such as Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, Mint and many more. The installation process in Linux is bit difficult, but the steps are given on the website. Mac user can also download and install this software without any problem. I installed in Windows XP on AMD Sempron processor without any problem.

Connect to your friends:

If you want to connect to your friend on Twitter, Google and Jabber using Tomahawk Player, it can be done very easily. Under the Settings control you will see the '+' sign. From there, click on the particular website, and you will be prompted to enter the username and password.

Overall, this software is just great. If you want to listen to good music then this software is good for you. You can hear the music publicly as well as privately. To listen the music privately, right-click on the Tomahawk icon on the toolbar and then click on the "Listen Privately" control. Just try it once and believe me you won't be disappointed by this awesome music player.

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Tomahawk player: The New and Amazing Social Music Player was originally published at I Love Free Software

Create Panoramas with Hugin Free Panorama Stitcher

Posted: 07 May 2012 11:00 AM PDT


Have you ever seen panorama images of skylines where you can see the entire city in a single frame? That kind of photos are not actually made in a single shot, they are several different images pieced together in order to make them look as though they are one big panorama. Piecing together of images is called stitching, and Hugin is a program that can do exactly that, create panoramas and stitch several images into one giant breathtaking panorama.

Hugin panorama preview

Hugin is considered by some to be the standard when it comes to photo stitching, in this department it might even be better than the all-powerful Photoshop, and the best part is that it’s free. Stitching together of two or more images is  practically automatic, but you’re gonna have to read a tutorial or two in order to get a fair grasp of how Hugin, the panorama creator actually works. There are a lot of options available, and it might be a little bit overwhelming for beginners to mention them all here, so let’s just stick to the basics and you can find out more when you read tutorial which are available over here.

How to make a panorama in Hugin panorama creator and image stitcher

To create a panorama you’re gonna need at least two images, and when you take them with your camera, create an overlap so that every inch of the area that you want to have in the panorama is covered. It would also be great if you used a tripod so that the images are more accurate, but it’s not necessary to do that.

When you have the Assistant tab open load images by clicking on Load images and then click on Align. This will calculate the basic control points and offer you the basic preview of what the panorama will look like.

Hugin load images

Depending on the difficulty of the image, you’re probably gonna have to create Control Points manually in the Control Points tab. It’s not something overly difficult just select 15 different points on the images where you want them to be stitched, joined together. It doesn’t have to be 15, if the images that you are trying to stitch are rather simple like the one that I’m using below, then just one control point is enough, and program will stitch the images up according to it.

Hugin add control points

What kind of formats does Hugin panorama stitcher support?

You can open all the popular image formats in Hugin: JPEG, TIFF, PNG

and some less known: HDR and EXR

Hugin save image
In order to save your stitched panorama with Hugin panorama stitcher, open up the last tab called Stitcher. There select in what kind of format you want to save you image and adjust the quality. You can also select the image size, and various other options with which you can familiarize yourself on this tutorial page. By clicking on Stitch you’ll need to enter image filename and the program will then generate your panorama. Hugin is cross-platform, and packed with options, what more can you ask.

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Create Panoramas with Hugin Free Panorama Stitcher was originally published at I Love Free Software

7 Free Best Android Apps From Last Week Ending 6th May

Posted: 07 May 2012 09:30 AM PDT


Here, are 7 free best Android apps from last week reviewed by us. Below are the best listed Android apps among all the Android apps which I installed and tested last week on my Android phone.

If you got a new Android phone and you are in search for exciting and best Android apps in Google Play Store, then install the below listed apps on your Android phone.

Psychological Test:

Psychological Test is a free Android fun app to have psychological test on your Android. You can easily fool others, that you are a psychologist and can do psychological test on your Android itself. The app comes up with multiple options to test psychology in multiple ways on Android. The app includes love test, animals, horoscopes, interview quiz, how do you look at love, surname profile and much more. The app is a fun app as the results are not accurate. The results look as if you have really created a psychological test, but are actually not accurate. The interface of the app is the most remarkable part of this Android psychological test app.

Tom's Messenger:

Tom's Messenger is a free Android fun app to send voice SMS with Tom from Android. The voice SMS is in the form of a funny video with Tom featuring in the video. You can easily record any sound on your Android and then share it via email, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and the like. The specialty of this Android Tom's messenger app is the video part. Tom featured in the video speaks up the voice message in such a way that it looks as if Tom has really recorded the message. The voice output of the app is also in the voice of Tom, which truly sounds funny when played. Apart from "Tom" featuring in the video, the app even provides multiple character selection on Android. You can select any character, record the sound and then you can share the video easily from your Android phone.

First Aid:

First Aid is a free Android app to get first aid instructions in emergency situation on Android. Android First Aid app is truly a useful app in Google Play Store to install on Android, as the app purely offers multiple first aid instructions to perform when you are in an emergency situation. The app comes up with instructions for multiple emergency situation types that includes heart attacks and shocks, joint and muscles, wounds and bleeding, poisoning, effects of heat and cold and much more. Along with telling the myths of the emergency, the app even tells you the facts related to the injury or emergency. You can even dial emergency numbers directly from the app.

TrackID:

TrackID is a free Android app to track or identify songs on Android. Track ID is a very nice Android app which smartly identifies the currently playing song on Android and diverts you to the download page on your Android. The only bad part of this Android TrackID app is its paid download link. The app diverts you to the webpage where you get the download link of the song which is paid. I don't like to pay for the thing which I can get for free. If you want to download songs for free on Android, then install mp3 music download pro app on your Android phone and download free mp3 songs. You can make your Android phone identify the song, track it on your Android and then you can easily play it on YouTube directly from the app.

Widgetsoid2.X:

Widgetsoid2.X is a free Android app to manage widgets on Android. This Android widget app is a nice app to apply customized widgets on Android home screen. The app offers you the option to add widgets of Android systems like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, mobile data, mobile APN switch, 2G, 3G and 4G, data sync, airplane mode, tether USB and much more. Most importantly, this Android widget app comes up with option to apply themes on the widgets added on Android home screen. You can even add customized themes which includes selection of an image as your Widget theme on the widgets applied with Widgetsoid2.X app. In short, Widgetsoid2.X app offers multiple Android system shortcuts to add as widgets on Android home screen.

PhoneUsage:

PhoneUsage is a free Android app to find data usage on Android. Along with finding the data usage, the app also allows you to find total data or stats related phone calls and SMS. The app displays the data usage in the form of stats on Android. The good part of the app is that, it tells the total data usage of each app on Android. All the data usage of each app is basically displayed in the form of a pie chart on Android phone. You can easily interpret the apps which uses the most data on your Android phone.

AndroVid Video Trimmer:

AndroidVid Video Trimmer is a free Android app to trim or edit videos on Android. This Android video trimmer app is perfect in trimming videos on Android. The app allows you to select a part of the video and then trim it to throw away the unwanted part of the video on Android. If you have a full movie on your Android phone and you want to cut a scene or a song from the movie, then AndroVid is the apt solution to do this on Android. Apart from trimming the video on Android, you can also convert the video to mp3 on your Android phone.

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7 Free Best Android Apps From Last Week Ending 6th May was originally published at I Love Free Software

Registry Fixing software To Compare And Fix Registry Files: Regmerge

Posted: 07 May 2012 08:00 AM PDT


Regmerge is one of the thousand free registry fixing and boosting software available in the market to compare and Fix Registry files. Registry in common term is a place where important address locations related to the installed software and the operating systems are located. There is a belief among the common users of the computer systems that registry cleaner and boosting software are able to speed up the performance of the computer.

According to these people, with more and more usage, registry errors tend to creep into the computer. Therefore, cleaning or boosting the registry with a registry cleaner helps the computer in gaining back its peak performance.

Interface and usability Of This Free Registry Fixing Software:

The interface and usability of Regmerge is clearly intended for intermediate level of computer users. Until and unless you know how to use regedit.exe in Windows, it might be difficult to handle Regmerge properly. The initial screen is a blank screen and you need to load a .reg file in order to operate properly. Usability though simple is not easy for the beginners. Overall, too much facility about registry is not available and thus it cannot be compared to good registry cleaner software like Registry Mechanic.

Don’t forget to check out best free registry cleaners.

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How to install This Registry Fixing Software:

  1. In order to install this registry fixing software, the interested people can download it from their website. Unlike other popular registry cleaner software, this one is a zip file of few kilobytes. You need to extract the executable file and use it. Remember to select 32bit and 64bit based on the version, and type of Windows operating system you have. In some cases, you might need to right-click the .exe file, and run it with Administrator privilege. In case of Windows 7 users try to control UAC after executing the .exe file.

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  1. Try to extract the file in a folder and a drive, which is easily accessible. Do not just run it from the zip utility software, as a temporary file is created in the temp directory, which is later deleted. So you will have to extract again.
  2. Make a backup of the registry before using any registry cleaner or even Regmerge. If by any chance any accidental operation gives rise to any issues it can be later revived. But if you do not take a backup then it might be difficult to get all your software.

Summary:

Regmerge is so-called registry boosting software (which it is not), which has to compete with other powerful and free registry utilities. Though, there is no so-called installation procedure, but the software is not worth using for a long time.

In fact, numerous other industry and operating system expert says that if the user maintains his or her computer well, then there is no need for registry cleaner software. Various free and power registry tweaking software are also available in the market today. Therefore, the future of Regmerge does not look to be too powerful as registry software of the future. So users can better opt for other free registry cleaner software or registry optimizing software available on the internet for free download. You can give Regmerge a try if you want. But most of the people for sure will not like the user interface, and hence the usability of this software.

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Registry Fixing software To Compare And Fix Registry Files: Regmerge was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Ad Blocker to Block Online Ads: AdFender

Posted: 07 May 2012 06:30 AM PDT


AdFender is a software that you can use in order to block online advertisements. Up to a certain point, a little bit of ads on a web page is acceptable, these days website costs can be very high and owners have to make a living somehow, like everybody else does. But there are websites which are packed with ads, so much so that they don’t allow proper browsing and website usage, with annoying pop-ups, pop-unders and rollover ads. In such situations users are forced to use ad blockers, this is where AdFender can help you.

AdFender defualt

Unlike AdBlock Plus, which is a browser plugin, AdFender is a standalone application which will run in the background and wait for you to run a browser which is supported. AdFender ad blocker works with a large number of browsers. Next to the popular ones like Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera, you have a long list of browsers, which you’ve probably never heard of but which are supported by AdFender. Some of the browsers are:

  • Internet Explorer
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
  • Avant
  • Maxthon
  • Epic
  • Lunascape
  • K-Meleon

Next to browsers, ads are also blocked in Instant Messenger programs and P2P applications, which is a nice little bonus for those who are annoyed by constant promotions that are thrown in their faces while chatting.

Blocking Ads with AdFender

This little icon is all that you will see when using AdFender. AdBlock and perhaps even other similar software is more intrusive and it takes up space in your browsers toolbar. With AdFender, all that is in the past. Configuration of AdFender is very simple, you could say that there’s practically none, because right after installation it’s ready to block ads. There are no subscriptions, well actually there are, but you don’t have to add them manually. After installation a basic database is included which will be updated automatically.

What kind of options does AdFender Ad blocker offer?

AdFender settings

It’s always a nice thing that you have whitelist ad serving on your favorite websites to help them out. With AdFender you can do this by opening up Settings and adding URLs of the websites where you want to see ads on the Approved Web Sites List. You also have at your disposal options for a Proxy, if you require such a thing for blocking ads. If you want the program to run at startup, mark the checkbox and hit Apply.

Save bandwidth with AdFender

Ads, especially flash ads spend a lot of bandwidth. You can avoid unnecessary bandwidth consumption by blocking them and with AdFender you get a nice little report where you can see how much bandwidth you’ve saved by blocking ads.

AdFender blocked ads stats

Improve your privacy by managing cookies

With cookies websites can track what we are doing during browsing, and it would be a good idea that you remove them occasionally, you can do that in AdFender in just a few clicks.

AdFender cookies

Conclusion

What to say except that AdFender is a great, feature rich, easy to use ad blocker, with a wide range of supported applications, great for anyone who wants to block ads, but don’t forget to whitelist your favorite websites to help them out.

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Free Ad Blocker to Block Online Ads: AdFender was originally published at I Love Free Software

Customize Android Robot With Androidify

Posted: 07 May 2012 05:00 AM PDT


Androidify is a free Android app to customize little green Android robot icon on Android. Androidify lets you make Android robot icon colorful and customize it by adding multiple effects to it.

This Android robot app comes up with multiple effects to add which includes multiple robot colors to add, mustaches, spectacles, hairstyles, hair colors, upper wears, lower wears, shoes styles, and multiple hat styles.  After applying the effects, you can easily save and share the changed robot style. You can even set the customized robot as your Android wallpaper.

Androidify

The good part of this Android robot app is its size customizing option on Android. You can increase or decrease the size of the robot which includes changing the size of its face, size of legs, and size of the hands.

Also, Androidify offers high-definition images of robots on Android. The app works very much like photo editing app for Android.

Key Features Of Android Robot App:

  • Customize robot icons on Android.
  • The app comes up with multiple effects which include robot colors to add, mustaches, spectacles, hairstyles, hair colors, and many more.
    Androidify Effects
  • Androidify works very fast and is very easy to use.
  • Offers HD images in the app.
  • You can set the customized robot image as your Android wallpaper.
    Androidify Wallpaper
  • Save the customized image of robot to SD card.
  • Share the robot images via Gmail, Facebook, Dropbox, Bluetooth, Audio Manager and much more.
  • View the robot image in full-screen mode on Android.
  • Check all the robots randomly from the app.

How To Use Androidify App:

  • Launch the app on your Android phone.
  • Select the color of robot you want.
  • Add your favorite effects to the robot.
  • Tap on the menu options to save the customized robot.

Install Androidify App:

Login to Google Play Store and then search for "Androidify" app in Google Play Store. If you have a barcode scanner app, then you can scan the QR code below to directly install Androidify app on your Android phone.

Androidify QR Code

Customize your Android background daily with all new customized Android robots. Play with your Android by exploring your creativity to check how creative you are on your Android.

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Customize Android Robot With Androidify was originally published at I Love Free Software

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