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Windows Applications and File Launcher: Famulus
Convert Emails to RSS Feeds with Email2RSS
10 Best Free Keyboards For Android
List and Print All Music Albums in your PC: AlbumPrinter
Free Stock Tracking Software to Track Stock Market from Desktop: TraderClock
How To Change Keyboard On Android

Windows Applications and File Launcher: Famulus

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 12:30 PM PDT

Famulus is free Windows application and file launcher. The program allows users to add custom command to launch any file or application. Once the command is entered, the program automatically launches the pre-set files or applications.

Features

Ability to use any alphanumeric keyboard keys to run files and folders
Portable, The program requires no installation and hence can run on from any directory including removable drives
Open websites, file paths and system commands using the @ symbol
Store and retrieve the last five commands entered
Runs on all Windows operating systems after Windows 2000
Supports drag and drop

How to launch Windows Applications using this freeware?

Installation is not required, just extract contents of the zip file and run the program executable. The user interface is simple and intuitive.

On launching the program, it immediately minimizes to tray. To access program by double clicking on the tray icon. To create a command, enter alphanumeric characters to be used as the commands in the Activation Code text field. Enter a valid file path in the text field provided or browse for a file by clicking the File button. Use the Dir button to add a directory and the last button to select an application. Some programs may require a working directory but most will do without. Click the Save button and make sure the new command is displayed on the list.

To edit a command, simply click the command on the list and change the particular values as desired. To completely remove a command, select it from the list and click Delete. You can change paths from absolute to relative by clicking the Convert button-this only works if the path points to a file or directory whose root is the same as that of the program . To implement commands you have added, press down the "*" key until the command textbox appears on the bottom right of your screen. The program can be configured on the Settings window which comes into view once you click the Settings option on tray icon. From the settings window, you can change the colour of the user interface, position where the command window should appear on your desktop and whether the program should play sound or not. Help is availed in a PDF file bundled with the program.

Pros

Simple and easy to use and configure windows applications
Adequate user support
Launch programs very easily
Navigate directories more faster

Cons

None that I could find

Conclusion

Famulus offers users a simple and quick way of launching Windows applications and navigating directories.

Windows Applications and File Launcher: Famulus was originally published at I Love Free Software

Convert Emails to RSS Feeds with Email2RSS

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Email2Rss combines email marketing and RSS feed creation into one powerful tool which you can use in order to reach your customers and readers more easily. With this software you can convert your emails into RSS feeds which can then be sent to your RSS readers. RSS has many advantages over email, which a lot people who are working in the email marketing field are probably aware of, but for those who aren’t, we’re of course talking about the fact that a lot of emails which are sent end up as spam.

This is the main interface of Email2Rss, note that this is the Personal version of this RSS converter, which has limitations. Some of the features which the free version of Email2Rss doesn’t have would be:

Email filtering rules, to choose automatically which emails will be converted
Automatic uploads to web server
Update scheduling
Minimize to tray
Running the program as a windows service

Even without these options Email2RSS Personal has a lot to offer, especially to those who are not very demanding. Once you get a hang of how the program works you can start considering about investing in one of the two paid versions of this application which offer all of the above options, plus a lot more, check the developer website for more info. Using the program is also not every complicated, once you open it up, click on New which will start up a wizard that will help with the basic config.

Configuring Email2Rss Personal

So, after clicking on New, which is located on the top left corner of the window, you will be presented with the following screen:

Four steps are all it takes for you to have your first task up and running. With tasks you can setup email accounts which will be monitored and emails which are received to that account will automatically be converted to a RSS feed and passed on. First step would be:

To configure basic information about your feed, name, description, URLs and so on. After that you’re gonna have to setup the email account from where emails will be taken for the conversion to RSS:

An additional setup in this step would be to select from where the title, author and other information of individual messages within the feed will be taken, from email subject, body, sender’s email and so on.

FTP option was skipped, because we are using the free version of Email2Rss, which doesn’t allow it, so all that’s left is the last step.

Here we are offered with some additional options for the creation of our RSS feed. This is not something terribly important, it’s just some additional info about the feed and the feed owner. Filling this up makes your feed look a little bit more serious.

That’s the last step, and when you click Finish, a task will appear in the list, click the Start button and program will check the email account, convert emails to RSS feed files which can then be uploaded online, very simple and hassle free. Don’t forget about the paid version of Email2RSS if you need more automatization.

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Convert Emails to RSS Feeds with Email2RSS was originally published at I Love Free Software

10 Best Free Keyboards For Android

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 09:30 AM PDT

Here, are 10 best free keyboards for Android. Android phones come with nice built-in keyboards, but there are multiple other keyboards available in Google Play store that greatly enhance the typing experience of Android keyboard. These keyboard apps replace your default Android keyboard. You can check out our earlier article about How to Change keyboard in Android.

Some of the keyboard apps for Android that we'll discuss about include: Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard, Go Keyboard app from Go Launcher EX team, Big Buttons keyboard to enable big buttons to type easily on Android, MultiLing Keyboard app which enables multiple new features to make your typing more easy and nice, and many more keyboard apps.

Ice Cream Sandwich Keyboard:

Ice Cream Sandwich Keyboard app is a free Android keyboard app to enable Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard on older Android phones. Ice Cream Sandwich is a new version of Android. The keyboard looks great when installed and enabled on Android. It makes your work simpler and easier by enabling it's dictionary and other prediction option. The good part of this Android keyboard app is its contact name suggestion. When you type a name in any text field on your Android phone, the keyboard identifies the same name from your phonebook and displays suggestions to quickly type the name in the text field. I have set this Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard as my default typing keyboard on my Android phone. Also, ice cream sandwich keyboard has smart dictionary to make your typing faster and easier on Android.

You can check out Ice Cream Sandwich Keyboard app for Android reviewed by us.

Go Keyboard App:

Go Keyboard

Go Keyboard is a free Android keyboard app which enables a new keyboard with multiple options on Android. This Android keyboard app can work without Go Launcher EX app . You just have to install this keyboard app directly from Google Play Store and enable it from settings menu. The keyboard comes with multiple themes that looks great when applied on Go Keyboard. Also, typing with Go Keyboard is very smooth and easy on Android. You can easily download themes from Go keyboard store. Key correction is one of the most impressive and useful part of this keyboard app. You can easily customize the sound or vibration of keys, display settings, smart dictionary, and much more. There might be nothing left that you want on keyboard when you type using Go Keyboard on Android.

TouchPal Keyboard App:

TouchPal Keyboard

TouchPal Keyboard is a free Android keyboard app that offers slide feature on keyboard. This Android keyboard app works by sliding on keys. You just have to join the words in such a way that it should result in a word which is present in its dictionary. For e.g., if you want to type the word “apple”, then join the alphabets of the word “apple” by sliding the finger on your Android’s keyboard. The keyboard will identify the word and will give you the result. Now select the word “apple” from the results and it will be inserted in the text field. Apart from this, TouchPal Keyboard app provides many other features in the keyboard to type on Android.

You can also check out TouchPal Keyboard app for Android reviewed by us.

Scandinavian Keyboard App:

Scandinavian Keyboard app is a modification of default Android keyboard app that looks same as default Android keyboard installed. This keyboard app has Finnish, German, Nothern Sami, and Faroese layout which is a new feature that is not available on default keyboard installed on your Android phone. This Android keyboard app doesn't have dictionary to provide word suggestions which is one of the sad part of the keyboard app. Scandinavian keyboard is a simple keyboard app that makes it easy to type without any suggestions on Android phone and other Android devices. Also, for accessing the settings of the keyboard, you need to long press on "123" button on the keyboard. When you write anything in the text field, the keyboard is intelligent enough to put capital letters wherever required. Also, all other settings of the keyboard app can be easily customized on Android.

Gingerbread Keyboard:

Gingerbread Keyboard is an Android keyboard app from 2.3 Android version. The app enables Ice Cream Sandwich like keyboard on Android. This keyboard comes with a mic option. Just press that, and speak what you want to type. This keyboard will then convert your text to speech. The keypad enabled by this keyboard app looks simple and easy to use. You can easily enable vibration on key-press, sound on key-press, suggestion pop-up, auto-capitalization, auto-complete of the word you want to type and more. The keyboard app even provides languages to switch between on Android. The app even fixes the commonly typed mistakes. You can enable/disable the Mic button anytime from keyboard app settings menu.

Big Buttons Keyboard Standard:

Big Buttons Keyboard Standard is a free keyboard for Android which displays a big keypad with big buttons. This Android keyboard displays big alphabets and numbers to type on Android. The keyboard app is best for those who have weak eyesight or people with thick fingers who face the problem of duplication or spelling errors due to small buttons. The keyboard is designed in a bit different way as compared to other keyboards. To make QWERTY keyboard big, the buttons are arranged in two rows instead of one row. This makes it easier to type on Android.

MultiLing Keyboard:

MultiLing Keyboard is a free Android keyboard app that provides a nice and simple QWERTY keypad on Android. MultiLing keyboard comes up with multiple new features which a normal or default keyboard don't have. This Android keyboard app provides interface on which typing works very smoothly. The keypad provides gesture option, auto-correction of the word, user dictionary, voice input, multiple language, shorthand and much more. The best part of MultiLing keyboard app is its gesture part. You can set gesture with customized options and the keyboard will work accordingly. Also, the keyboard provides you special symbols like copyright symbol, trademark, registered symbol and more on Android. If you want a bundle of nice features in your Android keyboard, then install MultiLing keyboard app today on your Android phone.

Perfect Keyboard Free:

Perfect Keyboard is a free keyboard app which enables a simple and useful QWERTY keypad on Android. This keyboard app comes up with advanced word suggestion options. The app includes auto-capitalisation, quick fixes, display word suggestions, auto-complete of words, space after punctuation, suggest names from contact list, next word prediction (which is a very intelligent feature of this keyboard app), and more. The great part of this Android keyboard app is its double space recovery. The keyboard app recovers the double space with full-stop. For e.g., while writing a message and you forgot to put a full-stop after the completion of a sentence. In that case, the keyboard recovers the double space by putting a full-stop at the end of the sentence. Apart from this, you can enable/disable the vibration and sound on key-press.

Hacker's Keyboard:

Hacker's Keyboard is a free Android keyboard app that enables a keyboard with new layout on Android. The keyboard enables 4-row Gingerbread layout and full 5-row layout. 5-row layout is a quite impressive layout offered by the app in its keyboard. 5-row layout enables numbers and alphabets together on Android. The numeric keys comes above the alphabet keys. The keyboard looks same as computer keyboard. In 5-row layout, the app also has Ctrl key, arrow keys, function keys, ESC, and more new keys. Along with all these, you can also set the keyboard height in landscape as well as portrait mode. The keyboard provides word suggestions while typing on Android.

iPhone Keyboard For Android:

iPhone Keyboard Emulator is a free Android keyboard app that enables an iPhone keyboard on Android. The keyboard looks same like the keyboard of iPhone. When you type using iPhone keyboard on Android, the keyboard app enables vibrate on key press, sound on key press, and auto-capitalization. The keyboard is intelligent enough to identify the names from the contacts when you write it in any text field. Also, the app quick fixes the commonly typed mistakes. Just enjoy the iPhone typing on your Android through this nice iPhone Keyboard Emulator app.

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10 Best Free Keyboards For Android was originally published at I Love Free Software

List and Print All Music Albums in your PC: AlbumPrinter

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 08:00 AM PDT

Album Printer is a free application that lets you make an music album list of all audio files in your computer. The program locates audio files in your computer and reads tags to produce a comprehensive artist album list.

Features of this music albums printer:

The program supports drag and drop. You can drag and drop both files and folders.
Export or import album list using a CSV format
Support for most common audio formats like mp3, m4a, wav, ogg, wma, ape and mp4

How to print music albums using this freeware

The program requires no installation and can run from any directory. The interface is simple and intuitive.

Adding music album to the program files can be easily done by dragging and dropping files onto the programs interface. You can also select Add Files on the File menu or use the Add files shortcut to browse for audio files. This can be used for single or multiple files. You can also add folders containing audio files by clicking Add Folder on the File menu or using the Add Folder icon. The program searches for audio files in the selected and reads their tags.

The Edit menu lets you manipulate the list generated by the program. You can select all items on the list by clicking Select All or deselect all items in the list by clicking Deselect All. You can toggle between selected and non selected items by clicking Invert Selection or remove selected files from the list by clicking Remove Selection. The Content option on the Help menu offers you a brief description of what the program does. You can select About to view program information including changes made from the previous version and program dependencies.

To export selected items on your list to CSV format, go to the File menu and select Export selected files to CSV file, enter a valid file name and click Save. The print delimiter which separates the Artist name and album name can be customized as desired by entering your preferred delimiter in the Print Delimiter text box at the bottom left. To print an album list, click the Print icon or go to the File menu and select Print. The program opens the list in a text file which you can then print or save as you wish.

Pros

Drag and drop support
Fast and simple to use

Cons

No hotkeys to perform some of the common tasks.

Verdict

Album Printer is a great tool to quickly and easily generate an artist music albums list.

List and Print All Music Albums in your PC: AlbumPrinter was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Stock Tracking Software to Track Stock Market from Desktop: TraderClock

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 06:50 AM PDT

TraderClock is a clock which every stock market trader should have installed on their computer. This clock not only does it display the current status of larger stock markets from all over the world, but it also shows what their current status is, open/closed, and how many points a certain stock has.

The clock itself has a very slick design and it will fit in nicely with the Windows 7 theme. What you see on the image above is the default style that TraderClock has, it comes with another dark style, if you are not fond of the white theme. Changing the styles is not the only thing which this clock has, there are a lot of other options which it has to offer, so let’s have a look at how we can configure TraderClock to better suit our needs.

Also check out Android stock market apps.

Basic configuration of TraderClock

Something that needs to be mentioned, before we start with the configuration talk are handy little warnings which will greet you when you first start TraderClock.

These are warnings which are notifying the user about stock markets being opened. You can configure these types of notifications by right clicking on the clock and selecting Settings, after doing that you will be presented with the following window:

Options which we were talking about just a few moments ago, market open and close notifications are located just above the size of the clock. Changing the size of the clock is necessary because the default size of 320X320 might be a little bit too big for majority of screens, unless you have large monitors. Other settings that can be found here would be the language, show/hide second hand on the clock, and last, but not least would be the hourly chime options which will notify you each time an hour passes.

You can also check out We Seed, to learn how to trade in stock market.

The second tab in the Settings menu can be used in order to determine which stock markets are being followed.

Program supports a lot of stock markets from all over the world, and the ones that you choose will be shown on the clock. Notice the green and white semi-rings around the clock on the first image above. Those are various stock markets which are being followed, and the ones which are currently opened are showed in green.

The Ref stock columns in this settings window can be used to determine which stocks on a given market you want to keep track of, this is what makes this little clock even more amazing. Simply write in these fields the market marking for the stock which you are keeping an eye on and when you hover over the clock, over the ring of that stock market a small pop up will appear with information about these three stocks that you’ve set to monitor.

Conclusion

TraderClock is a nice little plugin for your Windows desktop, and if you are stock market trader you can use it to add a bit of zest to your screen. It’s not too much of a burden on your computer resources, and you can use it even on older machines. Change the theme to suite your style and enjoy.

Free Stock Tracking Software to Track Stock Market from Desktop: TraderClock was originally published at I Love Free Software

How To Change Keyboard On Android

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Here, are steps to change keyboard on Android phone. Android Market or Google Play Store has multiple keyboards for Android. You can easily install and apply different keyboards on your Android phone from Google Play Store, and change default keyboard of Android.

You might require to change your Android phone keyboard because you want some additional features which your default Android keyboard app doesn’t have or you got bored with your keyboard theme and want to change, but not getting an option to change it or might be some other reason.

So lets go through a small tutorial on how to change keyboard on Android phone and other Android devices.

Steps To Change Keyboard On Android Phone:

Step 1: Login to Google Play Store.

Step 2: Download and install your favorite keyboard from Google Play Store on your Android phone.

Step 3: Tap on the home settings menu on your Android phone.

Step 4: Tap on "Language & Keyboard" option in the main settings menu.

Step 5: Enable the keyboard downloaded from within the settings menu.

Step 6: Now, Open any text field where you can type some text, like a message app or a note app. Long press on the empty text field. You will see a pop-up window displaying the list of installed keyboard. Select one of the keyboard installed to make it as your default keyboard.

Step 7: You can now use the selected keyboard to type in any text field on your Android phone.

You can try this process on your Sony Ericsson or HTC Android phone and then if you find any doubt, then let us know in comments.

For Samsung Android Phones And Devices:

Step 1: Download and install your favorite keyboard app from Google Play Store.

Step 2: Tap on home settings menu on your Android phone.

Step 3: Tap on "Locale And Text" option from the settings menu.

Step 4: Tap on "select input method" option in locale and text menu.

Step 5: Select one of the keyboard from the list as your default input.

Step 6: The keyboard selected will be now enabled on your Samsung Android phone.

Just change your writing styles and explore other new options by enabling multiple smart new keyboards on Android. I recommend you to download ice cream sandwich keyboard as I like it the most on my Android phone.

How To Change Keyboard On Android was originally published at I Love Free Software

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