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Free Software for Creating Photo Mosaic Wallpapers: Animosaix

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 06:30 PM PDT


Animosaix helps you in creating wallpapers and screensavers by the mosaics created out of your favorite pictures. Photo mosaic could be your collection or your personal photos in your digital albums which truly would give great feel to the background of your system. It is one of the best software to personalize your system with attractive and rich mosaics created out of your own photos. The function of adding animations to your photos further makes this software an appealing offering.

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Installing Animosaix

Click here to go to the developer's website and download the application on your system. It's a small installation file which would take a few minutes to be downloaded on your computer after which you need to run the simple step by step process for installing it on your computer. After you are done installing this free wallpaper creator, you are all set to make the changes and set your preferences for the beautiful mosaics which you would like to be created out of your pictures for your system. If you find this software difficult to use, you can also try EasyMoza, Foto-Mosaik-Edda and Mosainick.

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Using Animosaix to create photo mosaic wallpaper

The home screen looks quite simple the moment you open the application on your system. On the Left side you see the options for setting the position, size, and style of the mosaic created out of your pictures. Below that you can select the quality and speed of the screensavers created out of your pictures. On the right side you have a big space where it says photos. Here all the folders and where you have your pictures saved appear. You may add or delete a particular album depending on your preference.

Further you can change the frequency of the wallpapers being changed on your desktop or change the waiting time for your screensaver to appear. This option is available on the left side beside the Options of Wallpaper and Screensaver respectively. This is all you need to do to setup your entire software. Click on save to save the settings and Animosaix would do the rest.

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Click here to try Animosaix and start creating photo mosaic wallpapers and screensavers.

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Free Software for Creating Photo Mosaic Wallpapers: Animosaix was originally published at I Love Free Software

Change Windows Themes and Customize OS Look with CustoPack

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT


CustoPack is a free application that customizes Windows Themes and you can change the look and appearance of your OS with simplicity. Every once in a while, giving a new appearance to Windows is always fun, CustoPack helps you to change the look and feel of Windows using simple customizing options. CustoPack tool makes the customization easy and simple. This tool is free of cost, and works with all standard Windows platform such as Windows XP, Vista and 7. Using this tool, you can modify the look of your icons, backgrounds, themes and many more.

Installation:

Installing this file is similar to installing any Windows files. Just double click on the executable file, which is CustoPacks-1.0.0.40.exe and you are ready to go. The first window will be like this:

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After installing this file, you will notice that it takes about 69MB of hard disk space. After completion of the installation process, it will run (see checkbox at the end of the installation process) a window will pop-up on the screen.

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If you look carefully at the bottom left corner of the above screenshot, you will notice that the operating system, and which service pack is used (I used Windows XP Service Pack 3).

Features:

In case of "Choose a CustoPack", you will find several options provided for you. If you have already downloaded some CustoPacks then you can choose the first option, and if you haven't downloaded any pack then you will be shown a default windows theme.

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If you have installed some kind of CustoPacks, you can modify its attributes such as its visual style, background image, Windows themes and with advanced CustoPacks you can completely change the look of the CustoPack. The third option is to download a new CustoPacks, which I believe is self explanatory.

The second section is "Create a CustoPack" with which you can create a new CustoPack, customize it and see what is the progress of the creation of the new CustoPack. If you click on the "Create a new CustoPack" option, you will be shown a window, in which you should give it a unique name, author name, email address, and most important for which Windows operating system you are designing this CustoPack.

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After clicking on the "Create the project" you will see a window with all the important options with which you can do many things, and all are self explanatory, which means that you won't have any kind of problem in customizing.

The last section is "Settings and configuration", there are three sections System Configurations, CustoPacks Tools option and Update CustoPack Tools respectively. All these have their importance, which you will notice it while exploring this amazing software.

You can also check out how to customize Start Menu in Windows.

Conclusion:

This is a great free tool with which I modified the look and feel of my operating system and Windows themes with great success. You will also find it easy and simple to use this software. Theme of this tool can be downloaded from the CustoPack website. You won't find this kind of tool, which has simple user interface and has a lot of capabilities. Try this once, you will know what I am talking about.

Download Windows Themes tool:

To download CustoPack use this link. If you click on this link, you will see an executable file getting downloaded like this

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As you can see clearly, that the size of the file is 28.7MB only, which only takes few minutes to download according to your internet speed. It is recommended to download this software from the source (from the CustoPack website), as many other websites provide this same software, but it contains viruses.

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Change Windows Themes and Customize OS Look with CustoPack was originally published at I Love Free Software

Multifunctional RSS Reader to Manage RSS Feeds: FeedTurtle

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 03:30 PM PDT


FeedTurtle is a free software you can use to manage RSS feeds. The program allows you to read all RSS feeds from your personal computer by just adding your RSS address. The program runs on Java and requires JDK 1.6 or higher to run.

Features

  • Manage and organise RSS in a simple RSS bar.
  • Browse the internet with an inbuilt browser.
  • Store RSS feeds in the programs database.
  • Download subtitles from Itasa, Subfactory, Addic7ed.
  • Access information about TV shows like character list, episode overview and latest news.
  • Get a complete TV guide for various television stations.
  • Import and export RSS feeds.

How to manage RSS Feeds with FeedTurtle?

FeedTurtle requires no installation. Depending on your operating system, you may have to run the program from the command line. Open cmd.exe, navigate to the program's directory and enter this command "java –jar FeedTurtle5.2.jar" -the file name might change depending on the version you are using. The user interface is much more like what you are used to but the look and feel offers a deserved break from the monotony of the Windows look and feel. By default, the program auto hides the menu bar. You can disable this by unchecking the option on the Settings menu. The program requires constant internet access and if you sit behind a proxy, enter configuration details by selecting Proxy server on the Rss menu.

FeedTurtle

FeedTurtle allows users to save and load program settings in XML format by selecting the respective options on the File menu. The program contains tabs for movies, TV and games. The tabs can be easily displayed or hidden by unchecking the show option on their respective menus. To add RSS feeds, enter a valid address in the textbox provided and click the RSS button. To add movies, click on the Add movies button and enter a valid name. Once movies with the matching name are located, you can select the movie you want to add from the list. You can enter an RSS feed address for the movie in the text field provided or enter a path for the media player you wish to use to play the movie.

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To add a TV series, click on the TV series tab. Click the add new series button to produce a list of a series to select from. You can add series by checking the respective checkboxes and clicking the Add selected series button. In case you find it hard to locate your favourite TV series, use the Add series by name button to search the list. Once the series are added, double click on any of them to view current information about them. You can view subtitles through the subtitle manager or access the TV guide by clicking on the respective buttons. At the bottom of the series information, you can choose to download the torrent file to your computer or paste the torrent link onto your system clipboard. To access the browser, click the browser icon at the top right.

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As a FeedTurtle user, you have the privilege of selecting from about 15 inbuilt themes. More importantly, the program offers you a chance to show off your creative side by allowing you to create custom themes. To create a custom theme select Create custom theme on the Theme menu. Unfortunately, no help files or any other form of user support is available.

Pros

  • Provides important information on movies, series and games.
  • Superb inbuilt browser.
  • Very customizable interface.
  • Fast and light weight application.
  • Multiplatform application.

Cons

  • User support is not available.
  • Some items on the user interface are in different languages.

Conclusion

FeedTurtle is a superb RSS feeds manager that would come in handy for anyone looking to keep in touch with their favourite series, movies and other items in their own unique way.

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Multifunctional RSS Reader to Manage RSS Feeds: FeedTurtle was originally published at I Love Free Software

Share Clipboard with Free Online Clipping Tool: Marro.ws

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 02:00 PM PDT


Marro.ws is a web service that offers its users the ability to save and share texts. It’s a clipping tool which is very similar to a blog posting platform, because it allows you to share what you paste, and there’s also the ability to use HTML editing in your post. So in theory you could create a whole blog around the service which Marro.ws has to offer, but its main purpose is to allow users to share texts that they have in clipboard.

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By opening up the Marro.ws website you’ll discover that there are two ways that you can use this service, anonymously or you can register an account. Difference would of course be that those who have an account get more control over what they decide to share with the help of Marro.ws. Pasted content which you don’t want any longer on Marro and that you no longer want others seeing can be removed if you have a registered account, but there’s more advantages, not just this. The amount of text that can be added to Marro is unlimited, so the fun of text sharing using this interesting web service can never stop.

Anonymous text sharing with Marro.ws

Those who decide to share texts anonymously can do so by visiting the main website and pasting their text inside the Quickmark text area.

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Since we are not registered the textbox doesn’t have as much as advanced editing options that you get if you share texts with a registered account. There are only a few text editing tools, those for fonts decoration, list making and on the the far right you have the option to add links or remove links. After you’ve entered text that needs to be shared, if you want enter a title and Click Save. Marro will then create a link that you can use and visit that which you’ve posted:

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After clicking on the link that you get, you’ll be redirected to the location where the text which you’ve entered has been saved, and to share what you’ve pasted with others you simply need to share that link.

Using Marro with a registered account

If you want more options and have more control over what you post on Marro.ws, then you will need to register for an account. There are options for sign in with Facebook, Twitter or Open ID, which should speed things up.

Marro.ws registered text input

Once that you are registered textbox will offer you lot more editing option for the text that you enter, and there are certain other perks like:

  • Code highlighting
  • Sort pasted texts in categories
  • Adding tags
  • Making the text private
  • Ability to delete what you’ve added

In a lot of ways Marro.ws is similar to pastebin, but with Marro there are a lot more editing options for the text that you’re sharing, and like I said you can even use it to publish your blog and you can limit what you share if you want to just your friends or with the entire world, very handy service indeed.

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Share Clipboard with Free Online Clipping Tool: Marro.ws was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Encryption Software for Files and Folders: Secure Bin

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 12:30 PM PDT


SecureBin is a free encryption software with tools and techniques to keep your files and folders intact and secure. Nowadays, intrusion is a common phenomenon, and security is very vulnerable. Inadvertently, many of us share our folders and drive with other computers, which is by no means safe. Security is breached very easily, but to add an extra security to your personal data you can use Secure Bin. Encryption is a very tedious task as you need to encrypt each and every file or folder manually. Ensuring security and accessing the file or folder is very easy using this tool.

Download and Use of this encryption software:

Download this freeware from below mentioned link. The name of the file is Secure Bin.zip and the size is 750kB. The file doesn't contain any kind of virus, malware or adware (I checked this using Avira and Malwarebytes), but you should scan the zip file before opening it. If you open the zip file it contains many important files like this:

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There is no installation process required for this tool. Just extract the zip folder and start using the software (you need to know which file to execute). The file that is required to run this application is Secure Bin (Shield Icon). For the first time, if you double click on the Secure Bin icon, you will be shown a very important window which is shown below-

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As you can see from the above screenshot, you need to provide username, password and confirm it. The length of the password must be between 8 to 16 characters. After providing all the necessary information, the application will restart to apply the settings. After the restart, you need to again provide the username and password, but on a different window.

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After the completion of the above process, it is time to add file or folder in the Secure Bin. Unfortunately, this tool lacks the drag and drop facility but they make up for this deficiency with their amazing security and user interface.

You can also check out files and folder locker software reviewed by us.

If you click on the "Add Folder" a window will pop-up on the screen in which you need to provide the folder and password. Master encryption can also be used, but you should avoid it as what will be the use of added security then.

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Once the target folder and the password are set the folder security will be ensured by the Secure Bin.

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After finishing of this process the folder which is secured by the Secure Bin is shown on the GUI.

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To add files follow the same steps like above. From the "Settings" you can easily change the username and password.

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To unlock the folder or file, go to the Secure Bin application where you will find the folder or file which is secured by this application. Double click on that particular folder or file. Following this, a window will pop-up where you need to show the folder or file path, and provide a password, if you provide all the information correctly then Secure Bin will open it.

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Conclusion:

The user interface and usability is very easy and simple unlike the encryption method. Any beginners who want to secure their folder or files can use this encryption software. There are few issues which I encountered during using this software, it crashes very often, which is very annoying as each time you need to provide username and password to use it. If the file or folder is large then it consumes a considerable amount of time. If you overlook this problem then you can use it.

Download Here!

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Free Encryption Software for Files and Folders: Secure Bin was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Facebook App to Video Chat: Airtime

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 11:00 AM PDT


Airtime is a free Facebook App which you can use to chat with your friends on Facebook. The website only needs an ordinary browser to run and does not depend on any platform. To be able to successfully use the program, you need to be running updated versions of your browser, Adobe Flash and a webcam.

Features of Airtime Facebook App:

  • Easily search like-minded people or people with same interests.
  • Share content with your friends including online videos.

How to use this free Video Chat Facebook App?

To get started, you need to have logged in on your Facebook account. Logon to Airtime.com and click the Login to Facebook button. The website will take you through a series of security authorisation procedures before you can actually get a feel of its features.

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Click on the Talk to Someone to connect to various people including your Facebook friends and other people you may not know. By default, your Facebook friends will be displayed on the left of the interface. The site also lists your current location, number of friends and people you share the same interest with. Facebook friends available on chat are  displayed in a lighter shade of the font listing friends. Trending items captured from your profile and those of your buddies are listed just below the profile information. It is important to note that once you login into the application, you appear as online on your Facebook page.

You can configure your microphone for optimum sound quality by clicking the microphone icon at the top left when you gain focus on the chat window. To find people with similar interest, click on the Talk to someone button. You can choose to search from a list of acquaintances of your Facebook friends by checking the Friends of Friends option or search from persons with similar interests by checking Common Interests. You can also select people near your current location by checking the Nearby option. To stop searching, click the Stop button. To search for contacts enter a search  parameter in the search text field at the top right.

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Once the Facebook App finds a person with matching interests, it immediately initiates a live video chat session. You can choose to add the person to a list of acquaintances by clicking Add. Click End to terminate the current video chat session and Next to locate another user with matching interests. Whenever you don’t like chatting on video, you can use the text chat which appears on the bottom right of the website. Just enter a message and click enter to send. You can view a list of video you are sharing on the video window or access a list of your accomplishments at the bottom left. Users can log out from their Airtime account by selecting Sign Out from the account icon at the very top right. To get even more from your Airtime account, you can add more items which interests you by selecting Edit Profile from the account icon. Type in a new interest and select done. In case you feel that Airtime is spamming your inbox with unnecessary messages, you can disable email notification by selecting Account from the account icon. Also uncheck the Publish Open Graph Action to prevent the application from posting on your Facebook page.

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Pros

  • Simple and easy to use chat application with very little configuration.
  • Video chatting is a lot more easier.
  • Interact and connect with thousands of new people.
  • Commendable audio and video quality.

Cons

  • The application consumes quite a lot of system resources.

Conclusion

If you need a simple, easy but powerful means of video chatting with your buddies or with entirely new people, Airtime Facebook app is just what you are looking for.

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Free Facebook App to Video Chat: Airtime was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Photo Album Creator to Create Photo Album and Share Online: PhotoOnWeb

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 09:30 AM PDT


PhotoOnWeb is free photo album creator which can create photo albums of your digital pictures and share it with others over the internet. This free software comes in with quick and easy customization options along with more than 20 photo album templates to make the process of creating your albums much easier. These templates are designed in such a manner that they could be used to match the theme of the albums that are created. Once you have created a photo album, you can publish it on online space provided by your ISP, or use free hosting servers that this software provides.

This free album creator comes with advanced features enabling the auto-resizing of your pics, building the album on its own, and then publishing it over the internet where you want your albums to be published.

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For those of you who live away from your hometown or even countries staying in touch or sharing moments through pics might be difficult. This free photo album creator presents you the opportunity to share and keep your folks updated about what actually is going through in your life by creating photo albums of your photos. You would say you could attach and simply mail them back home. But adding creativity and style to your pics and creating a web gallery actually makes your pictures look much better and organized. It is same as the old traditional ways where people used to develop negatives and save the pictures in albums and share with their people.

It's evident that most of us are not aware of using the HTML codes or other advanced codes to create online photo albums. This is where PhotoOnWeb comes in handy as it helps you create an online gallery with ease and not much of a technical knowhow.

How to Create Photo Albums:

This free photo album creator makes it very easy to create photo albums easily:

  • Load all your photos you wish to include in the album
  • Select the template which you fancy
  • Publish the gallery on the PC, on a FTP server, or any of the servers provided by the software

The moment you switch on the software the main screen appears displaying the Start tab. One would see a few options such as the “create a new album” and “open an existing project” on the left side. On the right side of the main screen are the three options namely: Project, Parameters and Publish.

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You could start with the process of creating your album by clicking on “create new album”. The Moment you click a new popup appears asking you to enter the album details (screenshot below).

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After entering all the details the software asks you to locate the files you wish to include in your album. You can locate the place where the pictures are located and select all of them or only the ones you wish to insert in the gallery. (Handy Tip: Press the Ctrl key and keep it pressed while selecting with the pointer the pics which you want to be included in the album). Upon doing so you would see a new tab “edit” in the main window with the thumbnail of your favourite pics.

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You can move to the parameters section on the right side and select the template which you would like to add to your album.

It presents with you some other options under the tabs named:

  • General
  • Frame
  • Navigation
  • Security

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In case you wish to modify the font colors or other details relating to your album such as the size and other navigation features of your album you can perform it easily in the above tabs. The next step is to move down and press the publish button.

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For the 1st time users or in case you have no accounts linked to for publishing the album the following window appears where one needs to click on the OK button.

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This opens up a new popup where it gives you three options:

  • Publishing the file on a photoonweb account
  • Publishing a file over an ftp server
  • Publishing the file on the local hard drive

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You may select any of the options you prefer whereby in case you don't have the PhotoOnWeb user id you can always create one from the create account option. Moreover you can enter you FTP account details in case you wish to publish it over you FTP server.

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Or you can simply opt for publishing the file on your hard drive by selecting the path you prefer.

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Upon clicking publish and saving the album the link to the album opens in a browser window. Here you can view your photo albums and in case it is over an FTP or the servers you can forward it to your folks and they would be able to view this file easily.

Some other photo album software we reviewed earlier include Photo Album Creator, S10 Web Albums, and Flash Image Gallery Creator.

The photo albums created above was pretty basic but it was a very simple process to create and publish an album online. PhotoOnWeb shows that you can do so much for your photo sharing with just a little effort. You can use the applications for online publishing system or choose from numerous online server space providers who give you the option of publishing your albums for free on their servers. So do more and let your people be aware of how you are and bring you much closer by pictures and cherish memories.

Download Now!

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Free Photo Album Creator to Create Photo Album and Share Online: PhotoOnWeb was originally published at I Love Free Software

5 Best Free Calendar Apps For Android

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 08:00 AM PDT


Here, are 5 best free Calendar apps for Android. Google Play Store has multiple calendar apps which you can install and manage your events with ease on Android.

We will discuss about Business Calendar app which helps you keeping track of all your business activities and schedules, Hindu Calendar for Hindus, WomanLog Calendar for Women, and more.

In Hindu Calendar app, you can set the widget of calendar on Android home screen. So, if you don't know how to set widget on Android hone screen, then here is the tutorial for the same.

Business Calendar Free:

Business Calendar

Business Calendar is a free Android calendar app to enable a smart business calendar on Android. This calendar app is specially for businessman who have the habit forgetting the upcoming schedules or the current day schedule. The calendar app provides a calendar for full year on Android phone. You can easily add events to each date in a month and the app will remind you about the events on daily basis. Adding events include adding title of the event, date and time of the event, setting up reminder and more.  You can also check the calendar on daily basis. By checking the calendar, you can know about activities to do in a day. Apart from all this, this free calendar app provides other settings which makes your calendar look more beautiful and useful according to your requirements.

Jorte Calendar:

Jorte Calendar

Jorte Calendar is a free Android calendar app to schedule events on Android. This Android calendar app is specially designed to schedule events which looks as if you are using real paper organizer to do it. For scheduling events, you need to long press on one of the date on the calendar on which you want to schedule the event. Now enter the details of the event and you are done with. The calendar will show the event on the date selected and marked with a unique color. You can even check the calendar in different view which you feel comfortable. Tap on the event to check the details of the event created in jorte Calendar app.

WomanLog Calendar:

WomanLog Calendar

WomanLog  Calendar is a free Android woman calendar app for women. This Android calendar app is to keep a track of menstrual and fertility for women. You just need to enter the average cycle length and average menstrual length. On the basis of your information, the app automatically calculates and keeps a track of your menstrual and fertility. Tap on the start date and the app will mark the next coming days according to the menstrual length entered in the app. Now, on each day add BMT, symptoms, pill, weight, mood, and sex. With this, you can easily save and then track the data in future, if you require it. You can even check graphical presentation of the start date and end date of menstrual and fertility.

Keeping a track of all the dates of their menstrual period, help women to calculate her fertility dates, calculate her ovulation and keep a track of all her monthly periods to know her body better.

Touch Calendar:

Touch Calendar

Touch Calendar is a free calendar app for Android which works with Google map. This calendar app works same as Jorte Calendar app which we have discussed above. You can schedule events against which the app gives you reminder. To add an event, you need to log press on the date and add event details. While checking the details of the event scheduled, you will see the location marked in the form of a hyperlink. On tapping on the hyperlink or name of the location, the app diverts you to Google Map showing the location in the map. This is one of the unique part of Touch Calendar app. Also, you can double tap or pinch to zoom the calendar.

Hindu Calendar:

Hindu Calendar

Hindu Calendae app is a free Android calendar app for Hindus. It is based on Hindu Calendar (Wikipedia link). You can check phase of the moon for each day in the month, view panchang i.e., Tithi, check upcoming festivals of the year which are being celebrated by Hindus. You can view all this according to the type of year which includes Vikram Samvat and Saka. Also, you can view Hindu calendar according to the month type i.e., Amavasyant and Purnimant. Apart from all these you can also set 3 widgets showing the moon phase and lunar date.

You can also check out Android Wall Calendar Widget app reviewed by us.

So, these were some of the best free calendar apps for Android that we came across. Let us know in comments if you have some other favorite calendar app.

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5 Best Free Calendar Apps For Android was originally published at I Love Free Software

Discover Windows built-in Tune Up Apps with Windows Improver

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 06:30 AM PDT


Windows Improver combines three different system utilities into one application, system maintenance, performance boosting and disk junk removal. Each one of these three system improvement avenues has several different tools. Tools which are not native to Windows Improver but they are rather just links to Windows tools who’s existence many people are not even aware of and those who start using Windows Improver will be surprised when they find out how much they can improve Windows performance without installing any kind of third party utilities.

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Every button that you see above is a shortcut to a built-in Windows utility. In a sense Windows Improver would be a control center type of app which holds shortcuts to all of the more important Windows tools for PC tune up.

Advantages to using Windows Improver

Various utilities that exist out there are very good at what they do, but they have a drawback in the fact that they themselves cause PC clutter to increase, to some small extent at least. There has been cases where people have overdid it with various cleaners, always installing new ones thinking that they will help increase PC performance. Windows cleaning utilities, which come with the system can eliminate a lot of problems that are causing system slow downs. Open up Windows Improver and you will find a lot of those Windows utilities, here’s a list of the more useful ones.

  • Startup programs editing
  • Windows services editor
  • Disk management
  • Disk cleanup
  • Defragmentation utility

Out of all these, two tools which people have probably never heard of, because they’re hidden somewhere deep in Windows menus, would be the Disk cleanup and Windows services management.

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Start the Disk cleanup utility by clicking on Disk Space Options and then selecting the Disk cleanup button at the bottom of the screen. Great thing about Disk cleanup utility that Windows has to offer is that it can free up a lot of space which regular cleaning program wouldn’t. A lot of files that can be cleaned or at least compressed are not checked because system utilities like Glary Utilities, Soluto and Tweak Me do not know if it’s safe for them to manipulate these files. When it comes to what Windows needs, and what Windows doesn’t need, Windows knows best, and that’s why with Disk cleanup you can, if you haven’t checked your system with this app in a long time, release a lot of free space.

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From the image above, you can see that there are a lot of different places where Disk cleanup looks for files to be cleansed, some of the same places that third party cleaners wouldn’t look at.

For other things like disk defragmentation, startup programs editing you also do not need to install any additional apps, because Windows has them all. If you are not sure about what exactly Windows hides under the hood, then grab yourself a copy of Windows Improver and see what kind of tools are being offered there, you might not find everything that’s needed for successful PC tune up, but there’s plenty of tools for basic system cleanup.

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  3. Download WSCC: Windows System Control Center

Discover Windows built-in Tune Up Apps with Windows Improver was originally published at I Love Free Software

Merge, Spilt, Unlock & Protect PDF files: FoxyUtils

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:00 AM PDT


FoxyUtils is a free utility to Merge, Spilt, Unlock & Protect PDF files. Nowadays, PDF is used by many organizations and software such as Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader and Sumatra PDF are very common. FoxyUtils provides services for merging, splitting, protecting and unlocking of PDF. There are various propriety applications available in the market, which provide these services, but you need to pay for those services. All these service are free of cost with FoxyUtils. Below we are going to discuss about the four free services which they provide.

Features of FoxyUtils for editing and modifying PDF files:

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1) Merge PDF: Using this service you can merge various PDF documents into a single PDF document. To achieve this, the first step you need to do is to select multiple PDF documents by clicking on the Browse button. If you have selected all the necessary PDF's that needs to be joined to create a single PDF document, then click on the Merge PDF button. The Merge PDF button will firstly upload all the PDF's, and then it will create a single PDF document. If it is successful, you will be prompted to download that particular PDF file. The maximum size of the file must be 50MB only, and the file is not retained by default. To retain the merged file you need to click on the check box where retaining option is given.

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2) Split PDF: Using this feature you can split the PDF files. The working of this service is little bit different from Merge PDF, because here you need to specify the start and end page number. The uploading mechanism is same as the Merge PDF. Here you can also retain files, and the size of the file must be under 50MB. While retaining the modified PDF, you can retain it for maximum of 1 hour, after that the file will be deleted.

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3) Unlock PDF: By Using this service, you can unlock few PDF's only. I tried this service by providing a password protected PDF file, which it was not able to unlock. This service can be helpful when software is unable to open a simple PDF file. If the PDF is password protected, then you can open it by providing the password. Providing password is optional, but if both the methods fail, then it can’t be done and a failure message is shown.

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4) Protect PDF: by using this service you can lock any given PDF files. The kind of protection you want to implement depends on your choice. The uploading method is same as all the other three bit, in this case, you need to specify the password and the conditions with it. Few of the conditions are to permit modifications, permit printing, permit filling of the form fields, and allowing copy or extraction of text or graphics. All the other conditions, such as file size and retaining of the file are same as above.

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Conclusion:

The user interface is simple and easy to use. Considering the fact that all the services provided by the FoxyUtils are free it is very commendable. There are few problems in Unlock PDF service, but apart from that it is very good. Use this once, and you will know what I am talking about.

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Merge, Spilt, Unlock & Protect PDF files: FoxyUtils was originally published at I Love Free Software

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