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Saturday, June 16, 2012

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Free Image Viewer With Slideshow Feature: MycView

Posted: 15 Jun 2012 06:30 PM PDT


MycView is a free image viewer tool which lets you view a slideshow of the pictures in a specified directory. Initially, this program was developed to simply watch the slide show of pictures for those machines which did not have devices such as keyboard or mouse.

Installation

The installation of this free image viewer is simple and straightforward. MycView does not come bundled with any adware and there is no additional software or plugin to use it. Besides, the software is portable meaning that you need not install it every time. Hence the complete process is smooth and simple.

Interface

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The interface of MycView is quite a minimalist. It has been kept plain and simple since it was initially designed for systems devoid of interfaces. It is best suited for the users who are well versed with command line. Using command line, one can use more functionalities of this free image viewer.

Features of MycView free image viewer

  • The software is suitable to open images in different formats including popular formats like BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, etc.
  • You can view images from the specified directory in full screen mode.
  • The software has been streamlined to function using keyboard such that most of the functions can be performed using some special keys.

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  • The software is also compatible with systems which do not have very high specifications. This is because the software requirements are quite minimal.
  • One of the best features of this free image viewer is that it is completely portable and hence the installation isn't necessary. You can run the software on any system.
  • It also supports zooming, rotation, changing the background color and browsing the images along with their thumbnails.

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Software requirements

The free image viewer MycView works  well on Windows platform and is compatible with XP/Vista/7. The current version 1.5.6 has a very small size of 28.5 kb and hence can even work well on outdated systems. It has been developed on native Win32 and hence does not have very high requirements.

Verdict

Overall, this small handy free image viewer is quite reliable and can be easily used on any system without worrying about the specifications of the system. Hence, this software is apt if you simply wish to view slide show of images in a particular directory along with some additional functions. The best part is that this software is a freeware as well as completely secure and hence there is no issue in trying it. The software is user-friendly and can be used both by novice and advanced users. Although, users familiar with command line parameters can use the software in much better way since more functionalities can be used. Hence, with so much in store, there is no reason as to why you cannot use the software. Since the application is lightweight and completely free hence it is best suited if you wish to watch your favorite images in full screen mode.

Download MycView.

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Free Image Viewer With Slideshow Feature: MycView was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Quiz Creator Software: Qedic Quiz Maker

Posted: 15 Jun 2012 03:30 PM PDT


Qedic Quiz Maker and Player are two different applications which are part of the same quiz creation package. One is used for the creation of quizzes, that would be the Quiz Maker, that can be used during various different courses, like in school or at college. Quiz Player is only used to play quizzes created by the Quiz Maker, hence its name, Quiz Player. Both of these applications are free, and they are a great thing for any teacher or lecturer to have or at least try.

Quiz Maker first step

Since if there are no quizzes there isn’t anything for the Quiz Player to play, we’re gonna start by trying to create a quiz in the Quiz Maker. To run these applications you’re gonna need Java, a bit of warning to those who might not have it installed on their computers. The actual term that’s used for a quiz in the program is “learning module”, and when you start the program for the first time, you’re gonna have to select Create a new learning module, see image above. That should allow you to create a new quiz, which is very easy to do.

Creating a quiz in Qedic Quiz Maker

After selecting Create new learning module and then clicking OK, you will get another window where you need to name what the quiz or should I say module will be called and also determine what kind of background image will be used. After you click OK a few times, you will be presented with the following window:

Quiz Maker second step

Select the option that’s pointed at the image above and you will be presented with a question editing window where you need to determine what kind of question you want to add. There are 5 different types of questions available to choose from:

  • Multiple choice with radio buttons
  • Typed response with letter prompt
  • Jumbled sentences: drag and shift
  • Pair-matching game (drag/drop)
  • Categorizing (drag/drop)

Each one of these question types is suitable for a different situation, or should I say for a different question. We decided to go with the standard radio button format and here’s what we got:

Quiz Maker made question

Down below where the arrow points, that’s where question can be edited. You can type in the answers and select which one of the answers is the correct one. Question should be typed in also, that’s kind of the most important part. Notice that on the image above we also have a preview of the question, that’s because if you download the Qedic Quiz Maker, Player comes bundled with it, so you don’t have to install it separately.

You can also check out TunesIQ, free quiz and trivia app.

The Quiz Player needs to be installed on computers which will only solve the Quiz, for that there’s no need to have the Maker installed. To open a quiz on another computer it has to be saved and exported from the one where it was created, which is easy as clicking on Export and selecting one of the options for exporting. There has to be 10 questions minimum before export is possible. This application pack is very interesting, and if you need to create a quiz perhaps for the kids to learn, then definitely try Qedoc Quiz Maker.

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Completely Remove Installed Programs From PC with UninstallButton

Posted: 15 Jun 2012 12:30 PM PDT


UninstallButton is something as the name suggests, an easy tool to remove installed programs from your computer. The software is very simple and comes with a few additions to give you a better option than using the conventional Uninstall option on your computer.

Installing UninstallButton

Downloading it is as simple as it can be, you need to visit the site here and click on the download button. In case you have a good net connection it won't take you much time before the software is downloaded on your computer. Moreover after you download the .exe file just run it and follow the step by step process to install it on your system. That's all you need to do and you are ready to remove programs which you would have liked to and that too in a much easier manner. If you are looking for a software that is specifically designed for removing software from your PC, you can try AppRemover, SlimComputer and Install Monitor.

Using UninstallButton

The best feature of this software is that you need not open the application itself to browse through the programs you wish to uninstall. Just right click on the program you wish to uninstall and select ''uninstall with uninstallbutton''. After you click on the option you would see a new window popup with the program to be uninstalled in a blank window. Just select it and click on the Uninstall option at the top and the process of uninstallation would be taken care of by the application. This is pretty effective for removing the program from the location where you see it as you won't need to search down the numerous applications from the Uninstall window for removing it from your computer.

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However if you need to uninstall many applications and need to search them from a list then you should open the uninstallButton software. The moment it is launched you see a pretty attractive window on your screen. However before you are actually taken to the main window you would be asked if you wish to filter the programs that would get listed in the uninstall window.

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Just scroll through the applications and click on the ones you wish to remove and select the uninstall option at the top. The best feature is that you may remove multiple software at once. This means that by selecting the software which you wish to remove in bulk you just need to press the Uninstall option and all of them would be removed. This is a much better feature as compared to the conventional uninstallers we have been using for such a long time.

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When you are performing a set of uninstallations at a single go it would be done through the cloud technology where you need to uninstall the software after clicking on a few options from a step by step procedure.

Some Notable features of the software are:

  • You can find as well as remove particular software by its shortcut or the executable files.
  • You can use the program for removing the program from an open window.
  • You may even uninstall a program, by its folder also.
  • It also comes with an option of displaying all the programs installed on your computer in a list format.

So, in order to make the uninstall process of the installed programs on your computer simpler, this is one of the most efficient tools available.

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Completely Remove Installed Programs From PC with UninstallButton was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Identity Protection Software: Identity Finder

Posted: 15 Jun 2012 11:00 AM PDT


Identity Finder is identity anti-theft software which has an interesting approach to computer identity protection. Identity Finder will scan documents and files and search for any mention of sensitive information like credit card numbers, usernames and passwords which can be easily stolen by countless malware that exists out there. After finding vulnerable documents and files where your sensitive data is mentioned Identity Finder will report it and offer you several solutions how you can fix these security risks.

Identity Finder default window

Default screen that you get after running the application would be the ones that you see above. This is where you can choose between two different ways of how Identity Finder works, via a search wizard, which is the simpler way of doing things, or you can use the Advanced Interface where all the options are shown, see how it looks on the image below.

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Using Identity Finder to improve sensitive information security

Before you get either one of the windows above, you’re gonna have to setup a program password. Password that you set will be used when opening the application. Since the company which created Identity Finder also offers password and personal data protection software, which is paid software, then password protecting the Finder makes sense. It also makes sense because if it comes into wrong hands, someone might dig up personal information when they end up at your computer without your supervision.

If you are looking for password protecting applications, have a look at yagodu, ID Vault, KeypItSafe.

With the wizard and the advanced interface of Identity Finder the vulnerability scan is started by clicking on the Start Scan button. What the program will do then is scan the entire system, every file for any mention of usernames and passwords or credit card number similar patterns in files that it finds.

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For the sake of the test we decided to create a .txt document and place inside the following:

username: test
password: testing

Of course these are not a genuine account, but Identity Finder didn’t know that, and it has detected the document which we’ve created, see image above. All that was necessary for detection was the keywords uesername and password to be present in a file, and it turned up as danger very easily. File formats that Identity Finder can read and scan through are:

  • Word formats
  • Excel formats
  • Power Point formats
  • PDF
  • text files
  • HTML documents

A lot of times after making a transaction online, we are left with a document where important information about us can be saved. Some even use unprotected documents to save usernames and passwords. This is a huge security threat, because malware can use the same trick that Identity Finder uses, find private information and steal it, send it to its master.

With Identity Finder you can scan your computer for vulnerabilities that can cause you to lose information, not just for online accounts but also credit card information, which in turn means that you can lose money. If you have a lot of files which you suspect could contain passwords, credit card numbers, but you don’t want to go through them all, use Identity Finder it will locate them for you in no time.

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Record And Monitor Blood Pressure: Blood Pressure Tracker

Posted: 15 Jun 2012 09:30 AM PDT


Blood Pressure Tracker is a free blood pressure recording tool that lets you record and monitor blood pressure right there on your desktop. This tool is easy to use and simplifies heart rate and blood pressure data recording. The interface of this blood pressure recording tool comes with a calendar and graph for monitoring blood pressure in a better way. Blood pressure tracker even allows you to save blood pressure data to text file or CSV file.

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This tool to monitor blood pressure lets you add blood pressure readings and comments with a single click on the small Heart button at the top left corner of the interface. Single click on this Heart button opens up a data entry form in which you need to enter the exam date, exam time, Systolic BP, Diastolic BP, heart rate, part of the day, pre-installed comments and text comments. Once you are over with blood pressure data entry, then you need to simply click on "Add Data" button. The added blood pressure data will appear on the left side of the screen above the calendar.

Don't forget to check out Health Monitor reviewed by us.

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This tool lets you save your health details like Systolic BP, heart rate, Diastolic BP and the time at which you took the measurement. As the interface includes a calendar, within the calendar itself this tool shows your BP status on daily basis. You can view the graph of your blood pressure for 7 days, 14 days, 30 days, 90 days, 180 days or even for 1 year and more. So in this way you can easily monitor your blood pressure level and take precautions for lower or higher blood pressure.

Using this blood pressure recording tool, you can save your blood pressure records and share it with your doctor to avail a better treatment.

Some Key Features Of This Tool To Monitor Blood Pressure:

  • This tool comes with a intuitive user-interface for recording Systolic BP, Diastolic BP and heart rate.
  • You can enter the text comments or select any of the pre-installed comments from the dropdown menu of comments while adding the data.
  • Shows the blood pressure reports in graphs for better analysis.
  • Save the blood pressure data as a text file or CSV file.
  • Load CSV file of the blood pressure data into this software.
  • Calendar displays the day to day blood pressure status.
  • Helps you in preventing low or high blood pressure.

Also, check out My Daily Readings reviewed by us.

How To Download And Install This Tool To Monitor Blood Pressure:

  • Open the homepage of Blood pressure tracker and click the download link under Trial version.
  • Trial version is available for unlimited period without any limitations.
  • Download this free tool without any doubt, as it's free.
  • A setup file will be downloaded into your computer.
  • Run the setup file and follow further instructions of installation.

Blood Pressure Tracker is a free blood pressure monitoring tool which helps you to prevent low blood pressure or high blood pressure. Download Blood pressure tracker for free.

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Record And Monitor Blood Pressure: Blood Pressure Tracker was originally published at I Love Free Software

Automatic Desktop Wallpaper Changer: Wallpaper Rotator

Posted: 15 Jun 2012 08:00 AM PDT


Wallpaper Rotator is a Firefox extension that allows you to change your desktop wallpapers automatically at intervals you desire. It is a pretty useful and convenient tool for all those people who would always have liked their desktop backgrounds to change on their own while they were working. The unique thing about this extension is that it brings out the Wallpaper Rotator functionality within your favorite browser.

The tool is easy to use where you have a few options here and there which you setup as per your liking. You may even add your favorite photos or use the already included wallpapers in this software. So, the next time you feel that your desktop looks dull and needs to be revived with pics of your family members or your favorite stars, try this application. It surely works great.

Installing Wallpaper Rotator

Installing it is pretty simple just like any other extension which you might have downloaded before on your Firefox. You may search the extensions library within your browser with the term ''Wallpaper Rotator'' and download it directly. On the other side you may visit the link here and download the software on your browser directly. It takes a couple of minutes for getting installed on your browser. It gets instantly activated after being downloaded on your browser. If you are looking for a simple software instead of Firefox extension, you can try Color Desker, Picturethrill and My Daily Wallpaper.

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Using Wallpaper changer

You will feel the difference after the installation of the extension is over where the desktop wallpaper gets changed on its own. In case you wish to add new wallpapers or add personal pictures which you might want to use then you can use the settings option.

Clicking on the icon of the extension within your browser gives you a few options. They are:

  • Set Interval
  • Disable Rotation
  • Install More Wallpapers
  • Wallpaper Rotator Help

In the set interval option you can set the duration after which the wallpapers on your desktop would be changing. It ranges from a minute to an hour as default; however you can always set your own custom time which you prefer.

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The second option allows you to disable or enable the rotation feature of the extension for your wallpapers. In case you wish to add more photos to the collection you can click on Install More Wallpapers and you would be redirected to the collections of the extension where you have several albums to choose for your wallpapers. The community has more than 1000 wallpapers to choose from.

Further you surely would like to see your personal pics as desktop background, so for that you have to click on the icon of the extension itself. This opens up a new window listing the different albums you have and giving you the option to create a new album yourself. Click on ''New Collection" at the top which opens up a new window asking you to name the collection you are making. Once you are done creating the album then you just need to click on the Add button corresponding to your album. It will ask you to browse through the pictures you have on your computer and select the ones you wish to include in the album.

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That is all you need to do to have you personal wallpapers on your desktop and changing on their own. This would surely personalize your desktop giving you a better feeling while you use it. Also in case you wish to delete a particular collection to be used by the Wallpaper Rotator then just right click on the album and click on delete album.

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Create Free Flipbooks with Toolwiz Flipbook

Posted: 15 Jun 2012 06:30 AM PDT


Toolwiz FlipBook is an application which will convert textual files into an actual book application that you can then open and read as if it were a real book, with page flipping and of course with an actual book look and feel.

Toolwiz Flipbook default window

Image above is not the default interface of the FlipBook application but rather it’s how a book which was converted with FlipBook looks like. To run the book, there’s no need to run any kind of additional application, it works as a standalone app which means that you can simply transfer it to another computer, run it and enjoy the book there. Creating such a book with the help of Toolwiz FlipBook is not something that is very hard, at least it shouldn’t be, it all depends on the fact in which format your books are.

Check out other similar software Flip pages Worker, Simplebooklet, Flipbook Printer.

Creating realistic ebooks with Toolwiz FlipBook

Default interface where it is possible to create books like the one that you can see above would be this:

Toolwiz Flipbook book creator

Everything should be self-explnatory, since there are explanations next to each of the options, so let’s have a look at some of the limitations that Toolwiz Flipbook has. I said limitations, but in fact it’s just limitation, because there is only one which could be causing problems to some. Notice that the input field for the source file, which would be the book that will be converted, only supports .txt file format.

Some might have, in fact, majority will probably have books and texts which were saved in the .pdf format or in Microsoft Word formats, .doc/.docx. Before texts in these formats can be converted to a FlipBook book, they will have to be converted to .txt formatting, we talked about free programs for various .txt conversion, look them up over here.

Once that you have the text in .txt format, fill in all the necessary fields which are shown on the image above. Minimum that you have to do is to select where the source file is located and choose where the converted FlipBook book will be saved, it’s saved as an .exe, it’s an application, like we said earlier.

Toolwiz Flipbook book conversion

Apart from the bare minimum, additional editing options would be:

  • Book information editing
  • Font selection
  • Automatic chapter recognition
  • Selecting the book size, and whether it will start fullscreen

By default book information section will be filled out from the title of the file that you select as the source file. It will probably not be correct, so you might want to edit that. Change the book font and the book size if you have a preferred font or book size which you would like to see. If you put a checkbox next to the Show the book with fullscreen the created book will load in full screen. You can do that with regular books as well, you just have to right click on the book and then select Fullscreen.

Toolwiz Flipbook created book fullscreen

Reading books this way is more comfortable, flip between the pages with Right/Left keys. Created FlipBooks will also remember where you stopped reading and offer you to continue next time that you open a book. If you’re bored of scrolling through .txt files, try Toolwiz Flipbook and rediscover your book collection.

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Create Free Flipbooks with Toolwiz Flipbook was originally published at I Love Free Software

Download Online Videos Easily with Movier

Posted: 15 Jun 2012 05:00 AM PDT


Movier is a powerful program which helps you to capture and download online videos. These videos could be at sites like YouTube, Metacafe, other blogs, television websites, etc. The process of using this software is quite simple where you just need to copy and paste the link of the page where the video has been uploaded. After the link is pasted this free online video downloader downloads the video instantly. You may download the videos in the formats you prefer which could be the wmv, avi, mp4 or similar formats.

Downloading and Installing Movier

In order to download this free YouTube video downloader you would need to carry out the steps and visit this site here which you would have done while downloading other software online. The file is about 7 MB in size which roughly takes around 4-5 minutes on a decent internet connection to be downloaded. When you run the installer it asks you the place where you wish to install the software along with some other options to check or uncheck. The wizard completes in a few minutes and you are ready to use the software. You can also try SV Downloader, VSO Downloader, FVD Suite.

Download online videos using Movier

When you use Movier you sure would never miss out on your favorite videos as it comes incorporated with numerous ways to download videos. The main screen looks quite good with options all around. You might be reminded of the other download managers which you had been using before. Follow the steps below and downloading your favorite videos would be easy as it could be: Open your favorite video site and search for the video you wish to download on to your computer. It could be any of the following video websites:

  • Youtube
  • Google Video
  • Metacafe
  • DailyMotion
  • Yahoo Video
  • Megavideo

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Select and copy the link from the address bar and then paste it at the top of the software window in the space corresponding to the name "Video Address". Further just click on the download option next to the place where you paste the link. Moreover the moment you click on the option to download, the program would ask you to select the quality which you wish to download on your system. There are three options to select where the best one or the High quality download is the largest in size.

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After the download process is over you can click on play option below and select your favorite player on your computer to play the video.

Clicking on the options tab in the main window pops up an options window where you could change all the options related to the software. You may change the location where the videos would be downloaded too, or set the quality each video would be downloaded at. It helps you in preventing the popup of asking you about the quality of video you wish to download every time you start a download.

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For those of you who wish to download only the audio files of a particular video you may do so by choosing to save the download as an mp3. Moreover for further convenience you may download the plug-in of this program for your Mozilla or Chrome browser where the download process would start in the browser itself. People interested to download online videos can surely try this software.

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