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Free Image Viewer and Organizer: ArcSoft Photo+
Free Online Website SEO and SERP Analytics with Cuutio
Add Favorite Folders To Right Click Menu: Folder Guide
Free Cloud Based Antivirus Scanner: Avira Protection Cloud
Free Fingerspelling Tutor Software: Sign Talkster

Free Image Viewer and Organizer: ArcSoft Photo+

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 12:30 PM PDT

ArcSoft Photo+ is a free image viewer and organizer which you can use in order to manage your image collection and also to share personal photos with your friends and family on Facebook, Flicker or Twitter. Photo+ image format support is extensive, with over 50 formats supported, so you can rest assured that every photo that you have, regardless of the extension, will be possible to open inside Photo+. Most interesting thing about Photo+ when it comes to formats is that it even supports raw image format, so you can open images directly from your camera, without processing. All the standard image formats are supported also:

.JPEG
.PNG
.BMP
.GIF
Sony RAW (.arw, .srf, .sr2)
Cannon RAW (.cr2)
Kodak RAW (.dcr, .crw, .kdc)
Nikon RAW (.nef)

And many others, to list them all here would take a lot of space, but you get the idea of what exactly can Photo+ do for you and how powerful it really is. Interface of this free raw image viewer is also very modern:

It might be a bit barren at first, but all that is gonna change as soon as you start opening your photos inside Photo+ and as soon as you start using all the amazing features that this free image viewer has to offer.

Similar software: Image Sequence Viewer, MycView, Maxthon Plugin.

Photo+ free RAW image viewer with Favorites

Title of this paragraph basically sums up two best features of Photo+, the fact that you can open raw image formats inside it, and the fact that you can organize photos in favorites. There are two ways of how you can open photos inside Photo+, either by dragging and dropping them onto the main program area, or by clicking on the Open button, and then selecting images the old fashioned way, through the Add file dialog.

Here we see an image opened inside Photo+, notice the switch image arrows on the side of the image, if you open a folder which has several images, you can browse through them all. In the lower right corner of the screen you have the heart icon, which will add images to the Photo+ favorites:

If you have a lot of photos, and you only view a few of them, you can add them to favorites, so that later on, when you decide to refresh your memory of a certain photo, you can easily find them in the Photo+ favorites, found in the lower right corner of the application. All the images that you “like” will be placed there, and when program is opened next time, you can easily access them by clicking on the favorites icon.

Conclusion

Having a proper image viewer can make image browsing a lot more fun, with ArcSoft Photo+ you definitely get a very modern looking image viewer which has a lot of cool extras. Favorites feature that ArcSoft offers is very useful as well, you can easily create a list of favorite photos for easier access later on. Photo+ is a free application, so you have nothing to lose if you decide to try it out. To top it all of, you have integrated Facebook, Twitter and Flick image sharing.

Free Image Viewer and Organizer: ArcSoft Photo+ was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Online Website SEO and SERP Analytics with Cuutio

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 09:30 AM PDT

Cuutio is a set of online search engine optimization tools which webmasters can use in order to see where exactly their website stands in search engine rankings, and also to monitor what the rankings of their competition is. SEO analytics offered by Cuutio are free for one website and for up to 10 keywords researched. There are a lot of different tools packed in the Cuutio service:

Keyword History & Analytics
Competitor Overview
SEO Competition
Google Comparison
Traffic Sources
My Inbound Links
Inbound Links Analytics

Registration is necessary before you’ll be able to use Cuutio service, and during registration you’re gonna have to configure the website who’s SEO position you’d like to check and monitor. Don’t worry it’s possible to change data later on when you login into your Cuutio account.

This is the default window that waits for you after you’ve registered with Cuutio and after you’ve logged into your account. There’s no information shown because some time needs to pass after you’ve created your account and started using the service for the data to start coming in. Search engine ranking position or SERP is very important thing to know, track and improve, and every webmaster should take a note of it, Cuutio can help you out a lot in that department.

Free search engine ranking position tracking with Cuutio

To start checking and tracking if your website is properly optimized for search engines, you’re gonna have to add the keywords that you’re interested in tracking, you do this in the My Keywords tab:

Limitation of the free account would be that you can only add up to 10 keywords which you can track and monitor. To add a keyword, click on the Add button seen at the top of the application window, enter the keywords that you’d like to track together with the language of the keyword and then hit Add. If everything is properly configured you should start receiving the SEO statistics in a few days.

SEO has become a very though industry and if you want to stay ahead and keep your website at the top, you also need to keep track of what competition does. You can also do this with the help of Cuutio, simply click on the Competitors tab, hit Add Competitor fill out everything that’s asked from you and them simply sit back and wait to start receiving data, what the SERP of your competition is.

Cuutio wouldn’t be a SEO monitoring service if there weren’t tools which you can use in order to monitor what kind of traffic sources and what kind of inbound links your website has. To check this click on the Traffic Source tab, and there you should see, once that the data is updated, information on what kind of traffic and from where it is coming to your website. If you are looking for a tool that you can use in order to assist you in keeping up to date with the SERP of your website, you should then start using Cuutio. Free search engine ranking analytics.

Free Online Website SEO and SERP Analytics with Cuutio was originally published at I Love Free Software

Add Favorite Folders To Right Click Menu: Folder Guide

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 08:00 AM PDT

Folder Guide is a free software to access folders and directories on your computer directly from the right click menu. This software basically adds a Folder guide option to your right click menu, so you can add your favorite and most visited folders and directories to Folder Guide option. In this way you can directly access them from the desktop right click menu that appears when you right click on the free space of your desktop screen.

Folder Guide basically modifies your right click menu by adding shortcuts within the Folder Guide option in the right click menu. Normally for accessing folders you need to make several mouse clicks in order to reach the destination folder, as you need to move through drives, folders and sub-folders. But now with Folder Guide, you can access your favorite folders and directories in no time. In addition, this free tool automatically runs with the Windows startup.

For using this free tool, you need to launch the software and click the Add button within the interface for adding a folder or directory. Choose the folder or directory which you wish to add by browsing the path the clicking the OK button. That's it, you don't have to save anything manually, as it automatically save the changes made by you. Now right click on any free space of your desktop screen for right click menu, place the mouse cursor on Folder Guide option and you will see all the added folders in a cascade menu that appears. For accessing any folder click the folder name with the cascade menu.

Folder Guide is a simple tool which adds extra functionality to your right click menu and makes it more useful.

Don't forget to check out SendToSendTo reviewed by us.

Key Features Of Folder Guide To Access Folders:

Offers a quick way to access folders.
It starts automatically as a part of Windows explorer context menu.
Easily add your favorite folders and directories to the right click menu.
Change the order of folders within the Folder Guide list.
Small in size right click menu modifier with a file size of 769 KB.

Also, check out Right Click Enhancer reviewed by us.

Folder Guide offers an easy way to enhance your right click menu and make it more useful by allowing you to access folders and directories directly from the right click menu. Download Folder Guide free.

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Add Favorite Folders To Right Click Menu: Folder Guide was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Cloud Based Antivirus Scanner: Avira Protection Cloud

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 06:30 AM PDT

Avira Protection Cloud or APC for short is a cloud based antivirus scanner released by Avira, a company famous for their AV software, which has now started combining malware scanning and cloud based antivirus protection in order to increase the effectiveness of antivirus detection, which is a known trait of cloud antimalware software. Avira Protection Cloud is a very small application, and it’s very light on the computer resources, best of all it’s free and it will not interfere with the existing AV security software that you have installed on your computer.

There are many advantages to using cloud based antimalware software, main one being that you are always scanning with a up to date virus definitions, because definitions on the cloud are synced with the scanner at all times, it’s a real time scanner. Normally when scanning the computer you will gonna have to update your AV beforehand, which is easy to forget, but not with Avira Protection Cloud. Other advantages of using APC would be:

Faster scanning results
Less computer resources used
Cloud holds the collection of scanned files, easier management
Up to date malware scanning all the time

Scanning with the help of APC is not very intrusive, scanner is very small and it’s just that, a scanner, it’s not the entire Avira Security set of tools, which is a good thing and a bad thing. Good because since APC can work alongside other security software easily and bad because you don’t get real time AV protection, but you’ll probably have other security programs installed to compensate for what’s missing.

Free Avira Cloud scanner – Avira Protection Cloud

The whole idea behind APC is that users contribute to detection of antivirus software and basically anyone who decided to scan their computer with the help of APC will add to its knowledge. Each file and document which is scanned with the help of the Protection Cloud will have its fingerprints left inside the cloud and detection information is also stored there. Right after installing the APC application it will start and what you see on the first image above is what waits for you. Clicking on the Cloud Scan button will start the scanning:

and what’s happening during the scan is that the previously mentioned fingerprints of the files on your computer are checked with the fingerprints of files online, which are saved in the cloud. If they match the file is detected and you will be given an option for getting rid of infection.

Conclusion

Avira Protection Cloud is a great way for all those who are interested in a little bit more security to scan their computer for any pests and infections that might have found their way of your computer. Application is completely free, and you should tell about it to your friends and family, have them use it in order to improve the knowledge of the Avira Protection Cloud. For scanning, internet connection is needed, which might be problematic for some who either don’t have internet access or it’s very limited. If you’re not one of them, download APC for free and see how clean your computer really is.

Free Cloud Based Antivirus Scanner: Avira Protection Cloud was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Fingerspelling Tutor Software: Sign Talkster

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Sign Talkster is an effort to help all those people who have the disability to hear. This free fingerspelling software is simple which is commendable as it displays the letters by action of hands and helps you to learn fingerspelling. It can well be used to teach people having the disability to hear all the alphabets of the English language. Using this is pretty simple and the simplicity which it comes with makes it a good offering and helps you to learn fingerspelling easily.

Installing Sign Talkster

In order to install the application you need to visit the link to the download page here. The next step is to click on the download link and start the download process on your system. The downloaded file is an executable file which means in order to install it you would need to run the setup procedure. It gets installed within a few seconds after that all you need to do is press on the desktop shortcut and launch the application. You can also try Fingerspelling Tutor to learn fingerspelling or try Valodas and Lingoversity to learn new languages.

Using this fingerspelling software

Once you launch the application you would see a blackish interface with text at the top. Below that you have two black areas where each of them represent the window for the sign language and the text which it represents. At the bottom you have the play button along with the option to change the speed at which each text is presented through the sign language.

Now you could type out the entire text that you want the software to play in terms of the sign language or just copy in some texts from the concerned file. Once you have the text in the black space at the top of the window the next step would be to select the speed at which you wish the text to be played out. You need to drag the marker and place it depending on the speed you prefer. Finally when you have all the options setup you need to click on the Play button. Doing so would start playing the entire text that you wrote/pasted word by word. Each word would be shown as per the sign language of hands so that the reader has the clarity of the texts being written. For the people having the disability to hear and wish to learn the alphabets through the sign language this tool is one of the best around. Being simple yet effective makes Sign Talkster a great product for the people looking for such software.

Free Fingerspelling Tutor Software: Sign Talkster was originally published at I Love Free Software