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Open Programs, Shutdown PC with Interactive Screen Gestures: Crusper
Learn Alphabets With Sounds They Represent: Letter Sounds
Enable and Disable Chrome Extensions Automatically with Extension Automation
5GB Free Online Storage with Comodo Cloud
Uniblue DriverScanner 2013: Find Old, Missing Drivers On PC
Free Image Retouching Software: Retouch Pilot Lite
Bridge To Reading: Teach Reading To Kids
5 Free Reddit Apps For iPhone
Free Online Collaboration Service: QikPad
Encrypt, Backup or Shred Files with File Secure Free

Open Programs, Shutdown PC with Interactive Screen Gestures: Crusper

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 06:30 PM PDT

Crusper is a free screen software that uses part of your computer screen to perform certain tasks. The program allows you to open programs, files or shutdown the computer by just clicking on the corners of your screen. The user can create a number of combinations like clicking on the top or bottom corner that can trigger an event. Crusper works on all windows based operating systems including both Windows 7 and 8.

Features

Simple and easy to use interface
Lightweight software
Open common tasks more faster

Check out how to control music player with hand gestures.

How to use screen software for Interactive desktop

Installation went on with no issues. The interface is very simple. On first launch, the program calibrates your screen just like you do on a cell phone touchscreen. Calibration was a bit confusing as the program did not clearly define the right or left of the screen-this may be different depending on your perception.

Creating a new shortcut is very easy. Click on the Create a new shortcut button. The program prompts you to choose a task which you want to create a shortcut for. Task include opening files, shutting down your computer, opening a site and opening a folder. Select a task and click OK. The program opens a new screen which prompts you to move your mouse over the corners you want to use. Click Ok to continue. The script name and path are automatically generated but can be edited as desired. Shortcuts can be edited on the Edit current shortcuts. The Edit button allows you to delete scripts.

The Crusper Settings button allows you to configure Crusper to your convenience. On the settings menu you can set a delay period which clears the combination if it elapses without the user completing the combination. You can also enable scripts to run automatically, when created or edited by checking the Enable Auto Script Playing button. Check the Load with Windows button to start Crusper when your computer boots. You can calibrate your screen if you need to by clicking the Re-Calibrate button.

Also check out how to assign mouse gestures to automate windows tasks.

Pros

The idea behind Crusper is very unique.
Very easy to use
Simple configuration
Works on both Windows 7 and 8

Cons

No user support is available
No customizable tasks can be added

Verdict

Crusper free screen software offers you a new unique and interesting way to interact with your computer.

Open Programs, Shutdown PC with Interactive Screen Gestures: Crusper was originally published at I Love Free Software

Learn Alphabets With Sounds They Represent: Letter Sounds

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Letter Sounds is a free software that helps your child to learn alphabets along with the sounds they represent. This free educational program makes your child understand the connection between alphabets and the sound that they represent.

Letter sounds makes it possible to learn alphabets along with the sounds in a playful manner, as it entertains you child and side by side make them learn letters in alphabets along with sounds that represent each letter.

Letter sounds is an easy to play educational game that include 3 different levels. Level 1 basically includes 5 common consonants, to make your child understand that different letters represent different sounds. Level 2 includes letters from level 1 plus 10 additional letters. And Level 3 comes with additional 5 letters and 3 blends for educating your child. So it's recommended that you should allow your child to play this game level wise, starting from Level 1.

For playing this educational game, launch it, select level 1 and hit the Play option. You will come across the main game screen with three houses having different letters on them. So what does it do? It displays the picture along with it's name spoken in the background. So your child needs to listen the word carefully and drag the picture to the correct letter house that consists of letter with which the displayed thing's name starts. In this way, it helps your child in building connection between letters and the sounds which they represent.

Also, check out our post on free browser for kids.

Features Of Letter Sounds To Learn Alphabets:

Helps in building up a vital connection between the letters and sounds which they represent.
Offers 3 different game levels.
Easy to play educational game.
Comes with an information file that displays all the relevant information about this program.
Press the Esc key to quit the game at any point of time.
Light weight educational program

Download And Installation Of Letter Sounds To Learn Alphabets:

Go on to the homepage of Letter sounds and click the download link.
An exe file of Letter Sounds will be downloaded to your computer.
Run the Letter sounds executable file and go along with further installation procedure.

Letter Sounds is a free educational program which offers a playful way to learn alphabets along with the sound that they represent. Download Letter Sounds for free.

Learn Alphabets With Sounds They Represent: Letter Sounds was originally published at I Love Free Software

Enable and Disable Chrome Extensions Automatically with Extension Automation

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 03:30 PM PDT

Extension Automation is a Google Chrome Extension that lets you manage chrome extension easily by determining when to enable and disable them depending on the sites you visit. If not checked, extensions can literally spam your browser, with Extension Automation you can easily disable them and save critical system resources.

Installing the extension is easy. All you have to do is click on the Add to Chrome button and when prompted to confirm do so and wait for installation to finish. When finished, the Add to Chrome button changes to Added To Chrome. Users should be aware that the application is able to access information on all installed apps, extensions, themes and both tab and browsing history.

Features

Automatically manage extensions. Choose which extension should be blocked or allowed to open depending on the site you are visiting.
Easy to use. Manage extensions in a few extremely easy steps

How to use it for managing Chrome Extension

The Extension Automation button is located beside the address bar. To use the extension manager, right click on the extension Automation icon and select Options. This opens a new tab which prompts you to select an extension you want to manage and then type in a keyword or website. The extension selected will be enabled for the key word entered when you hit the Enter button. The Clear All button can be used to clear all extension and keywords or websites selected and entered.

Right clicking on the Extension Automation button allows users to disable it or completely remove it from the browser. You could also choose to hide the button itself. The Manage Extension menu lists all installed extensions with options of removing and enabling or disabling each of them. The red cancel button can be used to remove any extension filters created. Removing an extension requires your confirmation.

Opinion

Great idea and great implementation for managing Chrome Extension. The ExtensionAutomation plugin from Google chrome lets you get rid of those really annoying extensions that popup every time you open a new tab or type in an address.

Verdict

Extension Automation comes in handy when you want to manage several extension easily.

Enable and Disable Chrome Extensions Automatically with Extension Automation was originally published at I Love Free Software

5GB Free Online Storage with Comodo Cloud

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 02:00 PM PDT

Comodo Cloud is a free online storage service, it offers 5GB of free space where your data can be safely stored online. Free online disk space that Comodo Cloud offers is encrypted, which is no surprise considering that Comodo is a famous security company. If 5GB of space is not enough for you, there is a larger plan where you can get 250GB of space, but it’s not free, you’ll have to pay 10$ per month to enjoy this increase in disk space, or you can refer friends to the Comod Could and earn up to 10GB more free space.

There are both web control panels and desktop clients for Comodo Cloud, and what you see on the image above is the web control panel. With the desktop client you can create a virtual hard drive for these 5GB of space, which you can use as if it were an actual disk installed in your computer.

Created Comodo Cloud disk can be seen on the image above, it will appear in My Computer, and from there you can click on it and it will open normally like a folder. Something similar can be seen with other online storage services like Dropbox.

Secure online storage with Comodo Cloud

Majority of you have probably heard about Comodo, it’s a famous security company which is responsible for the world renowned Comodo Internet Security but not just that, Comodo is also known as the issuer of encryption services which a lot of websites use in order to protect their users, they use this same encryption on their free storage, so you can be rest assured that your data, which you’re uploading will not be intercepted by third parties. Both free and paid accounts offer the same level of service, the only difference between them would be the difference in disk space, and in direct email support which is offered with paid account. Full list of features that you get with the free account would be:

5 GB of free online storage
Support ticket system
Online knowledge base
Secure storage and encryption
Online user guide and tutorials
File sharing – generate download links

Uploading files is not very difficult with Comodo Cloud desktop client, after installation you will have to login with the credentials that you received created after registering on the main website.

Upload window that you can see on the image above will appear every time that you click on something and start dragging. After the window appears you can simply drop the files onto the window and then they will be uploaded to your online account. Files can be accessed online from anywhere in the world, where there is internet of course.

Conclusion

If Dropbox doesn’t offer enough space for you, then you can try Comodo, all file types can be uploaded and file sharing is available, so you can share the files that you upload in Comodo Cloud with other people. All of this is free, and it doesn’t cost you anything to try it, simply register and see how this free online storage, can work for you. Expand storage by referring friends.

5GB Free Online Storage with Comodo Cloud was originally published at I Love Free Software

Uniblue DriverScanner 2013: Find Old, Missing Drivers On PC

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 12:30 PM PDT

Uniblue DriverScanner is a free software to scan and find drivers on PC. Uniblue is a popular tool for PC to scan and download appropriate drivers which support your PC hardware. Uniblue DriverScanner scans your PC and finds out of date drivers. You can easily update or download them from the software itself. But downloading drivers from Uniblue is not free.

If you want to download the drivers for free, just type the name of the driver in any search engine like Google and download the free version (mostly available) for your PC. The software tells you the name of the drivers which can be perfectly installed and is supported by your system hardware. So, you use Uniblue to find names of drivers that are old and missing, and then download those drivers using any search engine.

Uniblue DriverScanner 2013 has a unique feature of telling the age of outdated driver. You can check the age of the outdated driver and then take action accordingly.

Along with the age of the driver, the tool also tells the current version installed and the latest version available on web. You can easily check for the newer version and then install it on your PC.

Apart from finding the drivers, you can also check out system information which includes manufacturer, model , OS, total physical memory, processor model, number of physical processors, and number of logical processors.

How To Use Uniblue DriverScanner 2013 to Find Missing Drivers:

Step 1: Download and install Uniblue DriverScanner 2013 on your PC.

Step 2: Launch the software.

Step 3: Run the driver scan by clicking on "Scan" button in the "overview" tab of Uniblue.

Step 4: Wait for a while to let Uniblue scan the drivers. Now, you will see the list of outdated drivers.

Step 5: You can click on download all button to download all the drivers from the software. (Paid drivers, if you are downloading from Uniblue)

Step 6: Check for the newer version of any specific driver and then search for that driver on Google or any other search engine.

Step 7: Download and install the driver.

Features Of Uniblue DriverScanner 2013:

Scans and find the drivers that are outdated.
Download drivers from the software itself (but they all are paid version of the drivers).
Give the list of outdated drivers with the name of it.
Provides series of older version and newer version of drivers.
You can select the download location of your choice.
Check the system information from the software itself.

Uniblue DriverScanner seems to be a useful software to find appropriate drivers for your PC. Now, update your system drivers and make it run smoothly and fast. If you find any problem regarding the software, then do let us know in comments or you can also inform directly to developers of the software.

You can check out SlimDrivers software to automatically update, backup, and restore drivers.

Download Uniblue Driver Scanner.

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Uniblue DriverScanner 2013: Find Old, Missing Drivers On PC was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Image Retouching Software: Retouch Pilot Lite

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Retouch Pilot Lite is a free version of an excellent photo or image retouching software which can easily and in just a few clicks repair various different photo imperfections, especially on older images, if you’re in the business of photo restoration. Since this is a “Lite” version, there are some restrictions on which tools you can use, when compared to the paid version, but the set of tools offered in free version are more than enough for very advanced image retouching.

Great thing about Retouch Pilot, especially for those who are new to photo retouching tools is the fact that once you start it for the first time a list of useful tutorials will pop up. If you decide to start one of the offered tutorials which can be seen on the image above, a demonstration will be carried out and it will use the program itself in order to display the selected image retouching tutorial. If you don’t need these types of pointers, you can deactivate and close them, and start doing the work right away.

Similar software: 5 Software To Retouch Photos, Real World Paint, LazPaint.

Free image retouching software with Retouch Pilot Lite

The first thing that you will probably notice when you look at the program design is that it’s not very complicated, and you don’t have to study a lot it in order to understand how things work.

Here we have an old image opened which has the classic scratches, dots and streaks running across it’s surface. When digitizing these types of images, you can’t avoid picking up these streaks with the rest of the picture because scanner can’t tell what’s useful and what’s not, but lucky for us Retouch Pilot Lite can. There’s 11 tools in total offered by Retouch Pilot:

Scratch Eraser
Concealer
Smart Patch
Autopath
Liquify
Text Tool
Rotate, Resize, Crop

In order to retouch our photo shown on the image above, we’re gonna use the first tool, the Scratch Eraser. This tool is a very powerful remover of any kind of dirt that you might find on your photos. By dirt we’re of course referring to those black dots and streaks which are practically always present on older photos, and even newer ones if the camera doesn’t have good quality.

Next to the Scratch Eraser, in the photo restoration above, we’ve also added a little bit of cropping, so that all the white space around the top of the image was removed. There’s also a little bit of show off text added with the help of the Text Tool. See the second image from above, and then compare it with the third one, number of image scratches and other damage present has decreased drastically with just a few clicks of a mouse.

Conclusion

If you have images and photos which need to have some finishing touches made to them, various junk removed, like the streaks and dots that we have removed on the image above, then Retouch Pilot Lite is just the thing that you need. Using the Scratch Erase tool is as easy as moving your mouse around, so make sure to give this free image retouching software a try, it doesn’t cost you anything.

Free Image Retouching Software: Retouch Pilot Lite was originally published at I Love Free Software

Bridge To Reading: Teach Reading To Kids

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 09:30 AM PDT

Bridge To Reading is a free educational software to teach reading to kids. This free educational software makes it easier for your kids to learn reading. With Bridge To Reading, your kids playfully become familiar with approximately 105 common words.

This free educational software is large in size and includes 7 chapters, 50 scenes from all chapters and 12 characters, all these things basically aims to teach reading in a playful manner.

Bridge to Reading is basically like a story which is divided into 7 chapters full of animation and sound effects. So Your kids will enjoy their time spent on this educational program.

When you launch this free education game it allows you to add your name by clicking on the New option. After entering the name press the Enter key. Choose a girl and a boy, wait for a couple of seconds, as it explains each option of this educational program. Now you need to click the Book icon to begin. You will come across a mind refreshing animated background with words spoken and displayed on the interface along with letters below. So your child needs to listen and view the word and choose the letter order wise to make that word from group of letters below. Completing a word or a short sentence displayed marks a progress and moves you forward. In this way, your child will enjoy and will learn to read side by side.

Don't forget to check out free language learning tool reviewed by us.

Key Features Of This Tool To Teach Reading:

Free educational software full of sound effects and animations to teach learning in a playful manner.
Kid learns 105 common words playfully.
Easy to install educational software.
Listen to the words repeatedly by placing the mouse on the lips icon.
Entertains your child and side by side teache him/her to read.

Bridge To Reading is like a bridge to reading activity for those kids who not good at reading, as it offers a very simple and playful way to learn reading. Download Bridge To Reading free.

Bridge To Reading: Teach Reading To Kids was originally published at I Love Free Software

5 Free Reddit Apps For iPhone

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 08:00 AM PDT

Here, are 5 free Reddit apps for iPhone. Reddit has become quite popular in last couple of years, especially after debacle of Digg. If you want to stay connected to Reddit on your iPhone and iPod Touch, you can easily find a good Reddit app for iPhone in iTunes store.

In this article, we will discuss about 5 free Reddit apps which include iReddit; Official Reddit app for iPhone, Reddit Pics HD; view Reddit pics in a new way on iPhone, Reddit TV; to watch videos from Reddit, and much more. Install any ne of them as per your requirement and enjoy Reddit on your iOS device.

iReddit:

iReddit is a free official Reddit app for iPhone to access and manage Reddit on iPhone. This iPhone Reddit app works well on iPhone. You can easily login with your Reddit credentials. The app allows you to check hot, new, top, and controversial news on the front page of Reddit. As soon as you launch the app, you will see the front page will all the four topics. Tap on the topics to select your favorite one and view it on your iPhone. Apart from this, official Reddit app for iPhone also allows you to login and check your inbox. Tapping on story provides you the option to email the link, open the link in Safari browser, hide on Reddit, save on Reddit, and save on Instapaper. The app even allows you to check Reddit images in full-screen mode with only a small toolbar at the bottom.

Reddit Pics HD:

Reddit Pics HD is a free iPhone app which helps you to play Reddit images on your iPhone. The app is specialized in browsing Reddit pics online. The pics are from hot, new, and top stories on the front page of the app. You can also login with username and password of your Reddit account. The app allows you to share pics via Email, Twitter, and Facebook. You can also save the pic to iPhone photo album, but saving feature is only available in Pro version of the app. You can also vote to the pics which you see while browsing Reddit.

The app also has the option to submit your own pics to Reddit. But due to Reddit moderators/admin reasons, the app developers have disabled submit pic feature. Reddit moderators/admin found that the submissions done via this app are not genuine, and they started deleting the accounts of those who are submitting pics from this app. So don't panic if your image could not be submitted.

Alien Blue – Reddit Client:

Alien Blue – Reddit Client is a free iPhone app to browse Reddit on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch. The app works very well and does not includes any ads on your iPhone. You can easily access front page which include hot, new, top, and controversial stories. Tap on any one of them to read it more. Tap on the setting menu of the app to login with your Reddit credentials. You can easily access your inbox, messages, and saved links on your Reddit account. I really liked the app interface. As per my personal recommendation, do install this iPhone app, if you are truly an addict of Reddit. Apart from all these, you can also search for stories with the search bar option. The app allows you to submit a link, but the feature is available only in Pro version of the app. You can also vote the stories. To hide/show the voting button, head to the share button in the app.

Reddit Gallery – Reddit Pics, Gifs, & Videos:

Reddit Gallery is a free iPhone Reddit app to browse Reddit images in a new way on iPhone. Reddit Gallery is specially designed for those who view photos on Reddit and comments. If you looking for any app which displays only Reddit images, then Reddit Gallery app for iPhone is the best option. The app extracts all the Reddit images without any description or story. You can only view all the images and then comment on images which you like or dislike. You can even vote the images from Reddit image gallery. Apart from that, you can also save images to your iPhone's photo gallery. You can even share images via Email. Change the order of subreddits, so as to view you favorite at first.

Reddit TV:

Reddit TV is a free iPhone app to play videos from Reddit on iPhone. The app features videos from Reddit and plays them online on iPhone. Reddit TV app provides an inbuilt video player to play Reddit video. You can toggle the video to full-screen mode to enjoy it in a better way. I must say that the app is quite fast with fast video buffering. Also, you can watch videos according to the categories which include all videos, gaming, and tech videos. You cannot login to your Reddit account with this Reddit TV. You can also share videos via email, Facebook, and Twitter.

If you have an Android phone with you, then check out Reddit apps for Android.

If you find any other good Reddit app for iPhone, then do let us know in comments below.

5 Free Reddit Apps For iPhone was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Online Collaboration Service: QikPad

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 06:30 AM PDT

QikPad is a free instant online collaboration tool which you can use in order to work together with other people on various different projects by directly editing text or code, real time, with chat support, so that you can communicate directly with team members. To use the QikPad service you don’t have to register or create any kind of accounts, simply open up the QikPad website, click New pad and you’re all set.

Entering the name of the pad that you wish to create and edit would be the only thing that’s needed to start online collaboration with the help of QikPad. On the image above, we’ve selected a pad name, clicked OK, and we were immediately greeted with the pad editing interface. You can even create anonymous pads, but then you won’t have a unique URL, and the name of the pad won’t be you own. Editor comes with a lot of advanced features, some of which would be:

In-built sharing options with or without editing capabilities
Pad embedding, similar to what you do with videos, do the same to QikPads
Export important work from the pad to either HTML, Plain text or Wordle
Editing history, check what kind of changes were made to a document
Instant text synchronization with work made by other team members
Undo and redo options for correcting errors

Standard editing toolbox comes with QikPad with which you can right away start working on projects with your team. To invite someone to start editing a document you just have to give them a link to the QikPad that you’ve created and they can start chipping in right away, no registration needed.

Similar software: Collaborative Book Writting, Siasto, ComodoUnite.

Free online collaboration tool, with no registration – QikPad

This is the default QikPad editor, with a placeholder text added to it. Notice that the text background is red, the same color that our username bar in the top right corner is. With the help of these colors, you can easily track which user has made which edit, since each user gets its own color. Chat is available in the lower right corner, so that you can communicate while collaborating.

In the top right corner, next to your username bar, you also have tools for exporting and sharing. If you just want to share something with someone, without giving them permission to edit the pad, you can do that by clicking on the Create readonly link button.

Editor offers a pretty basic text editor, with a slim selection of text formatting tools. If you’re annoyed with the text background coloring, you can disable it by clicking on the rainbow icon, the last one in the toolbar which can be seen on the image above.

Conclusion

Teams who are looking for a simple online collaboration platform should have a look at QikPad. By using QikPad you can easily create new work pad, where your team can start working on various different witting tasks or perhaps even some easy coding, note that there’s no code highlighting, which is definitely a drawback of QikPad. QikPad is free, without even registration being necessary, open up the QikPad website and start collaborating right away, for free.

Free Online Collaboration Service: QikPad was originally published at I Love Free Software

Encrypt, Backup or Shred Files with File Secure Free

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 05:00 AM PDT

File Secure Free is a free and reliable application that is an all in one solution when it comes to file encryption, backup, protecting USB drives or external drives and file shredder. All these powerful functions indeed make it a must-have application when it comes to your personal computer. Let's check out what all exactly the application does for us?

Encrypting your files

File Secure Free uses military standard encryption to protect your files. You can easily encrypt files or complete folders with this free software. Also files in different formats can be encrypted whether it is a document, photos or other.

The above snapshot shows the interface of the File Encryptor in File Secure free. As you can see on the right panel, you have the option of choosing a particular file or a folder for encryption. We proceeded by choosing a particular file. File Secure Free prompts you for a password when you specify the particular file.

Hitting on OK would encrypt your file. Suppose I wish to decrypt my file, then you can do it by selecting the particular file and clicking on 'decrypt'. Once you enter the password, your file will be available again. You can also remove a particular item from the list by clicking on 'Remove'. Once again you will have to specify the password and the rest of the work is done. So isn't encryption and decryption just a matter of clicks now?

Protecting USB drives and external drives

You can also create a password for locking different portable storage devices such as memory stick, USB flash drives etc. which cannot be accessed unless you know the password.

The procedure is similar to that of encrypting a file or folder. You need to select the particular volume and then hit 'lock'. You will be asked to specify a password and the portable disk is locked.

Backing up your data with File Secure free

The above interface shows that backing up your data is also easy with this free application. Just a few clicks and it is done.

File shredder

Some files even on deleting might be physically present on the system. File shredder tool in this free application allows you to remove files physically as well in such a way that they cannot be recovered in the future. Thus, this way you can remove all the unwanted and obsolete files which take up a lot of space unnecessarily.

File shredding can be done with different algorithms. With File secure free, you have the following choices:

Verdict

File Secure Free offers all the above features in a single, free package. All these features can be useful to you at some or the other point especially for the users who have some important information on their personal systems. Using this application will allow you to avail a number of features and hence you can protect your data in every form whether it's about backing it up or creating a password for the same.

Download File Secure Free

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