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Against The Wall: Free Logic Game
Free Online PDF to HTML Converter: pdftohtml
Find Songs By Singing and Humming with Midomi
Creating and Managing Speed Dials with FVD Speed Dial
Download All Instagram Photos In A Zip File: Instarchive
Free Online Expense Tracking with Expense Cloud
What Is IRC?
5 Free Color Picker Software to Pick Colors from Screen
Free Google Docs Desktop Client for Windows: DAO4Sync
Create your Own Personal Newsfeed with Prismatic

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 06:30 PM PDT

Against The Wall is a Free Logic Game available for FREE. This game is developed for Windows, Linux, and Mac users for FREE and Web Version is also available.

The name itself sounds different. It’s not a famous game but I tried it out and found it worth sharing. Let me know your views on this free logic game through your comments.

This logic Game is about how you reach your home which is located miles above you. The game is very puzzling and addictive. I spent many hours playing this game as if I'm lost and trying to find my home. Also check out other logic games pack we reviewed earlier, and puzzle games for iPhone.

Introduction to this Free Logic Game:

In the first scene of the game you will be standing on a small platform (as seen in the below screenshot). You see an infinite wall which is comprised of irregular sized bricks and a magic stick. Point your magic stick at the bricks, they get highlighted. Click at the highlighted bricks and they start coming out. If pressed second time on the same bricks, they go back inside. So, by clicking on these bricks you make stairways or roads and make your way to the top by jumping or walking on them. The keyboard controls are W, A, S, D for directions and SPACE for jump. F5 Quick Saves and F9 Quick Loads the Game.

Different colored bricks does different functions:

White bricks perform normally i.e., they come out up to some distance
Red bricks won't respond to your magic at all
Brown bricks come out a little distance only
Green bricks are tricky; as soon as you climb on them they start going back into wall and make you fall.

If you skip or jump into an open area you start falling down and a message says “You Died”. Then you can start playing from your last checkpoint by choosing the “Continue” option from the Main Menu.

It's a 3D Game. You control the character both with your mouse and keyboard. While playing you can see some checkpoints where different types of lifts are available. In between you confront some different locations, abandoned places and unusual structures everything on side of The Wall.

If you are bored of playing normal games then definitely try this logic Game. Explore the wall and make your way to the top with your Logic and Magic. Free to download and Creative Game too. The download size is around 38 MB.

If you want to play on your browser then you need to Install a Unity software to Play Online. If you want to play offline, Against The Wall is available for FREE Download also.

Against The Wall: Free Logic Game was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Online PDF to HTML Converter: pdftohtml

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 05:00 PM PDT

pdftohtml.net is an online PDF to HTML converter, which does its job within seconds. It can be used to upload a PDF file from the computer and then convert it into the HTML format or convert an existing PDF file on the net to HTML.

It can be difficult to view PDF files for some as navigation through it becomes difficult sometimes. Online PDF viewing on your browser is an even more difficult task! Browsers are not compatible with PDF formats to an appreciable extent as the main language that they support is HTML. Viewing PDF files in HTML format can be an excellent way, to display and read your PDF file content properly.

Features of this PDF to HTML converter

There is no need for installation as everything can be done online.
PDF to HTML conversion is done within seconds.
You can mail the link to the desired Email ID after the conversion process.
The process is very simple and the GUI is designed effectively.
Text and Image files are recreated perfectly in the HTML format. This gives you the same viewing experience as that of the PDF version.
The website is hassle free and is very easily accessible.

Interface and Working of this PDF to HTML converter

The interface is designed in an excellent manner. The objective of the website is to convert PDF files into HTML format. It does so in an excellent manner, by producing high quality conversion. The actual process of PDF conversion into HTML format takes countless number of days, but with this website you can easily get it done.

There is an option of uploading the PDF file from your system or from across the web. After getting done with the uploading process, conversion starts. The process is really quick. After that, you will be asked to provide the Email address, where the link is to be mailed. The information related to your Email address is protected by the company and a special note is attached stating that disclosure of the Email ID will not occur under any circumstance.

Final Verdict by Us

pdftohtml is an excellent way for converting PDF to HTML files. There is no need for you to install anything on to your system too! Just upload your file and get done with the process. It's worth going for this website, if you wish to convert your PDF file into the HTML format.

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Find Songs By Singing and Humming with Midomi

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 03:30 PM PDT

Midomi is a website where users can come, use their microphone to hum or sing songs which they’ve heard on the radio, but who’s names they didn’t quite catch, after which Midomi is gonna scan its database, compare what you’ve sang or hummed with actual song patterns and it’s gonna give you the song title. Most of us have found ourselves in situations where we’re singing a song in our head, but we just don’t know the song name, with Midomi, you can easily search for a song, based only on your ability to hum the melody.

Using Midomi is relatively straightforward process, when you open up the main website, you’re gonna see what can be seen on the image above. To start your search just click on the Click and Sing or Hum button, which can be seen on the image above. By doing that you’re gonna activate the recorder which is when it’s time to start singing.

Also check out allsongsby to search and listen to all songs by an artist.

How to find out song names with Midomi

Once that the recorder has been activated and it’s running, you’ll have to do your best and sing the song that you’re looking for as accurately as possible into the microphone. Before that, make sure that all the microphone settings are properly configured, people often have their mic muted or volume turned all the way down which makes the song identification process difficult. The length of your singing also plays a very important role, next to clarity of course, because it can be difficult to detect something if you only sing the melody for a few seconds. If you’re unlucky you’re gonna see something like this when you click stop on the recording:

This is the results page if your search didn’t end up with a definitive match, you’re then gonna see several suggestions which are close matches to what you were singing. This will probably be seen by majority of people. All those who are capable of singing the songs that they are interested well, they’re gonna see something like this:

If your singing and humming was matched with a song in the Midomi database with absolute certainty, you’re gonna see what can be seen on the image above. In both situations you’re gonna be able to listen to a song excerpt, you’ll be able to do that for all the songs from the album, to make sure that it really is what you were looking for, or to see if you maybe like the entire album.

You can also check out Shazam Android app to identify songs.

Conclusion

Finding songs when only a bit of melody is familiar is never and easy thing. With Midomi looking for songs is made easier. Just click on the search button, start singing or humming and Midomi is gonna do the rest, compare what it recorded with its rather large database of songs and it’s gonna display the results where you’re gonna know if a song is a 100% match or if there’s several similar results, all of them will be displayed for you to choose from. To use Midomi you just need to open up the website.

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Creating and Managing Speed Dials with FVD Speed Dial

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 02:00 PM PDT

FVD Speed Dial is a add-on for Firefox as well as Chrome which allows you to add a fresh tab dial and multiple features related to the same. The software lets you organize your Bookmarks, Custom Background and Image settings, Dial Hiding, Block by a specific URL location and view the most visited Dials.

FVD Speed Dial is a management extension. You can use it on any web browser you want to. I tested it on Mozilla Firefox as well as Google Chrome and it worked fine on both.

Features of FVD Speed Dial

A special Speed Dial tab and create custom dials.
Ability to organize and manage your Bookmarks.
Set Custom Backgrounds.
Organize your Speed Dial Groups.
Get to know the most visited Dials.
Hide your Dials by blocking specific URL's.

Interface and Working of FVD Speed Dial

The interface lists all the blank dials. You can create your own speed dials to fill in these spaces. A separate tab for the most visited dials can also be seen. A custom dial can be created by specifying the URL and the name of the group to which that URL belongs. Any URL from the most visited category can be added to the speed dial list.

If by mistake you close a tab and don't know what the URL was, you can retrieve it by visiting the recently closed tab. The default groups are Popular and Default. The groups created by you will enlist your dials and their views.

Holding and dragging of the Mouse button takes you from one mode to another. Global options tab lets you handle the configuration of the FVD Speed Dial software. You can control the styling of the software, in addition to the functions mentioned above, with this tab. Background editing and Font selection depends on this tab.

Downloading and Installation

The extension is very easy to download and is versatile enough to work on any browser platform. It gets downloaded pretty quickly. A speed dial Icon appears just on the right hand side of the address bar, after it has been downloaded.

The Final Verdict

The extension is designed brilliantly and has the ability to perform multiple functions. It's not related to speed dials and their management only! FVD Speed Dial can also act as a Bookmark Organizer and sophisticated History Viewer. If you want to keep a track of the browser activity, FVD Speed Dial is the perfect option for you.

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Download All Instagram Photos In A Zip File: Instarchive

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 12:30 PM PDT

Instarchive is a free online Instagram Downloader that helps you to download Instagram photos in a zip format to your computer. This is an easy to use Instagram downloader app, which requires your Instagram login credentials to perform it's job.

Instarchive functions automatically, as it automatically retrieves all your Instagram photos and provides a Download button for downloading all your Instagram photos in one zip file.

If you have an iPhone or any Android device with you, then I guess you might have used the awesome Instagram for iPhone or Instagram for Android at least once. As Instagram is a photo sharing service, so by now you might have uploaded loads of photos to this service. And downloading these photos is not an easy task. So here comes Instarchive for your rescue, as it retrieves all you Instagram photos automatically and stuffs them all into a downloadable Zip file. So you easily download the zip file and regain all your valuable photos. In addition, this free app to download Instagram photos shows all your retrieved photos on the interface before downloading them.

If you are a regular Instagram user, then I am sure; you will find Instarchive very useful. The good part is that you don't need to download or install anything for using this smart service, as it works online. Try Instarchive for free. You may also try free Instagram Downloader for desktop to download Instagram Photos.

How to Download Instagram Photos

This online Instagram downloader makes it extremely easy to download Instagram photos. Just go to Instarchive, provide your Instagram credentials, and that’s it. It will show you a big button using which you can download all your Instagram photos in a one big zip file. This couldn’t have been simpler.

Features Of Instarchive To Download Instagram Photos:

Works Online.
Easy to use Instagram Downloader service.
Download all your Instagram Photos in a Zip file.
Automatically retrieves all of your Instagram Photos.
Displays your Instagram photos after retrieving them.
Nothing to install or download for using this application.

Instarchive is one of the easiest to use Instagram downloader which I came across, as it automatically retrieves all your Instagram Photos and further let's you download these photo in a zip file.

Let us know in comments if you are using some other Instagram downloader.

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Free Online Expense Tracking with Expense Cloud

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Expense Cloud is a free online expense management service where individuals and companies can connect their bank accounts and credit cards in order to keep a better eye on what exactly money is being spent. Economic crisis is causing a lot of people to keep better track of their money, in order to spend less and save more, with Expense Cloud you’ll be able to do exactly that, manage your finance better and more efficiently.

Welcome window will be shown to you when you finish registering, you’ll be logged in automatically. In the welcome window you’re gonna be offered with some basic options like company information setup, credit card setup and so on. Free accounts of Expense Cloud are for personal use, you only get to add 1 user and that one user can track 1 credit card, without advanced options that are needed for companies, like advanced taxing, customs fees managing and so on. With the free account you get to:

Add 1 user with 1 credit card
Import credit cards automatically
Manage recaps and other expenses
Create unlimited numbers of expense reports

As you can see, for small time users, there’s more than enough tools for expense tracking offered in Expense Cloud. Financial information is a very sensitive thing, for this reason the entire Expense Cloud website offers SSL encryption so that chances for third parties to collect credit card info or anything else that you decide to add to your Expense Cloud account are brought to minimum.

How to manage expenses with Expense Cloud

First step would be adding your bank and credit card information to the Expense Cloud website. If you’re not comfortable doing this, you don’t have to do it, but in that case you’ll need to make sure that you manually add expenses which you made with your credit card.

All the major banks and credit card companies are supported so you shouldn’t have any problems with that. Once that your banking information is connected, expenses that you make with the credit card or bank account will be automatically synced to your Expense Cloud account. If you happen to comes across cash that isn’t going through your bank account, you can add that expense manually by clicking on the Expenses tab and then on Add New Expense.

The Expenses tab is where you should also see automatically added expenses, and there you can create reports of how much and on what exactly money was spent. Importing CSV documents is also possible, if you kept track of your expenses in files before deciding to use Expense Cloud.

Conclusion

Expense Cloud is a great way of how you can see on what exactly it is that you’re spending money. Adding expenses to the list is easy, and if you already tracked expenses in a CSV document that can be imported easily. Entire service uses the cloud for more safer and efficient storage of your information. Registration is simple and it’s of course free, so if you’re looking for a way of to track your expense, try Expense Cloud and see how it goes.

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What Is IRC?

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:30 AM PDT

If you have heard the term IRC many times, but always used to wonder “What is IRC?“, this article should answer that. This article contains all the necessary information that you need to get started with IRC.

Whenever people come across this strange looking term “IRC“, their first reaction is: “what is irc?”. People who know little about it think that its dead but I would like to surprise them that’s its still very much alive and kicking.

To summarize quickly, IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is the internet’s first chat network. This came into being much before today’s instant chat messengers did. And it is still not dead; hundreds of thousands of people can be online on IRC chat networks at any point in time. There are thousands of Channels (chat rooms) which are still populated by thousands of people.

Yes, its has been replaced by host of other services and its has gone from being a common, mainstream application for online communication to somewhat unknown and a seldom used tool. But even after all these years of advancement it still remains active. This shows that this technology serves a specific purpose which for now cannot be replaced and most probably will continue to be operational in the decades to come.

What purpose does IRC hold in today’s world of social networking, instant messaging, push emails, chat networks, video calling etc.? To explain what is IRC?, we have to travel back a few decades to the birth of IRC. And see why is it still in use and is relevant even after so many advances in computing.

I think this article is gonna be quite long. So, I have added an Index of content so that you can quickly jump to any part. If you have no clue about IRC, I encourage you to go through the complete article. Get a cup of coffee, relax on your couch, and just be amazed by this amazing invention which probably ensured internet is as popular as it is today.

Content

1 What is IRC

2 Technical Information

2.1 Client / Server Model
2.2 Commands

3 Popular IRC Clients

3.1 Desktop client
3.2 Android client
3.3 iOS client

1 What is IRC :

Internet Relay Chat ( IRC ) was born in August 1988 to replace Bulletin board system(BBS). The protocol was created in Finland by Jarkko Oikarinen. IRC was once the most popular method of online communication and is now replaced by other more modern ones.

IRC is a chat protocol that is used to power various chat networks. Chat networks powered by IRC are known as IRC themselves. Unlike chat networks like Yahoo Messenger or Facebook, IRC is highly decentralized in nature, and not controlled by a single company. Anyone can setup a IRC server on decade old hardware. And there are literally hundreds of IRC clients available for every possible platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, web based, and much more).

Even though popularity of IRC has been dwindling, but still IRC holds relevance because most of software, hardware communities, and some forums (especially open source and hacking communities) use it for providing a sort of informal support of their products, discussing amongst themselves, and in general helping out the users.

With this part we have ended “What is IRC?”

2 Technical Information:

Now that we know What is IRC, let’s dive a little into technical aspects about it. I won't be going in too much detail. But would like to give enough information so that you have a good understanding about its architecture and know enough commands so that you can even work on an application that does not have a GUI. Feel free to refill your coffee cup.

2.1 Client / Server Model:

IRC is a multichannel, multiuser, real time chatting system which uses a client – server architecture. It also offers the ability to transfer files from one user to the other. The chat rooms here are called Channels and one to one communication is called Private Messaging.

To use IRC services we require an IRC client software to connect to a IRC server. There are lots of graphical clients available for free but earlier you had a command line interface and used to manually type commands to perform any action. Anyway the commands still hold some use which I will explain in detail in a while.

There are thousands of servers which cater to different categories. The server part of the IRC is easy to implement and way easier to maintain. To find appropriate channel you can look through many different server-lists.

Best thing about Chatting on IRC is that you don't have go through the process of registering etc., all you have to do is enter a channel and choose a nickname and you can start chatting.

2.2 IRC Commands:

These days all the IRC clients are GUI based and you can point and click your way through the interface. But there are some things which are done better and faster using commands. So here is quick guide to most of the basic commands that you might want to know as a client. However, it is possible to do everything without using any command. So, if you don’t want to bother yourself with technical jargon, feel free to jump this section.

The commands are to be entered in the text field where you would normally enter text to chat but with a forward slash prefixed for example ( /Command ). See screen shot below.

Connecting to a server:

Every server is known by a hostname. Lets take an example of DALnet its Hostname is irc.dal.net. Just type the /server followed by the Hostname.
Example:
/SERVER irc.dal.net
This would connect you to the Server.

Finding channels:

Now your connected to the sever which provides you with channels. To get the List of channels available on the server type /List. This will return you the list of all the channels available on the server with the details of each channel like Name, Users, Topic.
Example:
/LIST

Connecting to a channel:

Once you have the channel name, all you have to do to connect to it is type /join followed by the channel name. If the channel exists you will be connected to it otherwise a channel will be created with the same name.

Example:
/JOIN #MyIRC888
Because this channel does not exists it will be created and you will become its operator.

Getting list of names of people in a channel:

Once you are connected to a network it will show all the user names if you are using a GUI application. If you are using a command line application then just type /names followed by the channel name.
Example:
/NAME #MyIRC888

Other useful command is to use /whois followed by the name of the person who's details you want to get.
Example:
/WHOIS fire88

If you want to change your nick name try the command below.

Example:
/Nick MyNewNickName

Now your nickname will be changed to "MyNewNickName".
Setting your status to away and quitting:

Away:

Want you explain why you will be not available for a while type /away followed by your message .
Example:
/AWAY writing a long article on What is IRC, back in 15 days

When you get back just type /AWAY

Quitting:

There are two methods of quitting: quit and leave. Quitting will exit IRC, while leaving is meant for exiting for a channel.
To quit just type /quit followed by your message which is optional.
Example:
/QUIT Woo Hoo! Article done. Need to get drunk now!

To just leave a specific channel type /leave followed by the channel name .

Example:
/LEAVE #MyIRC888
Starting a private conversation:

To initiate a conversation with someone use /msg command .
Example:
let the persons nick name be Friend to whom you want to send a private message and interact with in this whole example.
/MSG Friend what's sup ??
if you are using a GUI application (which most probably would be the case) then some of those would open a conversation window with other person, like most of the modern chat messengers do. These windows are known as a query window. Now to send a private message if query window did not open would become a cumbersome because you would have to type /msg again and again . Here is when /query command comes in. If you want to open up a separate query window then type /query followed by the persons nick name.
Example:
/QUERY friend hey, how is your day going .

Direct Client Communication(DDC):
If the server is having a problems and lagging etc., then you can bypass the IRC server and continue having a private chat with the person. For this you will need to use DDC command.
Example:
Start DDC:
/DDC CHAT friend
then you can send messages using the /msg command as shown above.
End DDC:
/DDC CLOSE CHAT friend

File Transfer on IRC:
To transfer a file we use the same DDC command but with different arguments.To start a transfer use /ddc send. Then the person will get a notification and if he accepts if then the transfer will occur.

Example:
/DDC SEND friend C:\Users\Icrus\Desktop\test.txt

Depending on the client he/she will get a notification. If it's a GUI application then a dialog box will open up where he/she has to accept the file in order to get it. Else he will get a text saying that I have sent a file using DDC.

To accept is via command he/she has to type the following
/DDC GET yourNickname.

For Further Exploration :

Use help command for further exploration. Just type /help will bring up a list of all the commands that can used are displayed in an alphabetically arranged order.

Example:
/HELP

To get more specific information on a command that your are interested in type the command you are interested in front of /help .

Example:
/HELP SERVER

Extras:

If you are interested in knowing about more commands (including commands for server operations and channel maintains etc.) then read this Article.
Want to setup your own IRC server then follow this amazing tutorial.

3 Popular IRC Clients

Now that we have got a good understanding of what is irc and how to use it. I would like to suggest the most popular free IRC clients for different platforms.

3.1 IRC Client for Desktop:

Xchat is one of the most popular free IRC client application available for desktop. It has a really nice UI, it is a feature rich application and offers scripting too. This makes it a good client for beginners while experienced users can customize it through the use of plugins. Here everything can be can be handled via GUI. It handles multiple windows using tree interface which makes navigation a breeze.

Xchat supports multi server, multi channel, and dialog windows. Best thing about it is that its open source. Xchat also offers a host of external downloadable plugins, which makes it highly customizable and configurable. Xchat supports auto completion of commands and nicknames too.

Downloads:

Windows/Linux : Click here

Mac : XChat Azure is the same application, its compiled from the same source as Xchat is open source for Mac. Its available on the Mac app store and yes it remains free . Click here

3.2 Android:

AndChat is a free android app that offers lot of features. One thing that I like about it is the way it looks. It looks really retro with Black background and colored text. The dark themed simple UI makes it feels like you are using IRC in a terminal (Cool Right !!).

The app is light, fast, and responsive. It is available in the Android market. Now you can keep using IRC and stay connected while on the move. This app is the one of the best IRC clients for Android and best of all its free. To summarize, this Android client for IRC offers a huge list of features that will definitely impress anyone. If you are not interested in this kind of UI you can try AndroIRC.

Click here to download and install AndChat from Google Play Store. You can also scan the QR Code below from Barcode Scanner app to download the app directly from Google Play Store.

3.3 iOS:

IRChon is the one of the most popular IRC clients available for iOS devices. It has a nice polished UI and it comes with all the standard features plus some really awesome ones like the links posted are clickable and can be opened in the internal browser so that you don’t have to switch apps to view a link. And best of all its free. It Requires iOS 2.2.1 or later so even your old ipod Touch will work with this.

Click here to download and install IRChon from App store. You can also scan the QR Code below from Barcode Scanner app to download the app directly from App Store.

So, that’s all the info I wanted to share about IRC. I hope I have satisfactorily answered the question what is IRC, and have also provided just enough information to get you started with it. To try it out, you can just use any IRCserver, setup your own channel, and then have a group chat with your friends; without worrying about which chat network they are originally on. If you have some thoughts to share on this, do let us know in comments section.

Long Live IRC!

What Is IRC? was originally published at I Love Free Software

5 Free Color Picker Software to Pick Colors from Screen

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 08:00 AM PDT

Here, is a list of 5 free color picker software that helps you to pick colors from screen. These free color picker software are especially designed for the web designers in order to make their work easier. With the help of these color picker software, one can easily pick any color on the screen in no time that too without putting in much effort.

Apart from picking colors, these free color picker software also provide some other features like, providing color codes in various formats.

Peacock Color Picker

Peacock Color Picker is a free color picker software which allows you to pick any color from the screen. This free color picker software retrieves any color from the screen in an easy manner and saves the color scheme. This smart color picker even shows you the RGB values and HTML color code on the software interface. In addition, you are even allowed to manually adjust the RGB color values. This free color picker also lets you import or export the color schemes effortlessly. If you are a web designer or web master, then I am sure that you will find this software quite useful and amazing. Download Peacock color Picker for free.

Read more about Peacock Color Picker or download it here.

Absolute Color Picker

Absolute Color Picker is another free color picker software that let's you pick colors and further helps you to convert picked colors into Hex representation. This free color picker software makes it possible for you to choose colors depending on color brightness, color saturation, hues combination, color palettes available on this color picker software. For picking a color, you need to simply click the eye-dropper option and hold the mouse button, now go to any part of the screen in order to get the color of that part of the screen. In this way, you can pick your desired color from the screen. Absolute color Picker comes in a file size of only 1.28 MB, which is very small. Download Absolute Color Picker for free.

Read more about Absolute Color Picker or try it here. Don't forget to check out Color Selector reviewed by us.

Color Seizer

Color Seizer is another free color picker software using which you can pick colors from any part of the screen. When you pick a color, this free color picker software shows you the RGB values, HTML code values, visual basic code, HSL code, Delphi code, etc. This free color picker software is easy to use, as you just need to press the F8 key. Now, you need to move the pointing hand of this program to any part of the screen from where you want to pick the color. Color seizer even magnifies the part of the screen where you place the pointing hand, so you can easily pick the exact color.

Read more about Color Seizer or download it here.

Quick HTML Color Picker

Quick HTML Color Picker is an easy to use free color picker software that helps you to pick or retrieve colors from the screen. The user-interface of this color picker software is very basic and clean and displays the HTML code for the color picked. In addition, it even shows you the RGB (Red, Green and Blue) values for the color that you have picked. For picking a color, you need to launch it and click the Pick Color button. It turns your mouse cursor into a dropper along with magnifying window which magnifies the part of the screen where you place the dropper. Now, left click the mouse to pick the color or else right-click the mouse to exit color picking. Download Quick HTML Color Picker for free.

Read more about Quick HTML Color Picker or try it here. Also, check out our post on Colorzilla for Firefox.

Screen Color Picker

Screen Color Picker is another easy to use color picker. With the help of this free color picker software, you can pick any color on the screen. This free color picker let's you pick a maximum of 4 colors from any part of the screen. In addition this free color picker software even shows you the RGB values, HSB values, GML color code and HEX color code. Screen Color Picker comes with Set Color option to choose your desired color the colors panel. Using this free color picker software is an easy task, as you simply need to place the mouse cursor on the desired portion of the screen and press the Enter key on your keyboard for picking the color.

Read more about Screen Color Picker or download it here.

So, all these are very easy to use screen color picker software that let you easily pick color from any part of the screen, and use them in your graphics programs. If you are using a better screen color picker, do let us know in comments.

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Free Google Docs Desktop Client for Windows: DAO4Sync

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 06:30 AM PDT

DAO4Sync Docs Edition is a free application which is gonna create a virtual drive for Google Docs, so that they can be accessed seamlessly when you’re using your PC, just like you would any other location on your system. This free Google Drive desktop client only works on Vista, Windows 7 and 8, so all those who are using older versions of Windows are either gonna have to upgrade or look for alternatives.

What you see on the image above is Windows Explorer with our Google Docs files opened within it. In the background you can see a Google Docs account and as we are creating documents on our computer, they are also being simultaneously updated and showed on our Google Docs account online. DAO4Sync isn’t very difficult to use, and the application isn’t very large, very small amount of computer resources is necessary for it to work.

Similar software: inSync, Joukuu, Gspace.

How to use Google Docs account as a virtual drive

A lot of people are using Google Docs where they have easy access and editing of important documents, spreadsheets and presentations available. With Google Docs, it doesn’t matter where you are in the world, to access important files all that you need is an internet connection. Not only that you can access your files, but you can also edit them, which makes Google Docs even more useful. However sometimes, for some reason like additional editing functions, users would like to open their online documents locally in Office or its free alternatives LibreOffice or OpenOffice. Normally in these types of situations you’d have to export your files from Google Docs, save them to your computer and then open with the program of your choosing, but now with DAO4Sync Docs Edition you can open and edit them directly online.

Configuring this free Google Docs desktop client isn’t very difficult, after installation, it gonna start running in the system tray, and a popup window is gonna ask you to assign a drive letter for the virtual drive that’s gonna represent Google Docs drive. It’s possible to select it later by right clicking on the system tray icon and selecting Options:

This would be the main configuration window of DAO4Sync, and this is where you’ll be making the majority of changes. Most important thing that you need to do here would be selecting the drive letter if you haven’t when you started DAO4Sync for the first time. After that you’re gonna see an additional partition when you open up My Computer, like you can see on the image above, this means that you can right click on the tray icon again and then on Logon, to enter your Google account login details, so that your files will become visible inside that virtual drive.

Conclusion

DAO4Sync Docs Edition really does as advertised, it’s gonna create a virtual partition where documents from your Google Docs account can be accessed, viewed and edited, without having to open Google Docs in a web browser. Setup is very easy, just two steps are needed, and you’re gonna end up with a Google Docs client on your PC.

Free Google Docs Desktop Client for Windows: DAO4Sync was originally published at I Love Free Software

Create your Own Personal Newsfeed with Prismatic

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Prismatic is a free online service which lets you create your own newsfeed on the basis of your interests. In fact, Prismatic also gives you choice to connect via social networks whether its your Facebook account, Twitter account or google account! Prismatic is simple to use, let's see how!

Getting started with Prismatic

Follow the given steps and you can create your newsfeed:

Open the Prismatic website.
Now, you have the choice to either login through your social networking website or create your own account on Prismatic. The choice is yours.

As you can see in the above snapshot, clicking on the respective icon would prompt you for the credentials of your corresponding account i.e. Facebook, Google or Twitter. The last icon (which we have marked with an arrow) is for those who wish to create a Prismatic account.

Suppose you choose to login through your social networking account, Prismatic would seek permission for certain activities. You would simply have to make a few mouse clicks to get the process completed. On the other hand, if you wish to create your own account, then you will have to create your username and password as well as provide your email.

Using Prismatic Newsfeed Service

When you login to Prismatic, you have lots of categories to choose from as your interests. We have captured a few suggestions in the snapshot below so that you can have an idea of the different categories available with Prismatic.

There are even more categories which couldn't be covered in the picture above. You can add the category you are interested in and thus create your newsfeed on such categories. Suppose, we clicked on the category 'election 2012' under the 'Suggestions' on the right. A webpage was displayed with all the updates and news on election 2012.

Hence as you can see, you can have all the necessary updates from every nook and corner on whichever category you choose!

Sharing your favorite news with friends

Sharing any interesting newsfeed with your friends is simple and just a matter of few clicks with Prismatic. Suppose, you are logged in through your social networking account and come across something which you would love to share, it's simple. Let's see how!

Whenever you open a newsfeed, you will have 3 small icons on the right. The first denotes 'I don't like this story' or rather a dislike option, the second is to add it in your favorites while the third which is denoted by an arrow denotes 'share'. On clicking it, you can either post it, tweet it or share it on your Facebook account.

Verdict

Prismatic is a great platform that let's you view newsfeed on the basis of your interest. You can stay updated in almost every niche and hence this is something which you should definitely check out. There is absolutely nothing to be downloaded or installed and all you need is a working internet connection to stay updated. Try it out, you will definitely love it!

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Create your Own Personal Newsfeed with Prismatic was originally published at I Love Free Software

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