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Free Twitter Desktop Client: Tweeki
Ray’s Letters And Numbers To Learn Letters, Numbers, Colors
Titanium Backup Root App To Backup Apps On Android
Compose Simple Short Songs with 4 Chord Songs
Watch YouTube Videos with Enhanced DVD like Playback: EmbedPlus
Keep Track of Your Gaming Records: Dropboxifier
Kill Unresponsive Applications with Task ForceQuit
Free Drag-and-Drop Music Player for Windows: Trout

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 03:30 PM PDT

Tweeki is a free Twitter desktop client for Windows which you can use to completely replace your browser when it comes to reading new tweets, posting your own updates, reading messages and doing pretty much everything else that you are doing when browsing Twitter with Firefox, Chrome or any other browser that you might be using.

This free Twitter PC client will install itself in the Windows taskbar, like you can see on the image above. After installation is completed, a login window will pop up, where you need to sign in with your username and password and also authenticate Tweeki so that it can access your Twitter account. With Tweeki, like we mentioned, you get everything that you need to use Twitter easily and seamlessly, right from your desktop. Some of the features that you get are:

Timeline reading – see new tweets from the people you’re following
Mentions tracking – see who exactly mentioned you in their tweets
Send and receive messages – check for any direct messages that you have
Monitor created lists or lists to which you’ve subscribed to
Search Twitter for contacts or posts with certain keywords
Send tweets with images, post retweets

All of the above mentioned features that Tweeki has are nicely arranged in tabs, through which you browse in order to reach what you’re looking for. Default tab is of course the Timeline tab, the one that you can see on the image above, this is where you will probably be spending most of your time.

Similar software: TwitContact, Destroy Twitter.

Reading Twitter Timeline without a browser

Those of you who are interested to know how exactly can Twitter be used without opening up the browser should really look into desktop clients, programs made specifically for browsing and using a specific website or a social network. They are very similar to smartphone apps, only they work on regular computers.

On the image above we can see how easy it is to post tweets with the help of Tweeki. First step would obviously be to open up the Tweeki application, by clicking on the icon in the taskbar. Timeline tab, the first one from the left should be open by default, and at the bottom you’ll see the New Tweet box. Important thing to notice would be the small image icon above the tweet button, which you can use to upload images.

Mouse hover over tweets is gonna activate the options for retweeting, contacting the person via direct messages, and you can even create Tweet favorites where you can store tweets that you like the most.

Tweeki is completely free, simply leave it running in the taskbar and do your work on the computer that you’d be normally working, after which you can just click on the Tweeki and see what’s new on Twitter. The small window that Tweeki has is a lot less conspicuous than having actual browser open and checking on updates like that, and it takes a lot less resources also, so make sure to give this free Twitter PC client a try, free download.

Free Twitter Desktop Client: Tweeki was originally published at I Love Free Software

Ray’s Letters And Numbers To Learn Letters, Numbers, Colors

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 02:00 PM PDT

Ray's Letters and Numbers is a free educational software that helps you to learn letters and numbers playfully. This free educational program offers 4 educational activities to teach numbers, teach colors, teach alphabets, and names of everyday objects that we use.

This educational software even helps your child to enhance his/her keyboard skills in a fun way. Ray's Letters And Numbers is unique in it's learning approach, as it allows you to choose between the UK & US spelling.

Ray's Letters And Numbers comes in a very small file size of only 772 KB. All the four activities on this educational program are really very helpful to teach your child effectively.

Teach Alphabets

The Alphabet game is simply awesome, as it speaks out the letter and your child needs to hit the correct letter from the available letters on the screen. Your child can choose to play this alphabet game either orderly or randomly. So by playing this game regularly, your child will learn alphabets playfully.

Teach Numbers

Number Fun is another fascinating game that helps your child in learning numbers from 1 to 10 with spelling.

It even comes with 2 other games like color fun and every day objects to teach your child about colors and everyday objects that we use. Download Ray's Letters And Numbers absolutely free.

Don't forget to check out our recent post on Bridge To Reading.

Features Of This Educational Game To Learn Letters:

Choose between US or UK spelling.
Adjustable difficulty level.
Use either both keyboard and mouse for playing or any of them for playing.
Educational games available on this program are easy to play.
Lightweight educational program with a file size of only 773 KB.
Clear audio to teach spellings correctly.

Download And installation Of This Educational Game To Learn Letters:

For downloading Ray's Letters And Numbers, you need to open the official website of this software and click the download link. An executable file with a file size of 772 KB will be downloaded into your system. Simply run the file and install it.

Ray's Letters And Numbers is a smart educational software that helps your child in learning English alphabets, numbers, color names, and names of everyday objects. If you are looking for simply yet smart tool to educate your child, then I would recommend you to use Ray's Letters And Numbers.

Ray’s Letters And Numbers To Learn Letters, Numbers, Colors was originally published at I Love Free Software

Titanium Backup Root App To Backup Apps On Android

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 12:30 PM PDT

Titanium Backup is a free Android app to backup apps on Android. This Android Backup app is one of the most popular app in Google Play Store. You can backup installed apps. It even lets you to backup system apps. Along with app, it also backs up the data of the app. Titanium Backup works only on rooted Android phones.

After launching the app on your Android, you will get the list of all the installed and system apps. Now tap on the selective apps to create a backup for each. The backup file will be created in the SD card. To Restore any uninstalled or corrupted app, again tap on the app from the TItanium Backup list, and it will quickly restore the app.

Restoring the app allows you to install the lost app on your Android. Along with installing the lost app, you can also restore the data which was saved in the app. Titanium Backup is smart enough to backup the app+data on your Android phone.

As I mentioned above, this Android backup app works on rooted phones only. You can easily root your Android with Unlock Root software using your PC.

After rooting your Android phone, install Titanium Backup app from Google Play Store or our App Store on your Android. Run Titanium Backup to create a backup of all your install and system apps on your Android phone. Apart from this, you can easily check SD card space information and system hardware information.

How To Backup And Restore Apps With Titanium Backup:

Step 1: Download and install Titanium Backup app on your Android.

Step 2: Launch the app.

Step 3: Head to backup/restore tab in the app.

Step 4: Select the app which you want to backup and then tap on backup option.

Step 5: The app will be automatically backed up on your SD card.

Step 6: To restore the lost apps, just click on the backed up apps in Titanium backup app list.

Step 7: Click on restore button, and the app will be restored.

Features Of Titanium Backup App:

Backup all installed and system apps on your Android.
Creates backup file on SD card.
Works only on rooted Android phones.
Check system hardware information which include system ROM, Internal memory, and SD card total and available space.
Backup and restore batch apps.
Freeze any app.
Backup and restore market links.
Apply smart filter in app list of Titanium Backup app.

Install Titanium Backup App:

Click here to download and install Titanium Backup app from App Store or scan the QR Code below. You can also head to Google Play Store and search for Titanium app on your Android phone. Install the app today and save all your favorite apps from being lost.

Making a backup helps you to re-install those apps which are no more available in Google Play Store or on web. Also, there are some apps which you have earlier downloaded for free from Google Play Store, but they have become paid. Backup of apps helps you re-installing apps in situation of these types.

You can also check out small tutorial to backup apps on Android. And in case you accidentally deleted some app, check out Recycle Bin app for Android to restore deleted apps.

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Titanium Backup Root App To Backup Apps On Android was originally published at I Love Free Software

Compose Simple Short Songs with 4 Chord Songs

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 11:00 AM PDT

4 Chord Songs is a free musical application that offers over 50 different 4 chord melodies which you can use when creating songs, witting lyrics or doing anything else that requires a little bit of inspiration and a little something to play in the background to give you tempo and rhythm. Changing the melody styles is very easy, and you can also change various other aspects like tempo, key and length.

Interface of 4 Chord Songs is very modern looking and it’s very simple to use. By default there will be 4 squares present at the center of the application, as you can see on the image above. Each one of these squares represents the amount of time that the basic melody, something similar to a chorus, will be repeated. Other important controls for the program are located at the bottom of the application and in the rest of the 4 corners of the top display. You can for example:

Change between 50 different styles – bossa nova, slow rock, waltz, ballad etc.
Increase or decrease melody tempo
Pick a different key in which the melody will be playing
Increase the length of the melody, mentioned a while back

Created songs can be saved, stored for later use, a classic menu for file manipulation and additional program settings is hidden in the top left corner under the small menu icon present there.

How to create short songs and melodies with 4 Chord Songs

Creating music with the help of 4 Chord Songs is actually very easy, all that you have to do is select one of the 50 different styles that are offered with this free short song creator adjust the song settings that you think have to be adjusted and see how it sounds, if you don’t like what you hear, repeat the procedure.

On the image above, we can see that the selected style is Heart Rock, with Tempo, Key and Length being pointed with arrows. Clicking on each one of these options is gonna cause the available options window to pop-up, similar to the one for Length, which we already described. Tempo is gonna speed up the song, while Key is gonna change the pitch, how the melody sounds.

Once you’re done with configuration, and you think that the song should now be perfect, all that’s left is to click on play, to see how exactly it sounds. If you think that something isn’t quite right, you can easily change things to the way they were before, or change them to something new. 4 Chord Songs is a useful application for all those who are interested in witting songs and music, because it can be used as an inspiration.

Select a melody style, flip through the songs options until you find something that you like, and then simply build up on that and write the entire song based on the foundations that you’ve set in 4 Chord Songs. Same thing could be done by those who are writing lyrics, which is pretty hard without having a tune playing in the background, fire up 4 Chord Songs and improve your creative process.

Compose Simple Short Songs with 4 Chord Songs was originally published at I Love Free Software

Watch YouTube Videos with Enhanced DVD like Playback: EmbedPlus

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 09:30 AM PDT

EmbedPlus is a free addon for the Youtube videos over the internet with enhanced DVD like playback and a whole lot of exciting new features which are discussed below.

Installation of EmbedPlus:

EmbedPlus comes as an extension for Google Chrome, we browser. All you need to do is install the plugin and voila!! You are done.

For Google Chrome, once the plugin is installed you will be able to see an EmbedPlus icon '<+>' towards the right hand side of the URL bar. You can turn EmbedPlus on or off according to your needs by just clicking on it.

To go to the options, right click on the EmbedPlus icon and select Options to set the following three preferences :

Searching for "sweet spots" in Youtube videos.
Loading HD videos when possible.
Displaying the Real time Reactions switch.

You can download the extension by following this link.

Description and Features:

Reactions:

After watching a particular video people all over the world might discuss about it in many places apart from the Youtube comments section. EmbedPlus provides you with options to show viewers the latest reactions over the internet right from your own site. Currently supported sites whose reactions are shown to the user are Google Plus, Twittor, Digg, Reddit and Youtube.

Marking of Chapters:

Similar to the buttons available on a DVD player to navigate through the various chapters of a video file, the user can simply mark various important events during the playback time and can then simply give references to the scene numbers during discussions. The add-on uses an algorithm called 'Sweet Spot Marking' to automatically mark certain portions of the video depending upon the maximum viewer buzz.

Video Loops and Instant Replays:

This lets you replay a particular event after its occurance. You can double click to loop the replay and you can triple click to loop the entire video.

Slow Motion Support:

Isn’t it fun to watch some videos in really slow speed? At times to catch certain quick events in a video like sports highlights, this slow motion feature comes quite handy.

The Movable Zoom Feature:

EmbedPlus provides an uber cool tool which enables the viewer to zoom into any portion of the video. You can use this tool to get a closer view of scenes, actors and various other objects.

Time Based Annotations and Links:

Similar to the feature provided by Youtube, EmbedPlus allows you to add timed annotations to your videos to display certain comments or links during playback time.

Embedding

EmbedPlus allows the user to embed videos in their own blogs or websites. You can do so by following a few simple steps as follows:

If you want to embed a video in WordPress, first you need to get this plugin. After you install this plugin, all you need to do is go into WordPress and you will get to see a new EmbedPlus button that opens a wizard inside your WordPress editor.
You will be asked to enter the YouTube video link.
Then you need to set the various parameters of the video like Size, Start/Stop time, Chapter Markers, Reactions and Annotations.
Click on Get Code which in turn gives you the code required to embed that video in your WordPress blog or any other site.

For non WordPress users click on this link , select No and then follow steps 2 to 4.

Thus we see that EmbedPlus add-on for Youtube is a very powerful tool allowing the user to add extra spices to their videos thus making it all the more interesting to watch. Developers are still working on this add-on to maximize user interests by trying to incorporate reactions from other social sites.

The Final Verdict:

Watch YouTube Videos with Enhanced DVD like Playback: EmbedPlus was originally published at I Love Free Software

Keep Track of Your Gaming Records: Dropboxifier

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 08:00 AM PDT

Dropboxifier is a smart, easy to use, small application using which one can streamline the procedure of adding folders to Dropbox and can create symbolic links.

Are you an extreme gamer? If yes, then you must be aware of the fact that whenever you play any game, it keeps track of your game progress in a separate folder on your hard disk. To continue from the same point in the game on some other computer, you will need to transfer the saved games folder to the other computer. This could be a strenuous task at times. Gone are the days when you need to run around with your USB pendrives in order to transfer saved games and manually replace them on the destination computers. This tiny little application called Dropboxifier makes this job easier for you.

Features of this gaming software:

Dropboxifier is such a handy tool which will successfully fool any other application or software into performing both write as well as read operations directly to and from Dropbox. When you install Dropbox, a new folder with the name DROPBOX is created and the files and folders which you keep inside DROPBOX will be synchronized online automatically in the presence of an internet connection. In other words, combining the Dropbox and Saved Games file we get the Dropboxifier.

Using this tool on one computer is great but when you use this on multiple machines, all the machines are performing read along with write operations to the same set of data. Genius!! In other words, many computers can be working on the same browser data, same saved games and almost any other thing.

Each entry in Dropboxifier is called a link also known as "symbolic links". The way it handles these links to interconnect multiple PCs is quite simple. Follow these simple steps in order to make your folders public over the internet.

First select the Dropbox folder.
In the "Add New Link" panel, type in the name of the new link in the "Name" field.
Select the Source file which you want to share.
Click on "Dropboxifyà"

You will be able to see the added link in the "Dropboxified Folders" panel. Resolved links appear green and unresolved ones appear red. After you add a link, you can go to the other PC and resolve the link by clicking on the "Resolve" button. You can also delete a link by selecting the link and clicking on the "Undropboxify Selected" option.

Download and Installation

Dropboxify is a 140KB executable file which can be downloaded free of cost from the Codeplex website or by clicking here. For further documentation for this software, click here.

System Requirements

Dropboxifier works on both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows 7, Windows 8, Vista and XP. You also need to have Microsoft .Net 4.0 installed.

The Final Verdict

Dropboxifier is a must have for all Gamers. It’s amazing feature of allowing the gamers a hassle free experience with saved games makes it a rage among all. Try it for once: It’s simple, free and works just fine on all PC’s.

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Keep Track of Your Gaming Records: Dropboxifier was originally published at I Love Free Software

Kill Unresponsive Applications with Task ForceQuit

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 06:30 AM PDT

Task ForceQuit is a free application which you can use in order to shutdown unresponsive applications that can’t be stopped the usual way, by clicking on the big red X in the top right corner of the program window. This free task killer will run in the system tray and as soon as you start having problems, as soon as an application becomes unresponsive, you can open it up, find the application in the list of currently running apps and simply click quit, simple as that.

Each one of the applications that you have running will be listed in the Task ForceQuit main list like you can see on the image above where Task Force itself is listed with a Force Quit button available next to it. The list is updated automatically, and in order for the Task ForceQuit window not to bother you, it can be minimized to the system tray, where it will keep monitoring for applications that the user opens in case they freeze and stop working.

Similar software: 5 Free Task Manager Programs, Daphne, Anvir Task Manager.

Kill unresponsive applications with Task ForceQuit

Applications freezing and becoming unresponsive is something that happens all the time, especially on older computers some of which are not able to open modern websites, not to mention modern programs, even if it’s just something simple, like word processing.

At the first sign of trouble, if an application isn’t willing to cooperate, buttons can’t be clicked and eventually the entire program window goes blank with the title changing to the famous Not Responding message, you should open up the Task ForceQuit from the system tray, where it will be nested, and find the application on the previously mentioned list. Like you can see on the image above, next to each one of the programs which are running there is a Force Quit button, which you can click on if you’re having problems with an application that’s unresponsive. Other options are also available, you can for example:

Restart Windows Explorer – the entire Windows interface
Shutdown the PC, in case the usual shutdown methods don’t work
System restart, to give your system a fresh start and the main feature
Shutdown unresponsive applications

Task ForceQuit is free, but when you click on the Force Quit button on a particular application, you’re gonna be greeted with a window where you’ll need to enter an email address in order for the application to be activated. Giving your email is the price for using ForceQuit and it’s a very cheap price when you think about what you get:

This free task killer is very simple to use, and it’s very lightweight, which makes it perfect for older computers that we’ve mentioned before. Having it running in the system tray can help you out at times when you’re having problems with applications that are freezing on you and not working properly, at least until you find the thing that’s causing problems with the application. Since Task ForceQuit is free, it doesn’t cost you anything to try it out and see how useful it can really be.

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Kill Unresponsive Applications with Task ForceQuit was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Drag-and-Drop Music Player for Windows: Trout

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Trout is a simple, easy to use, free music player that is rich in features and supports almost all audio formats. It does not eat much space in your PC and is faster than any other free music player. The audio formats supported by Trout are FLAC, WMP, WMA, WMV, MID, ASF, RMI, MIDI, WV, KAR, AAC, WVC, M4A, MP4, M4P, M4B, AC3, APE, TTA, SPX, OFR, ALAC, MPC. You just need to load the audio file that you want to play and click on the play button. Thus, Trout is a player to play virtually all the audio files which you wish to be played on your computer. This free audio player comes with drag-n-drop support so all you have to do is open the player and drag the file you want to play in the main window.

Installation of this free music player

Installing this free audio player is simple and similar to any other software that you use on your PC. You need to go here and click on the download button. A .exe file will be downloaded and you just need to click on this file to start the installation. Then the usual installation process is followed and you need to click on the next button and finish the installation. Once the player is installed you can start using it and play your favourite audio files. If you are interested to check out some more audio player, you can try Lyricist, CrystalWolf Audio Player and Boom Player.

Interface of Trout

This free music player has a very clear interface that is different from other audio players. You can find all the options in the header of the player that helps you customize the player according to your requirements. The name of the song being played can be seen in a screen at the bottom that shows the name of the artist, album, year, genre, time, bitrate, size, ext., and the path. It does not have any equalizer option but is a very flexible player that does not use much CPU space.

Using this free music player

Using the player does not require any technical expertise. You just need to go to the files option at the top and add the files or the folder that you want to play. You can even add a song by inserting a url. In the files menu you can also find an option to play audio files from the CD drive.

Near the files menu there is the edit option, here you can find a specific track from the list of songs in the audio player. You can even select the songs or remove them from the playlist. Through the edit drop down menu you can even go to the location of the specific audio track.

Then there is the view option where you can select the columns that you want in your player. If you want to change the look or size of the Trout player then you can show minibar (horizontal) or show minibar (vertical). You can also click on the show lyrics window to see the lyrics of the audio file being played. The list option helps you to remove the track after playback or get an audible notification on any new track.

There is also the play mode menu that helps you to make changes in your playlist. You can use it to repeat the list or shuffle. The main screen of the audio player has minimal options. There is only the play, pause, stop and forward option on the main screen.

To make other changes in the audio player you can go to the options menu in the tools drop down menu. In this you can make some general changes in the system tray, tags, as well as the drop options. You can choose the font and colour that you want in your audio player. There is the string formatting option that helps you to make changes in seekbar and the title bar. You can also set hotkeys and with the help of toaster option you can change the effects in the audio player. Trout is a user friendly audio player is easy to use and makes sure that you can configure the player according to your choice.

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