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- Photo To Video Slideshow Maker: Cute Photo Slideshow
- Free Conference Calling Service For India: Sabse Bolo
- Free Raw Image Editing and Batch Conversion with RawTherapee
- Free Photo Editing Software to Add Funny Effects: Funny Photo Maker
- Free Cloud Based Note Taking Application: Fetchnotes
- Free Favicon/Icon Editor: GreenFish Icon Editor
- Comodo IceDragon Browser, Safer Version of Firefox
- 5 Free Software To Limit Computer Time
- Create Encrypted Virtual Hard Disks to Protect Files: Vanish Crypt
- Keyboard Shortcuts For Facebook
Photo To Video Slideshow Maker: Cute Photo Slideshow Posted: 19 Jul 2012 06:30 PM PDT Cute photo slideshow is a free photo to video slideshow maker program that does well on the last two words in its name. The 'cute' bit is a bit objective and will be ignored for the remainder of this review. It can very well be refuted, but that is a matter of personal opinion. The program basically takes a number of pictures, puts together a slideshow of the selected pictures and creates a movie from that slideshow. It is a pretty nifty program in theory, but this review will reveal if it stands up to the test. Features of free photo to video slideshow makerThe feature list is pretty impressive for a program from a small company. As the program is also free to use, that makes the inclusion of few features quite pleasantly surprising. The program allows the user to include any audio file in the movie. The audio file can be played in between pictures or as background or both. The effects, or transitions, between the photos can be randomized. So far, we haven't been able to find out if there is an upper limit on the number of photos that can be included in the movie. The delay between each photo can be set as well. The lowest value is 1 and there is no threshold on the upper limit. The transition delay can be set as well. The program allows a number of choices to the user in the output format of both video and audio. The video can be in one of five modes:
Audio output can be stereo or mono. The bitrate can be selected and can range from 8000 to 44100 Hz. A higher bitrate file will take longer to create and will be larger as well. Downloading and Installation of photo to video slideshow makerThe installer file is quite small at 4.4 MB. Downloading is hassle-free. Installation was done on an Intel Core2Duo computer running Windows 7 32-bit. The software will also run on Windows XP and Vista. Installation is quite easy and quick. It can be downloaded from its website here. Working and InterfaceThis is where the company and its developers' shortcomings come through. The interface presented to the end user leaves a lot to be desired. Mistakes in spellings abound such as 'Outpur' instead of 'Output'. This shows the absence of quality control mechanisms. Working is nothing great, but it doesn't really disappoint either. Rendering is quick and easy and the files can be played back without any jerkiness. VerdictAs a product from a small company, it is not very bad. But there are other programs available out there which do the job better. Small improvements could have been made to the program to make it much easier to judge. But Cute Photo Slideshow can do the job. Just don't expect fireworks. Related posts:
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Free Conference Calling Service For India: Sabse Bolo Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Sabse Bolo is a free conference calling service for India that helps you to make conference calls at local call rate in India. Sabse Bolo (English tranlation: Speak with Everyone) lets you create a free account online. After that, it provides you a unique code to authenticate your conference call. When you want to get in to conference call, you and other participants dial local numbers provided by Sabse Bolo, and then dial the unique conference code, and all of you will be instantly connected on the conference call. This free conference calling service provides local numbers for popular cities like, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Kolkata. If you are in any of these cities in India, then it will be charged as per local call rate for the conference call through this service. If you are not in any of these cities, you can still dial any of these numbers from your city, at STD call rate. Note: Sabse Bolo does not charges you anything for conference call. You are only charged by your phone company for dialing the local access numbers provided by Sabse Bolo. There are no premium charges associated with dialing these numbers. The process to make conference call is simple. First, you need to sign-up with Sabse Bolo conference service and get the unique conference ID and Conference Pin. You have to use the conference ID and conference Pin when you make conference call. All the participants who want to get connected to the conference call must have the same conference ID, conference Pin, and of course the main calling number. The free version of the calling service allows total of 10 members to join the conference call. If you want more members to join the conference call then you need to opt for paid plans of the conference service. How To Make Conference Calling?
Note: The conference service plays advertisements between ongoing call in free plan. But, when I tested, it didn't played any adds in between the ongoing call. You can check another article on conference call service reviewed by us. Features Of Sabse Bolo Conference Calling Service:
Click here to visit the login or sign-up page of Sabse Bolo. Sign-up with the service and get started to make conference calls. I truly liked Sabse Bolo Conference call service as it becomes easy to talk with multiple people without dialing different numbers and without any breakage in network connectivity. No related posts. Free Conference Calling Service For India: Sabse Bolo was originally published at I Love Free Software |
Free Raw Image Editing and Batch Conversion with RawTherapee Posted: 19 Jul 2012 03:30 PM PDT RawTherapee is a free, multi platform, full-featured and very easy to understand raw image editor and batch image converter which you can use in order to manipulate and manage raw image formats so that they can be handled and edited by bitmap image editing tools. A lot of modern cameras are using raw image formats in order to preserve quality and give the user more out of the image which was taken. This type of images have to be processed with a raw image processor in order to become understandable to other image editors, that’s what RawTherapee can do for you. RawTherapee comes with a File Browser, which you can see on the image above. By default what waits for you after you start RawTherapee will not be what you see on the image above. To get a list of images similar to the one above, you’ll have to navigate to your camera or wherever it is that images which you wish to edit are stored on your computer. On the right you can see the selection of tools available for raw image editing, which are extensive. Similar Software: Image Editing with Pixia. Free raw image editing with RawTherapeeTo start editing images, double-click on the image that you want to edit, after you have the image folder opened and then you should see something similar to this: The two most important tools of RawTherapee are marked with red on the image above. What’s marked are 6 different image editing tool categories where you will be able to find practically everything that you need for successfull batch image editing. The categories that we are here mentioning are:
These are of course not all of the image editing options available, and you can find much more if you decide to use RawTherappe. The second thing that we have marked on the image above is the ability to save processing profiles, which are important for batch raw image processing, which is another useful feature that RawTherapee supports. Batch raw image processing with RawTherapeeHere we see batch image processing in at play. Adding images to the batch processor is very easy, all that you need to do is right-click on the image from the main image selection window and from there you need to choose Add to queue. But before you do that, if you are converting a lot images which need to have the same types of edits made to them, you should right-click, select Processing Profile Operations >> Apply and from there select the saved profile, which you made on step one. RawTherapee offers a lot of features, it works on Windows, Linux and Mac, all the famous image formats are supported, all of that for free, try RawTherappee and see how good it is. Related posts:
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Free Photo Editing Software to Add Funny Effects: Funny Photo Maker Posted: 19 Jul 2012 02:00 PM PDT 'Funny Photo Maker' is a program without any pretence whatsoever. Unlike many other applications where the end user does not know what exactly the program is supposed to do, this one makes its intentions very clear in the name itself. It's not meant to be a replacement for other serious photo editing applications such as Corel Draw or Photoshop, but is aimed at novice users who want to have some fun with their photos. Features of this photo editing softwareThe program is quite simple to use and has a number of features. It has three modes in which the user might choose to work. These are Frames, Face Fun and Artistic. The first one takes a picture of choice from the user and puts it in one of many innovative frames. These include one of the pictures at an art gallery, a billboard at a train station, a poster and so on. These will be mostly used to edit people's faces into these various locations. As the application's name implies, this can be used to achieve amusing results. Face fun is used to edit portrait photos. For example, it can be used to show a person standing on the moon, or a person's face can be morphed onto a monkey's body. Other options include having a cat's body, being George Bush's friend, Ironman, Ghost Rider among many others. This is the most exhaustive list among the 3. Quite obviously, this can create some pretty funny effects. The last one is a slightly more serious effect, but tweaking a few of the settings can create some hilarious results. This one is called 'artistic' and provides a simple one-touch operation to edit photos to give somewhat artistically pleasing results. Downloading and InstallationThe program is quite large. It is about 36 MB in size and downloading can take a while if it is done with an onerous internet connection. Once downloaded, installation is a breeze and is over in a jiffy. For this review, the machine used was running a dual-core Intel processor and Windows 7 32-bit. The program can be run on any Windows operating system from Windows XP. The program can be downloaded from its website. Working and InterfaceThe software works surprisingly well, especially considering that it is made by a small company. There are no bugs to report and it works quite smoothly. It is light on resources and also quite quick. However, these do not cover up for the fact that the interface leaves a lot to be desired. For seasoned photo editing software users, the interface is too clumsy and cluttered to be attractive. But for a more novice audience, it could work. Simplistic touches abound and first time users should have no difficulties with the application. VerdictFunny Photo Maker is an application that should be used by children and absolute computer novices. The effects are amusing for sure, but they also leave a lot to be desired on the functionality front. If anyone is at all serious about photo editing, they should look elsewhere, especially online editing software such as Pixlr, Sumo Paint, etc. No related posts. Free Photo Editing Software to Add Funny Effects: Funny Photo Maker was originally published at I Love Free Software |
Free Cloud Based Note Taking Application: Fetchnotes Posted: 19 Jul 2012 12:30 PM PDT Fetchnotes is a simple, free note taking utility which acts as a cloud-based notepad making the process of taking notes much easier. The company has ensured that the application is kept simple and not loaded with any unwanted features so that people use it only for the purpose it is made for. The cloud-based note-taking utility is placed as a widget in front of you with notes which you need to be saved and up there in front of you. You can put in notes and save them while you are working on a particular project or an assignment where you need to jot down key points for future references. Installing this note taking applicationIn order to install this simple application you can visit the developer's site here and click on the relevant Operating system on which you wish to use it on. If you are a windows user you would have to click on the windows logo at the bottom of the homepage (shown in the screentshot below). Once you click on the logo the software gets installed on your system after which you will have to run the executable file. You can also try NoteFly, KeepNote and Stick A Note reviewed by us. Using this note taking applicationAfter you launch the application by clicking on the executable file the program starts whereby it downloads other necessary elements to start the program. You would need an internet connection while you launch the program. In order to use the program you would also need to have an account on their website which could be created from their homepage itself. After you create the username and the password for your account you need to come back to the software window and click on login from the drop down which appears by clicking on the wheel at the top left of the main window. After you insert your login details the software connects you to your online account. Now you are ready to create your own notes save them and view them when you need them. To start with you need to type in your notes and press the enter key. You may add as many notes and tag them as per your needs. The moment you press enter and start saving your notes it also gets updated in your online account. They are displayed as per the tags they have been saved, which makes it simpler to list down notes of a particular tag. You may visit the website and login to your accounts to have a look at all the tags and notes that have been created. It appears in a very simple manner but looks great too. Hence having your notes saved and that too in a safe manner was never so simpler. With Fetchnotes you could save them all and you need not be an expert to retrieve or access them the moment you want. The added advantage is that your notes always remains yours and guarded from unauthorized access. Moreover you can save them from anywhere you want and access them by just logging in to your account wherever you want. No related posts. Free Cloud Based Note Taking Application: Fetchnotes was originally published at I Love Free Software |
Free Favicon/Icon Editor: GreenFish Icon Editor Posted: 19 Jul 2012 11:00 AM PDT GreenFish Icon Editor Pro is a very advanced icon editor and image to icon converter which you can use if for example you want to create a website icon, the famous favicon, or if you are creating a program for which you would like to create a icon used on launchers. Program comes packed with numerous tools, and some very advanced features which are even better than on some image editors. As you can see from the image above GreenFish Icon Editor Pro really lives up to its name, it come packed with a wide range of tool, and some might even confuse it with Photoshop. We are of course kidding, but GreenFish does have a lot of similarities with other big shots in the world of image editors, like GIMP and Paint.NET, we have:
These are just some of the tools which you can find in GreenFish editor, although majority of users will probably not need most of them, what’s most interesting would be the image to icon converter where you can select any image, it can even be an image of you, and you can convert it into an icon, we’ll get to that later, image editor comes first. Similar software: iChanger. Create and edit icons for free with GreenFish Icon Editor ProA great way of how to start creating an icon would be by opening an existing image. If for example you are creating a favicon for a website, you will probably already have some sort of logo ready which you can simply open up in GreenFish, edit it a bit and then convert it into a proper format for a favicon, which would be .ICO. Other supported formats:
What you see above is an attempt at creating what was described above. We opened an image and made some changes to it, and we got this interesting postcard, instead of an icon. Results will be much better once that the program is in proper hands. Notice on the right top corner we have layers, which we’ve used. On this particular icon we also used a brush, see it loaded in the lower left corner. Don’t judge GreenFish based on what you see above, it’s not the programs fault, it’s ours :). Image to Icon/Favicon conversion with GreenFish Icon EditorFavicons are icons which are placed next to the website URL in the browsers URL bar, look up. They can also be seen in favorites, they are essentially website icons. Converting images into icons with the help of GreenFish is easy: Click on File >> Batch Convert and then simply add images that you want to convert, select icon formats, and save setting, click on OK and they will be converted and saved in the same folder where the original image was. Icon will be left opened so that you can edit it additionally, all that free of charge, download GreenFish and enjoy. Related posts:
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Comodo IceDragon Browser, Safer Version of Firefox Posted: 19 Jul 2012 09:30 AM PDT Comodo IceDragon is a secure browser designed and built on the core features of Mozilla. It retains the core functionalities, looks and performance of Mozilla with Comodo's security features added to it. You can download and use Comodo IceDragon for free! Internet security is of prime concern for all internet users. Attacks from malicious content in various websites is becoming a household phenomenon. Despite this threat you are also liable to loose your privacy as well as your sensitive information like the login credentials etc. Unauthorized access of data is increasing by the day. You can stay protected from all these just by using Comodo's IceDragon browser. Highlights of Comodo IceDragon
You can also check out other free browsers reviewed by us. Installation Tips
Also checkout waterfox free browser which is a 64-bit version of Firefox. Comodo's IceDragon is a new revolution which meets users security requirements as well as their particular browsing necessities. All these features are combined with a sleek looking user interface. No problems in accessing various options and settings as the same Mozilla user interface is retained in Comodo IceDragon too! Test results indicate excellent safe and fast performance without any crashes. Recommended for use by all Internet users this Comodo IceDragon is all set to revolutionize the way people browse! Related posts:
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5 Free Software To Limit Computer Time Posted: 19 Jul 2012 08:00 AM PDT Here, is a list of free software to limit computer time for kids. With the help of these parental control software, you can easily view and control the activities of your kids on the computer. If your kids are using computers on a regular basis, then you should necessarily use these software to limit their time spent on computers. Try these software to limit computer time free. Romaco TimeoutRomaco Timeout is a free parental control software that let's you limit computer time. This free software basically allows you to set the time limit for computer usage, so your kids can use the computer according to the time limit specified by you in the software. This parental control software is also capable enough to block the web browser usage, block websites, and block other computer programs unsuitable for kids. This timer software even allows you to restrict the number of hours in a day to use computer. If your kids are spending more time on computers, rather than playing or doing any other activity, then it's worth trying out this software to impose limit on computer usage. Read more about Romaco Timeout our try it here. Norton Online FamilyNorton Online Family is another free parental control software which helps you to view and control activities of your kids on computer. This awesome software even comes with a time limits feature which allows you set the time limits for using computers. In this way, you can ensure that you kids spend more time in playing, studying and other activities rather than using computers excessively. With the help of this software, you can even limit the computer usage to specific hours/days within a week. You can even view the websites visited by your kids while they were online. This software comes from Norton, the house of one of the best antivirus software, and has really cool features to protect your kids when they are online. Read more about Norton Online Family or try it here. Don’t forget to check out our featured post on best free parental control software. Verity Parental ControlVerity Parental Control, as the name itself suggests that this is a free parental control software to monitor kids activity while they are using computer. Using this free parental control software, you can easily set the time limits for computer usage, so that you kids use computer according to the time limits set by you. This Parental control software include loads of features like, you can block specific websites and programs unsuitable for kids, tracks the computer when it's online or offline, etc. Try Verity Parental Control for free. Read more about Verity Parental Control or try it here. Windows Live Family SafetyWindows Live Family Safety is a free parental control software to monitor the online activity and limit the computer usage. This free tool even comes with a Time Limits feature which allows you set the time limits for computer usage on the basis of specific hours and days in a week. This free software to limit computer time offers an easy process to set the time limits on computer usage. You need to make the Time Limits Feature ON and select hours and days in a week in which you don't want your kids to use computers. After selecting the hours and days, you need to click the save button to save and apply the changes. In this way, you can restrict the computer usage for your kids at home. Here is a video that explains how to set time limits on Windows Live Family Safety: Click here to view the embedded video. Read more about Windows Live Family safety or try it here. Also, check out our featured post on free software to block Facebook. GroundHog Internet AccessGroundHog Internet Access is another simple and straight-forward software which allows you to set the time limits for computer usage. This free parental control software completely blocks internet on your computer, as it makes the network OFF and displays a white screen with main interface of the software on the computer screen. So your kids won't be able to use computer anymore without the parent password. You can add children to this software and specify their computer usage time in minutes. In this way, you can limit computer time for your kids, so they can only use the computer in accordance with the specified time limit. If you are looking for simple tool to limit computer time for your kids, then, it's worth trying out this parental control software. Read more about GroundHog Internet Access or try it here. So, these were few free software to limit computer time for kids at home. Try these parental control software for free. No related posts. 5 Free Software To Limit Computer Time was originally published at I Love Free Software |
Create Encrypted Virtual Hard Disks to Protect Files: Vanish Crypt Posted: 19 Jul 2012 06:30 AM PDT Vanish Crypt is a free encryption tool which will create an encrypted virtual hard drive where you can store your files and data for safe keeping. Application does not require installation, just download, extract and then if you’re lucky run it. We’re saying if you’re lucky, because we encountered some problems when starting the application for the first time, but solutions for these bugs are easy and you’ll most likely not experience the problems that we have experienced. Those of you who have decided to download the application, and instead of seeing the image above you received errors that various .OCX files are not available, follow this fix in order to make the program work. Follow the steps in this fix for each of the files that you receive the error for, we had to download 2, and after you do that, the program worked fine. Similar Software: TrueCrypt. Free virtual hard disk encryption with Vanish CryptEncrypting documents and files can come in very handy in several different situations. For example you maybe have sensitive work files that need protection, or you just have nosy family members which are not taking your privacy seriously and are always going through your personal files. Before you can start protecting your files and documents with Vanish Crypt, you have to create a virtual disk. This virtual disk will be a file that you save somewhere on your computer. You can see a virtual hard disk file already created on the image above. During the virtual drive creation you’ll be asked to create a password for drive access. There’s no password repeat option, so make sure that you enter correct password, you’ll find out soon enough if it’s wrong, because you will need it when you’re mounting the virtual drive. Here we now have an open virtual hard disk. Disks will be opened by clicking on the Mount vDisk option which will then prompt you with the standard open file window where you can choose the created virtual disk file. The next step is to enter the password which you have created when the disk was being created. Password is a good thing, it makes this virtual disk encrypted and inaccessible to others, who do not know the password that you’ve used. To encrypt files simply add them by clicking on the Add File and then select the documents that you wish to protect. A drawback of the program is that you cannot add several files at once, you’ll have to do it one by one, which could take time. After the files were added, they will appear in the list below, as you add new files they will all appear in the list, and you can access them the usual way, by left clicking on them. When you’re finished adding files, make sure that you click on the Unmount vDisk option at the top menu, which will close the virtual disk file, after which the password is required to open it once again. Vanish Crypt is free, use it if you’re looking for file encryption software. Related posts:
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Keyboard Shortcuts For Facebook Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:00 AM PDT Here, are keyboard shortcuts for Facebook. Facebook is the most popular social networking website. If you are a die hard fan of Facebook, and use Facebook on PC, then you can speed up your facebook browsing experience by using keyboard shortcuts for Facebook. Keyboards shortcuts for Facebook makes it easy for you to browse and manage Facebook with ease and at a faster speed. Many a times it happens that you are browsing Facebook and you are somewhere far from your Facebook homepage. In those cases it becomes a bit longer process to click back and switch over to the homepage, your profile page, friend request, or any other Facebook page. Keyboard shortcuts makes it easy for you to browser Facebook with hotkeys. Keyboard Shortcuts for Facebook:Alt+? → Go Search bar Alt+1 → Home (News Feed) Alt+2 → Your Profile Page Alt+3 → Friend Request Alt+4 → Messages Alt+5 → Notifications Alt+6 → Account Settings Alt+7 → Privacy Settings Alt+8 → Go to the Facebook page Alt+9 → Facebook Statements and Rights Agreement Alt+0 → Facebook help center The above keyboard shortcuts works when you are browsing Facebook on Google Chrome browser, or Internet Explorer. If you are browsing Facebook on Firefox or or if you have any other operating system installed, then follow the below pattern of keyboard shortcuts and the above numeric keys. While browsing Facebook on Internet explorer, after pressing Alt plus the hotkey i.e., any numeric key, press enter to so that internet explorer gives the output of the hotkey command on Facebook. Remember: Use the numeric keys which are located at the top of you keyboard. Don't use the numeric keys from the number pad of the keyboard as numeric keys from number pad will not work on Facebook. You can also check out keyboard shortcuts for Windows live writer. Related posts:
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