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Track NSE Stock Quotes On Android: NSE Watch Live App
Automatically Shutdown Idle PC: AllOff
Turn Laptop Into Wi-fi HotSpot Using mhotspot
5 Free Android Wallpaper Apps To Download Wallpapers on Android
Moon Breakers: Free Action 3D Space Game
Free Accounting Software To Create Invoices And Manage Balance Sheets
Spyware And Malware Removal Tool For Windows: Combofix
Free System Cleanup and Performance Suite for Windows
Jolicloud Desktop: Free Cloud Based Desktop
Free Alternative To iTunes: PhoneTrans

Track NSE Stock Quotes On Android: NSE Watch Live App

Posted: 06 Oct 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Track Stock Quotes is a free Android app to track stock Quotes from NSE stock market. This Android app tracks the stock quotes of any company or firm and displays the updated price prevailing in NSE stock market (NSE is a stock exchange of India). If you want to track stocks of other stock exchanges, you can check out other apps to track stocks on Android

The app also allows you to add portfolios in order to buy or sell stock. To setup portfolio, you need to search the stock which you want to add. Now enter the price and quantity of the stock and select buy or sell option whichever you want. The stock will be added and you can easily track it in the portfolios tab of the app.The app displays the last price and the change in price. You can even check out the percentage change in stock quotes and stock market prices.

NSE Watch Live app provides truly a simple user interface to track stock quotes. The app is good for the trader, business professional who deals in different stocks. It is important to know the current prices of stocks prevailing in NSE stock market. NSE Watch Live defines its name in a perfect way as all the stock quotes are displayed live. Just tap on "Auto On" button to let the app update prices automatically. This ensures that the prices currently displayed in the app are up to date according to NSE stock market.

The app pulls data from Google Finance and Yahoo Finance.

Features Of NSE Watch Live to Track Stock Quotes:

Watch live stock quotes of any company listed on NSE.
All the stock quotes are according to NSE stock market.
Displays the last price, change in price, and the percentage change.
Add multiple companies to track the stock quotes for the same.
Add stock portfolios in the app.
Tap on the any stock quotes to check the detailed information.
Stock news available.
Sort the list of stocks.

Install NSE Watch Live App:

Click here to download and install NSE Watch Live app from Google Play Store.

NSE Watch Live app makes real-time stock tracking possible on Android. Just install this app which even helps you to backup and restore all stock data by adding a Google account in the app. The app works like a charm on Android. You can also check out inStocks BSE/NSE Stock Markets app for Android.

Track NSE Stock Quotes On Android: NSE Watch Live App was originally published at I Love Free Software

Automatically Shutdown Idle PC: AllOff

Posted: 05 Oct 2012 06:00 PM PDT

AllOff is a free system utility software that monitors mouse, keyboard, CPU load, and download activities, and automatically Shutdown PC, if it’s idle.

AllOff automatically monitors your PC activities and initiates a Shutdown operation if the activities are found less than the preset threshold limits. It supports the following Shutdown operations: Power Off, Log Off, Hibernate, Shutdown, Reboot, and Standby. It consumes very less system resources and works really fast.

Download and Installation of AllOff:

AllOff is developed by JSutils, and is available for both commercial, and non-commercial use. The freeware is available for personal, non-commercial use and needs a registration code for activation. You will get the registration code and download links on download page of AllOff. Click on the "Register AllOff" link to get the registration code. You will get the registration code via email. Next, download AllOff zip file and extract the archive. After that, just run the executable file to install AllOff on your computer. As you finish installing the software, it will ask you to enter the registration code that you have received in your mail. Enter the same code here and you are all set to use AllOff.

Also, check out some other similar software to automatically Shutdown PC: WinMend Auto Shutdown, DShutDown, and iShutDown Timer.

Automatically Shutdown PC with AllOff:

AllOff is a handy software that works automatically to track your PC activities. Just configure AllOff to preset countdown timers and Shutdown operation, and leave the rest to it. AllOff sits in the system tray area and runs in background to track the mouse or keyboard status, CPU load, and download rate of the files. It then compares each of them with the preset thresholds and initiates the specific Shutdown operation; if they are found low as compared to the preset limits. If they exceed the preset limits, AllOff terminates the Shutdown operation and reset all counters.

Apart from that, it also offers an optional slave program, which can be installed in second computer to monitor communication of slave computer from main computer. The main program monitors the activities on the slave computer and initiates a Shutdown operation if no communication is recorded between both the computers, in addition to the normal keyboard, mouse, CPU, and download tracking operations.

You can refer the website for more details on how to use AllOff.

Configuring AllOff:

You can configure AllOff activation, CPU/keyboard/mouse control, system shutdown, and other operations through AllOff configuration screen. It's possible to disable or enable CPU load, or mouse/keyboard activity monitoring through AllOff configuration screen.

The above screenshot shows a clear view of the configuration screen. I might have extended my article explaining each section in detail, but the developer has already provided sufficient details on the whole configuration part. You can refer the website's AllOff Configuration page to get more details on it.

Key Features of AllOff:

Automatic System Shutdown: AllOff provides automatic system Shutdown functionality.
Saves Power, Energy, and Money: Automatic system Shutdown helps in saving power, energy, and money, when the system is no longer needed for work and remains idle.
Various Operations: It provides various operations including Power Off, Log Off, Hibernate, Shutdown, Reboot, and Standby.
Preset counters: It allows you to configure CPU/keyboard/mouse control, system shutdown, and software activation operations, and preset timers for each of them.
Fixed Delay: You can configure AllOff to delay the initiation of Shutdown operation for a fixed time period.
Fixed Time: You can configure Shutdown operation to begin at a fixed time.
Cancel Shutdown: You can configure Shutdown operation to delay for sometime to allow cancellation of the Shutdown operation, if needed.
Remote Computer Control: It also facilitates to control a remote computer through it's optional slave program.

Check out TimerTask reviewed by us.

The Final Verdict:

AllOff is a good software to automatically shutdown PC and save power and money. It monitors regular PC activities, keeps track of mouse, keyboard, CPU load, and download status of all files, and automatically initiates a Shutdown operation whenever no activity is recorded in the system.

Although the software serves good in terms of automatic Shutdown of PC and saving power consumption and energy, however, during my testing, It did not work properly. I configured it to Hibernate if no PC activity is recorded in the system, but the system hibernated even when I was working and using both my mouse and keyboard. Still if you are finding something interesting in the software and want to give it a try, you can download it for free.

Download AllOff free.

Automatically Shutdown Idle PC: AllOff was originally published at I Love Free Software

Turn Laptop Into Wi-fi HotSpot Using mhotspot

Posted: 05 Oct 2012 05:00 PM PDT

mhotspot is a free software that let’s you turn laptop into Wi-fi hotspot. Apart from laptop, you can even turn PC into Wi-fi hotspot, which has a wireless adapter. By doing this you can connect devices like mobile phones, tablets, etc to your own wi-fi hotspot. It’s very useful for situations where you do not have a home wireless network, but still have an internet connection on your computer.

Great thing about this free wi-fi hotspot creator is that it’s a very small application, less than half a megabyte in size and it’s also portable, you don’t have to install it, so it’s not a hassle to start using it. It’s simplicity continues even when you start it up, see it’s interface in the screenshot above. On the left we have the main controls for creating the computer wi-fi hotspot, and on the right there’s an ad, which might be annoying to some, but considering what you get in return, it’s more than worth the suffering, don’t you agree?

Key Features of mhotspot that Turns Laptop into Wi-Fi Hotspot:

Creates a wi-fi hotspot from your Windows 7 PC or laptop.
Lightweight and portable; there’s no need for installation.
WPA2/PSK encryption and security for the created hotspot.
Customizable name for the created wi-fi hotspot.
Share any type of internet connection: 3G, 4G, EVDO, wired.

Since usually when there’s wireless adapters on your machine that would imply that you have a wireless network, then mhotspot isn’t the thing you need, you already have a wireless hotspot, unless it’s a faint signal. This free wi-fi hotspot creator is used when you have wireless cards installed, and when you have internet access, which isn’t wireless, for example only a wired router or perhaps only a 3G connection. In that situation you need mhotspot to turn your computer into a wireless hotspot. Try out some other Free Software to Use Laptop As Wi-fi Router.

How to use mhotspot to Turn Laptop into Wi-fi Hotspot:

mhotspot is very easy to use and you’ll have your very own hotspot up and running in just a few minutes. Startup the application and fill in everything that’s asked of you. Name of the hotspot, password and most importantly, down at the bottom select the internet connection that you’ll use for your hotspot.

Make sure that the wireless adapter is plugged in and hit Start hotspot. Once you do that, refresh the list of available hotspot on your wireless devices and there should be the newly created hotspot available for your to connect to it. This free hotspot creator look something like this when it’s working properly.

Click the Stop hotspot button when you no longer need the created wireless network and that’s it, your very own hotspot is now turned off, when you want it again, repeat the process.

Also, check out MyRouter reviewed by us.

Conclusion

Very simple to use and effective hotspot creator to turn laptop into wi-fi hotspot, you don’t need to have a lot of experience to figure out how it works, and everything does work. Try mhotspot for free.

Turn Laptop Into Wi-fi HotSpot Using mhotspot was originally published at I Love Free Software

5 Free Android Wallpaper Apps To Download Wallpapers on Android

Posted: 05 Oct 2012 04:00 PM PDT

Here, are 5 free Android wallpaper apps to download free wallpapers on Android. Wallpapers makes your background look beautiful; be it a desktop, laptop, or any smart device. To customize your Android screen, you can set multiple types of wallpapers. Google Play Store has multiple Android apps that allows you to browse and download beautiful wallpapers on Android.

We will discuss about 5 best free Android wallpaper apps which include Cool Wallpaper HD, Wallpaper HD, Flikie Wallpaper HD, and more. Download and install one of the app and then start downloading beautiful HD wallpapers on your smart Android phone.

Cool Wallpaper HD:

Cool Wallpaper HD is a free Android wallpaper app that lets you download free wallpapers on Android. The app brings awesome collection of wallpapers in thumbnail format. Also, this Android wallpaper app provides collection of wallpapers in HD format. You can easily download any wallpaper to your Android phone's gallery or you can directly set any wallpaper to your desktop background. You can browse wallpapers according to the filtered ones, the popular ones, and new wallpapers. The filtered wallpaper list include 3D, abstract, flags, landscape, thanksgiving, festival, car, animal baby, religious, quotes, and much more. Select any one of the category and browse wallpapers accordingly. You can even search for any specific wallpaper from the smart search bar given in the app. You can check the full review by us on Cool Wallpaper HD app for Android.

Wallpaper HD:

Wallpaper HD is a free Android wallpaper app that lets you browse and download from a vast collection of HD wallpapers on Android. Like Cool Wallpaper HD app above, this Android wallpaper app also provides collection of wallpapers in thumbnail view. You can easily set any wallpaper as your Android phone background directly from the app or you can download the wallpapers directly on your SD card and use them later at any point of time. On top of it, all the wallpapers provided by the app are in HD format. The good part of the app is its color part. You can easily browse and download wallpapers according to your favorite color. If you want, you can browse wallpapers according to multiple categories which include flower wallpapers, vintage, abstract, nature, animals, and much more. Wallpaper HD is one of popular and easy to use wallpaper app in Google Play Store. Check out full review by us on Android Wallpaper HD app.

Background HD Wallpaper:

Background HD Wallpaper is another popular wallpaper app which provides collection of wallpapers on Android. This Android wallpaper app provides high definition wallpapers to browse, download, and set as your desktop background. On top of it, you can browse wallpapers according to their popularity, the recently added wallpapers, and the wallpapers according to the selected categories. Categories in app include Girly, Beaches, Christmas, Sports, Music, Patterns, Nature, Quotes, Funny, Halloween, and more. The app also allows you to set any wallpaper on any contact or in your favorites list. Run wallpaper slideshow by setting the slideshow rotation on daily, hourly, and every 12 hours basis.

PicSpeed HD Wallpapers:

PicSpeed HD Wallpapers is a free Android app to browse and download HD wallpapers on Android. This Android wallpaper app allows you to browse wallpapers according to multiple categories which include abstract, animals, cars, cartoons, city, female celebrities, gaming, holidays, music, nature, sports, love, and more. The unique part of this Android wallpaper app is its automatic changing of wallpaper. You can set the time limit of the wallpaper changer and the app changes wallpaper automatically on your Android's background. The app picks up the wallpapers added in your favorites list to automatically change. It will ruin up your battery life if you are enabling automatic wallpaper changer.

Flikie Wallpaper HD:

Flikie Wallpaper HD is a another free app to download wallpapers on Android. This Android app provides more than 17,000 high quality wallpapers to browse and download. As other Android wallpaper apps discussed above, this wallpaper app also allows you to download the wallpaper and save it on your SD card. The other way is to set the wallpaper directly from the app. You can even browse wallpapers according to recently added wallpapers, popular wallpapers, and category wise wallpapers. Categories of the wallpapers include people, 3D, love, patterns, abstract, funny, movies, nature, anime, fantasy, quotes, and much more. Also, you can search your favorite wallpapers from the smart search bar in the app. View the wallpapers in full screen mode before downloading or setting it on your Android's background.

If you find any other good Android wallpaper app, then do let us know in the comments below.

5 Free Android Wallpaper Apps To Download Wallpapers on Android was originally published at I Love Free Software

Moon Breakers: Free Action 3D Space Game

Posted: 05 Oct 2012 03:00 PM PDT

Moon breakers is a free arcade action 3D Space game which can be played on a Chrome browser. Create a login with your Gmail account, add the extension to your Chrome, install, and stroll along the galaxy.

This is a good 3D space game which needs to download a 370MB size assets file from the internet to start playing. You either join the government side or become a pirate to aquire valuable resources from the Moon.

About This 3D Space Game:

Moon Breakers is a Multi-player 3D Space Game that is free to play on your Google Chrome Browser. Either you join the Pirates or the Government team; your aim is to kill the enemies or fight till the end, for control of the valuable Helium-3 being mined. Your team wins if you destroy the opposite team's Space Carrier or by having earned the most points by the end of round.

First when you visit the website, you will be asked to install an application to the Chrome Browser. Click Add and then a Signup option appears. You can login with your Google id and create a username and password. Then a confirmation mail will be sent to your Gmail account. Visit the Moon Breakers website again and login with your username and password. Then a download size of 370MB assets file will be downloaded. After the download is finished you are ready to fly into the space. If you want to play games on a web browser without registration and downloading then try: Boss Rush and Death Race online.

The Pilot ID is your username. If you want to change it, you will have to purchase it. I feel it's good to choose your username wisely and go with it. Now you will be asked to choose your server regions from the following options: United States West, United States east, European Union West, Asia Pacific South East, South America East, and Australia. Choose the area and you will be automatically assigned a match. You will be asked to choose from a group of space crafts divided as follows: L. Fighters (Light), M. Fighters (Medium), H. Fighters (Heavy), and Bombers. The fighters’ description is given in the side window. Only one L. Fighter and one Bomber is unlocked for you amongst many other fighters, from different categories. Choose one of them and you will be immediately flying off from the hangar.

The game is so realistically designed, as we can see flying dust, pieces of rocks moving slowly, space aura, etc. Your space craft moves fast in the hangar but slow in space even at full throttle. Control your space craft with [WASD] buttons and look around with the mouse. Use the left click for machine gun and right click for launching those deadly missiles. Drive through those flying pieces of rocks and shoot at your enemies. You can take cover behind those rocks and lock missiles at opposite team's Space Carrier. But be careful, you might not notice those moving rocks which may damage your space craft or the enemy space carrier firing at you.

If you win, you will be awarded with huge credits with which you can upgrade your ships or buy boosts. If you don't, then you may get very less credits. Depending on your server you will have opponents or team mates. You can chat with other players by pressing Enter and typing in and again press Enter to send the message. You can see the controls by pressing Escape and choosing options menu. The winners are decided on rounds basis. Each round is based on time which will be indicated on top of the screen. So, shoot down your enemies before the count down ends.

Search and Destroy or Assault the Carrier, either way you win and bring glory to your team. The sound effects are good and graphics are really awesome. If there is any problem connecting to the servers then that might be because of your Antivirus application. Check if this application works on your browser or not by visiting this website.

Click here to Login Moon Breakers Website.

Moon Breakers: Free Action 3D Space Game was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Accounting Software To Create Invoices And Manage Balance Sheets

Posted: 05 Oct 2012 02:00 PM PDT

CS Ledger is a free accounting software that you can use to manage product inventory, create receipts for your clients, etc. Like other free accounting software, this one also let’s you keep an eye on finance, income and expenses, balance sheets and pretty much everything else that you’d expect from this type of application. CS Ledger is very easy to install and it doesn’t require a lot of system resources, so you can run this free accounting software just fine on older PCs as well.

Check out Invoicera, InvocieExpert, Pay Master reviewed by us.

Default interface of CS Ledger can be seen on the image above. Each time that you open it up you will be greeted with a new background image, which is a nice touch. Main menu is located in the classic menu bar at the top of the window. From there you’ll be activating all the different features that CS Ledger has.

Some Key Features of this Free Accounting Software are:

Manage customers and vendors easily; add new ones on the run.
Create direct sales when customers comes and buys something right away.
Pay vendor bills and checks, view invoices and manage vendor returns.
Create inventory database of items you sell and easily manage or edit them.
Print documents via printer.

These are just some of the accounting functions that CS Ledger has and can do, completely free. A lot more features are waiting for you to discover, and if you do not have a lot of experience, it might take some time to go over everything that CS Ledger has to offer, here are a few tips which should help you out get started.

How to Manage Inventory And Transactions with CS Ledger:

Setting the administrator password is the first thing which you should be doing after running CS Ledger for the first time. By default there won’t be any kind of password, so for the sake of security you need set one up by clicking System >> Change Password.

After you do that, it’s time for you to populate your inventory with products, to do this, select Files >> Items >> Add Item after which you should see the window as shown in image above. Write the item number, which you’re gonna use when creating receipts and invoices, and write the name, price and hit Save. Do the same thing for your clients and customers by selecting File >> Customers. Once you’ve set all that, you can create invoices and receipts.

Receipts and invoices are hidden under the Transactions tab. Open whatever it is that you need to create and start selecting the customers, items, item quantity, tax everything that’s important for an invoice or a receipt, click Print, select either actual printer or a document to print to, and that’s it.

Conclusion

Of course there’s a lot more features available behind CS Ledger, as you can keep statistics of transactions, check balances, profits, create different users with different levels of privileges when it comes to usability of the application and so on. Try it and see how advanced CS Ledger really is. Free download.

Free Accounting Software To Create Invoices And Manage Balance Sheets was originally published at I Love Free Software

Spyware And Malware Removal Tool For Windows: Combofix

Posted: 05 Oct 2012 01:00 PM PDT

Combofix is a combination of a free spyware and malware removal and a system maintenance tool which you can use to check your computer for any kind of malware or spyware. Combofix basically scans your computer to find out if there’s any malware or spyware affecting your system adversely.

Check out some similar software reviewed by us like: Puran Utilities, Argente Utilities, PC Brother.

This free malware removal software and system maintenance utility doesn’t have a graphical user interface, what you see on the image above is pretty much everything that you’re gonna see from Combofix. Don’t let this turn you away from scanning your PC with this free malware cleaner, because it’s a very powerful tool which will help disinfect your Windows machine from malware and improve its overall performance.

Key Features of this Malware Removal tool are:

Detection and removal of nasty infections: SurfSideKick, QooLogic, Look2Me
Registry scanning: fixing errors and problems automatically of course.
Listing of startup applications which run with the system startup.
Running processes scanning to see if there are malicious ones present.

After this malware removal software does its job, you’ll be presented with a report where you’ll be able to read up on everything that has been changed, spyware which has been removed, results for each one of the previously mentioned available scans, basically a whole lot of information about your system, so let’s get started.

How to Scan Your Computer with Combofix: Remove Malware and Repair Errors

Before you run this malware removal software, you’re gonna have to turn off any antivirus, antispyware or firewalls that you’re using, because Combofix might come into conflict with them. Run the application and it should begin extracting.

During startup, this free malware removal tool will check for updates, you’ll also have to accept the usage agreement. Once you do all that, you should see a blue command prompt window like the one that you can see on the first image above. Scan might take a bit longer if you have a big hard drive with a lot of files, or if a massive infection is present. Upon completion, you’ll immediately be presented with a textual log file opened in Notepad, or any other textual editor that you’re using.

Here you’ll be able to read about files which were infected and deleted, or just deleted if they were junk files just causing you to lose valuable disk space. Carefully read everything to see if there are perhaps suggestions on any further steps that you need to make, if there’s none, you’re done.

Conclusion

It’s advisable that if you plan to use Combofix, then you should use it with the guidance of someone who is professional in using this type of software. With improper use, you could harm your system. This free malware scanner is usually used by malware removal experts, and it also offers a detailed instruction on how to use it, so if you plan to use it on your own, be careful.

Spyware And Malware Removal Tool For Windows: Combofix was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free System Cleanup and Performance Suite for Windows

Posted: 05 Oct 2012 12:00 PM PDT

EaseUS CleanGenius is a free system cleanup software which you can use to improve the performance of your PC by cleaning up unnecessary junk files. You can even check your history and general Windows settings for problems which could be making your system slow. Given enough time, every Windows machine, regardless of how good specifications it has, how fast is the CPU, how much RAM and so on, the system is gonna start slowing down, and that’s exactly where this free system cleaner and performance booster comes into play.

You would also like to check out some other similar software like: Cloud System Booster, Argente Utilities, PC Brother.

As you can see from the image above, this system cleanup software has got a very modern looking interface, with a very clean design which is easy to follow and understand. On the right, we have three buttons which can be used to access important parts of the system, Utilities Box, Turbo Boost and Privacy Protect. Below that there’s quick access options for activating the scheduler, starting up maintenance only when the system is idle or setting up startup privacy cleaning and Turbo Boost, which is gonna refresh your system and give it more speed.

On the left we have options to start either a Quick Scan or a Deep Scan and also a status report on the current PC health, it’s Poor. Down below we can see a list of tools that this system cleanup software offers, we have:

Memory Manager: Check and defragment computer memory.
Disk Defragment: Analyze and look for file fragmentation on your hard drive.
File Splitter: Use it to cut up large file into smaller segments, for sending over email.
Manage Startup App: Check and select which programs will start with Windows.
Driver Backup: Backup drives for one computer so they can be restored.
File Encryption: Protect important files by encrypting them.
Uninstall Manager: Remove applications from Windows easily.

These are just some of the most interesting utilities that this system cleanup software has, as you can see, it’s a lot more than just a simple PC performance improvement application, and by upgrading you can get even more.

How to Defragment the Hard Drive with CleanGenius System Cleanup Software:

Clicking on either Quick Scan or Deep Scan will clean your computer automatically, if you’re interested in individual tools, here we can see the defragmentor. If there are red squares, click Defragment and it should do the trick.

How to Backup Drivers with CleanGenius:

Start up the driver backup tool just like the previous one, select the driver that you want backed up and click Backup. When restoring, open up the restore directory and simply get everything back like it was, while on the same hardware of course.

How to Encrypt Files With CleanGenius:

Open up the File Encryption tool, Add Files you want encrypted, select the location and hit the Encrypt now button. Password window is gonna pop-up, write the password and your files are gonna be encrypted.

Conclusion

We have mentioned here, some key features and functionalities that this free system utility offers. You’re gonna have to try it out in order to test out other features offered by this free tool. Download and try EaseUS CleanGenius system cleanup software for free.

Free System Cleanup and Performance Suite for Windows was originally published at I Love Free Software

Jolicloud Desktop: Free Cloud Based Desktop

Posted: 05 Oct 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Jolicloud Desktop is cloud based incarnation of the popular Jolicloud OS. It is a simple web based desktop that lets you work on cloud as if you were working on your desktop. Jolicloud Desktop lets you create bookmarks for various websites, and access your files from Dropbox and Google Drive. So, if you are working on some other computer, you can just login to Jolicloud Me, and get links to your familiar apps, as well as quickly access your files.

As you login to the website, you will initially come across some of the selected online applications that have already been added as default including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Gmail, Flickr, and the like. You just need to click on one to start accessing it. It will open in a new tab. However, if you want to add more applications in your bookmark list, you can do it very easily. Well, yes..there are plenty of other websites’ shortcuts that are available such as Cut The Rope, Google+, VLC, Spotify, Cacl, and many more.

The good part is that the applications have been categorized into various parts like Communication, Education, Games, Music, Media, Search, Publishing, Travel & Lifestyle, Office, and more. This makes it easier for you to look for a particular category of application. For example, if you are an avid-gamer, then look for challenging games under the “Games” category. Similarly, music lovers can look for various music websites by searching in the “Music” category.

In addition, this online cloud OS brings you various beautiful wallpapers to make the background of your Jolicloud screen refreshing and lively. Now, to change the wallpaper, just click on the art-like icon given at below right-side of the screen. You can select one from the default wallpapers list or upload your own one and set as Jolicloud background screen. The main highlight is its simple, easy to use, and eye-catching user interface.

It is 100% free to use Jolicloud Online Operating System. In addition to that, Jolicloud also offers support for online cloud storage via DropBox and Google Drive. To link your Jolicloud account with DropBox or Google Drive, just click on the document-like button given at the top left side of the screen. Yeah..I know its dark but look at it carefully, you will surely find it..:) Click on “Link To Google Drive” or “Link to DropBox” to get your Jolicloud linked with the respective cloud storage service.

Getting started with Jolicloud Online OS is very simple. All you require is to visit the homepage. There, you will find a button stating 'Signup for Free'. Just click on it and in no time you will be redirected to a page with a registration form. Fill up the form and submit it. The option to register via Facebook also exits.

Then, login by entering your credentials. After logging in, you will be redirected to the dashboard for customizing the interface of Jolicloud Desktop as per your requirement.

On the dashboard, you will be greeted with desktop like interface with icons of multiple online services over it.

How To Add or Remove Applications Over Jolicloud Online OS:

The user can add or remove online services as per requirement. On hovering mouse over any website’s icon placed on the screen, a small cross button will appear at the corner of the icon. Now, as you click over the cross button, the icon will vanish from the screen. Though, you can add it anytime in the near future.

To add a website as your bookmark, click on the big plus button given at the top right side of the screen. You will be taken to a screen where you will find plenty of applications. Select one to add to your main screen list. You can also search for a particular app by typing the name in the search column, given at the top of the screen.

To display the service on the main screen, simply click on the associated “Add” button. From the next time, the icon will be visible on the desktop like screen of Jolicloud Online OS.

Do note that the list of applications show some desktop applications as well, like, VLC. However, adding those really doesn’t do anything. So, I am not sure why are they there; unless I am missing something.

You may also refer our post on SemYou free cloud based web OS.

At first look, Jolicloud Online OS appears very cool. Anyhow, looking at the practical aspects of it, Jolicloud is just another bookmarking applications. The looks are extraordinary and you will like it for sure.

Jolicloud Desktop: Free Cloud Based Desktop was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Alternative To iTunes: PhoneTrans

Posted: 05 Oct 2012 10:00 AM PDT

PhoneTrans is a free Windows software which acts as an alternative to iTunes. PhoneTrans allows you to transfer media files which include audio and video file between iPhone and computer. You can export any media file from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to computer and vice-versa.

This alternative to iTunes needs your iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch to be connected via USB cable to start the transfer of media file between computer and device. Apart from media files, you can even manage all your installed apps, TV shows, Podcast, ringtones, and more.

We normally use iTunes on our Windows PC to transfer media files from PC to our iDevice. However, iTunes is quite heavy in size. With the lightweight PhoneTrans, you can perform necessary actions of managing media files between iPhone and computer. Like iTunes, you can easily browse audio files according to the music folders which you have created on your iPhone.

There are some shortcomings which I found while testing this iTunes alternative. You cannot browse images saved on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. This means you cannot use this freeware to transfer images between PC and iPhone. Another shortcoming of the freeware is that, unlike iTunes it does not allow you to play the audio or video file which you are browsing from iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.

Earlier also we have reviewed some alternative to iTunes for Windows PC.

Why You Should Install PhoneTrans?

PhoneTrans allows easy export and import of media files between PC and iOS; even easier than iTunes. Also, as mentioned above, this freeware is far lighter in size than iTunes. You can manage almost everything on your iOS with this simple iTunes alternative.

Features Of This Free Alternative To iTunes:

Transfer of media files: Of course, this software makes media transfer (audio and video files) easy between computer and iOS. You can easily export media from your iOS to computer and import any media file from computer to iOS.

Alternative To iTunes: The freeware acts as an alternative to iTunes. You can manage your music, video, apps, podcast, tv shows, and the like.

Supports all iOS devices: The app supports all the iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch) which includes the old ones and the latest ones. It is truly a good feature as many of the smart phone users might have old iOS devices too. Do note that it doesn’t supports classic iPod or iPod Nano.

Simple User Interface: PhoneTrans has simple and easy to use interface to manage media files with ease.

Ads Free Software: PhoneTrans is totally ads free software for Windows PC.

Light weight than iTunes: PhoneTrans is a very light weight software as compared to iTunes. PhoneTrans is about 6.10 MB and iTunes is about 71.5 MB depending upon the operating system version you are using.

How To Use PhoneTrans?

Download and install PhoneTrans on your Windows PC.
Connect your iDevice (iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch) via USB cable with your computer.
Now, launch PhoneTrans.
You will see the summary of your iOS device connected.
Now start browsing the media files.
Select one or more media files and then click on export button to export them to your PC storage.
To import any file, just click on import button, select the media file, and the file will be imported to your iOS device connected.

Find similar software CopyTrans to transfer songs from computer to iPod with iTunes.

Conclude:

Finally, I would like to say that PhoneTrans is one of the great freeware which can be easily used as an alternative to iTunes. Also, for all iOS users reading this article, I would suggest you to install this freeware and start managing your media in an easy way between computer and iOS.

Free Alternative To iTunes: PhoneTrans was originally published at I Love Free Software

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