Create Database's of Your Multimedia Files

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 5:56 PM

Data Crow is a free Java application lets you create a database of your multimedia collections and files by collecting information from the web. You can keep track your database with this handy tool. The install file is around 70 MB and it needs another 30MB of Java current updates. From the main window you can select different modules such as audio CD, movies, images, programs & software’s and even non-digital files as books and stamps. You can either add the information about an item manually or get it from the web.

Data Crow 3.0 Interface

Data Crow lets you find and add details to your multimedia database directly from Amazon, Google, ISBNdb etc. You can use this GPL licensed software instead of Libra another multimedia database software that currently has no updates (Libra official website has a 404 error page). For those who liked Libra, Data Crow is a must favorable replace.

Features

Cataloguing of media and anything else

Loan Management

Flexible on all fronts; allows you to add/remove/hide fields, design your own forms, skinnable, create your own modules (wizard based), etcetera

Online services to retrieve the information on your items (imdb.com, amazon.com and many more)

File parsing (divx, mp3, flac, pdf, jpeg, etc.)

Full feature desktop GUI and a light weight web server + GUI

Mass item processing (online update + file parsing)

Internal help system

Advanced user management

Advanced filters (which can be saved for later)

Out of the box Data Crow catalogs books, movies, audio (CDs and/or files), images and software BUT can catalogue anything else as well

Data Crow For Windows

Data crow For Other OS

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Reduce Desktop Icon Clutter With Fences 1.0 Free

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 6:12 PM

One of the best enhancement tools to reduce desktop icon clutter; Stardock Fences. Stardock Fences are now not a free software it worth’s $10. But you can still download one of its free version that is, Fences 1.0 release candidate version. With Fences you can arrange your desktop icons into categories and it will give your desktop a neat, eye candy look. Also you can create your own custom Fences by dragging a square using right mouse button.

The pro version offers a host of added features that auto arrange icons by type, create Fences like recent, most used etc and further Fence customizable options.

Alternate Download Locations for Fences 1.0

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Run Your Live CD on Windows Without Installing It

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 11:07 AM

MobaLive CD is a kind of emulation software that runs your live CD (Linux/Windows) on Windows without installing it. You can test your live CD without installing. MobaLiveCD is a freeware that allows you to run live CD with a single click.

Run Your Live CD

Tinycore Running Within Mobalive CD

MobaLiveCD key features:

No need to burn the CD-Rom anymore

You can use the right-click menu for launch your live CD 

Program without installation that you can start from an USB stick

A clear and easy to use interface

Light and portable application, packaged in a single executable of 1.6MB only

Changelog

Version 2.1:

NEW FEATURE !!!! Added USB boot support. You can now test your bootable USB drive (made with grub4dos, syslinux or other bootloaders) through emulation.

Updated qemu to the latest version for a better support of all new Linux distributions and Windows versions.

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Firefox 19 Offline Full Download (All Language)

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 10:15 AM

Firefox Version 19 final has released by Mozilla. Mozilla has introduced a built in PDF viewer for Firefox based on HTML5 and JavaScript.  And another major feature is Firefox 19 Awesome bar now alert you if an application or add-on changes the default search provider.

If you want to disable Built-in PDF viewer

Open Firefox 19

Go to Tools –> Options –> Applications tab

Find “Portable Document Format (PDF)”

Select Always ask from the drop down selection

Major Changes

o   NEW

o   Built-in PDF viewer

o   CHANGED

o   Canvas elements can export their content as an image blob using canvas.toBlob()

o   CHANGED

o   Startup performance improvements (bugs 715402 and 756313)

o   DEVELOPER

o   Debugger now supports pausing on exceptions and hiding non-enumerable properties

o   DEVELOPER

o   Remote Web Console is available for connecting to Firefox on Android or Firefox OS (experimental, set devtools.debugger.remote-enabled to true)

o   DEVELOPER

o   There is now a Browser Debugger available for add-on and browser developers (experimental, set devtools.chrome.enabled to true)

o   DEVELOPER

o   Web Console CSS links now open in the Style Editor

o   HTML5

o   CSS @page is now supported

o   HTML5

o   CSS viewport-percentage length units implemented (vh, vw, vmin and vmax)

o   HTML5

o   CSS text-transform now supports full-width

o   FIXED

o   Certain valid WebGL drawing operations are incorrectly rejected, leaving incomplete rendering in affected pages (825205)

o   FIXED

o   Starting Firefox with -private flag incorrectly claims you are not in Private Browsing mode (802274)

o   FIXED

o   Plugins stop rendering when the top half of the plugin is scrolled off the top of the page, in HiDPI mode (825734)

Firefox 19 download links

Firefox 19 Windows Only

Firefox 19 Mac Only

Firefox 19 Linux Only

Firefox 19 Custom Download

Firefox for Android

Firefox 19 For Android Devices

Firefox For Windows Multi Language

Firefox For Linux Multi Language

Firefox For Mac Multi Language

Download All Google Data Using Takeout

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 6:28 PM

You can download all Google data’s to your hard disk by using Googles new service Takeout. It is a free service offered by Google created by a team of engineers known worldwide as Data Liberation Front. Google Takeout allows Google account holders to download data’s from a variety of Google products including Google Drive, YouTube (the videos uploaded), Contacts, Picasa Web Albums , Google Reader and Blogger .

To join this service log on to   Takeout

Select your service

Click to download

You will have to enter your password to download the data.

Since the data’s are archive data, so it may take some time to generate the archive, and that you will be notified by email when it is available for download. You will miss G mail ,but it can be download with Mozilla Thunderbird or use Google's own download program G mail Backup.

Earn Money Online By Creating Logos

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 11:10 AM

Earn money online by participating in logo design contests. 99 Designs is the best option to choose customers if they want the logo to be designed, with over 1400 new contests running in a week. (It relies on crowd sourcing ) 99 Designs is the #1 marketplace for graphic design, including logo design, web design and other design contests. You need to either login as a customer or designer to work on. If you are a customer want a logo to be designed give your views regarding your new logo, 99 Designs will introduce it in a  contest. Designers will have to make designs from around a time period, then the customer will pick the right one of their choice, the customer pays for the design and more than half % of the money will get into the hands of one who created the design.

How It Works,

For Customers,

Launch your design contest

Create a design brief which is simply a clear outline of what you need designed. To begin, post this brief to 99designs and choose a design package.

Collaborate with the designers

Designers then submit concepts to compete for your prize. Be sure to provide continual feedback to help the designers deliver a concept you love!

Choose your favorite design

At the completion of your contest, you'll need to pick your favorite design and award a winner. You'll then receive the final design along with copyright to the original art work.

It's that easy!

For Designers,

Hundreds of design opportunities

Earn money, build client relationships, learn new skills and have fun!

Find a contest

Create a design

Submit your design

Start Create Your Designs

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YTD Download Videos From All Major Sites

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 2:55 PM

YTD Downloader is an advanced tool for downloading videos from all major sites. It also provides conversion of selected files, and can videos in its inbuilt media player such as iTunes. It can download videos from YouTube, Facebook, Google video,Myspace TV and many others. You can adjust the quality of YouTube videos which are to be downloaded. High-Def (HD) 1080P quality of YouTube videos  can be downloaded with YTD. Also you can convert YouTube videos to mobile formats; including YouTube to MP3, MP4, 3GP, MPEG. So you can watch videos on your iPod,iPad and PSP.  YTD can import YouTube list to  iTunes, and it will catch videos from websites has age restrictions.

YouTube Video Downloader

The program interface is simple and intuitive. Simply copy and paste video url and click the download button. The pro version allows multiple downloads, multiple file conversion at one time. Pro version has an accelerated speed that is 4times faster. You can download/convert videos in just one step. YTD pro gives you a free e-mail support.

Amazing Operating System Under 3MB

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 12:32 PM

Kolibri desktop is a tiny 3MB OS that is written in the CPU language (FASM). IT is not based on Windows/Linux/Unix. Kolibri OS is fast & powerful and has numerous applications are built into this small OS. But this only occupies a few megabytes hard disk space and need 8MB of Ram to run. Kolibri includes programs like word processor, image viewer, graphic editor, web browser and 30+ dos games. The OS will support FAT 12/16/32 file systems and read only support for NTFS, ISO 9660 and ext 2/3/4.

Kolibri Desktop With Custom Background

Kolibri is the Russian word for humming birds as we know from the start using Kolibri. KOlibri is available in Russian, English & Italian languages. Once setup is ready OS will boot in 3 seconds, its desktop has an advanced background and all applications arranged neatly. Text editors and file browsers are located at the top left corner, system settings are located in the top right. Games sit in both lower corners of the desktop. The start menu has neatly arranged into categories.

Kolibri Multimedia

Text Editor in Kolibri

The OS is customizable and has rich programs like more than 200 applications under the belt of 3MB. Demos category consists of 3D editing programs, over 30+ Dos games are available in Kolibri. For education and science it features graph, period, spektr tools for math and graph. Animage, FLi player, Icon edit are the multimedia tools. Tinypad is in office editing, FASM is the assembly machine language in Kolibri. VNC client for Kolibri OS allows you to connect to any computer running a VNC server so you have remote access to the PC. CPUID is a system diagnostic tool that shows CPU activities. Dos box and force are the two emulators in Kolibri. If you want more tools download and install archives with additional programs.

Wonder that the number of health programs are built into this small OS and guess how much functionality is packed with Kolibri OS. Kolibri OS is under 5MB so you can download it easily. If you have an old PC , Kolibri OS will function on it smoothly. The only drawback of this OS is not having a web browser.

Download 3MB OS Kolibri

Track Your E-mail With "Bananatag" App For Gmail

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 4:00 PM

Frustrated with e-mails while sending to important peoples, doubt they get that e-mail you send.  Now a ray of hope emerges with the help of Bananatag contains smart email tracking system integrated with Gmail. You can download bananatag app from Google app store (For Firefox and Chrome).

Watch the Screen Shot

Now you can track your e-mail right from Gmail, did it received in time, did the client click any links.  Bananatag makes a couple of buttons to your Gmail account. When you compose your mail the “track and send button” appears next to the send button. You have to click the “track and send” button to keep tracking your e-mail. After sending the e-mail you can click on the “bananatag” button sits next to the search bar in Gmail.

Bananatag is free to use, while number of tracking message are limited per day. For advanced and bulk e-mail tracking you have to pay bananatag. Visit Bananatag Pricing. While professional vesrion of Bananatag available to Outlook & othe non-integrated e-mail tracking for all other clients.

Ubuntu One A Cloud From Linux

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 12:45 PM

Favorite Linux OS giant Ubuntu created their cloud storage platform Ubuntu One sometime ago. It is easy to download and install Ubuntu One on a PC , Mac ,Ubuntu or Android/iOS devices. It offers a 5GB free storage and will give you more space upon your referrals. As the other cloud storage platforms like Dropbox, Skydrive this allows to store and share file, photos, music, and many more .You can access it on many computers or any other mobile devices.

A music subscription offer for new subscribers allows you to take 20GB free storage with 6 months free subscription. You can now store and listen to streaming music via iphone/Androids. After 6 months free subscription you have to renew the service for $3.99/month or $39.99/year.

Ubuntu One Price Table

Sharing is has just been become  easy on Ubuntu One, you can invite someone to share your files or you can paste a short link to Facebook or Twitter. If you are travelling you can access your files from multiple back up destinations, you can use Ubuntu One from different computers or mobiles to access the data. Other important fact is that now you can automate your backups or can schedule a time to start backup.  You can restore your file to an earlier state, many services allows only limited file versions but Ubuntu One offers unlimited file versions. Another feature is it uses multiple restore point for recovering a troubled data; it has multiple platform compatibility and has multiple restore options (repair and recover data instantly) . Ubuntu One uses 256 bit AES encryption to secure your data and uses an Amazon S3 data center for secure storage.You can start, pause ,stop and resume your download/upload process in Ubuntu one. With Ubuntu One you can upload, share and save contents over the web in a very fast way, and this cloud storage application is ultimately configurable.

Advanced tech support available to customers via tech forums, live chat, phone etc.

Use Open source Software for Advance Data Recovery

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 5:50 PM

TestDisk is powerful data recovery software mainly designed for recovering lost partitions and fixing booting problems in partitions. (Partition Table recovery)
Open testdisk_win.exe from extracted folder of TestDisk

Watch a tutorial for how TestDisk works

TestDisk can

Fix partition table, recover deleted partition

Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup

Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector

Fix FAT tables

Rebuild NTFS boot sector

Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup

Fix MFT using MFT mirror

Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock

Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem

Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.

Download TestDisk For Different Operating Systems,

Download TestDisk

Read Documentation on how TestDisk  works

TestDisk Tutorial Documentation

Feel The Magic of Free Softwares: Scratch 1.4

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 11:05 AM

Scratch 1.4 Window

Scratch 1.4 is a free programming language software that makes it easily to create interactive stories, fun logos, animations, music, custom games etc. Scratch is easy to use software even for children’s; Scratch is developed by Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT media lab. It has an easy and interactive interface for creating custom animations in no time. If you want it to use easily go through getting started and reference guide from Scratch website. After creating your own animation you can share it on the internet. Scratch 1.4 is also available for Mac, Linux, Windows server systems. All you need is some creativity in your thought. Enjoy your skills on animation without the need of extra effort.

As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.  (About Scratch)

Arrange Your Books With Shelfari

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 4:39 PM

Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog

We all are attached to something or somebody. But a creative woman/man has a real lifetime attachment to books and libraries. We all are earn knowledge from books and we distribute it freely and taking part in conservations to tell reading experiences. This concept is beautiful, if you are a busy person with no time left in your daily routines, but you have a way to communicate with books and reading enthusiasts.

Shelfari is a social cataloging website lets you create a virtual bookshelf and gives an interactive platform to discuss about books.  Shelfari allows you to login with your Amazone ID and create a nice interactive profile. You can also import your Facebook and Twitter friends to Shelfari and can post to Facebook. Once you have finished creating your profile it is easy to add books to virtual bookshelf. Search a book name in the search field and find out your book and add to shelf by 3 steps. You can arrange your book by tags and I alredy read, plan to read, wishlist options. Share what you have and you can follow different peoples which are having a different book taste.

Go around with Shelfari and other such websites and enjoy your precious time. It is a pleasure to talk about books.

Jolicloud is Not as a Cloud Based OS: Entirely For All Devices

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 3:13 PM

Jolicloud is one of the cloud based/Linux OS that enriched with advanced features and great user friendly interface. Jolicloud started as a Linux based network operating system, now its integral parts are web add-ons mainly social networking apps and all main cloud storage apps. With Jolicloud you can access your Picasa, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter accounts, it is a pleasure to have all webs, social sites at one platform. Yes you don’t need to login or logout from one site to another; connect all services you use online to Jolicloud.

With Drop box, Skydive, Google Drive, Box apps you can preview and edit documents within Jolicloud and all data stored locally. Watch tons of videos from video sharing sites like Vimeo, YouTube inside Jolicloud. You can view photos and posts from Face book, Flickr and edit Picasa, and listen to music files through Soundcloud. Read different articles from all around the web with Instapaper app.

As a Linux based operating system it has a user friendly interface that doesn’t need a tutorial. Installation of Jolicloud is simple, it can be installed within Windows or can be used as a live CD or use like  a USB OS.  People can join Jolicloud OS with an email or via Facebook account and can control the OS within the internet. Jolicloud dashboard is fresh and functional; the apps are arranged on the right panel neatly. On the left panel there is links to important folders and files. The operation on Jolicloud is quite easy and memorable.  The OS comes with a list of 1500 free apps, it also automatically updates your software’s so don’t worry about any security threats.  Jolicloud OS is not small in size as other cloud based OS its download (it can be downloaded with Bittorrent applications) size is 700MB. Tech support can be accessed via helping Jolicloud user community.

One benefit is you can access all your mobile devices and touch screen devices with Jolicloud. For a list of Jolicloud supporting devices click here.

If you choose a Linux based OS for your PC, laptop, net book, then Jolicloud will be a great choice.

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The Chrome Book from Google for Everyone

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 11:14 AM

Google has released their thin, light, portable laptop with cloud based operating system Chrome OS. The new age ChromeBook will available at different prices different top laptop manufacturers. The price  tag  starting from $199 (Acer C7 Chrome Book) to $449 (Samsung Chrome Book 550). Google products offers a clarity operating system that boots in seconds that comes with your favorite Google apps. Gmail, YouTube, Google drive are available in Chrome OS. It’s easy to share and access all the Google products at one platform, even at offline mode. Chrome books are designed with inbuilt security options against viruses, so you don’t need to install any other security software’s.

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Different models of Chrome Books are,

Specifications

Click on the links to see product reviews

Samsung Chrome Book

11.6” Display

0.7” thin and 2.4lbs

Over 6.5 hours of battery life

Samsung Exynos 5 dual processor

100 GB Google Drive Cloud Storage2 with 16GB Solid State Drive

Only $249

Acer C7 Chrome Book

11.6’’ (1366x768) display

1 inch thin – 3 lbs / 1.4 kg

Up to 4 hours of battery

Dual-core Intel® Celeron® Processor

100 GB Google Drive Cloud Storage2 with 320 GB Hard Disk Drive

Only $199

HP Pavilion Chrome Book

14’’ BrightView LED-backlit display (1366 x 768)

0.83 inch thin – 3.96 lbs / 1.8 kg

Up to 4.25 hours of battery

Dual-core Intel® Celeron® Processor

100 GB Google Drive Cloud Storage2 with 16GB Solid State Drive

Only $329.99

Samsung Chrome Book 550

12.1" (1280x800) display

3.3 lbs / 1.48 kg

Over 6 hours of battery

Dual-core Intel® Celeron® processor

4 GB RAM

100 GB Google Drive Cloud Storage2 with 16GB Solid State Drive

Only $449

How to create great books from wikipedia

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 6:56 PM

Books are worth millions and one needs immense talent to produce a book like Les Miserable’s .Victor Hugo dedicated to adopt the life conditions like Jean Van Jean at the time he wrote the book. Everybody with a story to tell can write a book. You need skills, patience, time, sufferings to write a great book.

Wikipedia offers millions of articles around the web for free, now user can produce books from Wikipedia articles in printed and digital forms. Access Wikipedia and collect your right articles and click the button creates a book, from this option you can arrange articles, nice cover for your book, custom preface etc. Once you finish creating the book the Pediapress offers you to ship the book or download book as a PDF file.

Pediapress is a Wiki Media Partner site that will give all Wiki users (or unregistered) to have print support for Wikipedia articles. The priced book will cost rupees 500 or 10$. The book will ship you in the next days as fast as possible.

How to create a book From Wikipedia .Check the following Screenshots.

Click the create a book link

Click the green button to start

Click the "add this page" button to add current article to your book, click the  "suggest pages" button to  suggest article to your book

Hover over a link to add article without opening it

Manage your book  on the right hand side you can order or download your book

Click preview with pediapress

For final edit

By creating and ordering a book you will also be supporting the Wikimedia Foundation, as from the profit 10% goes to the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Chrome Beta For Android Is Now Updated With Bugfixes

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 11:18 AM

Download Chrome Beta updated (version 25.0.1.1364.74) on Google Play. A number of bugs fixed in this update. This Chrome Beta requires Android 4.0 and up. The page loading problem with Samsung Galaxy S2 has been fixed. Latest user reviews on Google Play for this product are not satisfactory. Most user’s have problems with Samsung Galaxy Nexus (very flickery and buggy). The Average rating for this product in Google Play is 4.1 (4806 votes). Chrome Beta will run alongside with your current version Chrome for Android, Chrome beta will ask your account to modify and to select your location. We know Chrome Beta is only in Beta stage and can be better via future updates.

Add Chrome Beta from Google Play

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Pretty Small Tool To Extract Audios FromYoutube

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 4:02 PM

YouTube TrueLightnin is small simple tool designed for grab videos from YouTube and extract audios from YouTube directly. This software allows downloading videos in different qualities, or different formats (FLV, MP4, WEBM or 3GP). You can extract audios from YouTube videos into your computer in AAC or MP3 format.You can watch the video thumbnail at the time of downloading. It launches directly from the zip drive so no installation is required. When I run this program Avast Antivirus check it for malware,but nothing found. 

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Google Docs & Office Web Apps : What is Your Choice ?

Posted by Ragesh Shanavas at 12:45 PM

Microsoft and Google both provide free online word processing, spreadsheets and presentations which are depends upon their skydive and Google drive platforms respectively. As Google drive integrates with Google docs Microsoft comes with an updated feature of web apps available for individual users for free through their skydive accounts. The office web apps is a free service (available for business users through office 365 and Sharepoint) differ from streaming office that offers advanced features while it is available to officiate 2013 subscribers.

Google docs and office web apps allow the users to edit, upload, import of documents even without login. Both are collaborative and allow users to access their documents through mobile devices. Sharing documents in Google docs is easy and allows embedding documents and more robust on Google docs. While Google docs available in various platforms including Mac, Linux, Unix Office web apps is disappointing.  Google docs allows users to get tech supports from a blog, forum and even on the phone.

Price tag for Google docs and office web apps are free to individual users. Google Drive subscription offers many Google web apps including 25 GB space for Gmail, Google + photos and more apps. While Microsoft offers more space than Google to free individual users for Skydive that is 25GB. Business plans for Google drive is 50$/year for 25GB and Skydrive and office web apps offers 6$/user/month.

Both Microsoft and Google offer advanced editing of word documents , I think Google docs are much better having many formatting tools and fonts. Both offer free online surveys, for a comparison check this link.

On a mobile platform both offers editing on the iPhone, Android devices, office web apps is running fluently on Windows phones. Both are providing apps for mobile devices.

For Google Docs users, it offers more functionality than office web apps, while Microsoft’s fully advanced features are only available to their streaming office for Office 2013 subscribers.   For an individual user the free services offered by both of them will be essential.Now Dropbox will be on the list of providing storage and editing of documents online, will be a large competitor against Microsoft and Google.  It is ethical to choose whether Google Docs or Office web apps.

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