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Congratulations To The Winners Of SyncMate Expert Edition
Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which SyncMate Is Giving Away 15 Single User Expert Edition Licenses. We ran the MySql random query and selected these 15 commenter to give them Single User licenses of SyncMate Expert Edition.
- Chris
- Rajesh Kanuri @ TechCats
- Vryuk
- Kim
- Evan
- Andrew Ortwein
- Adone (Please contact us)
- Passuf
- Heather St. Marie
- Askari
- Vpap
- Joanna
- Nicole
- Matthias
- Paulo
SyncMate is probably the only sync tool which allows syncing your Mac with multiple devices simultaneously (Windows Mobile devices and Nokia S40 phones, other Mac and PC computers, Google account and online storage, Sony PSP and USB flash drive). No need to purchase several sync solutions in order to sync your Mac with each device – just download SyncMate and all supported devices will be synced within one application.
With SyncMate you can easily backup your data online and access it from any spot on the globe in a few clicks. Store your Contacts, Calendar, Firefox and Safari bookmarks, ToDos, Entourage notes, Mail notes and even more online.
Congratulations to all the winners from SmashingApps.Com. All of the winners has been already contacted. If you are not winner at this time so please be patient and keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed, you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well. because we are coming up with another new great contest earlier next week.
Thanks to Eltima Software for sponsoring this wonderful contest at Smashing Apps.
If you want to conduct any contest at Smashing Apps just contact us and send us all the details.
Tired Of Photoshop’s Complexity? Try These Free And Easy Apps For Your Photos
If you are tired of Photoshop and its millions of hardly use features? then try these. There must be something simple, light-weight, quick and easy photo-editing tools which also does not cost anything to use. So, luckily there are tons of web-based photo editors available. Well most are crap, but some are useful and attractive. Check out the totally free web-based Photoshop alternatives. I am sure you will be at least thankful to me or may be I will learn something more from you.
So, this post is for those who are a “confuse dot com” while using Photoshop. But yes if you are a professional graphics/art designer then yes Photoshop is for you.
You are welcome if you want to share more free and easy apps for your photos which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.
Photoshop Express
This is the gorgeous app made by Adobe and its has more features than any other free photo editing app. What I like the most about it? It gives us a free 2GB of space, so you can store lots of images there as well. Unlike the real Photoshop, this web version has no ability to layer or composite images.
Picnik
This free and fast app makes our photos looks stunning with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. It fixes your photos in just one click, you can fine tune, corp, re size, rotate your images very quickly right in your browser and there are tons of special artistic effects to fun. It works on MAC, Windows and Linux. It also work with most commonly used browsers as well. So no download for it and nothing to install just go upload your picture and have fun.
FlautR
flautR is for free to use however you need to register with them, which wont take a minutes or two I m sure. flautR offers a cornucopia of image tools, boasting thousands of photo effects. If you want to make your photo look like a cheezy painting or something then this is the place. They are linked up with Picasa, Flickr and Facebook so, you can upload and share your images right from that app as well.
Pixenate
Pixenate is the photo editor of choice for photo printing and photo sharing businesses.
Pixlr
Pixlr is a free online image editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter.
Picreflect
Picreflect helps you to give the reflection on any image, to resize your image, to make them tranparent or rotate them to any angle.
Resize Image
This free service will help you to re-size your images with basic and advanced options.
Pizap
Pizap is a fun free photo editor that lets people easily create wacky images with their digital pictures. PiZap was created as a tool primarily for social networking users who want to post their images to their favorite social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Orkut, Friendster, Bebo, miGente, Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, Tagged, and many more.
I have more apps to show but for that I need to see your interest first. So, if you are hungry and need more apps then yes give me a shout please and I will sure entertain you well.
The First Official Free iPhone Application From Nasa
NASA has officially announced the new and final version of NASA app for iPhone. This App allow you to discover a wealth of NASA information right on your iPhone or iPod touch. This App collects, customizes and deliver an extensive selection selecttion of dynamically updated information, images and videos from various online NASA sources in a convenient mobile package.
You can explore alot of information about space and universe, you will have different missions like the mission orbit tracking screen which is available for some missions that are in orbit around the Earth like the International Space Station, shows the current orbit position of a selected spacecraft. We can email the mission description screens and URLs to user from this App.
What’s New In This Version :
- Visible sighting opportunities listed for the International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle, by home location and through search for location
- Richer Mission details and more content
- Enhancements to Videos and Updates panels
- High-resolution image option (configured in device settings)
- Status updates on upcoming launches
- Prevent sleep mode setting for tracking launches (configured in device settings)
- Facebook® Connect for easy sharing of images, videos, tweets and mission information
It is available free of charge on the App Store from Apple directly on iPhone and/or iPod Touch or within iTunes.
Web Based Microsoft Office 2010 Soon To Be Launched
A new productivity suite of Microsoft windows is soon to be fully launched for everyone who uses computers, it will be a successor of Microsoft Office 2007. Yes, it is Microsoft Office 2010 and this time it will be free to use and a web based application. Microsoft has somehow assured that Office 2010 will be released around mid of year 2010. Beta version of this app is available to users since November 2009 and many unofficial beta versions have been leaked since July 2009.
The application, which includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote, will be available to anyone with a Windows Live account. This app will be running flawlessly in many popular browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Apple Safari.
There are many good reasons we can have to use this app.
- It has new picture editing and formatting tools like saturation and many artistic effects which will let you transform your document visuals into an artistic work.
- Microsoft One Note will let you share and work on a document with many people working from different location. It will be very helpful to you if you are working in a team or group.
- Office 2010 will be available for more devices like smart phone or any computer with an internet connection.
- Presentation can be shared via web regardless of having power point installed. You can broadcast your PowerPoint presentation to remote audience via web.
- Office 2010 allows users to write emails while keeping track of your family, friends and colleagues by viewing status updates and past communication history with everyone. Schedules and upcoming appointments can also be viewed with this new feature and users can request friends.
Backstage view in Excel 2010
Edit pictures directly within PowerPoint 2010
Multiuser co-authoring in Word 2010 enables more than one person to edit documents at the same time
Features of Office 2010:
- Emailing
- File Sharing
- Letter Styling
- Refined Ribbon interface and Backstage View across all applications
- Background Removal Tool
- The Word 2007 Equation editor will become common to all applications, replacing MS Equation 3.0
- New SmartArt templates
- New text and image editing effects
- Screen Capturing and Clipping tools
- Live collaboration functions
- Jumplists in Windows 7
If you want to try out the beta Version of Office 2010 Click Here!
Beta Version can be activated using following steps
- Open Microsoft Word 2010 Beta.
- Open Backstage view by clicking on the “File” tab.
- Click “Help” in the set of tabs on the left.
- On the right side of your screen click on “Change Product Key” option
- Enter the Multiple Activation Key (MAK) which was provided to you, when you downloaded Office 2010 Beta.
- Check the box to activate automatically or restart the app to activate using the activation dialog box.
Further, office 2010 will be available for Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows 7. Microsoft’s update to its mobile productivity suite, Office Mobile 2010, will also be released for Windows Phones running Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Phone 7 Series.
SyncMate Is Giving Away 15 Single User Expert Edition Licenses
Eltima Software is running a contest, where winners will get 15 Single User licenses of SyncMate Expert Edition (worth $39.95 each). Well, you guys know what SyncMate is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.
SyncMate is probably the only sync tool which allows syncing your Mac with multiple devices simultaneously (Windows Mobile devices and Nokia S40 phones, other Mac and PC computers, Google account and online storage, Sony PSP and USB flash drive). No need to purchase several sync solutions in order to sync your Mac with each device – just download SyncMate and all supported devices will be synced within one application.
With SyncMate you can easily backup your data online and access it from any spot on the globe in a few clicks. Store your Contacts, Calendar, Firefox and Safari bookmarks, ToDos, Entourage notes, Mail notes and even more online.
Sync iTunes & Video, iPhoto, bookmarks, folders, mail, notes and even more to all your devices at once with Expert Edition plus all the features you already tried in free version. With Expert Edition you can easily create, send, delete search and export your SMS messages not even touching the phone. Autosync option allows you to keep in sync all your devices. Customize your settings only once and don’t worry anymore.
This contest will run from March 12, 2010 to March 18, 2010 and we will select the winners randomly by running MySQL query. Result can be announced any day before March 20, 2010 so keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed to get the latest updates. To participate in the contest and win free license of of Sync Mate Expert Edition, All you have to do is just :
1. Just leave a comment.
2. Use valid email ID in the email box.
3. Not necessary, but you can subscribe to our rss feed and follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well. (To track this contest and for future updates)
4. And thats it!
So what are you waiting for now? Let’s participate in the contest and good luck!
How To Organize Calendar, Tasks Manager, Address Book And Notes Modules The Easy Way
For the person who wants to use his/her computer as an interactive personal diary, there are many options available. There exist countless applications for each of the following tasks: organizing your calendar events, scheduling your tasks, recording your contacts, and taking down notes. Freeware programs available on the internet specialize in one of these tasks and perform their functions excellently. While all these programs are great, they do not turn the computer into a personal diary on their own – they always need to be coupled with another program.
There is one program however which we have discovered recently that performs as a personal diary software all on its own without hogging up your system’s resources. This application is named Osmo.
Osmo is a freeware program with a size of only 4.6MB. The download and installation of the program take no time at all. After you install and run the program you will notice its icon in the system tray:
Whenever you close the application by clicking on the cross button, it will minimize to this icon. Here is how the program’s main window looks like:
Osmo opens in the Calendar tab. The current day is highlighted; at the bottom you can find the “Moon phase,” the week number of the year, the day number, and weekend days. You can right-click on any date in the calendar to display a window which will let add a task to that day:
To add notes to about a particular date, simply double-click on it to be shown the note region below the dates:
The dates with an apostrophe sign have notes included in them. You can always double click on the date to view the notes you store for it.
The Tasks tab lets us add new tasks and view existing ones:
The Contacts tab lets us add and view contacts. The Contacts tab also has a ‘show birthdays’ tool which ensures we do not miss any birthdays:
Our contact list in Osmo can be saved to a CSV or XHTML file. We can also import contacts from CSV files.
The notes tab lets us add notes in separate files and then show us these files:
We are presented with the list of titles of notes. Double-clicking on any title will open the respective notes and enable us to view and/or edit them.
Apart from these functions, Osmo also printing functionality and options to modify our existing tabs. Amongst other things we can change the font of the fonts being store and the colors of the program.
Providing an impressive functionality by remaining user-friendly and having a minuscule memory footprint, Osmo is the ultimate diary program which the computer users of today simply should not miss.
Now Edit And Share From Anywhere With Photoshop For iPhone
Earlier Adobe Photoshop was developed for the admirers of art and design professionals only. But now a days it seems like every person who even knows very little about computers no matter man, woman and child, everyone wants to use every software that are available to them or they are anxious to know almost about everything exist in computer industry. So regardless of keeping in mind about the requirements of professional designers, Photoshop has its own iPhone application, in the shape of Photoshop.com Mobile. What it means is, any one who has an iPhone and wants to do some basic changes with their pictures, this little application will be very helpful to them.
To be honest, this application is an extremely too little version of Photoshop, it has limited functionality. It allows you to perform basic image editing tasks, giving you the option to select a photo from your iPhone, or take one using the device’s camera.
There are four drop-down menus at the top of the Photoshop.com Mobile interface, and thats where editing tools ca be accessed. The first is for cropping, rotating and flipping images; the second lets you tweak exposure, saturation, tint and black and white settings; the third applies sketch or soft focus effects; and the final menu will lets you select from a variety of special effects. The effects like Rainbow, Border, Pop, and etc can be found there.
I took some pictures below for you to see how it looks
Just as I said you might be thinking by now, that this is not a powerful bunch of tools. Well, you are right, it’s not, because Photoshop.com Mobile is certainly for quick photo editing on the move. If you look it this way, then it is actually a great move because the user interface is just so intuitive. Photoshop Mobile makes intelligent use of the iPhones touch technology. Like, the effects of Saturation and Exposure editing needs you to swipe across the screen to increase the intensity of the effect. At the same time, rotating and flipping is done by manipulating the image with your finger. Confusing but, you can’t pinch the screen to zoom into a photo. The matter of fact is, there is no zoom at all in this App.
What’s important and cool about Photoshop.com Mobile is that once you’ve finished capturing and editing your pictures, you can quickly upload them via online Upload tool. Obviously, the thing is that you can only upload to the Photoshop.com site, well it’s worth signing up for because it’s one of the better photo sharing sites out there.
Well well well again, Photoshop.com Mobile is a cool portable, on-the-go image editor. Just don’t expect anything more than the most basic of imaging tools. Please note that Photoshop.com Mobile is currently only available in the US and Canadian iTunes stores.
Photoshop.com Mobile is being modified every now and then and right now they introduced some more feature
written below:
- Crop, rotate, change color with just a touch.
- Give an extra glow with Soft Focus.
- Get artsy with Sketch.
- Apply one-touch effects like Warm Vintage and Vignette.
- Video playback
- New Straighten
- Sharpen and Contrast tools
- Borders: Eight artistic borders are now available in the Effects menu; one touch
- adds fun frames to your photos.
How to Get Free Content and Media Hosting at Screencast.com
Let’s say you’ve created a video or image you want to share, but you don’t want it saved to your computer. You want to save it in a safe place, where you can access it at any time. You want some storage options, and the ability to share it in multiple file formats… or keep it private. You want its original integrity to stay intact. And you want complete control.
You’re picky… but you have a right to be. Good thing Screencast.com was designed for content creators like you. At Screencast.com, you’ll get all of the above and more—plus it’s free.
What is Screencast.com?
Screencast.com is a free web service from TechSmith Co. that lets you upload, manage and share your content without changing a thing. From high-quality videos, to presentations, documents and images—Screencast.com gives your content the perfect home.
How does it work?
Step 1: Upload files
Logging into Screencast.com automatically takes you to the Library where you can upload your content. You can use any content creation tool to upload your videos and images to Screencast.com. But when you use TechSmith software—like a video recorded and edited with Camtasia Studio, or a quickly marked up image and video with Jing—you can directly upload to Screencast.com from within the application.
- Keep the original quality. What you upload is exactly what your viewers see. Content hosted on Screencast.com isn’t compressed or re-encoded into a “one-size-fits-all” format.
- Control the rights to your own content. Anything you upload to Screencast.com still belongs to you. So feel free to delete files you’ve uploaded and make room for something new.
Step 2: Store and protect
Create a folder in Screencast.com and save the videos and images you want to keep in one place. Simply store your content… or turn it into a portal for viewers to access.
- Decide who views your content. Make a folder public and visible to everyone. Hide it so only you can see it. Password protect it. Or make it so only authorized viewers can access your content.
- Access the stats on your content. At a glance, you can see how many times a specific file has been viewed and how much bandwidth each file is using.
Step 3: Share in multiple formats
Uploading is only part of it. Share your stuff outside of Screencast.com easily with a URL or send a link directly to your viewers. Screencast.com even gives you HTML embed code so you can post images and videos on your own website or blog.
- Share in high-quality. With options like Flash, WMV, QuickTime and others, Screencast.com is sure to give you the highest quality playback available.
- Share conveniently. Provide your audience with anything from a link to your content, to a MediaRoll widget, or to an RSS feed that they can subscribe to.
How do you get started?
Start off with a free Screencast.com account to instantly begin storing and sharing your content. With the free version, you’ll get 2GB of storage space and 2GB of monthly bandwidth at no cost. Or sign up for the Pro version of Screencast.com and get extra storage, bandwidth and customization options. With the Pro version, you’ll get 25GB of storage space and 200GB of monthly bandwidth for just $9.95 a month.
Whatever you do, your content will never be changed at Screencast.com. What you upload is exactly what you’ll see. So when you’re ready to share that video or image, or just save it for later, give Screencast.com a try. You’ll get your content, your way—every time.
Post content provided by Nikki Wickham at TechSmith Corporation.
5 Websites & Tools Bloggers Should Know About
While the job is interesting and one gets to discover the latest about the Internet, blogging is no easy task. “Time is money” could not be any truer for bloggers; impossible deadlines put us under harsh time constraints. Due to this constraint, bloggers are always actively on the lookout for the next great tool that can help us cut back on the time it takes to write our articles/reviews.
Bloggers who run their own website, on the other hand, are not under any critical deadlines – their worries are of a different nature. Taking constant care of their website and monitoring it is an absolute must for them; if a site owner’s website unexpectedly goes down, his/her income will be negatively affected.
Therefore one way or the other, all bloggers have problems whether they are self-employed, freelancing, or fulltime employed. They need all the help they can get.
Today we present to our fellow bloggers five tools available on the internet which will help them in one way or the other. We hope you all find the following tools as helpful as we did.
You are welcome to share if you know more useful tools which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.
1. DomainTools
For somebody who plans to start out his/her own website, the first most important step is to come up with a great name. Once the great name has been thought of, one needs to check its availability. DomainTools is a free website that does both things. Firstly it can suggest various names to a user by taking as input a keyword. Secondly it shows us which domain extensions (COM, NET, etc.) is the site name available. If a user wishes, he/she can buy and register the domain name right from the site. In this way, DomainTools eventually saves us a lot of time in the process of naming our website.
2. WhoisLookup/WhoisApplication
WhoisLookup is a freeware application less than 100KB in size. The EXE file is downloaded and can be run without any installation. In the program we can enter the URL of a site and get its Whois information which shows us the site’s various attributes such as its registrar’s information, the location of the site, and the details of its administrator. Whois specifics can help out a great deal when trying to determine which website to blog about. To some extent, it can also show us whether or not the site’s claimed location matches its actual location; this helps us judge the trueness of the website’s credentials.
3. dnspchecker
This nifty little freeware is about 3MB to download and is helpful in determining the status of a website. It is compatible with Linux and Windows operating systems. After we enter a URL into the program, it uses ping command to see if the DNS is live. In other words you can see if a site is up or not. A successful message is show each time the site if up; if the site is down or a valid response could not be received then it automatically checks the site every 60 seconds. This way we do not have to recheck the status of the site each minute (because it is automatically being done for us). To have it not interfere with our work, the program can be minimized to the System Tray and gives an alert when DNS is propagated.
4. Observu
dnschecker can only help you if you have it installed on your system. If you are using a computer on which you do not have the privilege to install new programs and you would like to check the status of your websites, the only way that comes to mind is by actually visiting the website in your internet browser. If the number of websites is more than one then the process could be considerably time consuming. Observu is a free website that lets us register for a free account and enter an unlimited number of websites to be automatically monitored. If any one of them goes down, we are immediately emailed of its negative status. There is no limit to the number of sites we want monitored. Observu can be helpful not only for site owners but also for bloggers who have reviewed a website and want to stay informed of its status. For instance John, a blogger, blogs about www.XYZABC123.com and he is emailed of its negative status the next month; upon receiving the notification, John can updates his previous review and add a note saying that the site is currently experiencing problems and is down. Such responsibility can go a long way and earn loyal readers.
5. BlogDesk
Wordpress is a blogging platform used by many bloggers. Other widely used platforms are MovableType, Drupal, Serendipity and ExpressionEngine. To blog in these platforms, we open up our internet browser window, log into our blogging Dashboard and get started. With the latest platforms we can save our work as we go along but having the data secure on our hard drive is something that most bloggers find comfortable. Also while typing on these platforms, one has to go through special means while inserting hyperlinks and pictures. BlogDesk is a 4MB freeware program that eliminates all the problems associated with typing our blogs on these platforms. It is a desktop application that enables us to type up our blog offline with ease. When we want to publish the article, we can simply blog from BlogDesk directly. The abovementioned blogging platforms are supported by the program. But before you go using it, make sure its option is enabled in the online settings of your blogging platform.
Now Embed Free Online Photo Editor In Your Website With Picmeleo
Picmeleo is a free online photo editor that any third-party developers can easily add Picmeleo to their web service and launch the light-weight yet powerful photo editor whenever their users need to to upload or to edit an image. By adding Picmeleo to your web service, you can now engage your users with even richer content. This is the smartest way to let your users upload and edit images for your service.
Unlike other photo editors, Picmeleo opens within your site and your users never leave your service.. Integration and ease of use. Everything about Picmeleo is designed for easy integration to your website. The lightweight editor does not clutter your service and you can also fully customize Picmeleo’s tool box.
Open Editor
The editor can be launched anywhere in your layout by calling the picmeleoApi.open method. Your open link could look like this:
<a href="javascript:picmeleoApi.open('')" >Open Picmeleo editor</a>Pass the url of the image if you want the editor to open with a default image. Omitting the url will open an empty editor
Integrating Picmeleo to your website couldn’t be easier. Just copy a few lines of embed code and Picmeleo is working on your site!
Custom Tools
Unlike other photo editors, you can customize the tools of Picmeleo any time you want in the online admin interface. Sometimes photo editors can be overwhelming. Picmeleo allows you to pick the tools your users really need. Choose from a growing list of tools including Crop, Scale, Rotate, Auto-fix, Filters and many more.
Multilanguage Support
Picmeleo has built-in multilanguage support and you can easily set the language in the online admin interface. We are still working on different language options at the moment, stay tuned for more.
Picmeleo can be utilized in numerous places. Think of these examples:
let your users crop their profile images
let your users enhance their product images during upload
let your users easily edit your images online without leaving the site
The possibilities are endless…
