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• Do Distraction Free Reading With Mishra Reader -- A WPF Based Google Reader Desktop Client for
• Microsoft Fix IT Lets You Extend Laptop Battery Life
• Google+ (G+) Desktop Notifier Updated To Boast More Features
• Red Cyan Camera Lets You Capture 3D Images without 3D Camera
• How To Fix Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) USB Drive Access Issue
• Mp3AlbumManager Lets You Keep Track of All The MP3 Songs in Your Music Collection
• Microsoft Tag Reader Lets You Convert Microsoft Tag File into PNG, JPEG, SVG Image Format
• Ten Great Free Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat For Editing PDF

Do Distraction Free Reading With Mishra Reader -- A WPF Based Google Reader Desktop Client for Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:44 AM PDT Google Reader is the favorite web based RSS reader of geeks. The best thing about Google Reader is that it is available for every platform like Windows, Mac or Linux or Android based smartphones or Apple iPhone & iPad. Mishra Reader is a Google Reader desktop client that lets you enjoy distraction free reading environment, especially if you like Microsoft's WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation). Mishra Reader is developed with WPF and has these features: 1. Copy to clipboard for scaled picture 2. Application icon in notification zone 3. Notifications 4. Starring 5. Categories support 6. Full support of subscriptions: You can now add, update and delete subscriptions After launching Mishra Reader you are required to login to your Google Reader account, you can also determine the number items per request need to be fetched. After you have logged in Mishra Reader will show you all the unread feeds. Clicking on main feed will list all the unread feed of that site. Categories can be edited and new feed can be added from the main feed list. It also lets you open any article of the unread feed in your default browser. When any new feed is available Mishra Reader will show a small notification on taskbar notification area. Download Mishra Reader Google Reader Desktop Client.

Microsoft Fix IT Lets You Extend Laptop Battery Life Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:21 AM PDT The one thing which is of great importance in a laptop/netbook is its battery. Every user wants longer battery life, especially the people who work on laptops/netbooks. Always keeping your laptop connected to the battery can become that cause of shorter laptop and battery life. To help out users in solving this problem Microsoft has launched Fix it. It is a tool that fixes problems regarding power consumption and extends battery life by automatically analyzing system settings that can affect power usage, like timeout/sleep settings, display settings, screen savers, and restores them to their default settings. Microsoft Fix it does the following things to help extend the laptop batter life: 1. The time before the laptop goes to sleep is too long 2. The use of screen savers instead of setting the laptop to enter sleep mode 3. Too high display brightness 4. Power plan is not the most efficient power plan 5. Wireless adaptor in not set for power saving 6. Very high minimum processor state Download Microsoft Fix it to extend laptop battery life & take care of power consumption issues.

Google+ (G+) Desktop Notifier Updated To Boast More Features Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:12 AM PDT G+ Notifier is a great free tool that notifies you of the latest updates or notifications on your Google+ account. G+ Notifier has now been updated to boast more features and a desktop version of Google+ has also been included. This new version can be used as a desktop client for Google+. This tool is portable and you don't have to install anything and it functions from the system tray. All you are required to do is to login to your Google account and then it would send out notification from the system tray. This latest version of G+ Notifier can also be utilized as a Google+ desktop application, as you can see in the picture above. It lets you view the complete notification and navigate through the Google+ account as it uses the mobile interface. If you want you can also check out the Google+ Desktop that is just like the Google plus desktop app. Download G+ Notifier

Red Cyan Camera Lets You Capture 3D Images without 3D Camera Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:14 AM PDT Red Cyan 3D Camera is an amazing app that lets you take Stereoscopic 3D images without 3D Camera. The only thing which you are required to do that is two webcams. This app uses two webcams to take 3D pictures. Just simply put the camera 4" apart and plug them into a USB. And then launch this app and take pictures. Quite simple. In order to view the images you will need a red cyan 3d glass. The fact that you are required to have two identical webcams for this software to work is the only downer. You would also need to adjust and focus the camera to get good 3D pictures. Red Cyan 3D camera does not let you make 3D videos -- Yet -- but the developers of this app can make this possible in future considering the demands of the users. Red Cyan 3D Camera – Stereoscopic 3D Generator In case you don't have two webcams, you can always use two images taken by phone camera or digicam (after taking the first image move your camera 4 inch left or right and take another one) and then all you have to do is to add those pictures manually using Add Manually option. It takes a lot of time in processing but the author of this app is trying to improve the processing time. Download Red Cyan 3D Camera. We have not tested this app as we did not have two similar webcams are needed for this app to work.

How To Fix Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) USB Drive Access Issue Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:15 AM PDT USB drive access issue Windows 7 SP1 has been confirmed by Microsoft. User using Sonic Stage Mastering Studio software that is with the Sony digital audio recorder device might face an issue in which Windows 7 Service Pack 1 does not let you access USB storage device or it might take a long time to respond and fails with following error message. Couldn't find PCM-D series. Please check the connection The good news is that the supported hotfix is already available from Microsoft for affected OS i.e Windows 7 Sp1 & Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. If suffer from this issue then you can go to the Microsoft Hotfix download center and download Fix353150. NOTE: Restarting your Computer may be required after applying hotfix. Download Hotfix to fix Windows 7 Sp1 USB Storage Device Access Failure.

Mp3AlbumManager Lets You Keep Track of All The MP3 Songs in Your Music Collection Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:16 AM PDT Even though there are many great apps like Apple iTunes and Google Music, still many people prefer managing their song collection all by themselves. One of the biggest reason of this is the fact that using these apps is quite difficult. If you are one of those users who want a good tool to manage their song library then you should try using Mp3AlbumManager. It is written in Java and uses an embedded database. It manages mp3 album collection. Mp3AlbumManager is designed to enable you to store your tracks rapidly and save the lists in HTML format. Some Features of Mp3AlbumManager are the following: 1. Rapid storing of your mp3 album collection just in a few clicks 2. Extensive search function 3. Save album list as HTML 4. Create NFO with album info 5. Easy configuration (HTML/NFO templates, database settings, look-and-feel, etc) Mp3AlbumManager Download Mp3AlbumManager.

Microsoft Tag Reader Lets You Convert Microsoft Tag File into PNG, JPEG, SVG Image Format Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:17 AM PDT Just like the QR code Microsoft has brought in a TAG format. Tag is actually a technology by Microsoft that encodes data in 2D bar-code that uses bunches of colored triangles rather than the square pixels. Microsoft tag aims at instant data sharing among users through mobile marketing. Microsoft tag manager can be used to create TAG that can be placed on packaging, print ads, marketing materials, on business cards or websites. Now when people will scan a Tag on their smartphones with the free Tag app, it will take them to your mobile site, show a video, download an app, add contact details to their address book, or dial a phone number. This way you won't need to worry about people correctly typing in your URL or finding you online because Tag instantly provides all the relevant info. The downer is that putting up a .tag format file on website is impossible as it can not be rendered on any browsers & Microsoft TAG Manager only provides tag rendering in PDF or RAW format. If you want to convert Microsoft TAG to other image file format then here is freeware tool named Microsoft Tag Reader that lets you do that. Microsoft Tag Reader is a very basic tool that can read Microsoft's ".tag" file format. It renders tags and saves them in several file formats like PNG, SVG, JPEG, Bitmap, JPED XR . Microsoft Tag Reader Drag &; drop .TAG file and choose the format and size of file you want to save it in. Microsoft Tag Reader Lets You Convert Microsoft Tag File into PNG, JPEG, SVG Image Format Download Microsoft Tag Reader.

Ten Great Free Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat For Editing PDF Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:08 AM PDT Adobe made the Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF is the most used file format when it comes to taking out prints or sharing documents. For Windows Adobe Reader X is a very popular software that is used to create, open, view, print and manipulate PDF files. But now there are many other tools too that can be used for all that -- and this is a great thing as you have to buy Adobe Acrobat X to perform functions other than the basic ones. Adobe Acrobat X suite is obviously not very cheap with its price starting from $139.00 for standard version to $199.00 for pro version. So here is a list of 10 Free Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat X Suite To Manipulate And Edit PDF Files 1. Nitro PDF Reader Size: 25 MB Supported operating system: Windows 7, Vista & XP (both 32-bit , 64-bit supported) Nitro PDF Reader is the best out of all other softwares out there. It boasts almost all the features that paid Adobe Acrobat X has. It lets you do everything with PDF files like view, create, edit and convert etc. We will not list all the features (which are a lot) of this amazing tool as it would take alot of time. If you want to get more information then you can check out the Nitro PDF Reader features list. 2. PDF Rider Size: 2.6 MB Supported operating system: Windows 7, Vista ; XP PDF Rider is a great tool that gives all the basic features used to edit and manipulate PDF files. It was developed in C# and .net 3.5. The main features of this software are the ability to merge PDF documents, insert pages from some other pdf file, extract, delete, rotate pages in PDF file, encrypt and decrypt a pdf file & burst a document into single pages. 3. PDF Meta Size: 198 Kb Supported operating system: Windows 7, Vista & Xp PDF Meta is a minimal tool that is developed in Java which lets user get rid of the meta data information from PDF documents. It allows you to do editing & customization of range of metadata information from PDF files. 4. Quick PDF Tools Size: 2.8 MB Supported operating system: Windows 7, Vista and XP Quick PDF Tools is yet another great PDF manipulation utility and allows you to do editing of metadata, merging, editing & deleting pages from pdf files, adding, removing password, converting images to pdf & vice versa. One of the best thing about this tools is the fact that it has a right click content menu for quick access to tools. 5. PDF To JPG Size: 200 Kb Supported operating system: Windows 7, Vista & XP The name says it all. This is a minimal command line tool that allows you to convert PDF files in to jpg images. It splits pages of PDF file into separate JPG Images. 6. gDoc Creator Size: 92 MB Supported operating system: Windows 7, Vista &; Xp gDoc Creator is an incredible tool that lets you convert word, excel, powerpoint documents into PDF files. This tool is specially helpful when you have to convert office documents into PDF Files and don't have Office 2010 installed. It can also be used as a XPS File viewer. Even though gDos Creator has now been converted into paid gDoc Fusion software but you can still get the trial version of gDoc Fusion and can keep on using gDoc Creator even after the 30 days trial period for free. 7. iPDF Express Size: 4 MB Supported operating system: Windows 7, Vista &; XP iPDF Express is the only utility that lets you manipulate PDF files in a batch. With it you can do batch edits, merges, encrypts, decrypts, splits, bursts, adds and remove attachments etc. 8. PDF Annot Size: 2 MB Supported operating system: Window 7, Vista &; Xp PDF Annot is one unique tool that lets you add Audio & text annotations to PDF files. 9. PDF-XChange Viewer Size: 16 MB Supported operating system: Windows 7, Vista &; XP It is yet another good utility which lets you view and edit PDF files. It is much more quicker and smaller tool as compared to others and has a lot of manipulation tools. It also lets you access all features from the right click menu. The best thing about this tool is that it can be used for private, commercial and in government institutions without any restrictions, and this is very unlike free softwares. 10. PDF reDirect Size: 7.1 MB Supported operating system: Windows 7, Vista ; Xp PDF reDirect is a very handy tool that lets you manipulate PDF files. It boasts features like encryption, full merging, watermarking, file locking, deleting or renaming a PDF file, Unprotecting PDF Files and PDF preview. It also supports several different languages.

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