Movies have become more byte-sized, with larger terabyte drives and fast Internet speeds for easy downloads. It is now common to have hundreds of movies on your desktop, but sorting through all these can be cumbersome. Fortunately, Movie Explorer paves the way for a saner movie archiving experience. Once you run Movie Explorer on your [...]
Prior to the launch of Windows 7, numerous tools existed that let Windows XP and Windows Vista users install the interface features of Windows 7 on their machines without upgrading the operating system. The same is the case with Windows 8 and its Metro interface. Instant Beautiful Browsing is an excellent app for Windows 7 [...]
If you aren’t happy with features offered by the built-in calendar in Windows, and online calendars like Google Calendar just don’t do have enough features for you, then you need to check out Calendar Magic. This app boldly goes where no calendar program has gone before. The feature list of Calendar Magic is enough to [...]
One of the many evils of managing files on the desktop is dealing with file extensions. While we are familiar with the most common extensions like .doc, .html and .mp3, there are thousands more file extensions that we do not know about. Fortunately, you can check File-extensions.org. This website provides detailed, searchable, and useful information [...]
Familiar is an interesting new service that wants to enable sharing through an under-utilized feature of computers – screensavers. Here’s how it works – you sign up with them, download their desktop app or add their apps for social platforms like Facebook and Flickr and then add photos to it. Now you can add friends [...]
While there are several music players available in Windows, it is rare to find a great alternative for iTunes on the Mac. In order to be a good candidate to replace your iTunes, it should do some things better than iTunes, such as being quick, light, and no-nonsense. Enqueue is a free music player for [...]
The web interfaces of email services today usually take a few seconds to load up. Moreover messages take time to appear when you click on them. Such responsiveness issues can be overcome with the use of a good desktop email client. Here to offer you those features with many others is an excellent desktop tool [...]
Every social network has its own widget for blogs and websites but there are hardly any widgets which combines feeds from multiple social networks. Thanks to Zooshia, you can now create a customized widget which will show updates from up to 10 Facebook, Twitter or YouTube account feeds. To get started, simply select the feed [...]
Finding, downloading, and playing videos have evolved in the past ten years. Before, getting videos from a DVD rental store was enough, but now we have torrents, video streaming services like YouTube, paid streaming like Netflix and Hulu, and RSS to keep us more than occupied. However, desktop apps have not caught up to these [...]
The Windows calculator is not an impressive application, to say the least. It leaves a lot of room for improvement and user-friendliness. Here to bridge that gap is a wonderful desktop application called OpalCalc. OpalCalc is an excellent calculation app for Windows computers with .NET 3.5 or higher installed. The app lets you type in [...]