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Print A Calendar: Print Out A Calendar For The Year 2012

Umar — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:01:55 +0000

Every New Year, you buy a new calendar to mark the year’s most important dates on it. But this year, instead of buying a new calendar, why not save money and simply print out a calendar instead? With a web service called “Print a Calendar” you can do precisely that.

Print a Calendar is a web service that is completely free to use. The site lets you print out calendars without having to register for any accounts. All you have to do is visit the site’s homepage. You will find the January calendar already being displayed. You can print out this calendar or share it with your friends via email, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Through a link in the top left you can select other months of 2012 for which you can print out the calendar.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you print calendars for 2012.
Lets you print each 2012 months separately.
Lets you share those calendar months online with friends.
Similar tools: Calendarika, ePrintable, Wallpaper, FreePhotoCalendars and Calendar Creator.

Check out Print a Calendar @ www.print-a-calendar.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Labeley: Create Really Cool Beer Labels Within Seconds

TehseenBaweja — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:01:35 +0000

Nothing is cooler than a personally designed beer label. Labeley is a web app that helps you create beer labels within seconds. The app is completely WYSIWYG and does not require any coding or actual designing. Start by choosing one of over 20 label shapes ranging from a circle and a square to a maple leaf and a cube. Then add a background color, a background pattern from the provided graphics or upload your own image.

The next step is to select a banner and a ribbon from the wide variety given and add the desired text. The text can be customized by adjusting the font size, color, font type, outline and lots of other text effects. Once done, download the label as a PNG file or embed it anywhere on the web using the provided HTML code.

Features:

Create fancy beer labels within seconds.
Choose background, shapes, banners and add text.
Customize your label with lots of available options.
No registration required.

Visit Labeley @ http://labeley.com

PrintPlus: Selectively Print Webpage Sections [Chrome]

abhijeet — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:01:10 +0000

Printing webpages is easy if you don’t care about the clutter on them (and do not care about wasting ink, which is highly unlikely). But if you agree that the best way to print a webpage is to first select what’s relevant on the page and eliminate stuff that’s unnecessary before sending it to the printer, then you’ll like this Chrome extension called Print Plus. A simple tool that lets you highlight sections of the page that you want to print, and then gets them printed.

The extension sits as a printer icon with a red plus sign on the extensions bar in Chrome, and you need to click it to use it. Hover over a section on the page, and click on it to include it. To remove a section, just click on the cross icon at the top right of that section.

Features

Clutter free printing of webpages on Chrome.
If it doesn’t work the first time, just refresh the page.

Check out PrintPlus @ chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hmfccjbmmiihefchodekgaebpodidoem (via Addictive Tips By Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)

DVDSlim: Create Printable Covers For Wide Variety Of CD/DVDs

TehseenBaweja — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:01:42 +0000

Creating a customized cover for a DVD you burned can be done via a number of software, but if you are looking for the quickest solution, DVDSlim is one of the best tools out there. DVDSlim is freeware that works on all Windows platforms and can print covers for a wide variety of discs including DVD, Mini DVD, VHS, BlueRay PS3, Nintendo Wii and many more.

You can pick the cover type from a drop down list which also displays the size of each cover. You can also add text on the front and on the edge of each cover, insert images from your computer, and choose specific fonts and sizes. You can also draw a brink on the cover, and once done print the cover easily.

Features:

Create covers for wide variety of discs.
Includes DVDs, PS3, VHS and many more.
Insert custom images and titles.
Works on all Windows OS.
Similar tools: Artworkcreator, PaperCase and CoverCreator.

Download DVDSlim @ www.elefantsoftware.weebly.com/dvd-slim.html [Via GHacks]

Breezy: Print Documents Using Your Smartphone

MOin — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:01:52 +0000

What do you do in case you print out a document or image that is stored on your phone? You first transfer it to your computer that has a printer hooked to it and then print it out. But this process could be made much easier if you could simply print things out from printers through your phone. That is precisely what Breezy offers.

Breezy is a document-printing service currently available for BlackBerry and iOS devices; soon it will be available for Android devices as well. The service lets you send documents and images stored on your smartphone to a printer-connected computer that is running Windows. All you have to do is obtain the service’s phone application and PC connecter client.

Adding to the features of Breezy is its community of partners. Businesses can partner up with Breezy to offer their printers to be used by Breezy’s users. You can easily locate nearby Breezy printers and request your documents to be printed there thereby saving yourself time in cases when you are not near your own printer.

Features:

A user-friendly phone application.
Lets you print documents and photos straight from your phone.
Works with BlackBery and iOS devices and prints from Windows computers.
Lets businesses offer their printers to be used by Breezy users.
Similar tools: WebMarkers and Ezeep
Also read related article:How To Print Files From Your Mobile Phone Using DropBox.
Print Anything Wherever You Are With PrinterOn
The 3 Easiest Ways To Share A Printer Over A Network

Check out Breezy @ www.breezy.com (by MOin from Urban Savior)

Picplum: Send Photo Prints On A Schedule Easily

abhijeet — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:01:24 +0000

Viewing photos online and looking at their prints are two different experiences. While you can do a lot of things online, like zooming in to them, increasing brightness, adding effects, etc, physically looking at them usually has a greater satisfaction and joy quotient. Picplum is a web service that lets you send photo prints to your loved ones every month. You upload the photos, add recipients and it’ll mail them the prints each month. At $7 per month you can send one set of 15 4″ x 6″ photo prints, shipping included.

The service ships internationally but shipping costs will be extra. Currently, you can send the first batch of photos for free (US only). They also have a pay as you go plan where you pay $1.50 as shipping charges, and then 50 cents for each photo print you order.

Features

Order photo prints online.
Send to your loved ones every month.

Check out Picplum @ www.picplum.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

Boxmeup: Create List of Items In Boxes & Get QR Code

abhijeet — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 01:01:00 +0000

One of the biggest inconveniences you face when moving home is remembering exactly what’s in each packing box once you start organizing things in your new home. Boxmeup intends to solve this problem in an innovative way. It helps you create containers online and put items in them. Once you are done, label the containers and it generates a QR code that can then be pasted on the real box of items. You can then scan it with your smartphone to quickly retrieve the list of items that are present in that box. Quick and easy!

The web app also provides a search feature which lets you conduct a quick search for an item and find the corresponding container. Obviously, smartphone users will benefit more from this tool.

Features

Create containers online with list of items.
Label the containers and get QR codes for pasting on your box of items.
Search for an item and its container online.
Similar tools: MovingLabelKit, CityMove and BoxCycle

Check out Boxmeup @ www.boxmeupapp.com (By Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)

SpringPublisher: Easily Design And Print Flyers, Cards, Letterheads… etc.

MOin — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 03:01:59 +0000

To create quality business cards, flyers, postcards, letterheads and such, you need a professional desktop application that lets you edit images in detail. But such apps normally costly and consume a lot of your system’s resources. This problem is easily solved by a freeware program called Spring Publisher.

Spring Publisher is a desktop application for Windows computers. The app comes in an MSI file sized at nearly 2MB. When installed, it lets you easily create various artworks fast. You can insert shapes, text, logos, and vectors into your artworks to get them completed quickly. By simultaneously editing multiple images as tabs, you can work on various aspect of your artwork at the same time.

Your artwork is generated with an output of (96/180 DPI) and can be printed out. For better qualify you can upgrade to pro option.

Features:

A user-friendly desktop application.
Compatible with Windows computers.
Lets you create high quality artwork.
Helps create business cards, flyers, postcards, letterheads, etc.
Free version lets you print 96/180 DPI quality.
Similar sites: CardXC, Spartx, Card.ly, BusinessCardStar, Band-Flyers and MyBrochureMaker.

Check out Spring Publisher @ www.springpublisher.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Printsgram: Print Your Instagram Pictures

Israel Nicolas — Sat, 28 May 2011 19:01:45 +0000

If you often use Instagram on your iPhone, don’t you wish that you can easily print the photos that you have edited with this amazing app? Printsgram is a web app that lets you do just that. You can import your Instagram photos into a printable PDF file, so that you can easily print them on your own. With Printsgram, you can create posters, stickers, and photo cubes from your very own Instagram photo gallery.

To print Instagram photos with Printsgram, go to the app’s website and link your Instagram account. Then select a layout on how you would like your photos printed. You can create an A4 poster, an A3 poster, a big poster, photo cubes, and stickers. Then simply drag and drop your photos to your chosen layout. Save the layout after you are done in order to generate a PDF file that can be printed on regular and large printers.

Printsgram makes printing Instagram images easier by turning them in a format that is printer-friendly. All of the layouts as of May 2011 are free of charge but the site is hinting that the other formats such as the A3 and the big poster are to be bought for a price in the near future, so you’d better hurry and try these freebies before it’s too late.

Features:

Transfer your Instagram photos into a more printable PDF format.
Create posters, stickers, and photo cubes from your Instagram photos.
Share a screenshot of your design to other people.
PDF files are optimized for international paper sizes such as A4, A3, and A1.
Similar Tools: PrintRates.
Also read How To Print From Your Phone With Gmail For Mobile & Google Cloud Print.

Check out Printsgram @ www.printsgram.com

PretonSaver Home Edition: A Desktop App That Helps To Save Your Printer Ink

Umar — Sat, 21 May 2011 03:01:15 +0000

The documents you print out often take up more printing ink than is actually required to do the job. This is primarily because of overlapping pixels that contribute towards the greater quality of the print. These overlapping pixels can be removed to save printer ink while maintaining the print quality. A desktop app called PretonSaver Home Edition lets you do exactly that.

PretonSaver Home Edition is a freeware for Windows. The application is sized under 1MB and lets you save a remarkable amount of ink in your printer’s cartridges. This is accomplished by removing the overlapping pixels in your documents and images. You can set the ink saving percentage from the slider available in the main program window. The higher percentage you choose, the more amount of ink saved. The app supports multiple printers and different settings for each.

Once your printing tasks have been completed, a report pops up in the lower right showing the amount of money you saved with respect to printer ink.

A detailed set of reports is also provided by the desktop application. This set of reports represents data graphically to give a clear indication of the amount of ink saved.

Prints through PretonSaver’s settings look the same for documents but slightly different for images and photographs. In either case however, the prints are clear and passable.

Features:

A user-friendly desktop application.
Compatible with Windows operating systems.
Lets you save a remarkable amount of printer ink.
Removes overlapping pixels in prints.
Provides reports about the amount of printer ink you saved.
Similar tools: Print Edit, PrintFriendly and PrintWhatYouLike.
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Update: The site is no longer Freee

Check out PretonSaver Home Edition @ http://download.cnet.com/PretonSaver-Home-Edition/3000-2088_4-10969436.html and get its activation code by registering @ http://www.preton.com/freelicense.asp (By Umar from TechCityInc)