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Familiar: Turn Your PC Into A Social Digital Photo Frame

abhijeet — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:01:28 +0000

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 and ask them to use the tool too. So when you decide to share your photos with them, just add them to Familiar and they get added to your friends’ screensavers automatically.

There are various customization options avilable. Also, there’s an email facility where you could just email photos to pics@familiar.com and they’ll show up on your friends’ screensavers. Overall, a new and innovative service for sure.

Features

Share photos via Windows screensaver.
The photos remain private, only shared with friends.
Services like Facebook and Flickr supported.

Check out Familiar @ www.familiar.com (via TechCrunch By Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)

NewFreeScreensavers: Directory Of Free Downloadable Screensavers [Windows & Mac]

azim — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:01:59 +0000

NewFreeScreensavers is a directory of free downloadable screensavers. All the screensavers on their site are safe to download, install and run and are compatible with any version of Windows and Mac. You can browse screensavers by categories (Abstract, Animation, Nature, Sport, etc) or view the top voted/commented screensavers. Every screensaver has a short description of what it does, so that you know in advance what to expect when it runs on your desktop.

To download a screensaver, simply click the “download” button and install it on your desktop. Once it is installed you will get the Display Properties window, where you can preview and configure the new screensaver.

To download a screensaver, simply click the “download” button below.

Features

Free downloadable screensavers for Windows and Mac.
Browse screensavers by categories (Abstract, Animation, Nature, Sport etc) or view the top rated/commented items.
Leave comments on the screensaver page with your Facebook or Twitter account.
Subscribe to newsletter to be notified of their newest added screensavers.
No registration needed to download screensavers. Download with a single click.
All the screensavers are safe to download and install.

Check out NewFreeScreensavers @ www.newfreescreensavers.com

KindleScreensavers: Get Kindle Screensavers & Jailbreaking Tips

Umar — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:01:09 +0000

Visiting different websites for images, screensavers, and jailbreaking tips for your Kindle device is a little inconvenient. Instead you need a single site where you can get all of this easily. Kindle Screensavers is precisely that website.

Kindle Screensavers is a free to use website that offers free Kindle background images and screensavers. The items are organized neatly into relevant categories. You can easily browse your favorite categories, find an image you like, and download it in one of the available resolutions. There is also a option to upload an image and generate your own Kindele screensaver.

Additionally users can share Kindle images and screensavers with others. People new to Kindle jailbreaking can find the site’s guides and tutorials on the matter.

Features:

Create kindle screensavers and get jailbraking tips.
Lets you download background images for Kindle.
Lets you download screensavers for Kindle.
You can upload Kindle background images and screensavers.
Helps people jailbreak their Kindle devices.
Similar tools: LendInk, ReKindleIT and KindleFeeder.

Check out Kindle Screensavers @ www.kindlescreensavers.com (By Umar from TechCityInc)

GlowDart: News Feed Ticker For Your TV, Computer Or Phone

TehseenBaweja — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:01:22 +0000

If you have ever wished to turn that extra monitor into a news streaming device, GlowDart is a nice news feed ticker you should definitely check out. It is a dead simple tool that displays continuously updating feeds on your screen based on your pre-defined criteria. It can be used on that spare monitor in your house, on a connected TV or a mobile device like an iPhone or iPad.

You can choose news feeds from a variety of services like CNN, BBC, Digg, YouTube, Twitter trends and Hulu. You can also choose to display feeds from your Facebook and Twitter accounts. You also have the option to switch between a light and a dark theme and pause the stream whenever you feel like it.

The tool is dead simple yet very intelligent in both design and functionality.

Features:

Free online feed ticker

Stream continuously updating news on any device.
Select from a variety of sources.
Add your Facebook and Twitter feeds to the stream.
Choose between light and dark themes.
No registration required.
Similar tool: RSSFeed.me, Snackr and RollGator

Visit GlowDart @ www.glowdart.com

DiggLabs: Real-Time Digg Tools

abhijeet — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:45:15 +0000

Among all the social media sites, Digg is probably the most popular. Not only it is a great source of news stories but also a major source of traffic for websites and blogs.

If you are a die-hard digg fan then Digg Labs is a site you should bookmark. It provides some cool real time Digg tools which show what stories are being submitted and going popular in real-time. There are 5 tools namely Pics, Arc, Bigspy, Stack and Swarm.

Each of the 5 tools has its own significance. Like Pics shows the real time image activity on the site while Swarm shows related stories as they are dugg. The following screenshot shows the tool Bigspy in action.

You could also download any of the above tools and use them as a screen saver on your Windows or Mac computer.

For more Digg tools also make sure to read The top 5 Digg Tools to Make you a Better Digger.

Check out Digg Labs @ http://labs.digg.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)