Mobispine allows you to blog by reaching the apps menu, finding the “Options” tab and clicking on the “New Blog” selection. This will instantly create a blog for you on the Mobispine network.

Who’s Likely to Find This App Useful?

Mobispine is pretty much for anyone who has a cell phone and simply wants to keep in touch with or publish any sort of news of any variety. It’s basically like housing a newspaper all on your phone. There are news feeds on just about any subject you can fathom.

Mobispine Guide

If you think Mobispine if for you and you’d like to run it directly onto your phone, all you have to do is access this link with your mobile device and your phone type is detected and if supported, the correct version corresponding to your phone will be downloaded.

If you’d like to set up the software, select a region and then a country. Next, Mobispine will provide you with a full set of links customized to your region. For example, if I told it I was in Canada, it would show me the news feeds from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. With over 200,000 sources in 50 different countries with access to over 30 languages, you’ll be able to find unlimited amounts of news from all over the world.

Check out Mobispine for the iPhone:

Within the menu you’ll find options for Tools, Mashups, New Blog Post and Tell A Friend links. In the Tools area you can change your account, check your data usage, review the settings for the client software and check for software updates.

What do you think about Mobispine? What are the other RSS readers you use on your mobile phone? Tell us all about it in the comments.

This lightweight antivirus application caters to your system without having to take up half of your PC resources. Panda Cloud Antivirus is based on cloud computing, and is only partially installed on your computer and keeps core files on a dedicated server on the Internet.

The graphical user interface is very easy on the eyes and is actually one of the top interfaces I’ve found for free antivirus software’s.

Features and Reliability

One of the key features of this antivirus software is that you don’t have to manually update it. Complicated configurations and having to download new signature files is pretty much a thing of the past this Panda Cloud Antivirus. However, this doesn’t mean you remain unprotected when disconnected from the network: this antivirus app features a local cache that keeps the program up and running, continuously working at 100%.

When I ran a quick scan, the scan itself lagged a little at first, however it quickly picked up after 30% of the computer had been scanned. For the most part, the speed of Panda Cloud Antivirus is dependent on how much free memory you have, how many apps are installed, folders, and a variation of stored data. You should expect a regular scan to take an average of 40-70 minutes to complete.

Once the program has been installed, if you ever wish to open up the task manager to check on the effects of Panda Cloud on your system you’ll be able to find it listed in your task manager under PSANHost and PSUNMain. One thing that I can say is that during the scanning there were very few apps that were noticeably acting sluggish, even the Internet connection and PC speed where up to par.

This new program should take up around 50 MB on the hard drive and eats around 17 MB of RAM when in use.

Conclusion

All in all, besides lightness as its main attribute, Panda Cloud Antivirus is quite a simple antivirus tool that can’t be scheduled to run automatic scans. It would also be beneficial for this antivirus software to include effective filters for web, email, or support to detect any spyware. However, as a software that’s very much still in beta, it’s what you’d expect.

Panda Cloud Antivirus was designed fo Windows XP and Windows Vista, with Windows 7 support in the near future.

Below you will find 7 Firefox Add-on’s that will help you jump-start your online business guiding it into the right direction.

Domain Lookup

One of the first things you have to take into account when starting an online business is finding the right domain name. This can sometimes become quite a difficult task, this where Domain Lookup steps into place. With this add-on if you’re searching the web and find a phrase or two that might make a great domain name if properly thought out, then you can search for generic domains that match those key words. This extension also checks for the validity of the specific domains by cross-checking the information with many of the webs top domain registrars.

Take a quick look at the Domain Look-up informative tutorial on how to search for domains here.

Firebux

Firebux lets you automatically and securely download transactions from your banks and credit cards. You can also automatically categorize them, create budgets for each and every category and receive real-time alerts on your mobile phone for free. In order to use Firebux, you need to have an account on Buxfer. Key features include: Automatically download transactions, track your expenses, track who owes you money, send money through Amazon Payments and more.

LinkedIn Companion

The thing about starting an online business is, well, you need recognition. Depending on what your business is focused on (web design, service of goods, IT solutions and more) than you can resort to LinkedIn Companion. This add-on allows you to open doors and opportunities for networking and the facilitation of finding projects through LinkedIn‘s connection to over 25 million experienced professionals.

Gmail Manager

An important and vital part of your online business revolves around how connected you are with your prospect clients and future customers. The most widely used choice of contact on the web is the use of email. Countless amounts of businesses utilize Gmail as their sole provider for contacting needs, especially since you can easily register a customized Gmail account with your specific domain name through your web host.

Gmail Manager allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts all at the same time in the same browser window. You’ll instantly receive updates on new messages and replies with the use of a handy drop-down menu embedded into your toolbar.

Find on Xing

Xing is a global networking site for professionals that houses over 7 million online professionals in over 200 countries. Xing is very much like LinkedIn, however with a more diversified goal in global outreach to businesses and individuals. The Firefox extension Find on Xing allows you to specifically highlight a professionals name and find a profile or review of them on the Xing database. This will allow you to network, create social stature, and expand the available opportunities you’re able to take part in with your online business.

MoneyQuake

Have you ever wanted to virtually keep track of  how much your exact earnings of advertisement services on your website are? Well with MoneyQuake you can pretty much do just that. This extension displays real time earning statistics from several of the most popular advertisement systems such as Google Adsense, Bidvertizer, SoftwareProfi, PeakClick and more. This will allow you to easily create and manage your websites budget on a daily basis.

Business.com

Business.com is one of the most sought out online resources that help you search for vital information to expand the presence of your online entrepreneurial ventures. This add-on will allow you to effortlessly search through this sites composite archive of hundreds of articles and thousands of resources that will help you establish your business, gain experience, and brainstorm with new found ideas.

Which one of these Firefox extensions were you able to find helpful? Please MakeUseOf the comment box below and share with us your valuable thoughts and insight.

No matter the job scape or your skill level, you will surely be able to find the following free applications useful and effective for the development and creation of websites with your Mac computer. Without further ado, here are 6 Excellent Mac Apps for Web and Graphic Design.

Linotype Explorer

Linotype Explorer is an incredible font management app created for Mac users. You can use this app to install and “test” out new fonts on your PC. The selection of appealing fonts for your site is vital; this art of text is called Typography.

FotoFlexer

FotoFlexer claims to be “The world’s most advanced online image editor”. It offers completely free access to numerous features such as photo effects, graphics, shapes, morphing, and the creation of collages. You can also integrate and share your art with social sites like MySpace, Flickr, Facebook, and more. This can be an important app if the site you are creating is going to use apps.

Colorate

With Colorate you can create harmonized color palettes along with color schemes. Generate these palettes for images, photographs and more.

Simple CSS

With Simple CSS you can create Cascading Style Sheets from scratch or edit them right from the comfort of your desktop. Update styles on multiple pages all at once and reduce the data transfer usage on your page for faster loads.

Blender

Blender, open source software that allows you to create 3D animation with interactive playback leaves you with the option to optimize the style of your site with a few graphics. You can create animations with shades of colors, glossy features, soft shadows, and advanced rendering features.

JAlbum

JAlbum is a very useful app that allows you to create stylish photo galleries to publish on the web. All you have to do is simply drag selected folders into a pane where any images contained within the folder will automatically be arranged into a photo gallery. You can add several different themes and templates to enhance the appearance of your gallery, later then gain the HTML code and publish the complete gallery onto the web.

Conclusion

When designing why not take comfort with the facilitation of apps for your Mac that will allow you to boost your productivity and create better looking graphics or sites? The above 6 applications empower you with features that can meet your designing needs and make designing fun.

Which of the above apps have you used or plan to? Please MakeUseOf the comment box below and share your thoughts with us!

All of these icons have been designed according to the style used in the original iPhone icons, which turns them into really eye-catching designs

Here are 15 absolutely free iPhone icon sets for the personalization of your iPhone courtesy of MakeUseOf!

Enjoy!

Comic iPhone Icons

Social Bookmark Icons

SummerBoard

Hand Draw iPhone Icons

Aquaticus Socia

Some beautiful iPhone icons

ultra colors

IPhoneStyle Dock

Radiance

Aluminium and White

Chalkwork

Web 2 Icons

Sleek Icons

Toolbar Icons

Spiffy Icon Pack

Installing Your iPhone Icons

First off, you have to start off with the basics. iPhone icons arrive in two sizes, one of which you see most; the home screen icons are generally 59×59 pixels, whereas some icons can also be seen in 29×29 for list size; an example of the list sized icons can be seen within the iPhone’s settings area.

Now, how do you replace the icons on your iPhone? The icons for each application on the home screen can be found in the bundles, which you can easily find on your iPhone’s /Applications folder. For example, for changing the Weather app icon, you have to place your new icon (that should be named as icon.png) in /Applications/Weather.app/. You will have to overwrite the existing icon.png file with the new one.

And there you have it! That’s how you can install an icon on your iPhone.

Customizing your iPhone can be a fun way to put technology to an inspiring use. Let your iPhone reflect whatever you’d like it to and which icon set did you like the best? Feel free to leave us a comment below to share your valuable thoughts. If you know about some other cool free iPhone icon sets please share them as well.

We believe we’ve found a completely free file compressor extractor app (alternative to WinZip) called ZipItFree.

Why ZipItFree?

Besides the fact that (as it states it in its name) this app is free there are no annoying and irritating registrations or fees to pay. As soon as you unzip a file you have full control of functions through a modern and stylish graphical user interface while also being able to enjoy the benefits of its speed as well.

Decompressing files is even easier (as it should be) then zipping them up. All you have to do is open your ZipItFree file and locate the extraction button and click it. Your extraction should instantly begin.

The method of file compression this app uses is many times referred to as the “Black Hole” by developers because of its extremely high compression ratios and mega-fast decompression.

Another reason this desktop app (compatible with Windows versions NT-Vista) can be placed at the top of fellow similar software is its ability to utilize ZipV2 encryption algorithms to archive contents within a zipped file. This has been classified as over 100 times more secure than AES encryption algorithms (used by several un-zipping apps).

Our Journey Ends

ZipItFree handles several different formats with ease and allows you to leave comments on your archives describing what that specific archive contains so that you don’t have to unzip every file every single time you may be searching for something.

A few things that could be fixed on this fairly new app would be the support of additional formats, for now ZipItFree can support a wide variation of files; however, it still does not support all formats. The only other con I came across is that although the encryption method is substantially strong, it still may not be enough for everyone. It would be a much stronger app if it were able to somehow allow app users to choose stronger and better encryption methods totally dependent on their needs.

Here are a few files that ZipItFree easily supports: ACE, ARC, BH, BZip, CAB, GZIP, JAR, LHA, RAR, TAR, UUE, XXE, ZIP, and Zoo.

What file compressor/extractor do you use? Let us know in comments.

No one will say you can’t be a hardcore gamer on your home PC with this app. Your computer will be able to run applications much faster, open up your browser window and surf the net a lot quicker, and play games without the headache of having your PC freeze on you.

Why Tune for Gaming?

As time progresses and new games reel out of the big software development companies labs they often arrive to your PC with the need of more system resources, thus requiring you to turn off most of the applications running in your OS’s background so that they can run smoothly.

What Can I Squeeze out of Game Booster?

Game Booster will help in not only the optimization of your PC for gaming, but it will also aid in running any CPU abusing application you decide to launch. Although this app frees your computer from staggered applications and slothy PC tools it uses very little processing power. This enables you to run it whenever you’d like without compromising vast amounts of CPU usage.

This app works much like the Windows Task manager but the difference is it makes every task twice as easy and allows you to free up space with the click of a few buttons.

When you switch to gaming mode Game Booster administers a quick analysis of unnecessary background apps that may be running and quickly gives you the option to immediately stop them with the click of a button.

If you’re running the Windows Vista Aero theme Game Booster will place it inactive and switch you to a faster theme since this one takes up a lot of CPU.

The Choice

I must admit, at first I was pretty skeptical about this app, however, after using it and viewing live successful results I have to say that I will be an avid user of this app for quite some time. An area of which Game Booster could possibly improve upon would be by offering the option to turn off common apps that are run all the time such as iTunes. At the moment there is no way to edit the list of processes Games Booster will choose to suspend, however in the near future and further revisions we hope to find this feature available.

My suggestion would be to try a few other apps to free RAM on your PC, and then make a decision as to which app will free up space on your PC exclusively.

Also keep in mind that using Game Booster with the hope that your PC starts playing games that it wouldn’t even launch before is not a smart approach. I’d rather recommend using it on games that load fine but lag a bit. You might also want to check out a previously mentioned tool called CanYouRunIt that tells you if your computer can run a particular game.

Are you familiar with any other windows program that can be used to optimize Windows PC for gaming? Please share them with us in comments.

This is where this quick, easy, and simple desktop blogging tool comes into place. Why not simplify the way you manage your blog and post without having to open your WordPress, Drupal, or any such blogging platform dashboard?

Lets Blog With BlogDesk

BlogDesk allows you to quickly write and publish posts onto your blog with the click and stroke of a few keys. You’ll be able to manage multiple blogs and create infinite amounts of posts with this tool.

With the support of WordPress, MovableType, Drupal, Serendipity, and others, it allows space for the diverse use of not only multiple blogs, but multiple blogs on several different blogging platforms.

Here’s How:

The first thing you’ll have to do once you’ve downloaded your desktop client is scroll to the menu bar up top, select ‘file’, and click on ‘manage blogs’.

Next you have to choose to create a new blog, enter the blog’s name, its address (www) and then you have to select which blogging platform your blog’s operating on.

Now BlogDesk will ask you for the blogs entry point and port. You will leave this just as it is. Now click ‘next’ and enter your login details.

You will arrive at a screen that will ask you for a blog ID, if you don’t want to enter one, just choose Get Blog-ID. Now click ‘next’ and you’ll be prompted to retrieve all of your blogs categories. Once your categories have been added, click ‘finish’, and you’re done adding a new blog.

Adding a Post

Adding a post if fairly simple. You just need to select your blog, the posts corresponding category, and if you would like to allow commenting, pings, or change the date.

Once your post is complete click on the green arrow pointing upwards and your post will instantly be published onto your blog.

Now, all you have to do is check the published post to make sure that it’s visible to all of your site’s visitors.

A nice simple fast publishing tool for bloggers.  Do you know of anything similar?   Let us know in the comments.

This app tells your computer to execute tasks specified by you at the time you’d like them to be run. You can turn off, restart, hibernate, suspend, logout, and run other applications on your computer with the click of a few buttons.

How do We do This?

First you’ll have to download the app here.

Now after the app has been successfully installed, you can begin to play around and find out what tasks you’d like to schedule. You’ll need to begin by opening up Marxio Timer and coming to a screen similar to the following:

Within this screen you’ll need to decide whether you want to select a few of the tasks already pre-selected or you can choose the Run Program option and browse through the apps you’d like to run at a selected time.

For the sake of this tutorial I have chosen to run a Display text task. This can come in handy at times when you want to remember important tasks or memos.

Once I’ve entered the selected text I will scroll down and enter the time I’d like the task to run.

Now I can either choose additional tasks to go along with the reminder such as turning off the computer or I can press the Activate button to finalize the task.

As soon as you activate your task a small window will pop-up showing you the allotted time you have before your task is executed. You can easily hide this window and quickly re-open it to check your remaining time as well.

And finally, once your timer has reached its end, the task will be carried out automatically. You won’t need to do anything else but sit back and let Marxio Timer do the rest.

To Conclude:

Marxio Timer also lets you save user profiles for future tasks, and it allows you to create a desktop shortcut so that you’re able to quick-start your tasks without having to fully open up Marxio. Tasks can be virtually scheduled to any time you choose after/before/every few minutes, after your PC is on idle time, once, or on any other pre-selected time periods.

Another quick feature this app comes with is the capturing of screenshots. You can set the timer to capture any area of your screen at whatever time you decide as you manipulate the timer to benefit you. This is a nifty feature that can come in handy for avid users.

Do you know of any other similar apps that can be used to manipulate the PC in this way? If so, let us know about them in the comments.

With this app you can eliminate all the steps of having to load the Twitter site and enter your login credentials every time you want to visit your account or send someone a message.

Avoid the Extra Clicks with Twittastic

Twittastic (compatible with Windows platforms Win98 and up) drastically increases the improvement of your Twitter experience by allowing you to update your personal profile, follow your friends or sites, and send messages all from the comfort of your desktop.

Twittastic features a clear-cut and simple GUI (graphical user interface) and arrives at your desktop with a few interesting tools. For example, you can take a screenshot and instantly share it on Twitter by uploading the file to Twitpic (through Twittastic) and pasting the corresponding link in the text field. This same process can be applied to photos, webcam shots, and any other sort of file on your PC.

Another nifty feature that comes with Twittastic is the ability to flip your text completely upside-down. This feature isn’t absolutely useful, but it can be a bit interesting for your followers at times.

You can also insert small graphics into your tweets as well.

After the image has been uploaded:

The End of our Fan(Twit)tastic Journey

Twittastic lets you control your Twitter account directly from your desktop through the use of various features allowing you to save time and blend creativity with your Tweets as well. Not only are you able to send messages and update your account on your desktop, but you’re also able to share unlimited amounts of files with other users.

A quick drawback I came across was that Twittastic only supports one account; hopefully in the future the developers of this app will allow the use of multiple accounts at once.

Do you use Twittastic?  If so, what do you like / dislike about it?