Get Things Done With Fruitful Time Manager
Getting things done is a rage these days. I’ve been a long standing fan of Remember the Milk for managing my day to day activities. Recently I heard about Fruitful Time Manager and decided to try it out.. I’ve been using it for the past couple of days and suffice to say I’ve been more than impressed by it.. The most important thing is obviously the fact being a desktop software it is always there for you, but that itself is its biggest advantage for people always on the move... Read The Rest →
HiYo Brings Your Messenger to Life
I’m sure all of you have had a chat online with your buddies via a IM client. I’m sure you must have realized that most of the IM clients are boring, and its not so fun to have a conversation in boring interfaces. Well an addon for MSN Messenger called HiYo claims to bring back your chat sessions to life. The Instant Messaging world needs a serious shaking. What we see around us is old school conventions forced into the hectic world of Instant Messaging, and it doesn’t work. Though... Read The Rest →
Firefox 3 Finally Out After Some Early Hiccups
Well not everything went good for Mozilla on its planned download day to celebrate the release of Firefox 3. Mozilla had declared today as Download Day, in an effort to set a Guinness World Record for most software downloads in one day. Somehow the plans did not work out that well. The Servers were almost down till 1PM PST, while the event was scheduled to begin at 10AM PST. Looks like Mozilla didn’t plan well in advance, as one by one their servers went off with the huge number of... Read The Rest →
Adobe Acrobat Online Takes A Giant Step Forward
Adobe continues to tread the path of online services with its latest offering Acrobat.com. With the launch of the online tools, Adobe also launched a tightly integrated version of Adobe Reader 9.0 that works seamlessly with the internet. With the latest offering, I feel Adobe is taking small but significant steps in the online office arena. Weather or not it can defeat Google, Microsoft in this threeway fight is the big question? Well Acrobat.com is a mini portal of sorts. It is the combination of their online meetings tool –... Read The Rest →
The Five Best Twitter Clients
photo credit: carrotcreative As Twitter continues to explode at a rate faster than any other web2.0 app that we’ve ever seen. The reason why Twitter has done so well because of the simple API that Twitter has and the number of apps that have been built on it. I thought with the growing popularity of Twitter it would be a nice idea to showcase some of the best clients for Twitter that have actually outdone Twitter itself. Here they are in what I feel is the best order. From the... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Find The Font Used In An Image
I’m one of the few kind who has more fonts on his system than any other type of stuff. Call me a font addict, but I love trying out the different fonts to see how it looks. Case in point, I’ve spent over 80 permutations and combinations of fonts for the business card that I’m designing for myself. Everyday I come across fonts that are lovely and I want to try them out. But it isn’t all that easy to find which find the artist or designer has used. Earlier... Read The Rest →
Tip : Quickly Disable UAC For Specific Specific Programs
Windows Vista came bundled with one of the most irritating security features to date that is the UAC. There are many apps that I use that require to be run in elevated mode everytime I run them. I’ve already told you guys how to disable UAC for specific apps permanently but that hack requires a bit of work, instead using a free software called Elevate Me you can take the pain out of running apps that require elevated mode. Just install the software, and you should find an option... Read The Rest →
Tip : Screenshots With Windows Live Writer Made Easy
Windows Live Writer happens to be my favorite tool for publishing posts on this blog. I use it everyday and blogging is way more easier with it. If you are a long time Dailyapps reader you might have noticed that a lot of my posts contain considerable number of screenshots of apps and software’s. I normally use Snagit for all my needs of taking screenshots, but today thanks to Amit Agarwal I found a cool new plugin written by a Microsoft employee Joe Cheng that allows me to take screenshots... Read The Rest →
Eject USB Devices Faster With USB Disk Ejector
USB devices are the best solutions these days to carry data around rather than using bulky DVD’s, CD’s or even the now ubiquitous Floppy Disk. USB devices are fast and easy to use. The only problem is that while it is really easy to plug in a USB disk/device but while removing it you got to take extra precaution to make sure while ejecting the USB device there is no data loss or damage. You might ask me, doesn’t Windows already provide a tool that ejects the USB devices safely... Read The Rest →
OoVoO – Video Conferencing Redefined
I got an invite email from a friend of mine, and it was for a product named OoVoO. I usually delete all invite emails before marking them as spam. But this time, I opened this one to see what it had to say. After reading the features, I ended up installing he product and now I feel so happy for having opened that email, because I’m now a big fan of OoVoO. OoVoO also happens to be a Webware 100 Winner and here’s what it does basically : OoVoo is... Read The Rest →
