WIN Remote Is Your Swiss Army Knife In Remote Controlling Your PC With An Android Phone

I do have a chance to try nearly almost every remote-controlling app for the Android, but none of them seemed to surpass the feature-filled power of WIN Remote.

WIN Remote is a free, fun, and easy-to-use app that turns your Android phone into a PC remote control. So wherever you are in your house, you can control your Windows PC with a tap or flick of a finger.

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WIN Remote has been designed to perfectly work with the Windows 7, giving you new ways to operate your computer.

WIN Remote can remotely control the following PC operations:

• The Browser
• The Task Manager
• Various Video and Audio Players such as VLC, Windows Media Player
• Image Viewers
• Windows Media Center
• PowerPoint
• Open Office, etc.
• Power on and off, Reboot, or Hibernate the PC

To start everything rolling, you need to download and install WIN Remote on both your mobile phone and your desktop. Both apps are different so don’t interchange them when downloading and installing. The desktop app is the necessary app service for remote input while the mobile app will allow you to enter, transmit, and remotely control your computer.

1 Download WIN Remote for Android HERE

2 Download & install Server (Windows Remote service) for Windows and start it. Download it from http://www.banamalon.net

3 Select 'Change Server' from HomeScreen. A list of the Servers should appear otherwise press the refresh button.

4 And that's it!

Screenshots: 

The WIN Remote homepage.

Remote file management. You can browse through  your Desktop files through your Android phone.

You can remotely browse/open your files.

The Windows Media Player, controllable thru your phone

The Task Manager.

Yes, WIN Remote can remotely snooze off your PC.

In addition to the PC operations mentioned above, you can even control volume, play next/previous track, and refresh a current web page.

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WIN Remote is free to download and also ad-supported. As an alternative, you can download an ad-free donate version if you prefer.

Download: WIN Remote [Google Play link]

Buttonizer Gives You Cleaner and Neater Viewing Area by Turning a Toolbar Into a Button (Firefox)

Many who alternate between using Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox know that the latter always comes with many toolbars. Unfortunately, as more toolbars and extensions are used, Firefox can become cluttered, so your viewing area for webpages become less and less in time.

A Firefox extension called Buttonizer solves this problem.

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If you use small screen PC, you can get more space in your browser with Buttonizer without having to hide the toolbars from view and without sacrificing the viewing area. This Firefox add-on converts a complete tool bar into a simple button on the address bar.

How it works?

All you need to do is download and install Buttonizer from the Mozilla add-on site (link). Once installed, you will need to restart Firefox. After this, you will see Buttonizer as a button on the right side of your Address bar. All you need to do is to right-click on it and then select which toolbars can be converted to a button.


Once a toolbar is selected, it becomes hidden. When you mouse over the Buttonizer, you can access the hidden toolbar again.

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However, you can only set one toolbar at a time to a button. When you right click the Buttonizer button and select another toolbar as a button, the previous toolbar will revert to normal. The advantage of this app is that you no longer need to click so many buttons just to retrieve a hidden toolbar on the browser. The app works sort of like a button shortcut.


According to its developer, Byungwook Kang from South Korea, Buttonizer works great if you are using a small screen such as from a laptop or netbook. The next step for Kang and Buttonizer is adding multiple button support.

Download: Buttonizer (Firefox)

Must-Have: Recover All Items Stored On Your Clipboard with Ditto (Windows)

So you copied something, a photo or a tiny line of codes perhaps, and out of carelessness and itchy happy fingers, you accidentally copied another. And then you realized you need to re-access those previously copied items. And so you begin to wonder: is there a clipboard history, or a temporary folder where all your copied items are saved?

If you’re on Windows and you don’t have any clipboard manager installed, there is not such a way to recover those previous clippings. The notorious Windows’ clipboard only holds one item at a time. New items will permanently delete the previous one.

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Not Until the arrival of clipboard managers -- an extremely useful group of applications that can save you from any computer disaster like sudden shutoff, system crashes, etc. And here, I’m going to share you one of my favorite: Ditto.

Recover/Restore Previously Copied (and Cut Items) Back To Your Clipboard With Ditto (link)

Ditto is an open source (and therefore, FREE) extension for a standard Windows clipboard. This cool utility app extension allows you to save each item previously placed in a clipboard, thus, allowing you to access these items later on. Ditto allows you to save any type of information that can be placed in a clipboard, whether it is text, images, HTML, and even custom formats.

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Simply put, Ditto allows you to save, manage, and retrieve the countless clipboard grabs you make each day. It’s like recording all your cut and paste – copy and paste activities on a separate clipboard.

Some of the good features of Ditto and its Quick Paste Tools:

• Easy to use interface.
• Searching previously copied files.
• Saving any type of information that can be placed on a clipboard.
• Keeping multiple computer clipboards synchronized.
• Data is encrypted when sent over a network.
• Sending individual clips to other computers.
• Able to access tray icons or global hot keys.
• Can assign hot keys to specific copy entries.
• Automatically checks for updates.
• Can select any entry by double clicking.
• Can use drag drop or enter key.
• Can paste into any window that accepts standard copy or paste entries.
• Displays thumbnail of copied images on a list.

Download: Ditto Clipboard Manager (FREE)

New App 'PowWow' Seeks To Revolutionize The Way We Collaborate Online

Almost everyone knows how Google Docs works and how multiple users can work on either single or multiple documents at the same time. Now, wouldn’t you want that same capability on other applications? However, you know that is not going happen.

Until now.

How would you react if you found out that a brilliant group of programmers has created a screen share application wherein two users can work on a single application such as Excel or Photoshop? Amazing, right?

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This is the essence of PowWow. It is a very simple application that allows two users to work on an application at the same time, taking turns with their own mouse pointer. The design is for complete collaboration and not just screen broadcasting like that from Google Docs.



PowWow has been proven for such tasks as sharing Google Chrome to write an e-mail together, sharing a Photoshop task, sharing web-coding reviews between two web developers, or sharing paired programmer tasks. In short, PowWow feels as if you are working with someone just sitting beside you, even if the other user is a continent away. So far, most applications can be used on PowWow.

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For the present, PowWow is a beta available only for Mac. A version for Windows will be available very soon. For now, the official site is requesting people to sign up for an e-mail listing so they can be informed later when the Windows version will be out.

Because the Mac version of PowWow is still in Beta, the official site is giving caution to users should anything unusual or unpredictable happens, and to inform the makers by emailing them.

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SoundSlice Teaches You How to Play Guitar Fast By Syncing Guitar Tabs With Video

Soundslice is a web app for those people who seriously want to learn how to play the guitar without learning to read notes.

Many guitar players today, especially those still in the learning process, cannot read sheet music. They learn by using available guitar tabs or transcribing the music themselves. Arrangements, solos, chord changes, and small licks are done by transcribing music using tabs.

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Transcribing music can be a weary process. Some write on sheets of paper, while those with a computer create a lame text-file tab. However, since the transcription is not recorded, when the player goes back to what was created, he has to play the original recording just to get the phrasing and sense of timing.

Unfortunately, in this age of great technological creations, no one seems to have figured out a way to playback a transcribed guitar tab file. Oh, sure, there’s Guitar Pro, except it plays back in lousy MIDI format that cannot play the actual guitar sounds.

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Now, many musicians doing transcribing and tablature often wonder in this age of the Mars Rover why no one has found time for computers and the web to mate and produce an online collaboration for a web application for guitar players.

Just recently, Adrian Holovaty and PJ Macklin, programmer and designer respectively, and both guitar players, created Soundslice. This web app allows you to sign up for free, loop, and annotate guitar videos from YouTube.



Soundslice is not hard to use:

1 You just need to create an account with YouTube that allows you to annotate, create tracks, locate licks, make chord charts and tabs, and be able to slow down the video while annotating and looping.

2 Go to SoundSlice and add a track using the "+" button on the lower left side.

3 Select a part of the video using the timeline and click the "Annotate" button that shows up when you hit the "a" on the keyboard.

4 Keep repeating the process until you complete the synced collection of annotations.

5 If you get lost over something, just click the “Help” button on the upper right side for more interface details. You can even create using keyboard shortcuts.

Link: SoundSlice

Top 5 Free Web-based Audio Recording Software to Record Your Voice Online

So you have this rare need of recording your voice; you might want to send a voice instruction to someone or you just want to record your own voice while humming your favorite song.

Well, the good news is you don't have to install another third party audio recording software just to get the job done. All you need is a web browser and a functional microphone attached on your laptop or desktop computer -- and you're done!

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For students, teachers, and other professionals who want to do some audio recording but don't want to install another software, here's a shortlist of 5 FREE web-based audio recording software to record your voice online:

5 FREE Web-based Audio Recording Software To Record Audio Online

1. SoundCloud – allows you to do voice recording or to upload a recording to share with others. Once you are done recording, you can e-mail it and share with others. You can even make podcast more interesting by liking the audios or adding comments. [Link: Soundcloud]

2. Vocaroo – a tool to easily record your voice and then share it with others via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, or embed the audio on your blog or website. The tool allows you to upload in different audio formats that you can all share. You do not even need to sign up for this tool. [Link: Vocaroo]

3. AudioPal – another tool that needs no signing up just to record your voice. Like the other apps, you can create as many audio messages as you need, share them with others, or embed them in your blog, website, or social media site. This works particularly well as a teaching tool because of its 6-second time limit. [Link: AudioPal]



4. Chirbit – a great tool that allows you to do voice recording and be able to share it in different social media sites. In addition, it allows you to upload different sound formats, or extract audio from YouTube videos. [Link: Chirbit]



5. Audioboo – recording app that works on iPhone, Android, and Nokia devices. You can also record through the web. Windows Mobile and Blackberry will soon be added. After downloading the app, all you need to do is start using the record button on the front page. Then, you can add a title, some tags, a picture, and even pick the location where it was recorded. The free download has a 3-minute limit on recordings. The app is even more powerful if you register online and fill out your profile. You can follow other people with Audioboo and listen to their uploaded boos. You can even link your recorded boos on other social media platforms, automatically. [Link: Audioboo]

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Foldify Lets You Create, Print and Fold Beautiful 3D Figures on iPad

Here’s something nice for iPad users as well those into artistic stuff and art cutouts.

Did we say cutout? Like kid stuff cutouts? Well, it’s more than that. The Apple iPad app is called Foldify. It lets you draw, print, and fold beautiful 3D figures that you created yourself. You can print the foldable 3D figures on any kind of paper you want.

This is tremendous news for hobbyists who not only enjoy collecting action figurines but, also in creating their own various cutout collections. This is also great news for hobbyists who are into diorama modeling. Now they can create 3D cutout backgrounds that they can use with Styrofoam backing.

The fun part of all this is creating whatever you want and however you want. Foldify was created by a new company called Pixle that allows you to create print out 3D paper figures straight from you iPad. Foldify will soon be coming out for release at all Apple iStores. The app will be available for all iPad versions except first generation ones.

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When you enter the site, http://foldifyapp.com/, you will need to open a video on how the app works. You will also be asked to leave your e-mail address so they can inform you later if the app is already available.



Based on the video, Foldify allows you to choose from many different 3D shapes. From those choices, you can add unique faces, shapes, mouths, noses, eyes, and color to create your own figurine. Once finished, you can print out the finished drawing and start folding to bring together your creation.

One cool thing that seems to stand out in the video is the preview pane that lets you see the 3D paper figurine in its folded form even before you print it out. It updates in real time and even allows you to rotate the drawing for a 360-degree view.

Mozilla's Popcorn Maker Lets You Enhance, Recreate Existing Videos from YouTube, Vimeo

You might have already heard about 'Popcorn', it’s an HTML5 media framework written in JavaScript for filmmakers, web developers, and anyone who wants to create time-based interactive media on the web. Popcorn.js is part of Mozilla's Popcorn project.

Good news is: Team Mozilla has launched version 1.0 of its Popcorn Maker, a web-based video editing app powered by the Popcorn framework.

Well, what’s so exciting about this app is that regular users can easily re-create or enhance already existing videos online -- be they from YouTube or Vimeo -- thereby allowing you to add image, map overlays, and links from Twitter, Wikipedia, and other websites. So the result would be like a highly-interactive web page rather than a traditional video.

Popcorn Maker helps to change or transform usually passive video viewing into a feature-rich interactive experience that allows for greater viewer engagement. Eventually, a more advanced version of the app will be able to create shoppable videos or video ads for advertisers on YouTube. In this way, you can easily link to a product website or immediately buy a product while watching a video that shows the products.



See Popcorn Maker in action HERE.

Lazarus Is Your Time-Saving Chrome Add-On That Saves Anything You Type On A Web Form

Almost everyone has been through this nerve-racking experience before. You are filling out an online form, and it is a long one. Perhaps it is an online Auto Loan or Mortgage Refinancing form. You are finished so you click on the ‘Submit’ button. Only, what happens is that you get an error message, and when you click the 'Back' button, the form is blank. So, what do you do, start over again?

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Now you can install a Google Chrome add-on called Lazarus. Simply put, Lazarus saves everything you typed into that form, so if anything should happen, all the data is saved and can be recovered from the Lazarus menu.

Lazarus: Autosaves Everything You Type On A Form From Form-killing Timeouts, Crashes (link)

Lazarus is a simple form recovery add-on for Chrome browsers. In case you experience those nasty network errors, crashes, and other form-erasing timeouts, this app automatically saves and recovers everything you typed on an online form.

There is even an option wherein all the data you typed can be encrypted and saved on your computer, safely.

Lazarus is free and can be automatically installed on your Google Chrome. To date, more than 500,000 have downloaded Lazarus.

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A new 3.0 version will be released soon for compatibility with Mozilla Firefox and Safari.

Download: Lazarus Form Recovery [Chrome link]

ThrowMeApp Brutally Makes Your Android Device Useful Again

The title says it all. Yes, anything is possible with technology these days, even if it does border on the somewhat risky or foolish.

ThrowMeApp (pun is intended to catch people’s attention, get it?) is used to take aerial pictures of you and your friends. This is a new aspect of app photography you can explore so long as you are willing to take the risk.

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All you need to do is to throw your Android compatible device (such as the new Samsung Galaxy series of phones) up in the air and catch it when it comes down.

ThrowMeApp Takes Aerial Pictures When You Throw Your Android Device in the Air (link)

Here's how ThrowMeApp goes:

• Turn on the app and throw your Android phone up in the air. It will take a photo at the highest point and when facing down.
• The app needs lots of light for good pictures. So the app works best outdoors on a clear day.
• The key to taking good pictures is throwing the phone in such a way that the screen is facing upward.
• ThrowMeApp adapts to the way you throw and will eventually improve timing after a few throws in the same manner.
• No professional ever gets it right the first time, so you need to practice your throws.

Warning: The user alone is responsible for the phone and preventing it from breaking or hitting people.

What makes ThrowMeApp amazing is that it takes really clear pictures without the usual motion blurs associated with high speeds.

ThingLink: Make Your Photos Interactive By Embedding Videos, Music, Text or Another Images

ThingLink is an app that will bring new life to your photos.

But no, this is not the boring Instagram-like type of app where the fun ends up with photo filters.

ThingLink is a provider of image interaction tools. It uses free tagging tools to give photos new life by using sound, voice, social media, and other fun links.

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Imagine your pictures becoming stories in themselves. For instance, an ordinary high school graduation class picture comes to life when you embed the names of each single person in the photo complete with profiles, where they are now and what they are doing in life after, say, 20 years. What a way to make a great online yearbook!

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The ThingLink app makes everything online that can be embedded come to life on any image. Streaming media, music videos, social profiles, facts and figures, surveys, documents, and even statistical graphs can be enabled for any picture you choose. The pictures you choose can be anything from educational photos for your classes to your own Facebook vacation pictures. Here's a demo:

You can go beyond creativeness to invent interactive greeting cards, posters, wedding, and birthday invitations. You can also spice up boring profile images, family pictures, maps, and even fashion shoots.

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ThingLink is an app that can make people think, laugh, cry, or just smile just from viewing ordinary pictures.

PBS Has a New Tool That Lets You Make Your Own Political Ad with Your Facebook's Data

Talk about geeky fun.

Technology is now getting to be more fun and hilarious without being a geek yourself.

PBS Newshour has recently created a new tool (more of a new toy application) that lets users make personal political advertisements easily. It is a great way to get a laugh out of your friends and relatives who will view your political ad. You can even create a dumb political video with you as the villain of the ad.

Make Your Own Political Ad With Your Facebook Data (link)

Whatever political ad you decide to make, whether character, small-town, credential, metro-America, biographical, or attack type, it will be fun and easy to make. All you need to do is to go to https://www.pbs.org/newshour/adlibs/, log in to your Facebook account, and just follow the instructions on the PBS Newshour site. It is that easy.



While doing all this, you can even stop at various sections of the video of your choice and insert any Facebook posts or photos you want to insert. You definitely control the ad’s template all throughout.

On the learning side, you get to see just how political ads are made and the rigid guidelines these ads follow. As it turns out, the application does not allow you to make attack ads against anybody on Facebook except yourself.

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The timing could not have been better with elections coming up this November in the USA and early next year for some Asian countries.

Here's my personalized ad: LINK (Only my FB friends can view this)

This App Silently Copies All Data to Your Hard Disk Once A USB Flash Drive Is Plugged In To Your PC

Goodness, what will people ever think of next in terms of technology?

A website called paludour.net (link) is introducing a new application for Windows called the AutoUSBCheck. It can be downloaded to any computer to be used for automatic copying, backup, or stealing data from any USB flash drive that is plugged into the computer. It also shows when a USB flash drive has been used on the computer and extracts a copy of the USB drive data to the hard drive.

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AutoUSBCheck is so easy to use:

1 Download and install AutoUSBCheck HERE.

2 Once installation is complete, launch the app -- go to Start > Programs > AutoUSBCheck Preferences. You should be prompted like this:


3 Just hit OK(you may enter the unlock code to download the Full version). This should bring the AutoUSBCheck dialog, as seen below:



4 Click Start button to activate program. And you're done!

If the application is in active state and any USB flash drive is plugged into the computer, the app will silently copy USB files without user's knowledge in the background unto the hard drive to be accessed later.

Advantages:

• You get to know if a USB flash drive was ever plugged into your computer get to copy the flash drive contents.
• Automatically backup files once USB stick is inserted.
• Once active, it is automatic and silent.
• Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, and XP.
• You can limit or unlimit what size file to copy.

Disadvantages:

• Free version is only a trial version. Paludour.net will send the full version of AutoUSBCheck if user sends a donation of €6 Euro or $ 9US.
• Rare incompatibilities may occur.
• Use at own risk because there is no technical support.

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How To: Create, Add Watermark to Your Photos Without Using Photoshop

With the internet so open to anyone, it is no surprise that copyright infringement and other content theft is rising fast. The best protection you can give to all your online images is to embed photo watermarks online to personalize and thereby, clearly identify all your image files.

Basically, according to the FreeDictionary.com and Dictionary.com, a watermark on any picture simply means:

"The faint design made on paper during manufacture, that is visible when held against the light and typically identifies the maker."

The best example for a watermark are those found on Australian dollar bills and South Korean Won bills.

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Traditionally, watermarks are added by embedding a custom text or tile into the image using photo-editing software like Adobe Photoshop. But no, you don't have to go through the same old process of watermarking your photos this time. There is this awesome online photo watermark creator that can surely save you time when watermarking your photos online.

Picmarkr: Free Online Photo Watermark Creator To Watermark Your Images Without Using Photoshop (link)

With Picmarkr Free Online Photo Watermark Creator, you can easily watermark your online images for free.

In using Picmarkr.com, there are simply three very easy steps to follow:

1 Upload images or photos of your choice Upload any picture or image of your choice from your Facebook account, you blog, flickr.com, or Picasa.com. Then, using the Picmarkr Watermark Creator, you can upload and watermark up to five images at once. You can even resize your pictures as you see fit, from 500 up to 1024 pixels.



2 Select a Watermark Format You have a choice from the three popular formats, text, image, or tiled watermarks.



3 Download the Watermarked Images After selecting the watermark format you want, the watermarked image should be ready for downloading.

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Picmarkr.com can also be used to add watermarks to images without using software that are stored in a PC or laptop.

Add Multiple Tabbing Support To Windows File Explorer With Clover [Must Have]

At long last, the multiple tab browsing support you've loved and seen on apps such as Chrome and Firefox has finally landed on Windows Explorer.

Thanks to this handy Windows app called Clover which adds a multiple tab functionality to your Windows default File Explorer. That is, when you want to navigate to another file, you don't need to launch it in a separate window and have multiple windows opened at the same time.

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The current version of Windows File Explorer doesn't have a multiple-tabbing support yet. And so Clover must be a good news especially if you do a lot of copy, paste, move, cut or deletion of files.

Get A Google Chrome-Like Tabs Interface On Windows Explorer With Clover (link)

Clover (2.7MB) is a tiny, free Windows app that adds a multiple-tab functionality on your Windows File Explorer. Once installed, you'll get a Google Chrome-like tabs interface on top of the Explorer of every window.

No special requirements to use this app. All you have to do is to download and install Clover from their website (link).

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Other notable goodness of Clover:

Convenient Tab page

To master the powerful, easy-to-tab, just remember that Ctrl + T to open the page, and Ctrl + W close the page, Ctrl + Tab to switch pages, the work efficiency far more than doubled!

Seamless integration of operating system

Clover by the BHO plug-in form, integrated into Windows Explorer, to keep your usual habits, without having to learn new software operation, and immediately you can use.

Lightning-fast bookmarks bar

Press Ctrl + D to add the current path, or directly to the folder into the bookmarks bar. No longer around to look for the folder to access, instant reach, how happy!

Clover is a a must-have utility app that makes file browsing a completely new experience. Supported platform includes Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8, on both 32-bit and 64-bit OS editions.

How To: Export, Backup All Instagram Photos Online

The day social networking giant Facebook acquired image-sharing mobile app Instagram for US$1 billion, many Instagram users startled and decided to delete their account.

If you're among those unhappy, long-time Instagram users who wish to completely delete your Instagram account, you might want to perform a complete backup of your Instagram photos first.

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Here, we will present you handy and best methods to backup all your Instagram photos online. All you need is to sign in or sign up for these apps so you can download Instagram photos straight to your hard drive.

Free Tools To Download, Export and Backup Instagram Photos

1. Instaport (link)

Instaport must be the simplest way to export or backup all your Instagram photos by downloading a single zip file. All you need to do is to sign up the Instaport app with your Instagram User ID and password, then choose in which format you want to export all your Instagram collections.

There are advance options too: you may download Instagram photos taken at particular dates or by tags, as seen below:

2. CopyGram (link)

CopyGram is yet another awesome tool to backup your Instagram photos online. Using the app is a snap. First you need to do a one-time registration to their website and then allow CopyGram to connect to your Istagram. Once done, you should be taken to the homepage, displaying your friend's latest uploads.

Now, to backup your Instagram photos, just click the link "BACK UP PHOTOS" at the top of the nav bar and you are ready to backup all you Instagram photos. Just enter your e-mail ID and then hit the Backup now button to get the backup in your e-mail account inbox.

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How To: Temporarily Block, Restrict Access to Unwanted Websites and Increase Productivity

Here’s the situation. You have a lot of work to do. Perhaps you have a deadline at work to submit a report. Perhaps you’re catching up with your school term paper deadline. Perhaps you’re working as a home based web developer and your client has set a deadline.

But, the temptations are numerous. You end up watching the latest Linkin Park videos on YouTube, or you keep commenting and uploading on Facebook, or you can’t seem to stop the latest downloads of “Game of Thrones.”

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This doesn’t sound good for productivity. It can get you fired, or you end up with a failing grade, or worse, you lose your client.

It really boils down to personal self-discipline. However, there’s an app that can help you with your self-discipline issues and to help you get the real work done.

Save Yourself from Time Sinks & Be Productive Online With LeechBlock (link)

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Introducing an extension called Leechblock. It works perfectly well with Firefox. This may sound almost impossible, but, the extension app does work.

All you need to do is download Leechblock, install it, then restart your browser. Now comes your honesty and discipline factor. Select the site or sites that make you unproductive and block them on the browser’s tool menu.

But, it doesn’t stop there. You can set the time periods that these sites should be blocked. That’s right; you’re not depriving yourself completely. It’s just a discipline thing. You can even set the number of minutes or hours you can allow yourself to visit the selected sites per hour or per day.

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Lastly, you can select the days of the week Leechblock should block these sites. You can also set an optional “custom name” for the selected sites such as “The Force Balances Time between Work and Play” or other funny or not so funny file names. Putting up custom file names allows you to categorize what sites you’re blocking.

You can add sites anytime to the block lists on Leechblock. Can you undo the blocked sites? Here’s where the discipline factor comes in. Of course, you can unblock anything, but, Leechblock will make it difficult for you.

So, stop wasting your time and get back to work. But, before you do, download Leechblock first.

For Chrome, you may want to check out Nanny, yet another productivity add-on similar to LeechBlock that allows you to be more productive and less distracted by blocking sites.

New Browser Extension "Turn Off The Lights" Gives YouTubers The Feel Like They're In A Cinema

If you're a regular on YouTube, you should have seen that annoying clutters like advertisements, comments, sponsored and related videos sections on YouTube. While these YouTube elements are supposedly helpful at times, they're actually a kind of distractions for some. Remember that our eyes can only handle one at a time, beyond that drives our concentration away.

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Thankfully, there is such a good browser extension called "Turn Off The Lights" that seeks to give YouTube users the cinematic experience by fading the page background to dark, thus making the YouTube video to stand out.

Give YouTube Videos A Cinematic Look With "Turn Off The Lights"

"Turn Off The Lights" is a free Chrome and Firefox extension that promised to remove unnecessary distractions when watching a YouTube video online. With just a click of a button, the entire web page will be fading out to dark, except for the view port of the YouTube video you're watching. Clicking again the button resets the page back to normal.

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Getting started is a snap. Just download and install Turn Off The Lights for Google Chrome HERE or install the Firefox version HERE. Once installed, a lamp icon should be visible next to your address bar. As seen below:

Now, while on YouTube, clicking on it will increase page's opacity, thus allowing you to focus only to the video you're watching.

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Users also have the option to change the black opacity to 100% or less — useful when you want the page to appear almost black. Just right click on the lamp icon, and click "option". If you want to automatically turn the lights off when playing a video, you can do that as well. Just enable the option "autoplay" in my option page.

For more of our YouTube goodies, head over HERE.

How To: Password Protect, Lock Google Chrome Bookmarks And Access Them Anywhere

Previously on this blog we have talked about Browser Lock, yet another awesome browser extension that lets you lock, password-protect Google Chrome browser. If you haven't had the chance to check it out, head over HERE.

Now if you're wondering about how to password lock and restrict others from accessing your Chrome bookmarks on your shared computer, you might want to check this password-protecting browser extension called LockMyFavs.

Prevent Others From Accessing Your Bookmarks - Protect Your Bookmarks With A Password (Chrome)

LockMyFavs (link) is a handy browser extension for Chrome that lets you lock, password-protect your bookmarks on Chrome. With this extension you can create a separate list of bookmarks  right on your Chrome and make them accessible only to you.

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Here's how it works:

Step 1 Download and Install LockMyFavs from Chrome Web Store HERE.

Step 2 Once installed, click on that tiny "favorite" icon that sits next to your address bar, as seen below.

Step 3 If you're using the extension for the first time you may need to complete the one-time registration by simply filling out a valid email address and password, and you're good to go. Otherwise, just login.

Step 4 Once logged in you should be able to see all your web favorites/bookmarks listed under "Library" tab. From there you can search, filter and manage all your saved bookmarks.

Access Your Firefox, Chrome Bookmarks On Any Computer Anywhere

To add new site on your list, just right-click anywhere on the page you're currently browsing and select the Add To LockMyFavs option from the context menu. Or you can click on the LockMyFavs icon on the top.

It's that easy!

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The real cream of the crop of LockMyFavs is that your bookmarks will be stored in the clouds. This means that anywhere you go, in any computer, you will have your bookmarks with you!

Docracy: Your One-Stop Repository for Free, Open Source Legal Document Templates

Whether you're looking for a Quit Claim Deed, Non-Disclosure Agreement or Bill of Sale, finding legal documents online can be downright annoying. You'll get overwhelmed by the number of options when you google something like "General Contract Forms", etc. Finding reliable document online is like finding a needle in a haystack, and yes it's a pain!

Thankfully there is such a good and reliable website that helps you find legal documents you need -- all for free.

Docracy: Your Free Online library for Open Source Legal Document Templates (link)

The free web resource is called Docracy -- it's a library of contracts, legal agreement and other legal documents submitted and maintained by Docracy users all over the world. Docracy was created to make it a  a lot easier for anyone to find high quality and trustworthy legal documents from reputable and transparent sources.

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A one-time registration for a free Docracy account is needed to get started. Registration process doesn't take any longer than a couple of seconds. As soon as your account is created you'll  be able to start sharing and accessing all the legal documents you could ever need.

Once you find a document, Docracy gives you the option to edit and save it for later use. PDF and Word version of the document is available too so you can instantly print and get a hard-copy of it.

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You may not need a legal document right now, but it's a good site to bookmark for the future when you do. Docracy's database of documents is constantly growing so go check it out!