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How to backup your Gmail

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Have you ever thought of backing up your Gmail? Probably not. Because most of us use Gmail as the backup point, and not the other way round. But what if for some reason your Google account gets disabled? Or someone hacks your email?

If you want to play it safe, use the following free tool to backup your Gmail with one click.

URL: www.gmail-backup.com

Opera 10 (alpha) - 30% faster

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Opera, my previous favorite web browser (before the advent of firefox) has released Opera 10 (alpha) version. It’s reportedly 30% faster than the current 9.62 version. It uses presto 2.2 rendering engine which makes it faster and more secure.

People behind opera has been doing some great updates lately. I think I might just shift back to Opera soon. It already supports lots of add-ons, but the most important feature that I missed the most is mouse gestures. Opera 10 makes it easy to update it too, it automatically updates the browser to the latest updates seamlessly - install once, and it keeps itself up to date. Wanna try? You should!

URL: www.opera.com/browser/next/

AdesClrPicker Stats (since it’s been freeware)

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Two weeks ago (Sep 22, 08) I made my color picker software free and launched a new “product site” for it. So far, as of now, the software has been downloaded 543 times since it’s been freeware. (Total downloads to date: 15,680)

As for the product site, it’s showing very good results on Alexa stats - it’s up 11 million sites - with a current ranking of 349,873. That’s a lot of millions for a two-week old website to jump.

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Traffic to the website now averages about 100 unique visitors daily. Most of the users being referred from StumbleUpon, my website, and my blog.

That’s the updates… Thanks to everyone who have emailed me with encouraging words! I appreciate it.

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Thanks to Kevin Muldoon of BloggingTips.com and Adi Wong of RiceBlogger.com for their link loves! Actually it’s more than a link love, they have both provided full-fledged product reviews. Thanks guys!

URL: http://www.adesclrpicker.com

Good News: AdesClrPicker is now FREE!

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As I mentioned last week I am currently working on a new Font Manager software, which will a freeware. I was also saying that I am thinking of making my color picker application freeware too.

Well, the time has come. AdesClrPicker is now officially a freeware!

You can download the latest version of AdesClrPicker v2.2 at the new product site at www.adesclrpicker.com. All the new updates and information related to this software will be on this website from now on.

Do spread the news to your readers on your blog, to your friends, and to anyone who would benefit from this cool application.

Don’t forget to bookmark the site on Delicious, Digg it, or Stumble it! Thanks in advance and enjoy the application!

How softwares are created, my font viewer software

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I am working on a new software at the moment. It will be a font viewer/manager type of software (it will be free). Often times, I found myself downloading free fonts from the net, usually in a zipped format. Each zipped file containing hundreds of fonts in it. Unless you are a fonts expert, you wouldn’t know which font was good and worth installing on your machine. Having in mind that you already have hundreds of fonts on your PC.

I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t afford to install additional new fonts unless I make sure they will be of use to me.

So, this software will address first and foremost the above stated problem. With it you will be able to preview fonts in any folder, including your C:\WINDOWS\Fonts folder. That means once you download a collection of fonts in one file, you can easily go through them and install only the ones that you like (software will have a “install this font” button beside each font).

You can type your own words in the text field provided and preview it with different fonts. You can change the color of the text, color of the background, bold, italic, font size etc.

Besides that, it will allow you to rate your fonts. For example if you wish to give some fonts in your C:\WINDOWS\Fonts folder 5-star (the best fonts) and some fonts 1-Star (this font sucks, but i have to have it since i am using it for particular project)… then you can do so.

It will also allow you to make your own collection out of the fonts that you have, and put it in a zip file, or in an existing folder, or send them to Desktop.

Below is the interface that I have drawn and send it to my programmer.

Currently it’s in its early development stage. I will post the first working version in a few weeks time so that you can check it out for yourself. Till then, if you have any other suggestions for the software please throw them to me (or just leave comment under this post). I will be glad to integrate it if they improve the usability of the software.

You would ask, why develop a software when there are already tons of other similar softwares out there? Well, I am sure there are other great tools out there that can do the same thing, but I just like to create a software that is according to my preference (the way I like it to be). And I am sure you wouldn’t mind to have a free software either, would you?

I will keep you guys updated on the development of this software.

P.S I am also thinking to make my color picker program free. So, stay tuned for the news!

Word Clock [Screensaver]

Posted in » Flash, Software - by Ades

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Here is a cool screensaver [play video below] for PC, Mac and iPhone. It displays a fixed list of all numbers and words sufficient to express any possible date and time as a sentence. Word Clock displays time by highlighting appropriate words as each second passes.

There are two display modes; Linear and Rotary which has a nice relationship with traditional analogue clocks.

You can see screenshots of other users who use Word Clock at www.flickr.com/groups/wordclock/pool/

URL: www.simonheys.com/wordclock/
Direct Download Link: click here

Portable Google Chrome

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If you fell in love with Google’s new web browser and want to carry it around in your thumb drive, then Portable Chrome is for you. With this you don’t have to install the software on any computer, it can work straight away from your thumb drive.

Download: click here (or get it later at my shared folder www.adesblog.com/files.php)

Google Chrome - New web browser from Google

Posted in » Google, Software - by Ades

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Google Chrome is a new open source web browser from Google. It’s in beta and available only for Windows based machines at the moment. Mac and Linux version are underway.

Google says: Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today’s complex web applications much better . By keeping each tab in an isolated “sandbox”, we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built V8, a more powerful JavaScript engine, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers.

Since it uses components from Mozilla’s Firefox (and Apple’s WebKit), at times you will think you are using a firefox browser with a different skin. They have kept all the latest browsing standards and have improved some functions like bookmarking, searching, tabbing, security etc. to make them more usable.

P.S Google search is activated directly in the URL field. So just type and press enter to search anything in Google. One less step to do the search on Google with this browser :)

Full features: read here
Download: tools.google.com/chrome/

Blaze Media Pro v8.02

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Blaze Media Pro is powerful, all-in-one media converter, editor, burner, and ripper software application supporting all popular media formats.

It has been my favorite software since 2004, being listed on my software pick page before (software pick section is no longer available though) and now on my shared folder (in favorite sharewares).

It supports two-way conversion for both audio and video files. You can convert DVD to AVI, MPG, WMV for example. Formats supported for audio conversion include CD, MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, MPEG-4, AIFF, M4A, AAC, AC3, FLAC, and ALAC.

Other advanced features include video capture, video creation, combining, and extraction, video editing, copying of music CDs, audio and video merge (joining), MusicID audio recognition, lyrics search, audio tag editing, FreeDB support etc.

On top all these Blaze Media Pro is also a CD burning software, as well as DVD burning software. It’s being sold at $50.00 now.

Software URL: http://www.blazemp.com or http://www.mystikmedia.com

My Online Shared Folder

Posted in » Online Tools, Software - by Ades

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I have created a shared folder (see pic) at http://www.adesblog.com/files.php.

The folder will contain some useful freewares, sharewares and other interesting files that are worth to share.

The folder works in a Windows-like manner, so just click on the folder names to see their contents. Clicking on a file name will show the file information. In order to download a particular file, click on the link (globe icon) at the far right.

I am still in the process of uploading softwares and files, so make sure to check back later for more useful stuff.

How it is done?

The page is created using 4shared.com. It’s a free service that offers 5GB storage space and 10GB bandwidth/month for your file downloads.

As I discovered, disadvantage of the free service is: 1) it is with ads (of course!) and 2) you need to login at least every month, if you do not login more than 30 days, your account will be deleted.

The url of my folder on 4shared’s site is at adesblog.4shared.com.