Uncomplicating the complicated, making life easier
If you are a Photoshop user, there will be countless times when you will require pre-made items in order to help you in your work. Some freebies such as as – Textures, Brushes, PSD files, etc will always come in handy.
Here are five of the finest places where you may be able to find freebies for Photoshop. Have a look.
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Update: Version 2 of TED Downloader is out.
If you are a TED fan, I am sure you will always hang out at the TED site, looking for inspiring videos to watch. The troublesome thing about visiting the TED site is that you can only watch one video at a time and if you want to download the videos for offline viewing, you have to do it manually for each and every video. TED Downloader is one simple software that allows you to download all TED videos at one go so you can watch all the videos wherever you are.
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Rapidshare is one of the most popular file hosting website on the internet. Many people use it to share files, download files and much more. But the only problem with Rapidshare and other file hosting services is that if you don’t have a premium account, you have to wait for 45-60 seconds before downloading a file which can be very annoying sometimes. It may make you buy premium account for that service because of long waiting times and slow download speeds. But don’t worry, we found a solution to this problem. While stumbling, we came across an excellent website, Fetch.io which can get rid of this problem as well.
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One of the most useful apps that I have found for the iPhone is AppShopper. It’s like a Bargain Basement for iPhone apps in that it warehouses price changes and updates for apps. It can be used both for shopping for specific applications, as well as just browsing to find interesting new apps. You can have it do all the work for you, making it far surpass sifting through the the App Store looking for fun new apps.
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Update: Ember Code has ended the service of TVShows. It is no longer available. More detail here.
Update: Look like someone has taken over the project. It is now call TVShows 2.
Are you one of those people who love watching TV but find it difficult to set your time to match your favorite shows? Then maybe you are also one of those who rely on the internet to catch up with the latest episodes, and watch them at your own convenient time.
Among the many available ways, torrent might be the most popular one. But, no matter what method that you choose, the effort of tracking and downloading TV torrents manually requires quite an endeavor. Luckily, there are some applications that you can use to automate the process. One of the most popular applications is java-based multi-platform TED – even though it’s a bit resource-hungry. But, if you are a Mac user, you can use a native Mac app called TV Shows.
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The Gmail for Android app is pretty well integrated with the phone. You can read, sync, compose (using different addresses), access labels, star your mail and there is even the Priority Inbox feature. One thing that it didn’t do well is the ability for the users to download the file attachments to your SD card. There are always times when your friends/colleagues attach file attachments in the mail. In Gmail for Android, it allows you to preview certain file types, like images and PDF, but if you want to download them to your phone, you are out of luck. Let’s take a look at how we can overcome this problem, without spending a single dime.
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Along with Mac OS X 10.6.6 update, Apple released the Mac version of App Store. The concept of finding, downloading, and updating applications from one place has been proven to be very successful with mobile applications, so Apple wanted to try this also on desktop apps.
Despite the controversy, Mac App is also a huge hit. If you are a Mac user but haven’t tried this app, let’s see how App Store can help you in finding great Mac apps and keeping them updated. We’ll also see on some of the alternatives.
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Perhaps your X server has crashed. Or you’re working on a shell script. Or you’re SSHed into a headless server. For one reason or another, if you need to fetch a file and a web browser’s not an option, you might want to look into wget. If you’ve used the Linux shell much and worked with scripts or package installers, there’s a good chance you’ve seen wget in action. At the simplest level, it does just what the name implies and gets a file from the web (or FTP). Underneath that, though, is some clever functionality.
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Do you download a lot of movies, software programs, mp3′s and other stuff from the internet? Do you feel very frustrated when the download speed of your internet connection goes down? Do you doubt whether or not your ISP is providing you the optimum download or upload speed for the money you are paying every month ?
In such situations, it would be wise to perform an internet speed check on your computer and see whether you are getting the correct upload and download speeds from your Internet service provider. You can also compare your internet speed with other users across the globe and see whether your current ISP is at par with other ISP’s across the world.
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In Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), the default download location is the Downloads folder in your user profile. However, some (if not, most) of you donot like this default download location and are looking for the ways to change it. For me, I prefer to place all my downloads on the Desktop. This is how you change the default downloads location in IE9.
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