Sunday, January 12, 2014

How to Download any Website or Page for Offline Use

It may be for different reasons that why you need Websites to Download for offline use!! If online users need something for some reasons from Internet, they go straight up to Google and get their required info… what about offline users?? so when they need info they may go to cyber and may want to download it, so that they can use those downloaded websites or pages at home in offline.

There are many ways, software's or may be some other techniques to Download any Web Page or Site for Offline. Lets go for a best and Easiest method.

HTTrack is a free and open source Web crawler and offline browser, It allows users to download World Wide Web sites from the Internet to a local computer. By default, It arranges the downloaded site by the original site's relative link-structure. The downloaded (or "mirrored") website can be browsed by opening a page of the site in a browser.

 

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You can Download it from its official website or its available on most of Sites like Softpedia.

Download Page : Download HTTrack

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Saturday, January 11, 2014

Best 5 Portable Apps Creator To Make Any Portable Software

Portable app creator normally uses application virtualization technology to create a portable version of a software. A portable application does not require installation and can be brought to everywhere.

How does portable app creator works?

It usually scans the system before and after installing an application and analyses the changes. Then, it converts the installed files, DLLs, and registries into a single executable (.EXE) file.

If you are unable to find the portable version of a program and you wish to create one. Here are Best 5 portable apps creator to make any Portable software. However, do note that these tools are for Windows users only.

1. Cameyo

Cameyo is a lightweight and robust portable apps creator. It also has an extensive app library which includes over 300 popular virtual apps. Besides, you can store your apps in a cloud drive, so that you can download them from anywhere.

To start using Cameyo, you have to register for a free account and login. You can then download any portable apps from its library or add apps in your cloud drive. To create your own virtual application, you can either capture the application locally or online, which are both pretty easy to do.

Cameyo

2. Enigma Virtual Box

Another application virtualization system for Windows. Combines all application files and registries into an executable file. To virtualize an application, simply include the main executable file of the application as input file and any related files of the application.

Enigma Virtual Box

3. Evalaze

Evalaze is compatible with Windows and Windows Server machines. Creating a portable app is easy by following the instructions given by the Evalaze assistant. It will first run a pre-scan to scan registry and file system before the installation of the application. Once the installation is completed, a post scan is performed to identify the changes on your system, in order to create a portable version of your application.

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4. Spoon Studio (Free 30-day evaluation)

Spoon Virtual Application Studio lets you to convert Windows-compatible software into self-contained virtual applications. Spoon Studio provides 4 ways to package your software into portable application:

  1. If the application is not from your desktop or it needs to be modified, use the template wizard, which includes a list of popular applications.
  2. If you wish to turn an installed software in your system to portable, you can scan your desktop for installed applications.
  3. If the software isn’t installed in your computer, you can use a snapshot process to virtualize third-party applications.
  4. If you want to manually configure virtualization settings, select the last option. Suitable for developers only.

Spoon Studio

5. VMware ThinApp (Free 60-day evaluation)

VMware ThinApp will be discontinued on December 15th 2013 and incorporated into 3 other VMware products. Therefore, to use the trial version of ThinApp, you have to sign up for free trial from 1 of the 3 other VMware products. After registration, you can access to the ThinApp’s download link and install ThinApp with the license key provided.

VMware ThinApp

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To avoid the hassle of creating portable applications from commonly used software, here are some portable app suites that collect hundreds of popular software and games. Apart from their large collection of portable apps, these portable app suites also help you to manage, update, and secure your downloaded apps.

  1. LiberKey – LiberKey has near 300 applications in its catalog. Choose 1 of the 3 suites available: basic, standard, or ultimate, according to your needs.
  2. PortableApps – The most popular portable app suite. PortableApps has over 300 applications in its library and it allows you to customize the look of PortableApps platform.
  3. winPenPack – winPenPack collects most of the popular open source software. You can choose between winPenPack Essential and winPenPack Full, depending on your pendrive capacity.
  4. Lupo PenSuite - Lupo PenSuite has over 160 portable programs. There are 3 versions available: full, lite, and zero.

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Thursday, January 9, 2014

Free PDF Compressor to Batch Resize Multiple Documents in One Click

PDF compressor becomes a necessary tool when you are dealing with a lot of PDF files. A PDF compressor tool helps to reduce the size of your PDF files while keeping the quality intact. This can be easily done by re adjusting image quality and DPI of the PDF files.

In this article, we will be discussing about a free Batch PDF compressor to ease away your worries.

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PDF Reducer is an efficient and free batch PDF compressor tool. With PDF reducer you can compress PDF files with better speed and efficiency. All you need to do is drop your files on PDF Reducer.

PDF Reducer is extremely easy to work with. Before you start compressing PDF files, its better to tune up the settings according to your choice.

Run PDF Reducer –> Click on Options –>Select Compression Tab

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You have the choice to compress with additional features or simple compression removing the features from the original PDF Files.

Select Images tab

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Images are an important aspect in any document file. A high quality image gives you better visibility and understandability of the subject and at the same time contributing to overall file size increase. A poor or highly compressed image can spoil the show.

Keeping that in mind, my suggestion will be to keep medium compression level for the images.

Select Color Detection tab

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You can select color detection method for your PDF files. If you are compressing PDF files in bulk with mixed sources i.e from scanner and other sources, select unknown. This tab insures correct colors on compressed output PDF files.

Select Content Removal tab

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Is the source PDF stuffed too much with additional content? Well, you can easily select and remove the unwanted contents in compressed pdf. This option is particularly useful while compressing a single PDF. If you are sure of elements present in all PDF files, u can also use it in bulk PDF compression.

Select Output Format tab

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Select the desired output PDF format and compatibility. You can also select fast web view if required. This setting can be applied in general to bulk PDF conversion according to your choice.

In the General Tab, you can select input options like scanning sub folders and input files separately or directly folders.

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Once done with the settings, you can easily select PDF files or folders and start converting them with ease. Conversion takes some time with the free version of this PDF compressor. In the free version, PDF Reducer uses only 1 CPU Thread for compression. I guess the free version is still pretty handy.

PDF Reducer was tested on Windows XP, 7, 8. It worked smoothly and compressed 21 MB of PDF files to 6 MB approx..

Download PDF Reducer click here.

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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Turn off WiFi and Bluetooth Automatically to Save Battery on Your Smart Phone

Battery drain is a big issue with Smart Phone. Well, more than an issue its how we are using it. Turning off unused features will save some battery life. One of the things that I noticed with myself was that I always forgot to turn off my WiFi before leaving Office. As a result, the WiFi keeps searching for access points continuously even when I am outside.

The same happens with Bluetooth device when you keep it on. So these things collectively drains a significant amount of battery.

Wireless Minder controls Bluetooth, WiFi and Mobile data. It switches them off when they are not in use and keeps checking for usage availability periodically. So for instance when you move out of your office and leave the WiFi zone, it will be turned off and only mobile data will be used.

Wireless Minder Interface & Settings

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Using this app is easy and you don’t have to set up much in order to make it work. Check on the fields you want to monitor like WiFi, Bluetooth or Mobile Data. Select an interval in which it will check for availability for usage then the particular radio service will be kept on else back to off state.

This app is useful for WiFi and Bluetooth power consumption optimization. Mobile Data anyhow turns off automatically then you are receiving data through WiFi and turns on when there in no internet access via WiFi.

Download Wireless Minder Click here.

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