Want similar mouse gestures for Chrome in Windows as you use to on Mac? Scroll2Navigate, a Chrome extension, allows you to easily navigate through previously viewed pages by adding Mac OS X-like mouse & track pad gestures on Windows and other OS. Once you’ve installed the extension, simply scroll your Magic mouse wheel left or right to navigate between pages, just like what you used to do on Chrome for Mac. It adds mouse gestures for much faster navigation while surfing the internet, and if you’re a Mac user, you can also use the magic track pad with two-finger-swipe on Windows. Easily change the Sensitivity and Effective Range settings by accessing the Scroll2Navigate options. Moreover, disable the Scroll2Navigate temporarily by holding the Alt key.
Scroll2Navigate allows you to navigate between your current page and the previously-viewed pages. As you move from one page to another, a large arrow moves across the page.

You can change the settings for four different categories from the Scroll2Navigate options, namely TrackPad, TrackPoint, Regular Mouse and Custom. Change the settings for Sensitivity & Effective Range by simply moving the sliders, and test your new settings on the same page.

This extension is quite handy, and can be used for quick navigation in Chrome. If you like using the Magic mouse or Trackpad on Windows, then Scroll2Navigate is just what you need to make your browsing experience more interactive. Visit the link below and try it out.

NowBox For iPad: Virtual TV Guide For YouTube Videos Of Your Liking

Searching for your favorite episodes and songs on YouTube can be so exhausting at times. Things would be a good deal easier if you could train an app to look for your favorite channels on YouTube, so that each time you launched it, all your favorite videos would be available on it. NowBox for iPad relieves you of the daily headache of scouring YouTube, so that you can spend more time watching videos than searching for them. Share your favorite videos, songs, season, or movies with your pals on Twitter and Facebook, discover new channels from various categories offered by NowBox or simply search your favorite channel with this app and subscribe to it. Keep reading after the break to explore NowBox in detail.

NowBox offers a fluid and slick interface which does not require much figuring out. The app opens to a Subscription Setup wherein you have to select from a list of categories and authorize the app to connect to NowBox through your YouTube, Twitter or Facebook accounts.
 
The app takes a few seconds to figure out the Top YouTube Channels from your chosen categories. Just tap Next and sit back to enjoy great videos by YouTube in high-definition offered by the app. If you do not like the channels set up by NowBox or feel like subscribing to more channels, then tap the TV icon to look for more channels under the categories offered by NowBox. Also, you can tap the search icon and type the name of your favorite channel to Subscribe to it.

Share what you are watching with your Friends on Facebook and Twitter along with a short description by tapping the yellow button on the top-left. To browse through the videos available in the subscribed channels, swipe you fingers over the bar adjacent to each. An exclamation mark over a video depicts it’s unavailability. If you want to look for a particular channel, you have to swipe you finger vertically on the list of channels to browse through them. For a detailed view of the entire list of subscribed channels, tap the arrow on the right of the screen.
All in all, NowBox is meant for ease of access. If you spend quite a bit of time browsing through YouTube manually, searching for videos that might interest you, then you’ll find the app to be quite handy. It is available for free on the iTunes App Store. The link below will take you to its App Store page.
Download NowBox

PhotoLikr is an image viewer that lets you review, rate and upload your images to Google+, Picasa, Gmail, PhotoOnWeb and Minus. Your friends can then rate your images and help you in sorting them out according to their ratings. The application allows you to share individual images, whole folders or set custom filters according to the Total number of votes, Likr Score or Personal rating. Once an album has been viewed, rated, liked and disliked by your friends, you can choose to either move low rated images to recycle bin or move best rated images to a new folder. PhotoLikr supports all popular image formats such as JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, PSD, TIF etc, and lets you specify the default resolution of pictures before uploading.

The application has Settings button at the top-right, whereas albums can be accessed from the top-left button. At the bottom, you have buttons to Rate Up or Rate Down images and access Tools and Share menus of PhotoLikr.

To configure accounts of uploading services, select Settings and enter username and passwords for required services under Accounts tab.

Click Share and select This Image to upload only the current image, Whole Folder to upload the complete album and Custom Filter to upload images filtered by image ratings.

The custom filter lets you define and find multiple values to filter images for uploading such as Total Number of Votes, Likr Score and Personal Rating.

Click Settings to adjust options related to Upload Resolution, File Formats to open with PhotoLikr and Accounts of image uploading services such as Google, Picasa, Minus etc.

PhotoLikr works on Windows XP, Windows Vista and WIndows 7.

Back in the old days, it was exciting to wait for the whole film roll in a camera to develop to see a particular snapshot. Wouldn’t it be fun to have a taste of that again? From the team behind Hipstamatic and IncrediBooth comes Hipstamatic Disposable for iPhone, a free app that lets you choose from a collection of disposable cameras, each with a different filter and a capacity of twenty four photos. Once you have captured the twenty four shots, the app allows you to view them, share them in bulk or individually over Twitter and email. What makes Hipstamatic Disposable stand out from other apps of its genre is that you can invite Facebook friends to a camera you chose (provided they have the app too), allowing them to shoot photos with you until the roll runs out. The collective roll of resulting photos is automatically synced between all parties.
  
From the app’s homescreen, you can start snapping photos by tapping start new camera. From within the screen that follows, you can go with the default (D-fault) camera or purchase other disposable cameras (each with a different effect) from within the app. After you’ve made your selection, the app lets you choose a sticker (skin) for your camera. As mentioned earlier, you can invite friends from Facebook who have the app on their iOS devices to capture snapshots with the same camera. The resulting album is shared between all participating users.
Each camera has a slider to set the intensity of the filter/effect that is applied to each photo. Tap the flash toggle, and the app lets out that familiar sound old camera flashlights used to make while powering up. The number of photos left in a camera (or at least the D-fault camera) is displayed in the bottom-left corner of the capturing screen.
 
When the camera roll runs out, the app lets you view, geotag and share all photos over Twitter or via email. Sharing can be done in bulk or individually.
Hipstamatic Disposable’s quality vintage interface, unique camera sharing feature and impressive results make it a must-have for all photography enthusiasts. The app is available for free on the iTunes App Store. Grab it from the link provided below.

Even a platform like Windows Phone 7 has no shortage of photo editing apps. There are apps for just about every aspect of image post-processing. However, there is still room for new apps in that category, apps that integrate most or all of the most popular features, as no one likes to use too many apps for editing one photo. Photo Light is a new, free addition to Mango’s photo editors, which really has the potential to become a one-stop shop for basic photo-editing on your WP7 device.

 
There are many apps in the Marketplace that let you apply a specific filter or effect to your photos, such as previously covered Lomolizer. While such apps might be suitable for some of the photos you want to edit, it is likely that you end up using a bunch of other apps for the rest. Photo Light aims to be your go-to photo editor. It isn’t too minimalistic and not too complicated either. The app allows you to edit images that you have already captured, or you can use the camera option to snap a pic from within the app and edit it straight away. The app doesn’t come with options to add a lot of colors and effects to your photos (like you can in PuriClub), but it isn’t meant to be used that way. Photo Light deals with the three basic aspects of an image; Brightness, Contrast and Dimensions, each of which can be adjusted on a slider. If you are worried about the resulting (post-modification) size, you can find it out beforehand with the calculate size button.
 
However, that’s not where the usefulness of Photo Light ends. The app also offers a few basic filters like Sharpen, Emboss, Gray scale and Blur. You can also remove noise from your photos. None of these filters are customizable, that is, you cannot specify the intensity of a filter before applying it to the image. In addition to all the editing features, you can use Photo Light to view the EXIF and location data embedded in a photo. The Marketplace has dedicated apps for viewing EXIF data (such as Image Map), but in Photo Light, it is just a small part of the whole setup.
This app integrates with the Pictures hub, and also has Live Tile support. You can check Photo Light out at the Web Marketplace link below.

Love listening to live online radio and podcasts on your smartphone? Then you must try The PURE Lounge – a cross-platform online radio and podcast streaming app for Android and iOS that features no less than 16,000 online radio stations, thousands of on-demand podcasts as well as plenty of featured content. Initially available only in the iTunes App Store, The PURE Lounge has just made its way to the Android Market. To help you easily navigate to content of interest, the app offers category-based searching, browsing, filtering & assortment of channels, recommendations for content that matches your taste, channel/station information (where available) and option to add content to favorites etc. Other highlights of the app include a neatly designed user interface, support for almost all the popular playlist formats, stream formats and protocols, and the option to share all content with your Facebook and Twitter network.

The app does not require you to register with the Lounge to explore it. However, as the app’s welcome screen will tell you, registration does bring plenty of advantages, such as option to save favorite content, and share it between devices as well as on the Lounge website. Registration is free an can be done from within the app.

The Browse tab on the app’s homescreen displays the options to switch to Live Radio channels, listen to On-Demand podcasts or featured PURE Sounds. The other tabs on the app’s homescreen let you explore Featured content as well as your Favourites.

The app’s support for such an extensive range of online radio channels and podcasts can, at times, slow it down during the searching/navigating process.
The media player’s interface, like that of the app itself, has a simple design. The buttons at the top of the interface let you add the current channel to your favorites, view channel details, Browse Similar content and share with your friends (requires login). Not only does The PURE Lounge support playing content while running in the background, it also displays the channel/program details via status bar notifications.

With an extremely easy-to-use interface, high quality streaming, and support for countless online radio channels and podcasts, The PURE Lounge has to be one of the best apps of its kind on the Market, and you get all of that for free.
The link and QR code provided below will take you to The PURE Lounge’s Android Market page.

Earlier, we showed you how to create persistent Ubuntu Live media disk, and use it for resetting and changing Windows 7 administrator and standard user account password. Apart from tweaking with Windows registry hives, Ubuntu Live media disk can be used to create data backup, shrink partitions, clone hard disk, scan system for viruses, imaging disk partitions and more. Although disk imaging or hard disk cloning can be done using data backup and disk copying applications, malware-infected OS often make it hard to perform essential data backup operations. For instance, if a PC is infected with boot sector virus, disk cloning application doesn’t work unless you clean the system from virus and repair boot sector.
Ubuntu Live media disk lets you clone disks and create disk images, so that you can easily restore the data after performing low-level cleaning of the system. In this post, we will look at 2 simple ways for cloning and imaging disks using Ubuntu Live USB.
The first step is to change the system boot priority from BIOS menu. On system startup, press F2, F10, ESC, DEL, or other system defined key for accessing BIOS menu. Now, open Boot menu to set USB Hard disk/Removable Drive as first boost option. Once done, save the changes, plug-in Ubuntu Live USB, and the reboot the system. Once rebooted, it will take you to Ubuntu Live boot menu, select Run Ubuntu from this USB option to load Ubuntu OS.

Create Image of local disk partition to external hard drive

Once Ubuntu 10.10 is loaded, plug-in the external hard disk on which you want to create your primary hard disk image, and then mount the external hard disk from Places menu.

We will use Ubuntu dd command to create disk image. The command is widely used to perform low-level data copying and disk cloning operations. Using if (input file) and of (output file) operands, we can use dd to create an exact copy of specified disk in IMG format. To begin, click Applications and open Terminal from Accessories menu.

Now navigate to media disk using cd /media command. Open the external hard disk using the cd <disk label> command. You can use cd command to navigate to folder in external hard disk where image is to be created.

Since we need to create disk image to external drive, we will use sudo fdisk –l command to list down all the partitions of primary hard disk. This will help us identify the partition whose image is to be created on external hard disk. Once listed, note down the partition identifier under Device column, as it will be used to specify the hard disk partition with dd command to create a disk image.

The syntax for creating disk image is as follows:

sudo dd if=<disk partition identifier> of=./<name of disk image>

If you for instance want to create a disk image for /dev/sda5. Enter;

sudo dd if=/dev/sda5 of=./BackupDisk.img

The time it takes to create a disk image depends upon the size of specified disk partition.

Once the image is created, open external hard drive location in Nautilus (Ubuntu File Explorer) to verify the disk image size. Similarly, you can create disk images for other partitions of primary hard disk in external storage medium.

The dd command also lets you restore or extract the IMG file to specified location. The syntax of extracting IMG file is as follows.

sudo dd if=.<name of disk image file> of=<output location>

You can specify the local disk where data is to be extracted or specify the folder hierarchy where you want to copy the data from IMG file.

sudo dd if=./BackupDisk.img of=/dev/sda3

It must be noted that when you restore data from IMG file using dd command, it will wipe all the free space of target drive. The screenshot below shows the cloned D drive. To reclaim the free space, copy the data from cloned drive to other disk and then format the cloned drive using Windows built-in Format utility.

Clone Local Disk Using Ubuntu Live USB

The process of cloning disk is similar to creating disk image. All you need is to mount the primary hard disk and navigate to it in Terminal using cd <disk identifier> command.

Once mounted, use sudo fdisk –l to list down hard disk partitions, so that you can note down the Device identifiers of both disks including disk which is to be cloned and target disk where data is to be copied.

For instance, if you want to create a clone of /dev/sda5 in /dev/sda3. Enter following command

sudo dd if=/dev/sd5 of=/dev/sd3