Google Voice GV Mobile on Cydia – JailBroken iPhones

Yesterday, GV mobile App along with all other apps using Google Voice were rejected by Apple & of course AT&T from apple app store. It is suspected that the application was rejected because it gives you many calling and texting features for free which is definitely not in interest of AT&T (only iPhone distributors for now). Sean has given away his app for free at Cydia now instead of letting his work get wasted. You will need Google Voice which is in beta right now and invitation only.

Features of GV Mobile via modmyi:

  • Dial numbers via the iPhone address book or typing on the keypad
  • Full SMS support (view historic, reply, send new)
  • Retrieve and delete recent call history
  • Playback and delete voicemails
  • Take calls from different phones other than your iPhone
  • Enable or disable the phones that Google Voice forwards calls to
  • Add or delete phones that Google Voice forwards call to.

All you need to do is

  • Jailbreak your iPhone.
  • Open Cydia
  • Search for GV Mobile
  • Install.

Check Your Sexual Performance Score by an iPhone App

While going through CNet I came across a funny article about an iPhone application created by Chris Alvares which he named as “Passion“. Passion makes use of iPhone functionalities  like microphone, accelerometer and others to find out your accurate sexual performance score. All you have to do is start the application, put your iPhone on the bed, in an arm band or even in your pockets and have intercourse. Just when you get done, stop the application and it will tell you about the score

Chris Matyszczy humorously puts it as

While I wouldn’t wish to comment on, or even discover, what anyone does while they are having inter*****e, I wonder just how comfortable it might be with an iPhone stuck in your pocket.

Come to think of it, the pocket of your what exactly? Don’t most people, other than men in movies, remove their clothes for this activity?

You are then ranked from 1-10 on the basis of your performance and you can submit your scores online and compare it with other users.

Chris Matyszczy again :P

just like many video games, when you are finished you are asked to submit your score or, um, “try again.”

The application has been priced 4.99 USD.

This should be one of the funniest posts I read at CNet :D

Tweak & Enhance Windows 7 with EnhanceMySe7en

EnhanceMySe7en is a freeware which allows you to tweak around with your windows 7. Key aspect of this software is to provide you with all the tools regarding you system health for windows 7. It provides you applications for registry, harddisks, speeding and cleaning up your system.

Key features of software:

  • Process Identification – Identify unrecognized software
  • Start-Up Management – Disable unnecessary software increasing performance
  • Registry Cleaner – Can easily checks your registry and repair incorrectly linked registry entries, automatically remove invalid entries
  • Disk Cleaner – Find out which files or folders engross your disk space and shown with chart
  • Registry Defragmenter – Rebuilds and re-indexs your registry to reduce application response time and registry access time
  • Disk Defragmenter – Reduces the amount of fragmentation in file systems
  • Hard Drive Monitor – Gives the current values of various hard disk parameters such as Temperature, Head Flying Height, Spin-Up Time etc.
  • System Tools, File, Network and Security Tools
  • Security – EnhanceMySe7en has easy to configure security settings for managing the new security features of Windows Vista
  • Optimization – Optimize settings for maximum speed and stability
  • Customization – customize system desktop, menus, toolbar and notifications settings
  • Network – Optimize your Internet connection speed

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Find Duplicate Files by Duplicate Cleaner (Freeware)

Being a music lover, I have a huge music library. A lot of times I download and rip albums, complete discographies and it gets really hard to keep check of duplicate files manually. That is where I use duplicate cleaner to look out for duplicate files for me. Duplicate cleaner compares the content of files (not just the name) and comes really handy in comparing files of every format. You can then operate functions on the found files like moving, deleting etc.

Some features of duplicate cleaner:

  • Find Duplicate Files by content
  • Cleaner hard drives means faster performance
  • Fast Scanning and accurate duplicate comparison.
  • Deep scans music – locate duplicate mp3,wma,flac,ape,ogg formats
  • Flexible search parameters
  • Intelligent Selection Assistant
  • Search home or networked drives
  • Search multiple locations
  • Export / Import results in CSV format
  • View Path,Size and Date of files
  • Large, resizable list window
  • Image preview window
  • Delete duplicate files to the Recycle bin
  • Move duplicate files to a new location
  • Turn duplicate files into hard links (NTFS file systems only)
  • Protection for Windows and system files
  • Supports multiple languages
  • Freeware

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UNetbootin: Create Bootable Live USBs from ISOs

Recently I talked about Live Android 0.2 and how to make a live USB for that. I thought to make a separate post to explain how to create live USBs considering its usefulness. UNetbootin is an extremely useful portable application which lets you create bootable live USBs from ISOs. By using this application, you can simply boot from USB rather than mounting the image on CDs or DVDs and booting from them. UNetbootin is available for both Windows and Linux. However, the windows version is said to work better.

Creating Live USB:

  • Run UNetbootin.
  • Select the distribution from any source like Floppy/Harddisk Image (the ISO file).
  • Select target like USB.
  • Reboot.
  • Done.

Detail on complicated installations like frugal installations on harddrive and local machines can be read here.

UNetbootin supports huge list of distributions and also allows you to add more to it. A list of UNetbootin supported distributions is given below:

UNetbootin can also be used to load various system utilities, including:

Download/Run Live Android 0.2 for Desktops, Netbooks (Live CD/USB)

Google has recently released a computer version of android, which can be used in desktops, netbooks and laptops. All you need to do is download the ISO image, mount it on a CD and boot your system with that CD. No installations required, run it live like a portable application.

Proceed in the following way:

  • Download ISO via official torrent or download ISO in parts: Part I & Part II.
  • Since the ISO is broken in to parts, you will have to re-join it by HJSplit.
  • After re-joining burn a CD using any burning software like Nero.
  • Simply re-boot your system now with that CD, make sure you to have CD ROM listed in booting preferences at BIOS.
  • Google says Live Android 0.2 doesn’t have live USB support and will be introduced in Live Android 0.3. However, you may try creating live USB by Live USB Creater shared by Sizzledcore. You can also use UNetBootin, a portable app for creating live USBs.

Instead of downloading each tool separately, You can simply download Live Android 0.2 Kit which includes:

  • Live Android 0.2
  • Portable version of Infra-Recorder to burn ISO in CDs and DVDs.
  • Portable version of VirtualBox to test Live Android.
  • Portable version of UNetBootin to create live USB of Android 0.2.
  • Read me files with links to on going projects in various languages.

If you need any kind of help, please feel free to leave comments.

Change Usernames at Facebook

A couple of weeks ago Facebook announced the vanity URLs, the usernames. You could create a username for yourself which could be easily accessed like facebook.com/username. Facebook’s policy didn’t allow users to change the usernames again and again and they could only create it once. A lot of users created their usernames in a haste to occupy the best names available and many of them mistakenly chose wrong usernames. So, Facebook now allows you to change your usernames but it can only be changed once. Make sure to choose the right username this time.

To change usernames:

  • Go to your account settings.
  • Click on change in front of your username.
  • Change the username.

Case Conversion of Text with a Hotkey

Few days back I was reading a post on Technospot to convert case of the text by an online tool called CaseConverter. CaseConverter allows you to change case of text in to any of the formats like lower case, upper case, proper case etc. He also mentioned a software called Primitive Case Changer which is a light weight desktop app and can be used offline. While it’s great to use these simple apps but there are few limitations to them e.g CaseConverter would need an internet connection and Primitive Case Changer would need a dedicated application to be installed for this purpose. A lot of times you don’t have internet connection, let’s say when you are travelling and many a times you are not even using your own computer. In such cases, you can easily convert case of the text by using Microsoft Word simply by highlighting the text and pressing Shift + F3 hotkeys. Majority of the internet and computer users have Microsoft Office installed at their computer. So, even if you are not at your computer or even if you don’t have internet connection you can easily convert case without any dedicated application.

Free Licenses Giveaway: RadioTracker, Download Free Legal Music

Being a musician and a tech blogger, I love to review music related applications and softwares. Few days back I reviewed “Guitar Rig” to convert your computer into full-fledged rock machine. Today I will be reviewing “RadioTracker” an award winning application by RapidSoultion, which allows you to download music legally.

Before even downloading RadioTracker, I was carried away by the number of awards it won. RadioTracker basically allows you to listen and record music from over 20,000 web radio stations providing you with songs by over 70,000 artists. With a very friendly layout, you can search for songs from the huge database and narrow down your results with respect to specific genres. The “wish-list” feature revolutionizes the idea even more. You can simply add the favorite artist to the wish-list and as soon as the song gets played on any of the 20,000 radios, RadioTracker rips it for you, allowing you to enjoy 100 percent legal and free music. Statistics show that Radiotracker’s MusicFinder fulfills a music wish every 25 seconds. This isn’t all, RadioTracker apart from bringing you your favorite music for free in seconds, also populates the music with ID3 tags, lyrics and album cover art. It also allows you create ring-tones and podcast your music. You can add effects to the music, cut parts of it, create play-lists and play around as much as you like. It brings you the highest quality music from the web ranging from 192 to 320 kbit/s. With a filter feature it makes sure you never download a song which is already part of the music library.

RadioTracker is one of those very few softwares which I call as idea turned into reality. An application claimed to be the most-sold and internationally most-often awarded Web radio MusicFinder. A software with over 45 awards with an average rating of more than 4/5. RadioTracker is something each one of us needs.

Video Capture Your Screen with Camtasia

A couple of days ago, I had to create a video tutorial for a friend to help him out with a problem. He couldn’t really understand the text instructions I gave to him through IM. At that, I looked around for a software to record and video capture the screen to make a video tutorial. After spending considerable time in reading reviews and trying many softwares out, Camtasia was where I stopped looking around.

While video capturing your screen, Camtasia is the best choice because you can edit the recorded videos along with the audio using the same software and can save it in formats like MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 which are supported by every media player. You can also save videos in Camtasia’s own format which is useful for creating very small sized files but will require Camtasia to be installed to play the file. Camtasia also allows you to record presentations and create images of slides.

Camtasia provides you free tutorials to use the software in a better way. The software is free to try but costs around 299$ (which we never have to care about at Pakistan) for the complete version. The great thing about Camtasia free trial is that it comes with full features and only limits you to use software for 30 days. I recommend you to look around for a free torrents at Google, if you can’t afford to use it. If you can afford, please buy the software and support TechSmith.