Articles and Tutorials Showcasing Freeware Tools and Applications
Not too long ago we took a look at using the service TinEye to do some groovy tricks with image reverse lookup. For those not familiar, TinEye works like an online image detective that will track down duplicates of any image you tell it to. If you find that you use this service often enough [...]
And the winner of most self-explanatory and most accurately self-reviewed Google Chrome Extension title goes to: Awesome Screenshot: Capture and Annotate. This lightweight little Google Chrome extension (also available for Safari and coming soon to Firefox) does and is everything that it says. It lets you take screenshots of webpages by capturing the visible part [...]
The line between Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer is already a bit blurry, but the same navigation and search functions that help us make sense of an infinite universe of web pages and Internet content would be just as handy for sifting through the vast constellation of files and folders on our local and networked [...]
Have you ever looked up at the sky and noticed the many different shapes that randomly form. What if you could control those shapes? What would you make? In Cloud you can manipulate the skies to make puffy formations of your favorite things. Perhaps you would like to create your own personal tropical storm, fight [...]
Fring is pretty groovy. Primarily, it’s a VoIP service for the iPhone that features voice and video calls. But the thing that I personally like about Fring is its ability to pull all of your chat, instant message and social media platforms into one. After all, the vast majority of smartphone users likely spend more [...]
There are quite a few online meeting/scheduling/web conferencing solutions on offer on the web, but TimeBridge recently distinguished itself by integrating with the Evernote API. The much ballyhooed partnership announced earlier this year felt a bit more like a plug for TimeBridge than a genuine groundbreaking feature for Evernote users, but after giving it a [...]
Evernote is one of those programs that I’ve been hearing people talk about for years but have never tried myself. But now as my life is getting more and more hectic, I decided it was time to graduate from my “lists in Notepad” system to something a little bit more robust. After using Evernote for [...]
It is the beginning of another beautiful weekend, so why not go with the "flOw” to start it out with a little fun. Have you ever played the first level of Spore, or maybe the iPhone version Spore origins? flOw is the game that inspired those, except that it keeps things simple and by contrast [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (8.6MB) | Embed Here at groovyPost we often talk about Dropbox and all the various things you can do with it. Today we have yet another groovyTip for Dropbox, we’ll show you just how easy it is to allow anyone to upload to a public folder on your [...]
Okay, we’ve got good news and bad news. The bad news: MrGroove made a mistaken assumption with our earlier post on How-to Get an Additional “6″ Gigs of Free Dropbox Space. The good news: You can actually get an additional 8 gigs of free Dropbox space!! Proof? Thanks to all you groovyReaders who accepted MrGroove’s [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (15.5MB) | Embed Do you have a favorite application, but it was only designed to run on DOS? Windows 7 doesn’t include support for DOS games, but you can get around it by using a virtual DOS machine on your computer. The solution is called DOSBox and it’s [...]
Over the last few years, students have really received the love from software companies. In the past I’ve spoken about Microsoft giving away free or discounted software (Windows 7, Office 2010, Everything else Microsoft sells), and today I’ve got a REALLY groovyDeal for College Students who need to get their hands on AutoDesk software! The [...]
Hey, did you know that you can link applications to Dropbox? I didn’t. Partially because there’s not a peep on-site about the capability until you add an application to your Dropbox account. And partially because I never thought Dropbox needed any add-ons to attain killer status. But the makers of AirDropper did. That’s why they’ve [...]
With so many people adopting multiple monitors these days sometimes it’s hard to figure out a good easy way to display different wallpapers on each monitor. Or maybe you’re having a hard time trying to span one large image across two screens. Well we’re going to show you a neat application called Display Fusion that [...]
