How to Get Windows 8 Metro User Interface in Windows 7?

Windows 7 is the most popular operating system by Microsoft in these days, but Windows 8 is the latest version is also currently available to use. Windows 8 comes with many new features including Metro user interface, Charms Bar and other optimization features. Metro UI is the beautiful new customizable grid layout of apps that provides a new look and you can open apps faster.

Do you want Metro UI in your Windows 7 system? You don’t need to migrating from Windows 7 system to Windows 8. We can simply bring the Metro UI in Windows 7 desktop with the help of third party software. There is an app called WinMetro developed by IoBit Company, popularly known for Iobit Advanced System Care software.

WinMetro is a light weight software that turns your desktop to Metro user interface and displaying useful information such as weather, calendar, news, stocks and more. It simply brings the Metro screen and settings window of Windows 8 system by pressing the Win+I buttons. You can shut down, sleep, log off and Restart your PC easily from Metro screen.

Also Read: Microsoft Released Office for iPad with Word, Excel and Powerpoint

The settings are very simple and it offers the option to boot to Metro Start screen directly. It works with Windows XP/Vista and Windows 7 systems.

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Download Panda Antivirus Pro 2014 Free for 6 Months

Panda Antivirus Pro 2014 is one of the best antivirus in the internet and designed to use in Windows 8. It gives good protection against most of the viruses, malwares, spywares and online hackers with improved cloud technology. Panda Antivirus Pro 2014 is a latest new version released by Panda, with more latest securing techniques. This Antivirus is liked by many of the peoples for easy to use customization.

Viber Launched Desktop App with Video Calling for PC and Mac

Viber is the most popular VOIP client and messaging app like as Skype. Viber lets you make voice calls, video calls and send messages to other viber users. Viber is used by more than 200 million users across all the mobile systems such as Android, iOS, Blackberry, Symbian and more. After the success of Mobile platform, now they released the desktop version of Viber app to Windows and Mac computers.

Viber app lets you send free messages and make free calls to other Viber users, on any device and network, in any country. This app syncs your contacts, messages and call history with your mobile device, so you can easily continue conversations from your PC. Also you can make group conversations with your friends across all the devices. 

Viber Desktop App Features: 

• Best quality HD voice calls and video calls
• Send free text messages and photos also
• Make easy group conversations
• You can transfer ongoing calls between devices
• Sync your data between mobile and windows

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Note: Viber app for PC requires your phone number to connect and use the application.

AudioDocs: Freeware to Convert Word Documents to Audio Files

If you are a lover of reading books , surely you have lot of books such as stories, reports, documents, novels and essays. Sometimes you have no time to read books and you may busy on your works. So converting your documents to sound file, you can listen or hear the audio of that word files in your free time or travelling.

There are so many text-to-speech softwares available on internet that converts your text to sound files. AudioDocs is a windows application which converts your MS-Word documents in Doc / Docx formats into Wav audio files. This is a freeware and comes with open source license.

This freeware supports batch conversion so you can convert two or more text files simultaneously. Simply browse the Word Document and then select the Text-to-Speech voice from the list. There are some more options such as speaking rate for speed of the audio flow.

And you can set the volume for output file between the values from 0 to 100. Finally click on “Create AudioDoc” button and your MS-Word document will be converted to Wav audio file.

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Record Skype Video calls with Free Skype Recorder

Microsoft Skype is the best software for making free video calls through internet. Most of the people who live far away from their house and they use Skype for contacting their relatives or office friends or anyone.If you have internet and a Skype account, you can talk and communicate without any charges.

Sometimes you may want to record the video calls when you talking with important person or important matters. You may use it as proof for the communication or show the video to your friends. I found a tool online that can record Skype calls called “Free Video Call Recorder for Skype”.

Free Skype Recorder is the product of DVDVideoSoft which is popular company to provide many freewares. It is the first free Skype video call recorder in the world, you can record calls without any limitations. You can record the videos in three modes are picture-in-picture, only video of other side and only audio.

Skype Video Recorder Features:

• Simple tool to use, Freeware
• High quality video and audio recording supported
• You can Pause the recording and resume
• No extra codecs are needed
• Live recording without re-encoding

This freeware records the videos in Mp4 format and audios in Mp3 format that can be playable on most players.

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CodeTwo Reader: Scan QR Codes on Windows Desktop

When you buy any products now these days, you can see some lines of codes on the products. That may be a barcode or a QR code which contains details of the product. We need to decode or scan to read the particular information. For example you have seen when downloading mobile apps from some websites, they provide download options with QR codes. So you can download the apps directly from your phone through scanning that QR Codes.

QR means Quick Response codes are so popular now that is used by many websites and many types of products. You can also create QR codes containing your own mobile numbers, addresses, and website links also.

How to Decode / Scan / Read QR Codes on your PC? 

There are so many apps to read QR codes for your smart phones. With those apps, you can easily scan through using your mobile phone camera. Otherwise if you’re working on system, you may want this process in some situations. 

There is free software called "CodeTwo QR Code Reader" that can decode your QR Codes from your desktop PC. This tool is a simple one and you just upload your code only. Also a special feature available in this application that allows scanning QR codes from your desktop screen. If you are in a website you can do simply by selecting the proper area of the code.

Decoded information will be displayed below the code and you can copy that to clipboard or save to file in your computer. This application comes free without ads, simple to use and worthy one.

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XP Quick Fix Plus for 40 Common Windows XP Problems

Maintaining a computer is not a easy process because computer owner have to face different types of problems everyday. Fixing windows problems is head ache to anybody, but this tool helps and recovers your Windows problems within seconds.For instance, Your system is attacked by virus and your Task Manager and Registry Editor is disabled by Virus. In that cases, you have to enable both tasks to fight against viruses. Some software installations make your system behavior to different or My computer or My documents folder opens on every start up.

XP Quick Fix Plus is a wonderful free tool from LeeluSoft, which fixes the 40 most common windows XP problems. It comes with a command line utility to fix 6 common problems directly from command line.In my experience, I had faced these problems some time and I searched lot of websites on Internet. For computer beginners, this is a must have tool for Windows XP systems.

With this software, you can control or solve some common windows settings listed below. You need not know the registry settings or command line settings to fix the problems. XP Quick fix Plus can solve your following windows problems and more with a single mouse click. In this tool, you can see the explanation of these problems to understand. This is a portable exe tool , you have to simply click the exe file to run and enjoy.

1. Enable Task Manager
2. Enable Registry editor
3. Stop My documents open at startup
4. Enable Folder options
5. Restore missing Run dialog
6. Enable CMD
7. Restore My Computer properties
8. Restore Device manager
9. Fix delay opening My Computer/Explorer
10. Restore Grayed Explorer and Taskbar toolbars
11. Restore My documents properties
12. Remove OEM splash and wallpaper
13. Restore My Network places to Desktop
14. Enable Recovery console
15. Restore Grayed File associations
16. Fix Right Click error
17. Fix slow network – File /Shared/Remote
18. Restore Network icon to System tray
19. Fix slow Hotkeys
20. CD /DVD drive is missing or not recognized
21. Fix CD Auto play
22. Restore “Send To” context menu items
23. Restore the Native Zip file integration
24. Fix Error 1606 – Could not access Network location
25. Error when trying to access Add or Remove programs

...and more 15 problems

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How to Backup & Restore your Outlook Express Mails

Outlook Express is POP email client manager software that is used to read emails in local computer and store mails to read anytime in your system. We can configure any email service in Outlook Express like Gmail and Yahoo that supports POP system. Mails are your important data so you have to keep them safer way. Sometimes your system can be crashed or attacked by viruses. Before you make format or reinstall your system, you must backup your system and also Outlook Express Mails.

Free Tools to Rotate and Flip Display of your Taken Videos

Mobiles are evolving now in the tech world and so many people want to buy smart phones. Smart phones are having capability of taking videos in HD format also. When taking videos, you must keep the proper angle of your mobile display. But always we can’t keep the right angle or keep the mobile straight to the scenery. If you were holding the mobile upside down at taking videos, you have to see that video by changing the mobile’s position. Some iPhone and iPad Users are mostly taken videos without proper angle. Let’s see how to fix wrongly taken your videos.

How to Find License keys of Installed Softwares

We use many of the softwares that installed in our system. Some of they are free softwares or paid softwares. Paid softwares should be installed with a serial numbers/license keys that verify a single user system to use. Generally our windows operating system also has serial number for unique systems. Softwares like photoshop, Microsoft office, Nero also need license numbers to use. If you purchased the paid softwares and installed in your system, you must note the serial keys for the further long-term usages.

Send Free SMS with Way2Sms Desktop Client Software

Way2sms is a popular website that allows us to send free Sms across India. It allows sending unlimited messages free with the limit of 140 letters per Sms. Most people are using this service because typing in mobile is too hard for a message and it allows group messages. You can manage your contacts easily too. If you have internet connection, you can send messages across India are completely free. This is a better service to send short messages but one disadvantage here. This site has full of advertisements that loading slowly each time and you will get frustrated. There is an alternate way to using this service that is a Way2ms desktop client software.

Zekr - Best Free Quran Study Software with Multi-Lingual Support

Qur'an is the Holy book of Muslim/Islamic peoples. On the Internet, some sites offers to read the Quran online. If you do not have internet connection, you can’t enjoy reading the Qur'an in your computer. Recently I found one project when surfing internet that is software for Quran Reading and Researching. Zekr is an open source, cross-platform software to read/study/research and learn the Holy Qur'an. Basically it is started as a Qur'an Project and after that it is designed with very well interface.

How to Recover MS-Access Database Password free?

MS Access files used to save data in database form. We can protect with password to this database files for the security reasons. Sometimes you may forget the password of those files. In some cases we have to search for sample databases or project source databases on the internet or copying from friend’s computer. After the downloading, the Ms-Access files encrypt with password by provider. If there is no hint or password from the uploader, what will you do? There is free software to recover/retrieve the password of MS-Access files.

How to Open PSD files without Photoshop Software

Adobe Photoshop is a software used to customize and edit the pictures. Many of the Photo Studios using this software effectively. Some of the users not able to buy this software because it is costly. They need free softwares to make image editing. Some times we download the psd files from the internet or friends. If we dont have photoshop, We cant see the Photoshop Psd type files. Then How to open photoshop psd images in our computer? On the internet, there is some free softwares giving a good competition to Photoshop.