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.

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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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How to Change Folder Colors in Windows using Rainbow Folders

In Windows we can distinguish the folders by changing its name, sorting or changing folder icons. But the folder color always in yellow color, we cannot change that and it makes the difficulty to finding a particular folder. Do you want to organize your windows folders with a different color? There is a solution available for this problem called Rainbow Folders.

Rainbow Folders helps you to change colors of your desired folder anywhere in Windows system. It supports different icon styles including classical, typical and modern. You can set the colors by adjusting hue and saturation bars. You can also change the color of multiple folders by selecting the Multiple select button. After your selection, click on "Colorize" button to color the folders or if you want to remove color, click on "Decolorize" button to remove color on folders.

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Download the file and extract it first and install the software. Then you can access this software from right click of the folders from the explorer window. Rainbow Folders is a very useful, and easy to use software to color your folders in Windows.

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MediaFire Released Official Desktop Client for Windows and Mac

MediaFire is one of the most popular cloud storage company has released desktop client software for Windows and Mac users. With this software, you can integrate all of your cloud files and folders with your Windows PC. Now MediaFire provides simple solution to upload and manage files with your PC similar to Google Drive and Dropbox.

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MediaFire provides free 50 GB online storage for all users and more paid plans also available. The desktop client will automatically sync all of your files and folders across all the devices, so you can access your files from any device like phones,tablets and PC. And you can share your files directly to social media contacts from your desktop PC.

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MediaFire for Windows Features:

• Instantly Share files directly from your desktop via Facebook, Gmail, and Twitter – you can see available online friends and share easily
• Sharing Permissions – You can control the level of access by setting permissions for specific files and folders.
• Following Tools – MediaFire allows you to follow shared files from other desktop users and download files easily. You can track downloads of each files and get notifications when your files are modified.
• Automatic Audio & Video Transcoding - Download audio and video in the perfect optimized format for your device.
• SSL Access including downloads and text editing

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Convert Audios and Videos on Android with Format Factory

Format Factory is one of the popular software for converting audio and video files in windows. It can converts your audio files from one media format to other supported formats and one video format to another video formats. Format Factory is now available for Android devices, so you can convert any media files or movies within your Android phone.

How to Convert Audio & Video Files in Android?

The process is very simple. You have to click on the “+” symbol on the top right and select your file type whether audio or video. Then you can select the custom presets for quick conversions or you can modify the entire conversion settings.

For Video, you can change the video quality, resolution, aspect, bitrate and more. For Audio, you can change the codec, frequency, channel, bitrate and more. After you have done the settings, finally click on the convert icon at the bottom of the app. That’s all.

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Format Factory is a simple and free video converter for Android phones and tablets. The video formats supported are flv, mp4, avi, wmv and more. It supports mp3, aac,flac and mp2 formats for audio files. There is no support to convert a video to audio file. Otherwise it is the best video converter within Android, you can do the work without desktop computer.

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Simple Way to Add Instagram Videos on your Blog / Website

Instagram is a popular online photo and video sharing application that helps users to take photos or videos and share them online instantly. Instagram application is acquired by Facebook and it is available for Andorid and iOS devices. Recently Facebook has introduced the video sharing feature in Instagram that allows you to capture and share videos up to 15 seconds like as Twitter’s Vine application.

Do you want to embed or insert your Instagram videos on your blog or website? Here is a simple tool available online to add Instagram videos and the tool is originally developed by the popular blogger Amit Agarwal from Labnol. Now the bloggers or webmasters can add Instagram videos on their site easily.

How to Add Instagram Videos on your Site?

1. Go to Embed Instagram online tool.

2. Give your URL of the Instagram video that you want to embed.

3. Click on “Generate Embed Code” button to generate the code

4. Then copy the code shown on the page and paste wherever you want.

If you want to use Instagram videos on blogger posts, you have to paste the code by clicking "HTML” section of the post editor. That’s all.

Google Stock Keyboard App for Android Devices

Many of the Android mobile users using third party keyboard apps such as Swiftkey, Swype and more for typing in mobile. Now Google has launched its new stock Android keyboard app on Google Play Store. Google Keyboard helps you type faster and more accurately on all your Android devices, which is surely better than Swiptkey, Swype and other third party apps. 

 

Google Keyboard comes with many features like Gesture Typing, which allows you glide through letters to form a word. You have to just lift your finger to enter a space. Also it has automatic error correction, word predictions and voice typing. It comes with dictionary support for 26 languages.

 Google Keyboard Features: 

• Gesture Typing with dynamic floating preview
• Voice Typing
• Next-word suggestions and current-word completions
• Dictionaries for 26 languages.
• Advanced keyboard layouts
• Works with all Android tablets and phones

Download Google Keyboard on Google Play Store 

Note: The app requires Android 4.0 or newer versions.

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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NHM Writer – {Best} Free Tamil Typing Software for PC

NHM Writer is a wonderful software from New Horizon Media that helps to type in Tamil and other 9 Indian regional languages on computer. You can type anywhere in computer applications or web browsers. NHM Writer install scripts for Tamil and other 9 languages that enables you support of read and write in following languages. It is a cool one, so you need not to install any other language packages.

NHM Writer Features:

• You can read and write and type in 10 Indian languages such as Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit ,Tamil & Telugu.
• Good transliteration service - you can type in english and it will transliterate to Tamil or above your own language
• Works with all browsers so you can type in online and all computer applications.
• You can easily toggle English and your language by pressing a key.
• It enables Regional language support without Windows CD
• Key preview and on-screen keyboard for beginners to learn typing.
• You can extend the languages by include new keyboard encodings via adding xml file.
• You can customize existing keymap files to your need
• NHM Writer Works with Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
• Freeware with size less than 1 MB.

So NHM Writer is best for Tamil typing and also you can type various languages in desktop and online. You can download nhm writer full version for free below

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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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