Entries from June 2007 ↓

Are you looking for a software that will make your computer function as an alarm clock ? Then try “Say The Time”, a fun personal time management utility for Windows. This power utility allows its users to create multiple customizable alarms and reminders, hear the time spoken aloud, create virtual sticky notes and customize the look of their taskbar clock to name a few features.

After installing Say The Time, your Windows taskbar clock is replaced with a brand new stylish and much more customizable clock. You can then access the different features of “Say The Time” by right-clicking on the clock.

Cool Features

1. Replace your boring taskbar time display into a colorful clock that you can customize to your heart’s content.
2. You can set reminders with a personal message to be displayed on your desktop at a specified time. No more will you miss important meetings.
3. Say The Time has a world clock feature to help you know what time it is at different places in the world.
4. You do need to be sitting in front of your computer for seeing reminders. This nifty little utility announces the time with sound.
5. Create sticky notes for pending works.

Final Verdict

Say The Time is a cool little software which lets you manage your time effectively. You will never miss any important appointments again.

You can download the 30 day trial of Say The Time from here.

Say the Time: Review our fun alarm clock software for Windows!

P.S. - This is a sponsored post.

Do you love the simple lovely old school look of Gnome icons ? If yes, then why not get the simple Gnome icons in Windows XP !!! It will even give your Windows a fresh new look with brand new icons.

Download the Super Turbo Tango Patcher for Windows. This nifty little beast will patch your system files and replace the default Windows XP icons with the ones used in the Gnome environment in Linux.

The Tango Shell Patcher is a mostly self-explanatory graphical wizard designed to make integrating the Tango icon set into your system files as easy as installing any other piece of software. Likewise, it includes a reloader to re-Tangofy your system files if necessary, and an uninstaller to restore them to their original state. It is designed to work on all language versions and editions of Windows XP and Server 2003. 64-bit versions of Windows are NOT supported.

Super Turbo Tango Patcher also gives you four different themes to choose from :

1. Tango (0.8.0)
2. Tangerine (Ubuntu Feisty)
3. Industrial (SLED 10.0)
4. Gnome Icon Theme 2 (Gnome 2.18.0)

You can some screenshots of my system after running Super Turbo Tango Patcher with the Tango theme in this post itself.

The best part is that Super Turbo Tango Patcher does not take up any additional resources on your system. So your Windows XP will not slow down. Apart from the icons patching, the Super Turbo Tango Patcher also includes a somewhat Tango-fied login screen & boot screen.

So do you like the icons ? Go on, try the Super Turbo Tango Patcher and tell me your experience with it.

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Everybody likes to change the wallpaper of their desktop and the same rule also applies to cell phones. But unlike desktops, creating wallpapers for cell phones can be tedious as every cell phones screen has a different size.

Enter moboPic. moboPic is an online tool which lets you create new wallpapers for your mobile in 3 easy steps. Just upload the image you want to make an wallpaper from. Resize & crop the image and save the final result. You have an all new wallpaper ready for your cell phone in just under a minute. (And forever to show it to your friends )

To make the task of resizing and cropping easier, moboPic also has pre-defined wallpaper sizes for almost every cellphone. You just need to select which phone model you have.

The best part is that moboPic keeps your wallpaper for one day after uploading, so you may save it for yourself and send link to your friends. They can also email the wallpaper to you, or to any specified e-mail address.

So get going and make some cool wallpapers for your cell phone … Do not forget to share your views about the tool.

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The world’s best browser now on Windows too ! That is what the Safari 3 Public Beta download page on Apple’s website says.

But is Safari 3 really worth an alternative browser on Windows ? Will it be able to make a dent into Firefox’s share ?

The Apple site says :

The fastest web browser on any platform, Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. And it executes JavaScript up to 2.8 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2.What does all that mean for you? Less time loading pages and more time enjoying them.

This was too good to be digested by a Firefox fan like me. So I downloaded the Safari beta from Apple’s website for a test - drive.

Here are my first impressions on Apple’s Safari 3 for Windows.

WTF ?

1. Skins / Themes - The same old brushed interface used in iTunes is also there for Safari. Although some people may like it, I prefer a more Windows unified look, so that the browser looks like a part of the system. In short, I need themes to customize the browser.

2. Two times slower - Although the Apple website claims, Safari is 2 times faster than OS X, I found that it is actually 2 times slower than Firefox. May be Apple was talking about the start up times.

3. Font Rendering - Safari 3 on Windows uses the same font rendering engine as OS X. The result is improved font smoothing compared to other browsers on Windows. I sort of like the font rendering although I do think its a bit blurry. 50 - 50 on the font rendering.

Cool Features

1. SnapBack - Stop hitting the Back button and start using SnapBack in Safari. SnapBack lets you instantly snap back to your original search results or to the top level of any Web site, even after you’ve browsed down a few levels.

2. Resizeable Text Fields - You can actually resize the text box available on different websites.

Final Verdict

Safari 3 is actually a beta and it is too early to say if it will competition to Mozilla Firefox, though I cannot say the same about IE. But my iTunes experience tells me that Safari will also be sluggish.

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Smorty Points

1. You will be paid with Paypal. There is no minimum amount and you will be sent the payments weekly. This is something that will entice small bloggers as they get their payments fast and quick.
2. Your blog must be at least 3 months old and you should be posting at least 2 new articles every week in your blog.

Places for improvement

1. Smorty still does not have a direct advertising facility where advertisers can browse the marketplace to select which blog they want to order their review from.
2. You do not get RSS feeds for the campaigns. So you need to keep checking if you have any offers in your account.
3. They should have had an inhouse affiliate program. You need to sign up separately for their affiliate program.

Overall in my opinion Smorty is yet another service which lets bloggers make more money by writing paid reviews. One of the places where Smorty pips its competitors is payment option. They send out the payments weekly and there is no minimum amount. Lets wait & watch how Smorty evolves !

Service Rating - 7 / 10

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