The PDF is a wonderful format for presenting documents in a cool, colorful and easy-to-handle way. The problem is that you generally need to fork out for a copy of Acrobat in order to produce your own. Not any more though, because thanks to PDFCreator, you can easily create PDFs from any Windows program, turning apps like Word into PDF-machines.
Month: December 2007
Tear up the city on your Pocket PC
Fasten your seat belt, zoom over the city stages, whiz by splendid landmarks and cheering crowds, push the limits of your vehicle to win the championship. Snow Rally City Stage is a solid city racing game with some of the best 3D graphics you’ll see on mobile and handheld devices, offering breathtaking gaming experience and gorgeous city scenery. Thanks to advanced AI, you get a very realistic driving experience.
Play Solitaire on your Blackberry
These days you don’t even need to be sat at a computer, let alone in front of a pack of cards to enjoy a good game of Solitaire. Aces Solitaire lets you play one of 15 different variations on the pick-up-a-card-and-put-it-on-another-card theme. You can customise various elements of the game, from the background graphics to animation speeds and timers.
Super-charge your iTunes
Apple’s iTunes is one of the most popular and well-respected music players in the business. However, it’s far from perfect and there are lots of features that it lacks in comparison with many other audio players. iTunify aims to rectify this, pumping the software with lots of new goodies, such as duplicate track finding, find and replace ID3 tags, import and export of album artwork, and automatic removal of dead tracks from the library.
Whip your multimedia into shape
I don’t know about you but audio and video accounts for a huge chunk of my hard drive. As such, it makes sense to put them into some sort of order. onlineTV represents a great piece of kit for doing this, allowing you to automatically record and store hundreds of music files such as MP3, OGG or WAV, before organising your files in the integrated music library.
Tweak your Windows Mobile registry
Just like the native Windows OS, Windows Mobile devices also contain a registry, contain all sorts of system settings and connection information. As with its PC-based big brother, its possible to tinker with the WM registry settings in order to speed up your device and improve performance. Get hold of a copy of Best RegEdit and you’ll be able to tweak the registry with ease.
Use your webapps on your desktop with Fluid
With Fluid you can access all your web apps like Gmail, Facebook from your desktop. Although the application might seem like a simplified browser, it uses up very little memory and can be faster than accessing these applications from your browser.
All the software you need this Christmas
Dear Softonic users,
So, Yuletide is upon us once more and wherever you are, we at Softonic hope that you have a relaxing and peaceful holiday season. We’ve been covering a lot of Christmas and holiday software on our blog of late, so without further ado, here’s our rundown of tips, advice and suggestions for this special time of year….
- Get yourself in the Christmas cooking mood
- Top 5 software for your Christmas/New Year party
- Use your puzzle-solving skills to help Santa
- How to: create a Christmas card in Photoshop
- 5 tools to keep track of your Christmas spending
- Track Santa using Google Earth
- Carry the Christmas spirit on your phone
- Put up the Christmas lights on your Mac
- Celebrate Christmas on your Mac
- 15 stunning Christmas wallpapers
- Top 10 Christmas PC games
- Do your Christmas shopping with your phone
And for the Scrooges out there: The ultimate anti-Christmas software pack
Happy Holidays!
P.S. There will be a reduced service on the blog over the next week or two, while our international team of writers visit friends and family around the world.
Edit and create karaoke with iCoolPlayer
ICoolPlayer is more than just a music player. It also includes an audio converter, CD ripper, audio CD recorder, sound recorder, radio and even an online editor for karaoke lyrics. It is compatible with the most popular music formats, and its futuristic interface makes it attractive and accessible to all levels of user. The most unique aspect is undoubtedly the ability to create and sync lyrics for perfect karaoke songs!
Get more from album art on your PC
One of my main fears with the passing of music from CD to MP3 was losing out on the nice covers and album art that I so much enjoyed when buying CDs. When everything is digital, what’s the point of having album covers? Well contrary to belief, album art still has a life in the digital age, and probably a better one than before. Take for example Cover Flow in iTunes. It’s a great way to browse through your album covers quickly and it really looks cool on your desktop. While to me it probably is currently the best way to appreciate album covers, you can find other jukebox-like application that allow you to look through your tracks via album covers. Here are a few of these applications along with the best third party iTunes album cover importers:
- Desktop Album Display – Shows your album covers on your desktop. Just click on any one of them to launch the album.
- iTunes Album Browser – Analyze your iTunes collection by sifting through album covers.
- AlbumPlayer – Manage your playlists by album covers.
- Album Cover Finder – Find all the artwork for your tracks and import it to iTunes.
- Album Cover Art Downloader – Retrieve album covers from anywhere on the net and send them to your music player.
- iAlbumArt – An iTunes-like interface to quickly find album art.
- iTunes Art Importer – Automatic integration with iTunes.
- CD Art Display – Show album covers of tracks you’re listening to on your desktop.
- Box Easy Jukebox – Access your songs by their album cover.
- eJukebox – Graphically browse through your music collection.