4 Implementable tools you will need to your day-to-day functions

In our day to day life we need applications & programs (tools) to get our duties done. We use anonymous application programs for different type of purposes. There are commercial and non-commercial tools that we use to fulfill our needed tasks. And there are complex software suits to do specific tasks such like editing graphics, creating a video and word processing… etc. But in simple day to day life you may not be able to afford those fully fledged highly priced commercial applications to use. You might not need those sophisticated tools for the work you intend to finish. These alternative applications are much helpful to get your pretty little tasks done. I have came across these tools which were very useful when I was composing blog posts and messing with social media tools. The best about these tools are that they work inside Windows and I don’t have to install them in order to use them.

Snipping tool is useful when you want to take screenshots. This tool allows you to do a better job than the print screen key on your keyboard. Snipping tool comes free with windows vista onwards and you can use it to capture any part of the desktop by just highlighting with the mouse. You can select an area and capture it to an image format like JPEG, GIF or even website friendly PNG as you want. There are options like full screen capture and open windows capturing, free form and rectangular capturing in the tool. This tool is the best alternative to 3rd party screenshot apps there.

This simple tool comes with Microsoft office 2003 on-wards allowing you to do simple edits on images you download over the internet. You cannot create graphics from this tool. But you can do a hell of a good job as processing an image for a useful purpose like word-processing or to make simple presentations. This tool helps a lot when you want to crop, re-size or rotate an image to do simple color adjustments. The best feature I have come across this little tool is the red eye removal. Trust me it does a very good job at removing the red-eye from any photo taken from a digital camera. Multiple export options are also supported by Microsoft Picture Manager. You can also compress your pictures for documents, web pages and even to send emails. I don’t see why to called this the best alternative for those image editing software out there.

I don’t have to say much about paint since you all know about it very well. Paint is the most primitive graphic tool comes free with windows ever since the first release. You can draw pictures, edit pictures and even create simple logos with paint. Paint supports multiple imports and exports formats for your needs. If you are good at drawing graphics on computer using mouse or electronic drawing pads, this is the application for you. Also remember that Paint is a native application of windows. There are many options like brushes, color palettes and shapes. You can make use of these tools to create an amazing graphic.

 

Creately so far is the best Online Visio alternative software in the market. If you are drawing diagrams more often or if you want to draw a diagram quickly Creately is the best option for you. Creately is not just a simple tool. It’s a complete all in one diagram suite that allows you to draw many types of diagrams online. There is a desktop version of the app available for the all three platforms. If you don’t like to install anything just log in to the website and start drawing freely without any hassle. You can draw Flowcharts, Gantt charts, Wire frames, Venn diagrams and many more diagrams with Creately. Creately will save your diagrams safely online for you. I was benefited from this software a lot when I was drawing diagrams for my blog posts. Creately is fully integrated with all types of objects and features to draw the diagrams you draw in Microsoft Visio. It is for sure the best alternative so far that offers a free service. Even though Creately is featured software, you will find that it is very easy to use and you will be amazed with its ability to draw diagrams faster. There are templates and tutorials for free for you to learn and enhance your diagrams.

These are some of the good alternatives you can find in your desk when you are working in the office, home or bar. My advice is to make the best of it and get your things done quickly in a professional way.

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Run JAR files on Android [ Install Jar on Android]

There was a time that nokia was the phone that was reigning but it has been replaced by smartphones and some of us miss the apps we had on our nokia phones which for sure won't work on our android phones.
 As humans we all have the doubt like whether we can run jar files on Android or not, but now it’s possible with the application JBED.

What is JBED?

JBED is an .apk Android application which Run Java Games and Apps on Your Android Device. JBED is a Java Android Java Emulator, by using this application you can install .JAR/.JAD/Java/J2ME/MIDP games on Android phones. Now you can use all of your favorite .JAR application in your phones

Steps to Install Jar on Android:

Download JBED
Install JBED.apk in your Android Phone. Install JBED.apk is not different process. It also the same installation process like other Android applications.
Launch JBED application. Press menu button and choose SD card.
Select your .JAR/.JAD file that you want to install and run.
Now install the chosen application through JBED.
Now open the installed java application to run.

By this method we can run jar files on android phones. If you face any issue while installing JAR application then your mobile is not supporting fully. If you successfully install the JAR application also sometimes you will get some graphical and performance related issues.


JBED Errors

So many people has complaint that this JBED application is not working and throwing some errors in mobiles like orce Close” or ” Maybe no sd Card or SD card is busy errors.

Reason for the errors is JBED only works with below Android version 2.3.4.
How to avoid errors while using JBED application

You Android should be rooted with system manager or some other application.

Download libjbedvm.so and place in system\lib folder
Install the JBED.apk application and don’t play it.
Restart the phone, and try it .

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Is Opera Mini the Fastest Mobile Browser for Android? [Mobile Browser Shootout]

Nowadays people don’t carry a laptop everywhere they go but they do carry their Smartphones. The main reason for this change in trend is that they can still remain connected by accessing Internet on their smartphones. Internet has became an integral part of our day to day life and most of us can’t even imagine to spend 1 day without internet.

Browsing internet on our mobile phones can become a nightmare if you are using an outdated and slowbrowser. A mobile browser or often called as minibrowser is a web browser specially designed for mobiles. These browsers are optimized to display the web content more effectively on the smaller screens present on Mobile devices. But all mobile browsers are not equally good, some of them offer amazing browsing experience while others just make our browsing experience worst.

Opera Mini is considered to be the fastest mobile browser available for smartphones and claims to provide the best browsing experience in case you are on slower data connection(2G). Today we would be comparing various mobile browsers with Opera Mini and see is Opera Mini really the best mobile browser in terms of speed. We would only be comparing the Opera Mini with other mobile browsers which are available for the Android platform. So lets just check out which one would be best mobile browser if you are on 2G and want to surf the net on your Android Smartphone.

browser if you are on 2G and want to surf the net on your Android Smartphone.

Opera Mini

First of all lets have a look at the Opera Mini features. It is one of the oldest browser available for the Android mobile platform. It comes with a unique data compression capability which can reduce the size of a web page by up to 90% thereby saving your money on a limited data pack.

In case of Opera Mini there is a proxy server present between your mobile phone and the website. When you try to open any url the requests go via the Proxy server. On receiving the response from the Website the proxy server compresses the web page and then send it on your mobile. This makes the site to load faster on your device and also saves data usage. But compressing stuff also has its disadvantages like limited support for HTML5, flash and video content.

Test Time

Today we would be testing the loading time of various famous websites by using different mobile browsers on an Android smartphone. We would be comparing the Android Stock Browser, Opera Mini,Firefox, Chrome, Skyfire and Dolphin browser. We have installed the above mentioned browsers on the same Android device (Galaxy Note 2) and while running tests for a particular browser there would be no tasks/apps running in the background. After testing for 1 browser we would restart the device and then start testing the next browser.

So here are the results of the loading time test performed on various mobile browsers (all time is in seconds):

Above tests has very shocking results. We expected the Opera Mini to be fast but not so fast. The reason for this is the data compression being used by Opera Mini which makes it 2-3 times faster than other browsers in some cases. But everything you get comes for a cost. We browsed desktop version of the sites on each mobile browser but Opera Mini did not render the page as it was.

The image slider present on bbc.co.uk was also not working on opera mini. If you try to access the second image of the slider on Opera Mini a page load occurs thereby indicating that those images were not loaded but in case of other browsers every image of the slider loads on the first request made to the server and hence have more loading time.

While browsing the sites on other mobile browsers one thing which we noticed was that these browsers loaded the web page almost fully even though the progress stayed at 90%. We guess there were few footer scripts which were being loaded at the end of page. In case of Opera Mini these scripts are removed while rendering the page thereby providing a faster browsing experience but degrading the quality of the webpage like distorting the image slider.

Same was the case with other sites which were browsed on these browsers except the listthemout.com. It did not have any special scripts, sliders or other things which could be removed or compressed while rendering the page. Therefore the loading time of this site was nearly the same on all mobile browsers.

Conclusion

Undoubtedly Opera Mini is the fastest mobile browser available for the Android Smartphone. You should definitely go for it if you can wait too much for a web page to open or you are using a pay as you go data pack where you want to keep your data usage minimum. But if you are looking for a mobile browser which is fast but at the same time does not degrade the quality of web page like distorting the image slider you should go for Chrome.

Source :- listthemout

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