Whether it’s getting in touch with friends and family separated by hundreds of miles in distance or may it be an office meeting on a serious agenda point, there is one need that is strongly felt by users across the globe regarding VoIP applications or take the most popular example, Skype. This need is the ability to maintain multiple sessions of the same application. Many offices, companies and businesses use Skype for collaboration in a manner that the entire workplace is connected with each other using Skype. If you need to share data and you’re connected to the same network, transfer speeds wouldn’t get any better. If you have a brief query to address and you can’t get up from your chair and navigate your way to the respective colleague, simply start a chat on Skype. But just like email accounts, Skype accounts also need segregation between personal or home and office or work contacts. You can create groups, no doubt, but a separate experience is what is usually needed. In this post, we highlight a light-weight application that allows you to effectively address this problem and maintain multiple Skype sessions using either your Skype or Hotmail accounts.

Looking for a tool that could help you in creating requirements and documents overviewing design for applications and software? In order to ensure that your design, whether it be applicable to a web page, smart phone app or a software, gets across to the UI/UX designers as well as the coding team, you must rely on feature-rich and user-friendly mockup and wire framing tools that enable you to fully convey your ideas on paper. Balsamiq is a resourceful and well-known application that allows you to achieve results in a manner that it is perfectly understandable by designers, product and project managers as well as the software developers. This means that you can finally spend more time in improving the actual layout and feel of the app being developed rather than being stuck at the very first step. Giving the process of creating innovative wireframes a realistic look, it ensures the retention of a sketch-like layout so that the focus remains not on the details but the concept on the basis of which new and improved mockups would come to life.

Every once in a while you may end up realizing that the installed programs list on your computer needs a cleansing operation. It is well-known that your system performance is highly dependent on the amount of resource consumption may it be hard disk space or memory or both by the applications installed on to your system. While uninstalling you may end up realizing that a third party application did not have an uninstaller in the package and deleting all relevant files would only lead to erroneous registry and slower system performance. In such situations, you require an uninstallation assistant that would eliminate the respective programs and remove all traces of it from the hard disk, registry and the system settings. With IObit Uninstaller, you can easily rid yourself of those undesired toolbars and programs that you have tried your utmost to dispose off. In addition it allows you to re-scan your system to remove any leftovers for good.

If you’re looking for a browser that is built on innovation and is based on the cloud striving hard to remove your dependency on devices and platforms. If you’re looking for a more private, secure and a faster browsing and in turn, Internet experience in a manner that your bandwidth is effectively utilized yielding efficiency and consistency in responses, Maxthon is the solution for you. You might not want to shift your usage from the popular Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or even the latest Internet Explorer but Maxthon is surely different. Yes it’s cloud based, meaning that it synchronizes and channelizes your browsing experience in a seamless or unified manner by supporting devices like Tablets, smart phones (Android, iOS), etc. and operating systems like Mac OS X and Windows. It backs up your data on the cloud making it accessible wherever you go whenever needed. The Cloud Sync feature automatically synchronizes user data, history and tabs across the platforms and supported devices depending on your needs and requirements. Similarly, Cloud Push, Cloud Download, Cloud Share are also some other features that distinguish this browser from many others out there and an online information retrieval system speeds up the fetching and loading times providing near-to-instant web surfing and response times.

With social media platforms getting ever more popular, and our day to day activities being profiled in places like Facebook Timeline and the like, seldom do we use our social footprint to analyze our behavior and save time. Documenting your habits and personal trends can help you know more about you and why build a brand new resume when you have everything shared on Facebook? In addition, there are many online tools that help you create documents in forms relevant to text, spreadsheets and presentations but rarely do they resemble the output produced through the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel and PowerPoint). Well, I for one was amazed to see a new initiative by Microsoft FUSE Labs termed simply as Docs. What’s so special about Docs? Well, you can create and save all professional work online in the official Microsoft environment that provides you the comfort of using the Office applications online. In addition, with just a few clicks, you can extract statistics regarding your Facebook Friends’ List (gender and location distribution to mention briefly), Resume (derived from your Facebook information) and Slideshow (a collection of memories from your Facebook photos). Read on after the jump to realize what you are truly missing in the sphere of social media.

Keeping track of varied information related to a diverse range of topics from equally fresh sources would require some sort of information-gathering hub for you to organize and go through. There was a time when bookmarks were used to achieve this by filtering out links that really mattered in your view. But as the quantity of bookmarks started to clutter in your mind and in the browser, many looked for alternatives and found the concept of RSS feeds satisfying. Tools and websites began offering solutions to organize feeds from a large number of websites so that the subject gathered updates from all your favorite sources at a single place. Google Reader even introduced the concept of bundles where you could subscribed to a relevant group of interest-specific websites recommended for you. For example, subscribing to the Entertainment bundle would mean automatically subscribing to the Top RSS Feeds provided by the best websites in the Entertainment sector. Some people noticed how monotonous and dry such methods have become and provided us Feedly to transform RSS Feeds into a magazine-like visually attractive interface that could highlight things that were left out from our eyes only due to the monotonous feel of the news aggregator.

If you have a good internet connection with a healthy bandwidth ensured and you live in the present world of information, you would definitely have to deal with a habit called downloading. Unfortunately, some of us have to rely on third party download accelerators (to speed up the painstaking progress bar sometimes coupled with pause/resume feature), torrent managers and media grabbers (to download streaming videos and audios from popular sites like YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Grooveshark and the like) that operate outside your browser. You can easily realize that having three different utilities, ignoring ads and popups caused by each (usually if they are free software), the subsequent system memory consumption and the individual progress monitoring related can be a nuisance in itself. Now, many of us use Google Chrome and are used to the clean and modern interface it offers, so what if all three functions (media grabbing, torrent and download management) could somehow get integrated into the same browser. This would imply an all-in-one solution for download enthusiasts out there. The recently released Torch browser is one such blessing that is based on the Chromium engine and offers you the ability to download audio and videos from a plethora of media sharing sites, provides slightly faster download speeds and a torrent manager within itself. To add on to this, it allows you to share webpages and links on a single click to your Facebook and Twitter.

In case of technical troubleshooting or interactive learning, screen sharing is sometime needed to get the point across in an appropriate manner. For example, if I want a said person to install an application andthen edit the registry with some quick fixes, there are two methods of explaining the method to the other: firstly, by listing each step and documenting the entire procedure. Once this is done, sharing the document through an appropriate channel and then answering any queries before and after the change is made. Within the flow of this process, you may have realized that this is not meant for emergency situations. In those situations, a greater level of involvement is needed in the form of screen sharing and voice instructions. Unfortunately, many of the screen sharing applications require download and installing heavy software that would then share your screen with the other. Skype Screen Sharing is one such example but you can’t video Skype if this feature is in use. Screenleap for Gmail is a Chrome extension that allows you to instantly share your screen from within Gmail and your browser.

Quite recently we covered the reasons and advantages of upgrading your Hotmail to Outlook.com (see the respective post, From Hotmail To Outlook.Com: Is It Worth It?) and we recommended taking the step forward and to tell you the truth, all Hotmail accounts will be upgraded automatically, sooner or later (remember the case of Facebook’s Timeline, where many users avoided that new feature but ended up with the same later on in time). There is no connection between Facebook and Hotmail, but the only thing I seek to highlight from the prior example is, the Hotmail To Outlook.com upgrade is official now, so it’s best to upgrade before others. You might ask for one good reason: well, read about setting up a new alias after the jump and you’ll find out exactly why you need to do this. In addition, how exactly can you upgrade and benefit from the new features, this post will address the very same.

It all began with the launch of Windows 8 and Microsoft Office 2013 by the tech giant founded by Bill Gates. Analysts were skeptical, no doubt, but with its new Metro UI interface and the cloud-friendly, touch-friendly interface with solid colors and a redesigned logo for each product, Microsoft has surely built ground for some major changes in its extensive range of products. The recent move has added more weight to the email service, Hotmail (or MSN, Windows Live Mail and the like). An email was recently sent out to Hotmail users by the Outlook.com Team urging people to upgrade from Hotmail to Outlook.com. In this post, we will analyze and asses the difference in features and benefits the proposed change has for you and is it really worth it? And if you’re a professional, this information is critical for you!

So when you’re brainstorming in a team, it is a common instance to draw out mind maps, flow charts and drawings to explain the link between multiple topics and categories, problems and solutions and relating them in a manner that it supports interactivity, innovation and a trail of ideas that can benefit the team and the task at hand. With diverse, multinational teams, it is difficult and often challenging to bring everyone under one roof, so professionals and students alike look towards online tools to improve collaboration and real-time problem solving. Discussions have been translated to the online sphere using video or voice conferencing tools like Skype, Google Hangout and the like but idea development and finalization requires further collaboration and interaction. It is in such a context that we highlight a feature-rich online diagramming and collaboration tool, Cacoo, that allows you to instantly create and develop diagrams, figures, illustrations, mind maps, and wireframes using simple steps. What distinguishes this application is its feature of real-time interaction while creating and working on a task, keeping everyone concerned in sync with the problem solving task, at hand.

Many of us have endured situations where after a long and tedious struggle with the network connection, we finally attain a manageable internet speed ridding us of the bandwidth issues and other problems. Although this may be a blessing, it usually ends up heavy on your pocket especially if you are tackling a limited bandwidth. Many of us are unaware about the amount of data consumed or the difference between the consumption and the provision ensuring a fearless yet expensive use of the internet. Monitoring Network Data Usage allows you to assess the individual consumption in a shared connection making it easier to trace the loopholes in consumption. In this post, we will highlight a unique and useful feature in Windows 8 that tackles the very same problem without the need for any third party applications or utilities.

When you’re playing with data in an office environment, what is critical in importance is time. You may perform a task in a manual manner without using any shortcuts or function of the main program and proudly achieve the required outcome but in terms of efficiency you might be lagging behind. It is recommended in such situations to search for relevant tips or keep yourself subscribed to ProgrammerFish to cover such issues. In this post, we will address a common issue faced by analysts, officers and executives while sharing, organizing and using information using Microsoft Excel 2013. Imagine a situation where you have thousands of rows of say, full names of people of a specific region. You want to separate the first name and the last name and save them in separate columns or cells, what would you do? Would you manually click on each cell, edit it and copy the latter part in order to paste it to a new cell reserved for last name. There may be some who could afford the time and effort to accomplish this monotonous task but if you ask us, time is surely of essence. To find out how to split text (may it be phrases, sentences or other forms of data strings), read on after the jump.

Usually when webmasters and photo-editors are working on building websites using exquisite graphics to grasp the attention of the typical viewer either through a website banner, a poster, flyer or any other promotional material, the essential thing is the synchronization of color. Something for the youth would definitely require a colorful vibrant feel to the picture. Similarly, in every day use, when we use Google Images to find images of interest, what we rigorously require is a method or a tool to identify and detect the color being used in an are of interest. Usually, you can accomplish this by first taking a snapshot of the area, saving the picture and then using an eyedropper or color picker tool to detect and identify the color code for you. Instant Eyedropper is a useful tool that allows you to quickly detect colors and identify the color codes in various color formats on a single click, saving time for people especially involved in graphic designing, website and app development.

So you’re motivation level is reaching its peak and you’ve decided not to rest till you’ve become productive. Your adrenaline level is high and your mind is racing with ideas, things to do, everything seems to be landing in your head at that very moment and you’re ready for action. Many of us experience such brief moments that race our mind and convinces us to abandon all the random stuff that’s eating up all your precious time. It’s well known that such emotionally ‘high’ phases are usually short lived with the subject’s motivation level eventually dying down unless there’s some real drive and some real goals needed to be achieved which is a challenge in its own. In both cases, an important habit is to jot down everything that pops up in your mind and recognize its value. There are some tasks that often lay in our head and stay there till the end even though we realize what they mean to our goals. Once you have a list of ideas and things to-do, you need to prioritize them and begin action on each of them with consistency. In this tech-savvy world, how could it be possible that there won’t be a productivity-inducing app or web companion that would make things easier for you? Any.DO is just the thing you need to remain focused on your to-do lists wherever we go.