http://download.searchforsoft.com/ SearchForSoft- Latest Reviews en-us Copyright 2011, SearchForSoft.com http://download.searchforsoft.com/logo2.gif http://download.searchforsoft.com/ http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/How-To/Recover-your-deleted--doc,--pdf--jpg,-files-files-using-the-Shadow-Copies-from-the-Automatic-Windows-7-or-Vista-System-Restore-Protection-61.htm Most people find themselves inside the following scenario: for a reason or another, they press the delete button way too early and afterwards they just cannot recuperate it, as long as it’s not in the Recycle Bin. That’s where our story begins and where we begin to ask everybody for Windows recovery and backup tricks.  The good news is that Windows’ System Restore ( in Windows 7 or Vista) or System Protection ( in Windows XP) contains an automatic file backup entitled “Shadow Copies”. Inside it, there are created by default backup copies. They’re called “Previous versions”, a name you must bear in your mind. So, if you remember exactly the deleted file name, you have a good chance to recuperate that lost file.    http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/How-To/Recover-your-deleted--doc,--pdf--jpg,-files-files-using-the-Shadow-Copies-from-the-Automatic-Windows-7-or-Vista-System-Restore-Protection-61.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Audio-Multimedia/Feel-the-pulse-of-the-world-and-create-your-first-time-lapse-slider-60.htm Have you ever tried to use the time lapse technique, in order words to group a series of photos taken with the same subject and to playback them, fooling the eye into believe it’s a single video sequence? You just need to playback them at around 24-30 frames per second to create that effect. You must have seen that classic sequence of images that show a plant growing, cities in the daily motion, various buildings ascending to the sky, blah, blah, blah.    If you’d want to know how to play around with time-lapse photography ten or twenty years ago, it would have been far more difficult and you’d need out of this world skills and patience. Now, you can use these skills and this patience at thinking about pictures, not techniques. All you need is the right time lapse software for Windows, to do most of the work for you. The time lapse tool I’m talking is the open source Motion Time Lapser and it’s made for Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8.    http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Audio-Multimedia/Feel-the-pulse-of-the-world-and-create-your-first-time-lapse-slider-60.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Audio-Multimedia/Windows-wake-up-from-sleep-tutorial-or-make-your-PC-say----Good-morning,-sunshine-----59.htm   There are some moments in which you want your PC running Windows 7 or Windows 8 to automatically wake up in the morning or at some other time. You may want to trigger an alarm ( when you’re doing something extremely important, like going to the airport in the morning, at a meeting you don’t want to miss for anything in the world, or just launching a video reminding you at an important task, etc). Either way, you need to set up the automatic wake up from sleep task on Windows 7 or 8. Piece of cake.  Disclaimer: The following tutorial assumes you know next to nothing about how your PC works, so don't feel offended if it's too explicit for your tastes. Expecially the pictures, depicting the crude reality of all the steps.  Disclamer 2: If you woke up in the morning at the right hour, don't blame us. Your boss should assume all the responsibility for that despicable act.  http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Audio-Multimedia/Windows-wake-up-from-sleep-tutorial-or-make-your-PC-say----Good-morning,-sunshine-----59.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Audio-Multimedia/Access-Google-Play-Books,-Magazines,Movies,-Music-and-TV-Shows-outside-United-States---58.htm   Is there anybody there frustrated for not living in US? Now, our frustration has just met a new reason: people outside this beautiful country won’t enjoy full access to Google Play, at least not for now. At least, not officially. So, what’s the purpose of owning a high-specs, full-featured, rooted Android phone, if you can’t spend your money on all the useful and, why not, the not-so-useful stuff from Google Play: Google  Music, Books, Magazines, Movies, TV Shows, etc? For now, only the games and apps can be downloaded from us, the unlucky mortals across the ocean.  Fortunately, there are some developers who encountered the same problems and decided to come with an ingenious solution. You must have guessed: an XDA Forums member was the one to enable access to all Google Play services outside United States. Below it’s an easy to follow, succinct tutorial for you to follow.    http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Audio-Multimedia/Access-Google-Play-Books,-Magazines,Movies,-Music-and-TV-Shows-outside-United-States---58.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Audio-Multimedia/Put-Siri-in-the-background-while-running-other-apps-on-your-IOS-6-Iphone-57.htm Wouldn’t it be cool to talk to Siri “in flesh and blood”, not a sophisticated application? Or simply learn all these things, without having to interrupt whatever you were doing before asking Siri something? This would be entirely possible if you could “hide” the app, run Siri in the background.  A Cydia tweak in the jailbreak store, entitled HiddenHelper, disables Siri interface when you access Siri if you choose so. Of course, this would be a bad idea if you’re not a native speaker and you can’t possibly say if Siri understood you correctly or not.    Don’t worry, using this app won’t stop you from using Siri for all these; it just will be invisible and you’ll be able to do whatever you’re doing without enabling Siri interface. Long-press the Home button, or raise the device to your ear and you’ll  launch the invisible variant of the assistant.  http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Audio-Multimedia/Put-Siri-in-the-background-while-running-other-apps-on-your-IOS-6-Iphone-57.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/How-To/GalaxSim-Unlock---Probably-the-best-Galaxy-S3-Unlocker-in-the-world-and-cheapest,-unlike-Carlsberg--56.htm Sim-locked phones are certainly not my cup of tea. But if there’s a will, there’s a way. You can always buy an unlock key ( for some, quite expensive) or search for free solutions. The Android community, in its infinite creativity and wisdom, provides a solution to almost each problem you can think of.    The one who deserves your thanks this time is spocky12, member of XDA developers, with his new GalaxSim Unlock app. It works with all the current versions of Android OS and, according to spocky12: as of now, this app does more than any other manual or automatic methods available, so your device won't relock with any currently available roms (post lg6, Jb leaks...).   There is, also, a minuscule chance for Samsung to perform checks in the future ROMs capable to relock your much appraised Galaxy S3. In spocky12’s words: “Now I won't lie to you. I won't tell you it will unlock your phone forever, as I can't say for sure...I can't affirm that this app makes all the changes made with buying an official unlock code (at least, not yet). So Samsung might add some checks in future roms that could probably relock the phone. Or they won't. With my growing experience of Samsung's EFS, it seems however that they might not do more than my app, in other words, I'm starting to believe that this patch will still work in the future.” http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/How-To/GalaxSim-Unlock---Probably-the-best-Galaxy-S3-Unlocker-in-the-world-and-cheapest,-unlike-Carlsberg--56.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Network-Internet/How-to-run-any-program-without-actually-install-it-on-your-PC-using-Spoon--55.htm   I must confess: I’m a software addict; I like to experiment a lot, especially with free software.  Unfortunately, installing and uninstalling too many programs on the same computer affects the computer performance. Some of the applications, if you don’t pay too much attention, run in the background and consume system memory, making your PC sluggish. Fortunately, there are some answers to this problem: application virtualization software. Spoon provides an easy way to run your applications without actually installing them on the computer, the advantages being worthy of consideration: keeps your PC performance at high quotas, runs the applications in an isolated environment, prevents viruses, data thefts and other problems.  It uses the web browser to launch programs into a virtualized environment. You can install this way Games, Media Apps, Browsers, Productivity Apps, Social Apps, etc.  http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Network-Internet/How-to-run-any-program-without-actually-install-it-on-your-PC-using-Spoon--55.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/How-To/Install-Adobe-Flash-Player-on-any-device-running-Android-Jelly-Bean-4-1--54.htm If you’ve already updated your phone to Jelly Bean, congratulations, you do have a potent phone with a smoother operating system then ever. The only problem you might confront it is the lack of flash, because, as you’ve already heard for months, Adobe Flash and Google are not bed fellows anymore (only if you see it as an issue, because some users are still content with HTML5).  For the nostalgic users can’t live without Flash on their Jelly Bean flavoured phones there’s always a solution, at least as long as XDA members and forums exist.   Don’t worry, if you follow the exact instructions on the links I’m going to provide for you the whole operation will be an easy and safe one. Especially if you happen to own a device running Android Jelly Bean 4.1 with Android’s native browser app (Galaxy Nexus or Nexus S, for example). So, as I’ve said before, in order to prolong the goodies the Flash Player has to offer for your device, all you need is a smartphone running Android’s native browser, because Flash can’t possibly work with the Chrome browser, as it doesn’t support plugins. So, you have to own either a Nexus, or a smartphone running custom ROMS based on Jelly Bean and run Android’s native browser.    http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/How-To/Install-Adobe-Flash-Player-on-any-device-running-Android-Jelly-Bean-4-1--54.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/How-To/Overclock-your-Samsung-Galaxy-S3-using-Ninphetamin3-custom-kernel-step-by-step-tutorial-53.htm Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 boasts with one of the fastest processor out there: 1.4 GHz quad-core Exynos and only its big brother, the much-appraised Samsung Galaxy Note 2 might compete with it. But you can’t really say you have too much horse power in any gadget, so people will always try to hack what seems to be working perfectly to make it work even better or to break it.    The people from XDA were curious about how far one can overclock Samsung’s flagship phone’s processor and they introduced the Ninphetamin3 kernel for Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 which speeds up its 1.4 GHz quad-core Exynos to 1.8 Ghz. More than that, the overall phone’s performance will be improved and the user will gain more control over the smartphone’s features,  with CPU Voltage Control Interface, Compiler optimizations, Removed Debug overhead and many more.    http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/How-To/Overclock-your-Samsung-Galaxy-S3-using-Ninphetamin3-custom-kernel-step-by-step-tutorial-53.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/How-To/Enjoy-the-features-of-professional-video-cameras-on-your-video-capable-DSRL-with-Magic-Lantern--52.htm Overall Impressions If you own a video-capable DSRL and you’re extremely interested in making videos with it, its huge sensor will help you a lot, even if there are some shortcomings to using it (the autofocus system is not so reliable in video mode, the audio is not so great, the output file is enormous, etc). Your camera’s potential will be exploited at its maxim and some of these shortcomings can be avoided if you learn how to use Magic Lantern, a video enhancement which makes available a lot of features that nearly transform your DSRL into a professional video camera. What are the features I’m talking about? For a start, you can set up programmable focus, add a zebra pattern to display the overexposed areas, enjoy a finer audio control, add custom crop marks for various aspect ratios. This way, your DSRL will function like a camera that costs 10-20 times more its price. It’s worth a try, isn’t it? Especially knowing that installing the program isn’t quite rocket science and it will be explained each step of the process to you.  http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/How-To/Enjoy-the-features-of-professional-video-cameras-on-your-video-capable-DSRL-with-Magic-Lantern--52.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Audio-Multimedia/Sopcast-3-5-0-----broadcast-yourself-and-watch-TV-channels-online-using-this-valuable-piece-of-P2P-technology--51.htm Overall Impressions Now, when Internet connections are becoming more and more stable and the bandwidth is not a problem anymore, a lot of other devices which in the past seemed to be irreplaceable, like the TV and radio, can be successfully substituted by the almighty Internet. For those who don’t want to pay the cable altogether with the Internet bill, programs like Sopcast 3.4.0 offer them the possibility to watch free TV channels online. Due to its P2P technology, you may also broadcast yourself with Sopcast without needing a large bandwidth.   http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Audio-Multimedia/Sopcast-3-5-0-----broadcast-yourself-and-watch-TV-channels-online-using-this-valuable-piece-of-P2P-technology--51.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Communications/Skype-5-10-----The-uncrowned-king-of-VoIP-technology-won---t-let-you-down-50.htm   Overall Impressions:  Skype made VoIP (voice over IP) technology accessible for a growing number of users, never ceasing to satisfy their communication needs. Distance means nothing when it comes to get in touch with friends, family and business thanks to the free Skype-to-Skype calls and cheap international calls to phones and mobiles. There’s also the possibility to send and receive instant messages, share files and initialize video calling. If you want to share your thoughts and experience to many, Skype’s features includes conference calls and group chats.   http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Communications/Skype-5-10-----The-uncrowned-king-of-VoIP-technology-won---t-let-you-down-50.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Audio-Multimedia/How-to-obtain-better-results-using-OCR---Optical-character-recognition--49.htm   Time is precious for every one of us, and modern technology sometimes takes away our precious time and sometimes gives it to us: “technology giveth, technology taketh away.” Optical characters recognition software converts a scanned image (or a picture taken with a digital camera or phone camera) into readable and editable text format. OCR tools analyze an image, recognizes features typical to characters or compares it to the fonts from its database (the more fonts it has, the more probable is to recognize it right). Most OCR software use dictionaries, changing the approach of recognizing individual words to detect whole words. Some OCR tools are unable to detect fonts and formats, just knowing the feature of some characters. Others are perfectly able to recognize paragraph formatting, multiple columns, tables and images inside the text. There are some OCR tools that allow you to do a spell checker for you to infer the unrecognized words. With this approximate approach, the text cannot be 100% accurate, but all these tools tend to offer you a good recognition quality.  http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Audio-Multimedia/How-to-obtain-better-results-using-OCR---Optical-character-recognition--49.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Audio-Multimedia/Samsung-Galaxy-S3-camera-software-tweak-boosts-video-recording-to-30-Mbps-in-Superfine--next-upgrade-60-fps-capture-for-all-resolutions-48.htm   Those who tested Samsung’s Galaxy S3 video camera weren’t so happy seeing the 1080p recorded videos. An expert would say they record approximately 19 megabits per second, while the naked eye says that just 'isn’t enough'. But there one software tweak that improves the camera quality (at least on paper). HyperX, a reputable custom ROM developer with quite a history in Android hacks, decided it was time you took the full advantage of the 8-megapixel video recording creating a Samsung S3 exclusive mod. The video quality is taken to new heights: when it comes to 1080p video capabilities, the Fine Mode is enhanced 19 Megabits per second to 24 Mbps, while the 'Superfine mode' boast an impressive 30 Mbps.  http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Audio-Multimedia/Samsung-Galaxy-S3-camera-software-tweak-boosts-video-recording-to-30-Mbps-in-Superfine--next-upgrade-60-fps-capture-for-all-resolutions-48.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/System-Utilities/Evernote-----taking-notes-at-a-different-level--47.htm   Overall Impressions Nowadays it’s harder and harder to remember things and to keep yourself organized these days. Thank God there are notebooks for that. But sometimes you cannot carry your notes with you all the times, while without a phone most people feel helpless. Your notes won’t remember you what you have to do. Evernote will do that and much, much more than that. It will automatically synchronize your notes, memos, lists, assuring you that you won’t have to become ubiquitous and do two things in the same time. No matter what’s your operating system: Windows, Mac OS X, Chrome OS, BlackBerry OS,  Android, iOS, WebOS, Windows Mobile and Windows Phone, Evernote will be supported on every one of them.   http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/System-Utilities/Evernote-----taking-notes-at-a-different-level--47.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/How-To/Install-and-handle-iOS-applications-without-iTunes-with-iAppMaster-1-1-46.htm   In order to handle your iPad or Iphone applications you need to have iTunes installed to perform iTunes application synchronization. iAppMaster 1.1 is a reliable alternative to iTunes and lets you install, uninstall and backup applications on an iOS device (it doesn’t really matter if it’s jailbroken or not). Installation and support The good news is that when you install iAppMaster you don’t have to install other daemons. You have to download the iOS app and a .plist file. In order to use the app you need certain .ipa files. After you download the .ipa files you need, each ipa file will be installed in a separated installation process, with a confirmation window. Even though, the installation process is not as long as you’ve though, at least when you think about the iTunes synch process, which can last around 4-5 minutes.   http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/How-To/Install-and-handle-iOS-applications-without-iTunes-with-iAppMaster-1-1-46.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/System-Utilities/SSD-Tweaker-1-9-8-----optimize-your-SSD-usage-45.htm   Overview When it comes to storage there’s no doubt that, if money isn’t a problem, Solid State Drives (SSDs) are the big winners in matters of shock resistance, speed, temperature and dimension. This new technology may sometimes need a piece of software to push it to its highest potential performing several tricks. Installation and support SSD Tweaker does not require an installation process; it can be run from the moment it’s downloaded. The only shortcoming the free version of the program has is the fact that when one tries to exit the software, it displays a nag screen.   http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/System-Utilities/SSD-Tweaker-1-9-8-----optimize-your-SSD-usage-45.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Audio-Multimedia/7-Zip-9-25-Alpha-----pack-everything-and-send-it-to-anybody-44.htm I really hope I’ll see the day in which storage space will be so large and the connection speeds so fast that we won’t need an archiving tool anymore. Until that time, size on disks matters a lot and we’re searching for the best and cheapest archiving solution. Will a free archiver be able to offer the features a commercial compression software has the offer, without wasting of lot of user’s time? The review below will throw a light on this freeware archiving software. Installation and Support Due to the fact that the Z-Zip installation kit is as light as 1Mb, the installation process is a very short and straightforward one. No other software must be installed in order to benefit from 7Zip archiver, which makes it a true freeware. It supports all versions of Windows Operating systems, beginning with Windows 98 onwards to Windows 7.   http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Audio-Multimedia/7-Zip-9-25-Alpha-----pack-everything-and-send-it-to-anybody-44.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Audio-Multimedia/3DMark-Vantage-43.htm Overall Impressions After buying a new computer and carefully reading the documentation about each and every component, the next thought of advanced users and especially gamers is to get a trusted benchmarking software to test it properly. Not only the advanced users think high about CPU and graphic tests, but also the average PC user who want to test their computer capabilities to assure themselves of the value of their choices. 3DMark Vantage is probably the leader in PC benchmark software due to their accurate testing results and the wide array of features they offer. It comes in three editions: the Basic free edition, which makes available only the essential features and it can only display results online, the Advanced one, with most of the features present at a cost of $19.99 and the Professional Edition, licensed for commercial use, offers command line automation and a priority support at a cost of $995. 00.   http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Audio-Multimedia/3DMark-Vantage-43.htm http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Graphic-Apps/AKVIS-Sketch---Discover-you-artistic-side-using-this-powerful-sketch-to-photo-program-42.htm   Overall Impressions Sometimes your pictures lack something: an artistic touch. There are many simple ways in which you can reach a cool effect just hitting a few buttons and probably one of the best is using AKVIS SKETCH, a photo editing program that transform your photos into charcoal sketches or watercolor paintings without a lot of work from your part. You can choose between its many settings and options in order to improve your sketches. So, if you’ve always felt that you haven’t explored enough your artistic side, this handy graphic tool will help you in this respect. Installation and support The picture editor has quite low requirements and almost any computer can meet them without problems: Pentium III CPU, 1 GB of RAM, 100 MB HDD, DirectX 8 compatible graphic card and at least 1024 x 768 resolution and 32bit color depth.  http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Graphic-Apps/AKVIS-Sketch---Discover-you-artistic-side-using-this-powerful-sketch-to-photo-program-42.htm