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ColorSay 1.20 Review

The camera built into your iPad and iPhone is so powerful that it is being used to facilitate assistance for the blind, for photo recognition, and for product recognition in stores. It's an incredibly powerful tool and ColorSay puts it to great use for anyone that either wants to replicate a color shade or that suffers from some degree of color blindness.

The concept is very simple. The app has a reticle that focuses on colors as you move the camera around you. Every color it focuses on, it will identify and then name aloud. You can turn on … Read more

Save online videos to your computer and watch them while offline with FLV Spider for Mac

People often find videos on the Internet they want to watch while offline. FLV Spider for Mac allows you to capture online videos to your hard drive, but some additional functions are less useful.

FLV Spider for Mac comes with a free trial version with a five-video limit per session. To obtain the full version of this program, however, you need to pony up $29.95. The program downloaded easily, but installation had some problems. During setup, the program froze and required a restart. After restarting the system, however, the program did not have any additional issues or bugs. The … Read more

Password vault

Here's the thing about passwords: If you can remember them, they're too weak. If you copy them or write them down, you compromise security (plus you'll lose that piece of paper; trust us on this one). Password managers can help you keep your PC secure by making it easy to use strong passwords without committing them to memory or paper. KeePass Password Safe stores passwords in encrypted database files that can only be unlocked by a master password or key file, or both. It's open-source freeware that runs in Windows versions from 98 to 7.

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Improved device manager

NirSoft's DevManView is a tiny, free app that improves on the built-in Device Manager with a customizable, rotatable, and extremely comprehensive view. It can display the devices of any networked computer that you can access as an administrator, load devices from remote instances of Windows, disable devices, display properties sheets, and search devices in Google from the interface. It's available in 32-bit and 64-bit downloads and works in all versions of Windows from 2000 to 7.

At just under 53KB, DevManView loads fast--noticeably faster than the Device Manager--with our system's devices displayed under no fewer than 19 … Read more

Easy photo fix

Ashampoo Photo Optimizer Free is the perfect tool for fixing underexposed photos quickly and easily. Open one picture or a whole folder full of images, and it will lighten all of the files with a single click.

Ashampoo Photo Optimizer Free is a one-trick pony, but it does its one trick well. The program lightens photos that are too dark. You can also rotate your images left or right. When we tested this utility, we found it did a good job with underexposed files, but it doesn't improve overexposed files, reduce digital noise, or make any other adjustments. Clicking … Read more

Program list maker

Directory Lister Pro captures directory information and creates easy-to-read lists. While cluttered in spots, the results certainly gave us a dense, but usable picture of our file collection.

The program's bland, white interface didn't feel intuitive and we had to consult the Help file and its concise definitions of the program's commands and search options. However, we were soon zipping through the onscreen file tree to check which folders we wanted scanned. We were able to create directories of these folders based on search parameters we set ourselves. These parameters, housed in several tabs of options ranging … Read more