InsomniaX for Mac Disables Sleep On Idle Or Lid Close While On Battery Or AC

InsomniaX is a free Mac app that not only lets you disable Mac’s idle sleep function, but also lets you stop your MacBook from entering sleep mode when you close the lid. The app lets you define these settings based on the power source, i.e., if the MacBook is running on battery, you may choose to allow it to enter sleep mode when the lid closes or the system is idle, and disable this behavior when it is plugged in.

Once installed, the app adds a dark crescent button to the Menu Bar. From the app’s Menu Bar icon, you can quickly choose to enable or disable sleep on lid close or if idle. You can also put the system to sleep immediately by selecting Sleep Display. To stop the system from entering sleep when the lid closes, selectDisable Lid Sleep. To restore the functionality, visit the same menu and select Enable Lid Sleep. Follow suit to disable sleeping on system idle.

The app’s preferences, which can be found within the app’s Menu Bar options, allow you to choose if the system should sleep when the lid is closed if it is on battery or plugged in. Go to Preferences > Disable Lid Sleep on…> Battery or Preferences > Disable Lid Sleep on…> AC. Similar options exist to customize the “sleep if idle” behavior.

The app has an additional feature called CPU Safety, which, if enabled, will put your MacBook to sleep if the CPU core temperature reaches or exceeds 90 degrees. You can have the app remember your preferences by selecting Save states on exit, and enable it to start when you login to your system.

The app is useful mostly if  you want to disable the lid from putting your MacBook to sleep. If you only want to stop your system from going to sleep if it is idle, you can do so from System Preferences > Energy Saver.

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AniBoot: Provides Custom Boot Animations To Your Rooted Android Device

AniBoot features dozens of downloadable boot animations which can be applied to any rooted Android device in no more than a couple of taps. The app supports boot animation in three different screen resolutions – 800×480, 1024×768 & 1280×720 – each comprising at least a dozen various boot animations. Each boot animation can be previewed individually, and if it catches your eye, you can download and apply it to your device in a matter of just a few seconds. Details to follow.

Once the app is granted root access, it automatically creates a backup of your current boot animation, and prompts you to select the desired screen resolution for your custom boot animation. Both these options can be availed from within the app’s main preferences screen anytime you wish to make changes accordingly.

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Now Run Android 4.0 ICS On Windows, Mac & Linux Using VirtualBox

You can use all the features and options of Andriod ICS without making any changes to your host system. You’ll require Oracle VirtualBox to run the virtual machine, of course. The rest is quite simple, but just in case you get stuck somewhere in the process, following is a brief and simple tutorial on how to get it running.

First, download and install VirtualBox (download link given at the bottom of the post). Now download the pre-configured Andriod ICS OS setup and extract it. When extracted, look for the file named Android-v4.vbox. Just double-click it to load the configuration file in VirtualBox.

Once loaded, you can start the Android ICS in a virtual machine by double-clicking the Android-v4 VM available in left sidebar.

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Ambientweet :An Hotkey-Controlled Twitter Client For Mac

 Ambientweet is one such minimalistic Twitter client for Mac that works almost entirely with keyboard shortcuts. It displays one tweet at a time as a notification on your desktop, and cycles through the ones you’ve received. There are buttons for quickly retweeting, replying, favoriting or posting a tweet, but for going through a particular user’s tweets or scrolling through the ones in your feed, you will have to use keyboard shortcuts.

Launch the app and sign in to your Twitter account. The app will remember your login details for future, and you will not have to sign in over and over. You can switch to a different account at any time, as well.

Once signed in, the app will fetch the tweets in your feed and display them in a window at the center of the screen, which you can drag anywhere for repositioning. Hover your mouse over the window, and you will see controls for favoriting, replying to or retweeting an item, along with the option to post a new tweet. To manually move through your feed, use the Command+[ and Command+] shortcuts.

Other shortcuts include Command+R to reply to a tweet, Command+D to favorite it, Command+N to post a new tweet and Shift+Command+U to view all Tweets by a particular user.

The app shows only one tweet at a time, and has no column-like viewer. You will need to use the aforementioned shortcuts to move through them. The tweet window, by default,, stays on top of all other windows, but you can disable this behavior from the app’s preferences. Additionally, you can chose how often the app will check for new tweets.

If you haven’t warmed up to the multitude of swipe gestures in OS X Lion, and still like using the keyboard to get most things done, you might enjoy how this app works.

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Acer Crystal Eye webcam Adds Amazing Feature in Acer Aspire 5250 15.6” Notebook

Another Acer Aspire series Notebook is here with its amazing configurations and the device is named as the Acer Aspire 5250. This Acer Aspire series laptop is accorded with a set of enhanced specifications as well as looks attractive too. As we know that the Aspire series laptops are always in a mood to serve its users Fantastic graphics and playback for which the high-resolution displays in a variety of sizes showcase intense imagery from the first-rate graphics options. The user of it can view the much loved contents as Movies, Internet video, pictures with a brilliant shine on the Aspire Series notebooks. The device also is offered with HDMI connectivity that expands the spectacle to larger displays. Let’s have a glance at the below discussed details.

The Acer Aspire 5250 laptop is equipped with a Blu-ray Disc drive1 that plays the latest blockbusters with true-to-master precision, and is enhanced with Dolby optimized surround sound1 trumpets studio-quality acoustics. This Notebook is built with a 15.6″ HD high-brightness 200-nit Acer CineCrystal TFT LCD display that carries 16:9 aspect ratio and resembles a display resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. It runs on Genuine Windows 7 Home Basic 64-bit Operating System and is powered by 1.65 GHz AMD Dual-Core Processor E-450 Processor.

The device is embedded with Dual-channel DDR3 SDRAM support (Up to 4 GB of DDR3 1066 MHz memory, upgradable to 8 GB using two soDIMM modules)and is equipped with 320 GB 5400 rpm Hard Disk Drive along with Optical Drive as DVD R/RW. This laptop is enabled with AMD Radeon HD 6320 Graphics with 256MB memory and has been provided with a 2-in-1 card reader that supports Secure Digital (SD) Card and MultiMediaCard (MMC).

In addition to the above discussed specifications, this laptop is spotted with an Acer Crystal Eye webcam for video calling and offers Acer InviLink Nplify 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi CERTIFIED, supports Acer SignalUp wireless technology, Fast Ethernet along with Wake-on-LAN ready, Bluetooth, etc. The Privacy control1 features which are enabled are such as BIOS user, supervisor, HDD passwords and Kensington lock slot.

Apart from these the device is built with an Acer FineTip keyboard having independent standard numeric keypad, along with international language support as well as carries a Touchpad with Multi-gesture touchpad, that supports two-finger scroll, pinch, rotate, flip. The Media control keys which are provided are such as play/pause, stop, previous, next, volume up, volume down.

The rest of the other interfaces provided in this Acer Aspire series laptop are such as a 2-in-1 card reader (SD, MMC), three USB 2.0 ports, External display (VGA) port, Headphone/speaker/line-out jack, Microphone-in jack, Ethernet (RJ-45) port and DC-in jack for AC adapter. It comes empowered with a 6-cell Lithium-ion battery that ensures up to 4.5 hours of Battery Backup. The Acer Aspire 5250 laptop measures (W x D x H) 381 x 253 x 25/34 mm dimension and has a weight of 2.6 kg. It is available with a price tag of Rs.19, 000/-.

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Add A Hidden Toolbar To Unclutter The System Menu Bar With Bartender[Mac]

Bartender lets users keep only selected applications icons and indicators in system tray, and all other icons can be easily accessed with a click. Bartender offers an additional toolbar, where you can not only keep the applications’ icons of your choice, but also manage them with ease. Furthermore, it comes with a wide range of features that let you easily organize menu bar applications’ icons. You can select any active/passive menu bar app from Applications folder and add it to Bartender’s bar. Talking of the additional menu bar, it can be viewed by clicking Bartender’s icon in system menu bar. You can also bring it up using a specified hotkey combination. Keep reading for more details.

The utility allows you to display applications’ icons in menu bar for 5 seconds when they are being updated. This feature keeps you notified about all the applications that were recently updated with additional features. Apart from moving menu bar apps to Bartender’s menu bar, it lets you hide any active menu bar application. This app basically provides 3 menu bar-related options including show app icon in menu bar, show icon in Bartender’s bar and hide this (selected) menu bar item.

When launched, it sits in system menu bar, allowing you to launch and move application icons to its customizable menu bar. Clicking the menu bar icon lets you view Bartender’s menu bar, show all apps’ icons in system menu bar, and open Preferences, where you can add applications and set position of all currently running applications’ icons. The Menu Items tab reveals all the running menu bar applicationswith options to show selected app in system menu bar, Bartender’s menu bar or hide it from both menu bars.

As mentioned earlier, it lets you select menu bar applications to add their icons to either menu bar or Bartender’s toolbar. Just click add button in the left sidebar and select the application from Applications folder that you want to add to the list. Now, set what Bartender should do with selected menu bar item from main window. Here, you can also enable Item Updates option, which shows app icon in menu bar when it’s being updated.

The General tab deals with application-specific options including start app at login, show Bartender bar at launch, change application default menu bar icon etc.

The Advanced tab lets you show/hide Bartender’s menu bar icon, set hotkey combinations to show all items in menu bar, open Bartender and show full menu bar. You can also set what Bartender icon should do when clicked – display all items in menu bar, expand menu bar but keep items hidden, or open Bartender’s bar.

The application automatically adds all selected applications’ icons to its menu bar, which can be revealed by clicking Bartender’s icon in menu bar and via specified hotkey combination. Bartender provides an easy way to unclutter your ever growing menu bar item list. Not only does it organize running applications’ icons, but also lets you add any menu bar application and set its icon position. Bartender is a paid application, but you can grab it for free whilst it’s in beta testing phase.

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iCleaner: Clean/Remove Junk Files On iPhone [Cydia]

iCleaner is to iOS what CCleaner is to Windows and Mac OS X – that is, to clean up junk files. Read on after the break to learn more about this app available for free on the Cydia store.

iCleaner is pretty straight forward to use once it’s installed. Running the app, you will be prompted with whether to clean certain types of junk files or not, one prompt after another. The app is designed to remove the following types of files:

• Safari cache, cookies and history.
• Application caches, cookies, temporary files, snapshots.
• Log files and crash reports.
• System cache files and databases.
• System temporary files.

The app also removes in depth data from apps such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter etc. thereby decreasing loading times of these apps and increasing overall performance. Once you have all the junk on your device deleted, you will be asked to respring the device. So do that in order to confirm the removal and well, avoid any mishaps. The app has aesthetics that make it look like a proper app rather than some run of the mill app. Even better, it gets the job done rightly and quickly, without creating errors or stuff.

You can find this app in Cydia in the Bigboss repo for free.

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