Google Docs app for Android based devices gets improved features. It was meaningless using this app on Android based devices as it was like a shortcut created for the Docs website and the documents was not available to view/edit offline. With the new version the apps readability has increased and selective files can be made available for the offline access. After editing it offline it will automatically get synced when an active connection is available.

I would be happy if Google think about a single sign-on as well for this app. Otherwise its perfect now!

This is how you enable “Available offline” for individual file.

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I have been using PureVPN for few days and it’s quite impressive in terms of the quality of the service they offer. While connected using PureVPN service you will find it much faster than other VPN services in the market. PureVPN has supports the major VPN protocols like PPTP, L2TP and SSTP. Another advantage of this VPN is it has servers in most of the countries.

The features are pretty nice!

So while connecting the VPN you can select the desired country and make use of the server in that country. To make that more easier PureVPN client has some profiles created which serves various purposes such as for watching TV channels which is only available in US (To watch Hulu from UAE), Accessing blocked Social networking sites (Such as accessing Orkut from UAE) Accessing VOIP from blocked countries or even for higher security and anonymity you can select the relevant profile.

PureVPN has a multiplatform support. The client is available on Windows, Linux and MAC operating systems. Also the PureVPN can be configured on your iPad, iPhone and any Android based Phones and Tablets. Step By step of configuration is available on their website.  Pure VPN is also offering a business class service which can be configured on routers. (We have not tested this service since this requires a dedicated IP address)

PureVPN service is worth paying for since it has a multiplatform support and faster browsing speed. The plans are affordable too. Take a look here

Team viewer has become very popular remote accessing software because of its simplicity and ease of use. The easy screen sharing tool does not require knowing the IP Address or requiring the Windows firewall to be unblocked. Team viewer is cable of starting an online meeting as well. (A registered Team viewer account is required for inviting members to the meeting) So using this feature you can do a presentation for your customer on the go. So that means it is not only used by the tech people to access the computers! Team viewer 7 portable has the same features of the regular version.
Team viewer portable is packaged by Portableapps.com and using the portable version of Team viewer is little tricky. But don’t worry let’s do it together!

• First download the portable file from Portableapps.com. Click here to download
• Now open the downloaded file and extract it on your desktop by specifying your desktop path (It would something like this “C:\Users\Hackstacks\Desktop\TeamViewerPortable” )
• Now you must copy this extracted folder to your USB drive.
• Open the “TeamViewerPortable.exe” There it become your portable Team viewer.
Hope you enjoyed it. Let us know your comments and feedbacks!

Note : Team viewer is free for personal use but any commercial use should be under a licensed agreement.

Portable Notifier is a free tool as well as a portable tool to receive notification when there are new updates on any of your feeds added. This windows application is useful for those who read news with the help of any RSS reader program/service such as Google Reader. Usage of this application is very simple once download extract and launch the program by running the file notifier.exe. This will start the program and stay in your system tray area and display when there is a new update found on any of the added RSS or Atom feeds.

This utility can be fully configured for each and every setting available on it. Also one good thing about this utility since it’s a portable version is the database is stored as feed.dat file under the program folder. So the feeds will become handy where ever you go.

Sample feed notification from Hackstacks

Get Feed Notifier from here

Also Read : Best 3 Feed Readers for Mac OS

Kindly is an E-book reading device developed by Amazon. Till they develop Kindle apps for the Smartphones Amazon book store was accessed through a proprietary device named Kindle. Now you can subscribe and read Kindle Books from all the major Smartphones and computers. There was a time that the Kindle books could only be subscribed through Amazon Kindle device. But now the Amazon apps are developed and available for Smartphones, Windows and Mac operating systems.

It is a part of marketing as to attract more crowd to subscribe the Kindle book store. The latest Kindle 3 Device can store up to 3500 E-books on the device. So think about how much space you can save with one Kindle?

Amazon has it’s own proprietary book format but other than that it supports MS Word, TXT, HTML, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PRC, mobi, PDF, Audible, PRS extensions.

Kindle app is now available to download for Windows PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone 7, Android and Blackberry.

Download Kindle for your Device from here

This page is worth bookmarking as this article is featuring 10 websites which provides free utilities for Windows and Mac operating systems.

1) http://www.opensourcemac.org Mac

Open source Mac is a place with simple list of best free open source applications for Mac. You won’t find the complete list of Mac applications here but they have tried their best to showcase the most important and most useful applications in daily life.

2) http://softpedia.com Windows/Mac/Linux/Mobile/Handhelds

Softpedia has the huge collection of software packages for Windows, Mac, Linux, Mobile, Handhelds etc. You will find freeware and sharewares here.

3) http://ninite.com Windows/Linux

Ninite features all the freebies available on the internet. Categorized by Web Browsers, Messaging, Media, Imaging, Documents, Security, Runtimes, File Sharing, Utilities, Compression, Developer Tools. Best thing about ninite is it can be used for unattended installations. Read more

4) http://filehippo.com Windows

Filehippo is offering all the freeware apps in an easy to download interface. In filehippo store you will find only windows applications.

5) http://freshmeat.net Unix,Linux, handheld

freshmeat maintains the Web’s largest index of Unix and cross-platform software, themes and related “eye-candy”, and Palm OS software. Thousands of applications, which are preferably released under an open source license, are meticulously cataloged in the freshmeat database, and links to new applications are added daily.

6) http://www.portablefreeware.com Windows

Portablefreeware is a database for all windows operating system versions. It’s a collection of portable applications which can be stored on a usb stick and run on any computer without installing it. The database is really huge and you will find almost all the portable application for every need.

7) http://oldversion.com Windows

Oldversion.com is a database of applications with all its previous versions released from the year 2001.A new version won’t be good every time especially when you miss certain features in a new version or even when you find incompatibility with your operating system.

8 ) http://alternativeto.net Windows/Mac/Mobile

Alternativeto provides and alternate application for those major applications. Even you will find an alternate software for a paid software which can perform the same process.

9) http://filepig.org Windows

You will find filepig similar to filehippo but you will more utilities here.

10) http://sourceforge.net

Souceforge is a huge database for open source softwares for windows. Sourceforge is a community of 2.7 million developers around the world. The sourceforge directory has more than 260,000 project hosted.

Oldversion.com is always a help when a software upgrade go wrong. Oldversion.com is a database of applications with all its previous versions released from the year 2001.A new version won’t be good every time especially when you miss certain features in a new version or even when you find incompatibility with your operating system.

We can’t expect the software developer to provide previous version of an application so oldversion.com is handy when new software version failed to work well in that old Pentium III desktop.

Try it and download those old version you missed