Link Only: Apple Products Warranty

WorldWide Warranty
https://store.apple.com/Catalog/Images/worldwidewarranty.html



If the product is portable : You may obtain warranty service worldwide or globally or internationally
Yes, you can obtain international or global warranty if the apple product is portable and can operate independently without a power cord.

** https://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/products/ipad-english-a.html
 However, Apple may restrict warranty service for iPhone and iPad to the country where Apple or its Authorized Distributors originally sold the device.
       - Basically it means that Apple reserves the right to refuse iPhone warranty service when it is outside of the country you purchased.

AppleCare Plus 
https://www.apple.com/legal/sales-support/applecare/applecareplus/
http://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/applecare

New Zealand
https://www.apple.com/legal/sales-support/applecare/applecareplus/docs/applecareplusnz.html

Apple One Year Limited Warranty and AppleCare+ Comparison at New Zealand AppleCase Plus  (7 September 2016) - Present)

Warranty Obligor for Region or Country of Purchase
https://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/obligor.html

Airdroid (Transmit Your Files Wirelessly)

 Airdroid 

Features

• Clipboard Sync (if desktop client is installed)
• Notification Mirroring
• Find Lost Phone
• Uses Camera take screenshot of front camera . (if you pay for Premium )
• Wipe Data remotely.
• Move Any content on and off Android without USB Cable
• Send SMS using Desktop Client ( Windows and Mac OS ] or Web Browser (if no Administrative Privilege.
• and more ....

Quota for free users are only applied when connecting remotely

Airdroid [ Official Website | Google Play ]

Alternative

SendAnywhere

Feature

• Choosing the best path for transferring your files
• Through LAN/Internet

SendAnywhere [ Official Website | Google Play ]

Pushbullet 

Feature

• Pushing Notification[Notification Mirroring], URL, File, Note to other devices that installed its extension or its application 
• [Sync Clipboard Across Devices is available if Desktop Client is installed and universal copy and paste is checked 

Pushbullet [Official Website | Google Play | Chrome)

Audacity : Free Open Source Audio Editor

Description :

Audacity is a free and open source software for recording and editing audio. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Common Use

• Extract Audio From Video (Require FFmpeg Library) 

• Download and extract the zip file to App\FFMpeg 

• Edit Audio and Export as mp3 (Require LAME Library )
• LAME is a library that allows some programs to encode MP3 files. LAME is free, but in some countries you may need to pay a license fee in order to legally encode MP3 files.

FileBot, Automatic TV Shows and Movie Renamer

Description

FileBot a free open source tool for all major operating systems that can automate the task of renaming TV shows and movies for you. You can download Filebot [Here]

Runtime: Java

Features:

Subtitle Downloader [OpenSubtitles Database]

 (Free Members : 200 Subtitles per day, Vip Members: - 1000 Subtitles per day)
 [You need to register a OpenSubtitles Account)

TV Shows and Movie Renamer

The program supports three TV and two movie databases, including
TV Database: TheTVDB, AniDB [For Anime Lover], TVrage,
Movie Database : IMDB and TheMovieDB.

Advance Renaming

FileBot | Official Website | Download

This Software is often used together with

Plex Media Server

Alternative
ReNamer {Free For Personal  use with limited feature but enough for normal use]
** Note that it does not detect based on the show name, only useful when filebot does not detect the show name.

Configuring Windows To Search File Contents [Shared from Ghacks]

Do you know that Windows actually have a built-in feature that allowed you to search file contents?



The Step below search the contents of files that are not stored in an indexed location and to do so you need to modify how Windows Search operates.
Windows 7: open Windows Explorer and click on Organize > Folder and Search options. Switch to the Search tab here and check the always search files and contents (this might take several minutes) box.

Windows 8: open Windows Explorer, click on View >Options > Change folder and search options. Switch to search tab and check the always search files and contents (this might take several minutes) box...

For more information in configuring, please refer to Ghacks.net

Create Pinterest Pinboard Widget For Your Blog

Added on ( 3/17/2012 )
Pinterest also have RSS for user
You can find your Pinboard Rss by adding /rss

For example :  http://pinterest.com/shinjie/software-giveaway/rss
[Please note that it link you back to the Pin not the website you shared]
First visit this site
http://Feed43.com

Then Click

Next

Insert your PinBoard Address Then click Reload

After that  Go to Step 2 ,Define Extraction Rules

 










And Paste this 

<a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/{%}" class="pinImageWrapper{*}
<img src="{%}" class="pinImg full{*}
<p class="pinDescription">{%}</p>

in  Item (repeatable) Search Pattern*: 

Then click Extract

Google adds animated GIF filter to image search

It's always a hassle to search for Animated in the Internet in Google before this updates. This update is certainly useful who keep a private collection of Animated Gif


https://Images.google.com

[Source] Google+

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Repair Corrupted File With File Repair

File Repair software is a powerful tool to repair your corrupted files. It scans the damaged file and extracts maximum data from it to a new usable file.

Using File Repair, you can repair:

• corrupted Word documents (.doc, .docx, .docm, .rtf)
• corrupted Excel spreadsheets (.xls, .xla, .xlsx)
• corrupted Zip or RAR archives (.zip, .rar)
• corrupted videos (.avi, .mp4, .mov, .flv, .wmv, .asf, .mpg)
• corrupted JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PNG or RAW images (.jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .tiff, .bmp, .png)
• corrupted PDF documents (.pdf)
• corrupted Access databases (.mdb, .mde, .accdb, .accde)
• corrupted PowerPoint presentations (.ppt, .pps, .pptx)
• corrupted music (.mp3, .wav)

Official Site
http://www.filerepair1.com

Portable Version by Portableapps
http://portableapps.com/node/28234

Please note that you can only repair file one at a time


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Get Additional Free Space from Dropbox

Here's a Dropbox referral Url for anyone interested: Get extra 250MB space for you and me

http://db.tt/NsEedPj (If you are not yet registered use this Referral link to register + 250 MB Space



2 GB (Register without Referral )
With Referral link 2.25GB
http://www.dropbox.com/free (for free Space 640MB)
Required Facebook Account , Twitter Account

Those with @edu Mail student can activate
http://dropbox.com/edu
and get 500MB Per referral instead of 250MB :)
Up to 5 GB of Free Space (From Experimental Forum Build Up to 3 GB of Free Space  (From Experimental Build ) Using Autoplay
"Import Pictures and Videos using Dropbox"
[You will get 500 MB for first upload and For Every 500 MB of Photos or Videos automatically uploaded , you'll received an additional 500MB up to 3GB Total ]

Updated on 2012/2/25




If Autoplay is not Working
Try these

 Open Regedit
and remove “NoDriveTypeAutoRun” key from:
1 ) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
2 )
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer


Control Panel --> Hardware and Sound --> Autoplay
And tick Use AutoPlay for all media and devices

This should enable back Autoplay :)



You might be interested in Dropbox Automator


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Host Giveaway On Your Website For Free With RaffleCopter

Have you ever want to host a Giveaway for your site and doesn't found a solution?

First Register an Account at
http://www.rafflecopter.com/ (It's free)

After you log in

Then you can put a name for your giveaway and add the prize you are giving away

Dropbox Automator | Process Dropbox Automatically

Dropbox Automator monitors Dropbox folders of your choice and perform automatic actions on new files that get added to the folder.

This picture and below shows what can it do for you , I'm sure it will save you lots of time .

Documents

• Convert to PDF
• Summarize
• Translate
• PDF to TXT
• Upload to Google Docs
• Upload to SlideShare
• Sign PDF (Electronic Signature)

Pictures 

•  Upload to Facebook
•  Upload to Flickr
•  Downscale
•  Rotate image
•  Write text on image 
•  Photo effect
•  Stamp a logo on the image
•  Stamp a "Dislike" on the image

Drag and Drop Resize Images with Dropresize

I bet sometimes you hate manually resize images
With Dropresize you can resize it without manually resize it :)

First ,you can set it to monitor a folder ,
Then set resize image to .......

After that select whether you want to Include SubFolder , or Backup Images before resized

Lasly Select JPEG Image quality
Recommend : 75% or 85 %

After you set up these , all you have to do is to open this software before you copy/drag/cut images to the folder being monitored , it will be resized to (Depend on what you set )

DropResize ( Download Link Below)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/567326/share/Freeware/Dropresize.zip

If you would like to resize it manually(Batch) , "Right Click context menu"
http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/releases/view/74953#DownloadId=297503

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Run Multiple Skype from One Pc

32 bit Windows
"C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe" /secondary

64 bit Windows"C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe" /secondary



If you always need 2 or more Skype Account to be opened 



Right click --> Create shortcut -->

Give it a Name , and a shortcut to open Multiple Skype is done

Hope it helps 

URL Snooper Display Hidden Remote Url

URLSnooper is a Portable Free HTTP Sniffer which makes use of WinPcap . It can displays the traffic of a selected network adapter listing the urls, source and destination IPs and ports in a list.
So you can download the True link
For Example : Get the real url to download Google Chrome 5.0.375.55 Offline Installer

Addition Information Here

Alternative of it

Http Network Sniffer
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/http_network_sniffer.html (Free and Portable )

Add Background in Thumbdrive Folder in Windows

For Windows Xp


First Create a txt and rename it into desktop.ini
If you cannot see the extension example new.txt
Select Tools the located a folder or My Computer ,after that click Folder Options

Untick Hide extension for known file types

After you have done that you should be able to see the filenamewith.txt
rename it into desktop.ini

Open Desktop.ini with Notepad and insert the following code



[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Attributes=1
IconArea_Image=..\Untitled1.png ( put ..\ =root folder .\ = Current Folder)
IconArea_Text=0x000000FF

0x00000000 Black

0x00FF0000 Bright Red

You can get more code of different colors html color code at
http://www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm 
________________________________________________________________
After you are done with it, reopen your folder then you will see your background

Example :

Please note that

If you want to customize background inside the folder of your pendrive make sure that you have changed the Folder Attribute to System
You can do this by
Start -> Run
attrib +s H:\Myfolder (just a example)

For Window 7 & Vista

First , Install Vista Folder Background by Ave
http://www.aveapps.com/folderbg.html

Create a desktop.ini file and insert the text below
 
[AveFolder]
IconArea_Image=X:\xxxx\XXX\XX\XX.jpg  
TextR=251
TextG=4
TextB=11
ShadowedText=1

(The above code is for Red Text)

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-7-folder-background-changer-released
You can use the above tool to setup the colors and Background Image in Vista & 7 easier
In order to work with Portable Device
You have to change to (In desktop.ini)
IconArea_Image=.\

(Ave Vista Folder Background must be Installed)

Remember to install Visual Studio 2005 Sp1 Runtime Files or else it wouldn't work

Tips = You can join the code together to make it work on
       WindowsXp   or    Vista/7

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Attributes=1
IconArea_Image=.\Picture.jpg
IconArea_Text=0x000000FF


[AveFolder]
IconArea_Image=.\Picture.jpg
TextR=251
TextG=4
TextB=11
ShadowedText=1

Edited on 09-11-2011

Hope it helps

Junction (Symbolic Link)

What is Junction ?
Junctions basically make files and folders accessible in another location on the hard drive. It make Windows and applications to think that the Application/Game/Files is hosted in the junction directory, while in fact it is stored somewhere else.




How do you use it on Window Vista and Windows 7

Run Cmd as Administrator

Universal Silent Switch Finder

I always hate Finding Silent Switches for silent installation [Unattended Install] when using offline computers so I went to softpedia and search for something like these

 

 Universal Silent Switch Finder FileSize (1 MB)

Universal silent Switch Finder is a software which help you find Silent Switches in program .

(Please be noted that this software doesn't always found the switches)

Below is some simple batch script I used for batch silent installation

Disable Facebook Chat Sidebar

I guess most people hate the new Facebook Chat Sidebar 
You can install the addon or userscripts below to revert back to the Old FB Chat

Chrome
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bfipfkeoidmndggnnpobeenlamiclald?hl=en

Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fb-chat-sidebar-disabler/

Opera 
https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/facebook-chat-sidebar-disabler/?display=en

Best software to use when formatting a computer

Before Format (Must have access to Window)
Double Driver [Portable] (Used to backup and Restore Driver)

After Format
Avast (Antivirus) - Free for personal and Non-Commercial
Comodo Internet Security (For it's Firewall) 
Comodo Time Machine (System Restore ) - Non-commercial and personal use
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack (For Video Codec) - Freeware

Backup and Recover tools (Live Cd)

Open source Norton Ghost Alternative


For Advanced users,
CloneZilla
Support Windows , Linux , Mac OS X

For Most users, 
Redo Backup &RecoverSupport Windows , Linux

You can use this tools by shamurshamur to create Multi Boot Disk / USB
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Boot-Manager-Disk/XBoot.shtml