Text messaging also known as sms are somewhat fashion of old days. Not only these sms charges you a considerable rates but also became a old form of messaging. Internet service providers charges you high costs for sms for example you want to send 100 sms in a day, without sms pack it will charge you around Rs 100. Pretty lame, isn''t it ? In this new era of online socialising we need to message a lot to our friends and relatives. And for a huge texting obviously we can't rely on sms alone, after all you have to worry about your phone bill too. If you are fed up of high sms charges and want to text whole day in the cost of a single sms or less you have come to the right place. Here we are posting 10 best mobile applications which are a very very good alternatives to your sms.

These mobile applications are another form of online text messaging, but instead of opening a browser you just need to open the application in your phone and send the text right away. These mobile application uses your internet data which is nearly negligible. Say if you have 100 mb of data, you can send atleast 1 million sms in such small amount of data. I don't think anything would be cheaper than this, as well as it congrates you to involving in new way of texting. So now its time to say good bye to sms and send huge texts in cost of one.

1. WHATS APP

On our list WhatsApp is the best application we have found. This application uses the same internet data that you use for emails and browsing e.t.c. The sender and the receiver must have whats app installed on their phone and they can exchange messages without paying for sms. In addition Whats app allows you to create friends groups and send multimedia files too. 
Moreover it has amazing chat option which helps you text like a chat rather than opening sms again and again.

Its recommended to have a unlimited data plan in your phone to send multimedia messages.

Platform Supported : iPhone, Blackberry, Nokia S40, Symbian, Android, Windows phone

2. NIMBUZZ

Nimbuzz is one of mine personal favorite and according to me its a must use software for your phone. It not only supports a huge varity of platforms, but also its loaded with lists of amazing features. Nimbuzz works fast as blaze and uses a very tiny part of your phone memory as it is too light for the phones. Nimbuzz uses the internet data of your phone and operates in background too if you want it to.

Features :

- Stay online and chat to friends on social networks like Facebook, MSN, yahoo, Gmail.
- Get twitter updates right onto your phone.
- Sent multimedia files like images and audio.
- Messaging to another friend having nimbuzz installed.
- Free voice calls to another nimbuzz friend.
- Chat options with loads of chat rooms online.
- Very very attractive user interface, light to use and various platform supported.

Note : It supports windows and Mac OS too so you can have messaging to and from a computer too.

Platform supported : iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Nokia, Java phones

3. ROCKETALK

Rocketalk is a whole new social networking experience for you within your mobile application. Not only you can connect to your friends on rocketalk but also you can search and find other peoples on rocketalk. From status updating to instant messaging and file sharing, it is loaded with every features which we find in a good social networking. Clearly it a very nice replacement to sms as you can text your friend having Rocketalk on their phone.

Features :

- Meet new peoples as chatrooms are available within application.
- Share files such as video, voice and images.
- Online competitions and prizes and unlimited browsing to Rocketalk galleries.

Platform Supported : iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Nokia Phones.

4. VIBER

On the list next is viber which has been playing role of alternative of sms from a while. The app has a attractive user interface and the features are almost same as the applications above. The application lets you to call and text to your friend with viber installed on their phone. User can purchase VoIP credits to call on other phones to make a normal call.

Features :

- Text and Photo sharing based on user's location.
- User can create groups and send the message to 15 friends at a time.
- Special smart notification intelligence feature which lets application to show only necessary notifications creating less disturbance.

Platform Supported : iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Nokia, Bada.

5. iMessage

The application is restricted for Apple based platforms only though is one of the best alternatives to sms. As usual application uses Internet data of the phone weather its a WiFi or a 3G connection. App is capable to share videos, pictures and links in messages. The text appears as chat thus its very easy to use the application for a longer conversation.

Features :

- Image, video and link sharing to the friend with iMessage installed of their iPhone or iPad.
- Saves messages when you are offline as well as switching chat option.
- Attractive chat interface with Apple's regular Blue and green chat message boxes.

Platform Supported : iPhone, iPad and Mac OS.

6. WAY2SMS

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Way2sms is another very simple app which is open source and obviously available free for phones. The application have not much features as other apps in this category but it is a very good replacement for sms. The application is very popular within India and is recommended to use if you are residing in India. As the application is light, it performs fast and very simple to learn. Application uses internet data and saves your sms charges efficiently. The user can send up to 100 messages a day using the app as well as for failed sms sending the application application sends SMS status feedback.

Features :

- Built in SMS library wit thousands of messages to choose from.
- Light and fast as well as very simple to use.
- Options to create groups and sms chat withing application.

Platform Supported : Android, Nokia.

7. FRING

The application is having many high level features and proves to be a very good application who are having good bandwidth on their phone. Features like Groupvideo chat, Video chat, Live texting (chat), Fring to fring call makes it pretty usable application. The application works good on smartphones, doesn't work that smoothly on cheap phones. User need to sign up on fring to start connecting with friends on fring to their phone.

Platform Supported : iPhone, Android & Nokia smartphones.

8. BLACKBERRY MESSENGER

As the name suggests, the application is strictly for blackberry phones. Blackberry Messenger (BBM) has a some very nice features such as sharing , chat and synchronize. The application has its own contact list and can be connected to any of your friends with Blackberry Messenger with them. BBM provides facility to call over BBM if you have enough data for it. There are some more applications like Wikitude, ScoreMobile, Jungu Friends e.t.c to which BBM Connects and thus became a cross platform application now.

Recently official Facebook and Twitter apps are connected to BBM thus users can now share Facebook status update, tweet, songs or apps directly to contacts through BBM.

Note : You don't need to download BBM as it is preinstalled in Blackberry phones.

Platform Supported : Blackberry

9. VOXOX

VOXOX is another amazing application for texting as supports calling, texting, chat, Facebook and much more. The application provides many unique features such as sending a busy tone to user and ringing multiple device simultaneously or in sequence. The IM feature is amazing as it supports popular social networks as Google talk, AIM, Yahoo , Facebook and more. The user can update their status right from app as well as connect and chat to Facebook friends.

The best thing about VOXOX is its VOXOX to VOXOX voice and video calling feature which are totally free and uses your internet data. The application also provides Inbound calls and voicemails.

Platform Supported : iPhone, Windows & Mac OS

10. PINCH

Last but not the least Pinch is another application on the same list to replace the sms text messages. Supporting a variety of platform Pinch provides a load of features. The application provides facility to search friends in lot of ways like Name, Email ID, Barcode, Friend list and via Facebook and twitter.

Features :

- Group messaging.
- Real time message notifications wit message storing facility.
- Find friends near to your location as it shares your location if you want it to.
- Free sms to the contacts of phone.

Platform Supported : iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Nokia, Java phones, Mobile Browsers

Summing Up :

Clearly the applications changes your way of messaging from traditional sms to text via internet. Being an interactive form of Online text messaging these applications are amazing features binded in one place and presented to user to use them in a simple hassle free way. The applications are multipurpose as they provides your gateways to all kind of social connectivity. The applications above are totally free and have option to minimize in your phone to make you online 24by7.

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The below pics are picked from the famous social network Twitter from the accounts of the bollywood celebrities. The pics are tagged as private pics of the celebrities which were meant to be shared to their related ones but thanks to the fast growing fans who made these pics viral over the internet. We are compiling the pics which gets the most hits after being retrieved from twitter. The pics are sorted as the latest to the oldest here and we have tried our best to give collect hot pics right as our visitors love. Get a popcorn and enjoy the bollywood from the twitter angle.

Bollywood have always been in news from time to time bizzare photos leaked out. As celebrities are very active on twitter these days all we come to view such photos which are shocking and intimate type. The best thing about these pics is that they are not photoshopped and served as fresh as possible here. Celebrities like Poonam Panday are the biggest attraction of these type of photos collections. So we are giving her the first place in our blog.

Note : Its not recommended for the under 16 to view this blog after this point.

CELINA JAITLY

SOPHIE CHOUDRY

POONAM PANDAY

GUL PANAG

SHRIYA SARAN

PRIYANKA CHOPRA

NEHA DHUPIYA & AYUSHMANN KHURANA

MANDIRA BEDI

NEETU CHANDRA

NEHA DHUPIA

NAGMA KHATOON

POONAM PANDAY

BHAIRAWI GOSWAMI

KATRINA KAIF

SALMAN KHAN

Hey there ! hope you like the collection. Thanks for checking out what wonderful place twitter is.

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Eating a healthy food is must for almost ever individual now a days. As a healthy food contains a set of foods items that should be strictly followed. But as all of us not a graduate from home science or health sciences, thus for us its hard to decide the food we are taking is healthy or not. In such conditions the option left for is to consult a doctor or dietitian, which may not be comfortable for all of us. Thus, it would be better idea to have our phone telling us what to eat and when to eat. As smart phones are much more than a phone to us, why shouldn't we add a new feature to it and make it our personal food assistant. These apps helps the user to select the best possible food for them and also to know the details about any food. It is always a good idea to double check the food item you gonna buy, thus these apps will help you out doing so.

For the people that are very concerned about their meals, these apps can be of great use as these can easily guide you the standard quality and fresh food for your health. Or you can also tweak your diet requirements into these apps and get a remainder of what you should eat at that time. The basic idea of these apps is to guide the people for their healthy diet and telling them what to eat on a at that particular season.


1. TRUE FOOD

Platform Supported : iPhone and Android

The main concept of this app is to aware the user about the genetically modified food and avoid them while purchasing groceries from the shop. The application tells about common info about the food item like ingredients and brands. As the Genetically Modified food is not recommended by doctors also, the application proves itself as a great help for getting healthy food from market.

This application is truly your guide for purchasing the food items and differentiate your groceries on the basis of their quality.

Features :

- Special tips for identifying Genetically modified food.
- Green and healthy food are categorized and presented in a simple way in the app.
- Facility to contacts genetically modified food manufactures and telling them your denial for the product.

- Latest news on the important food issues and food campaigns, food policies, food markets trends and non GMO products.
- Informations about hazards of GM foods and benefits of the opposite and place to buy true food cultivated naturally.


2. SEASONS

Platform Supported : iPhone

Another great app for your guide to purchase right food. It basically tells you the perfect food to buy in that particular season and help in selecting the fresh one. While shopping green food items it helps you to select the perfect veggie or fruit and help you in choosing from the varieties.

Features :

- Huge variety of seasonal food products data with photo.
- More emphasis on seasonal food items, veggie and fruits.
- Support major western countries as Canada, United States, Australia and whole Europe.

- Food products such as Vegetables, lettuces, herbs, fungi, nuts sorted by monthly and category overview.
- Efficient search option withing application.

- Location detection based on GPS and WLAN to get details about local food markets and farmers associations.
- Localisation based on English, French, German and Spanish.


3. VEGOUT


Platform Supported : iPhone

The application is aimed mainly for vegetarian peoples as it provides the listing of vegetarian food and vegetarian restaurants right onto your screen based on your location internationally. Travelers will find this application of great use if they love to eat new food mostly vegetarian at new places while their tours.

A custom location can be set into the application according to your planning on travel and the application will guide you to the best vegetarian restaurants located in that very area.


4. LOCAVORE

Platform Supported : iPhone and Android

Keeping in mind the the difficulty of choosing the food products in this modern cultivation and marketing system the application has been designed to bring you the latest details of local and in seasonal food. The user can get the location of nearby farmers market stores and choose the food stores for the food item you wanna buy. The application also give details about the food item shipped into the main market and modern stores if user if finding difficulty to get the right place to buy.

The application has a nice interface to social connectivity as the user can share their seasonal recipes over the social media Facebook and get the other recipes shared by other users on same page. Overall this application is a complete guide for selecting the food to cook and eat in that particular season. The best thing about application is that it is totally free but the premium version costs you $2.99 .


5. LABEL LOOKUP

Platform Supported :  iPhone

As the name suggests, Label lookup elaborates about the quality and approvals pf the food product by getting the Label of the product. The application is of a great use during buying the products you don't know much about, you can get your iphone out and enter the label name, all the necessary info about he product quality, approvals, effect on environment and health e.t.c will be provided to you by the application. 

The application retrieves the data about the product from the manufacturing organization and the public information available as well as also checks the standards of the product. The app checks for the certification standards of the product and the stake-holders input on the product. The information is retrieved and verified by a third party which make sure the product you are holding with such label is good enough for you or not. The app also shows the rating of the product according to its quality by leaves as stars varying from 0 to 4. Although the rating provided is not perfect but the quality standards that product claims are minutely verified by organization and then fetched to your app.


6. WHAT'S ON MY FOOD

Platform Supported : iPhone

A huge part of the variety of food we consume today contains pesticides and other chemicals on them. Many of these chemicals are so harmful that for a particular person having allergy from specific chemical can get into serious health problem after consuming those. At this point the application "What's on my food comes to rescue you. The application gives the info about the harmful chemicals and pesticide that are contained in a particular food item. The application awares you of the toxic chemicals about atrazine and phenylphenol contained in your food and water. The application shows the chemicals complete details by breaking them into simpler molecule and shows you the exact chemicals you are going to intake with your food.

Summing Up

As clearly explained, all the above applications helps you to choose your food correctly as well as know your food better. For consuming a healthy food its necessary that you should make the right choice while purchasing them where these apps are very very helpful. You can get exact info that is verified by experts about your food products and thus you can easily differentiate between right food and the poor stuff. The users are recommended to choose above applications if they really want to have a healthy food as we have selected the best applications from the pile out there.

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Most of us are fund of making our computer look beautiful and personalized the way we want. Desktop wallpaper are the one which plays an important role in personalizing your computer. Thus, in order to change your desktop wallpaper you need to search for an image, check its resolution and then apply the wallpaper. If you like to change your wallpaper frequently, it feels pretty uncomfortable to do all those above things again and again. Thus, to avoid this boring work while everytime changing your wallpaper, these automatic wallpaper updating softwares works for you.

These softwares mentioned below fetches wallpapers from the internet and updates your desktop with a new wallpaper as frequent as you have set them to do so. Using these wallpapers updating softwares gives your computer a hassle free fresh look and you need not to bother for doing anything about it. The best thing about these softwares is that they are free to use and comes with a rich set of features.

Note : We are here providing the softwares for windows platform only.

1. AUTOMATIC WALLPAPER CHANGER

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This software let you to set your desktop wallpaper to change automatically. Loaded with large number of tool, this software is available in both paid and free version. The software is very simple to use and gives you facility to choose your folder with wallpapers and set the duration for each wallpaper to be displayed. The application supports many image formats and animations too.

Features :

- The wallpapers can resized according to the need to fit on the screen.
- The software also allows to add the wallpaper in multiple screen and supports the graphical setting for all of them. 
- The user can define the intervals to change the wallpaper or it can be set to change at startup.

- The hotkeys are provided for the ease of use of software as well as easy navigation  system to locate and choose the directories.
- Most of the tasks of software can be performed from the tray icon in windows task bar.

Limitation : The software comes with a 28 days trial period.

2. JOHN'S BACKGROUND SWITCHER

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John's Background switcher enables you to change your desktop background periodically. The software is totally free to download and use. It has very simple user interface and a lot of options to fetch the images from. You can connect your social accounts into the software to choose the wallpaper from. The wallpapers can be set to change at daily basis or even at hours basis. The software is kept running and can be accessed from the system tray to change the settings.

Special Feature : Apart from automatically assigning wallpaper to your desktop it can also create a Snapshot Scrapbook of photos to be thrown on your desktop as wallpaper.

Features :

- A folder on your computer with pictures containing in it can be assigned to fetch wallpapers from.
- The software can be attached with Flicker (choosing photos by tags) , Facebook (your friends photos), Instagram apps, Vladstudio, LOLCats, Zoomer e.t.c to get the images.

- Images collections on Webshots account can be accessed.
- Software shows notification icon in task bar to change settings and alert for new image download.
- Full details for using the software is provided within it as well as there is an built in Uninstaller for software.

3. MY DAILY WALLPAPER

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My Daily wallpaper is also a very nice application to use as it is very simple, compact and portable. The application has not enough option to choose the sources for wallpaper as it fetches the wallpapers from DeviantART.com . Although this website contains more than 600000 wallpapers within the categories like animals, landscape, plants e.t.c but you cant access the wallpapers of your own.

Features :

- With a left click the images can be zoomed and viewed in full screen mode.
- Provided cache, thus results fast download and update of wallpaper.
- Provides option of preview of the wallpapers, and it is loaded very fast.

Limitations :

- Restricted to the wallpapers on certain websites only, no access to personal images.
- High CPU usage and sometimes encounters GDI+ error which results in failure of thumbnail creation.

4. BING DESKTOP

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Bing desktop sync your desktop with the global Bing's homepage wallpapers at daily basis. The application is built by Microsoft and thus a easy to use and is a trusted application. The windows desktop background is automatically updated as well as the user can also select the wallpapers from the previous nine days.

Features :

- The software also provide a search option which leads into showing the result into default browser.
- Updates like News, trending topics, videos and pictures also can be accessed within software interface.

Bonus Software

5. BIONIX DESKTOP WALLPAPER CHANGER

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The software helps to change wallpaper at regular basis. Although program has a messed up user interface it can be put into the category of 'Not Bad' as it is totally free of cost. The program has techniques to scale and fit the wallpaper appropriately.

Summing Up : These softwares may not be the 'must use' and recommended softwares but if you are really interested in giving your computer a fresh look and make your workspace pretty, these software can be a great help for you. These softwares uses a very less part of your computers memory and make your system look dynamic. The readers are requested to notify us if any of the download link given above is not working.

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Windows 8 is a big gamble from Microsoft corporation as well the experts says that it will change the user's way of using windows. Provided with a whole new look of Graphical User Interface and thousands of new features windows 8 is still being a puzzle for many of us. To take best out of your windows copy its necessary that you should know the perfect ways to use this new interface, the shortcuts, menus provided, new class of applications e.t.c . To be a expert user of windows you will need to know all the little and hidden services provided by the windows, sometimes which are remain undiscovered. Little things makes perfection but perfection is no little thing, and the same is with using windows 8. Using all the small features makes you look like an expert as well as helps you to save your time. To feel the changes in Windows 8 you need to know the many of features which are really use full and attractive and helps you to go through devices like Tabs and Touch Computers.

We all know a lot of tutorials are available out there to learn Windows 8 but a a book can provide you all of these content into one place. Below we are providing such ebooks which will help you to learn and discover more secrets of windows 8. The best thing about these books is they can be downloaded completely free. These books are the best in what they do and they are helpfull for both newbies and Developers. Feel free to download these books, they are completely free and covers nearly all the aspects of windows 8.

1. Windows 8 Accessibility

This is an Microsoft E-Book released by them and also recommended by us. The Book contains Windows 8 Accessibility information. This 88 pages Ebook will tell you a lot about the new features of Windows 8, Mouse and keyboards shortcuts, personalization, ease of access and other features. The book is easily available in pdf and docx format and can be downloaded from Microsoft website.

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2. Windows 8 for DUMMIES

This Ebook is provided by Dell corporation for assisting you to help in using Windows 8. As all of the dell computers are preloaded with windows , this ebook is a must download from there side. As well this ebook covers the basic features of windows 8 and also tells you about the security features, enhanced management and data access in windows 8. You need to fill a small form in order to download this ebook in the link below.

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3. Introducing Windows 8 - An Overview for IT professionals

This books deals with the advanced aspects of windows 8 and as the name suggest it is recommended for the professionals to download. The book very clearly explains the improvements in windows 8 and the concepts involved in designing it for the touch pen, keyboard and mouse inputs.

The book deals with many advanced concepts such as networking, Recovery, Hardware, Customizations, Security, Virtualizations e.t.c in its eleven chapters consisting of 147 pages. This book is also provided in different formats to be used on Computer, Kindle and ePub.

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4. Programming Windows 8 Apps with     HTML, CSS and JavaScript

The name of books clearly shows that this book is for the developers only. As the scripting languages like HTML, CSS and Javascripts can be easily used to develop the windows 8 apps, the book shows the step by step process for such projects.

The book shows brilliantly the use of scripting languages with Windows Software Development kit and also focuses on the tutorials to use the built in codes in SDK to save yourself from writing unnecessary codes. The book not only covers the use of presentation layers of the HTML or CSS but also tell you to work with WinRT API such that you can learn making apps using other languages too.

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5. Getting Started : Your guide to
    Windows 8

The book is compiled with the guide to use the basic facilities provided in windows 8. Covering the use of new Interface the book also deals with the numerous shortcuts provided within the Windows 8. The book is written for the an average computer user who haven't any Computer Science background.

The book covers the overall features of windows 8 which includes playing media, navigation tweaking device and the advanced setting.  Downloading this book is really messy as to download this book you need to Subscribe the news letter of the website who has written it.

Click here for the download page

Summing Up

- The users who are willing to know the windows 8 just for their daily use are advised to download the book number 1, 2 and 5.
- Book at number 3 is for those who are willing to use windows 8 as a geek and use most out of their computer.
- And book at number 4 is obviously for the developers which aims the ultra tech persons.

The books are totally free and its completely legal to download and use them for free. The visitors are requested to aware us if any of the download link provided above is not working.

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UltraFileSearch is a free alternative to windows file search. With thousands of files in Windows the windows search utility is not sometimes helpful to search the exact file you are looking for. In latest versions of windows such as Windows 7 and even in Windows 8, the search option is not that strong specially when you have to search a file located deep into folders. The main drawback of windows search is that some of the files in folders are need to be searched after entering into specific folder.

On the other hand UltraFileSearch is a very very power full utility which searches the files and folder in Windows by help of both name and the path. Ultra file search can find your Files, Folders and Text quickly from your Hard Drives, Flash Drives, Local network, DVD and CD Rom. UltraFileSearch it a very useful utility for those who have large number of files and knows their files by name. It is also capable of sorting the files you have searched according to their attributes and properties in addition also provides the facility to "Open" and "Open containing folder" for the file.

KEY BENEFITS

The software has interface very similar to windows which also supports Windows Explorer functionality like Icons, Context menus e.t.c. The searched files can be exported in many formats including Plain and Tabbed Text, HTML, XML e..t.c. 

The best thing about Ultra file search is that it doesn't uses any extra resource in windows and don't run in background thus not putting any extra load on your processor. The software is just of 2 MB and thus require almost negligible space of your computer.

AVAILABILTY

UltraFileSearch is available in both Standard (paid) and Lite (free) version.

Download Free (Lite) version from the button below or you can go to the official page of UltraFileSearch by clicking here.



The software is supported on all version of windows including:
Windows XP, Windows 7, Vista, Windows 8 Windows Server Editions. (On both 32 and 64 bit versions)

Standard version is the paid version which supports some extra features such as :
Ability to calculate the Size of Folders.

- You can assign Mnemonics name to the Multi color.
- Defining the folders to exclude from Search.
- More filters to search the folders.
- Choosing the match type for the attributes to search.
- Web page Links (HTML), XML Document, Comma Separated Values (CSV).

HOW TO USE

Just download the free version by clicking the button above or by clicking here.

Extract the files into a folder and double Click on file UltraFileSearch.exe
The Installation will take a few seconds and you are ready to use the software.

Just type the file name into the given searchbox and if you are sure of the drive of the file, you can assign the drive to be searched in Starting Folder section.
Activate the search filters by mark on them, these will help you to narrow your results.

The three tabs above in the software are the three modes (Files and Folders, Text Containing & Date and Size) in which the software searches the files. Here is the second mode in which you need to enter the words which are contained into the files you need to search.

Searches for containing text are really great for TXT, PDF, DOCX, and other text-based file formats. UltraFileSearch Lite supports matching words or phrases, case sensitivity, and allows you to include or exclude certain file types.

If you have made changes into a file recently and you have large number of same type files then the third mode of searching with Date and Size is very help full. All the filters and the modes simple searches the files but they narrow down the results and show you the accurate files you need.

MAIN FEATURES

- The software has not any Backgroung indexing thus saves your processor.
- User interface very exactly similar to windows thus easy to use.
- Can search files by not only name but also by the text inside them.
- Large numbers of filters provided like Date, Size, Hidden e.t.c to narrow your results and get accurate one.
- Multi select support to perform Cut, copy, & paste functions.
- Results can be exported in wide range of formats.
- Wildcards - a amazing searching algorithm in Software.

The software has got a numerous numerous of awards (to see all the awards click here) and is one of the highly rated and recommended software for windows. The software is incredibly light and helps to enhance your file searching experience in windows. Thus from us it is a must download software and should be installed asap.

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