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Facebook’s new tool lets you translate post to any language you want

July 4, 2016 by Satyapriya

Facebook which has been one of the major social networking sites and is being used by a lot of users everyday all over the world. It gives us the opportunity to post and share our feelings, thoughts with our friends. Until now it allows its users to post in various different languages. But now it has moved a step ahead and with its new tool it is going bring a great feature available to its users that allows them to translate their post into any language they want and share with their friends.

Facebook has made this step to make it available to its global audience and help them distribute their posts in any language that they want. According to Facebook, about 50 percent of its users are Non-English speaking people and to help them get over the most annoying communication problem over their posts with their friends Facebook had made this step. It had developed its own tool that helps people in translating the post text.

This feature which is already available in the Facebook pages is now being introduced to individual users for their timeline. Using the simple method of machine learning, this tool reads the entire text in your post and then translates it entirely into the other language that you want.

It does not show up all the text to every user, instead it shows the translated language text that you have set up to all those people in Facebook who have their default language as the same language that you have translated.

As said earlier Facebook is one among the most popular social networking sites and in fact it occupies the first place and this quality of updating itself to the latest growing trends all the time is what has kept it in the top.

Best file explorer apps for your android device

July 3, 2016 by Satyapriya

Many of the android devices these days come with an inbuilt file explorer app to view and manage files, still there are many great apps that are available for free download on the Google Playstore which offer great functionality that you must try.

So here I provide you a list of some best file explorer apps for your android device.

X-plore File Manager:

This file explorer may have some sort of an old fashioned look like the one from the old 1990s windows programs. But it has a great functional features which proves it through the 88000 five star ratings. It puts functionality as its main thing instead of trying to fancily decorating the app. The nice thing with this app is that you can easily do copy and paste operations not only within the various folders in your device, but also between the internal and external storages. It explorers files of various file formats like FTP, SMB, RAR, 7zip and many others.

AndroXplorer File Manager:

This application offers you access to your device folders, which include internal storage, external storage, your apps, your servers, and your system. It also provides you with a recycle bin. This app provides some exclusive features like multiple browsing, favourite folders, shortcuts, thumbnails and all.

FX File Explorer:

It beats AndroXplorer and X-plore by the way of its looks and design, but it cannot beat those apps it terms of the features it offer. It’s a great option for those people who don’t want any complexity and just need a simple looking and working file explorer.

Ol File Manager:

This is the only open source option in our list here. It gives you all those typical file manager features which include browsing through the various folders of the device including internal storage and external storage, creating, renaming, copying, moving and deleting files. This app also acts as an extension to many of your other services on your device.

Astro File Manager:

It is designed with the main intuition of providing easy management of pictures, videos, audios and files. Its interface is very clear and it is very easy to navigate between the various folders within your device.

Total Commander:

This has many other navigation features available in it apart from the regular cut, copy paste. They include bookmarks, file packaging, and the ability to add custom button to the toolbar.

Apps that help you fight your smartphone addiction

July 2, 2016 by Satyapriya

Smartphone these days have become a part of our lives. We can’t even imagine our lives without smartphones. Smartphones had entered into our lives in such a way that we are very dependent on them now a days. Many people are even suffering from smartphone addiction. If you are also worried about your smartphone addiction and need to do or ready to do something to get rid of it, then you are at the place as I am here to introduce you some apps from the Google Playstore that help you to control or reduce your smartphone addiction.

Forest:

Are you struggling yourself from keeping yourself away from checking your phone? Then this app will give you a motivation to not to touch your phone. Open the app to plant a tree, and if you wish to grow the tree, you shouldn’t touch your phone for the next 30 minutes. That’s it. Like that you can grow a garden full of trees.

This app is available for your Android, Windows and iOS mobiles and it even has a desktop version where you can control yourself from browsing unwanted websites like Facebook and Skype using this forest chrome extension

Checky:

This app gives you a track about how many times you have checked your phone per day. This app is available in Google Store for android phones and also available for iOS devices. This is a very simple app that only lets you know that how many times you have checked your phone and this data will help you to realize your smartphone addiction and get over it.

Productivity Challenge Timer:

This app works under the Promodora time management technique. Promodora is an ancient technique of time management using regular time intervals based on the idea that frequent intervals can help you improve the productivity. This app also works on the same technique and helps you get over the addiction rather than any other app that you should try it for sure. This app gives you ranking in the end which gives you a motivation to do better the next time.

Freedom:

If none of the above options are helping you get over your smartphone addiction, then you should try this one. It is an application available on iOS, windows and android platforms and lets you to block the distracting websites altogether and thus helping you stay away from your addiction and concentrate on your work.

Anyways overcoming tech addiction isn’t a very easy thing, and instead of trying all these you will not be able to see good results if you don’t have some personal discipline in you.

SanDisk iXpand that expands the memory of your iPhone

July 1, 2016 by Satyapriya

Mobile cases are the on growing trend these days with the smartphone users who show interest in a various variety of cases. Cases until now are only meant for protecting the devices and beautification of the device and give it an attractive look. But now with the recent release of iXpand Memory case by the prominent company SanDisk, the meaning is going to change. The device basically expands the storage of the device via the lightening port. This case is now available in 32 GB, 64 GB, and 126 GB that are priced at $59, $99, $129 respectively. The case is designed with hard plastic outside and soft rubber inside that helps protect your device.

The SanDisk iXpand memory case has a companion app that allows the users to manage and access the content that has been stored in the device. Later on, the app will automatically manage and arrange the content into photos, music, and videos.

The case is a very good option for those who are looking to expand their phone and however the case currently supports only iPhone6 and iPhone 6s. And this case also supports an external battery which the users can buy if they would like to. They can choose a 1900mAh battery which will help them extend the battery life of their device.

But here comes the saddest part that this device is not currently available in India and it doesn’t support other devices as of now. So let us hope to see this product in Indian market very soon and also with the compatibility to many other devices.

Apps that help you to save mobile data in your android device

June 30, 2016 by Satyapriya

As said in my previous article there are various settings in the mobile itself that can help you to save your data and thus help you in saving money. Restricting your background data usage and setting a data limit can somewhat help you save your data.

But if you wish to be smart in saving data then you have various options of apps that you can download from Google Playstore that help you to compress your data.

Onavo Extend:

Once upon a time, this app used to be at the top for data compression and management, but now the developers shave given up on it and it hasn’t had any updates since a very long time. So it can only help you in saving a few megabytes. You can have it a try.

Opera Max:

This app is now the best in its category and can help a lot in compressing and saving your data for various popular apps like YouTube, Netflix and Spotify and many more. It has a very clean and modern interface which helps you to manage the data settings without having to worry about the various settings within your android device.

DataEye:

If you have an eye for fancy looking app, then this app will tickle you. This app is fancier than the Opera Max and has really great features for data saving and management which will help you to save your data. This app updates more regularly. It has the ability to grant data access for a particular app for a limited period of time.

Google Chrome:

Under the settings menu of this app, there is an option called Data Saver. But this will only help you to save data usage within the browser by compressing the websites you visit which is actually a good one that you should try with a very simple setting.

And all the various apps like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat even have options to save data usage within them that you can setup and save the data usage.