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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.

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.

Best android shortcut apps for quick access

June 14, 2016 by Satyapriya

Smartphones help us in getting our daily task done smartly. Shortcuts are something that help you get access to something very quickly. But doing anything general requires you o stop the current task that you are in, but fortunately android developers have come up with something new that helps you to get your things done in a more smart and fast way.

EasyTouch:

You are offered with a group of actions when you tap on the icon of the EasyTouch app on your android phone. EasyTouch android app is available free of cost in the Play Store and you can use it for getting quick access to some of your tasks through icons.

Shorty:

This is one of the most usefully amazing apps that allows you to select up to five tasks of your choice and this app has nothing out of box. The shortcut tasks include pacing a call to any one of your regular contact, sending message to your contact, opening an app, and taking a photo. This app is not available for free.

Floating Toolbox:

This app uses a floating button. When you tap on the icon of this app, instead of opening the menu it shows up the favourite apps that you need in a drop down menu and lets you use them, and then fades out when you are done. The free version of this app available in the PlayStore lacks some features and settings that available on the paid version.

Simple Shortcuts:

Are you feeling irritated with the icons that are filling up your mobile screen and still need them for using. You can select a few of our favourite apps to show up or simply select to show every software that you have installed. This app icon will not disturb or fill your screen but waits at the side of the scree that you have to just slide to have a look at the app.

Assistive Touch 2:

When you are trying to just customizing your phone with the shortcuts just as the way you want, then this app will be the right thing for you. It shrinks the floating button into a lesser and smaller target. You can arrange the icons in various shapes, change the colors and customize it as you want.

Android Instant Apps – run any app without installing them on your phone

May 19, 2016 by computerera

Do you come across with “insufficient storage space” warning while installing any Android app earlier? With the Google’s latest “Instant Apps” technology all those headaches will vanish.

At the I/O 2016 Keynote, Google Announced about Instant Apps concept through which end users can run any apps directly without installing them on their smartphones. It is great news for those who has low storage or for those who wants to test apps and games before installing them on the phone.

Instant Apps feature will support all the existing Android versions from Jelly Bean to Marshmallow. Developers are also no need to write separate code for their apps. They can use the same Android API’s, existing source code and the same project to take benefit from the “Instant apps” feature.

At present Google is working with a limited set of developers for this innovative “Instant apps” feature, later it will expand the concept to the wider range of publishers.

BuzzFeed, HotelsTonight, B&H Photo, Medium, Disney, Zumper are the initial apps that are going to offer “Instant Apps” feature by the end of this year.

So by next year, the feature will be available for a majority of Android apps on Play Store. You can use it from Google Search, SMS, Instant Messenger apps like Whatsapp, etc.; it’s not necessary to visit Google Play Store for this feature.

Best Extensions and apps for your Google Chrome browser

May 15, 2016 by Satyapriya

Chrome has a Web store that has a large amount of extensions and apps that make it work more efficient. I hope and wish that these extensions and apps will help you to improve your web experience.

One Tab:

This is a tab management tool that is available as an extension in Google Chrome Web store that allows you to free up about 95% of memory which will help your browser to speed up. All your tabs will be converted into a single with the links of the tabs once you click on the one tab icon which will be available on the top right of the browser once add the extension.

Google Dictionary:

This dictionary extension by Google is a must have as it will help you to instantly know the meaning of the word on any website or anywhere on the web by just double clicking on the word. This extension is the most useful and will help you to know the meaning of the word without leaving the webpage.

Lyrics for Google Chrome:

This extension will help you to have the lyrics displayed while you stream r listen to the music online from music sites like YouTube, Spotify and Gaana. Isn’t it cool to get the lyrics of the songs that you listen online without having to search for them separately.

Evernote Web Clipper:

This official Evernote extension will change the way you use the web definitely. This allows you save the information on the web directly from the web using Evernote web clipper and access the information at a later time across various devices. You can save the webpages as bookmark, screenshots and articles.

Awesome Screenshot:

This is one of the best extensions that Google chrome offers. This extension allows you to take the best screenshot without using any kind of additional softwares or applications and also give various editing options and annotations that you can make to that screenshot and share them with your friends.

Grammarly Lite:

This Chrome web extension corrects your spellings, grammar and punctuation mistakes while you write online. It acts like your English teacher and corrects you when you are wrong.

Gmail Offline:

This is a must have extension for all those who use mail a lot. It allows you to read and respond to the mails without internet access. The queued actions will be processed once the internet reconnects.

Hover Zoom:

This app allows you to quickly view the thumbnails of the images in full size without having to open them in the new web page. When you add this extension in your chrome, then you will able to view the images in large zoomed size without having to load them in the new page.

Chrome to Phone:

If you are an android phone user, then you can use this extension which lets you to send the web links directly from your browser to your phone. You need install Chrome to phone android app where you can view the links send from your browser.

BugMeNot:

This extension helps you to bypass any compulsory web registration in some websites while you surf through the internet.