Tag: technology

App (update) of the week: ‘FrndiNeed’

An app that brings friends together in real time (be it for fun or in emergency situations) just got better! If you are looking for promotional offers and value deals at the best cafes, salons and spas near you, you cannot miss out on this week’s star app (update) ‘FrndiNeed’. The new update, ‘Discover’ helps you locate the closest cafes, salons and spas, offering the most incredible deals. Here is everything you need to know to be in the know!

The multi-purpose app that intends to make everyday travel smoother, safer and economical for its users just got better with the new update called ‘Discover’. With its easy-to-use interface, the app identifies your current location and intimates you about the best deals at cafes, salons and spas in your vicinity.

Select the service you want, click on its icon and voila! You have access to all possible deals and discounts around. Spend less and enjoy more with FrndiNeed!

To know more about ‘FrndiNeed’ click here

April 7, 2015
App of the week – 4 Minute Workout: Beach Bikini Body

Getting in shape just got easier with this all-new fitness app. Get the 4 Minute Workout: Beach Bikini Body on your iOS devices and start getting into shape for the summer! Tone those muscles or shed a few pounds to get that perfectly-sculpted and very, very enviable bikini body.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4DzuC8zUKo

This app offers a collection of videos that act as your personal trainer, making the road to a fitter you way easier. Each video shows you how to perform different workouts for maximum results in very short spans of time.

You can also get personalised instructions and detailed muscle movements to ensure you do each exercise the right way. Choose from 13 Tabata interval training exercises by tapping the listing column and add these to your routine.

The app also offers a free calendar and a weight tracker for your workout log. You can also set a workout reminder to make sure you don’t miss a day of your full body workout. Follow this routine and after two weeks, and see the difference for yourself!

Can’t wait? Download this app HERE for your iOS devices.

March 31, 2015
App of the week: ‘Hopper’ lets you find the best time to fly

If you love to travel and are always on a look out for reasonable deals then you cannot afford to miss our app of the week on your phone. ‘Hopper’ constantly tracks air fares and analyses how the prices move to help you pick the best rates. Here’s everything you need to know about the app.

This free app constantly monitors upward and downward movements in air fares and helps you buy your tickets at the cheapest predicted price. All you need to do is download ‘Hopper’ on your phone and put in your travel details. By means of a calendar, the app will indicate the cheapest and most expensive time to buy your tickets. It’s ‘Price Prediction’ tool analyses the prices in real-time and lets you know the right time to plan your travel.

‘Hopper’ also has a ‘Watch This Trip’ feature that alerts you the instant the best fare is available for your travel dates via a push notification. Once you’ve booked your tickets, you can just click on ‘Stop Watching Trip’ to disable the alerts.

This app is only available for Apple devices as of now.

Download this app here

Banner image, featured images and in-post images sourced from http://www.hopper.com/

March 3, 2015
App of the week: FlashChat

You can now chat freely with anyone on the same Wi-Fi network by downloading FlashChat on your smatrphones. This app allows you to chat using a username of your choice anonymously with people connected through the same Wi-Fi network within a radius of one kilometer. What’s more, this messages sent through this app disappear after some time so you don’t have to bother cleaning up your conversations. Take a look at how this app works

FlashChat allows you to chat with your classmates, co-workers, family or anyone who is connected through the same Wi-Fi within a radius of one kilometre. The messages are instant and you do not have to add people through friend requests.

You can chat in groups or send messages privately with people sharing the same Wi-Fi network. The unique feature of this app is that your messages will disappear, even from the server, a short time after you leave the Wi-Fi network so you don’t have to worry about deleting your personal conversations.

This app is available on both android and iOS devices.

Download this app for Apple devices here

And for Android devices here

February 24, 2015
App of the week: Crossy Road

Get your hands on the most addictive game doing the rounds right now, Crossy Road. Released only two months ago, it has already been anointed as one of the most unputdownable by gaming junkies. With an adorable chicken as the mascot, swiping safely across roads full of moving traffic, rivers with floating logs and crocodiles was never so much fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRrTGhccsTI

If you thought the ever-famous game of 2013 ‘Flappy Bird’ was addictive, try ‘Crossy Road’. It has been compared time and again to the classic 80’s arcade game ‘Frogger’, only more exciting and challenging.

Inspired by the joke ‘Why did the chicken cross the road?’ Crossy Road requires you to be extremely agile and alert and you can’t linger anywhere for too long. But what seals the deal is the social component. You’re basically competing against your Game Center leaderboard friends in terms of distance covered.

Enabling its players to choose from a wide array of characters including Bunnies, Cats, Monsters, Unicorns and many more, the game unfolds different levels as you play along collecting coins.

The game is available for download on Apple and Android platforms.

February 10, 2015
App of the week: Glympse

Waiting for your friends at a restaurant? Send them a ‘Glympse’ to let them know that you’ve reached or just request a ‘Glympse’ from somebody who is always running late! ‘Glympse’ makes life easy by letting its users share their location in real time with the people they trust. It also lets you create groups with friends and family to make planning your get-togethers easy. Here’s everything you need to know about this app.

Download ‘Glympse’ on your smartphone and allow it to access your location. Click on ‘Send Glympse’ to let your friends and family know where you are. Unlike other location-sharing apps, ‘Glympse’ lets your friends track your location for a chosen period of time starting from a second to four hours. So say you’re picking up a friend from a bus station and she sends you a ‘Glympse’, you can track where the bus is and pick her up just when she is about to get off.

The best feature of this app is that you can share your location by means of other social media apps like Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp and more. So the recipient of the ‘Glympse’ doesn’t necessarily need the same app on his or her phone to track where you are. It also lets you know if your friends viewed your ‘Glympse’ or when they are tracking you.

You can download this app through the following links;

Google play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glympse.android.glympse&hl=en

Apple app store: https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/glympse-share-gps-location/id330316698?mt=8

Windows phones: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/store/app/glympse/ec418e52-b788-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8

February 3, 2015
All you need to know about the new Snapchat 9.0.1

Here’s what all you can do with the new Snapchat 9.0.1. Discover the magic of the new features while you Snap along with you friends. Watch to find out!

January 28, 2015
5 Interesting word game apps for your friends & family!

If you love stimulation with interesting word games on your smart phone, make sure each one out of these five is off your list! Take a look at the five most engaging brain ticklers available for download on your smartphones, iPads and Tablets:

Top 5 Word Game Apps

1. Ruzzle – Developed by the Swedish gaming company MAG Interactive, Ruzzle enables its players to challenge an opponent chosen either randomly or from the players’ friend lists. Based on the structure of a 4×4 grid of letters, this game involves forming as many words as possible with the sixteen letters in the grid within two minutes.

2. QuizUp – Developed by Iceland-based Plain Vanilla Games, QuizUp is yet another extremely addictive game that allows you to challenge an opponent in a timed quiz. With a fan base of over 20 million, this app covers a wide array of topics including scrambled words.

3. Letterpress – A close competitor of Ruzzle is Letterpress. It is a grid-based game that allows players to find words, steal tiles and even colour the board while playing. Form words using letter pieces anywhere on the game board and challenge your friends to see who gains the maximum score!

4. Word Search Colorful – This colorful and vibrant app will definitely remind you of the good ol’ days when letter grids used to appear in newspapers. That’s right! The word search game is all about finding hidden words amongst scattered letters and forming a colorful palette with your thumbs.

5. What’s the Word – As the name suggests, this super addictive game shows its users four pictures that have one word in common between them and needless to say, the user has to guess the word. To make it simpler for all the players, the game also displays the letter count of the word that needs to be guessed!

January 7, 2015
App of the week: Timehop

The year is coming to an end and it’s time to reflect on the memories and recollect the events that made your journey wonderful. Since your social media accounts keep all your cherished moments intact, they serve as the best way to look back. Get our app of the week – Timehop app on your phone and get your throwback moments every day. Find out how;

The Timehop app gives you throwback moments every day. It links your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr and Facebook accounts and tells you what you were doing on a particular date a year ago or even two or three years ago.

Download the Timehop app on your phone and put in all the details of your social media accounts on various platforms and you’ll get a notification every day. Timehop to the past and share the most fun memories from the year gone by with your friends and family.

Timehop app is available on both Android and Apple devices. Please use the following links to download this app.

App Store by iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/timehop/id569077959?mt=8

Android Apps on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.timehop&hl=en

December 30, 2014
App of the week: Guidecentral

Make your Christmas merry using Guidecentral. With DIY guides on subjects like beauty, crafts, food & drinks and home decorations, this app covers the entire gamut of all things yuletide. Besides getting access to ready-made tutorials, you can also make and submit your own guides and earn rewards. Find out all about the app here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WizsnX6-07Y

This Christmas, let every element around you exude the merry spirit with the festive guides of the Guidecentral app on your phone. From Mince Christmas pies to Santa nail art, here’s your access to a whole world of cool and quirky Christmas creations! The elaborate guides on this app provide step-by-step instructions along with the details of supplies required for the successful accomplishment of the tutorials.

Not just that, you can submit your own guides and tutorials and earn rewards. Learn new skills in fun and visual ways in a variety of topics ranging from fashion and beauty, homemade recipes, crafts, technology and more with Guidecentral on your phone.

Download this app for apple devices: https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/guidecentral-diy-tutorials/id566332826?mt=8

Android devices: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Guidecentral&hl=en

All picutres Guidecentral application’s screenshots and it’s website.

December 16, 2014
Four apps that helped us get through 2014

The rise of mobile applications reached new heights in 2014. From games, online dating to pictures, the year 2014 was all about apps that made your life easy. With everyone chanting the single-touch mantra apps took precedence over even programs on laptops. Not just simplifying routine work like paying bills and easy banking, some mobile apps just helped us get through life because of the addictive distractions they offer. Here’s the lowdown;

Quiz up

Plain Vanilla Games’ ‘QuizUp’ was launched in November 2013 for iOS devices and in March 2014 for Android devices. This addictive game lets users answer multiple choice questions of various topics related to almost everything under the sun; from your favourite TV shows to general math. You can choose to play against random players or battle with your friends and family. The app generated a user base of over 20 million in 2014 and kept us glued to our phones.

Snapchat

Every time you spot a person taking a selfie in a public place, you know they are snappin-a-chat away. Snapchat made regular text messaging passé in 2014. With growing popularity, Snapchat started including videos, storyboards, fests and event promotions from across the world. With over an estimated 100 million monthly active users, Snapchat made it to our list of apps that kept us happy throughout 2014.

Facebook Messenger

When Facebook forced that Facebook messenger on us, everyone was anything but happy. Breaking away from the routine and getting a separate app just for messages wasn’t easy. However, soon the messenger turned into a fully equipped messaging service with text and voice. Garnering almost 500 million users the Facebook Messenger app provided another east to use communication tool.

Tinder

If anyone used GPS technology right it was the developers of Tinder. Tinder lets you meet people from around you and you get to choose them based on their appearances (the single point of criticism for the app). The phenomenal matchmaking app has close to 10 million active users daily and has helped a lot of people find friends, hook-ups and sometimes even S.O.’s

Quizup picture sourced from www.quickmeme.com

All gifs sourced from www.giphy.com

December 10, 2014
App of the week: Mixology

A digital cocktail recipe guide is all you need to add to the festivities during this season of parties and barbecues. Get ‘Mixology’ on your Apple and Android devices and impress your guests with these delicious cocktails.

Get the ‘Mixology’ app on your phone and find recipes to almost every cocktail right in your pocket. If you don’t understand the ingredients mentioned in the recipe, just click on the ingredient and get all the deets.

Not only does this app provide you with recipes of traditional and cool, new cocktails; it can also help you if you have limited ingredients in your bar. Just provide the details of the ingredients you already have and it’ll suggest recipes of cocktails that you can easily whip up with what’s available.

This comprehensive app also provides information about bartending tips and tricks, technical bar-related terminology and details about the usage of different types of glassware with your drinks. Download this app on your Apple and Android devices and be ready to charm your guests.

Download the app for your devices here:
Apple devices – https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mixology-drink-cocktail-recipes/id320926534?mt=8
Android devices – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digitaloutcrop.mixology&hl=en

December 9, 2014
App of the week: Repost for Instagram

Have you seen all those pictures on your Instagram feed that have a watermark indicating another username? If you’re wondering how your friends are doing that then this post is for you.

If you want to share something interesting you spotted on your Instagram feed with your insta-followers then ‘Repost for Instagram’ is your app. Download the ‘Repost for Instagram’ on your phone, check your insta feed through it, find a post you like and click on repost. Voila, you’re done!

This app is available across iOS and Android platforms. Find links here;

Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.redcactus.repost&hl=en

Apple iOS https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/repost-for-instagram/id570315854?mt=8

December 2, 2014
App of the week: FreeMusic+

Transferring music to your Apple phones can be a hectic process unless you’re connected to your iTunes around the clock. Take a look at the FreeMusic+ app that’s here to make your life easier!

Here’s some good news for all the Apple users out there. You can now download free music on your apple phones without having to go through the hassle of connecting to iTunes!

Download FreeMusic+ an app that allows you to temporarily save music on to your phones’ cache memory and lets you listen to your favourite songs on the go!

You can also keep yourself updated with the trending music across genres and add them to your playlist as you scroll along.

Download the app here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-music-plus-mp3-music/id889596228?mt=8

November 25, 2014
App of the week: Cropic

Tired of cropping your original pictures to fit Instagram dimensions? You don’t need to do that anymore! Post your entire picture from your picture gallery on Instagram using Cropic. Here’s how it works.

For all you Insta-lovers who are sick of cropping their original pictures, here’s a fix. Get the Cropic app on your iPhone and share the complete picture of your special moments.Through this app you can crop, scale, rotate and flip your pictures vertically and horizontally without losing any part of it to fit the Instagram dimensions.

You can turn your pictures into a collage or add colourful borders and various patterns to it.It also comes with added filters to make your pictures look more appealing. Share your pictures with your friends and family or save them on your phone with Cropic.

You can download the app here – https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/cropic-post-entire-photos/id662802077?mt=8

November 18, 2014