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Very often viruses enter our system through attachments received in emails. Most of the time, if you have a strong, paid anti-virus tool installed, it will be prevented from opening and spreading. However, each anti-virus tool has its own limitations – what is caught by one anti-virus tool may escape notice of another anti-virus tool.

This is where Jotti comes in useful. It checks and scans each file that you send it, against multiple anti-virus tools. Hence there are more chances of any malware or virus getting detected. So, as soon as you send it to Jotti, the file will be scanned by E-scan, Avast, F-Secure, Kaspersky, BitDefender, Fortinet and multiple other tools. The result is that you have added protection against viruses in any of the files which you submit for scanning.

Jotti is a free tool and extremely useful when you are getting attachments from multiple sources and need to be extra careful before opening them.

https://virusscan.jotti.org/

QuickLook

QuickWhenever we are in the Windows File Manager, we have an option to see the Preview of our files in the right pane. This is a very useful feature of Windows, but extremely slow at times. More so if you are previewing multiple file formats in quick succession.

QuickLook is a simple app that makes things zippier. Just go to the Microsoft Store and look for the QuickLook App, download it and install it. After installation, when you go to the Windows File Manager and need to preview any file, just press the space bar and you will immediately get a preview of the file you are on! It is that simple.

It also supports the following actions as indicated:

Spacebar: Preview / Close Preview

Esc: Close Preview

Enter: Run & Close Preview

Ctrl+Mouse Wheel: Zoom Images/Documents

Mouse Wheel: Adjust Volume

Try it, and get a quick preview experience.

Housing Co-op Master

This is a simple app made for co-operative housing societies.

It has the provisions of law for co-operative housing societies listed serially. You will find the relevant provisions, circulars and case laws in some cases. This could provide a quick reference point for looking up various provisions right from your phone.

There are also videos on various topics like Deemed Conveyance – Importance, Documents required, etc.

It is a work in progress and many more topics and courses will be introduced from time to time. Some will remain free and some will have to be paid for.

For Housing Co-operative Societies, this could grow to become a valuable resource for all their formation, running and administrative needs.

Android: https://bit.ly/40ter2I

Grain.com

Grain is an AI-powered meeting recording for all teams. It automates note-taking, record-keeping, and insight capture from every conversation online. It can connect to Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and virtually any other online platform.

Grain allows you to focus on the conversation and let Grain AI capture, analyze and synthesize your meetings. You will get an accurate summary that allows you to easily recall, clip and share key moments.

Just allow Grain to join your meeting as a participant. (For transparency, it is notified to all collaborators that Grain is recording the meeting.) Once in, Grain will record and transcribe minute by minute, who said what and make it available to you in text format. Hence your entire meeting will be transcribed in text format and you could quickly search through the text to figure out who said what, when! Besides, it will summarize the key statements made in the meeting in a couple of neat paras, which will in turn point to the actual timeline of the recording.

Extremely useful if you have missed part of the meeting, joined a meeting late and even for creating minutes of the meeting later on. Or, you could just save the text as is, as a record of the meeting.

You can start with 50 meetings free, and once you are addicted and discover the power of the system, you will happily pay a small price for the same, to get the full benefits!

www.grain.com

AIS for Income Tax

The Income Tax Department has launched a Mobile app for Tax Payers to view their individual Annual Information Statement (AIS). As you may be aware, the AIS presents to you TDS/TCS information, SFT information, Payment of Taxes, Demand and Refund & Other information. All this at the tip of your fingers.

The AIS has been available, for a while, from the normal Income Tax Website (incometax.gov.in) accessible after several clicks. The AIS app gets you all this information on your mobile, instantaneously. After you install the app, you need to verify your email and mobile no.  (as per your profile registered with the Department) with OTP and can set 4 digit PIN. You can then track your taxes paid, Refunds Due, TDS and more, on the app. All this information is available for your current Financial Year and also for the previous couple of years

It is extremely simple to use and very fast for easy access your information. Just use it once to see the power of the system – Download AIS Now.

Android: https://bit.ly/3TS0Lff

PrintFriendly.com

PrintMany a times we visit a webpage which we would like to print and preserve for future reference. When we try to print any webpage, you will notice that we get a lot of junk, advertisements and distortions. To avoid getting a jumbled page in print, just head to printfriendly.com

Once you are on that website, you can just paste the URL of the webpage that you wish to print, and it will present a Print Preview for you. You can make some more edits / deletes to the webpage as per your requirements and then send it to print. It is that simple.

If you are using Chrome, they also have a Chrome Extension, which does the same thing for the page you are on. This makes the whole process faster, better and easier – there is no need to copy and paste.

The best part of this is that there is no registration, no login and no storage of your webpages on their servers. There is a paid, pro version, but most of the stuff that you need, is already there in the free version.

Go ahead, make your web pages Print Friendly, with PrintFriendly.com

I Don’t Care About Cookies

Whenever we visit a new website, owing to increasing privacy concerns, the website asks us whether we would like to allow cookies. Some websites will not even take No for an answer – they will insist that you allow cookies, before they allow you to enter. This repeated questioning can get irritating. Most of the time, we allow cookies and move forward.

I don’t care about Cookies is an extension which allows you to skip this question for all sites. Just install this extension and it will accept cookies on all websites that you visit. No more clicking Allow Cookies again and again on all the websites you visit!

Save time and make your web surfing super smooth!

Amazon Price Tracker – Keepa and BuyHatke

If you are a regular shopper on Amazon, it may be a good idea to track price changes for any product you desire. Just install this extension on your Chrome browser and whenever you visit Amazon, select a product and scroll down a bit, you will be able to see the price history of that product. It also indicates price drops for lightning deals and  for prime members. This will help you identify the lowest price of a product and when it occurred and if you are able to see the trend, you may even be able to grab it at the lowest price!

If you shop on amazon.com, there are many more options available – you may visit their website http://www.keepa.com to see the variety of ways in which you can track products and their prices.

And, if you shop regularly on Flipkart, Myntra and other shopping sites, you may like to look at Buyhatke – Price tracker & Price history. This extension works similarly and is very useful for price tracking and price history.

Go ahead, save some money and buy wisely!

Whatsapp (WA) Web Plus Extension

We have all got used to using Whatsapp Web on our computers – it is such a breeze to handle! Whatsapp web plus extension for Chrome enhances the utility of Whatsapp Web dramatically.

Once installed and running, the WA Web Plus Extension allows you to add more tools and options for Whatsapp Web for more privacy and enhanced reliability. It brings all the missing features of Whatsapp Web for personal and business use.

When you are on Whatsapp Web, just click on the WA Web Plus Extension and you will find a host of options – you can blur recent messages, blur contact names and photos, play audio messages without intimating the sender, disable read receipts, hide online status and much more. You can even password protect the app so that no one can access your Whatsapp web. Many other options for customization like pin unread messages to top, highlight online contacts, etc. are available for easy access.

Most of the options are free while some are available for a small subscription fee.

A very useful tool for hardcore, daily users of Whatsapp Web!

Checker Plus for Google Calendar

If you use Gmail and Google Calendar, you would be doing a lot of tab-jumping from Gmail to Google Calendar, especially when you are responding to emails. Even otherwise, when you are online and doing some intensive work, jumping to your calendar from time to time can be quite a chore.

The Chrome extension – Checker Plus for Google Calendar is a great tool to have the calendar at your fingertips. The extension sits neatly on your Chrome Extension panel and you can pop it up any time to get a quick view of your Calendar. It also lets you view upcoming events, get meeting notifications and reminders, and snooze events – all without opening the Google Calendar page. Convenience at the  click of a button!

A very nifty tool to avoid multiple clicks on the Calendar Tab daily.