Google Bard

Google Bard is Google’s answer to ChatGPT and is available at https://bard.google.com/  Just go to this website and ask anything you want. The difference between Bard and ChatGPT is that Bard has current access to the internet unlike ChatGPT which is relatively dated. So, if you ask Bard which is the best Hybrid Car in India today – you will get the current information, whereas ChatGPT will be dated, upto September 2021 in most cases.

Besides, if you ask Bard to recommend the best Chinese restaurants nearby, Google Bard will excel with relevant and current recommendations.

Also, most of the text editing and transformation features are all available at Google Bard for free.

Try it out and enjoy the benefits of AI for free!

https://bard.google.com/

Jitter.video

If you work with videos and/or animations, this is THE tool for you – Jitter.video. Their motto is just to make Motion Design Simple. Jitter enables creators and teams to easily design stunning animated content and interfaces, so that they can focus on their content and not on the animation process. You can animate your content in seconds – get started easily, iterate fast and produce better content. All this with full creative controls to customize anything, as you wish. You can even collaborate with your team to explore your ideas together and get your work approved faster. And, all this, from the comfort of your browser.

Of course, you don’t ever have to start from scratch – you have thousands of ready templates to start with, giving you full control with animation  presets. And once you are done, you can export 4K video, GIF and Lottie – giving a professional touch to your creations.

You can explore Jitter for free and if you like it, subscribe to the service for a nominal monthly price.

https://jitter.video/

PDF24 Tools

PDF is now a very common file format in use across the world especially when you have to share files over multiple platforms. So many elegant tools exist to help you manage PDF files, some of which are paid and some are free. PDF24 makes PDF Tools as simple and as fast as possible. All tools can be used intuitively which makes them save time and money. And, honestly, there is hardly anything in the PDF arena that you cannot do with PDF24.

You can create, edit, annotate, split or merge PDF files. Add or remove pages to PDF, sort pages, run Optical Character Recognition (OCR) add Watermarks and much more.

You can choose to work online (all file transfers to and fro are encrypted and fully safe) or you can decide to download the app on your computer and run it offline – the files never leave your computer. You can use PDF24 on Windows, Mac, Linux or even a smartphone.

The best part is that PDF24 is free. There are no limits on file size or the number of files you wish to work on.

So go ahead and select the tool of your choice and enjoy using PDFs the way you really wanted to!

https://tools.pdf24.org/

Send Anywhere (File Transfer)

This is a simple app to transfer files wirelessly. It is available on all major platforms. You can transfer files in real time using a 6-digit key. You can also share files through a link, with multiple people or even send to your favourites without any code!

If you wish to send large files by email, you can easily attach them by using the Chrome Extension, Outlook Add-ins or Anywhere’s website.

The free version allows you to send files from their website upto 10GB per transaction. Paid versions can allow you to send files upto 500GB at a time!

A very useful tool to transfer files hassle-free over multiple devices / platforms.

https://send-anywhere.com/

COOKmate

COOKmate is one of the best personalized cookbook apps on mobile. It lets you create your own digital cookbook by building your own database by gathering recipes on the web and importing them.

You can search for recipes online and import them into COOKmate. If you already have a cookbook or magazine, you can just scan your favourite recipes and import them into your digital cookbook.

And if you feel like sharing your favourite recipes, invite your family / friends to join COOKmate and share them. You can even share your recipes on Facebook or by email or SMS.

You can also create shopping lists of ingredients from your recipes, scale the ingredients automatically and use the speech feature to read recipes, while cooking!

A must have for the cooking enthusiast!

Android : https://rebrand.ly/12eg9j6

6000 thoughts – AI Life Coach

This is a life coach app which helps you to organize your multiple thoughts into coherent data which you can use to take decisions. Sometimes, when you need a friend, philosopher, and guide, simply pick up the app and speak out your thoughts or type them in raw, unstructured form. You will be coached by the inbuilt AI in the app, with journaling prompts and guided through key takeaways and insights. It instantly summarizes, identifies cause and effect and recommends tools and frameworks to help you become stronger in your mental health and personal growth journey.

Use it positively to manage your negative self-talk and use personal affirmations to drive lasting change.

It comes with a full-featured analytics view where you can even see what is creating negative chatter in your mind, your trends and how centered you are.

Must try for reflection and self-improvement.

Android : https://rebrand.ly/b3zelki

Aerodocs – Document Manager

Revolutionize the way you manage your documents! Aerodocs allows you to easily access important documents anytime, anywhere. No cluttered folders with the efficient file organization in this new document manager.

It has advanced Search Options to search by name, tags, fields and content to quickly find your documents. All documents are stored safely in encrypted form, so that no other app can find them. A high speed document scanner is built-in which allows you to quickly scan multiple pages at once.

Cloud integration helps you sync documents to cloud storage for backup, easy access and sharing. It also has a Notes and To-Do list feature to create sticky notes with multi-level lists.

It is free and relatively new, so there may be a few bugs, but this is a great app, especially if you use a lot of documents.

Android : https://rebrand.ly/x73jqvu

Sesame

Sesame is a universal Search tool for Android. It integrates with your existing Launcher, learns from you and makes hundreds of personal shortcuts. With Sesame Universal Search, anything on your phone is just 2 taps away from you.

It can also search device files and has powerful tools to make your own shortcuts. It comes with pre-loaded shortcuts including Contacts with one-touch call, text or email, 19 useful settings, Google shortcuts and many more.

Best of all, it has an unlimited free trial and if you like the app, they remind you to pay for it, as per your capacity and level of appreciation!

Android : https://bit.ly/3Cfzlb7

Alarmy –  Alarm Clock & SleepSound

There are so many types of Alarm Apps, each one with a different twist. Alarmy is one more added to the list. It may just help you change your life!

Alarmy is more than an alarm clock –

Step 1 – Set your alarm as usual

Step 2 – The alarm goes off – from a gentle wake up tone to a vibrant one, you can choose an alarm bell of your choice. You can even set the music of your choice as an alarm tone.

Step 3 – Dismiss the alarm with missions – you can choose upto 3 missions – the mission could be solving a math problem, shaking the phone 999 times, play a memory game, yoga, exercise, or a combination of many others available.

The alarm will switch off on completion of your tasks!

A simple, fun app which ensures that you wake up fully on completion of your pre-defined tasks! It is free for basic tasks and has many more interesting ones with the paid version. Must try!

Android : https://bit.ly/3CaKFoH    iOS : https://apple.co/3NaLwMG

Import Data in Excel from PDF or Image

This simple trick allows you to import data from pdf files which are in tabular format. When you are in Excel, just go to the Data tab and click on the first option, Get Data, From File, From PDF. Then choose the PDF file from which you wish to import the data and it is imported into Excel instantly!  Just remember that you may have to do a bit of cleaning up if the original PDF file is not properly formatted, but it saves a lot of time by not having to input the data manually.

If you are using Microsoft Office on your Android phone (now re-christened as Microsoft 365) go to the Apps tab in your App, tap on Scan and then on Image to table. This will allow you to take a photo of your table from a book or magazine, and directly create an excel sheet for it.

Pretty cool, huh?