Author: yazdi

How I work – 7 – EMF Hazards Detector


These days, one is exposed to so much radiation – the TV, Speakers, Cellphone towers, your Microwave Oven and even your cordless telephone emits radiation. Most of it is safe. But what if it is not ?
You can buy a Gauss meter to measure the accurate value. However, your smart phone can also be converted as a simple Gauss meter. Use your Android Smartphone to detect such hazards emanating from ElectroMagnetic Fields (EMF) with the EMF Hazards Detector.
This application will sound the alarm once an abnormal EMF field is detected. The screen color will also turn from healthy green to danger red. So scan your home and office now and find your level of exposure. Proceed to Google Play and download this light and simple to use app.


How I work – 6 – WhatsApp


If you are a smartphone user for a minimum of 6 months, you would certainly have been hooked on to WhatsApp. WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. It is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia and yes, those phones can all message each other! Because WhatsApp Messenger uses the same internet data plan that you use for email and web browsing, there is no cost to message and stay in touch with your friends.
In addition to basic messaging WhatsApp users can create groups, send each other unlimited images, video and audio media messages.
So, what are you waiting for ? Just proceed to www.WhatsApp.com and enter the world of cost-free, multi-media, group messaging right away ! Or simply download the App from the respective App Store.

How I work – 5 – Conjure

How I work – 5 – Conjure

Conjure is the fastest, smartest launcher for Android. Use it to open apps, make calls, toggle wifi, adjust volume, and much more. Search results are prioritized according to use so your favorite apps and contacts are always a keystroke away. Start typing and watch the magic happen.

I have more than 100 apps on my phone and it is quite a bother to find the right one, especially when you are in a hurry. Just start conjure and find your apps by name. It’s that simple. You can find contacts by name or number. Call, view, or sms contacts in one touch. You can even adjust Android’s volume or toggle wifi, bluetooth, airplane mode, silent mode, and vibrate mode.


If you want to type less and search with ease on your Android smartphone to reach your goals faster, try Conjure and write to me and share your experiences.

How I work – 3 – Irfanview

How I work – 3 – Irfanview

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREE graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.  Extremely light and easy to instal (www.irfanview.net) and does not interfere with any other software.

It is designed to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. Apart from viewing a large array of Graphic Files, it also allows you to view multiple video and audio formats. If you download the plugins also, it gives you various other options which you can explore at leisure.

In addition to viewing files, it has an elementary photo editing option, which allows you to crop files, change the brightness / contrast, etc. If you want to resize your files, you could do it one at a time or in Batch Mode. This feature is extremely useful for resizing multiple files before you email them or upload them on your favourite photo album like picasa or flickr.

I find it extremely useful for my day to day photo handling – so will you !

How I work – 4 – Google Calendar

How I work – 4 – Google Calendar

If you are a regular user of GMail (425 million active users – why not you ?), I have a bunch of productivity tools lined up for you. One of the most used is the Google Calendar. It helps you organize your life seamlessly !
Simple Calendar options are there by default. You can also set it to send you SMS reminders for your appointments, on your phone for FREE ! (Don’t ask me how they manage to do it). If someone sends you a mail which has the time date and place for a possible meeting, you have the option to directly add it to your calendar from your Inbox itself – no need to manually add it to your calendar. Recurring appointments and reminders are a breeze. Many more features are inbuilt for you to explore, but then I would run out of space here !  Google Calendar is also now available as an App for download on Android devices – and it remains synced always.

Just try it, I’m sure you will be hooked – don’t tell me you were not warned !

Write to me at yazdi@on-lyne.com if you would like to have more GMail productivity tools and I will cover them in my future columns

How I work – 2 – Evernote

How I work – 2 – Evernote

One of my favourite productivity tools is Evernote (www.evernote.com). Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small from your everyday life, using your computer, phone, tablet and the web. You can write notes on any of your devices and they will be automatically synced to all your other devices. If you are in a meeting and taking notes on your tablet or phone, the minute you login to your office / home computer, you will find them there!

The beauty of this elegant piece of software is that it is truly cross-platform. It supports iOS, Blackberry, Windows and Android on Smartphones and Tablets, and Mac OS X, Windows, Safari, Chrome and Firefox on Computers. It just syncs seamlessly.

Your notes could be text, audio, picture notes, check lists or even sketches. So remember everything, access anywhere and find things fassssst. Best of all, it is free to instal on each one of your devices. Free Accounts have a 60MB upload limit, per month, but I have never even reached half of it in any month. My current favourite. No gifts of Diaries for me next New Year !

Solve Crosswords easily ! www.wordsdomination.com

Dominate in any word game – Scrabble, Crosswords or any other that you may please. That is the simple objective of this simple website.

It works in two modes – simple or crossword. In the simple mode, you just use “?” for one missing letter: pu?zle. Use “*” for any number of letters: p*zle. Or combine: cros?w*d ; and hit the Search Key. Voila ! You have the possible word(s) in front of you. It is that simple. This can be used for Scrabble and other word games, where there are no limitations to the size of the word you are building.

In the Crossword mode, you have a limitation on the number of letters in a word. So you begin with selecting the no.
of letters for the word, enter those letters that you already have in place, and hit the Search Key. You will instantly get the possible word(s) listed on your screen. Then match them with the clues that you already have. And now, you are on your way to becoming a Crossword champ !

So this Sunday, pick up the toughest crosswords available, and with a little bit of help from wordsdomination.com, become  a pro at solving them. And don’t forget to show off your new-found  skills to your friends

Math Aids


Math-Aids.Com is a free resource for teachers, homeschoolers, and parents. You can make an unlimited number of printable math worksheets for children, the classroom or homework practice.

The flexibility and the text book quality of the math worksheets make Math-Aids.Com a very unique resource for people wanting to create and use Math Worksheets.

The worksheets are categorized topic-wise as well as level-wise. Just click on a topic on your left, select the worksheet that you would like, and click “Create Worksheet”. The worksheet is instantly created. If you are not too sure, you can also create the answers along with the worksheet ! You can save or print any no. of worksheets – all for free !

It is an ideal resource for brushing up your math skills. Try it !

Food Food

If you love food you will love zomato.com

Simply stated, zomato is all about food and where you can find the best of it. Just login to the site, type the type of food you like (chinese, punjabi, tandoori) , along with the place where you would like to find it, and voila !  You have a list of restaurants serving that kind of food in that area. You can further filter it based on dine out or takeaway and you can latch in to exactly what you want, where you want !

Zomato seeks to provide you everything that you might want to and need to know about food before you actually take the first bite. From the nukkad wala dhaba to the swankiest restaurants in your town, they provide you all the info you may ever need: menus, reviews, ratings, contacts. Above everything else, they provide you the convenience to reach all restaurants around you.

Currently, restaurants in Mumbai, Delhi,  Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai and Ahmedabad are covered and more cities are ready to be covered soon.

So if you are thinking of eating out over the weekend – try www.zomato.com and decide on where to go or what to order, with ALL the information at your fingertips.

Digital Accessible Information System

DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) digital format assists people who, for various reasons, have challenges using regular printed media. DAISY digital talking books offer the benefits of regular audiobooks, but they are superior because DAISY includes navigation.

Typical audio talking books do not allow the reader to move through the book easily. You can listen from beginning to end, but not much more, resulting in frustration and wasted time.
Electronic content that lacks navigation makes reading slower and less efficient than it has to be.
Navigable DAISY content that has electronic text available, either with or without audio, may permit readers to examine the spelling of words, or search the text, using a software player on a computer. When DAISY full text is available, some software players also offer users the ability to display and highlight the text of the book on the screen.
DAISY books can increase reading speed and improve reading efficiency. With the press of a button, you can jump to the chapter you need. . . faster than the eyes can skim.
The DAISY standard provides flexibility and options never before possible. You can listen to a DAISY book on a computer while reading the text with a braille display. Or you can listen to a DAISY audio book with a special stand-alone player at home or when traveling.
Although the DAISY Standard was developed with books and people with print disabilities in mind, we can envision many applications for it:

  • Lectures that are available as audio and text files simultaneously.
  • Emergency preparedness materials in audio format as well as available to all who really need them.
  • Synchronized text and audio – very valuable in teaching literacy or a foreign language.

Learn, support, and embrace the huge benefits of this technology: Go DAISY ! More details available at www.daisy.org