Spot Scam Mobile / Email / Website / Apps

These days, we come across multiple scams where lay users are driven to suspicious websites or apps and tricked into revealing their personal details, leading to financial loss.

The Government of India has now come up with a suspicious list of Mobile nos., Email ids, Website URLs and Apps to warn users before they transact with them.

So, if you are asked to go to a particular site or app or communicate with a Mobile no. or email id, you may visit https://cybercrime.gov.in/, go to the Report & Check Suspect Tab, and look up the relevant telephone no., address or website. If the target is suspicious and/or flagged, the website will let you know the problem. The same tab can be used to report a suspicious Site or phone number or email id or website.

And, unfortunately, if you have been scammed, do not panic – just dial 1930 from anywhere in India and report the incident with full details and the Cybercrime experts will help you trace the suspect and your money as soon as possible.

A similar service is also available at the Global Level. Just visit https://www.scamadviser.com/ and check out the suspicious target at the international level. This site has a huge repository of scams at the international level and provides valuable guidance when visiting unknown websites, rating them and even giving reasons for the rating, so that you can be cautious when dealing with them.

Better be safe than sorry – prevention is better than cure!

Your News

This app keeps you updated with the news that matters to you!  With Your News, you are in full control of your content, including RSS feeds, YouTube channels, and Reddit posts. Read updates directly in the app or continue from your home screen with customizable RSS widgets. Enjoy the best content without distractions—only the news you care about, all in one place.

It does not require a sign-up, no cloud access and no hassles. You can quickly add your favourite RSS feeds, YouTube Channels, Reddit feeds with dedicated buttons, making it simple to tailor your personalized news aggregator experience. You can even use the search button to find feeds by website name or explore new content in the Discover Section.

If you want to stay focused only on the content that interests you, you may apply custom keyword filters to show or hide articles based on specific topics or keywords.

Get started with Your News today and enjoy the most personalized, private, and convenient news reading experience!

Android : https://bit.ly/45K0lPP

Action Notch: Touch The Notch

Transform your camera hole cutout or notch into a powerful shortcut button! With Action Notch, enjoy features inspired by Assistive Touch and Dynamic Island, allowing you to perform tasks using gestures like single tap, double tap, long press, or swipe. Simplify your daily interactions, protect physical buttons, and enhance multitasking with this must-have app!

You can record audio / videos on recorder or Front/ Back camera instantly without opening the relevant app. Take screenshots, toggle flashlight, lock your screen or open any of your favourite apps. You can also control your brightness, ringer mode, music and much more with just a tap.

All you need to do is configure your favourites to respond to various pre-set gestures and you are done!

Using Action Notch protects your phone’s physical buttons from wear and tear. It is fully customizable to fit your needs and simplifies multitasking for a seamless experience.

Android : https://bit.ly/4ksioyt

Perplexity

Perplexity is your personal AI-powered Swiss Army Knife for information discovery and curiosity. It’s not just about answering questions; it’s about empowering you to do more—whether you’re looking to summarize content, explore new topics, dive deep into them or even get a little creative.

If you need a quick healthy recipe or you are shopping for a new router – Perplexity helps you research and discover anything under the sun. Perplexity answers questions, helps you explore topics in depth, allows you to create and organize your own Library by collecting threads and also helps you to interact with your own data / files.

Pro Search is your conversational search guide. It engages with you and fine-tunes the answers based on your own individual preferences. You can personalize your settings and profile and as you use it more, it understands you and your preferences and gives better, focussed responses.

You have options to access it on your browser, use it as a desktop app, or even download it as an app on your iPhone or Android phone.

The free version allows you to do unlimited basic searches, 3 Pro searches per day and upload 3 files per day for summaries and / or analysis. The Pro version unlocks the full capabilities of Perplexity and enjoy new perks as they are added.

Try it today, you may never need to look at any other AI tool for a while.

https://www.perplexity.ai/

Video Summarizer

This app transforms lengthy videos into quick text summaries right on your phone!

Just select the video and summarize it almost instantly – you can choose the language in which you wish to view the summary – it could be your mother tongue. You can even adjust the level of detail you wish to read in the summary. After you see the summary, you can effortlessly backup and manage all the text that you have created.

The app can condense lengthy videos into concise summaries, saving time, while retaining essential information. Tailored for students, professionals, and the eternally curious, Video Summarizer is your essential tool for optimizing video content consumption. Stay ahead, stay informed, and harness the power of smart video summarization!

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

Suno

This app is a dream for music creators – you can make any song using AI.

You can make songs by just giving text descriptions and prompts. You can uplevel your songs with personalized lyrics, discover and follow new artists and even curate your own playlists.

Simply convert your ideas into music within a few seconds using AI. No learning curve – it just happens automatically. Use it with your kids, friends or family, make all kinds of silly songs / romantic songs / philosophical songs and enjoy.

So, go ahead, make songs wherever you are, using Suno!

Android : https://bit.ly/4jWJmhL

Feeel – home workouts

Feeel is an open-source app for doing simple at-home exercises. It holds the acclaimed full body scientific 7-minute workout regime and allows creating custom workouts as well. While the app currently contains a limited amount of exercises, the plan is to drastically expand the number of both exercises and workouts with the help of the community.

You have Jumping Jacks, Push Ups, Crunches, Squats and much more. It guides you through multiple exercises with a timer. You can set the timer to your desired length and even schedule brief breaks in between. If you swipe up on the visuals, you can read the benefits and detailed explanation of each exercise.

Feeel is open source and free of charge!

So, if you wish to work out in a limited time from work or from home and need quick scientific exercises, Feeel is for you – try it out!

Android : https://bit.ly/4cWIC9k

Toolbox

As the name suggests, this is a collection of multiple tools all packed into one app for ease of use.

Some of the interesting and useful tools are as follows:

Area Calculator, Clock, Compass, Counter, File Encryption, Flip a coin, Metronome, Morse Code, Music Search, National Anthems, Network Information, NSLookup, QR Code Creator / Reader, Random Number Generator, URL shortener and many more.

If you need any 3 of the multiple tools contained in this app, it migh be worth installing it and use it on a daily basis. Very useful.

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

YouTube Create

You can take your videos to the next level with this official editing app from YouTube. You can add filters and effects, royalty-free music, voiceover, captions and much more to easily make amazing videos to captivate your audience.

Easy video editing tools like combine, trim, clip and crop videos are included. Besides, you can automatically add captions or subtitles, remove background noise or even remove video backgrounds. Music and Audio add-ons are so easy to add and so are Filters and Effects.

Lastly, you can resize your videos to different aspect ratios for sharing across different formats and then upload the video directly to your YouTube Channel for your audience.

A free video-editing tool for daily use with lots of professional features!

Android : https://tinyurl.com/ytcrte

TapScanner

This is an AI enabled scanner which does much more than just scanning your documents. Of course, scanning is the primary function – you can scan anytime with your phone. But it is after scanning that the real magic starts!

You can edit and sign your pdf files after scanning and then share the files to your preferred platform. IDs and passports can be scanned in Digital Format. After scanning, you can convert the scans to multiple formats – .jpg, .txt, .doc or .pdf. An eraser is in-built to remove unwanted material from scanned documents. And then, AI kicks in – if you take a scan of multiple objects, AI can count the number of objects and display the results. And, if you scan a food item, it will even calculate the number of calories in that dish! Scan plants and get AI plant tips, along with recommendations!

A very interesting way to scan using AI – there is a free trial and if you like what you experience – go ahead and buy it!

Android : https://tinyurl.com/tpscn