Category: Productivity

Signal – Your secure, private messenger

Using Signal, you can communicate instantly while avoiding SMS fees, create groups so that you can chat in real time with all your friends at once, and share media or attachments all with complete privacy. The server never has access to any of your communication and never stores any of your data. An ideal, private, secure replacement for WhatsApp

Signal uses an advanced end to end encryption protocol that provides privacy for every message every time. There are no separate logins, usernames, passwords, or PINs to manage or lose.

It allows you to create encrypted groups so you can have private conversations with all your friends at once. Not only are the messages encrypted, but the Signal server never has access to any group metadata such as the membership list, group title, or group icon. And you can make crystal-clear phone calls to people who live across town, or across the ocean, with no long-distance charges. 

Android: http://bit.ly/2KpshNe    iOS: https://apple.co/2KpZM21

Simple GMail Notes

Many times, we would like to add a note onto each of our Mails, for future reference or action. This needs to be done without disturbing the original mail, but available every time you view that mail. Just like sticky notes for GMail!

Just install the extension Simple GMail Notes (available for both Chrome & Firefox). Once installed, you can write brief notes for each of your mail threads on GMail. This extension is 100% free and open source. Your notes are stored on your own Google Drive. You can write any text in your notes, give them different colours and even add your notes to your Calendar.

This simple utility gives you immense power to put Sticky Notes or Post-Its to each of your email threads – get more productive! 

Du Recorder

DU Recorder is a free, stable, high-quality screen recorder for Android that helps you record smooth and clear screen videos. With a variety of features such as screen capture, video recorder and video editor, it provides an easy way to record screen videos, like game videos, video calls, live shows, and more – making everything simple!

The recorder is ideal for training, demos, step-by-step guides, etc. The video editor allows  you to trim and merge videos, add subtitles, backgrounds and much more.

In the screen broadcast mode, you can live stream to Youtube, Facebook and Twitch. You can live stream your game-play to demonstrate your skills to the world at large. In addition to videos, you can also take and edit screenshots easily on your phone. The screenshots can be easily edited just like the videos

Put your creativity to work now! Enjoy your phone to the fullest!!

Android :  http://bit.ly/2F6qb63               iOS: https://apple.co/2Fae9Zk

Otter – Voice Notes

Otter is a smart note-taking app that empowers you to remember, search, and share your voice conversations (for English only).

It creates smart voice notes that combine audio, transcription, speaker identification, inline photos, and key phrases. It helps business people, journalists, and students to be more focused, collaborative, and efficient in meetings, interviews, lectures, and wherever important conversations happen.

The free version gives you 600 minutes of transcription per month with unlimited cloud storage of all your conversations. You can record audio via internal mic or Bluetooth device, or import existing recordings. You can even take photos (e.g. of a whiteboard, a slide, a presenter) while you record to add visual context to your conversations inline.

A must have app for recording Voice Notes

Android: http://bit.ly/2zDHcjh    iOS: https://apple.co/2zEGLVN

www.Cam-Recorder.com

Cam-Recorder is a simple tool to create videos online or even offline. Just click on the Record button and start recording. It uses your microphone and  webcam to create the recording. (Remember to give permission to your camera and microphone before you start.) It uses native recording capabilities of your browser, so you do not need anything else.

The recording takes place locally. So, after the recording is over, you can save it on your local hard disk. After saving it, you could send it to any recipients via email, Whatsapp or any other mode of sharing.

Your recording is never transferred to any remote system unless you choose to. You can upload it, if you so desire, and mark it as public or private or unlisted. It also gives you an option to automatically upload it to Youtube.

All in all, a very simple Video Recording tool.

www.Cam-Recorder.com

Join.me

Join.me is a very simple meeting platform where you could have Video Conferencing for free.  You can stay connected everywhere with join.me  includes audio and video conferencing by phone or internet (VoIP) so you can see and hear anything in real time…on your time. Share your screen with participants on audio and video at the same time.

You can create and host a meeting with a single tap. To join an existing meeting,  just type in the meeting code and you’re on the same page, even if you’re hundreds of miles away. When you’re ready to share your screen, start your meeting and tap the orange button – this is your screen-sharing button! Now your attendees can see the screen of your Android phone or tablet. Open Docs, Sheets, Slides, websites, or whatever! Attendees can follow and see everything you do!

As usual, the free version has certain restrictions and the pro version has a few more bells and whistles.

Android : http://bit.ly/2x7uiIF       iOS : https://apple.co/2xavOJS

 

Speechnotes – Speech To Text

Speechnotes is a wonderful professional Speech Recognition Text Editor. It gives accurate speech recognition right from your browser. Just head to http://www.Speechnotes.co, click on the microphone button and start dictating. You can then copy and paste the text into any application you want – it could be Gmail or Word. It is that simple. No registration and no payment.

If you wish to dictate directly into any website e.g. Gmail or WordPress, you can buy the paid version for a nominal price. This is a one-time payment and valid for life.

It also has an app which performs the same functions on your smartphone.

A very simple way of dictating to your computer or your phone.

Android : http://bit.ly/2Mf77ER

Measure

Measure helps you with quick, everyday measurements around the house or office — similar to a tape measure. With the Measure app, you can:
– Measure the length and height of objects in the real world ​like​ the size of a rug, the width of a cabinet, or the height of a table
– Switch between imperial and metric units
– Save photos of your measurements for later

Move your phone around the space to find flat surfaces such as tabletops or the floor. Then drag a length tool or height tool into the scene, and adjust it to the right size. Tap the camera icon to snap a photo for later, or tap the trash icon to start a new measurement.  It does take a bit of time to get used to, but once you get the hang of it, it is really great!

Measurements taken with this app are estimates, but very good ones!

Android : http://bit.ly/2uiElIs

Driving Detective

We all know that it is dangerous to talk or text while driving. But invariably when the phone rings or beeps, there is a tendency to pick it up or view the notification while driving.  That is dangerous!

Driving Detective automagically detects when you are in a moving vehicle and toggles Do Not Disturb on, silencing alerts for the duration of the drive. Normal operation is restored after you exit the vehicle and move away from it. Do Not Disturb is an Android feature which gives the user control over alerts, specifically which alerts are allowed to notify the user and when.

Driving Detective does not use any GPS data to detect driving. Detection is done completely on device. Detection stops either by walking a short distance away from the car, or remaining parked for more than 15 minutes.

Drive Safe – always use driving detective!

Android : http://bit.ly/2sS822s

Calculator – GST + EMI

Divine Softech Calculator is one of the best calculators featuring Citizen Calculator, GST Calculator with one click and Emi Calculator all in one single Calculator.

Apart from the basic functions, memory functions and correction functions, the GST portion allows a one-click add-on of GST as per current GST rates in India.

The EMI calculator allows you to find the Loan Amount, EMI for your loan, Time Period of your Loan and Interest rate easily. Just fill in any 3 variables and get the fourth variable instantly. It also generates a full report with the total amount of interest and loan installments, which you can save or share as a PDF.

If you are looking for a robust and easy calculator, this one is worth a try.

Android : http://bit.ly/2rnG25U                 iOS: https://apple.co/2ri8syi (Similar)