Pexels.com

Pexels.comPexels.com is the world’s first inclusive free stock photo & video library. You can use the photos and videos available, anywhere – in your brochures, handouts, documents, websites, presentations, blogs – just anywhere you wish to use them. All photos and videos on Pexels are free to use.

Attribution to the original photographer / videographer are not required, although such attributions would be appreciated for obvious reasons. You can modify the photos as you may like. Just be creative and create a work of art – there are no restrictions to the modifications either!

You may use the photos for commercial use too. What is not allowed is to publish pics of identifiable people in a bad light or in a way that is offensive. You may not sell unaltered copies of the pics or videos, without modifying them first.

A very useful site to embellish your creativity, one pic at a time!

www.pexels.com

Openshot Video Editor

Openshot Video EditorIf you need a basic Video Editor with all the bells and whistles of a powerful expensive one, look no further – OpenShot Video Editor will fit the bill more than adequately. Openshot is incredibly simple and powerful, with support for Linux, Mac and Windows.

You can quickly trim down your videos, with many easy ways to cut them. Using the powerful animation framework, you can fade, slide, bounce and animate anything in your video project. With unlimited tracks, you can insert watermarks, background videos, audio tracks and much more.

Using the video effects engine, you can remove the background from your video, invert the colours, adjust brightness and do much more.

Overall, Openshot Video editor is an easy to use, quick to learn and surprisingly powerful video editor. And since it is open source, it is free to use – no licensing process and no charges!

www.openshot.org

AnyBooks – Novels&stories, your mobile library

AnyBooksThis simple app allows you to start your own library to read offline. You can save your favourite titles and Genres – fantasy books, scifi, thriller novels, horror stories, mystery, romance, young adult fictions, webnovels, love story, self help, biography, academy, unacademy, history education books, and more! You will have personalized book recommendations based on your favorite genres.

You can select from multiple languages and sync your eBooks to read from anywhere. Customization includes selecting your fonts, size, bookmarks, highlights, background color and much more.

For a single one-time payment you are able to access a great library which keeps getting new books and expanding all the time.

Android: https://bit.ly/2X29n7b

Udemy – Online Courses

Udemy - Online CoursesUdemy online courses offer an online learning platform featuring 130,000+ video courses taught by expert instructors. You can take courses in anything from programming languages like Python, and Java to personal development classes like design, drawing, writing and yoga. New courses, on cutting-edge topics like machine learning, artificial intelligence, and blockchain, are continuously refreshed. Join the more than 40 million students who are mastering new skills, advancing their careers, and exploring new hobbies on Udemy.

The courses are both free and paid, within your budget. Once you’ve enrolled in a course, you’ll have lifetime access to the content. You will be inspired by 50,000+ expert instructors teaching in 60+ different languages.

And, you can download courses to learn offline. If you are on the go, listen to courses in audio-only mode. You can learn at your own pace and ask both students and instructors questions. Personalize your learning experience with speed controls and closed captioning.

So, if you need to improve your skills on any topic – personality development, public speaking, photography or gardening, Udemy is for you.

Android: https://bit.ly/3grQ6Uu       iOS: https://apple.co/2TEmwRU

Google Meet

Google MeetGoogle meet is the new kid on the block for Virtual Meetings. And coming from the Google Suite of products – it is safe and reliable. You can Securely connect, collaborate, and celebrate from anywhere. With Google Meet, everyone can safely create and join high-quality video meetings for up to 250 people, free.

You can host unlimited high-definition video meetings with in-built safety – all video meetings are encrypted in transit and proactive anti-abuse measures help keep your meetings safe. Accessing the meeting is very easy – just share a link and invited guests can join with one click from a desktop web browser or the Google Meet mobile app. There are no downloads to manage and no software to install.

You may share your screen to present documents, slides, and more. And best of all, you can follow along with real-time captions powered by Google speech-to-text technology.

A great tool for virtual meetings.

https://Meet.google.com Android: https://bit.ly/2LXBcHc

iOS: https://apple.co/2LWJzmn

Microsoft Editor

Microsoft EditoMicrosoft Editor is a browser extension that helps you write with confidence. It is your intelligent grammar, spelling, and style checking writing assistant. This free assistant helps you become a better writer across the web. It moves with you across sites, so you can confidently write clear, concise posts online.

With this extension, you receive: Intelligent writing assistance, advanced grammar and style checking on clarity, conciseness, formality, vocabulary, and much more with premium.

Anywhere you write on sites like LinkedIn, Gmail, Facebook, and many more of your favourites with this browser extension, your writing will be clear and error free. If you want Editor’s assistance beyond the web, open Word and look for the Editor icon to see how Editor can help across documents, email, and the rest of the web too!

When you install the extension, a dimmed Editor icon is added to your browser’s toolbar. Click the icon and sign in with the account you use for Office or sign in with your free Microsoft account.

A very useful tool to improve your writing.

 

Autosync

AutosyncWith services like OneDrive and Dropbox, you can sync all folders or none – it’s quite a task to sync selective folders and files from your phone to the cloud or vice versa.

Autosync addresses this limitation with style. This simple, smart app lets you sync documents from specific folders in your phone to a given cloud folder like Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, among others. And the best part is that it lets you auto-sync a cloud folder to your device as well. That’s pretty neat!

The all-in-one app allows you to sync to multiple cloud services. They also have stripped down versions if you wish to sync to only one cloud service.

Interesting, smart and elegant for syncing selective folders!

Android :  https://bit.ly/2xVIw30

Mercury Reader

Mercury ReaderThe Mercury Reader extension for Chrome removes ads and distractions, leaving only text and images for a clean and consistent reading view on every site. It just clears the clutter instantly.

Once installed and enabled, with just one click, you can read text on your webpages in a clear, uncluttered, ad-free environment. You can eliminate all the ads and the noise surrounding the text on your webpage. You can even adjust typeface and text size, and toggle between light or dark themes for ease of reading. Options to optimize printing are also available to print a webpage without ads and unnecessary clutter.

An interesting add-on to browse the web comfortably.

Black Menu for Google

Black Menu for GoogleThis is a very cool extension for Chrome. Once installed, this extension allows you to explore and search multiple stuff right from the page you are on. You do not need to leave the page.

So, you could Search Google, Gmail, Google Maps, News, Youtube, Calendar, Drive and Keep and a host of other spaces, without leaving your current webpage. You can do research on the fly with Google Search, Scholar, Patents and many more. Keep track of your Keep Notes, access your Google Drive and a host of other sites directly. Search your Calendar quickly and add / remove appointments, tasks and more, on the spot.

The extension is fully customizable and you can add / delete any of the options as per your convenience and usage. Access shortcuts to common (and obscure) Google websites like Google Contacts, Google Groups, Google Art Project, Google Follow Your World and 450+ more!

A must have for your browser for a quick and easy browsing experience

EMI Calculator

EMIThis EMI calculator by Abhishek Kumar will be loved by all and sundry in the financial sector. If you have the need to calculate EMI often, you can install this extension in your Chrome Browser.

Installation of the extension is simple, as usual – just search Google for EMI Calculator Chrome Extension, and install it. Once installed, it will sit as an extension on your top toolbar, along with your other extensions.

Now, whenever you need to do an EMI Calculation, just click on it and it will pop-up the options and instantly give you a report on the  Equated Monthly Instalment, the total principal amount and interest amount to be paid and the bifurcation for the same.

A very useful tool for those who wish to calculate EMI over and over!