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Home Remedies or Grandma’s remedies are very useful and for years, have been passed down generations by word of mouth. This app brings them right onto your smartphone.

Most of non-life threatening ailments have a great home remedy available – no side-effects and fully natural. They are both safe and useful and always better than over-the-counter drugs in the treatment of common ailments. The app lists 100+ ailments and their common remedies. You can add remedies to your favourites, ask a question and also view previously asked questions to update yourself constantly.

“Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.” said Hippocrates. Home remedies helps you do just that. Caution though – Home Remedies is not a substitute for professional health advice or treatment. Use them sensibly and you will be  glad you did!
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If you are a Senior Citizen, if you have eye problems or you just hate too many icons on the phone screen, Big Launcher is for you. It is minimalist but utilitarian. Install Big Launcher on your phone

and enjoy BIG icons and quick shortcuts – you will never need to search anything on your phone again and have the most often used tools at your fingertips!

The new home screen has enlarged icons and an easy to use phone ready. It has a well arranged call-history, Big Font SMS editor, full screen notifications and is 100% accessible. You can customize the Big Launcher to suit your taste and pick a theme to go with your mood! The biggest treat is a really BIG dialer which is so convenient to use.

The free version has limited features for you to try it out and the paid version has all the goodies in unlimited measure. Try the Big Launcher for your parents, your kids and even for yourself. You will just love the simplicity!!
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The MCGM (Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai) has created a Greater Mumbai Disaster Management Authority (GMDMA) which is doing wonderful work for the last several years.

Please visit their website at http://dm.mcgm.gov.in/ for resources on the following :

1. Live Updates on weather, rainfall, high-tides, diversion of traffic, rail schedules
2. Complete List – Ward-wise – on whom to contact in an emergency (including phone nos., mobile nos., email ids, etc.) 
3. Training Programs on Disaster Preparedness and First Responders
4. Standard Operating Procedure Manual
5. Mock Drill procedure
6. And many more resources

They also have a mobile app – Disaster Management MCGM – https://goo.gl/omklFo which gives live updates on your mobile

Very useful resources by MCGM for unforeseen circumstances

Get a Didi – not a maid – This is an app which helps you order domestic and commercial cleaning services at the click of a button. Just download the app, enter your mobile no. and you are good to go!

They have trained professionals who have been handpicked for their ability, experience and are among the best in the field. You no longer have to depend on the whims and fancies of your local bai. Each Didi is background verified and apart from the professional skills, they are also trained in interpersonal skills which gives you a pleasant overall experience. They guarantee service within an hour between 8am and 8pm in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane.

Didi has over 120 helpers as of now and are constantly growing. Each of them comes equipped with the necessary paraphernalia for cleaning, commercial cleaning and deep cleaning – depending on your needs. Founded by IIT Bombay graduates, this is women empowerment at its best!

Elevate is a brain training program designed to improve your attention, speaking skills, vocabulary, computing skills and much more. Each person is provided with his own training program which

improvises as he takes each test. Depending on individual skills and gaps, the program takes you through various levels of tests – if you do well, you are taken to the next higher level, if not, you are given  more practice. The tests are quick and easy and take no more than 5 minutes at a time.

The more you train with Elevate, the better will be your cognitive skills that are designed to boost productivity, alertness and self-confidence. Users who train at least 3 times a week, have reported dramatic gains in productivity and confidence.

There is a detailed performance evaluation at the end of each session which elaborates on skills where you need to improve upon and those which you are good at.  A workout calendar keeps you focused and motivated to continue your progress upwards.

A truly elevating experience!

We all have issues regarding the data speed provided by our Service Provider – be it Airtel, Vodafone, MTNL, Idea or Reliance. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is taking this very seriously. Reporting by the Service Provider is erratic and sometimes misleading. So, the best way to handle this is to put the reporting in the hands of the User.

Download MySpeed (TRAI) and install it on your phone. Then, you can run it at different locations at any time during the day or night and check the actual speed of your Service Provider. If it falls below the contracted speed, you have an option to upload and report this data directly to TRAI. TRAI will then check reports from various customers and, if the Service Provider is found wanting, they will take up the issue with the latter directly.

A great way of putting power in the hands of the Consumers! Use it and  get your Service Provider to be more responsive.

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Reaching Soon is the answer to one of the most often asked questions on your Mobile Phone – “Where are you?”

You can locate your friends and family on the move, using this App, with the help of GPS. You can add as many friends / relatives as you want, at a time. The recipient of the message need not have this app – she just needs to have a GPS enabled phone with her and she will be able to locate your current co-ordinates.

The tracking of your location will stop as soon as you reach your destination. You can even quit the trip manually and the tracking will stop. There is no login or password required and the app is very simple to operate.

You may use this app to track your journey, your friends’ journey, guide someone to your home / office, or even let your loved ones track you at odd hours.

Be Safe – install Reaching Soon

Very often we come across plants, flowers and fruits and are unable to identify them. Pl@ntnet is an image sharing and retrieval app which helps in identification of plants, flowers and fruits. It is developed by scientists from four French research organizations and the Tela Botanica network.

Once you install the app, just choose an image – click with your camera or select an image from your Gallery. The selected image is then optically compared with the thousands of images stored in the database and up pops the nearest result – you get to identify the plant or flower in your picture! It does not work for ornamental plants and works better if the picture is focused on one organ. Pictures of tree leaves on uniform background yield the best results.

The number of plants and species covered, keeps getting updated with contributions from users all over the world. If you find something unique, which you know about, you can even contribute to their database.
Now you can enjoy your nature pics, knowing what you are seeing!

We all use WiFi at home and at work. WiFi Analyser helps us get the best signal strength for our devices.

Once you have downloaded and installed the WiFi Analyser, click on the menu and go and lookup the Channel Graph. The Channels will be listed on the X-Axis and the signal strength is on the Y-Axis. You will now be able to view your own WiFi by its name and other WiFi channels around you, that are broadcasting simultaneously. If there is a lot of clutter around a particular channel (say Channel 5), it may cause conflicts and hence deterioration of the signal quality. It may therefore be necessary to shift the router to another Channel, the one which has the least interference. To do this, request your Hardware Admin or Cable Service provider to do the needful.
If you are a bit more enterprising, head to your browser and connect to your router (typically http://192.168.1.1 works). You will need your Router login and password. Once inside, go to Settings – Wifi and change the Channel to the desired one. Yo! your signal will now be much better and faster.

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We often have difficulty in transferring files to and from friends and family – whether music, video or photographs, when we are face to face. Mostly, we use either a cable, an internet connection or Dropbox or Google Drive, each of which involves several steps to achieve the desired goal.

In comes 4 Shareapps. Once installed on both the phones – the sender and the recipient – just fire the app and decide what to send. The recipient has to just accept the sender’s request, and the file is transferred immediately – no cables, no USB, no usage of internet data, no other tools to be used. It is just so simple – over the air! You can share photos, videos, music, installed apps or any other files, with unlimited file size. You can even backup your apps to your SD Card.

Go ahead – share files seamlessly – multiply the fun!