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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!

This is a simple and free app which has over 540 law books at your disposal. Just download the app and all Bare Acts covering diverse areas are available right on your phone.

There are Bare Acts covering Banking, Corporate, Education, Environment, Air Traffic, Human Rights and many more topics. You can search based on the name of the Bare Act, or by Section no. and name or even by Chapter no. and name.

The best part is that this app works without the use of Internet. Once you have downloaded and installed it, you do not need the Internet connection to be on, while using it. The app is updated from time to time, so that you are never out of date with the current laws.

If you need to refer to Bare Acts even casually, this is a must in your repertoire!

Do you drink enough water? Would you like to be reminded about drinking water from time to time? Do you need a water nanny through the day?

Water Drink Reminder is the solution you must have. Once you download and install the app, feed it your weight, it determines how much water you need during the day. It then reminds you to drink water through the day at frequent intervals to help you reach the quota determined for you! It’s that simple.

The reminder is in the form of a notification, accompanied by a pleasant, gurgling sound of flowing water.  And every time you take a glass of water, you enter it with a single click in the app, and it will add it to your intake for the day. It will then show you the balance required and once you finish your quota for the day, it will even congratulate you! Isn’t that kewl?

Now, never miss taking your daily intake of water, glass by glass and stay fit and healthy!!

Are you an avid reader? Would you like to read 4 books in a day? Now you can! Just download

Blinkist from the PlayStore and get the best non-fiction books, bite-sized, in text and audio format.

The guys at Blinkist read more than a 1000 books for you, condense them into quick summaries, and distill their key insights into powerful, actionable, 15-minute marvels. The summaries are delivered to you directly on your phone. You can stay updated on non-fiction books on business, management, career, self-help and more, daily.

A 3-day free trial gets you up and going and depending on your needs, you may subscribe to a plan which suits you best, with a choice of 100s of books in their library. However, if you do not wish to subscribe to a paid plan, you can continue on the free plan which gives you one pre-selected book per day.

Blinkist is a wise choice for book lovers – young and old – and helps you read books in the new, favoured format – quickly!

Many a times, we come across wonderful videos on Facebook and would like to download them on our phone – sometimes to just keep them with us and sometimes to share with our friends on e-mail or on WhatsApp. In case the video is available on YouTube, you are in luck. Else, it is very frustrating and sometimes impossible to download Facebook Videos.

Video Downloader for Facebook helps us do just that! Once you have installed it on your phone, just start the app and Click on Browse Facebook. Login to your Facebook account and browse your wall. Play the video which you wish to download and click Yes to Download the video. That’s it!

The downloaded video can then be shared with anyone from your phone, either on WhatsApp, e-mail or any other mode which your phone allows you to share.

It is so simple now!