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Many a times, we tend to misplace our phone around home or office. The simplest way to locate it is

to dial your phone from another nearby phone and the phone will ring, making it easy to find it. But what if the phone is in silent mode? It may keep vibrating in your bag or in your drawer and you would still not be able to locate it.

Alive OneScan Pro is a new way to Search – Visually. So, now use your phone camera to click / scan any product, logo image or newspaper Ad and let the app discover for you, the same or similar items instantly. You also have the option to buy the selected items online.

Did you like a T-shirt shown in a print Ad? Scan the product on the ad and get see where it is available online, instantly. Do you want a similar shoe or watch your friend is wearing? A book in your colleague’s library? OneScan it, discover and buy it. Alive Pro also scans 3D QR codes and deciphers what lies beneath them. You don’t need a separate app for that now.

Whether you are a fitness freak or simply want to improve and monitor your fitness, Google Fit is for you. Once installed, it will effortlessly track your activity. Your phone or Android Wear Watch will log all your activities during the day and give you an updated report in real time.

Apart from giving you the stats, it also motivates you to achieve more. If you fall behind on one day, it will encourage you to catch up and go for better performance. You can also set your fitness goals and track how you are doing against your goals. You can set goals based on steps, time, distance, calories burned and receive personalized recommendations and coaching for activity goals.

It also links to and aggregates from many other devices to track fitness, nutrition, sleep, and weight, like Android Wear, Nike+, Runkeeper, Strava, MyFitnessPal, Lifesum, Basis, Sleep as Android, Withings, and Xiaomi Mi bands.

Stay Fit with Google Fit and watch your health improve!

Astro File Manager is one of the best file managers for Android. It finds and manages all files on

your Android device, wherever they may be located. You can search files by name, by type or simply browse through your folders to find your file. If you use the Windows File Explorer, the Astro File Manager will be very familiar to use and navigate.

Moving and Copying files within your phone and from and to your Cloud Storage, is a breeze. It can also look for files on your Facebook account and your local Network. Astro has a Task Killer in-built, which kills tasks and processes which are a drain on your battery life. Also, a Backup has been built-in, which help you backup apps in case you lose your phone or change your phone.

A very useful utility which is a must have on all Android Phones!

Contacts Plus is one of the world leaders in maintaining your Contacts Book. Once you install Contacts+ all your contacts from your phone book are automatically imported into the app. When you have more than one telephone no. per contact, it also allows you to set the default telephone no.

With Contacts+ apart from using your phone for calls and SMS, you can open Whatsapp, Viber, Hangouts, Email and more, directly from your contact list. So you can operate all these apps from one single interface without jumping from one to the other.

Birthday Reminders are also built-in. So, every morning, you get a message showing Birthdays of your friends in the Contact List

The free version handles all the above effortlessly. The paid version further gives you extended backup options, has an efficient duplicate finder, a spam blocker and gives you 80+ customizable themes to make it look exactly the way you want it to be!

An excellent tool for daily use.

The EMI Calculator (Android App, available on the Google Play Store at http://play.google.com) is a simple, no frills calculator for EMI. You just enter the Principal Amount, the Rate of Interest and the period in Months / Years and tap on Calculate. Voila – your EMI is calculated and ready!  You can then go and look at the month-wise statistics which shows you the monthly outgo of Principal and Interest. It is that simple. You can instantly share the results with your banker or borrower, by Email, Whatsapp or any other mode.

Further options include creation of Loan Profiles for Loans already taken and monitor progress of repayments. An interesting feature is to compare 2 different loan options, where the principal amount, interest or loan tenure may vary. You can instantly check the EMI under both options to help you take a decision. It also gives you the option of comparing the effect of EMI in advance with EMI in arrears.

There are many other financial calculators available – but I found this the simplest and easiest for the lay person, for calculation of EMI.

News 360 is a personalized news service. It gives you tailormade news stories, just for you. And, the more you use it, the better it gets in understanding what you like and serving news stories which are related.

You can also choose the topics, sources, companies and people you want to follow and News360 will pick up on the nuances of your interests as you read. And then onwards, you will never miss a feed, even if you have not subscribed to it. News360 will show you all the stories you need to read, without the noise ! It picks up stories from more than 100,000 sources, including national and international news providers to the most focused local blogs and websites.

And if you connect your Social Media accounts to News360, it will automatically learn your likes and improve the relevance of your content. Great!

Clipper is a powerful clipboard manager that automatically clips and saves everything you copy. You can

access your clipboard history later and also organize your clippings.

Once your clippings are available, you can pick and choose to paste any of your earlier clips. You can also clip snippets and hold them for future use e.g. if you wish to store and hold any of your most frequent text messages, you can do so and use them whenever you need to. You can also share the contents of your clipped snippets with others.

Whatever our age, our learning never stops. New thoughts, ideas and aspirations keep us on our toes and on the threshold of new vistas. In fact, our learning is limited only by our imagination! This is where KhanAcademy.org steps in.

KhanAcademy believes that You Can Learn Anything. Our brain is like a muscle, the more you use it and struggle, the more it grows. Starting from basic learning skills as a 3-year-old, to the most complex of learnings, KhanAcademy guides you all the way. Maths, Science, Economics, Arts, Humanities, Computing – you choose and KhanAcademy will help you learn. The learning is audio-visual in many cases which helps absorption and retention over a period of time. Test Preparations for competitive exams like IIT-JEE and learnings from the world of music and art are also available. There is an ocean of learning out there and you will need lots of time and patience to explore.

Recently they have come up with an Android App which replicates much of the original website which is used by over 30 million students – young and old – worldwide. Remember, as long as you are alive, you are always learning!