How I work – 61 – Timely Alarm Clock


Timely is a beautiful Alarm Clock, very elegantly designed and executed. A treat for your eyes, and of course, your ears.  It also has a revolutionary cloud integration to backup and synchronize your alarms with multiple devices. So wherever you set your alarm, all your devices will be in sync.


Setting an alarm is a breeze – just swipe from the left border and set the desired time by dragging a bar. Tap for increments of 5 minutes. High quality sounds for a great wake-up experience and a smart rise feature which helps you wake up refreshed !  It also includes a stop watch and a countdown timer, to complete the suite.

I never thought that an alarm can be such a pleasant experience. Try it, it’s free !

How I work – 59 – Unroll.me


Every day, we receive hundreds of mails, the majority of which are junk. Mailing companies pick up your email id from various sources and sell it to marketing organizations. Besides, we ourselves voluntarily give our email ids to various websites to receive special offers from time to time. A time comes when we are overwhelmed and want to stop receiving such mails.  

Simply visit www.unroll.me and go through a simple Sign in process.  After you sign up, see a list of all your subscription emails. Unsubscribe instantly from whatever you don’t want. It is that simple. The site’s email management tool also groups all your continuing subscriptions under one head and delivers only 1 mail per day for all your subscriptions – pretty neat, huh ?

How I work – 60 – www.upsidedowntext.com


This one is just for fun. If you want to be noticed, ʎon ʍᴉll lᴉʞǝ ʇo ʍɹᴉʇǝ ʇǝxʇ ndsᴉpǝ poʍu ¡
How easy is it ? Verry easy. Just head to www.upsidedowntext.com, type the text that you want to see upside down in the upper box and lo ! you will get the upside down text in the lower window !  Just copy and paste that text into Facebook, Twitter or any other web-based app. You have options for Backwards Effect (Reverses text) and also Upside Down Effect (Flips text). Try it, surprise your friends and family and of course have a blast yourself !

Enjoy !

How I work – 58 – Clueful Privacy Advisor

If you have many apps, each with multiple updates, you are used to accepting the terms and the invasions in your privacy. Clueful Privacy Advisor, gives you a relook at your privacy compromises.


Simply put, it shows you how your installed apps use and sometimes abuse your privacy. It is like your personal privacy assistant and advises you on what each of your installed apps is doing in the background, without your knowledge !

Some free apps can surprisingly leak your data, spam you, upload your calendar and do many such things in the background without your even knowing it. Use Clueful Privacy Advisor to track those rogue apps and if you do not agree with what they are doing, you are free to uninstal them immdiately!

How I work – 56 – Appsales


If you are an app freak but do not like to pay highly for your apps, Appsales is a must for you. This simple app, just keeps track of all the apps which are on sale, even if for a brief period, and sends you periodic notifications, so that you can grab your favourite app at discounts which may range as high as 90% of their normal price.
You can even view the price history of the apps, so that you can decide when and whether to buy them at the discounted price. You can put some apps on watch so that you will be notified as soon as their price drops on the play store. You may setup your own filters, share sales with your friends and also get information on the other versions e.g., lite, professional, etc.

A very good app to monitor the prices of your desired apps.

How I work – 57 – www.wonobo.com


Wonobo is just the city in your hands. It covers all major Indian cities with street views. Wonobo can help you find directions across several cities, search for places, even look inside thousands of businesses and interesting places. It saves you time and money. Simply click to rediscover your neighbourhood. Use it to revisit your school, share your favourite restaurant, or find out what people have to say about the places they call home. The street views are a treat and sometimes better than Google Maps’ street views, which, unfortunately are not so good for India. Search using the address bar or simply browse through.

It is a collaborative effort. So, if you find any errors or inaccuracies, you can point them out and they will be rectified. You also have the freedom to create content for others.

How I work – 55 – Shush!


Whenever we enter a meeting or a theater, we tend to put our phone on silent, at least all sensible and disciplined people do ! But then, such people invariably forget to switch on the Volume of their phone when the meeting is over.


Shush! is a great help at such times – Once you instal the app on your Android device, whenever you mute the volume on your phone, up pops a friendly reminder asking you when would you like to restore the volume back to normal – after a few minutes or a couple of hours ? Having set the time, you need not worry about the volume of your phone getting back to normal – it will automatically be reset once the period is over !  Of course, if your meeting ends earlier, you can restore the volume back to normal, manually.


A very handy app for everyday use.

How I work – 53 – Jpegmini.com


Jpegmini.com is a photo compression tool which compresses your .jpg photos significantly without affecting their visual resolution or quality. The compression can be upto 5 times, i.e. the converted photo could be upto one-fifth the size of the original.
With JPEGmini you can store more photos on your hard drive and online photo service accounts, attach more photos to your emails, and upload your photos faster to the web. If you have an image-intensive website, your pages will load faster, improving user experience and you’ll also reduce your storage and bandwidth costs.
Online registration is simple. Once you register yourself, you can use the service free for single photos or for unlimited albums processing – each album that you upload can contain up to 1000 photos, and can be up to 200 MB in size. You upload your photos and soon you will receive an email, requesting you to download the converted, re-sized photos.

It’s a real treat. Easy to understand and simple to use.

How I work – 54 – hundredzeros.com


If you have Kindle on your Smartphone, Computer or Tablet, you would also have read many books on your device. However, each time you buy a book, it makes a tiny hole in your pocket. Wish you could find books on Kindle which are free to download from Amazon ? Head to www.hundredzeros.com where you will find hundreds of books free for download, to be read later on your Kindle Device.


The books are organized by subjects ( Fiction, History, Humor, Reference, Sports, Travel, etc. etc.) or you may just like to browse through fresh stock to see what is the latest available.

FREE books are always welcome – don’t you agree ?

How I work – 52 – zamzar.com


Have you ever wanted to convert files from one format to another without the need to download software ? Zamzar.com is the site you need to head to ! Just upload the file that you want to convert and define the format of what you want to convert to. Enter your email address and within a few minutes, the link to the converted file will be sent to you by email. Click on the link and you will have the converted file ready for download.


The straightforward no-nonsense approach to file conversion is refreshing. It handle a whole lot of popular file formats. The only limitation with the free version is the file size. Each successive paid version allows you higher file sizes and greater amount of storage.


If you need file conversions on the fly, Zamzar.com could be your final destination !