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If you don’t have time to exercise and want to do it fast, sometimes even in your office room, the 7 Minute workout is for you. This high intensity interval training app will get you sweating. 12 exercises, 3 required items (yourself, a chair, a wall), and 7 minutes is all you need to start getting in shape again! This smart and easy app is a great way to start or end your day.
Now, the couch potatoes do not have an excuse !!  A great app for wives to motivate their hubbies with big paunches (assuming they themselves don’t have one).

Do you enjoy your daily dose of Comics ? Who doesn’t ? GoComics is for you !
It is a small app which helps you get your favorite comic strips on your favorite, pet device – your cellphone. From iconic favorites like Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, Garfield, Doonesbury, Dilbert and Marmaduke to modern favorites like FoxTrot, The Boondocks, Big Nate, Pearls Before Swine and Get Fuzzy, you get the most diverse set of comic strips and panels in one single app for FREE.
The contents are updated daily, you can set your favorites, share the comics with your friends and family and look for 20 year old archives too !
Have a blast !

Do you get spam Calls and SMSs in your inbox ? Do you get irritated by them ? Would you like to do something about it to reduce your burden ? India Against Spam is the app for you !

Typically, all service providers have a specified no. to which you can send a spam Call or SMS to report the spam, in a particular format. India Against Spam makes it a breeze for you – whenever you get a spam SMS or call, just go to the app, select the intruding SMS or call and tap on send. That’s it. You will receive a confirmation from your service provider, including a complaint no., and the same sender or caller will never call you back.

Apart from blocking the spam messages to you, the service provider will also take up the matter with the sender and debar him from sending further messages to anyone else.
A great tool for India Against Spam !

Skitch is my darling note-taking app. Very light and versatile, it’s a great tool to communicate visually !  You can annotate images with arrows, shapes, text, and more. Use Skitch to sketch something new, mark up maps, screen captures, or even a photo. Then save or share your Skitch annotation to help others see and understand your ideas. Getting everyone on the same page has never been easier.

If you are an Evernote user (are you not one, yet?) Skitch notes and visuals can be immediately exported and saved in your Notes. Yes, a great companion for Evernote.
So, whenever you need to write or draw freehand, remember Skitch and you won’t have to look for anything else again.

Many of us have a Tata Sky connection for their TVs. If you are using the HD+ version of the set top box, you can install the Tata Sky Mobile app on your Android devices. And what do you achieve ? For starters, you need not search for your remote. Once you load the app, your mobile screen becomes your full function remote. Whatever you can do on your set top box remote, you can do from your mobile phone ! Channel changing is easier because the Channel icons are visible when you browse through them. Very neat.
Besides, if you are on vacation, or at a different location and you  wish to record any of your favourite programs, you can do so from your mobile phone directly. Just ensure that your set top box is powered on, when you are away.
So  your mobile phone is now also your remote – what next ?

This is also one of my favourites and I often wonder how I survived without it, so far. The key function of this app is that it gives you the Mumbai Train and Bus Time Tables at the tap of a key !  The train time tables are for Western / Central and Harbour lines. So say, if you are at Andheri and are proceeding towards Churchgate, just fire up this app and it will show you all the trains going from Andheri to Churchgate, from the current time onwards. It has also been updated for the Dahanu Services.

For the bus services, you can just enter From and To locations and you can find the bus routes which take you there. Besides, if you enter a bus route no., it will show you the entire route of the bus.

As a bonus, you have the listings for Cinemas / Drama, Picnic Spots around Mumbai, Railway Megablock information, Indian Railways PNR status check, etc.

If you have installed many apps like me, it is always a pain to search for an app. You know it is there, but it is such a bother to flip through the screens to find it.
Applauncher Plus (Auto Organizer) is just what you need. It is an app drawer, that automatically organizes your apps based on Google Play categories e.g. Books, News, Business, Communication, etc. Just allow the app to build the database for a few minutes depending on the number of apps installed, you can even close the app while its building. Once it automatically organizes the Apps, it becomes easy to locate them ! It is so simple.

You can also create your own custom groups, but beware, if you have to reinstal your system for whatever reason, the groupings will vanish and you will have to do it again.
In case you would like to uninstal multiple Apps in a Category, or the entire category, App Launcher + will help you do that in a jiffy !

A great tool for those with a large repository of apps !

Once you have installed and activated the app, you need to add a browser extension of Mighty Text on Chrome or Firefox. Having done that, all your text messages which come on your phone, will also come on your browser. You can forward or edit the messages and also cut and paste easily from anywhere else.  You can also store your messages online for upto 6 months. Your phone directory will be auto-loaded in the Mighty Text directory and you can send messages to multiple recipients and groups.

A new feature, recently added, is that you can auto-load the pictures that you take on the phone, to your browser. Once on your browser, you can share the pics, download them or delete them !  A real time-saver and conveniently efficient !