WiFi Tester

WiFi TesterThis is a simple App which does a quick check of your WiFi Network. You can run a quick security scan and check if your wireless LAN is exposed to common threats such as WPS & WPA vulnerabilities. You can even dive deep into your Local Area Network (LAN) to discover potential security loopholes.

Apart from the security of your Network, the app also has a SpeedTest feature where you can determine the speed and health of your WiFi and LAN connection.

Once you detect security flaws, if any, you can get actionable insights to fortify your device and ensure maximum safety.

Apart from it being a great app for your home and office, it could be a valuable tool when you are using unknown public / private networks while travelling.

Android : https://bit.ly/3M24una

Crook Catcher

CrookCatcherCrookCatcher is an app that takes a picture of someone who tries to unlock your phone without your knowledge, with a wrong PIN, password or pattern. It uses Android’s built-in lock screen for a seamless and secure experience. It then secretly emails you the picture of the person trying to unlock your phone, along with the GPS location and the estimated address.

Once installed, it will lie idle in the background and gets activated automatically when someone enters an incorrect password or PIN. The free version does all this efficiently.

The paid version can take multiple pictures with both cameras, record a sound clip, sound an alarm, show custom message to the thief, and much more.

A very useful app for catching thieves!

Android : https://bit.ly/4diNq8y

AI Calorie Counter – Lose It!

AI Calorie Counter is your ultimate diet tracker and weight loss companion, powered by ChatGPT. It’s not just a calorie counter, it’s a comprehensive food tracker designed to help you lose it, achieve a calorie deficit, and maintain a healthy diet.

You can easily track your daily calorie intake – just tell the app what you have eaten and it will calculate the calories for you. You can even take a pic of your meal and it should be able to recognize the food items for you!

Chat casually with your AI assistant for dietary advice – you can just ask it to recommend a dinner idea based on the lunch you have taken and you will get instant suggestions!

Once you have logged your meals, you can received detailed analysis of the components and the calories consumed. Set the target weight to be achieved and it will guide you on your progress day by day.

An interesting daily AI assisted Calorie Counter which not only records your progress, but also reminds you of logging your meals so that you do not miss out on anything you take in!

Android :  https://bit.ly/3S5gEit       iOS : https://apple.co/4f3RvP6 (Similar)

Tooly – Tiny Tools Collection

Tooly is a very useful app that contains a lot of tools for students, teachers, developers or office staff. It offers text tools, calculation tools, colors tools, image tools and other offline tools to make your work easier and safer.

Text Tools provide stylish fonts and multiple styles to change and enhance your text. Image tools can help you change the structure of your image. You can easily resize images, crop them, touch them up and edit them. Calculation Tools have algebra, geometry, area, perimeter or shape-related information in 3D or 2D shapes. Unit Converter contains various conversions for length, weight, area, temperature, etc. Programming tools enable you to create an organized page for your codes.

You can access all kinds of tools quickly using the search bar inside the app.

Tooly is a nifty app which puts together multiple tools in one place in an easy to use app.

Android : https://bit.ly/4f2lCq2

LocalSend: FOSS Airdrop

We all have multiple devices at home / office and  very often, we need cross-platform compatibility for transferring files between devices. The files could be audio, video, text or images.

LocalSend resolves this problem very smoothly. Just install it on multiple devices on the same wi-fi network and enable send / receive. The app is very simple to use. It connects on peer to peer mode and does not need any external server.

You can easily transfer files from Windows Computer to Linux Computer to Mac to iPhone to Android to Android TV too! You can enable / disable encryption. If encryption is disabled, the speed increases dramatically. And there is no limit to the file size.

A very simple tool which is open-source and cross-platform and totally free to use – no ads, no tracking no hidden charges!

Try it – you may not need anything else for local file transfer.

https://localsend.org/

Reading Mode in Google Chrome

Many websites, especially news and general interest websites, which are free, carry a large number of advertisements to help pay for the content. It becomes irritating to wade through the ads to read the main content.

Google Chrome has now introduced – Reading Mode – to take care of this. So now, whenever you are on a website with many ads and you wish to focus on the text content of the website, just enable Reading Mode and you can read the content as plain text.

Reading Mode can be enabled in 2 ways – on a page with lots of text, just right click on any text area – you will find an option in the list saying – Open in Reading Mode. Alternatively, on the top right hamburger menu, you can click on More Tools and then on Reading Mode. Under both options a panel will pop up on the right, with plain text.

You may resize the panel, change the text to your preferred font, change the font size and change the background color scheme to your liking. You can also choose the line spacing and letter spacing for easy reading comfort. And, if you want to browse through multiple pages on the same site, you even have an option to pin the Reading Mode, so that it stays throughout your stay on that site.

This is free and available on all latest updated versions of Chrome.

Try it, you will really enjoy reading stuff online for hours!

Ghostwrite

Are you tired of writing emails? Do you spend substantial time composing long emails? Stop wasting your valuable time and use AI to automate your email writing.

Install the Ghostwrite extension for Chrome or Outlook and start writing emails with just a few prompts. Ghostwrite is an AI tool that writes your emails using ChatGPT and other AI technologies. Your writing process will be automated so that you can spend more time on things that matter.

Once you install the extension, whenever you compose a new email, Ghostwrite will prompt ask you to tell it what the email is about. If it is a reply to an existing email, it will understand the context by reading it. You then need to give a few words on telling it about the content of the email you want to write. It will further prompt you to decide what Style you want to write in, what is the Tone (Professional / Casual), what is the Length of the email and what is the Language of the response. Then just click on Write and your email is composed automatically, magically.

The first 100 emails every month are free and if you are a heavy email composer, you may have to pay a nominal monthly fee beyond that.

https://www.ghostwrite.rip/

Cool the Globe

Are you serious about caring for the Planet? Want to know what is your carbon footprint? Want to do something about it yourself?

Cool the Globe is the app for you. Just enter details of your daily travel, your appliances, the materials you use (including plastics), forest / tree plantations etc., and it will immediately let you know your carbon footprint. It will also indicate choices which you have in your daily travel / consumption / food, etc. to help you improve your carbon footprint.

The app will instantly calculate your GHG wastage / savings which you can save on a daily basis. You can then share your scores on Social Media with family and friends and help create a movement for reducing emissions and cooling the earth!

Be the change – join this citizen-led movement for climate action!

Very cool, huh?

https://www.cooltheglobe.org/

Android : https://bit.ly/3Xb5Q63               iOS : https://apple.co/4c3iUOM

Xume : Health Food Scanner App

Groceries now have ratings!

We all want to eat healthy, but do not know how to analyse the food products which we buy. It is almost impossible to sort through and decode all the perplexing and contradictory health claims and counterclaims mentioned on the labels.Xume’s  food scanner takes the con out of consumption by giving personalised health scores. No more demystifying food ingredient lists, decoding nutrition information or getting fooled by product claims.

All you have to do is to scan the bar-code on the label of the food item you have and it will give you detailed information about its ingredients and nutritional information, along with a rating – whether it is healthy enough to consume. If it is rated as unhealthy, it will also suggest healthier alternatives. And, if there are any concerns in some ingredients, it will highlight those too! An important tab shows you how processed the food item is, along with a Taste Meter to tell you how tasty it is.

While at a supermarket or shopping online, you can scan the packaging before you actually decide to buy any food item.

The first few scans are free and to continue using it, you may have to subscribe for a paid version.

If you are serious about your health and the foods you eat, this is the app for you!

Android :  https://bit.ly/4aT52pk    iOS : https://apple.co/3x5k11F

Summarize.tech

We often come across lengthy YouTube videos which may be useful but time consuming. We just want to know the summary of the content without having to go through the entire video.

Summarize.tech is a very useful tool to get a text summary of the entire video within seconds. Just head to summarize.tech, paste the YouTube or Video link in the space provided and within seconds, you will get a simple text summary of the entire video in a single paragraph. If you wish to see an elaborate summary of a lengthy video, you may scroll down and see the detailed summary broken up over the entire timeline.

It even works on Hindi and Hinglish Videos!

The free version of summarize.tech has daily limits of just a few videos a day. The premium version has no daily limits, and you can summarize up to 200 videos a month.

A very valuable tool if you are short of time and want the summary instantly!

https://www.summarize.tech/