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Too Many Spam Emails? Email on Deck Is Here To Rescue You

Have you ever wondered why you get so many promotional emails from companies you never shared your email with? I used to wonder the same. But last year I found out how.

A company which gives free Photoshop design files were selling emails to other companies. I don’t want to link to that site but will give you a brief on how they work. They source PSD files from across the web with the permission of the designers who are already giving it for free. This website has so many files that it a lot of people depend on this, making it a successful website. So designers think they are getting a good exposure. Now coming to the downloading part. This website doesn’t allow you to download the file directly from their website, they email you the download link. So when you enter the email they store it and sell it to marketers who spam you. Huh! Solution to this?

You can do many things to protect your email. But I am going to focus on one method and I think this is the best one.

Creating temporary emails is the best thing to do in such cases. There are many temporary email address providers but my favorite is Email on Deck. Within 2 clicks you will get a temporary email and start receiving emails. Compared to other similar services, Email on Deck is the most user-friendly. They guide you through each step. Once you are done, you can click on the “Forget this email and get another” button and your email will be deleted and no one would be able to use it again.

Another feature I like is the email recovery feature. If you have an email token, you can recover the email which you used earlier. You can find the email token at the bottom of the page where you receive the emails. Only you can recover your emails, no one else can.

Go ahead and try the service and let me know what you think via the comments.

July 1, 2017
This App Completely Removes The Awkwardness When Sharing Money With Friends

I love my friends and spending time with them is the best thing to do after a hectic week. Most of us love to try new restaurants and we don’t hesitate to travel to try new food. Well after enjoying the amazing food, when the bill comes one of us takes our smartphone to calculate and divide the bill. This gets bit awkward when someone doesn’t have change, someone pays for someone, someone doesn’t have cash and wants to pay using his card, etc… Messy right? To avoid this we decided that one of us will pay the bills and once we reach home we will transfer the amount to the one who paid. Well, some of them had free food as they didn’t transfer the cash even after a couple of months. The one who paid doesn’t bother asking because it’s embarrassing for him and doesn’t want to ask his friends.

The solution for all the awkwardness above is here. Let me introduce you to Mypoolin. I came across Mypoolin when we were planning our office trip, one of my colleagues introduced it to me and I was really impressed by the app. Initially, our office was supposed to pay for the trip but because of cost cutting they decided to cancel the trip and we decided to fund ourselves.

All it took me to set up Mypoolin was less than 5 mins. I had to enter the total costing and share per person. Mypoolin did rest of the work. Mypoolin sends messages and reminders automatically to everyone on a periodic basis and payments started coming in. People who didn’t pay got automated notification about deadlines, I didn’t have to do a single thing to remind them. People who have planned trips will know the pain. We had a wonderful trip and I still use Mypoolin for any group activity we do. From paying to food to paying for gifts we buy in a group. The app has many payment options including my favorite PayTM. People who don’t have this app can also send payments to you.

Go ahead and try Mypoolin and let me know your feedback using the comment box below.

Click here to download from your preferred app store or using their website version.

May 15, 2017
Fusioo: The Most Flexible CRM & Project Management Software
Finding a CRM & project management software for Short of the Month was a huge task. We have 5 teams working on different things for the same festival. These different teams are:
1. Selection Team
2. Operation Team
3. Design Team
4. Filmmaker Support Team
5. Review Team
We don’t a have the same workflow every month. At times Selection team has to work with the Design team and at times with review team. Most of the project management software out there didn’t give us the option to do this. Most of them had a simple straight flow. But we needed something which could assign tasks to someone or a team with a simple click. With Fusioo communicating with team members was never so easy. Grab someone’s attention to a talk or project by mentioning them. Fusioo helps us work the way we want. They gave us the freedom to do anything.

Another great feature which makes Fusioo my favorite is integrations. We use around 5-6 other apps to run Short of the Month including WordPress, Slack, Twilio, etc. Fusioo’s Zapier integration makes it easier to connect with other apps. I’ll be soon writing about automation and how it helped us save a lot of time and yes Fusioo is going to be featured in that article.

Fusioo is not like other CRM and project management software out there. Fusioo makes you feel like a god with all the functions and flexibility it offers. When a team member makes a request to make some changes to the workspace, I can implement it in minutes. With our previous CRM, I had to wait for a developer to do it for me. Fusioo’s onboarding helps you get to know every tool they provide without much confusion. They have made an amazing app.

You can try Fusioo for 14-days for free and if you like their features you can continue using it for $9 per month(if paid yearly).
August 28, 2016
Quit Sugar App – The Ultimate App Which Will Help You Reduce Your Sugar Intake

I consume a lot of sugar on a daily basis. I don’t smoke, drink or doesn’t do any kind of drugs. My eating habits were also healthy. For breakfast, I have light Indian food made Mom, for lunch salads, for dinner again light Indian food and for snacks biscuits and stuff. I followed this diet because I have a desk job and doesn’t move around much and this diet kept me thin(not exactly, still gained weight). I was under the impression that staying thin means staying healthy.

Recently I was browsing the interwebs and an article on boston.com caught my eyes. The article was titled “Experts agree sugar is “as addictive as cocaine” – The Quit Sugar App can help consumers beat the habit“. Out of curiosity I read the article and was a bit concerned about it. Being an Indian I eat a lot of sugary food, most of our breakfast contains some sort of sugar item. I researched about sugar addiction and found out that sugar is everywhere. Some kind od sodas, juices, ice-cream, bread, ketchup, etc. Some researchers even said that sugar is the most damaging substance that we can ingest.

So I decided to stop intaking sugar. Me being me started eating sweets again on the third day. I started searching for a motivational partner, this always helps me. My salad habit is still going on because of my partner. But couldn’t find anyone to quit my sugar habit because every Indian is crazy about sweets and didn’t want to join me.

This is when the app which was mentioned on boston.com came to my mind. Downloaded it and it was perfect. Who needs human partners when you can have perfect apps like these.

Quit Sugar App is a sugar tracking tool for iPhone and iPad users. It has features like sugar tracking, mood tracking, and weight tracking. It’s designed to help users steadily, consistently (and permanently) reduce the amount of sugar they consume. There are no shortcuts or any magic, just follow the app and in 8 weeks you’ll see the results.

Quit Sugar App is available on App Store and you can download it here.

I’m enjoying the app with all the amazing features, especially the gamification. Let me know your experience via comments. Happy Sugar quitting. 🙂

June 23, 2016