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Start Your Journey With these Amazing Deals On VR Hardware

When I got my first cardboard VR kit I was as excited as the day I got my LEGO kit when I was a child. Cardboard VR’s were a blessing when the mobile VR kits were introduced because the kits were expensive. They were being sold for around $500+ whereas cardboard was not more than $10. This was 4 years back and still now VR headsets being sold for more than $500. I never got a VR headset all these years because it was an evolving tech and I am pretty sure my $500 headset won’t matter after a year because new stuff is coming out daily. So I wanted to wait for sometime. I am not a guy who waits around, I have zero patience but my friend owned an HTC Vive, so I used to use that whenever possible.

Last month I came across an ad and found a website called The VRShop.co. And it happened, I got my first proper VR headset for mobile. It was so cheap that I was afraid that the quality might not be up to the mark. But to my surprise, the headset was good quality. I also got an HTC VIVE PU Leather Face foam replacement for my friend and he was happy with the quality. Well! They got me, both the products came in good condition and great quality. I have this bad habit of ordering more stuff when I find out a site which had quality stuff for a cheap price. They have listed PlayStation 4 VR and that’s going to be my next purchase along with Playstation VR Bag.

You guys should try them, whether you are new to VR or already own VR headsets. If you don’t want to spend much right now and would like to experience it, you should try the Virtoba V2 Cardboard 2.0, it’s just $9.99 and it will give a similar experience of a normal VR headset. Exclusive discount for our readers. Use the code “Low10” while checking out to get a flat 10% discount. Enjoy!

March 27, 2018
PublBox brings Social Media Strategising, Curating, Designing, Scheduling and Publishing under One Umbrella

From day one of my marketing career I keep hearing “Content is King” and yes it is. With the right content, you can sell your product without any hassles. I come across various brands and I go blank when it comes to finding the right content to share. Keeping content interesting and informative is not a small task. It starts with finding the information and then turning that into an image with the help of a designer or turning it into a video. I don’t publish anything on my social media pages without an image or a video. But this takes up a lot of time. Coordinating with the designers or the video editors is a pain when you are not with them in the same room. I tried a couple of designing software out there, but those didn’t help much because it involved a lot of moving around. First I had to design on one website and later download that and then again upload it to the post scheduling site. For a bit, I did this but it got too time-consuming.

Last week I came across PublBox like I’ve mentioned the headline, they bring everything to one single website. PublBox helps you with Content Strategy, scheduling, designing your posts and more. I just love how they suggest content type and also how they suggest a picture along with it. The picture which is suggested can also be edited using the drag and drop image designer.

They are still working on amazing new features which included “Post ideas”. The “Post ideas” is every social media managers dream for sure. There are times when we run out of ideas. I checked out their content strategy and it was pretty neat and relevant, so I am sure that “post ideas” is also going to suggest relevant ideas. Other than English they are available in 5 different languages.

I hope in future they integrate with Zapier. I would be soon writing about how I have automated my marketing with Zapier. I am still playing around with Zapier, just giving you guys a heads up. I would like to see a Zapier integration for PublBox.

Now coming to the support. They have a live chat support system, I was able to get hold of a customer service executive within 5-10 mins. He helped me with my issues and sorted it within minutes.

Try out PublBox and let me know your thoughts.

January 25, 2018
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
This Is Possibly The Best Way To Play Checker Using Your Smartphone

Augmented Reality(AR) is slowly taking over the world. I’ve been keenly following all the buzz from the AR industry and being a gamer I am more than excited. I got a pair of Google Cardboard as soon as it was available in my area and oh boy it was one of the best day. When Microsoft announced Hololens back in 2014 I was way too much excited about it but my excitement level came down when I came to know how expensive it was going to be. But the following year’s developers started using the power of smartphone devices and started making AR games around it. I’ve been using my Cardboard headset to enjoy these games but after a while, my head started to pain. So I slowly reduced my cardboard usage and later completely stopped using it. I really wished I could play AR games without a headset.

I think my wish has come true. I came across an amazing AR game. The app is called CheckARs. It’s Checkers in AR, I really loved how they creatively included both ‘Checkers ‘ and ‘AR’ in their game title. For those who doesn’t know what checkers is, let me give you a short description.

Checkers is a very old board game which is around since the 12th century. You need a checkerboard(see image) and a couple of pieces depending on the size of your board.

Now let’s talk about the AR game. CheckARs brings the checkerboard and the pieces as a virtual object into the real world and creates a mixed reality. It allows you to place the checkerboard anywhere in your surrounding. You can place the virtual checkerboard on any physical object, unlike other AR games which require you to place a device on the surface or asks you to print and scan QR codes.

My best feature is that I can play the game with my friends sitting face to face. Just like how they share the same dream in Inception, you share the virtual environment with your friend. How cool is that?

Too long to read? Check out the video below and get to know more about the game. If you have an android device check out the game here. Let me know your thoughts using the comment box below.

April 29, 2017
Cheapest Laptops With Windows 10 & 1 TB Hard Disk In India

Previous financial year went for me. I’ll be moving to new office space to accommodate more people. Will be sharing more about my growth on my blog here. In this article I want to focus on some research I’ve been doing while scouting the web for new machines for my new office. When I was scouting for new laptops my requirements were Windows 10, 1 TB HDD space, 4GB RAM, decent inbuilt graphics card and the price to be something which comes under my budget.

Before going to my local dealer I check the pricing online to finalize some models. As usual I logged in to top e-commerce players in the country. They did provide me a list of cheap laptops but upon checking the reviews I noticed that most of the reviews are fake and more than half of them were paid reviews. Negative reviews showed that those laptops didn’t last long because of many reasons.

I realised these sites are not be trusted. So I turned to some blogs who write genuine reviews. Most of them were lazy blogging or copy pasted stuff. One of the websites which wrote good reviews was Review Station. They have an article names 10 Best Laptops Under 35000 Rs in India (2017) | Review Station and the articles gives a list of cheapest laptops with windows 10 & 1 TB hard disk in India. I really wished I visited this site before wasting my time e-commerce sites which gives you fake reviews. This incident has really changed on how I purchase anything electronics.

Do you know any blog or website which gives genuine reviews after testing out the product, so let me know through comments.

April 8, 2017
Omnipol Is The Only Accounting App We Freelancers Need

I’m a freelancer and I do small scale web development for a friend of mine who is running a digital agency. When I started out it was easy for me to manage my income but when more work came in I was unable to track anything. I wasn’t even sure whether I’m making any profit out of my freelance work. I used to pay my server rents and software subscription prices from the money I got from my full-time job. I knew I was getting a good amount from my freelance work but I wasn’t sure where it was going. I spent it everywhere without any limit.

So I decided to track my income and expense. I began with some free web apps but most of them weren’t reliable. Thanks to Google’s search tracking, I was served an ad about an accounting app named Omnipol. I gave it a try. Well, if you are a constant reader of my blog, you’ve already guessed it. Yes, I loved it. Simple, Elegant and great functionality.

Omnipol has everything a freelancer and small businesses need to manage their income and expense. If I list down all the features they provide, this article is going to be long. So let me write down my favourite features.

Top feature in my favourite list is sending sales quotations and later converting it to sales invoice once the client accepts your order. You’ve no idea how much time you saved there. Try the app and you’ll be blown away. Another feature is the most amazing invoice layout, it’s so beautiful that I just sit there and create invoices just to see all those layouts come live. Plus the pie-charts. I love pie-charts and Omnipol App does pie-charts right. There are many features, why don’t you guys try it once and see it for yourself. Head over to Omnipol and try the app for free. Get your free trial here. Let me know your experience via the comment box.

February 25, 2017
SpyHunter 4: All-In-One Malware Protection For Your Windows PC

Managing 40+ windows machine is a pain. I get around 5 requests everyday saying that some machine is affected by malware which include pop-ups, adware, etc… I was fed up with all the complaints about pages getting redirected or people being served with ads on every page they visit even after installing adblock. The thing about these malwares are that they infect your registry and won’t show up as a program which you can uninstall. And if you mess with the registry without proper knowledge, you’ll end up losing all the data. It’s not a pleasant job to sit on a PC and clean the registry daily.

I tried countless number of Anti-Malware softwares and was disappointed by their performance. They lacked some things when it comes to features and installing multiple Anti-Malwares to get all the features will slow down the PC. I came across SpyHunter 4 while I was searching for a single software which could do everything. SpyHunter didn’t disappoint me.

I installed SpyHunter on 5 PC’s so far and I didn’t get a single complaint from the users about adware or pop ups after that. I’m really impressed and this weekend I’ll be installing SpyHunter in every system at work.

Before SpyHunter I spent almost 4-5 hours per day on malware hunting and now I 1-2 hours. I am sure that after installing SpyHunter on every PC that would go down to 0 hours. All I had to do was install and do a full scan, every single malware was removed and the system was back to normal.

I really wish SpyHunter was available on Mac too. I’ve contacted the devolpers for an update on Mac. Currently it’s compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 & Windows 10. Click here to download SpyHunter.

November 10, 2016
No More Wasting Your Hard Disk Space for Bloated Camera Softwares – Camtaker is Here!

I’m more of a web app person than a software person. I’ve ditched Microsoft Word for Google Docs, Powerpoint for Google Slides, etc. I’ve uninstalled many softwares because there are many better alternatives for them online. And now I’ve discovered my favorite camera web app, Camtaker.

So, why do I uninstall softwares for online apps? There are many factors behind this, but the main one is storage space, Some softwares take a massive amount of your hard disk space, especially Microsoft Office. So I started looking for alternatives. I’ve found alternatives for a lot of my softwares including Photoshop. I’ll be writing a detailed article on my alternate web apps soon in a different article.

Today I’m going to share details about my latest discovery and alternate software for clicking pictures using your webcam. Windows 8 and above comes with a built-in camera app and up until Windows 10 Anniversary update they didn’t allow uninstalling these softwares. But now after the update we can delete these softwares. So I started searching for Camera web apps and found Camtaker.com. It’s a simple website and does what the description says.

You can quickly and easily click photos with the webcam and save to your computer for free. All you have to do is click in the Snapshot button and you are done. You have a nice picture of you for profile picture needs across the web. Camtaker is a simple app and doesn’t confuse you with thousands of buttons or fancy stuff. I think they should add an advanced section where we get to add filters and stuff. I mentioned advanced section because the site is good the way it is now and more features will confuse new users, so instead, an advanced section will help regular users to have more fun.

Try Camtaker here and let me know your experience using the comment box.

October 17, 2016
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
Save Your Money With Coupons And Deals On CashSnap.in

Indian e-commerce is booming since past couple of years and the growth is amazing. A report by Google India shows that there were 35 million online shoppers in India in 2014 Q1 and expected to cross 100 million mark by the end of 2016. We spend a lot on e-commerce sites, most of us like online shopping rather than physically walking to a shop. There are multiple factors for this, my main reason is that I’m lazy. Who wants to drive through the traffic and buy things? That’s me though, I have friends who like to shop physically, they want to touch and feel the item before buying it. So we all have our reasons.

Another reason why I like online shopping is discounts. We all are aware of the discounts online sites provide. Flipkart, when it started, grabbed our attention because of the low price it provided compared to retail stores. We love low price and discounts but let’s not forget cashbacks. Cashback became a thing after e-wallets launched in India. It’s still growing.

There are 100’s of e-commerce websites in India and all of them provide different deals everyday. It’s not an easy task to find these discounts. Well, you can always sit and search through all the websites. Good luck with that. 😉

But there are many sites which list these deals and coupons. But only a couple of them are up-to-date. My favourite of all is CashSnap. Out of 25-30 coupon sites I’ve used only coupons from CashSnap worked every single time. It’s frustrating when a coupon is expired and it’s still listed on the site, but CashSnap coupons always work.

CashSnap has listed all the top e-commerce websites on their site. They provide Amazon coupons, Flipkart coupons, Snapdeal coupons, Paytm coupons and much more. I’m looking forward to having more stores. CashSnap addresses the main issue which other coupon sites haven’t addressed so far. They don’t have expired coupons. All the coupons I used so far worked and this is something I look when I use a coupon site.

Try CashSnap today and let me know your experience via comments. Happy shopping. 🙂

July 25, 2016