5 smartphone apps that make your photos look better

Smartphone cameras have replaced regular camera. No vacation or moment is complete without memories in the form of pictures. Sometimes some places are so beautiful that you won't need these apps. 

For every other time, we bring you 5 apps that will make your photos look better than normal:

1. Vintique (iOS and Android)




It is a perfect app if you want to apply vintage effects to your photos. This app is a huge success among young generation. This app applies effect in real time and delivers image that you see in preview. You get more than 100 filters and each one of it is distinct and good.

2. Boomerang (iOS and Android)






This app comes from the team behind Instagram. It helps you create mini videos back and forth loop effect. This app captures 10 photos in a burst, stitches them together and removes any glitches to serve you final video.

No sign up is required and you can also use front camera in this app.






3. Fyuse (iOS and Android)






Concept on which this app runs is very unique. It enables you to capture 3D photos of any subject. It requires you to capture images from different angles and with information  from your phone's accelerometer, gravity and sensors it brings the best 3D effect to your pic.











4. Horizon Camera (iOS and Android)




This app is more on videos than on images. It helps you make videos from horizontal angle at all times, no matter the position of your phone. It auto levels your videos so that they are parallel to the ground. Surprisingly, it offers a slow motion feature also.








5. LiveBlend (iOS Only)
What i like about this app is that it is the only app that gives images double exposure in real time. What i don't like is one has to pay Rs. 60 for it.This app lets you capture double exposure videos in full HD resolution.

Morden Men impress women by overeating: Study

Men dating women at absorbingly stunning locations can only go one step further if accompanied by finger licking food at a fashion restaurant or hotel.

Maybe it's due to evolution of men from the era of cavemen or is it a tactic to impress gone wrong but Cornell University researchers have found that men tend to eat significantly more in the presence of fairer sex.

The study says that this behavior could be motivated by a hardwired male urge to demonstrate prowess. It further revealed that men who dine with women consume 86-93% more food than in exclusive company of men.

The important question is "what do women dining with these men think?"

The study found out that these women felt rushed during the meal and that they were the ones who ate much. Strange though!

What do you think about this study? leave comments..

How govt is cheating common public in the name of Swachh Bharat Cess

This diwali government exploded a huge bomb not only on India Inc. but common public as well. In Budget 2015 finance minister made way for levy of Swachh Bharat Cess (SBC) to the extent of max 2% on all or select services. This clearly meant hike in cost of services.

On November 6, 2015 CBEC issued notifications levying SBC to the extent of 0.5% on taxable services from November 15, 2015. On plain reading, it seems a very concerned government as they levied only 0.5% and not 2% but unfortunately, that's not case. Let's see how: 

These notifications issued by CBEC did not provide any clarity on credit admissibility of SBC (credit admissibility is embedded in a tax chain to set off tax paid on input services against tax paid on output services and only tax charged on final leg is received by government). Based on industry representations, few days later, CBEC clarified through a press release and FAQs that 'credit of SBC would not be available'. This announcement has a huge impact. Negative!

No cenvat credit of SBC means this will have a cascading effect - tax on tax effect. Therefore, the effective tax rate will be higher than 14.5% (14% ST + 0.5% SBC). This will eventually hit P&L or be passed on to consumer. In all likelihood, it will be passed on to consumer. On the other hand, government collects much more revenue than it would have had it allowed credit of SBC.

It seems a very smart move of fooling people and generating higher revenue. So, the concerned reduced levy of 0.5% and not 2% is spoiled by inadmissibility of cenvat credit as the ultimate effect could by 2% or higher. All this would eventually bring hike in services costing and taxes applicable on it. Bad days for consumers!

5 simple ways to increase battery life of your smartphone

Most smartphones today carry high resolution, top notch features, premium camera and lots more. This is often not backed by a good battery life. Given the huge sales number of powerbanks is testimony to bad battery life smartphones carry.

1. Go for paid apps, not free apps
Almost all free apps are ad supported and this kills battery life by 2.5 to 2.1 hours on average, a study conducted revealed. To quote the study - a phone's processor is like its brain - and ads eat up a lot of brain power. Thus, slowing it down.

Not all free apps drain your phone's speed. But if you lots of ads on it, its a cause for concern.

2. Turn off Location tracking
Most smartphone users don't realize that lots of apps use location services and have a massive impact on battery drainage. Therefore, turning off location tracking for apps will certainly help in improving battery life.

3. Partial charging is better than full charging
Instead of letting your battery drain to zero and then charge, keeping the depth of discharge between 30%-80% can increase the number of discharge cycles by three times.

4. Play with brightness 
Have often noticed smartphone users keep brightness to max and largely it is due to ignorance. Smartphone sellers max up the brightness to help sell the phone.

A little tweaking with brightness (reducing it) can help increase battery life.

5. Discover flight mode
The phone's distance to a cellular tower is known to affect standby time as well. So, if you are in area with no network coverage, put phone to flight mode. By doing this, your phone will stop looking for tower and thus, battery life can be conserved.

Hope, the aforementioned tips help you save some battery life. In case you have any more tips to share, please comment. 

Djokovic is the best; Federer still fan's favourite

Novac Djokovic - World No.1 tennis player who hails from Serbia has been awarded as the winner of the ATP World Tour No.1  for the second consecutive year. He will receive the award for the fourth time in total.

Numero uno player has won 3 out 4 grand slam tournaments this year - Aussie Open, Wimbledon and US Open.

Meanwhile, Roger Federer has been awarded with the Stefan Edberg sportsmanship award for the eleventh time. He also won fans' favorite award for the 13th straight year.

The world number one and Fedex will now play in the ATP Worl Tour Finals from November 15.

These places are so beautiful that you don't need instagram

Travel and clicking pics is one soul connection (7 must know things if you are a traveller) that will last the travel lifetime. Thereafter, spending time beautifying them through apps like Instagram is now-a-days necessity - trying to look better than real life.

But if you sneak peak into #nofilter on Instagram, you shall come across some of the breath taking locales in the world. These places are so beautiful that putting a filter to them is insane.

A popular site Busbud has done an analysis of over a million pics posted on Instagram and tagged #nofilter and shortlisted top 5 places in the world which need no filter. Here they are:

1. Bahamas

2. Iceland

3. Finland

4. Croatia

5. Canada

Apart from these - Maldives got the most number of likes on its pics with #nofilter post. Lastly, the analysis also found that some pics under #nofilter carried filters. Cheaters.