Tech Learning

Imagine... You are all alone at home, with no snacks and definitely no pocket money. Unfortunately, you are the kind of person who, while entering the kitchen to prepare a recipe, is expelled by your wife or parents! But you are starving and want SOMETHING to eat!!! Relax... AI is here to save you. An AI-powered digital chef named Chef GPT can generate recipes and assist in the kitchen. In essence, it uses Open AI's GPT-3 (an AI platform) to meticulously create a special recipe depending on the ingredients you have provided. Chef GPT is super simple to use:  1) Enter the ingredients you have.  2) Select the kitchen tools that can be accessed by you.  3) Set the timespan in which the recipe should be finished.  4) In this step, you have to let the system know whether you are a Beginner (Novice), intermediate, or expert so that it can personalize the results for you. 5) While selecting the chef mode, you have 2 options: Gourmet Mode : This uses only the best possib...

         For at least an hour daily, you'll be scrolling through YouTube shorts or reels where you'll come across amusing memes, crazy video edits, sports moments, etc. At that moment, you'll say, "Oh! I really want to add this video to my status and story". So want do you do? You'll either go to a third-party website that can read all your data, or you'll screen record, which is the worst option, in my opinion😶 I came across an app on GitHub which solves this issue!!! Seal is an excellent app for Android smartphones that lets you download any video from any platform across the web, whether it's YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and so on... As the above pic speaks, this app has a clean user interface based on stock Android .  Here are 3 reasons why you should consider downloading Seal: 1) The User Experience :  The app's based on stock Android and looks elegant and polished. There are no unnecessary features and most importantly, ...

    Fun fact : Due to some fantastic software tools, I made my 7-year-old smartphone, which was taking more than 2 minutes to open WhatsApp, run super smooth with improved battery health! In continuation to the previous  post on hardware, let me discuss the software side... Smartphone software allows us to unlock the full potential of our device. As the definition goes, 'software is a set of instructions that tells the hardware what to do' we should know some of the essential software hacks and tricks to use our devices like a pro! I'll divide my write-up into 5 categories: Homescreen and essential apps Shortcuts and convenience tools Storage management and cloud storage Battery management and bug prevention My special tricks 1) Homescreen and essential apps: # The appearance of the Homescreen defines how a person uses his/her phone.  Grouping similar apps into folders help us to find them quickly and make our home screen look elegant.  # Using widgets helps ...

      Hey! It's been a long time since my last post... Sorry for the delay :) "Smartphones entered the world as a luxury; gradually, they became a necessity."  In today's world, almost every person on earth uses a smartphone. From a baby listening to "Baby Shark do do do," to boys and girls playing video games, and using social media, to uncles and aunties using it for official work, to grandma and grandpa using it to watch TV serials on Voot, and to send "WhatsAppuu" messages :) But... there are some minor, essential things that you must follow to efficiently use your smartphone.  Myths Busted! I'll categorize my write-up into 2 parts: Hardware (Part-I) Software (Part-II) => Hardware 1) Smartphone heating: When we play games with high graphics or render HD videos, the phone will be hot to the touch, and many think that the phone's battery is hot! But it's not... The processor performing these heavy load tasks will be heated up , an...

How to use your smartphone as a webcam? Your smartphone is probably one of the best webcam you own. Well most of the people don't know that and struggle with the low quality camera in their laptop. This might be a major problem to students and some people who attend online classes or meetings during this COVID situation. So a simple way to solve this problem is to download an application known as IP Webcam. This is an app that allows you to convert your smartphone into a webcam. It lets you to add up to 64 cameras that you can view on the main screen in different layouts. Isn’t that amazing. Follow these simple steps: Download the IP Webcam application from the Google Play Store( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam&hl=en_US ) or from the App Store.  After you give the necessary permissions, it will display a URL. You just need to type the URL in your PC or laptop, straight away you’ll be seeing a live view from you...

How to send WhatsApp messages, SMS in future Imagine that tomorrow is your best friend’s birthday. So, your goal is to send your wishes before anyone does it (i.e. mid night 12 o clock). How to do it easily? Well, SKEDit is the app which you should use. SKEDit is a free and easy-to-use scheduling app that lets you schedule WhatsApp messages, SMS, posts, etc. This is one of the top-rated Android scheduling app that help you to put your communication to the autopilot effect. You can download SKEDit easily from the Google Play Store   ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codefish.sqedit&hl=en_IN ) Steps: 1.       In the app select the service in which you want to schedule. 2.       Add one or more recipients and type the content which you want to send. 3.       Now set the date and time and whether you want to send it once or repeatedly. There, you're done sche...

How to send Emails in future Think of a situation where you need to send an important email to your friend the next day, but another work sticks up. Then do you think of sending an email in the future? Yes, there is a way. Boomerang for Gmail is such a handy tool.   Boomerang for Gmail ( http://www.boomeranggmail.com/ )   is a Chrome and Firefox plugin (does not work on explorer) that allows you to take all the control over sending and receiving an email. To get started with Boomerang,  visit the Boomerang and click install. After installing the app, follow the instruction manual or the instruction screen. Now, whenever you log in to Gmail, this Boomerang feature would be enabled, i.e., it will be situated below the ‘send’ button as ‘send later’. You can write your email normally, and when you click on ‘send later,’ a menu appears where you can enter or select the time and date to send the email. It can also make any chosen email reappear at a situat...

'Complete for Gmail' is a free browser extension for Google Chrome that brings predictive text typing technology. Complete App allows Gmail users to type faster than normal, by building database of regularly used words and English phrases. This not only make Email composing faster but also make it grammatically correct. To install 'Complete' for Gmail visit  www.complete.li  Thanks to the book 'Stretch your technology-EMAIL @' by Ankit Fadia.