Wednesday, 1 February 2017

Top 7 apps that can make your college life easier





Who said studying in a college an easy task? You need to manage your savings, you need to manage your travels from the college to coaching to your PGs and Flats. And you also have some friends who would ask for money and would never return them.
You also have to eat out, so probably you would be looking to have some awesome deals.
In the age of Smart phones, there are number of applications available, those would not only make your college life easier, but would also make it cheaper. 

Here is a list of the apps, that would surely make your college life easier:


Cam Scanner: Cam Scanner is the best app that can help you save your time and money. It is easy to use and works on the go. Scanning documents are one of the major needs for the students as to exchange notes they make a copy of those notes, would click a picture or more over pay approx 5-10 bucks a page which you don't even have to as now it's just an app away.
All you need is to follow some simple steps to scan your study material or any other document needed.
It uses your camera and automatically adjusts the edges and keeps the remaining image to be adjusted manually so that if the excess area is important for you that can be adjusted in the later part.
It can be said that this is a handy scanner from which you can scan probably any document and can retrieve the file in almost all the formats needed with no cost.

Coursera: If you are one of those who want to learn the best out of there college life and want to master the subject you are interested in so this will be the best option for you to upgrade your knowledge and get some extra certificates added to your college life. Moreover it is free of cost and you can take several classes at the same time and the classes are recorded so you won't even have the fear of loosing your lecture as you can play the recorded part late unless you want to ask real time queries to the professor's on the forum chat. The best part about coursera is  that you also get the targets. tests and projects to complete to get on to level up and get on next stage. You will be charges but that will be nominal and that to for the certification from a reputed University's which can be beneficial for your interviews and GMAT.

SelfControl: This app is for those who often get distracted while studying mostly at the time of exams. It blocks all your activity on the internet and the website that can distract you from your studies. All you need to do is update the website URL in the blacklist column and you are good to go. Afterwork will be done by this app as soon as you set the time frame of your study it will ban all the websites listed in the blacklist and you won't be able to access them until the time laps no matter you keep the application in your phone or not.

AppBlock: Blocks all the application as per your instructions if not needed. You can also configure it for weekdays and weekends as per your need and it can be pre-configured for all actions to be taken. While blocking the applications it also blocks all the notifications as well. 

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Ridlr: Is an app that gives you real time update for traffic, public transport and also let's you recharge your metro card. By this you will be aware about the timings and can adjust your plans accordingly. Currently the application is  functional in Mumbai.

Alarmy: As rightly said  "The most annoying alarm app ever" the application is a night mare for late sleepers as now you have to perform certain tasks to turn the alarm siren off. The actions include of taking a snap at a registered place and also saves those pics for later review purpose. Alarmy also uses calculator to make your mind active and perform calculations when you feel like going to bed again.

Toshl: Keeps a record of your pocket money so that at the you can adhere to your budget and can spend wisely. It also reminds you of your due's keeps full record of income and expenditure for you so that at the end of the month you can review where you need to put a pause and at what part you are doing fine.

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