Tips & Tricks

Using Ding app, web site and store at over 600,000 retail outlets worldwide, you can top-up prepaid mobiles. The top-up will be instant, that allows the receiver to use the credit to make a call, text, or access data immediately. Very convenient way to manage the prepaid mobile top-up back home for your parents, friends and family with 400+ mobile operators in 130+ countries.

As far I know there is no direct way to print out a Facebook post or comment from the app. I noticed this when I wanted to take a print out of  one of the useful posts. Only way I could able to take a print out was to copy the post text into notes and use the print option from notes. Surprisingly notes could retain all the formatting from the Facebook post as is and came out good in the print out. Once the wireless printer is set up in your phone, you would want to do all the print out only from phone. Hence It’ll be helpful to include print option as default in all the apps.

T-Mobile One wireless plan includes Texting & data abroad. As part of the plan you can text and use the data in 140+ countries and destinations with no additional roaming charges. Another good thing is, T-Mobile includes all the taxes & fees in the plan price.

You might be eligible for savings for your qualified AT&T wireless service through your employer, school, or other association. You can easily check this in AT&T web site instantly by submitting your work or school email address. If you are eligible, it'll show in your plan as something similar to '20% AT&T Signature Program discount included'.  It's a huge saving every month so don't let it go.

You can play non-stop Ilaiyaraaja's music using his official Maestro's Music app. At present, it has the collection of all the Tamil movies that Ilayaraja composed. Just for $21.99/year for unlimited music it's really good. You can create your own play list with the songs from all Ilaiyaraaja's movies. All the songs are digitally mastered that gives very pleasant listening experience as oppose to the mp3 version of songs downloaded from internet which are usually inferior in quality.

Google maps supports using voice search option in 50+ languages.  If you speak more than one language it’s cool to try  this option  in your local or preferred  language. Go to settings in google maps and select voice search option to change to your preferred language. Actually when you try searching in maps after changing the language, search text also getting displayed in that language. This is very helpful for someone who knows only a language other than English.

Life360 is a family networking app with that family members can share the location and track realtime. When my kids go on a trip, I can track them and plan to pick them up by knowing their current location, and how long it'll take to come to the pickup point. Other benefits are it also shows the remaining battery life in family members cell phones and available for all the mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Windows Mobile). You can also get directions to the current location of a family member, since Life360 integrates with Google Maps and passes the coordinates.

By default IPhone organizes the photos as collections which are named  by the place or date of the photo was taken. Another easy way to access specific photos are through ‘memories’ that are grouped with easy to recollect titles. If these are not enough to get the photos organized then you can create your own albums with easy to remember name. Save all relevantly photos into the specific album for easy access when needed.

With the mobile app provided by Digital Federal Credit Union,members can deposit check using their devices. Download the app and login to your account. Using the deposit option you can take the picture of the check using device’s camera and submit for deposit. Complete instructions to deposit the check is provided in the ‘help’ section of the deposit screen.

CamScanner can be more efficiently used by students for scanning the notes on the blackboard or PowerPoint slides. Once scanned using the device's camera, they can be converted to pdf documents and stored either in the device or cloud storage (Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc.). Appropriately naming the documents will help to search or easily access them later. Another way to organize is adding meaningful tags to your documents, like class notes ,math, language, history, book name, etc.

Using the Files app you can access all the documents stored either in iCloud Drive or the other cloud storage like Google drive, oneDrive, etc.. it offers wide variety of other options to manage and share the documents from your device.