Unroll.Me

Every couple of months, I find myself spending hours cleaning my email inboxes. Modern spam/junk filters do a good job, but not good enough. There are tons of email subscriptions that end-up unsubscribing every few months. Finding the 'Unsubscribe' link, answering the survey questions, and sometimes just adding stuff to the junk folder is a tedious task. Unroll.me simplifies this. With an awesome minimalistic UI, unroll.me not only manages your subcriptions, but with its 'roll up' feature, it consolidates all your emails which you don't wish to unsubscribe, but don't want them cluttering your inbox either. Don't wait up Unroll.Me is a must have service and it's FREE.
Unroll.me also has an iOS App.

Thanks reddit for the tip.
Visit Unroll.Me for the web app.

Google Maps : Offline Maps and more

The new Google Maps comes with an amazing cards based UI and is very user friendly, but the ability of caching maps for offline viewing isn’t very obvious. Power saving is crucial while traveling and we don’t want to waste power and mobile data on Google Maps. Tablet users usually end up using sinuous ways like using a hotspot or looking for a Wi-Fi network availability just to peek at a map. Luckily Google does not hate its users and soon two methods surfaced that could cache maps seamlessly.

 

 

1. “Okay Maps”

The first one is an Easter egg. All you have to do is touch the little microphone button () on the right side of the search bar and say “Okay Maps” or you can just type it in the search box. The application will start caching the on-screen map area, with a notification showing  current progress. When the process if complete, the application displays another notification to indicate the completion of the task.

2. The standard method

The standard method is to tap the search bar and scroll down to the very bottom of the Google Places integration, recent places and other parts of the list. There lies the button saying “Make this map area available offline”. Again, it will trigger the “Pre-loading map..” notification. Once finished you can use Google Maps with or without an internet connection.

You can also use the web-app to get the directions and download them for offline use.

Google Maps | Web

Google Maps | Google Play

Google Maps | App Store

 

Screenshots edited using Evernote Skitch. All screenshots are taken on Asus Google Nexus 7 2013. HTML Translator – Windows Live Writer.

Super Sync Sports : Use your phone as a controller

The Best Google Chrome Experiment yet. Google’s Super Sync Sport is a simple sports game and the aim race in different sports – Running, Swimming or cycling. What makes it different? Use of mobile phones as controllers. Upto 4 players can participate in a race, choose adorable characters from a huge roster and Get Set Race!!

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Open Super Sync Sports on Google Chrome or download the Chrome app. Grab your phone(s) or tablet(s) and visit g.co/super. Enter Code to connect to the same session and start playing. Up to four players can join in every race.

Requirements:

• A Computer that can run Google Chrome (Duh!)
• Phone(s)/Tablet(s) (Android 4.0+ and iOS 4.3+) with Google Chrome installed.
• Internet connection on all devices including the computer.

Super Sync Sports uses new browser technologies like the HTML5 audio, CSS3 and Canvas, and the Touch API to recognize the gestures you make on your mobile device and WebSockets to make sure your phone(s) and browser stay in sync similar to Remo Music player.

Super Sync Sports

Super Sync Sports | Web app | Google Chrome WebStore

Z-Type : Type to Shoot

Playing games can improve your hand-eye coordination, stimulate quick thinking and reduce reaction time. A lot of games help you learn how to fly an aircraft or be more social. Z-Type is a HTML5 game that helps you type faster. A simple, 2D, type to shoot game is a better alternative those boring softwares that are suppose to help you type faster. Dominic Zsablewski is a developer/blogger who has created games like Z-type, X-type, Biolab disaster, Drop, etc. All these games can be played on a browser, some have mobile browser compatibility too.

Killing time on Dominic’s webpage is really easy. It’s the place to find a lot of games, good reads and a lot of other stuff for free. Undertaking such projects brings out the potential of HTML5. Developing web apps instead of mobile apps or downloadable content is a better choice, as no one wants to download and install stuff when they get bored. All they have to do is open a web page and start playing.

Follow the Chrome Experiment here.

Z-type X-type | via Dominic Zsablewski

Biolab disaster | Google Play | App Store

World Wide Maze

We all know Teeter – the hugely popular ball and maze game. Now imagine any webpage as your maze board, add some fabulous graphics and some great 3D paths and you get ‘World Wide Maze’. Use your Android/IPhone or just your computer to play all you need is Google Chrome. This Chrome Experiment might be the best maze puzzle ever. You will never be bored of this because every webpage is a new playground. Just enter the URL or run a Google search and you are ready to go.

Gameplay–World Wide Maze

Hats-Off to Google Chrome Japan for this brilliant innovation.

World Wide Maze | via Chrome Experiments

Downloads Of The Week ( 39 2012)

Downloads Of The Week

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It's time to wake up, September is about to end. This week we will see 4 awesome apps for Android, iPhone, Windows phone, Mac and Windows PC. You might not have heard about any of these apps, but they are are worth the price. Ironically every app in this week's post is Free.
This week for Android : RunPee and Shush!
For Windows PC : Runpee, Fences and MediaCoder.



1.RunPee Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons.

Click on the logos above to download.
(Symbian, PC and Mac users can use this too, visit www.runpee.com on your device or computer)

The movies often skip the intermissions these days, so when you need to attend a call from your parents, boss, friend or even nature, you have to miss the movie. RunPee is a smart app for you Android devices and Iphone, now also available on Windows PC. RunPee tells you the best times to Run and Pee during a movie without missing anything. The app fetches time slots in the movie, which are relatively boring and which can be 'missed', they call such times 'Pee times'.

The feature I loved the most are:

• The Flashlight is just like other flashlight apps but now integrated with RunPee. So when you roam around the dark theaters, you never get lost.
• RunPee has a timer which you start as the movie begin, the app fetches Pee times and vibrates 2 minutes before Pee times.
• When on a Pee break, the app gives you the ongoing plot which you are "missing" without any spoilers.
• If you are running late, just read the plot for the missed part right from RunPee.
• Finally Check-ins,facebook share, IMDb and rotten tomatoes reviews are also available on this app.

Click here to never miss a movie again.

2.Shush!

Click on the Android logo to download.

I have been using this app for over 6 months now. When we turn off the ringer, we often forget to turn it back on. Shush! does this for you and makes it fun too. The awesome GUI, makes it simpler to use.

The Features I loved the most are:

• Extremely light weight. (about 120Kb)
• Great circular ring control.
• Pops up every time you put the phone on silent or vibrate.
• Customizable colors.

Click here to visit the developers website.

3.MediaCoder The universal Audio/Video Transcoder.

 MediaCoder is a simple to use, fast, anything to everything converter,editor and clipper. It supports almost every format for transcoding audio/video. Just about 45Mb for Windows(x64) full edition and is available for free on every platform. Preinstalled devices like itouch, PSP and various other makes transcoding very easy. MediaCoder comes in 5 different packages

1. MediaCoder Full Edition.
2. Audio Coder.
3. MediaCoder Web Video Edition.
4. MediaCoder Devices Edition.
5. MediaCoder CLI version.

The Features I loved the most are:

• Extremly easy to use.
• Works efficiently in background.
• Preset devices.
• Auto Shutdown/Sleep/Hibernate after transcoding is complete.

Click here to visit MediaCoder website.

4. Fences

Windows might bring a brand new taskbar, but it doesn't do much to improve upon the main desktop itself. Fences is a great way to make your desktop organised, by arranging and sorting icons into various 'fences' or labelled shaded areas in a well-presented manner. Fences make life a lot easier.

The Features I loved the most are:

• It keeps things organised.
• Double-click to hide all icons.
• It give the desktop a new look.

Click here to visit fences home page.