PUDDING MONSTERS

The makers of the popular cut the rope are back with another offering for puzzle lovers. Pudding Monsters has a simple premise: The way out for the colourful little puddings is to stick together to create a giant monster. 

You job is to slide various pudding pieces and bring them together, and in the process, collect as many start as possible. There are several types of pudding piece, such as the normal red ones, the green ones that leave trail of sticky goo, and the pudding wrapped in blue foil that has to be woken from its deep slumber before it can be moved. 

Pudding Monsters also features purchasable ‘mushrooms’ that can be used to overcome tougher levels. The gameplay is well complemented by its cartoon- style art and bright colours. A real treat, this one! Android user can try the free version, and if you like it, we advise buying it; the ads can get really annoying.

Android , ios

KNOW YOUR MEME

Memes are artifacts – catchphrases, photos, video, or just about anything else-that catch the collective imagination of the internet, usually first among its most loyal netizens. And boy, the internet loves its memes; so much so that even if you’re online all the time, there might be viral phenomena that missed your attention. 

so what do you do when you come across what is obviously a reference to popular meme, but you don’t know its origin? Well, head to know your Meme, which trace the roots of almost every internet meme out there. Start typing in the search bar and it’ll throw up a few suggestion for what you want to know. 

Also, the site is constanly being updated with some of the new memes popping up on the “interwebz’, so this is place to be if you want to say on the cutting edge of cool.

knowyourmeme.com

ATOMAS

Atomas is a game that’s based on the periodic table on the periodic table (don’t worry, you don’t need to brush up on chemistry to play).you start off with six atoms placed in a circle. 

These atoms – hydrogen, helium and lithium-carry the lowest number on the periodic table. Gameplay involves placing newer atoms, which appear at the centre, adjacent to the ones you already have on screen. Every now and then, a plus or minus sign appears. you have to use the plus sign to combine similar atoms to create a higher element and gain points. 

Combining two or more hydrogen atoms gets you one helium, while combining helium gets you lithium, and so on. you primary goal, platinum and silver. you can use the minus sign to remove atoms from the circle. The games ends when there is no space in the circle for any more elements. Atomas is a simple but challenging game, and this is what makes it extremely addictive.

Android, ios

LOLLICAM

Lollicam lets you create funny selfie, videos which you can share online with friends on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. Just launch the app and starts shooting videos with the front or rear camera. Before you start recording, you can choose over from 30 video filters by swiping horizontally across the screen.

Swiping vertically up and down brightness or darkness the image. Next, tap the sticker button to pick from more than a 100 animated badges across 12 categories like Lol, Pop, Food, Cartoon and more. To shoot videos, you need to keep the capture button press as for long as you want to record footage.

An option to mute the phone’s mic is also provided. Tap the same button once and Lollicam will take a still picture. Here, you can choose to save the picture as a JPG or an animated GIF to make the sticker come alive.

Android, ios, 

FETCHNOTES

Now here’s a note-taking app that really sets itself apart from the rest. Fetchnotes is clearly inspires by Twitter with its liberal use of the # and @symbols to add some extra functionality. 

Just start writing a notes and add a hashtag to any word; that word becomes a new’category’, and any future message with the same hashtagged word will be grouped together, ready to be browsed in a list of such hashtags.

You can even add multiple hashtags in a message, thus having it show up in two different lists-an invaluable feature. What’s more you can share your notes with other Fetchnotes user by just adding @username to your message. 

Couple all of this with a really beautiful interface and fetchnotes is one of the easiest and most feature-rich ways to take notes and make lists. And yes, just in case your phone isn’t around, you can access all these notes through the web. We can’t recommend it enough.

UC BROWSER

All smartphones come with web browsers preinstalled, and most of them do a good job of letting you get around the internet. But if you are not satisfied with what comes preloaded on your handset, give UC Browser a try. website load faster on this spiffy piece of software; switching between tabs is effortless; and pinch to zoom works well. The browser also keeps track of how much data you’ve used during your browsing sessions, giving you a report when close the window. Beside, UCB Comes with its own app market, which can be handy for people whose phones do not have Google Play. the browser can load website in three modes- Lite, desktop and mobile – depending on your connection speed and data charges that you might want to save. And there’s also a night mode, which may not work well on all websites, but helps save battery.

CONTACTS+

If you’re looking for a souped-up phonebook, then try contacts+. The app scans your handset to build a visual grid off all the people in your address book, and it even allows you to navigate seamlessly from your SMS inbox to your call, log.

You can view contacts by recent calls, favorites, and groups; block SMSs and calls from specific numbers, and even attach social media profiles- Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin – to receive enent notifications and more.

Contacts+ finds matches automatically, or you can do it  manually to update each person’s profile yourself. Once done, you can browse these networks from the apps sidebar.

You can even use its quick actions feature to text, call or launch your e-mail app by long- pressing a contact’s thumbnail image. The best part: you can also use Contacts+ as the default app for your phonebook and text messages.

GMAIL FOR IOS GETS AI-BASED SMART NOTIFICATIONS FOR HIGH-PRIORITY EMAILS

Leveraging machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, the new feature helps you get rid of alerts from spam emails and some random newsletters. The latest update will be rolled out in the coming days as a server-side change. It will also arrive on Android devices sometime in the future. Notably, Google revealed the development of its advanced feature alongside detailing the redesigned Gmail experience back in April. The company at that time also specified a shortcut to let users easily unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters using Gmail’s AI algorithms.

Google in a fresh blog post highlights that the new notifications-focused feature uses ML and AI capabilities of Gmail to identify which messages you may want to read first. To enable the new smart notifications feature, select the High priority only option from the Notifications drop-down in the Settings menu of your Gmail for iOS app. The app will also notify you about the latest change and let you try the new notifications experience by turning it on directly from the default screen.

Being a server-side change, Google says that the new feature will be rolled out in the next one to three days time. You, however, need to have the latest Gmail version on your iOS device to get the upgraded notifications experience.

This isn’t the first time when Google has brought a change to the way we receive email notifications. The Sundar Pichai-led company already offers the ability to snooze certain emails. Inbox by Gmail, another email service by the company, provides features such as notification prioritisation to make it easier for users to receive notifications only for the emails that are important for them. Moreover, the latest feature was announced alongside the major design changes for Gmail in April. The company also detailed the shortcut that will enable unsubscription from newsletters with a single tap on the screen.

INSTAGRAM STORIES WILL NOW LET YOU BUY PRODUCTS

HIGHLIGHTS

• Instagram has brought a shopping feature to Stories
• Brands such as Adidas and Louis Vuitton will leverage the new feature
• Shopping experience was originally a part of Instagram Feed

Months after gaining traction from over 300 million daily active users, Instagram Stories will now start selling products. The fresh development has expanded the shopping experience on Instagram as previously its feed was exclusively serving ads to let customers buy new products without leaving the photo-sharing platform. The Facebook-owned company will show stickers with a shopping bag icon on products featured in a story. Shopping on Instagram has been evaluated for a long time to make it a profitable social media model. Particularly, Instagram Stories, which arrived as a Snapchat-inspired feature back in August 2016, had started attracting businesses in just one year after its launch.

Select international brands, such as Adidas, Aritzia, and Louis Vuitton, will receive the shopping feature on Instagram Stories at the initial stage, though it is expected to roll out to regular users in the coming future. There will be a sticker with a shopping bag icon that users need to tap to see more details about the product featured in a story.

“TODAY WE’RE BEGINNING TO EXPAND SHOPPING BEYOND FEED TO INSTAGRAM STORIES,”

Instagram said in a blog post.

Citing a recent survey conducted by MetrixLab, Instagram highlights that its users often watch stories to stay in-the-know with brands they’re interested in, get an insider view of products they like, and learn about new products that are relevant to them. This is apparently the prime reason behind the new development. However, the company also claims that brands are among the early adopters of its story model and create some of the most viewed and engaging content on the platform.

Last month, Instagram added the ability to let users share posts from different public accounts right within their stories. An APK teardown of the Instagram app was also spotted to have a feature to add music stickers to stories to enhance the user experience.