Technology Tonic-Times of India

A weekly roundup of interesting websites and nifty apps to help you work hard, play harder

Time.is     What’s the time in San Francisco right now; or in a lesserknown city like Raleigh, North Carolina? Time.is is one of the easiest ways to find the time in any location around the world. The main page gives you the local time, the sunrise and sunset timings, as well as a listing of the current time in some of the biggest cities of the world such as London, New York, Paris,Moscow, Tokyo, etc. In the top right corner, you can enter the location of any other city to see its current time in a preview pane. There’s also the ‘Here and there’ section, which lets you choose multiple locations to compare the time difference.

Infocus.cc     While reading through a long article on the internet, you sometimes come across a gem of a quote, or a web link that you simply must share with a friend. But if you share the whole page, they might not notice what you want them to. Infocus to the rescue. Paste the URL address in the site, and Infocus will allow you to highlight a certain part of it by drawing a rectangle. The rest of the page then fades behind a darkened background. You can test your focussed area, and then share the newly-generated link with your friends, ensuring they see the exact part of the page that you wanted to draw their attention to. Simple and easy.

Snag.gy 
    Snaggy is a super-simple image-sharing website. Whether it’s a photo on your hard drive, or an image on the internet, all you have to do is right-click, copy, head over to Snag.gy and paste. The resource will load the image and give you a unique link to share it with the world. There’s also a ‘crop or edit this image’ button that provides a few simple photoediting options, such as cropping, a rectangle drawing tool, a pencil tool and a text tool. Once you’re done, save the image and a new URL will be created to share it with whoever you want.

Phone Note – Bubble 
    How cool would it be if when someone calls you, your phone’s screen also displays important information about them, like their birthday or a reminder of the thing you were supposed to tell them the next time you spoke to them? Well, there’s an app for that. Install Bubble on your smartphone and it will immediately sync with your contact list. Then, you can choose any contact and add up to three notes for them (you can also choose a background colour for the message). The next time you call that person, or that person calls you, the messages will show up on the screen as a gentle reminder. A handy app to have, especially if you’re the forgetful type. Android | Free

Where's My Perry? 
    Do you like puzzles? If yes, you will love Disney’s Where’s My Perry, which is based on the secret agent character from the cartoon show ‘Phineas and Ferb’. You have to help Perry the Platypus navigate through an underground maze full of tubes, water traps and crazinators, which are tiny tools that can turn water into steam or condense it back into water. The game is a physics-based challenge where you need to use water in all its different forms – ice, steam and liquid – to solve the puzzle. The goal of the game is to help the “secret agent” complete each course while collecting gnomes along the way. With over 80 levels in the game, ‘Where’s My Perry?’ promises hours and hours of mind-boggling fun. Those who have played ‘Where’s my Water’ by the same developers will find the gameplay familiar, but much more challenging. Android, iOS | $0.99

Convert Units for Free 
    If you have ever found yourself struggling to convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius or feet to centimetres, then you must download this brilliant app. Whether it is converting units pertaining to mass, length, force, energy, computer storage, power, pressure, temperature or even currency, this nifty app handles everything you throw at it. Simply select a category and you are provided with a splitscreen graphical interface. On one side you can choose the unit you want to convert from – and on the other you can scroll to the unit of measure you want to convert to. Key in your value and voila, you have your conversion down to six decimal places. By the way, did you know that 1 ‘cup’ is made up of 16 tablespoons, or 46 teaspoons, or 0.237 litres? iOS | Free