<div><strong>A Borderless Currency</strong><br />Care to dabble in some Bitcoin? Now you can, with a Bitcoin wallet app, ZedPay. The app lets you buy, store, send and spend Bitcoin, the de-centralised digitial borderless currency that many believe is the future of money. Bitcoin believers think that this is the currency that is the least <img src="/image/image_gallery?uuid=c3afc35a-3071-4cdd-9acc-94da1fcf2d44&groupId=222861&t=1430227608101" width="100" height="99" align="right" alt="" />vulnerable to inflation. No one country owns it and yet it’s the world’s most widely used alternative currency. The app saves a user from having to learn anything about the technology and go ahead and transact with anyone in the world using Bitcoin money. Sending an amount is as easy as sending a message. The number of merchants supporting the use of Bitcoin is increasing. Contrary to popular belief, Bitcoin is perfectly legal. It’s linked to your mobile number irrevocably. Download it and see if you’d like to experience Bitcoin.<br /><br /><strong>Shift It A Bit</strong><br />Shift is a fascinating app by Pixite, which has a bouquet of other interesting apps in the photo effects department. That includes Fragment, Tangent, Union Matter and Lorry Stripes, some of which have been covered here before. Fragment, in particular, does magical geometrical things <img src="/image/image_gallery?uuid=292d80fd-6d50-4cc0-9d98-1bd1bbd6c751&groupId=222861&t=1430227628756" width="100" height="100" align="right" alt="" />to a photo. But back to Shift. Press a button to see change upon change in your picture. Three moveable points appear that shift the effect to different places on the image as well as modify it in some way. You can save an effect but really, it’ll always look different on different images. Particularly nice is the effect of light on a photo which you can move for a more dramatic look. Two sliders let you enhance colours and brightness a bit, but otherwise, this is an app that does its own thing. Shift is available for Android and iOS.<br /><strong><br />In The Background</strong><br />for a long time, Pocket has dominated the read-it-later scenario. It’s connected to most other apps and you can collect a lot of your reading there. But it’s time for a different user experience and <img src="/image/image_gallery?uuid=aab18630-1ed2-4c04-ad7b-1dee33f64b92&groupId=222861&t=1430227647691" width="100" height="100" align="right" alt="" />that’s what Flynx for Android gives you. It loads web pages of your choice in the background while you’re busy with other apps. Download the app free on Android, and then go through Settings to make a few choices. Choose the size and alignment of a little bubble that will appear on your screen. When you’re in Twitter or Facebook or a browser for example, you just double tap a link and it saves your article for later. Tapping the bubble takes you to the articles. You don’t have to leave the app you’re using. The problem is that it’ll take a little getting used to and making Flynx the default place for reading can be a nuisance.<br /><br />(This story was published in BW | Businessworld Issue Dated 18-05-2015)</div>
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Mala Bhargava has been writing on technology well before the advent of internet in Indians and before CDs made their way into computers. Mala writes on technology, social media, startups and fitness. A trained psychologist, she claims that her understanding of psychology helps her understand the human side of technology.
