Google Search Tips and Tricks

Google search tips and tricks.When we say about Internet the first name come to our mind is the name Google. Last year there were trillions of searches are made by peoples around the world. There are some ways for making your Google searches more fun and effective. Here are some tips for your Google search.

define:

         By using this you can easily find the definition of a word.

word * word

            For finding the combination of words.

                                                                   With *

Without *

Site:

            If you want to search only within a site.

File type:

            Easily get the results of the file types we wants like PDF,PPT,DOC etc.

Add Plus Sign

         Shows result of exact word you search. I.e. no plurals are in search results. For example if we search for feeling it shows result only the word related to feeling instead of word feelings.

intitle

         Shows only pages that have the title you search.

“Set of words”

       To find the words in exact order you search.

 Movies

       You can find the movies that run in theatres nearby you entering the city's name or zip code.

 Set a timer

       Yes you can set a timer in Google. If you want to take break while browsing, you can set timer in Google and when the time runs out Google will beep.

Flip Google

        Flip or spin the Google page by searching “do a barrel roll".

Tilt Google

       Tilt the Google page by searching tilt or askew.

Zerg Rush

         Search for zerg rush and shows page that are eaten by O’s

Sort the results by Author

         You can search only for the popular books by an author or search for songs only by an artist.

 Two type of results

         Simultaneously get two results by making a single search.

Search with *

      If you forget a song and knows only some part of it, search with the asterisks *, the Google will complete the search by adding missing words to it.

 “-“

       By adding hyphen to the search you can exclude a word from search or its more useful when you want to search a word with several meanings.

With Hyphen

Without Hyphen

allinurl

         Find all the pages that contain your searched url.

Ip address

         Search for ip address,shows your public IP address.

VS

          By adding vs to the search you get the compared results in a table format.

cache:

        To get the cached copy of a website those are online or not. For example type "cache: site name" without quotes on the browser url field or search bar of browser.

See all Google Doodles

      Without entering any search and hit I am feeling lucky, you can see all the doodles that created by Google for special days.

related:

        Shows only result that related to your search.

                                                         More you know pls share via comments.  

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Top 5 Video Editing Apps for Android

Best video editing apps for android in 2015. Visuals convey more concepts than sounds. Also adding some flavors to videos like Fx, Themes etc... make it tasty (visual treats) to your viewers. I am not discussing any professional stuff here and no need to have any previous experience in video editing. If you are a creative or non-creative person doesn't matters here. You can edit videos, create photo videos using your pics and give it as birthday videos to your loved ones and more with minimal efforts by help of these editing apps for your smartphones. Thanks for coming such apps to android that we no longer depends on PC for all our video editing works. Here are some of the top video editing apps for android.

Viva Video (Free/Paid)

Explore your creativity with no boundaries via Viva. It’s a very powerful video editing app for android, packs with lot of editing features like trim videos, add special effects (Thunder, Lightening etc..) and music in background etc... with ease. Simple user interface makes you to edit your favorite videos like professional. 

Features

• Trim and rotate your videos. 
• You can fine tune your videos before editing. 
• Add your own voice and music as background to the videos. 
• Merge your clips with stylish templates and add text to it. 
• Create picture in picture videos with animated funny stickers. 
• Preview and download lot of themes, video effects and styles. 
• Make photo videos with your pics. 
• Set different effects to your clip through time frames. 
• Beauty filters for polishing your Selfies. 
• Share your creativity with whatsapp, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram etc....

Interesting fact is that you can download and use lot of editing features even in its free version of this app. But a limit is you can edit videos only up to 5 min length and watermark is their while editing via free version. If you like this app goes for Pro and lifts these limits. 

Video Show (Free/Paid)

Create awesome video using photos and videos with minimal efforts. It’s handy and you can use all its editing features for free with no watermark in output videos. App has a lot of features to customize your clips without having any knowledge in video editing.

Features

• You can directly add music from your phone or preloaded music from the app to set as background music to your videos. 
• Add funny stickers and effects to your videos. 
• Create your videos with transition and filters. 
• Rotate individual photos while creating photo movies. 
• Trim and convert your clips to mp3. 
• Set duration of the background music. 
• Select time duration for making photo videos.

You can't add more than one sticker in a single time frame and free version is supported with non-intrusive ads (Buy Pro for removing ads). Compared to Viva app effects, themes are less and saving videos to your mobile is little tricky. If video doesn't save to your phone after the editing, select file explorer (eg: ES File Explorer) app to save video to your phone by selecting folders to save when sharing of videos.

VidTrim (Free/Paid)

App let you to quickly shorten a bit of video to trim unwanted bits to get it to a particular length. Features are not limited to trimming as well as converting them to mp3, organize them and more.

Features

• Features You can create new clips and keep the original. 
• Re-size, compress and convert videos (eg: .mov) to MP4. 
• Merge videos files and save images from videos. 
• Add music sound tracks and apply cool effects like Blur, Sharpen, Vignette etc... to your videos using transcode. 
• Share edited clips via YouTube. Instagram etc.... 
• Convert your video clips to mp3 files.

Free version of the app comes with ads and not supports for 1080p video effects re-size and watermark while applying effects to your clips. You can drop all these limitations in its premium version.

Reverse Movie FX (Free/In-App Purchase)

Reverse your life's memorable moments with Reverse Movie Fx. You can use this app for simply convert your favorite video to playback them in reverse order. Make fun with reversing videos like reverse your dancing steps, do some magic like make real papers from its torned pieces etc... App is only support for trim video and makes it play in reverse.

Features

• You can play backward a particular part of video using trim option. 
• Add music to the converting video. 
• Merge both reverse and original or original and reverse videos in order. 
• Option for converting to play clips in only reverses. 
• Share your videos with Facebook, Instagram etc...

Conversion may become slow if you go for higher resolution and free version comes with ads. Also you can instantly reverse video that you captured via your phone's built-in camera or select videos from gallery to playback in reverse.

Video Trimmer (Free/Paid)

Trim your videos and ultimately compress them to more than 80% of the original size without compromising any quality in video playback. Also without selecting trim option you can pick videos from gallery and converting or compress them to save your phones space.

Features

• Trim your videos by setting start and end points. 
• Convert your videos with resolution ranging from 320p→720p. 
• You can set the video quality from high to low. 
• Set custom quality to your clips.

Also the app helps you to reduce your higher resolution video to a lower resolution without dropping any video quality and produce them in small file size.

Bonus:

Video Wall (Free/In-App Purchase)

Want to make live wallpapers from your favorite videos without knowing any programming codes then this app will definitely works for you. Make fun with creating personalized video wallpaper from your captured videos via mobile or select videos from your gallery to set it as live wallpaper to your phone. Also you can select a particular part of a clip and make it as live wallpaper.

Features

• Mute audio in live wallpaper. 
• Crop videos to keep them in an aspect ratio. 
• Play with audio in live wallpapers.

But cropping and setting audio in live wallpapers supports only in Premium version. Not all features of generic live wallpapers like response to your touches, motions etc... are not expected while creating video wallpapers using this app. Usually free version is supported with ads.

          

Are you making fun with any other video editing apps for android that I don't missed here?... Then feel free to add it here as comments.

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Best Scanner Apps for Android

Best Document scanner apps for android. What you have to do if you want to scan a document or a PDF for mailing it urgently when a conditional scanner is not within reach. In such situations with the help of these scanner apps turn your phones built-in camera to scan documents and convert it as PDF or photos. These apps let you to capture your docs as images with your camera and digitize it in your mobile. Later you can save it as PDF after editing and share your scanned files via Email, Cloud Storage Service etc... Before scanning your sensitive documents with these apps try to read out their privacy towards handling your scanned documents. Here are some of the top scanner apps out there.

Droid Scan (Free/Paid)

You get full control over Brightness, Contrast and color settings while scanning with this app. Droid Scan captures and quickly process your scanned documents later you can save it as evernote. Also easy formatting and re-formatting in app helps to make your paperless work looks better.

Features

• Auto perspective adjustment and enhancement. 
• Quickly crop documents and turn receipts into Evernote. 
• Supports Architectural and Engineering papers size. 
• Save your scanned documents into multiple resolutions. 
• Combine page scans and save it as PDF. 
• Turn your small receipts into a full page PDF file.

Automatic recognition of documents like A4 size papers, Business Card etc… Also supports for sharing files with cloud storage services like Drop Box, BOX…

Document Scanner (Free/Paid)

App works flawlessly and gives you a better scanning experience for keeping tracks of receipts and submits with expenses. Integration with Drop box makes for really good document archival solution.

Features

• Enhance black or white documents as clear and sharp. Fine tune your captured images with advanced camera image adjuster. 
• Rotate, Crop, Upload and Edit existing images. 
• Options for compression and re-size pages. 
• Insert Images to the scanned docs from the gallery.

Also the features limited in its trial version. For getting better experience with the app you have to go for Pro.

Camera 2 PDF Scanner (Free)

A friendly scanner app which has no selfishness for converting scanned images into PDFs. App has nice user interface and allows you to manipulate documents to your needs. Also it’s very simple to compile multiple pages.

Features

• Scan your documents and select multiple images at a time. 
• Protect your scanned files with PIN. 
• You can change the colors of your pages and crop, rotate before add to docs. 
• Supports Cloud storage service like Google docs, Drop box etc...

You can sync your scanned documents with the app by taking an account in camera2pdf.com and later you can reach the file from elsewhere. As the apps comes in free version so give it try if you like to enjoy the basic features of a scanner app.

Simply Scan (Free/Paid)

App provides great functionality and user interface for scanning letters, receipts and documents. Also Simply Scan lets you to convert previously captured images to PDF files

Features

• Export your scanned files in multiple formats like PDF, Photo and ZIP file. 
• Image effects give your files a replica look like physical scanner files. 
• Supports cloud storage services and multiple PDF settings.

You can create multiple documents and change your pdf quality or size in PRO. Also there are watermarks in scanned documents if you are in trial version of the app.

Smart Doc Scanner: Scan to PDF (Free/Paid)

Good looking Interface with great performance and amazing instant effects. You can organize everything, starting business card to shopping receipts. Also it annotates the PDF within the app.

Features

• Better OCR and full control over scanning resolution with enhancement. 
• Protect your confidential files with password. 
• You can manually adjust scanned or imported images. 
• Batch Scan mode for multi-page scanning. 
• Auto detection of edges and option for re-sizing images. 
• Synchronize your scanned files to Google Drive and Drop box

Add notes and annotations while converting your scanned files to PDF. Also the app recognize amount from your receipts which helps to calculate expenditures. But free version only supports to scans up to 10 pages and annotation to 5 per month.

Handy Scanner (Free/Paid)

It’s very useful and a handy app which gives very clear scan of your docs. Also you can rid stacks of business cards and probably even receipts. App provides high quality scanned files with high performance.

Features

• Good page border Recognition. 
• Automatic documents bound detection. 
• Filters for enhance the readability of your scanned files. 
• Take several shots in a row. 
• Make multi-page documents.

For getting better result you have to make your camera focused. Also you only get low and medium quality outputs and there were watermarks in free version of the app.

Mobile DOC Scanner 3 (Free/Paid) 

Mobile Doc automatically detects boundaries, correct distortion and adjusts the brightness to create readable documents with high speed.

Features

• Auto detection of edges and perspective correction. 
• Convert your scanned files into PDF and zip it. 
• Enhance your files with good quality. 
• Supports cloud storage services like Google Drive, Drop box.

But the free version comes with AD support and scans only 4 pages in batch mode. Also your scanned files get watermarks in its trial version.

Tiny Scan (Free/Paid)

So easy and convenient to use for sending paper works. Tiny Scan is smart, quick, comfort and simple user interface for generating high quality results from existing photos or a new one.

Features

• Supports phone and tablets for scanning documents, photos, receipts etc... Set pass code to your documents. 
• You can set page size for PDF. 
• Scan your files in colors, grey scale or black and white. 
• Auto focus with 5 levels of contrast for crisp monochrome texts.

For squeezing their full features out you have to go for Pro. Otherwise scans limited to 3-4 pages and you can't enjoy other existing features.

Quick PDF Scanner (Free/In-App Purchase)

Excellent app to have great for all things in scanning. Quick PDF gives clear image and crop your scanned documents with various dimensions in several shapes and sizes.

Features

• Make mult-page documents with batch scanning. 
• You get full customization over scanned files. 
• Import BMP, GIF, PNG, WEBP and JPEG images formats for conversion. 
• Merging your documents and delete, copy, add, move pages for conversion. 
• Create cover page to your scanned documents for view them in thumbnails. 
• Supports cloud storage services like Google Drive, BOX etc...

Lots of other features packed within the app to meet your needs and this can be unlock only in its Pro version.

Scan Bot - PDF Document Scanner (Free/In-App Purchase)

Scan your documents with this app to get a premium quality output. Take the best snapshots of scanned copies of your paper bills, pay slips and other stuff with better file management.

Features

• Automatic doc detection and nice editing features. Scan QR code like contact, phone, hot-spots etc... 
• Enhance your scanned files with color mode. 
• Make Multi-page documents. 
• Supports Cloud storage services.

For text recognition you have to upgrade the app to Pro and many features are waiting in its premium version.

Bonus:-

Genius Scan (Free/Paid)

Its one of my personal favorite app. You can scan your documents with your phone camera and save it as a PDF, JPEG with multiple pages. App will definitely give a real papar scanning experience. Additional features can unlocked in paid version. 

Features

• Scan documents and save it as PDF or JPEG.  
• Smart page detection, perspective correction, Image post processing. 
• Documents processed in phones

Its efficiently scans or capture images with you stock camera and enhance your photos to save it as PDFs. Also you can use this app to take shots of your photos and Genius scan boost it amazingly with good quality later in which you can share it with Whatsapp, Facebook etc without losing any beauty of your pics.

           Did you think that the above list is not complete? Is any other apps I forget to mention? Then feel free to drop it as comments. 

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