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Just what the doctor ordered – a common Inbox for (almost) all messaging apps

Posted on October 13, 2014 by

The world is full of messaging apps. …and the list keeps growing. With all our friends & colleagues on different apps, it can become very frustrating to constantly log in & out of each & every one of those apps. Your fiancé, for example, only uses SMS while your classmate uses WhatsApp. Your brother is solely into Facebook Messenger, while your sister is into Snapchat. OMG!

Well, fret no more.

A recently launched mobile app called Snowball is something that the doctor ordered for tacking the “message apps fatigue”. Snowball, currently in beta, offers a single Inbox for all messages from all the apps. Thus, it negates the need to check every app to keep up.

Here are the many things you can do with this new Android app:

  • Send out a quick response in your favorite messaging app
  • See all messages from all your favorite social apps in 1 place
  • Organizes your messages from the apps with a single, easy-to-access place to view everything
  • Open Snowball from anywhere on your phone. Your friends are always just one tap away

Snowball supports: Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat, SMS, Hangouts, Twitter, Line, WeChat, & Slack. These guys promise of adding more messaging apps, soon. But do remember, Snowball is not a messaging app, it is a “meeting place” of all such apps, manner of speaking.

The new Android app is the work of Anish Acharya & Jeson Patel. The duo has worked in various companies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon & SocialDeck.

Launched in early October this year, the early testing of this app was positive, after which it was decided to widen the beta & make this new Android app available to users worldwide.

Snowball has already raised US $2.3 million in funds from First Round Capital, Google Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Metamorphic Ventures, Golden Venture Partners, Cherubic Ventures, David Lee, & various other angels.

Check out the video on how it works:

Click here to download the Snowball app on your Android device.

 

Image Credit: Google play/Snowball
Video Credit: YouTube

 

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Post PRISM, encrypt your emails for free using encryptfree

Posted on June 20, 2013 by

All of us by now are fully aware of the controversy related to the clandestine surveillance program by the US Govt. called PRISM. A lot of chatter broke out when the controversy surfaced, & questions raised of governments snooping into a citizen’s private conversations, all in the name of national security.

cooltext921482906Now, a Canadian citizen Dewald Pretorius is offering an encryption service called EncryptFree, for free. What EncryptFree does is to allow just about anybody to encrypt any type of Content, & then decrypt the same. The result: No one except the sender & the receiver can read the message.

What’s more. You do not need to register, log in or leave any of your personal identity behind. All you have to do is to go to the website, click the “Encrypt Text” tab, encrypt the text you want, copy & paste it into an email or save it on a USB stick. You are asked to generate a password, which you then need to give to the receipent of the message.

The recepient has to then Cut & Paste the same encrypted text in the space provided on the website of EncryptFree, key in the password, & viola, there’s the original message in plain English. The key of course is the password.

Your password, plain text, & encrypted version are never in any way, shape, or form recorded, retained, or stored by this service, claims Dewald. Neither during the encryption process nor during the decryption process.

The service works only over SSL for added protection. If your browser warned you of a problem with the site’s SSL certificate, DO NOT encrypt or decrypt anything. It most likely means you’re the victim of a man-in-the-middle attack.

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