5 Apps You need to Have in Your Phone While Touring India

5 Apps You need to Have in Your Phone While Touring India

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The touches of technology can make everything smooth and travel is no exception. The development of Apps knows no end, to make living app-propriate! So, if you are a travel enthusiast and using a smart phone, there are several apps to support you during a trip. No more you need to fret about booking tickets, finding accommodation, getting roadmap or availing a tour guide. With some wonderful apps on your smart phone, you can sort out any issue within a second. In this article, we discuss five such apps and we are sure, you would love them!

Photos of “THE TAJ”

Much deserved vacation and visit to “THE TAJ”

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Some nice pics for you..

Without much here are some pics that you might like, without much ado 🙂

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Tips showing client media reel.

Here is link to a nice article from wiredrive on

Tips for Showing a Client a Media Reel

This article indeed has some good points to make your presentations useful.

Fix fonts quickly with auto-hinting

Very quick hack to fix the font hinting automatically. Just execute the below:

sudo ln -s /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-autohint.conf

After this you should see the font hinting enabled and thus better experience with fonts.

power saving on laptop

One of the easiest way to make sure that you can have a decent battery life is

sudo yum install tlp smartmontools
sudo systemctl enable tlp
sudo systemctl start tlp

And after this you can check the status like this:

sudo tlp stat
— TLP 0.9 ——————————————–

+++ Configured Settings: /etc/default/tlp
TLP_ENABLE=1
TLP_DEFAULT_MODE=AC
DISK_IDLE_SECS_ON_AC=0
DISK_IDLE_SECS_ON_BAT=2
MAX_LOST_WORK_SECS_ON_AC=15
MAX_LOST_WORK_SECS_ON_BAT=60
SCHED_POWERSAVE_ON_AC=0
SCHED_POWERSAVE_ON_BAT=1
NMI_WATCHDOG=0
ENERGY_PERF_POLICY_ON_AC=performance
ENERGY_PERF_POLICY_ON_BAT=powersave
DISK_DEVICES=”sda sdb”
DISK_APM_LEVEL_ON_AC=”254 254″
DISK_APM_LEVEL_ON_BAT=”128 128″
SATA_LINKPWR_ON_AC=max_performance
SATA_LINKPWR_ON_BAT=min_power
AHCI_RUNTIME_PM_TIMEOUT=15
PCIE_ASPM_ON_AC=performance
PCIE_ASPM_ON_BAT=powersave
RADEON_POWER_PROFILE_ON_AC=high
RADEON_POWER_PROFILE_ON_BAT=low
RADEON_DPM_STATE_ON_AC=performance
RADEON_DPM_STATE_ON_BAT=battery
RADEON_DPM_PERF_LEVEL_ON_AC=auto
RADEON_DPM_PERF_LEVEL_ON_BAT=auto
WIFI_PWR_ON_AC=off
WIFI_PWR_ON_BAT=on
WOL_DISABLE=Y
SOUND_POWER_SAVE_ON_AC=0
SOUND_POWER_SAVE_ON_BAT=1
SOUND_POWER_SAVE_CONTROLLER=Y
BAY_POWEROFF_ON_BAT=0
BAY_DEVICE=”sr0″
RUNTIME_PM_ON_AC=on
RUNTIME_PM_ON_BAT=auto
RUNTIME_PM_ALL=1
RUNTIME_PM_DRIVER_BLACKLIST=”radeon nouveau”
USB_AUTOSUSPEND=1
USB_BLACKLIST_WWAN=1
RESTORE_DEVICE_STATE_ON_STARTUP=0

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enki editor – amazing for md and rst files

First, you need to install enki. YOu can do so with

sudo yum install enki

And then you can use the editor as usual. The first thing that you will notice is the navigator window. And here is screenshot for you.

As you can see if you make a typo or mistake then you will immediately be warned with RED color.