Google Voice Access Beta Lets You Control Your Smartphone by Voice

Google was supposed to introduce its ‘Voice Access’ service back at last year’s Google I/O conference, but never did so. The search giant has finally launched an ‘Voice Access’ beta app using which people can control several more features of their smartphones with voice commands. Users can now give commands such as ‘Open chrome’ to open the browser or ‘go home’ to navigate back to the handset’s home screen. Unlike other voice apps, the voice access beta app gives you access to some commands which can be used from anywhere…

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Why You Should Book a Single Ticket to Your Favorite Holiday Destination

  People often travel alone to find themselves, or to find more meaning to their life. There are listicles after listicle proclaiming the need to visit a far off or even a near off land just in your own sweet company. Not that we are denouncing those ideas, but travelling alone need not only be a dramatic process where something needs to be found or achieved. It can be a trip you take because you think you are awesome and absolutely chill a person. We bring to you reasons why…

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BlueStacks Now Lets You Stream Your Android Gameplay to Twitch

BlueStacks on Friday announced it is integrating live streaming service Twitch into the Bluestacks App Player to allow users to more conveniently stream mobile games. The integration enables a user to stream gameplay from mobile games on their PC with a single click. This also makes it easier for people to watch streaming content. BlueStacks is a popular emulator app that allows users to run Android – and its apps – on a desktop platform such as Windows. Not long ago it was updated to version 2.0 on Windows to…

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Monitor Your Blood Pressure Right From the Kitchen

Don’t let high blood pressure scare you. It is not exactly a disease, but only a warning sign that the food you have been eating and the lifestyle you have been leading have clogged your blood vessels and your heart is having to exert extra pressure to keep blood moving through it. Just as the bad lifestyle caused it, the good one can cure it. Medicines are only an aid. The main job has to be done by your food. So please go into your kitchen for treatment. Certain ingredients…

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Keep Your Gut Healthy To Prevent Diabetes and Obesity

A new research has found that a weak ecosystem of bacteria in the human gut due to poor dietary choices is likely to trigger diseases like Type 2 diabetes and obesity. The study suggests that people should follow a balanced diet with a variety of all major food groups – cereals, pulses, dairy products, fruits and vegetables. A diverse diet strengthens your gut. The findings, published in the journal Molecular Metabolism, revealed that changes in farming practices over the last 50 years have resulted in decreased agricultural diversity, which in…

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Eating in Front of the TV? Here’s Why You Should Pay Attention to Your Food

Chefs, restaurateurs, and people I dine with are sometimes surprised by how I remember dishes that I had eaten years ago. As a food writer, you are expected to remember tastes. But why this food memory should go back that far is something even I don’t understand fully. One big reason, however, could be that those of us in the business of decoding foodand flavours are perhaps more tuned to eat mindfully. Of course, you do not need to be a food writer to appreciate the benefits of mindful eating.…

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