SmartRoute Contacts: An App Bringing Together Twitter , Facebook And Other Contact Information In One Profile!

Platform- iOS, Android, Chrome Extension

Cost: Free

Smartr Contacts, as the name suggests is a contact manager application for your mobile device as well as your gmail on your laptop or PC. Essentially, Smartr Contacts pulls contact and calendar information from your Google account, sorts everyone, adds a picture to their profile, and tries to make sense of why you’ve contacted them in the first place. You can also log in to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to see more detailed information about your contacts. Otherwise, you’re limited to three of the four tabs available whenever you choose a contact. Basically, the more information you provide it, the smarter the app gets. The more you use it and interact with your contacts, the better it will rank your contacts. When you first sign up for the app, however, it has a pretty good idea of who your most used contacts are. 

What smartr contacts does is that it allows you to effectively manage all your contacts and it does so by integrating your different contacts from different social media accounts as well as Gmail in one single place. The contact entries are quite detailed with four informational tabs: Details, Social, History and Common. It shows a picture of that person (either their Facebook photo or Google Account photo) at the top and indicates whether they’re part of the Top 10 or not. The Details tab shows phone numbers as well as e-mail addresses they use with their various accounts. Social shows their social networking activity and history shows your call, text and e-mail history. You also get a neat little graph at the top of the tab showing the frequency of contact. You can see the friends you have in common with them on the History tab.

For those of you who are students of technology will be able to relate this application to something that was released a few time back. We are talking about the integration of all the contacts in Windows Phone Devices which does pretty much the same thing. Places all your contacts in one place and provides you with a detailed history from all the accounts you are linked with to that person. 

So smartr contacts provides you with that one big USP that Windows Phone devices would have thrived on or rather are thriving on! The fact that it is a cross platform application i.e. available for your gmail, Android and iOS (still in beta) devices, it helps you manage all your contacts effectively. For those of you wondering how it does that cross platform, you have to create a ‘xobni’ account (the developer of the application) so that the contacts are saved on the cloud and retrieved every time you login from a different device. 

The fact that this application stores up to 10,000 contact entries and manages them very effectively, lets your integrate all your accounts (we say all for gmail, facebook, twitter and linkedin are what most people use nowadays), it is one of the better contact management applications that we came across. 

All in all, Smartr Contacts definitely gets smarter as you use the app and surely manages your contacts pretty effectively and efficiently. We give it a 4.5/5 from us at OP. We  cut the half for it would have been much more effective had it let users integrate contacts from other email and social media clients as well. Still, a must have contact manager for your device!

Let us know how you feel about this app! 

Delhi High Court Threats The Net Kings: Facebook & Google

How many of you are addicted to make friends on Facebook and by default your hands type Google when you have to search something important?Well we can't think internet without these two websites. We are so addicted to these websites that we have started thinking that if their is no Facebook or Google on net , then their is no internet.
Also the country like India where these websites play a big role in peoples life can't be thought without these two. But unfortunately Delhi high court have given a warning to Facebook and Google on 12 Jan to filter the content or less they will be banned in India , just like in China.The High Court said that if the websites fail to devise a mechanism to check and remove objectionable material from their web pages, they will ban both the websites in India leading to a complete blackout.


Now not only is this dictatorship rather than a democracy, this is totally unacceptable. The government wants content to be “filtered”, monitored and the obscene content to be removed. Even though this is being said in an attempt to remove ‘obscene’ content but it appears the definition of ‘obscene’ is completely different for the court/government and the general public.

Thing that the high court needs to understand is that the ‘obscene’ content never pops up until and unless one searches for it. As for facebook, there isn’t a mechanism to monitor the obscene content but the users or rather the ‘addicts’ are pretty much working in a way to help people at facebook know about the obscene content i.e. by hitting the ‘report abuse’ button. The fact is, as I said above, the general definition of ‘obscenity’ is completely different for the ‘political’ people and the general public. The obscene content for the political people is anything against the government and for the general public it is obscene content. As simple as that! 

“Like China, we will block all such websites,” Justice Suresh Kait said while asking counsel for Facebook and Google India to develop a mechanism to keep a check and remove “offensive and objectionable” material from their web pages. 

It appears we are slowly and slowly slipping into a dictatorship after all. Even though I hold no grudges against the present government for we all know each and every politician deserves a number of ‘obscene’ words. All we can do is hope for the court and the government to understand for we all know life without Google and Facebook will be a different story altogether!