How To Impress Me: Priyanka Chopra

 - A sense of humor is worth its weight in gold. No woman I know likes to spend a lifetime, or even an evening, with a man who’s dour or self obsessed.

 - An ideal guy is the one who can survive a girl who loves to talk, and knows how to handle her moods.

 - We are innately more self-conscious, and we do tend to check ourselves out in the mirror often. But that’s not a problem in our eyes.

 - When a woman says no, she means no. The Indian urban woman isn’t coy, and she will tell you if she wants to be with you.

 - We like men who dance well. We seriously do. Some rhythm, a genuine love for the art, and the fun you have on the dance floor, makes all the difference to the way we look at you.

 - As we get older, we lose patience with this ‘hard to get’ approach. Keep us hanging, or take days to call back, and we will lose interest.

 - Don’t kiss and tell. And don’t abuse your ex. It will only make you come across as insensitive.

 - Please ask for directions the next time you are lost. It won’t make you look incompetent. We will like the fact that we aren’t going around in circles.

Top 9 Productivity Apps

POCKET

When you come across an interesting article, video or web page that you want to read, watch or view later, put it in Pocket. Once an item is in Pocket, it automatically syncs across to your phone, tablet and computer, so you can view it anytime later, even without an internet connection. There are three ways 'to put stuff in your pocket’: you can use a bookmarklet, send stuff to a custom email address, or use the “save to pocket” button in any of the 300+ apps_such as Flipboard, Twitter and Zite.
Available on: iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire, Android, Google Chrome and Firefox
Price: Free

BUMP

This file sharing app allows you to share information --- contacts, photos and files — just by bumping two mobile devices together. The tool works cross-platform, which means it can  share data between iPhone and any Android device. Bump also has a web client that lets you transfer files to/from your computer. No more USB drives: you can just grab a presentation from your desktop PC and bump it to you laptop, before you rush out for a presentation.
Available on: Android, iOS and PC
Price: Free

IPASSWORD

Have you been using weak passwords because they are easy to remember, or using the same password across all your accounts? Try 1Password, a tool that generates strong, unique passwords for your accounts and identities across hundreds of sites. All you need to remember is one password that gives you access to the app, and the app will automatically log you into websites, enter your credit card information and fill registration forms.
Available on: Android, iOS, Mac and PC
Price: $17.99 on iOS

CLEAR

There are many tools for list-keeping, but our absolute favourite is Clear, an amazing new app to manage your to-do list. Clear’s appeal lies in its simplicity and its touch interface. You jot down what you need to do by pinching items apart, dragging from the top of the list, or tapping at the bottom. To mark items as done, you just swipe left or right. No alarms, no location-based alerts; just good old todo- lists for busy people.
Available on: iOS
Price: $1.99

FRIDAY

If Franz Kafka, who was a sedulous diarist, were alive today, he would probably be using Friday. Friday is an app that records each and every of your phone activities, and presents the record in the form of cool infographics. Forget that song you had listened to last Monday? Then Friday will wade through your phone history and dredge the number out for you. The analytics are pretty powerful, presenting you a snapshot view of the locations you’ve commuted to, the people you’ve sent most number of tweets to etc.
Available on: Android
Price: Free

MAILBOX

There are plenty of mobile email apps, but most of them are nothing more than scaled-down versions of desktop email. But what a smartphone user really needs is a tool that will help him sort out the deluge of emails effectively. What he needs is MailBox, which helps one prioritise the incoming emails conveniently. With simple swipes, you can get a mail out of your inbox, archive it, delete it, or file it in a separate folder.
Available on: iOS
Price: Free
ANY.DO

It may not be as feature laden as some of the other to-do list apps out there, but Any.Do is beautiful, simple yet powerful, and works across platforms. Drag and drop to plan your agenda, swipe off a task to mark it as complete, and shake your iPhone to clear your completed activities. Instead of typing, use voice recognition to enter the tasks on your mind. Any.Do can autocomplete to-dos as you type them; and it also enables you to share your projects with friends and co-workers.
Available on: iPad, iPhone, Android and Google Chrome
Price: Free
PAPER

If you are looking for a simple and stunning drawing tool to capture your ideas, take notes, or sketch fashion looks, Paper is what you need. No fussy buttons or complex settings to distract you, Paper works just like, well, paper. You can create a journal to store all your work and share it across the web. Stream pages to Tumblr, send them over email, or share pages with your friends on Facebook and Twitter.
Available on: iPad
Price: The app is free; buy additional tools from the In-app store
FANTASTICAL

This is a tool that will show you how boring and useless your stock iOS Calendar app is. Fantastical’s intuitive reminder creation and gorgeous looking list make it the best calendar you’ll ever use. Type in “Lunch with boss on Friday at 1pm” and Fantastical will schedule it. Or type in "Buy milk by Tuesday” and Fantastical will create a reminder. We love the simple interface and DayTicker, which gives you an overview of your week. If you’re using iOS 6, Fantastical can also incorporate your Facebook events.
Available on: iOS
Price: $4.99 

Ford EcoSport Diesel Review

There’s no doubting the immense popularity of the compact SUV segment in India, something that is proven by the Renault Duster’s rapid climb up the sales charts ever since its debut here. But now, there’s a new contender in the form of Ford’s EcoSport. It’s even smaller than the Renault (it’s under four metres long), but Ford clearly thinks it has what it takes to take on the reigning king. Is Ford’s latest offering up to the task then?

The EcoSport, when it’s launched, will be available with three engine options – the petrol and diesel engines from the Fiesta, as well as a brand new 1.0-litre, three-cylinder, turbocharged, direct-injection petrol motor, called the EcoBoost. We’ve sampled a car powered by the EcoBoost already, so today we’re driving the 89bhp, 1.5-litre turbo-diesel engine, and our first impressions are pretty good. This powerplant’s ready responses and instant power delivery at low to medium engine speeds makes it very easy to drive in traffic. The Ford is happy to amble around in third gear, even at speeds as low as 30-40kph, and tap the accelerator and it picks up the pace quite rapidly. What further aids tractability is its five-speed manual gearbox, which is light and has a nice mechanical feel to it.

However, out on the highway is where the EcoSport begins to feel a bit away from its comfort zone. It tends to run out of breath, particularly when you have to execute a high-speed overtaking move.That said, the EcoSport’s refinement is quite impressive. The motor feels composed for the most part and only gets a bit noisier closer to the redline. The Ford managed to set some brisk times in our acceleration test. It took 13.72 seconds to reach 100kph while it reached a top-speed of 168kph. 

 

Out on twisty roads, the EcoSport is as easy to drive as your average hatchback. Straight-line stability is also really good, but it does ‘thunk’ over big bumps. The front suspension certainly feels stiffer than that of the EcoBoost petrol version and, as a result, the Ford doesn’t iron out surface imperfections that well.

 

Even then, the stiff suspension setup lends it a certain agility and it’s got a well-weighted steering which, aided to its good body control, makes it really entertaining to drive on the twisty stuff. 

In terms of the cabin, the EcoSport’s interior is very similar to the Ford Fiesta. The dash has a modern, angular design, dominated by the V-shaped centre console. However, there are a lot of buttons here, and the dashboard’s sharp angle means they can be hard to read on the move. The advantage of this raked dashboard, which stretches far ahead to meet the windscreen, is that it gives a large sense of space. The downside is that it makes it hard to judge where the front of the EcoSport ends.

 

The front seats offer a lot of leg and head room, and are very snug and supportive. Move to the back though, and the EcoSport gets a bit narrow, which makes sitting three abreast a bit of a squeeze. The overall rear legroom is nothing exceptional, but its seats do have a decent amount of thigh support. This being a tall SUV, the EcoSport unsurprisingly has plenty of headroom too. Where the EcoSport does lose out quite heavily however, is in boot space. Its 3999mm length means that it has a meagre 362-litres of luggage space. In comparison, the EcoSport’s primary competitor, the Duster, has a bigger 475-litres of boot space.

 

What the EcoSport is, then, is a genuine rival to Renault’s segment-defining compact SUV. It does everything as well as the Duster, but in a more sophisticated, up-to-date and desirable manner. Renault has set the benchmark quite high, but in the EcoSport, Ford has a genuine shot at crippling the Duster’s sales.