Faster : 100 Ways to Improve Your Digital Life

by Ankit Fadia

Our phones, computers and tablets are getting more powerful—but how many of us know the ways to get the most out of them? Bestselling author Ankit Fadia shows you how.

• Send an email in the future
• Fake an incoming call on your mobile phone
• Catch a cheating partner red-handed!
• Remember where you parked your car
• Block inappropriate websites from your kids
• Automate tasks on your mobile phone
• Hide files inside photographs!

Faster: 100 Ways to Improve Your Digital Life contains all the tips and tricks for you to stretch the limits of emails, computers, social networks, video sites and everything else digital. With easy-to-use examples and loads of screenshots, Faster is the perfect digital companion for you.

Genres: Nonfiction, Technology

336 pages, Paperback

First published June 20, 2013

About the author

The bestselling author Ankit Fadia is a tech junkie who loves tinkering with computers, gadgets and everything tech. He has hosted a popular show on MTV called What the Hack!, where he gave tips, tricks and tweaks to get more out of technology and the Internet. Widely recognized as a computer security expert, he has delivered more than 1000 talks in 25 countries, received several awards and trained more than 20,000 people in India and China. He has studied at Stanford University and was chosen as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum. Ankit loves to travel and has visited 100+ countries.

Reviews

[Pooja · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one of the books that made me try something about what I read.
Though many tricks would be already known by tech-savvy junta, I was always the one to be last to pick up ways to improve digital life. And i appreciate the text book kind of approach to all issues. something are pretty amazing:
- Disposable email id's
- Faking SMS/ calls
- Recover deleted file
- Updating facebook posts in future.

Indeed doing is believing! One of the good reads

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

Saw this on the bookshelf of a friend in Delhi so I bought a copy. A lot of the sections are about using apps, & some sections are just for iPhones or just for Android phones. However I'd definitely recommend it to help make best use of time in our ever-present, ever-absorbing digital world.

[jitender srivastava · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ankit fadia doing a good job, he just hack or discoverd what people are just passionate about and making there life so much easy by using some productivitty techniques and making & breaking the life complexity and help to create opportunity for you to bond with your team over a wide varity of topics.
And one more thing sheduling meeting & confrence with doodle is very useful thing.

[Aditya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some trips are amazing others are quite known

[Haseeb · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book will be very helpful for those who stepped into tech world and it seems not much very useful for techies(at-least you know how to undo your Gmail message) .
The main highlight of this book is, it describes each simple steps with good quality images.It makes a reader more clarity about the app and what this app do. Sometimes,even you can turn over the page by looking into the images and without reading the text.Images clearly describes what the apps do.
The book is divided into four main sections-functionality,look and feel,security,fun stuff.You can read it in any sequence according to your interests.

Ankit Fadia tried to introduce various app in Google chrome,android app store,ios store to improve our daily life into simpler and more comfortable. For example apps such as,caller ID,Split Bills,picasa,recuva,phonedeck,polkast etc,..
I should say,it is a collection of his TV shows and talks :)

[Palak · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was a part of my dad's library, and I just picked it up to read in case I find some tips and tricks to make my digital life faster. Alas! I was wrong in hoping. This may have been a breakthrough book when it was published, but technology has progressed at such an astounding rate that this book has become extremely irrelevant. I will not recommend this book, because it is just a waste of time right now.

[Shubhra · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wide-ranging option of useful tips, tricks and features for one's laptop and smartphone (Android OS/ iOS)... A very informative read!

[Samuel Premkumar · Rating 3 out of 5]

70% known tricks and apps; 20% new information; 10% not used - overall a good book for freshers to the digital world. At Rs 200, good value for money.

[Shivakumar Baskaran]

USEFUL TOOLS ANDROID USERS

[Atul Singh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good and also interesting book

[Aveek Sarkar · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is a very good technology book. It will give us lot of knowledge of our digital life and technology. Great book Ankit Fadia.

[Vivek Agarwal]

great book, Everything in title

[Anzar Kamal · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have just finished reading the book, although 3 years have been passed since the book is published, which is very long in digital realm, some of the trick are still very interesting and useful.

[Sourav Kumar]

its good and intresting i like this book