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7 New Security and Surveillance gadgets

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7 New Security and Surveillance gadgets

Home and office security often gets less attention than it deserves. Most people are either unaware or underestimate the risk of burglaries or break ins in their area. As a consequence, smart home technology is often about power generation or convenience.

Nevertheless, as a homeowner your top priority should be securing the premises. Here are seven new gadgets that can help you do so:

  • Shock sensor

Motion sensors are commonplace. Shock sensors, on the other hand, get to the root of the problem of burglaries. These are simple devices that fit onto the frames of your doors and windows and sense sudden shocks that indicate forceful entry. Some of these shock sensor system come with a built-in alarm system that can notify you and the authorities when there’s a shock to those crucial entry points.

  • August smart lock

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The August Smart Lock is perhaps the most well-known smart lock on the market. The device is popular simply because it’s the most convenient. You can pair it with your smartphone (android or iOS) and use the phone as your virtual key. The door auto locks when you leave and offer timed access to friends and family when you’re not around.

There are also video doorbells, such as Ring and Skybell, which let you monitor your front porch so you can see anyone who rings your doorbell or triggers motion detection.

  • Cocoon

cocoon wide-angle camera system

An indoor, wide-angle camera system with some nifty features, the Cocoon is a security device that monitors certain sensitive areas of the home. You can control it with your smartphone and it’s designed to ignore motion from your pets.

  • Novi

Novi is the best smoke detector you can get for your home or office. That’s because it does more than just detect smoke. The tiny device has a high definition camera that can capture images within a 170 degree range. It also has a loud 90 decibel alarm that can alert you if your place every catches fire or there’s suspicious movement.

  • Ezviz Mini Cube

Ezviz Mini Cube

The most rugged and portable surveillance camera you’ll find is the Ezviz Mini Cube. The tiny cube is barely 2.2 inches wide, but it can see and record upto a distance of 30 feet with absolute clarity. The moisture-resistant gizmo is built for the outdoors, where the real danger is.   

  • Leak Detector

Part of Apple’s HomeKit, this iDevice notifies you if there’s a significant leak at home. If you live in a flood-prone part of the world, this is a great buy.

  • Haven

Smart gadgets are often designed to be small and unobtrusive. Haven is precisely the opposite. That’s because this door stopper locking system is designed to hold off forceful entry into your home or office. The sturdy door stopper is made of steel, nylon, and aluminium, all of which have been glass-reinforced for added strength and security. When it comes to air-tight door security, it doesn’t get better than this.

These seven new security gadgets can make your house or office a lot more secure.

Asus Zephyrus Launched at ROG Masters – Thinnest Gaming Laptop

Sreerag Nampoothiri
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Asus Zephyrus Launched at ROG Masters – Thinnest Gaming Laptop

Asus launches world’s thinnest gaming laptop Zephyrus on the sidelines of the ROG Masters South Asia finale 2017 held in Bangalore.

Asus Zephyrus is powered by 7th Gen Intel Core i7 processor combined with latest NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 graphics, Asus ROG is adding nothing but a new jewel in the existing line up laptops. Unlike the other bulky gaming laptops, at just 16.9mm thickness, the Zephyrus is the ‘World’s Thinnest Gaming Notebook’ that has ever created.

The Republic of Gamers (ROG) is an Asus owned brand known for developing the world’s best gaming hardware and software products. ROG, renowned for its innovative products, offers top-notch hardware including motherboards, graphics cards, laptops, desktops etc.

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The laptop was unveiled during the ROG Masters South Asia finale held in Bangalore, India. This year’s ROG Master hosts 2 games; Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Doto 2. Divided among 4 continents, the tournament had participants from Asia Pacific, Americas, China and EMEA regions. The South-Asia finale organized in Bengaluru comes with a prize pool of INR 10,00,000.

A design inspired from NASA’s aerodynamic philosophy, NVIDIA applied same on Asus Zephyrus focusing deeper into the Max-Q technology. The Max-Q enables OEMs to build laptops that are 3x thinner with up to 3x more performance compared to the previous generation. Since it’s a platform based on new, rather innovative, technology, it offers support for the entire GeForce Gaming technologies including Gamer Ready drivers, NVIDIA G-SYNC display technology, VR, 4K gaming, and more.

The laptop features an Active Aerodynamic System (AAS) resulting in cooler and quieter laptop operation, without sacrificing a bit on performance. Loaded with the Aura RGB lighting technology and innovative touchpad with 10-key functionality, the keyboard in this laptop is something what you call any gamers dream. The Aura RGB lighting provides dynamic and customizable lighting effects over the entire keyboard. On top of that, the gaming keys like WASD and QWER can be customized further to match with the ambience of the game. Unlike the conventional laptops, placing the touchpad on the right side gives a better sense of gameplay for the user.

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The Asus Zephyrus comes with a 15.6-inch display which supports up to 120Hz frame rate promises to deliver smooth gaming visuals. By synching the display’s refresh rate with the NVIDIA graphic card’s frame rate, the Zephyrus offers ultra-smooth visual. G-SYNC reduces lag, minimizes perceived stutter, and eliminates visual tearing — providing the smoothest, fastest and most breathtaking gaming imaginable, without affecting system performance.

The Asus Zephyrus is priced at INR 2,99,990/- clearly aiming the high-end gaming community. The laptops packs best in class processor, a design which is inspired from erudite of aerospace engineering, world’s first thinnest gaming laptop title, best graphic processing unit which even support 4K gaming, an innovative keypad with brilliantly realigned touchpad makes it worth the money if you are into hardcore gaming. Adding to that, the ROG Masters 2017 will witness over 20 top professional teams from across the globe and has a prize pool of $500,000.

Why Domain Authority Isn’t Your Savior When It Comes to SEO (But Why It’s Still Useful)

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Why Domain Authority Isn’t Your Savior When It Comes to SEO (But Why It’s Still Useful)

This is a Guest post by Anastasia Ryan  from Ahrefs.com.

If you know what SEO means, you probably use a tool or two to help you with all the SEO needs. And if you’re using such tools, you probably know what a Domain Authority rating is. 

It’s an important metric, but here’s the thing: it’s not important in that way you probably think it is. Meaning, DR ratings don’t influence your Google rankings.

What’s DR?

Domain Authority metrics have many names. Our colleagues at Moz call them Domain Authority, probably to highlight that more important and trustworthy websites have higher DA scores. We at Ahrefs prefer to call the metric Domain Rating, or DR for short. Either way, that’s the same thing.

DA or DR metrics are calculated by what we call ‘link juice’. In the simplest terms, the more backlinks your website gets from other websites with high DR, the higher your DR will be. However, there are important caveats you should be aware of.

First and foremost, not all websites with high DR are equal. Backlinks from websites that don’t link to other places that frequently will carry more link juice with them. That’s why if your site gets a backlink from, say, The New Yorker, your DR will be higher. But if you get a link from, I don’t know, Dribbble, you’ll see little to no advantages whatsoever.

So far, so good, but here’s where a lot of people start to get confused. Domain Rating or Domain Authority metrics seem like the general ‘score’ of a website. So people naturally assume, that websites with high DR rank better than those with lower DR.

That’s not the case.

DR is not a ranking factor

Google doesn’t really like confirming SEO stuff and the inner workings of their algorithms, but they made an exception for domain authority rankings. Back in October 2016, Google’s own Gary Illyes confirmed, that the company ‘doesn’t really have overall domain authority’ in their ratings.

domain authority analysis

Practically, this means one thing. If you invest time and money into boosting your domain authority, you won’t see much results. Google doesn’t automatically prefer websites with higher DR. That’s why there are lots of websites with high domain authority that you won’t find on the first couple of search pages.

Focusing on domain authority ratings in your SEO game can actually be harmful, too. That’s because it takes away your time and money — something you could’ve used elsewhere, to much more productive results.

There are good news, too. If you only starting out with your new website, it’s obvious that your domain authority rating will be low. But when DR isn’t actually that important, you’re free — it’s possible to start ranking right from the get go and not wait for months to boost your DR.

How do you do that?

What’s actually more important than DR score is the UR score. It’s the metric that highlights the score of a particular page or URL on a website.

At Ahrefs, we highlight the importance of URL ratings by placing it before domain authority rating in our info panel.

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How you can use DR to your advantage

So after the last section you may find yourself wondering: if domain authority ratings are so useless, why professional SEO toolsets continue showing them?

That’s because on its own, DR is an important metric, actually. It’s useless in one scenario — when people think that boosting their DR automatically means ranking higher in Google. It doesn’t.

But it doesn’t mean that DR is useless.

To understand how to use DR metrics to your advantage, you have to understand the term ‘link juice’.

Basically, Google and other search engines rank websites by looking at their backlink profiles. If your website has links from big, popular websites, it will rank higher. That’s because those links carry a lot of ‘link juice’ with them.

So, DR is great for your outreach game, for example. It will let you quickly understand if a website is worth writing an email to. Links from sites with low to non-existent DR carry close to no weight with them, so investing time and money there isn’t the best idea.

One more thing.

There’s a great little SEO lifehack that lets you utilise your domain authority score to your own advantage: internal links.

If your website has high DR, it means that links coming from it carry a lot of ‘link juice’ with them. It works for other websites, so why that wouldn’t work for your own?

By linking pages from your website to each other, you pass that link juice to other, less popular pages of your website. Which means, basically, that you can rank purely by linking from one place of your website to another.

At Ahrefs, we love studies and we studied the correlation between internal links and higher Google ranking. And we found it!

It’s small, but often such small things is just what you need to get from page 2 to page 1 in search.

Conclusions

SEO is driven by data. But even with access to SEO toolsets with loads of great data (wink-wink), it’s important to use it the right way. Focusing your attention on the wrong things means losing time and money, and nobody wants to lose that.

 

About the Guest Contributor: Anastasia Ryan

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Anastasia Ryan is content marketer at Ahrefs. When not doing marketing, I take care of my cat and watch a lot of Italian movies

 

Find out about the consequences of Plagiarism

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Find out about the consequences of Plagiarism

You may be surprised but the consequences of plagiarism are extremely severe and that fast and easy press of the copy and paste icon could be something you will regret for the rest of your life.

Plagiarism is actually more of a problem than it’s ever been, though it’s easier to catch people than ever before. The widespread use of the World Wide Web is, of course, the main reason for this. The Internet means that information is easier to access and so easier to plagiarise. However, students need to realise that they must resist the temptation to copy other’s work – just because something is becoming more common, does not mean that it is something that people should ever think is okay to do. That and the fact it’s a lot easier to recognise. There are plenty of free and premium tools to check your essay for plagiarism.

Imagine having a 10,000-word document destroyed because one sentence was not attributed or was plagiarised as your own work – it doesn’t really bear thinking about, to be honest. In the case of a work like this, originality is everything and it should be checked by a tool like Eduzaurus and be up to publication standard – not something worth risking. 

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Of course, if you doubt the severity of the issues that can occur because of plagiarism you should continue to read below or check these sites: https://blablawriting.com/free-plagiarism-checker

Let’s See what can be the consequences of Plagiarism?

Destruction

If you plagiarise for a piece of work, particularly a longer piece of work, you will probably see it destroyed. Longer and more defining pieces of work such as dissertations and thesis’ are scrutinised more closely than the traditional work. This means that most issues regarding plagiarism will be not only discovered but also the consequences will be a lot more severe.

Imagine having a 10,000-word document destroyed because one sentence was not attributed or was plagiarised as your own work – it doesn’t really bear thinking about, to be honest. In the case of a work like this, originality is everything and it should be up to publication standard – not something worth risking.

Academic Career

More severe again is the chance that if caught you are endangering your whole academic career. In fact, many universities or courses will ask you to leave if you’ve been caught plagiarising as you’ve shown yourself to be dishonest and untrustworthy. This means that all the work you’ve done up until that point is of absolutely no use whatsoever and you’ve sacrificed all your work and all those years you spend doing it.

Expulsion

Plagiarism one a university or college course can have severe repercussions and in the UK almost 150 people each year find them out to their full extent. In fact, if you’re caught plagiarizing in the UK it’s quite possible that you will be taken out of your course and banned.

A lot of people don’t realise that this is as much the case for a college course as it is a university one in the highest-ranked establishments in the country. The perception that somehow plagiarism only matters at the highest level is one regularly seen as a misconception first hand. In fact, it can mean that you will be taken from your course and banned for a number of years.

In addition, you will never be allowed to attend a similar course again – obviously something that’s extremely severe and could impact on you for the remainder of your life.

Legal Issues

In the worst-case scenario, plagiarism can result in legal action being taken against you. Copyright laws are absolute and if caught you can be deemed having broken the law. This may mean a criminal case is taken against you and also that you can be taken to court for damages by the author. This can make for a number of legal and also monetary issues and may require you to pay a penalty.

So, as you can see plagiarism is no laughing matter and it’s a necessity to avoid it at all times as it can have serious repercussions.

ESPNCricinfo Relaunches the Website and App – A Major Design Revamp

Sreerag Nampoothiri
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ESPNCricinfo Relaunches the Website and App – A Major Design Revamp

The world’s leading digital cricket media ESPNCricinfo relaunches their Website and App after a major redesigning work. Along with this, the company announced ESPNCricinfo ‘Turn and Bounce’ weekly cricket show. The show will be aired on SONY SIX, SONY SIX HD and ESPN.in. The updated website and app is aiming to deliver live scores at even faster pace, stats and commentary, interactive and engaging contents, trusted and insightful analysis of the game, a library for videos and more. With more than 150 million visits per month, out of it nearly 1.5 billion minutes of engagement from India and the subcontinents, ESPNCricinfo is one of the top platforms the cricket lovers love to tune in for match updates.

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The revamped website and mobile app has an all-new elegant design along with some important features like; personalization of app and an option to set custom alerts. As the company looks ahead to its 25th anniversary in March 2018, the number of fans worldwide on this incredible sports platform has almost reached 2 billion fans worldwide.

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With the launch of its first weekly cricket show, Turn and Bounce, ESPNCricinfo continues to evolve as one of the leading multimedia brand among the cricket fans. The Turn and Bounce is for both television and digital platforms. Beginning from July 22nd 2017 10:00PM, every Saturday, ESPNCricinfo Turn and Bounce will be aired on SONY SIX, SONY SIX HD television channels, and on digital platforms like SonyLIV app, website and ESPN.in. The show clips will be available on the ESPNCricinfo as well.

“We are cricket fans ourselves and we cherish our role as the definitive voice of a sport that fans everywhere love and share,”

said Ramesh Kumar, Vice President, Head of ESPN India and South Asia.

“Today, mobile devices have evolved into the daily gateway to cricket for hundreds of millions of fans around the world. The new and improved ESPNcricinfo reflects our commitment to combining the most dynamic digital products with the best cricket content and coverage. And through the collaboration between Sony Pictures Networks and ESPN, we are continuing the expansion of the ESPNcricinfo brand even further with the launch of ESPNcricinfo Turn and Bounce show for television and digital platforms offering the fans a compelling content.”

Speaking on the launch of ESPNcricinfo Turn and Bounce, Mr. Rajesh Kaul, President, Sports & Distribution Business, Sony Pictures Networks India said,

“We are looking forward to bringing Turn and Bounce to our viewers, a show that promises to offer refreshing discussion and analysis, appealing features from cricket’s most loved experts and personalities from the cricketing world.”

ESPNCricinfo Turn and Bounce show will be a telecast of round-up about the live actions on the field, match highlights, top moments of the week, analysis, debate and interestingly, will include a discussions session with the fans.

The new ESPNCricinfo website and app is revamped to fit in the best in class interface and has added new features. The redesigned UI will have an intuitive interface which displays the important information like latest scores, news, videos.

The ESPNCricinfo Scorecard feature promises faster live score updates and commentary, more stats, photos, video, trivia and contents can be easily shareable on social media with integrated share options. Combining with the android system alerts, the app can be easily configured to give you important alerts as pop up messages and push notifications.

 

Ready to improve your office? Here’s what you need to know

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Ready to improve your office? Here’s what you need to know

No matter what type of office you work in, it’s important that you regularly evaluate how things are running. Are your employees productive? Are they happy? Is everyone showing up on time? Are your customers content? Most importantly, are you satisfied with how things are functioning?

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If you aren’t happy with how your office is running, it may be time to make some changes. Understand that although many adults have a difficult time adjusting to change, the truth is that sometimes it’s important to adjust office policies, procedures, and even equipment. If you’re ready to improve your office, there are a few things you need to know before you get started.

Give it time

Change doesn’t happen overnight. Even the best office employees need time to adjust to new policies and procedures. It’s unrealistic to expect that each employee will be able to adapt quickly to changes, so make sure you give things time. Feel free to send reminders to employees about office policy changes, but remember to be as patient as possible as each staff member learns how the new equipment works and what is expected of them.

Educate each person

When you integrate new policies or procedures, it’s important that you make sure each team member thoroughly understands what is expected of them. Have you showed each person how to perform any new duties they might have? Have you thoroughly explained how new equipment works? Does each person know how to get help if they need it? Do they understand how to utilize Calgary IT support for serious problems? Make sure you educate each individual employee. Never expect that they will simply figure things out on their own. Instead, provide your employees with the skills and information they need to truly succeed.

Ask for input

Finally, make sure you ask each team member for their input. How will you know if things are working unless you ask? Consider holding regular meetings where you can talk with your team and collaborate with them. You could share information during this meeting that you might not otherwise receive. Plus, many employees are more likely to discuss problems when you’re talking face-to-face.

You could also have anonymous surveys where you ask each employee what their opinions are on different office policies and procedures. Make sure you ask each team member how work is going for them. Talk about their experiences with the new policies in place and find out if there are any changes they’d like to see. Chances are they’ll be more than happy to discuss this with you.

No matter what type of company you run, it’s important that you maintain modern, up-to-date standards. Regular adjustments and changes are important, but these things should never stress out your employees. Always encourage open and honest dialogue and discussion at your office and you’ll find that your employees have a more positive experience and are more productive at work.

Top 10 Best Video Editing Apps for Android – Create, Edit and Share

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Top 10 Best Video Editing Apps for Android – Create, Edit and Share

Most of the online viral contents these days are videos. With the help of rapidly growing network connectivity and innovative social media platforms, videos that gets posted online has a potential for reaching millions of people within a spam of very short time. The celebrities and vloggers are the biggest contributors of high quality video contents online. Since most of their lifestyle involves a lot of traveling, it is very important for them to have some best video editing apps handy for editing videos on the go and sharing it with their fan base. I believe, the edited contents are always better than the raw footages since it gives a professional touch and feel to it. That is why, today I am going to share with you the top 10 best video editing apps for android. Most of these tools are free and some are paid ones. Use of these apps doesn’t require any sort of technical skills and therefore can be used easily. Every video could use some proper title, some filters and subtle edits before it goes online. Who knows whether it gets viral or not? So, better make it look professional if in case it does. If you’re looking for desktop apps, do checkout  the best free video editing software list

Tip! Use Teamviewer without installing.

Video Editing Apps for Android

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Magisto Video Editor & Maker

Starting off the list with one of the most popular video editing apps in playstore, the Magisto Video editor and maker. With its simple and intuitive user interface and ton of features, this app has won so many appreciations like; Playstore Editor’s choice 2016, Best android app award 2015 and even featured in CES as best app of the year.

Magisto Video editor breaks down the whole process into three easy steps; 1. select your videos and photos! Yes, the app supports photos to be included while making a video. Then, 2. select the theme or editing style like; Dance, Story Teller, Travel, Memories etc. and finally, 3. select a perfect soundtrack from the list which is tailored to suit all occasions. Within minutes the app will render the video and will make it available for you to share it with the world. The app is free to download but, in-app purchases should be made to unlock the full features.

Tip! Download teamviewer or Use Teamviewer without installing.

PowerDirector Video Editor App: 4K, Slow Mo & More

PowerDirector is one of the most famous video editing apps for desktop. One of the best part about editing videos on desktop is the support for ‘Timeline’ video editing. Due to screen space limitations, adding this feature to a mobile video editor will make the interface look cluttered. Fortunately, this free video editor from PowerDirector has managed to incorporate the same without making it an overkill.

The app also comes preloaded with 50 pro effects and transitions to express the best possible creativity you can. The slow pro feature help you add slow motion effects to your action videos. Unlike the other apps, the PowerDirector video editor allows you to play around with the Titles by changing the fonts, adding a background fill color etc.

KineMaster – Pro Video Editor

Like Magisto, KineMaster also support creating videos using both photos and videos. The app interface works only in landscape mode and personally, the app looks bit professional. The developers has used the entire screen space to fill it up with ton of features.

There are options to select videos and photos, select a theme from a list, add titles and finally edit and share. The best part about the KineMaster app is the advanced timeline editor. The app lets you edit the videos, add effects, music and at the same time help you view it all in full screen mode rather than making the interface look cluttered. The timeline supports 5+ layer of things to be added to a video like; text titles, handwritten inputs, stickers, two audios etc. My personal favourite is, embedding video inside another video.

Videoshop – video editor

Videoshop is one of the first video editing apps that has surfaced in Google PlayStore. The best part about this app is the simple and easy to understand UI. The Videoshop is a free app to download but, do have to make some in-app purchases to make it run seamlessly.

The features include; trim, add music, sound effects, slow motion, add texts, record voice, transitions, filters, resize the video and more. There is also an option to share it directly to multiple social media platforms.

Quik Free Video Editor

A video editor not only for editing your normal videos but, also for editing the clips imported from GoPro! The Quik free video editor is one of the best video editing apps from GoPro team. The app supports both video and photos to be added in the timeline.

Claimed to be one of the fastest video editor in the app store, Quik features a simple and straight forward user interface which will help you make your video in few clips and taps. There are lot of smooth transition effects which can be added to make your videos looks great and lively. The app is completely free except for the use of cloud storage option, which is a paid feature.

VivaVideo – Free Video Editor

VivaVideo is one of the very famous video editing apps. You must have seen the watermark in many of the Facebook videos which reads VivaVideo. That means, if you are using the free version of the app you may have to sacrifice the watermark on the final output.

That apart, VivaVideo is a great app which acts as a video editor, movie maker, photo editor, slideshow maker, video player etc. The app features tons of themes, popular music tracks, dynamic texts, animated stickers, exclusive filters and more.

VideoShow – Video Editor, Video Maker, Music, Free

With over 140 million user base, VideoShow is one of the most rated video editing apps in many countries. With a tagline “make videos in 3 minutes”, VideoShow is an all in one video editor.

With VideoShow, you can select both photos and videos to add to your creativity.              You can add theme, music, style texts, stickers, sound effects, different text fonts etc. to customize and make your video unique. With the draw option, you can literally draw and add your signature things to the video. There is an option to Zoom and refocus in photos, record your own audio and more.

InShot Video Editor Music, Cut, No Crop

InShot video editor is one of my favourite video editing apps. This app is best suited for creating videos for Instagram. Best part of the app is, while working on portrait videos the app will automatically resize the video and add blur background making it Instagram friendly.

There are lot of transition effects, option to add texts, drag and drop videos, and the video rendering is also fast. The vintage filters which comes pre-loaded with the app is a must try thing. The app support a nice and big timeline editing option if opened in tablets.

Video Editor

One of the best editor’s choice video editing apps in playstore, Video Editor is a great app to capture, edit and share videos. You can simply select the videos and photos you would like to use for creating your story. The intuitive actions like; swipe left to remove a clip, click and drag the clip to rearrange the position in timeline etc.

You can add sounds from the device or record yourself, add funky looking titles and filters to make your video even interesting. The on-device rendering helps you with save it locally and share later.

10 FilmoraGo – Free Video Editor

Unlike the other free video editing apps which stamps a watermark, FilmoraGo is a completely free video editor which helps you create beautiful and stunning videos without any such sort of watermarks.

The videos effects are pretty standard for a completely free app, there are a list of tracks to choose from, nice themes you can apply, and finally share the video once it is done. The app also help you create funny videos for example, if you apply Chaplin theme the entire look and feel will change as if in 80’s theme.

Hope you liked our list of cheap video editing software for android. Please leave your comments if we missed any.

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