While you are browsing the web on your iOS 9, it could be a frustrating situation to find that the Internet connection is pathetically slow and web pages are talking forever to open. You can’t do much about the slow connection, can you? But, you can surely do a lot about opening pages faster even when the connection is just a bar or two of the Edge signal! Well, you have, to your saving grace, the content blocker app – Speedafari to your rescue.

For the uninitiated, Speedafari isn’t just one of the several content blocking apps available on your iOS 9 mobile device. Rather, it is an intelligent app that helps you load web pages faster by blocking all the unwanted portions in the page that mostly comprise of ads, tracking scripts and specialized fonts.

How does Speedafari work?

When you will run the Speedafari app for the first time, it will ask you to add the widget to your Today screen. It is here you can manage the app – turn it on or off, set its level of aggressiveness, etc.

So, to make the app work for you – block unwanted contents so that a website will load up faster – you’ve got to enable it. To do so,

• Go to Settings and tap on Safari.
• Open up Content Blockers and toggle the Enable option.

Return to the Today screen and launch Safari and start using it. If the connection is slow at this moment, you’ll be glad you enabled it for you will notice that the pages are opening up quicker than they did last time when the Internet connection was slow.

To let you decide the aggressiveness level with which you want the app to work, you can select the one that best suits your preference:

• Low: To block tracking scripts and ads
• Medium: To block all scripts on a page and also fonts
• High: To block everything else apart from the main HTML; this is more like only the text view of the page to let you focus on the main content portion of the page

While many websites do not view ad-blockers as a good option, especially the ones that rely on web ads to generate revenue, these blockers nevertheless enhance the browsing experience for a mobile user. The next time you face a sluggish connection issue on your iOS 9, don’t forget to make use of the Speedafari app!

There are apps today available for practically everything – from locating your misplaced smartphone to keeping a track of your fitness regimen. So, as you can see, apps make a lot of things easier for us. They help us simply life and many mundane chores that would otherwise perhaps be boring or lengthy. But, isn’t that what technology is meant for?

In the midst of this, apps have also entered educational institutions. They are simplifying the lives of students and also giving the institutions a platform to share the latest happenings, announce the upcoming events and, connect resources both internal and external to help guide students when they need it the most. TechGenie takes this opportunity to share with you a few chances that you too could cash upon, with respect to apps that are handy and can prove very useful for college goers.

Dropbox

This is an evergreen app that help students and professionals alike. While the latter can use it to record their digital documents up in the cloud, the former can use this app to store all their notes, presentations and everything else that they need to complete their college studies. Available for free and with a storage space of 2GB, Dropbox is certainly what you need to access your files, work on them, share them with friends and so on.

Trello

This is yet another app to organize your college life – yes, this can be pretty tough and so Trello strives to make things smoother for you. Available for Android, iOS, Kindle Fire and Windows 8, Trello lets you create boards, share them and even use them to assign tasks to other fellow members. Using this app your group can easily collaborate over completing the project and that too on time as you can set specific dates to chase the delivery. Isn’t this a wonderful app? You could opt to use the desktop or the mobile version of this app.

iStudiez

If you are looking for an app to help schedule your tasks, track your assignments, or monitor group study sessions, all you’ll need is the iStudiez app. This can help you do this and more. The designers of iStudiez have specifically kept in mind the needs of students and therefore have created this app that is compatible with all devices, irrespective of the model and brand. While the complete version of the app is available for $10, you can also check out its base version iStudiez Lite for free, before you actually purchased the final version.

Evernote

A flexible and robust organizational tool for students would surely be Evernote. Simple to install and use, Evernote lets you take care of a host of tasks including creating notes, syncing them across multiple devices, snapping photos, organizing notes, annotating notes and even storing sketches and handwritten notes.

iProcrastinate

If you own a Mac or an iPhone, you would be glad you downloaded this app! No, it won’t certainly teach you how you can procrastinate; rather, it will help you get rid of this nasty little habit. Use this to organize your notes, set priority levels, and make even the toughest projects manageable by breaking them into smaller and more realistic targets.

So, with these handy apps to accompany you to your college, you are absolutely prepared to go back to school! Do let us know which out of this list you preferred and how many apps you’re planning to check out today…