Top 10 Gig Economy Apps To Make Extra Money

As most of the world transitions from a production-based economy to a service-based economy, gig economy apps have become a new way to find and make a little extra scratch on the side. Check out this list of these top ten apps that will help you make money with a side hustle.

10. Eatwith

Eatwith connects aspiring chefs with those who want to have a good meal by allowing chefs to plan and prepare dinners for guests. It is like the Airbnb of meals, as you get a chef-prepared meal in the chef's home. Eatwith vets all their chefs before they are approved to use the service, so you can guarantee you are going to get a quality meal.

9. Etsy

Etsy is an online marketplace for anyone who makes hand-made goods. It does not matter if you crochet, woodwork, make soap, whatever your hobby if it produces an item you can sell it on Etsy. You will need at least ten items to open a store on Etsy, but it is the best online marketplace for selling your hand-made items.

8. Rover

Stop leaving your canine friend at home alone while you are at work all day with the Rover dog-sitting app. It connects you with vetted sitters in your area and allows you to book your favorite sitters with just the touch of a button. For dog sitters and walkers, it can dramatically increase the number of job offers you receive.

7. Soothe

Nothing works better to help you relax than a massage, but making time for visiting the massage parlor can be enough to negate the relaxation. Soothe solves this problem by hooking you up with licensed massage therapists who are willing to come to your home for the ultimate relaxing massage.

6. Fiverr

Fiverr's unique premise is that you can post micro-jobs for just $5. Some examples include voice actors for video and other media, graphic design work, and programming and website help. It is a robust marketplace filled with gig economy professionals who are willing to work for a nominal fee.

5. Dolly

There's nothing worse in the world than moving, but Dolly aims to make that easier by connecting people who have trucks and can move things with people who need them moved. Instead of turning to a sketchy moving company, consider hiring either a Truck or a Truck & Muscle to get your stuff where it needs to go.

4. Takl

Have a few things around the house that need to be serviced, like a broken gutter or a leaky faucet? You can book professionals to help you with household tasks using the Takl app. One of the main benefits is that you pay what the app says instead of unreliable estimates from contractors.

3. Postmates

Need something delivered quickly? It does not matter if it is restaurant food, groceries, dry cleaning, alcohol, or anything else, the contractors that work for Postmates will get it to you. It is in limited availability across the United States but continually expanding to new markets.

2. Airbnb

Airbnb has turned the hospitality sector on its head as more people opt to stay in homes and guest suites than forking out for an expensive hotel. It operates in all 50 states and connects homeowners with interested short-term renters.

1. Uber

Uber's gig driving service is what sparked the gig economy apps revolution, so it makes sense that it has taken the top spot on our list. Uber operates in hundreds of cities across the globe and provides a safe and reliable alternative to traditional taxi services by employing vetted drivers who have passed secure background checks.

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Must Try Virtual Reality Games of 2016

With Google wrapping off its brand new VR headset, Daydream View VR a few hours ago, we all are certain that the VR experiences will be the same as before. You can now only able to watch VR videos, you can also able to play games with the blessing of Daydream View's touchpad and a couple of buttons for interaction which also packed with sensors so you can not only point and swipe. All of these new features can easily be the biggest revolution in the gaming industry's history of evolution. In VR games a gamer can experience being in a three-dimensional environment and interact with that environment during a game. What makes virtual reality so realistic is not only how it immerses players in a 360-degree visual experience, but also how it uses 3 dimensions, real-life audio and head-tracking technology to create a profound sense of physical presence that we are just beginning to explore.

While you may be excited for the promising catalog of VR supported games in different platforms, not everything VR touches turns to gold. Picking the best VR games at the moment is tough. But if there were any virtual reality games I felt like anyone had to try this year, it would be these.

Minecraft
It’s been a few months the world's most popular block-em-up game, Minecraft has arrived on Windows 10 in VR format. You can play the game on either Samsung Gear VR or pricier Oculus Rift. The surroundings itself isn’t the only thing that fits perfectly in VR. The scenes, animals, enemies, and environment also seem a lot more realistic when you can walk right up next to them rather than seeing them all beamed into your computer screen. That simple sensation of occupying such a vast universe is what truly made Minecraft so special. VR introduces the scope of Minecraft upon the games in a completely new way.

Alien: Isolation
Even though this game has been making the rounds on VR for a while, now that the devices will finally begin to launch, Alien fans can experience the already-terrifying game in virtual reality for themselves. Creative Assembly's masterful conversion of the Alien movie into a survival game was an unexpected success of last year, allowing players to take the role of Ripley's daughter, attempting to survive another xenomorph event and discover what happened to her mother. It makes for an utterly terrifying and hardcore experience, proving if there’s any type of game that’s going to do well in virtual reality, it’s going to be horror games.

Pool Nation VR
Ever wanted to play pool with your friends without leaving the house to go to a bar? Thanks to the HTC Vive only Pool Nation VR, now you can do that too. No billiards experiences are compromised in this game. Developed by Cherry Pop Games, this VR game places you in the middle of casual pool hall surrounded by music, drinks and NPCs; which somewhat recreates the experiences of being in a casino. You can play darts, billiards, or even juggle chairs with your friends in this multiplayer pool arena. Pool Nation VR creates an atmosphere designed for socialising, it’s the very definition of emergent gameplay, in the same way, that real-life is rarely defined by pre-ordained rules.

Finally, thanks to the HTC Vive's waggle wand controllers, you're no longer limited to the analog gamepads of the past. So get ready to throw barstools, chairs and empty beer bottles at the wall when you lose because Pool Nation VR is the most comical and somehow simultaneously realistic depiction of everyone's favorite tabletop sport. And, hey, it's not just pool you get to experience – it's the whole bar experience. Yes, you can even go for a few rounds of darts if you so choose.

ADR1FT
ADR1FT is one of the very few games which is actually made for VR world. The story of the game is more like the 2014 award winning film, Gravity. You’re lost in space, floating around with no recollection of what the heck happened to you and no idea how you’re going to get yourself out of this mess. In a first-person view, you'll be tasked with navigating a zero gravity setting with an oxygen limit that's realistic enough to keep you from taking off and exploring too far. To make matters even more entertaining, you're simultaneously tasked with completing a series of puzzles throughout five different areas.

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Best Mobile Games for Android: 2015

It’s hard to believe 2015 is coming to a close in the next couple of months—it was a landmark year for mobile gaming. With Samsung Galaxies and Apples brewing up a whirlwind of innovation, some of the best mobile processors for gaming emerged and made their way into our beloved mobile devices, giving way to a huge boom in mobile gaming. The industry will have generated $30 billion in revenue by the end of the year, indicating no signs of slowing down. Therefore, if you have an Android, you may want to get in the know of the best mobile games in 2015.

1. Angry Birds
If it’s not too soon to dub a mobile game title a classic, then Angry Birds would be it. It’s been here from the start when mobile games on smartphones really began to emerge. The mobile game staple, one that’s entertaining for all walks of humankind, now has so many different iterations you’ll want to play them all. Get after the original theme, sling-shot-ing the Angry Birds into various fortresses or spice it up even more with the newer Star Wars edition, light sabers included.

2. Modern Combat 5: Blackout
For the gamers that aren’t fully ready to let go over the old-school console life, Modern Combat 5 will quench their thirst on the mobile devices. Players shoot each other on screen in 3D, which gives users one of the most immersive experiences. This is one of the top games to get that real in-action feel virtually, without adding to the real-life gun control debate in the outside world.

3. Tiki Taka Soccer
With Android mobile screens getting bigger and gaining more accuracy in touch functionality, it’s time to play the game made for today’s latest and greatest tablets, phablets and smartphones. Tiki Taka Soccer is the first mobile soccer game with a control system designed to perfectly fit touchscreen control. You can use your finger to guide clutch goals and make the ball flow with ease. So if American football doesn’t interest you this fall, you have a go-to alternative option to play a game of the other fútbol.

4. Two Dots
Two Dots is one of the best game choices for those looking to pick up an addicting hobby during the work commute on the train. There’s something about connecting colorful dots that is so simple yet so appealing, it just makes sense—and that’s what this game does. Even the minimalistic design seems to still engage players for endless periods of time, stimulating the brain, but not to a point where it feels like work, because you can save that brain power, for well, when you get to actual work.

5. You Must Build A Boat
When was the last time you actually built something? Can’t remember? No worries, because now you can build a boat right on your Android screen. You Must Build A Boat lets you take charge by building a boat, gathering a crew and battling random monsters at sea. Sounds pretty entertaining right? You’ll be playing for hours, on a boat!

What would 2015 be without mobile games in it? It’s hard to imagine life without vivid visual and engaging entertainment right in the palm of your hand. These top picks for the year will keep you mobile gaming for the win, for two thousand fifteen... and beyond!

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CoverMe: An app can make you untraceable to Govt agencies

Let me get to the point straight. Its not a secret anymore. They can hear anything they want, read everything your write or read. Our government agencies spying on everybody's everything. It seems that there's almost no way to hide yourself. Recently the Washington Post reported that the National Security Agency(NSA) tracks the locations of nearly 5 billion cellphones every day overseas, including those belonging to Americans abroad. Now more than ever, people are looking for ways to make sure that their personal communications are kept away from the prying eyes of the government. But in the smartphone era combining with always on GPS and internet its almost impossible to hide yourself from everything you are going everyday. But actually today i found out there's a way out of it. It may not cover everything you are doing but it can do something atleast.

A new free app called CoverMe, which is available for Android and iPhone, can do just that. With military-grade encryption, CoverMe, delivers a safe and easy way of sharing private messages, phone calls, sensitive documents, photos, and videos so that users can rest assured that their private personal and professional content will remain private. To date, more than 500,000 people have downloaded the app—illustrating just how pervasive this problem has become.

In addition to secure content sharing, CoverMe is equipped with an impenetrable vault to protect personal contacts, call logs, messages, documents, notes, diary, passwords, photos, and videos from prying eyes and in case a device is lost.

CoverMe Features:
The CoverMe app allows users to making voice calls and send texts, documents, photos, and videos with unrivaled protection, as CoverMe features military-grade encryption to ensure privacy. Key app features include:
• Make free secure phone calls
• Send self-destructing messages
• Recall or remotely wipe sent messages
• Safely share private photos & videos
• Photo vault to hide photos & videos
• Hide text messages, contacts, call logs
• Private vault for documents, notes & diary

CoverMe Download:
Google Play Store
iTunes App Store

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