Favourite Apps?

[Dez]

Do you use Apps on your phone/Tablet devices?
What apps are your favourite?
Do you have practical Apps for managing things in your life?
Any Recommenations?

 

[nextplease69]

Weather app, google search, google maps and facebook would be the four I use most often.


Other apps I have downloaded would be things like E-Bay, Youtube, etc...

They're handy, but not essential. As long as my phone has a diary and an alarm on it, I'm good.

 

[bepp]

have d/loaded several apps....weather,sports results,google earth , translate foreign language to english. unfortuanately my so called smart phone,el cheapo one .makes it difficult to uae these apps .i find my battery runs flat even before i start thinking of using these APPS

 

[johnlou]

have d/loaded several apps....weather,sports results,google earth , translate foreign language to english. unfortuanately my so called smart phone,el cheapo one .makes it difficult to uae these apps .i find my battery runs flat even before i start thinking of using these APPS

i found if i turn the apps that i do not use often , off my battery lasts a lot longer

 

[XLNC]

In addition to some of the above (Google Maps, Weather Live, news, etc.), I find my bank and credit card company apps a real boon for managing my millions... of cents. Travel apps (TripAdvisor, Expedia, Trivago, XE currency converter, World Clock, airline apps, etc.) can make planning and going on a trip so much more convenient and smoother. Also find myself making increasing use of Yelp and Skype these days. And who can keep up with TV without catch-up apps like ABC iview, Plus7, 9jumpin, TENplay and SBS on Demand?

 

[Dallas]

Yes! my favourite App of all time is Shazam. I would buy a smart phone just for this app.
If anyone hasn't heard of it, it works like this. Ever walked into a restaurant, or coffee shop, and heard a song playing and wondered what it was called or who the band was? or you hear a song come on the car radio and it's great but you know they won't tell you who it is? Well you switch on the Shazam app and it scans a few seconds of the song and brings up all the details of the song and artist and allows you to purchase it from iTunes. My music collection just gets bigger daily from this app.

 

[Dallas]

I also use an app called Runkeeper to map all my running activities. I trialed a lot of the major running apps and found that Runkeeper was the best.

 

[Happy2]

My travel insurance app Bank app and the app of whichever site I book my hotel through And app of my international sim
I turn them off when I land back in oz

 

[Dallas]

There's one other app that I really like and use daily. It's called Sleep Cycle.

When I put my phone on charge at night, I leave it on the edge of my bed with Sleep Cycle running, and it records my sleep cycles based on movement on the bed. Ok so if you have a W/L over it won't work. But normally it graphs your sleep and gives you a report the next day on the quality of your sleep. It shows you if you've been disturbed during the night and how long you've been asleep for etc.

One other thing it does is, if you set the alarm on it to wake you up, it doesn't just wake you at the specified time, it waits to find your best sleep cycle to wake you. Apparently you go from deep to light sleep every half hour or so, and if your regular alarm wakes you during a deep cycle you feel tired and drowsy, but Sleep Cycle waits for you to be in the light cycle before triggering the alarm. You just specifiy a time range.

 

[Happy2]

Can you call people on your phone Dallas?

 

[Dallas]

Can you call people on your phone Dallas?

What? you mean that talking business that that grandad used to do on his? noooo!

 

[XLNC]

h2, I'm guessing this might be the range of your mobile:

 

[Happy2]

To think I seconded Cyclones nomination for you to win wittiest post Your xlnc
I guess you only had the one in you eh?

 

[XLNC]

Guess so...

 

[XLNC]

Another app I like to have on my new-fangled mobile device is a compass, like Commander Compass. No idea how it works but I only whip it out to impress the ladies.

 

[Rochelle]

Wow.....listening to you guys.........maybe it is time to retire my old Nokia and join the modern world........I do feel like the cave woman from yesteryear.......

 

[Dallas]

Wow.....listening to you guys.........maybe it is time to retire my old Nokia and join the modern world........I do feel like the cave woman from yesteryear.......

With a smart phone Rochelle, you'll never need to work again. You'll be so busy with the "apps" that you won't have time .... actually they are great in their place.

 

[Happy2]

You will all stare at your phone's and waste away like Dorian Gray

 

[XLNC]

I do want an app that gives people who walk into your path looking down at their smartphones a swift kick up the backside.

 

[Happy2]

I do want an app that gives people who walk into your path looking down at their smartphones a swift kick up the backside.

If the phone is so smart surely it should have a built-in anti collision app

 

[bepp]

I do want an app that gives people who walk into your path looking down at their smartphones a swift kick up the backside.

...........when i see these people coming towards me,i like to stop and turn around facing the opposite way,and wait till they walk into me,then give em a tongue lashing .

 

[bepp]

Hey Dallas,if youre in your car and a song is played,and u switch on ur APP TO Find the song,youll be takin ur eyes of the road for a brief moment looking at ur smartphone,be carefull coppers have got a new thing going , chances ate youll get caught red handed phone in hand while driving

 

[Dallas]

Hey Dallas,if youre in your car and a song is played,and u switch on ur APP TO Find the song,youll be takin ur eyes of the road for a brief moment looking at ur smartphone,be carefull coppers have got a new thing going , chances ate youll get caught red handed phone in hand while driving

You're right about that, I don't shazam or text or even talk on the phone when I'm driving, I find it too distracting. Although I do use the GPS function for directions and the last time I was in Perth, I got pulled over for using it but the cop was good and told me off for being from the East LOL! so I got out of a fine by promising I'd move to Perth.. so I'm still trying to keep my promise

 

[GeechyDan]

Trapster, speed tracker,both handy driving apps

 

[nextplease69]

You will all stare at your phone's and waste away like Dorian Gray

Huh?
Dorian Grey stayed forever youthful. It was his portrait that aged.

Develop a phone app that can take your picture and that picture ages for you whilst you stay the same age and you'll be a very rich man

 

[johnlou]

Wow.....listening to you guys.........maybe it is time to retire my old Nokia and join the modern world........I do feel like the cave woman from yesteryear.......

Raqel Welch is so hot

 

[XLNC]

Do any WLs here use apps like Tinder in their down time to pick guys they'd like to shag?

 

[Dallas]

I do want an app that gives people who walk into your path looking down at their smartphones a swift kick up the backside.

I do this just to meet girls LOL but I accidentally keep bumping into guys who want to give me a kick up the backside

 

[Rochelle]

You will all stare at your phone's and waste away like Dorian Gray

Wrong Happy2.....I will employ somebody to paint a portrait and let it waste away for me.........far more economical (oh do I need an app for that??????? and ohhhhhh hang on instead of a portrait........a selfie will do?????????)

 

[Dez]

I have a few I use....

Banking, ebay, gumtree, weather, Googlemaps, Spotify, ibooks, Fitbit, Soundcloud, yummly, Ipfree, Calendar, Notes, Hbf, ukulele tuner and chords, and a few silly games.

I'm hunting for a good budgeting app....