What interesting Apps have you come across?

wretcheddomain

So apart from the usual Apps that everyone appears to use, has anyone come across any useful or interesting ones worth sharing?

MadsL

I like the one that lets me charge my Samsung using solar power.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.szlab.solarcharger&hl=en

wazky

I have a vintage Nokia, so snake is my favourite app.

wretcheddomain

MadsL wrote: »

I like the one that lets me charge my Samsung using solar power.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.szlab.solarcharger&hl=en

Does it actually work effectively though?

Blue Crystal

MadsL wrote: »

I like the one that lets me charge my Samsung using solar power.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.szlab.solarcharger&hl=en

This app is fake; look at the full description

MadsL

Blue Crystal wrote: »

This app is fake; look at the full description

/thread

*sigh*

Blue Crystal

For android:
Dropbox
Splashtop streamer
Winamp
Airdroid

Also; Amazon app store for android where you get a free app a day for free; usually rubbish but sometimes there are gems for free

Blue Crystal

MadsL wrote: »

/thread

*sigh*

Oh you were being sarcastic; well done in your thorough attempt at conveying it

L-M

Convertpad

MadsL

Blue Crystal wrote: »

Oh you were being sarcastic; well done in your thorough attempt at conveying it

I'd facepalm but I haven't the energy...

What's your opinion on that Apple iOS upgrade that waterproofs your iPhone?

Blue Crystal

MadsL wrote: »

I'd facepalm but I haven't the energy...

Frigging yourself all day tends to do that..

MadsL

Blue Crystal wrote: »

Frigging yourself all day tends to do that..

Is there an App that would do it for me?

Sunnyisland

MadsL wrote: »

Is there an App that would do it for me?

That would be a handy app

razorblunt

Yr.no

Trusty Norwegians and their detailed weather app!

BabyGorilla

90% of apps are bullsht designed for tweens.

Mostly variations on similar games, or a calorie counter. Or some bs that lets you write on you lolcat picture.

The real useful ones are hard to find.
I had 'memories' - a diary app, which Ive given up using as my life is too boring for even myself to read.

I think theres one or two good personal accounting ones, I may have downloaded them and never used them.

Think I had a foreign language diary one too.

I go for offline apps mainly. Apps are overhyped shyte in my humble opinion.

Oh yeah, theres a CB radio app I got where people curse and rant at each other, it works for 1 or 2 lols but grows old quick and you need a connection.

wretcheddomain

BabyGorilla wrote: »

90% of apps are bullsht designed for tweens.

Apps are overhyped shyte in my humble opinion.

Can you give your honest opinion though?

MadsL

wazky wrote: »

I have a vintage Nokia, so snake is my favourite app.

prepare to have your mind blown...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prNrfV6yy00

Ghost Train

ttpod, avoid the advanced sound settings, but good for album art and lyrics
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sds.android.ttpod&hl=en

dr strangelove

Can't remember the name, but the app with the slow-motion video of the well-endowed young ladies running on a treadmill, came across that a few times alright.......

Daveysil15

The star gazers one is kind of cool if you're an astronomy geek.

Also the one that has 101 videos of different sexual positions.

There's another one where you can take a photo of your genitals and it will tell you if you have herpes.

Sulla Felix

I have a pretty good one on my ipad that helps me when raining death down on my foes from afar.
http://i.imgur.com/MLZPL3x.jpg

ShaShaBear

Couple of womanly apps that are quite useful. Calorie counters, GPS running trackers (the zombie running one is fantastic). I like the google one that translates a picture for you!

BabyGorilla

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Can you give your honest opinion though?

I see....you're giving ... me ... my opinion.

Based on ??

Mint Aero

Is it true that it's mostly people on the dole who make apps?

The_B_Man

I came across this app recently...


https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eoinzy.getaround



...when I made it!!

Fiery mutant

Paper by 53.

The most awesome of awesome app for anyone who likes to doodle.

The end.

Kat1170

MadsL wrote: »

I'd facepalm but I haven't the energy...

What's your opinion on that Apple iOS upgrade that waterproofs your iPhone?

You should try THIS app for restoring your energy levels

Barna77

The_B_Man wrote: »

I came across this app recently...


https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eoinzy.getaround



...when I made it!!

IS it better than Transport for Ireland? Checking once to go from Dalkey to city centre (I wanted to know the last Dart), it told me to take an aircoach to the airport and then the back to O'Connell St.


EDIT:
I just read the small print

crockholm

A charming and amusing Orang-utan in a zoo in Sweden,he used to copy what people were doing very precisely.That was one interesting ape.

Birneybau

Spunk spectrometer.

thomur

Love Archeo App. Tell you what Archaeological sites are near you and their history. Good for nerds like me

MadsL

Kat1170 wrote: »

You should try THIS app for restoring your energy levels

I see what you did there. Have a gold star.

wandatowell

thomur wrote: »

Love Archeo App. Tell you what Archaeological sites are near you and their history. Good for nerds like me

That sounds class

wandatowell

I love SMS Scheduler.

My bird starts work very early 2 mornings a week. She's usually getting up at around 5am those mornings. So the night before, I set up the phone to send her a lovely little good morning txt at about half 5. She loves the fact I wake up just to txt her

IvaBigWun

Sky Fire - a snazzy $5 browser that lets you see Flash videos on iPads.

*very* handy for streaming sites, it enabled me to watch the Breaking Bad finale live and in good quality so it paid for itself in my first night using it. Recommend.

mfceiling

dr strangelove wrote: »

Can't remember the name, but the app with the slow-motion video of the well-endowed young ladies running on a treadmill, came across that a few times alright.......

*Cocks shotgun*

Start remembering...

nozzferrahhtoo

I have uninstalled most I have installed because they are all rubbish.

The only three that I have kept so far are:

1) Google Goggles. Good for translating text in pictures, doing sukoku for you if you take a photo of it, looking up products instantly, reading barcodes, identifying art work, and much more.

2) Ingress. Augmented reality game from a Google subsidiary. Could be better but it is still in Beta and improvements coming all the time. Come on the green team!

3) Clever Tanken. The app that shows me all the current Diesel prices for Stations within a 100KM radius of me, sortable by price or distance. Given Diesel Prices can vary up to 20cent per liter over here in Germany between stations and my card is 60 litres, this free App has saved me up to 12 euro on a tank on occasion.

Fr_Dougal

Weighing scales app for the iPad, brilliant app.

beertons

dr strangelove wrote: »

Can't remember the name, but the app with the slow-motion video of the well-endowed young ladies running on a treadmill, came across that a few times alright.......

More details there doctor, i need to see this.

IvaBigWun

wandatowell wrote: »

I love SMS Scheduler.

My bird starts work very early 2 mornings a week. She's usually getting up at around 5am those mornings. So the night before, I set up the phone to send her a lovely little good morning txt at about half 5. She loves the fact I wake up just to txt her

That all goes swimmingly well, until she replies with "wanna come over for a cuddle babe, I've time"

And you don't see it till 1pm

take everything

Memrise is great for learning languages and all sorts of other stuff.
Khan academy is there as well.

funt cucker

Dish pointer is handy for setting up satellite dishes, I have used it a few times.

wandatowell

IvaBigWun wrote: »

That all goes swimmingly well, until she replies with "wanna come over for a cuddle babe, I've time"

And you don't see it till 1pm

Good luck to anybody trying to get me outta the scratcher at half 5

travis1976

gStrings. (Don't be bold)

A chromatic tuner for guitar/bass, any stringed instrument really. Handy to have when someone hands you a guitar to sing a song and it's way out of tune.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/tuner-gstrings-free/org.cohortor.gstrings

anncoates

Solar Explorer

Cabbage

Yr.No

Oblique Strategies

D1stant

The workyoupieceofsh1t app is really superb. It upgrades your iPhone to have the same voice quality as a Nokia 3310

Eugene Yes

Plane finder is handy. You can track your incoming flight in real time. You will know if plane is delayed or diverted as it happens.

nozzferrahhtoo

D1stant wrote: »

The workyoupieceofsh1t app is really superb. It upgrades your iPhone to have the same voice quality as a Nokia 3310

Doesn't that APP also have a fall back solution of directing you by GPS to your nearest phone store where you can there purchase a phone that is NOT an apple piece of uselessness?

If not I might have to design one that does just that. I will be rich.

Or maybe an app that upgrades iPhone performance. You install it and run it and it simply powers off your unit.

salacious crumb

Real drums. It's great cos I can't play the drums for sh*t, but can make awesome sounding beats with this thing. I actually use it to describe what's in my head to my drummer :pac:

funt cucker

nozzferrahhtoo wrote: »

Doesn't that APP also have a fall back solution of directing you by GPS to your nearest phone store where you can there purchase a phone that is NOT an apple piece of uselessness?

If not I might have to design one that does just that. I will be rich.

Or maybe an app that upgrades iPhone performance. You install it and run it and it simply powers off your unit.

You sound like my father, until he got a bloody iPhone and turned into an apple fanboy overnight..

nozzferrahhtoo

funt cucker wrote: »

You sound like my father, until he got a bloody iPhone and turned into an apple fanboy overnight..

Difference is I have owned apple products in the past. Only by winning them. They give them out like confetti in competitions. My first apple product came while working in my first job and I won an ipod mini* in a Today FM phone in.

And since then I have managed to win a lot of them, and own them, without ever buying them. Which meant I always owned one while I also owned an alternative product that I actually chose to buy.

So I do understand how people can get their hands on a product, get used to it, and become a fan. Tunnel vision. But when you are lucky enough to actually get to own and test different products at the same time you get a different perspective.

And my on going motto is: The only apple product I will EVER own, is one that someone gives me for free.

* the great think with the first mini i owned was you could actually watch it degrade in real time. Every time I charged it to max, its play time was almost exactly 3 minutes less each time. It was like I was watching a battery that lasted 180 minutes the day i first got it... die slowly.... until 2 months later it reached a point where it would only play music WHILE plugged in.