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Good morning folks. Today, we're going to be looking at five essential Android apps for travelling . While some of these apps will be more or less useful depending on what kind of travelling you're doing, there are enough general purpose apps here to make this worth your while. Let's get started, shall we? 1. Waze Waze is a rather clever driving app that offers a unique advantage - real time traffic data and incident reporting. While other apps (including the default Google Maps ) include some variant of traffic data, Waze goes a step further by allowing users to make both active and passive contributions to this data. For starters, your position will be anonymously shared with Waze servers. When multiple Waze users are stuck in a single location while using the app, this route will automatically be flagged as having poor traffic and the routing and ETA will be adjusted accordingly for everyone using the service. Waze also allows you to mark specific causes of

If you have made the investment to own a smartphone, as many people around the world have, then it would be silly not to take advantage of your device and harness its full potential. While smartphones have a whole range of possibilities, it is probably the range of smartphone apps available across many platforms that are the best way to turn your handset into an essential lifestyle tool. We looked at the apps that you need to enhance your smartphone and revolutionize your life, once you have them you will wonder how you ever managed without them. Google Chrome This is a must have for anyone who uses Chrome as their desktop browser, and for iPhone enthusiasts it is probably a slicker option than Safari. Make the most of Chrome by synchronising your device to your desktop so you can take your bookmarks and browsing history with you wherever you go. Dictionary.com Even the biggest intellects upon us can stumble across words that we are unclear of when reading

When I'm writing articles, I have two big loves: Android and Coffee. Today, I'm combining those interests into a single article about Coffee Apps , where I'll be looking at the best Android applications for coffee aficionados. Let's get right into the selections! 5. Hidden Menu Coffee Drinks This is a rather clever app that shows you twenty-five 'secret' drinks available at Starbucks. All are essentially modifications of existing drinks, but given the vast amount of combinations it's nice to have some good recommendations. While I'm not sure how well my barista will take to these, I'm definitely keen to give them a try. Thankfully, the app shows both a Starbucks standard chart of what you want as well as the plain English definition. This app is free, but there's a paid variant that offers 75 variants and costs £0.61. 4. Coffee Recipes This is a coffee recipe app, showing off so many different espresso-based coffee recipes. Whi

Travelling Apps are your best friends. Ah, travel. Whether it's getting lost in a book in your best, most comfortable armchair, taking a vacation you and your loved ones have planned for months, or jumping on the last stand-by seat to somewhere, anywhere, just so long as you haven't been there before, the desire to travel seems to be something deeply seated in all of us. Something new, though, is the proliferation of apps - short for "applications" - which make the travel lives of our plugged in world easier, safer, and just plain more fun. But with so many available, which ones do you pick? Read on to find out about three of the best. 1. XE Let's face it: Money is the fuel of travel. You don't necessarily need a ton of it, but without any at all you certainly won't get far. Either way, once you cross the border to wherever you're headed, you're going to need to know what the cash you brought will buy you. In other words, you'll ne

Did you know that your smartphone can save your life? According to a new survey by Pew Research Center, only 10 percent of Americans have downloaded health related applications on their smartphones. According to the research a lot of people don't know that there are a lot of health applications that can positively impact on their health if they download them and learn how to use them. Living a healthy life is very important for any human being. This article guides you through some of the top 5 health iPhone applications that will make your life better. Cosmetic Dentistry Calculator- This useful health application is both an analytical tool and special calculator that should be on every dentist's iPhone . It helps to perform a lot of calculations and technical diagnostics that help the dentist during consultations. Cosmetic dentistry calculator is able to smartly diagnose the existing length ratio to width of the patient's tooth. This calculator used th

Smartphone in your hands definitely looks prettier and when they click high quality pictures then definitely they make you highly popular. And now-a-days the industry is flooded with n number of apps that can make your photography experience even more worthy. At times people find it really difficult to choose that which app will make their right position in your mobiles. It’s difficult to choose which app will make your pictures a great featured one. So let’s seek out the best smartphone apps that can make your photos look even prettier and attractive. Adobe Photoshop Express Adobe Photoshop is one of the pure photo editing elements that has prevailed in almost all the PCs from a long time. And the same is now in your phone as an editing app. Though the app doesn’t do all that its elder cousin installed in your computer does, still it proves itself to be fine enough. But there is no doubt that it will help you well to edit your photos. Apart from the common

The advent of numerous innovation communication devices has brought a revolution in international journalism arena. Nowadays, journalists work since dawn to midnight for covering their day-today stories. In this way, it has become necessary for field reporters to use ultra modern devices to store and compose the ongoing news contents. Surprisingly, smartphones  have made it simple. Now, you can get all the needed applications in your smartphone and cover an ongoing event easily. Stunning Smartphone Applications for Field Journalists: Magisto Video Editor: This application is useful to make editing of your recorded videos and images. You can make needful changes in your content. At first, this video editing application was published in mobile reporting guide of UC Berkeley. Since then, it has been beating top video editing applications, including Apple’s own iMovie. You get the freedom of mixing two different videos and audio files with the help of this smartphone a

Smartphones are great helpers in our daily lives, more than helpers; they tend to facilitate almost every aspect of our daily life, ranging from keeping a check on our kids to meeting our work deadlines. So there is no denying that we have become majorly dependant on our smartphones to get our day to day hassles out of the way. But how much time do we really spend using smartphones on improving ourselves? Technology has been a major helper in business and chores but when it comes to using them to upgrade the way we live, fix up those horrible spending habits, keep track of health and fitness, how many of us can claim we can do that? By now, all those who own smartphones, from the housewife noob to the seasoned elderly, know how to install anti-cell phone spyware and detect keylogger presence on their sets, but there are other things to learn when it comes to our smartphones as well. For those of you who find this idea refreshing, here are 5 apps that will help you break o

Day and age the smartphone has progressed to a level wherein the gadget has become a substitute for an array of devices that earlier possessed a distinct individual identity of their own. Say for example, a music player and a camera , which were two completely different gadgets during the 90's, now come as a package along with several other functions including that of a telephonic device. We are no more comfortable with carrying a lot too many things on us, no matter where we are heading. If one gadget solves the purpose of many, there isn’t much more that anyone of us would ask for. This approach of users has led to an excessive demand for smartphones that come with multiple features. Buyers are also encouraged to opt for newer models as technology continuously advances bringing forth a whole new set of improvised as well as new aspects. A few of the basic features in smartphones that have witnessed a continuous progress would be: Messaging – What was earlier limited to