Technology & Social Media Apps

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  1. MTR

    MTR Well-Known Member

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    Starting to get into apps, can make for an easier life. What did we do before google, now what did we do before apps..... what's your favourite, useful, practical etc etc etc.

    Share please.... wanting to learn.
     
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  2. Gockie

    Gockie Life is good ☺️ Premium Member

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    My main "Goto" apps:

    * Banking apps
    * Tripview (for Sydney and Melbourne transport)
    * Airbnb
    * XE Currency
    * Google maps
    * Domain and Realestate
    * Seek
    * Airtasker
    * Facebook messenger (to be honest, I'd rather not have it, but Facebook communication kinda forces you to have it)
    * Skyscanner
    * Dropbox
     
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  3. bob shovel

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    Grinder. It's the happy version of tinder ;)
     
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  4. Eric Wu

    Eric Wu Well-Known Member

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    Audible,
    Financial Calculator
    QR Scanner
    ConvertPad
    eBay
    Amazon
    Skype
    LinkedIn
     
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  5. Blacky

    Blacky Well-Known Member

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    In no particular order
    Banking
    Rea and domain
    Xe
    CamScanner
    Ted
    Stocks
    Dropbox
    Google maps
    Word lens (translates written words to English)
    Kindle
    Uber

    Blacky
     
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    WhatsApp dominates completely regarding app usage, haven't sent a text msg in the last year (though still receive them sometimes from companies). Most other apps could do without really, desktop does a better job, but WhatsApp critical for comms, often the only reason I carry a phone around really.
     
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  7. geoffw

    geoffw Moderator Staff Member

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    Netflix, IMDB, YouTube, sbs on demand, iview, Spotify, kindle

    Slack, PetrolSpy, Udemy, Google Drive, Dropbox, Chrome, eBay
     
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  8. ellejay

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    Booking.com
     
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  9. MTR

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    Anyone heard of fake apps, anyone got caught out???
     
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  10. wobbycarly

    wobbycarly Well-Known Member

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    Candy Crush
    Candy Crush Soda
    Candy Crush Jelly
    Angry Birds
    Angry Birds Rio
    Angry Birds Space
    Angry Birds Seasons
    Angry Birds 2

    ebook: "How to eliminate games from your life and have a fulfilling social life" :D

    jk
     
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  11. wobbycarly

    wobbycarly Well-Known Member

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    Seriously...
    goMoney ANZ
    VicTraffic
    WillyWeather
    Dorsal
     
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  12. geoffw

    geoffw Moderator Staff Member

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    I had angry birds on my iPad mini when I travelled. I stayed with a local family in a village for two weeks when I was studying Spanish.

    The 13yo girl in that family loved it, and because I rarely needed the iPad, she played it constantly. It was a good connection when there weren't a lot of other things in common- we got along well as a result.

    12 months after I left she had a baby brother. They named him Geoff.
     
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  13. wobbycarly

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    I actually do like AB and CC myself, but use them as time-fillers, such as when waiting for appointments, rather then letting them dictate my schedule. I recall a friend unable to meet a social appointment because she was "waiting for her cake to bake" on some Facebook game. :eek:
     
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  14. Adele

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    Instagram (for my work)
    Line (again for work)
    WhatsApp (family&friends)
    Various shopping apps (work research)

    A very popular app here that I don't use is GO-JEK which is basically a transport/courier/personal shopper app. It's kind of like Uber, but with motorcycle instead of cars.
     
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  15. Westminster

    Westminster Tigress at Tiger Developments Business Member

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    Camscanner (you'll love this @MTR for scanning receipts, letters with your phone)
    Banking apps
    Weather (little bit obsessed with watching the rain radar)
    WhatsApp for messaging people especially when overseas so not txting fees
    Wikipedia and Google for instantly knowing answers
    Uber

    on my ipad more of the tv catch up apps

    I've not seen a fake app but I have heard of them but there is a pretty robust procedure to get your app in itunes and I think it would weed out malicious apps.
     
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  16. JenW

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    Love WhatsApp. Camscanner sounds like it's good value WM - I'll have to find it!
     
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    Dorsal - Someone is a surfer...

    Evernote - it is my second brain, could not have done without it when I did my masters

    Lastpass - another second brain, this time only for passwords, indeed I pretty much don't know any of my passwords and use only generated passwords
     
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  18. Jamie Moore

    Jamie Moore MORTGAGE BROKER - AUSTRALIA WIDE Business Member

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    Pandora - awesome for music. Constantly streams in our house.

    Netflix - movies, shows, etc

    Dropbox - for file storage across multiple devices

    Alien Blue - for mindlessly surfing Reddit

    NBA game time - for watching live Bball :)

    Cheers

    Jamie
     
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  19. MTR

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    Hi Jamie
    not family with the music apps, is it free??
     
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  20. geoffw

    geoffw Moderator Staff Member

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    I'm not familiar with Pandora, but I stream using Spotify.

    There is a paid version for about $12pm I think, or a free version which plays ads every few songs.
     
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