Golfers, if you don’t have this one, it’s a must. Among the golfing rangefinder apps, this is probably the most elegant. It of course allows you to find the distance to your hole to choose the right club, plus it plots touch points between you and the long-distance greens and shows layups "customized for your clubs". The app’s database contains no fewer than 22,000 courses, so chances are yours is there.
If you’re a speed and performance aficionado, chances are you know about this one. Dynolicious harnesses your smart phone’s accelerometer to record and display your personal 0–60 speeds, quarter-mile speeds, braking g-forces, and other real-time driving stats. It costs about $13, but it’s good fun if you’ve got a worthy performance-oriented car...
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
* Dragon Dictate. Speech-to-text is built into Android phones—a huge time-saver on a phone with no physical keys. But on the iPhone, you need this free app. Two taps later, you’ve slapped the transcription into a text message, email, or Twitter or Facebook update.
* Glee. You sing into your iPhone, and the software autotunes you—and multiplies you, creating a backup choir of you’s, singing perfect harmony. You can post the resulting mix for your adoring fans to hear.
* Google Voice. Google’s free service gives you a new phone number; when someone calls it, all your phones ring at once, so people don’t have to hunt you down. The feature list is huge: free texts, free calls, voicemail transcriptions, and so on. This app, which Apple turned down for the iPhone, pulls it all into one place.
* Google Goggles. This visual-search app, available for both Android and (as part of the Google Mobile app) for iPhone, seems like futuristic sci-fi stuff. Point the phone’s camera at a book, DVD, wine bottle, logo, painting, landmark or bit of text, and the hyper-intelligent app recognizes it and displays information about it from the Web.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
