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Waze (self.apps)
submitted 1 year ago by blueskiesoc to c/apps
 
 

Yeah, most people have heard of Waze. If you haven't...

Plug in the address of where you want to go and it will map it out. It will find the fastest way to get there. Often you can pick from multiple routes, which is nice because I'll drive an extra seven minutes if I don't want to deal with a particular big hill I don't like. You can tell it to avoid freeways or toll roads.

It will highlight on a map where traffic is. If you're driving in traffic it will give you a time estimate of how long it will be till you're out of it. It will tell you if there are police or road hazards like big potholes. It is crowd sourced so you can also add police or road hazards as you spot them.

You can plan a trip for another day. Tell Waze the address and tell it you want to go later. It'll ask when you want to leave or when you want to arrive and you can change to another day too. It knows what the traffic will be like at that other time, so it'll still calculate the fastest way to get there.

It will talk you through directions and you can change to voice as well. My favorite so far has been Cookie Monster. Waze, bring back Cookie Monster!

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Many people have heard of Shazam, but if you haven't...

You press a button and it listens to whatever you're listening to. Then it tells you what the song title is, the artist, lyrics, and can link you to where you can buy it on iTunes (I don't).

Sometimes it takes 5 seconds, sometimes less.

I listen to a lot of songs in languages I don't know. Shazam does. I can go into my Shazam history to see all of the songs I, um, Shazamed and I can add them to my spotify. I love it. Highlly recommend.

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Hello everyone!

I've made an open source text expander for android that can import/export espanso configs.

If you don't know what a text expander is, see: https://espanso.org

Basically it can do stuff when you type:

It's :time_now will be replaced by It's 04:52

For me the app is handy because my Samsung keyboard can't search through emojis!!! So I just use the espanso emoji package across all my devices!

Date, echo, random and clipboard espanso extensions supported!

My repo (plz ignore the repo name ๐Ÿ˜‚)-> https://github.com/lochidev/textcomparepro

Free version -> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dingleinc.texttools

Paid version -> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dingleinc.texttoolspro