Saturday, July 27, 2013

Free Android and iPhone Apps for City Residents

In the fast life in a city, working people have very less time to get the information on the spot. Mobile phones are available in everyone's hand. If technology is combined with necessity then it will be like a cherry on the top of the ice-cream.

What is wanted in a city life? What a middle class man searches for in the city life? It may be restaurants, schools, restaurants, house , a taxi if needed, etc. If these are available on the tip of your fingers then problems will be solved in a single click. There may be some situations where you want to get some direction to a new place where you don't know how to go there. But if a particular app is presented in your mobile which shows the directions then it will be an added benefit to you. 

Want to find a house in your city?


For this you will have to use a particular app that will inform your where actually is the property situated with the rates, area and other important information. 

One app that will be beneficial to you is Trulia. This app is available for both Android and iOS. This app is to find out some real estate listings for the rental searches. It searches for apartments according to your requirements like location, area, zip code, etc. Just by drawing the area on the app will intimate it to search for apartments required. 

There is also an app named "Zillow" that is similar to Trulia app, but has more precise options to find the real estate in the area specified. 




Want to search for restaurants for food ?
Exciting app for food lovers, OpenTable. This app will help you make some reservations in the specific hotel or restaurant.
This will not only make reservations in the specified restaurants, but also find out some new geographical regions where there are seats available and which you have not yet had food. So make some reservations , try for new recipes in new restaurants by using this app. 

Another one in this category is "Seamless". This app will search for the type of cuisine you prefer, the distance from your location, menus to order online , and also facility to order online . Seamless works best on Android, Blackberry and iOS.


Find some ongoing and upcoming events in your city?

After food, why not enjoy at some event going on in your city. Lets find out which are the latest events in the city right now. Also if it is late, we can find out upcoming events too like musical, fashion, drama, awards, etc. All you have to do is use "EventBrite" app which will fulfill all your need of finding the events in your city. You can also find out according to your location and zip code which events are ongoing. 
This app works on Android and iOS.



Get directions in your city to go to a new place?

You all know "Google Maps". Now Google has its own app that will give live traffic updates, directions, street view, backups of any street if there is heavy traffic, etc. 

This app available on Android and iOS.
 
One more in this category is "Moveit". This app unlike Google maps collects real time data about public transportation. using Moveit, you can plan for trips and more. This app can be downloaded in Android and iOS.



Hire a Cab or Taxi?



Want a taxi or cab instantly available on your doorstep? Then hire "Hailo" for hiring a taxi.

Push a button on the app of your iPhone and a cab will be arranged to you.

Available on Android and iOS.

Also another app is available that is named as "NexTaxi".
You can enjoy the benefit of getting a car based on your current location.
 
 
 
So using Hailo one can hail a car / taxi, with the use of Google Maps or Moveit, you can get the directions in the city, using Eventbrite, you will know which events are going in your city, etc. 
 
 
 
 





Friday, July 26, 2013

5 best mobile apps that will help to prepare for "Natural Disasters"

When the word natural disasters strike in mind what comes first!!! Tsunami, Earthquakes, Volcano, Flood, etc. These disasters are seen earlier by many throughout the world. These natural calamities cannot be avoided or prevented? 

When mother nature loses her balance then these type of disasters happen.

In India, last month , that is June 2013, at Uttarakhand, people experienced flood that took away thousands of life who had gone to take the blessings of the Lord.














Which part of the world has not seen disasters? Be it Asia, America, Japan, Tokyo, India, Pakistan, Africa, etc have gone through the pain. 


Now you must be thinking what is the relation of mobile apps and natural disasters? Well, the answer is in the question itself. If someone informs you that today night there will be lights off due to some electrical work, then what your actions will be. To prepare for the situation and if possible make some arrangements for the lights when they are off. Ofcourse, there will be no dangerous situation here. But similar situation alerts can be made possible via mobile apps. 

Using mobiles, one can get alerts or made alerts. You can get the intimations regarding where, what , when etc. The preventive measures will begin and you will think of some safe place where there is no disaster to happen. 
 
I have found some important mobile apps that will deal with all these situations. 
 
Listed below are the mobile apps  that will take care of you: 


This app is from iTunes. This app alerts you whenever situations like floods, volcano, etc will occur and help you to instantly share your friends on social media network websites to help others leave the place and occupy other safe one.
Basic Features that make it best are : 
Basic Features include:
- An Interactive map
- You can sort events by severity / popularity / credibility
- Report an event and submit a photo
- Share events by email, or post links to Facebook and Twitter
- Save alerts to your “watch” list for quick viewing
- Adjust text size
- Provide feedback regarding credibility of the post to prevent fraudulent posts
- Adjust settings to display distance in kilometers or miles

You can get this app from iTunes. 



This app is from Google play. The full form of NOAH is Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards. It is built by the Philippines' Department of Science and Technology. This app is for Android. Its mission is to undertake disaster science research and development, advance the use of cutting edge technologies and recommend innovative information services in government's disaster prevention and mitigation efforts. 
There are many features of this app. 
-Help
-Gmail 
-Map View
-News
-Info
-Useful links and contents
-Sharing facility via Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, etc


Again an interesting app from Google play built for Android. This app provides the service related to flood monitoring, flood mapping service, help , send flood reports to NOAH.



Built for the people of Thailand, this app will send alerts in the times of flood disasters. Provides information about rainfall and weather. It presents information in the form of charts and graphs in both the languages English and Thai. 




An app from iTunes, which takes the charge of Tsunami related information. It allows you to make fast emergency calls. Tsunami came in the year 2004 and again showed its effects in 2011. This app  gives warnings related to tsunamis and earthquakes which are presented from NOAA , i.e National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.



If "Technology" is taking active steps to prevent these situations then it is most welcome. Get these apps and help others at the times.



But sometimes it is not the duty of mankind to protect our earth? We always think of protecting ourselves.