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Josh Levenson
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It’s Sunday, the time of the week when Talk Android brings you a report on some of the very best applications we’ve been using over the course of the past seven days. Today we’re focusing our attention on an awesome aircraft-tracking tool, a fantastic plain text editing service, a reliable photo-editing platform and an incredibly addictive game.
Plane Finder
Have you ever looked up at the sky, spotted a plane and wondered where it’s headed? I know I certainly have. That’s why I decided to take to the Play Store to see if I could find a reliable app to lend a helping hand, and, lo and behold, I did. It’s called Plane Finder, it comes courtesy of Pinkfoot Limited and enables users to view a real-time map of aircrafts flying nearby.
As you’d expect from any aviation-orientated service, Plane Finder is filled to the brim with tons of exciting features — both simple and complex. My favourite being the facility to set filters for airlines, aircraft types, airports, altitude and speed. This means that I can instantly focus on the planes that are in close proximity to me, without having to scroll around looking for my current location on a map.
I found this app particularly useful recently when my grandmother was on her way to the Maldives, and I wanted to check on the progress of her flight. I simply opened up the app, input her travel details and within seconds I was presented with an icon depicting her plane flying over the coast of India.
I know what you’re thinking, and I completely agree. This is a very geeky app, but trust me when I say that it really is a lot of fun. If you’d like to see Plane Finder in action, be sure to take a look through the gallery below.
JotterPad
As a student and blogger, I have to do a lot of writing in plain text and markdown. While I like to get most of my work done on my computer, I frequently find myself sitting on trains for long periods of time. Time which could be used productively to get some of my tasks done, so recently I’ve been checking out apps that can assist me. That’s how I stumbled upon JotterPad.
The app features a minimalistic user interface with support for distraction-free editing, which means that you can focus your attention on your writing without being overwhelmed by tons of different features taking up the majority of your display. There’s even Dropbox integration (a pretty rare find in free apps), which gives you the ability to sync your documents between Android, iOS, OS X and Windows without having to pay a dime.
I can’t stress how amazing JotterPad is. It’s already saved me from missing a deadline or two in the very short time I’ve been using it. I honestly can’t see myself switching to a different service anytime soon. If I had to choose my favourite feature within this app, It would have to be its ability to let you color-code documents, making it incredibly easy to find just what you’re looking for.
Be sure to take a look through the gallery below to get a feel for all of JotterPad’s features.
Photoshop Express
Truth be told, I’ve never been one to edit images on either my smartphone or tablet. However, since installing Photoshop Express on my device last Sunday, I’ve become obsessed with making heaps of minor alterations to the images I’ve captured.
Prior to downloading this app, the only previous mobile photo manipulation experiences I’d had were using Snapseed and the default Photo Editor that ships on board the Galaxy S6, but they are both fairly basic.
Photoshop Express, on the other hand, gives you much more by way of functionality. Not only does it provide you with one-click tools to automatically fix your photos, but it also lets you take the reigns to crop, straighten, rotate, flip, color correct and render images so that they’re better suited to your personal preference. Once your editing is complete, you’ill be able to upload the images to your favourite social websites.
While the app is free to download, there is a premium pack available which gives you access to some additional filters and adjustments. These can be unlocked for $3.99, which is a fairly reasonable price to pay in order to have a fully-fledged editing suite on your mobile device.
To see Photoshop Express from all-angles, check out the gallery below.
Hook
The final app we’re looking at this week is one that I discovered a mere three days ago, but haven’t been able to close ever since. Hook is a minimalistic brain-training game, which requires you to solve complex pathway puzzles to get to the next level. As you progress through the title, new obstacles are introduced, like looped tubes, which make it incredibly difficult to follow the individual paths. Nevertheless, it’s still a great deal of fun.
Check it out in the gameplay video below:
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Previous Apps of the Week editions:
- October 18, 2015
- October 11, 2015
- October 4, 2015
- September 27, 2015
- September 20, 2015
- September 13, 2015
- September 6, 2015
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