Wolfie Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 Not sure if this has ever been a thread before but I thought it would be good to share decent / useful Apps..... Want to learn a totally new language or just brush up on one?. A friend introduced me to "Duolingo" at the weekend & I'm finding it really good to refresh my German. Even my 7 year old has now started from scratch with it because she wants to be able to speak to me in German. Free & hundreds of languages to choose from. Ads are not intrusive either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GboroRam Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 Is Duolingo the one that makes up sentences which can be quite funny? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bubbles Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 For Spanish use Speed Spanish! https://speedspanish.co.uk/website/home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted March 11, 2020 Author Share Posted March 11, 2020 15 minutes ago, GboroRam said: Is Duolingo the one that makes up sentences which can be quite funny? Possibly, if the one I had today is anything to go by: "The bear is wearing all of her clothes" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Sagan Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 26 minutes ago, Van Wolfie said: Possibly, if the one I had today is anything to go by: "The bear is wearing all of her clothes" Mais le singe est dans l'arbre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 Anyone that travels by rail even semi-regularly not using the 'Trainline' app should try it out. Much easier than using local operators websites or nationalrail whos websites are almost all absolute tosh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve How Hard? Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 12 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said: Mais le singe est dans l'arbre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 Facebook, I recommend you delete it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 I would also recommend an app called 'Twilight'. You can use it to change the colour temperature of your phone screen and dim the brightness during certain hours. Helps for anyone that tends to browse just before trying to get to sleep and gives you more options to customise the colour/brightness than the functionality some phones have in-built. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Sagan Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 2 hours ago, Steve How Hard? said: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 3 hours ago, Van Wolfie said: Not sure if this has ever been a thread before but I thought it would be good to share decent / useful Apps..... Want to learn a totally new language or just brush up on one?. A friend introduced me to "Duolingo" at the weekend & I'm finding it really good to refresh my German. Even my 7 year old has now started from scratch with it because she wants to be able to speak to me in German. Free & hundreds of languages to choose from. Ads are not intrusive either. I like Duolingo too. It's from the same people as the recaptcha security boxes, and works on the same principle. You get something useful and free, they get millions of people translating documents into different languages automatically. It's a great idea for a thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Sagan Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 If you go north then Aurora is the best northern lights alert app. If you play chess Droidfish is way better than any human. I turn it down to 50% and have only beaten it in 2 out of 50 games. If you're into space travel, Next Spaceflight is great for info about forthcoming (and past) launches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted March 12, 2020 Author Share Posted March 12, 2020 Flightradar24 For our summer evening drinking game in the garden, guessing the destination of each plane that flies over us. ....and some interesting facts & stuff about each flight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted March 12, 2020 Author Share Posted March 12, 2020 5 hours ago, Carl Sagan said: If you go north then Aurora is the best northern lights alert app. If you play chess Droidfish is way better than any human. I turn it down to 50% and have only beaten it in 2 out of 50 games. If you're into space travel, Next Spaceflight is great for info about forthcoming (and past) launches. I'm guessing you could recommend an astronomy App?. I've recently gone to Android but I used to have Star Rover on iPhone that I liked, which showed you all the stars etc that you can see at that moment - though I'm guessing they probably all do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Sagan Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 3 hours ago, Van Wolfie said: I'm guessing you could recommend an astronomy App?. I've recently gone to Android but I used to have Star Rover on iPhone that I liked, which showed you all the stars etc that you can see at that moment - though I'm guessing they probably all do that. I still use the app called Sky Map which was originally developed as Google Sky Map a decade ago and then spun off and done as an open source thing. http://sky-map-team.github.io/stardroid/ There are hundreds which all do pretty much the same thing. Because this is open source and I know its origins and the developers I know it's not doing anything dodgy in the background. With the bonus it's free without any ads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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