I spend a lot of time on my mobile phone. Not for talking though. In fact I don’t like talking on the phone much at all. I very rarely ring any one, I could think of nothing worse than a long chat on the phone. It is only in the past year that we have finally got good reliable full mobile coverage where I live and we don’t have a landline so it has been really nice not having the phone ringing all the time.
However, I really enjoy a good yak using Messenger or WhatsApp. I have a couple of groups of friends who chat most days using social media and another small group of newly-found family. I prefer this form of communication because the conversation is always there to refer back to and you can include photos and videos.
But I use my phone for just about everything else. Banking, paying bills, managing all my health requirements, checking our daily power usage. I have my Fly Buys card on an app, so I just hold my phone under the scanner at New World and bingo, done. I use the calendar/diary app, and I play a game similar to Scrabble with approx 40 people around the world.
I do most of my emailing and Facebook on my phone. I do all my Trade Me trading. I check the daily weather forecast. I don’t watch any news bulletins on TV apart from Al Jazeera every now and then so I haveChristine Dornan downloaded the Radio New Zealand app onto my phone and I just have a quick flick through the news headlines a couple of times a day and ignore anything that starts with Election 23.
I have a few apps which I really like.
The first one is called Air Traffic. Purely for fun, this app allows you to see what planes are flying. For instance, click on the map of the middle of the Pacific Ocean it shows you all the aircraft that are flying over it. And if you click on the individual aircraft, if tells you the airline, the flight number, where it is going from and to and its departure and arrival times.
Not much use to daily life but fun to play with and if you do have someone you travelling on a plane you can in fact track them. And here is something you might find fascinating. At any given time there are approximately 9728 planes in the air carrying 1,270,406 passengers. And did you know, 2017 was the safest year in aviation since 1905.
Another very useful app a friend told me about and I now use, is called Out Of Milk and it is for creating a grocery list. So, during the week, if you suddenly think of something you need, you just type it in. And this app is quite clever. It will put your items into categories so you can shop in order.
No more getting to the far end of the shop and thinking buggar, I forgot bananas and having to traipse all the way back to the beginning. This app will also store any of your items so when you start a new list, all you need to do is to click on anything you need again and it restores it into your new list. Very clever and so easy to use.
Gaspy is another very useful app. This will tell you where the cheapest petrol is in town on a daily basis. I have saved up to 20 cents a litre by checking Gaspy before I go into town. That’s a significant saving when you are filling the tank.
I am still looking for two more apps.
One that will give me next week’s lotto numbers. And when I find it, I won’t be sharing it, sorry.
And another that will automatically top up my bank account when it gets low.
There must be one out there somewhere. the aircraft that are flying over it. And if you click on the individual aircraft, it tells you the airline, the flight number, where it is going from and to and its departure and arrival times.
Not much use to daily life but fun to play with and if you do have someone you know travelling on a plane you can track them. And here is something you might find fascinating. At any given time there are approximately 9728 planes in the air carrying 1,270,406 passengers. And did you know, 2017 was the safest year in aviation since 1905.
Another very useful app a friend told me about and I now use, is called Out Of Milk and it is for creating a grocery list. So, during the week, if you suddenly think of something you need, you just type it in. And this app is quite clever. It will put your items into categories so you can shop in order.
No more getting to the far end of the shop and thinking bugger, I forgot bananas and having to traipse all the way back to the beginning. This app will also store any of your items so when you start a new list, all you need to do is to click on anything you need again and it restores it into your new list. Very clever and so easy to use.
Gaspy is another very useful app. This will tell you where the cheapest petrol is in town on a daily basis. I have saved up to 20 cents a litre by checking Gaspy before I go into town. That’s a significant saving when you are filling the tank.
I am still looking for two more apps.
One that will give me next week’s lotto numbers. And when I find it, I won’t be sharing it, sorry.
And another that will automatically top up my bank account when it gets low.
There must be one out there somewhere. the aircraft that are flying over it. And if you click on the individual aircraft, it tells you the airline, the flight number, where it is going from and to and its departure and arrival times.
Not much use to daily life but fun to play with and if you do have someone you know travelling on a plane you can track them. And here is something you might find fascinating. At any given time there are approximately 9728 planes in the air carrying 1,270,406 passengers. And did you know, 2017 was the safest year in aviation since 1905.
Another very useful app a friend told me about and I now use, is called Out Of Milk and it is for creating a grocery list. So, during the week, if you suddenly think of something you need, you just type it in. And this app is quite clever. It will put your items into categories so you can shop in order.
No more getting to the far end of the shop and thinking bugger, I forgot bananas and having to traipse all the way back to the beginning. This app will also store any of your items so when you start a new list, all you need to do is to click on anything you need again and it restores it into your new list. Very clever and so easy to use.
Gaspy is another very useful app. This will tell you where the cheapest petrol is in town on a daily basis. I have saved up to 20 cents a litre by checking Gaspy before I go into town. That’s a significant saving when you are filling the tank.
I am still looking for two more apps.
One that will give me next week’s lotto numbers. And when I find it, I won’t be sharing it, sorry.
And another that will automatically top up my bank account when it gets low.
There must be one out there somewhere.
