The Easy, The Wavy, The Rude
Get
woken up by a persistent alarm clock, answer a call with the wave of a hand and
check your PNR status
Going Out Of Town?
There’s quite a deluge of
travel-related apps, with new ones turning up every day. PNR Status by Ixigo is
a one-stop app for both train and flight details. The free app for Android has
a nice interface, but needs you to enter your email id, PNR number, date of
travel and where you bought your ticket – a little too much information, I
thought. Isn’t a PNR number unique enough to get you what you need? Anyway,
once you’ve put in these bits of information you get your page of flight or
train details and can call the airline or check-in via the app, which takes you
to the airline’s website. You could just use the airline’s app, of course, but
if you have a mix of train journeys and flights, you may find PNR Status
useful. The nice thing is, you continue to get useful alerts and prompts until
you’re on your way.
Air Call Answer
Phone companies that make devices
without any strong distinguishing features make a big noise about how you can
do things like answer a call with the wave of a hand. Well, that’s just the
proximity sensor at work, and all it needs is the command to tell it what to do
when faced with a certain situation. So if you want this piece of magic on your
Android phone, head to the Play Store and download the free Air Call Answer.
Enable it. And there you have it! Now, all you need to do is let the proximity
sensor on the top of your phone see your hand or finger moving and the call can
be answered. Even better, just lift the phone to your ear and the call engages.
Obviously, as the sensor gets the same kind of input, it’ll work. There are
many similar tweaks you can make to an Android phone yourself rather than take the marketing bait thrown
at you.
Attack Of The Carrot
There was a time when you could
thwack your alarm clock into silence and go back to sleep. But these days your
clock lives in your phone where it gets smarter and smarter until it finally
outsmarts you. This is true of the Carrot alarm clock for iOS, which will just
about torture you if you don’t wake up. There are specific actions you have to
perform to silence the alarm such as swiping on a certain part of the screen.
When Carrot sees lack of compliance, it will go into torture mode until it
eventually threatens to kill a kitten if you don’t get up. The app has a
gesture-based interface but is otherwise simple and doesn’t let you set
multiple alarms. It’s strictly a wake-up machine, and an extra snooze will cost
you. As time goes on, your tasks will become tougher and Carrot will be ruder.
The app costs $0.99.
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