WebUser – 21 August 2019

Best Free Apps

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WEBSITEMANAGEMENT

Squarespace

bit.ly/squaredroid482

bit.ly/squareios482

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Squarespaceis

anotherapp that’s

beenslowtoarrive

on Android, having

beenreleasedfor

iOS lastDecember.

It’s more orless

anobligatory

downloadif you use

the website-building

service tomanage

yoursite. You can

publish content,

edit pages, updateyoursite’s settingsand access

Squarespace’s customersupport straightfromthe app,

without the needfor afully fledged PC. Any

edits you makewhile offline are saved to your

deviceanduploaded onceyou’rebackonthe

internet. While the app itself isfree,you needa

Squarespaceaccount touse it.

NOTETAKING

Post-it
bit.ly/postitdroid482
bit.ly/postitios482

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The official Post-it
app finally makes
its debut on
Android– only five
years after it
launchedoniOS.
For anyonewithout
anAppledevice, this
means you can now
capture ‘realworld’
Post-it notes (from
yourfridge door,
noticeboard andso
on) via yourphone’s camera andorganisethemintodigital
boards onyourdevice. Post-it letsyou createnewnotes in
the app andcombine themwith those you’ve
captured. You can alsoedit notes,changingthe
colourofPost-its,drawing onthemand erasing
oradding text, andshare notes ina variety of
formats,from PDF toPowerPoint.

WEATHER

SpaceWeather

Reporter

bit.ly/

spaceweather482

4.4

Mostweather

appsare usefulfor

letting you know

whentopacka

brollyorslapon

somefactor 30.

But whatif you

wanta more

interplanetaryviewof the weather?

Space WeatherReporterdraws on

scientificdata gatheredbythe

Database ofNotifications,Knowledge

and Information (DONKI) toprovide

you with up-to-date information on

all the latestsolar flares, coronal

mass ejections,geomagnetic

stormsandotherspace

weatherevents.

Science buffs andspace

enthusiasts shouldnever

leavehomewithout it.

FILEMANAGER

Files
bit.ly/
googlefiles 482

5

Tocelebrate
the fact that
10 0 million
people use
Filesevery
month, Google
has updated its
popular app.
Thisexcellent
file-management tool, which letsyou
move, transferandshare files, aswell
asfreeupspace onyourAndroid
devicebydeleting junkfilesandother
unwanteddata, was originallydesigned
for peoplewho don’t havemuch
storagespace ontheir phones. The
latestversion introduces two big new
features: aDarkMode
andimproved controlsfor
playing video and music
filesinthe app,even
whenyou’reoffline.

CAMERA

NightVision

bit.ly/nightvision482

(varies)

Everwantedyourown pair ofnight

vision goggles? Well, thisapp couldbe

the nextbestthing.It usesthe infrared,

depth-sensing Time-of-flight(ToF)

sensorinyourdevice’s camera to‘see’

inthe dark. It’s a coolidea, but there

are two fairlybig caveats.First,the app

isstillatthe EarlyAccessstage, which

means stabilityandreliabilityaren’t

guaranteed, andsecond,

only ahandfulofdevices

havea compatibleToF

sensor, soNight Vision may

not workonyourdevice.

This fortnight’s top free and paid-for apps

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