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THE TECHLIFE TEAM REVIEWS THE MOST INTERESTING
NEW APPS FOR IOS, ANDROID AND WINDOWS MOBILE.Some people are fanatical about their phone’s
battery life, not to leaving the house unless the
battery icon is satisfactorily full. Energy Bar
will presumably appeal to those among us who
incessantly monitor their remaining lifeline, as
it creates a small colour-coded bar at the top of
the Android screen indicating both how much
charge is left and, if your phone is plugged in,
at what rate it’s charging. You could probably
chalk this app up as yet another useless-app-
that-offers-functionality-you-already-have,
and to be honest, aside from aesthetics andOf all the apps you’ll need in 2017 , Bard will likely
rank very close to rock bottom. And yet, it’s probably
also the most attractive and thematically
appropriate tool on the marketplace. Bard basically
lets you rearrange videos to create botched
speeches. For example, you can rearrange Donald
Trump’s famed attack on the American news media
into any order you want, and have the video
playback and even upload it. If you’re really clever,
you could probably be the next viral sensation —
it’s a bit mindblowing just how easy Bard makes it
to twist people’s words. In addition to working off
the many videos already available in Bard (these are
all stored online, not on your device) it’s possible to
upload your own too. At this stage it’s not possible
to draw dialogue footage from multiple videos at
once, so it’s hardly a professional shitposting suite.
Still, it’s a bit of fun if you can get your friends
involved. [ SHAUN PRESCOTT ]some more minor (and rather vague) graphical
information, that’s exactly what it is. It’s nice to
know how much your phone has charged since
you plugged it in, and at roughly what rate it’s
charging, but that’s about where the novelty
ends. There’s a ton of different animations
you can choose between for the energy bar,
and the colours can be personalised to fit with
whatever fancy home screen you’ve got set.
No doubt a useful app for the battery-oriented
anal retentive, but hardly a must have.
[ SHAUN PRESCOTT ]Energy Bar
A COMPLETELY SUPERFLUOUS BUT KINDA NICE BATTERY-METER REPLACEMENT
Free | tinyurl.com/tla 63 -energyBARD
PUT WORDS IN PEOPLE’S MOUTHS
Free | bard.coAnyone racing through their mobile phone data
and frustrated with Android’s in-built bare-bones
management tool needs GlassWire. A simple-to-
read graph shows how much your apps are
uploading and downloading, from the last 5 minutes
to the previous 90 days, and the app pushes out
alert notifications when you’re close to your data
allowance or have blown straight past it. While
Android OS offers an idea of the amount of data
an app has used, you still have to go through each
individual program after digging through the
settings menu. Here, everything’s linked and you
can fine-tune your stats separating them via mobile
and Wi-Fi usage. Powerful stuff, and best of all it’s
free. Incredibly, we haven’t noticed any intrusive ads
that would add to your data usage. Even if you’re
curious about what your apps are up to — thanks to
the surprising amount of permissions they have
— when you’re not actively using them, GlassWire
is a must-try. [ PAUL TAYLOR ]GLASSWIRE
KEEPING TRACK OF YOUR BITS
Free | http://www.glasswire.com/download