Gallery: 10 useful Android apps
Being handy is the watchword of this app which makes the bold boast to let you "Get a cab. Anywhere". And that's pretty much it in a nutshell. Tell it your location, scroll around a map and pinpoint where you are (or let it use GPS to find out) and Cab4Me brings up a list of user-rated cab companies in the locale, furnishing you with phone numbers and other useful details such as payment methods accepted and service hours. Automatic cab ordering is planned for later versions of the app where you won't even have to speak to the cab company but just send them your location and destination data instead.
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TooDo is a life-organiser app from French developer Édouard Mercier so if making lists of things you need to get done and giving yourself deadlines floats your boat TooDo could work for you. There's a handy dashboard view for an overview of impending tasks, while to-dos can be categorised by context - such as 'at work', 'back home', 'shopping' etc - and it'll also let you filter by importance of tasks and more.
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The issues are two-fold: one that the scanning results are often hit and miss, depending on the type of item you're scanning. And two that the 'Everywhere' of the title does not mean 'everywhere in the world' it means 'everywhere in the US'. Results, therefore, appear in dollars and 'local stores' means Walmart or, if you're lucky, a .com shopping site which may offer international shipping. So this app can be handy, certainly, but more so if you're looking to buy a book in the US, say, than tea-bags in the UK...
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