Wikimedia Commons/ImageAndroid device users have their pick from over millions of software applications available in app stores online. With the proliferation of apps in the market, many people miss out on a number of useful but lesser known software compared to their heavily advertised counterparts.
Christian Post Report – With Google Play Store and the Apple App Store filled with millions of apps, users often have their pick from exceptional and not so exceptional software applications. TechRepublic has searched through this trove to come up with five obscure but extremely user-beneficial apps:
Ambio – people traveling in unfamiliar locations may often find themselves sleepless in a strange bed in the middle of a strange place. Ambio is an app that provides ambient sound to help business or leisure travelers focus on a task, or sleep soundly, particularly in less-than-comfortable hotel surroundings.
RedLaser Barcode and QR Scanner – with the proliferation of online shopping, money-wise frugalists will find a price comparison shopping app a useful piece of software to get the best bang for their buck. The app trawls the Internet to present users with the best possible prices, local pricing, product facts, reviews, and even allergen information details for food items. Users can also scan their loyalty cards using the app using its ultra fast barcode scanner.
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Total Commander – despite its not-so-pretty presentation, Total Commander is one of the best file manager apps in existence today. With a built-in properties dialogue, text editor, support for FTP/sFTP/WebDAV/OBEX and cloud services plug-ins, users can search files, copy and even move entire subdirectories, rar, zip and unzip files, as well as drag and drop items, among other options.
ProxyDroid – a free app that allows users to set a proxy on their Android device very easily, whether for one app or several. It supports authentication from basic to NTLM and NTLMv2 methods, provides for FTP/sFTP/WebDAV/OBEX proxy, and allows for multiple profile set up.
Greenify – this app helps users identify misbehaving apps on their device and effectively put them in hibernation to help keep battery life from premature drain-out. While other apps prevent users from using these hibernated apps, Greenify allows use of the suspect software, then immediately puts them to sleep when not in use.
Source : Christian Post