inaturalist- photograph and track organisms you see, and submit their location to relevant research projects
Ask HN: What “special” app you are using?
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#12MyLifeOrganized ; it's the last Windows app I use (on Linux with WINE and Android)
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#13I wrote a simple stopwatch menu bar app called Mini Time Tracker [1] for Mac. I use it to track how much time I do a single thing, e.g. coding. It's like pomodoro in reverse and only stops when you tell it to stop.
[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mini-time-tracker/id1633674659...
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#14DroidCam. It allows me to use my phone as a Webcam on Linux by streaming over WiFi (or cable). Good stuff
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#15Sun Surveyor - shows an overlay on a live camera to see where the sun will be in the sky in summer or winter. Good for gardening and house design.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ratana.sun...
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#16Physics Toolbox by Vieyra Software.
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#17Sun Surveyor - shows an overlay on a live camera to see where the sun will be in the sky in summer or winter. Good for gardening and house design. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ratana.sun...
I use that, too, but for photography. It’s a wonderful app and much easier to handle than the similar and IMHO overhyped PhotoPills.
It’s also on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/sun-surveyor-sun-moon/id525176875
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#18Camo - helps me to use iPhone as webcam for macOS.
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#19Apart from the social media and streaming stuff: - Spectroid: A spectrum analyzer to help me identify "that annoying sound I hear" or "what's wrong with the sound in this place?" I'm not good at ignoring sound, but it helps me when I understand something about it, like "oh, that's a 10 khz harmonic" still annoying but slightly less. - DiggieDog: Gopher client, extremely fast, good for when I'm somewhere with REAL bad…
How could an app ("Ulysse Speedometer") be better at measuring the vehicle speed?? This seems so wrong!
Off topic but this is a real gripe of mine - analogue speedos that go all the way up to 240 kmph (~150 mph). I am only ever going to do half that speed, so why not just make the dial go to only 120/(80) and give the needle (and me!) twice as much precision!
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#20DriveDroid- an Android application that allows mounting disc images and causes the phone to appear as an external optical drive or USB flash drive.
I essentially keep an Arch and Windows 10 boot disc on me at all times.
You can also create blank images and it'll act as a flash drive.