Monday, January 14, 2013

Life-Hacks: Apps

The app market has simplified countless tasks in my day-to-day life. It's a simple idea really, but one that has a dramatic effect on speeding up the things we do. Programming has always been a great life-hack tool. If you know how, you can spend a few hours developing something to use that can save you hundreds of hours in the future. Only one problem...most people don't know how to program, and most programmers don't have the time to go around making an application for everything they use on a daily basis. Well that's no problem; now we have an open source market for such applications. You could even go so far as to call open source programming like this a life-hack tool. Most non-entertainment apps are designed with the sole intention of speeding up mundane tasks, or simplifying difficult ones. Introduce the capability to share or sell such apps and the life-hacks are suddenly spread to people across the network. With the sheer number of users connected on mobile devices these days, this leads to the creation of thousands of life-hacks that pertain to a wide range of users and tasks.

Want a simpler life? Well, there's an app for that.

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