The word "app" has to be accepted into Webster's dictionary by now as it pervades our daily lexicon. Who would have thought that the word Apple and App would be used in the same sentence? If you're new to Earth, "App" is not short for Apple. It's short for "application", a technology application for an iPhone, iPad or Android. By the way, for the benefit of our mothers, an Android is NOT a human-likeness of mars alien. It's a "smart phone" similar to iPhone for other brands like Blackberry.
Today there is an app for everything. Games including wordsmith, entertainment including 'Ben the Talking Dog" and "Talking Tom Cat", and useless apps like the "iflush toilet". We're not kidding.
But today we bring you a useful, functional app. Gas Buddy! No we're not talking about relief from flatulence. With today's skyrocketing gas prices, this buddy will aid you in seeking the best gas prices.
http://www.gasbuddy.com/ helps you find the gas stations with the lowest price anywhere you want to look. You can use it on your computer, download it for an iPhone or Android.
It operates with user-supplied data so you can earn points and win prizes such as gas cards by submitting information on prices in your neighborhood.
Entering our local city, let's say Miami, Christine found that prices ranged from $3.99 per gallon in Little Havana to $4.29 per gallon in South Beach.
You can compare prices of regular, mid-grade, premier and diesel fuels, calculate how much it will cost for gas to take a particular trip, see charts on historic trends and read tips on how to be a gas-frugal driver. Is there such a word as gasolinista? [I think those fumes are getting to us].
But as soon as one popular app emerges, others get a whiff and spew out ones like Gas Cubby and Cheap Gas!
In a clever strategy to tie staple savings of groceries and gasoline, Winn-Dixie rolled out a program called Fuel Perks that provides gas discounts in exchange for shopping at the store.
Of course another way to save gas is to follow those gas -and-tried practices of avoiding quick starts, running errands in one trip, not exceeding 60 mph on the highway and regular maintenance and tuneups. Sorry no apps for those yet!
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2 comments:
Awesome app. It would be great if there was an option to chose several cities and towns so we could the cheapest gas going to and from work.
The best looking app I've seen that does the job well. 4/5 due to the fact that I normally look up gas from my house, so it would be nice if it remembered the last (or series of) entered addresses/postal codes. The GPS doesn't seem to want to work with this app on my Galaxy S, but I have a feeling that is the GPS itself, not the fault of the software.
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