App: Orai
Free for iPhone • www.oraiapp.com If you’re giving a sales presentation or doing a training session, it always helps to be the best speaker possible. With this app, Orai, turns your phone into a speaking coach. You gain the confidence and skills to speak productively and compellingly whether you are in front of a room, in a shop, or in an install bay. Just a 10 percent increase in vocal variety—and eliminating hedging language like “ummm” and “like” and “kind of”—can go a long way to increasing your audience’s attention.
Services: Waze carpool Free app for iPhone and Android www.waze.com/carpool/
Maybe Uber or Lyft aren’t your thing or possibly the services aren’t readily available in your area. Well, there’s another way to economically commute. With Waze, the Google-owned driving directions app, there is a carpool service to help you get to and from work. It doesn’t use professional drivers like Uber and Lyft—just regular folks who want to save some money by sharing their ride. Simply enter your desired destination and see if someone else happens to be going your way. The app automatically calculates the fares. Note, however, you ride at your own risk since drivers don’t go through any background checks like they do with the other professional services.
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