Five fantastic apps (and how to use them)

As a high school student, getting a good night’s sleep can be difficult sometimes, but this app has helped me feel more rested when I wake up. “Sleep Cycle” is not a normal alarm clock; it tracks your sleep patterns to wake you up at an optimal time. “Sleep Cycle” wakes you within a 20-30 minute gap depending on what type of sleep you are in. The app wakes you during light sleep, so you...

“Desmos” is a helpful math tool that graphs equations on a coordinate plane. I am currently taking Pre-Calculus, and this app has helped me understand certain equations and graphs that I didn’t get before. The user interface is very easy to use, and you can enter a very complex equation in a matter of seconds. “Desmos” also provides many different example graphs that can be helpful for un...

In an increasingly digital world, passwords are vital to everybody’s safety and privacy. Most people use one to three passwords for all of their accounts, making them very vulnerable if somebody ever found out one of their passwords. While making different passwords for every account is the right thing to do, it can be nearly impossible to remember several passwords across multiple websites and ...

As somebody who only has 16GB of storage on my phone, I find myself having to delete apps and photos to make room all the time. While iCloud is always a viable option, the free 5GB provided fill up quickly, and I don’t want to pay a monthly fee for extra storage. “Google Photos” is a great solution to this problem, as it provides more free gigabytes while being quick and convenient to us...

There are many different GPS apps out there, but none of them seems to come close to “Waze” in terms of efficiency and versatility. While “Google Maps” and “Apple Maps” are very popular navigation services, neither of them relies on community contributions to provide route guidance, making them less effective. Waze is user-driven and people can indicate where accidents or speed traps ...