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36 FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | AUGUST 2021 THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT! By Steve Benoff When it rains, it pours. For years I've been imploring you to send in your app suggestions. Lo and behold, within the span of one week, I received suggestions from three people for eight apps. Four of these apps will require some experimentation on my part, and that may take a while. So here are the other four with comments from their suggesters (this is actually a word; I thought I made it up). My first contributor is Mary Baer. Mary gave me three app suggestions. Her first is Simple Radio. It has a rating of 4.7 (out of 5) from over 370,000 people. It's described in the App Store as, "The simplest and most reliable way to listen to your favorite AM, FM and online radio stations…." Mary uses it to listen to Christian talk radio. Mary's second app is PBS. With only a little over 1,000 reviewers, it received a rating of 3.1, which of course doesn't matter to Mary because she likes it. "PBS Video features thousands of full-length episodes, Live TV from your local PBS station, award-winning documentaries, and iconic series from PBS and member stations. Stream popular PBS shows anytime, anywhere." Mary mentions that she is able to use this app (as well as her third recommendation) because she receives her TV through Frontier. I guess that means, if you don't have a cooperating service provider, you may have to pay to use the PBS app. Number three from Mary is the TCM app. "Turner Classic Movies presents Watch TCM, a 'TV Everywhere' service that lets you enjoy unlimited access to the best of TCM, at no additional cost with your TV subscription." Mary even sent a picture (above) to show "how I watch TCM on my patio in my lounger. Pillow topped with lap desk and easel." I'm going to let Jacque Sneddon describe her app suggestion. "I inherited a couple of hundred B&W film and glass negatives from my grandparents that are over 100 years old. Over the years I've looked for an easy way to print them but all methods were very time- consuming using scanners, particularly for the glass images. "I recently tried Photomyne's app Film Box. They have a low-cost monthly subscription or a two-year subscription. I found the two- year subscription to be the most economical since it equals about six months of the monthly subscription. "You hold your negative (color or B&W) against a bright light source (the app instructs how to use your computer screen), take your camera, frame the negative and take the picture. The app automatically changes the negative into a positive. "Since this app allows you to see the positive it's easy to select the pictures you want to shoot and have printed or be able to share digitally." Can you believe this fabulous picture of Jacque's mother was made possible by an app on her smartphone?! If you use an app you'd like to share with others, let me know at steve. benoff@verizon.net. Readers Share Their Favorite Apps