BYU-Hawaii students and staff share their favorite smartphone applications."Pinterest is a social media app where you can gather things that interest you and pin them onto a wall to share with others. “[Pinterest] is the combination of all the most brilliant ideas all in one spot. Whoever thought of it is brilliant. You can take all the ideas that you like onto one spot and go through it later and remember why you liked it,” said Leilani Fowlke, a junior majoring in marine biology from Wyoming."DaBus is an app that tracks the island-wide bus transportation system. DaBus is perfect for those traveling to and from town from campus and a must download app for BYUH students. “There’s a GPS on the bus, so you can actually get precise times when the bus is going to show up, which is nicer than before because you’d show up when it’s supposed to be there and it’d be an hour late. It’s accurate by about five minutes,” said Daniel Graves, a junior majoring in English from Murray, Utah."Snapchat is an app where you can send a picture of yourself to your friends (who have also downloaded the app as well) for a brief moment of time. The pictures are then deleted. “It makes taking ‘selfies’ in public acceptable,” said Robyn Perez, a freshman majoring in EXS from Memphis, Tenn. “You can send random, embarrassing stuff to your friends. But they can’t keep it and if they take a screen shot, [the app] tells you.”"Shazam is a song identifying app. You can search for songs that you hear and like instantly. “It’s like SoundHound, [where] you can record a song on the radio,” said English Professor Joseph Plicka. “But be careful using it in the car. I’m not going to endorse this app without the provisional warning.”"Graffiti is an app that allows you to write out your text and send them. “I can actually write to text,” said Bookstore Manager Kenway Kua. “[I recommend this] for all those who cannot text…. I like it because you can freely write. Graffiti would probably be my favorite.” "Nestle Mom’s Club pregnancy app is perfect for those expecting. “[Nestle Mom’s Club pregnancy app] shows how many weeks you are, that kind of thing that you have to pay attention to and about the baby and how it is developing. I think it’s a really good app,” said Jamie Pon, an alumnus from Hong Kong. "WeChat is an app where you can speak text and send the text to your friends. “You can tap the words, and talk, ‘hello, hello, hello’ and send,” said Yuanyu “Coco” Xia, a freshman majoring in accounting from China.
Writer: Dylan Sage-Wilcox~Multimedia Journalist
