Anti-crisis applications in Windows 8 (II)

"A few days ago we published the first entry on Anti-crisis applications in Windows 8, a series of three posts with which we try to provide you with the necessary tools so that you can be aware of the latest offers on the market, especially now with the times that run."

In this second edition we bring you the applications of Laboris.NET, to facilitate the task of finding a job; gGas, so you can easily find the cheapest gas stations; Skyscanner, which will help you find flights quickly; and Kindle, a great application from which you can access more than a million books.

Laboris.NET, online job bank

The new Laboris.net application for Windows 8 is an ideal solution when looking for job offers In just 3 simple steps, you can sign up for those that interest you the most: find an offer, filter the results and sign up. Once you have done so, you can follow the status of each one from the application itself.

In the foreground we see a form that allows us to search for job offers and another to search for courses. In addition, we can also click on the displayed map to filter the results according to the city that interests us. Finally, on the right we are presented with all the categories in which an offer can be included.

As you can see in the image above, the presentation of the results is done by grouping them as a list, and on the right is shown all the information related to the offer selected at that moment, as well as related courses at the end of it.

From the application itself we can print the offer we are consulting, which is a very important detail, as well as go back and forth between the existing ones, or filter even more if the list of results fits.

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gGas, find the stations with the cheapest gasoline

With the gGas application you can save on gasoline by finding the service station with the cheapest price per liter of gasoline, being able to order them as well by distance from your current position. All the results will appear in the form of tiles that will quickly show the address of the station, the company it belongs to, the price per liter of gasoline, and the distance it is from your position.

If we click on any of the results we can consult more information about that station, such as its opening hours, and a map that will appear on the right by positioning it on it with respect to our location.

We can also choose to see all the nearby stations on the map, as you can see below. Clicking on any we will see a summary like the one we saw in the cover tiles, with useful information.

But in addition to this, the application will show us through its Live Tile the station with the cheapest price per liter of gasoline from our current position , as long as we have it anchored to the Start menu.

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Skyscanner, cheap flight search engine

If you need to quickly find a flight, Skyscanner is your solution. This is a independent application that searches millions of routes among more than 1.000 airlines (of any type) and find the lowest fares in seconds, saving you time and money.

Skyscanner locates the best deals and connects you with the airline or travel agency to book directly, so you always get the best deals. It's simple, independent and quickly finds the lowest rates.

Directly, as soon as we enter the application we can search for a flight originating from our current position, and with the destination we select, since the application recognizes where we are and will search for nearby airports. On the right we will see a list of the cheapest flights from our position to different locations, in the current year.

The system for ordering and filtering results is very complete, allowing us to order them from lowest to highest according to different parameters such as the company (in this case alphabetical order), takeoff or landing time, stopovers and duration .

Regarding the filters, we have more or less the same options as when ordering the results, with the difference that here we can exclude results that do not meet our requirements, such as example a time interval in departure times.

When we have located the flight we want, we simply have to click on it, which will show us more information about it. If we click on the book button, we will be taken to the website of the agency to which that offer belongs, to be able to carry out all the procedures there directly.

And in case we want to save a specific flight so that it doesn't get lost, the application allows us to mark different results as favourites, in addition to consulting recent searches. There is also the option to email the list so we can look at it later.

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Kindle, your portable library

Kindle for Windows 8 is a nice and easy-to-use application that will allow us to have access to more than 1 million books, including best-selling titles and new releases. Amazon's Whispersync technology automatically syncs the last page read, bookmarks, notes, and any highlights across all devices where you have the Kindle app installed and on any Kindle device. This means you can start reading on one device and pick up later where you left off on a different device.

Also, for even faster access you can pin books to the Start menu to access them directly. And if it bothers you to wait for the one you just bought to download, don't worry, because you can start reading it from the first moment while it's downloading, since even If this operation has not been completed, you will access the book in the cloud.

The cover of the application shows us our library, both in the cloud and stored on our device; and allows us to go directly to the Kindle Store to purchase more digital books.

The application is directly focused on the reader and on making them feel comfortable reading, since various display options are offered to be able to change the font size, margins, background color, or if we want to display the text in one or two columns.

If we select part of the text, we will have the possibility of underlining it, which will highlight it with a color that stands out; or add a note Both things can be seen from the Notes and bookmarks section, where it will be indicated which part of the text has been affected and even which line it is on . In addition, we also have the option of putting a visual marker, which will identify a specific page.

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