With an eye on Labor Day, here’s a look at smartphone applications that deal with labor issues such as getting a job, hiring a laborer and, of course, clocking labor pains.
Two free job apps, Job Search by and Jobs by Monster Worldwide, provide intuitive searching from their opening screens, where you type in keywords and a location. Both provide many other services, such as résumé posting, links to apply for jobs and notifications for registered users.
Stay away from Day Job Labor, by Dennis Tucker. This app purports to pull job listings for temporary-labor work from Craigslist. It is $1.99 for iPhone. The app crashed each and every time I attempted to launch it over several days.
Better to look for day labor or other jobs — or advertise for laborers — on Craigslist using one of many Craigslist-focused apps that browse all listings, not just those for jobs.
One of the best is cPRO+, a Craigslist client from Escargot Studios LLC. The “+” indicates the paid version, at $1.99 for Android and Apple, but there’s also a free version. I used it to quickly pull up posts for laborers needed in the Philadelphia area for painting, construction, mold remediation, landscaping and manufacturing. The app can be set to notify you of new listings. And you also can use it to shop or to sell stuff.
Full Term: Labor Contraction Timer, free for iPhone from Mustansir Golawala, who says in describing the app that he created it for use by his wife during pregnancy. Tap “Start” and “Stop” as labor contractions come and go. You can just stick to timing, or tap “Detail” to record the intensity or make notes about it.
To get information to a health professional, tap the e-mail icon to send your contraction list, including start and end times with durations, frequency and intensity compiled in a chart. Review testimonials say the app is “perfect for panicked dads” and “gave me something to focus on during contractions.”
Reid Kanaley, The Philadelphia Inquirer
