App-Pinoy: Check out these fun and handy homegrown apps for your device

What: If you’ve ever wished for a crystal ball to help navigate through traffic in Metro Manila, this is the closest thing you’ll ever get. MMDA’s app offers different traffic views (system, map or line), with updates on unusual incidents affecting your normal route. The app includes most common thoroughfares in the metro. Be a citizen traffic reporter and share your route’s current status via Twitter. The recent update also includes traffic fines and penalties so you can properly argue with the traffic officer (no more batting your eyelashes and fake crying). Now if it could only zap traffic jams into nonexistence.