Software reviews
Evernote
You can use Evernote to make notes, create to-do lists, clip Web pages, manage passwords, or record audio. Everything you have added to Evernote is automatically synchronized across platforms and devices, and thus made searchable. The app will even recognize printed or handwritten text in photos or images.
Key Features: creates and edits text notes and task lists; syncs all your notes across the computers and devices; records voice and audio notes; emails notes and saves tweets to your Evernote account.
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Sports Tracker
The iPhone and Android app, Sports Tracker, is certainly among the best applications of this type out there, a sort of a “personal trainer”, allowing you to record different exercise activities and share them with others. The app comes with various preset activities such as walking, cycling, mountain-biking, swimming, rowing or skiing, but it can also record your route using GPS and Google Maps.
Key Features: tracks and analyzes your performances, but also monitors your progress; stores all training data in a personal file; keeps track of mostly everything from burned calories to training speeds; shares workout data and photos with others on Sports Tracker, Facebook and Twitter; helps you discover new routes and trails.
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The process of re-installing apps on a new phone and getting it configured is a major task, and often takes hours, but all these problems can be avoided. The answer is Titanium Backup Pro, an app that lets you back up from the original device to a card and then restore onto the new device.
Key Features: Backup and restore regular or protected apps together with their settings; Backup and restore phone system settings; Interactive batch restore; Market Doctor to repair broken Market links.
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Draw Something is a highly addictive social game that was released in March this year, and ever since, lots of people have been heavily playing it on their iPhone or Android. This app is quite simple, like virtual Pictionary, which means you draw something, while the other person tries to guess what it is and then they draw something for you.
Key Features: saves your drawings to your devices' photo library; share drawings on Twitter and Facebook; nice and clean user interface; fun and easy to play.
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StumbleUpon is also the easiest way to discover new and interesting things from across the Web. It is an application that you can practically teach what sort of online content you enjoy browsing, and it gets to load you random online content saved on the database by other users who share your interests.
Key Features: enables you to discover new content; share and receive content with other users; easy to use; smooth interface; offers the opportunity to quickly share via Facebook, Twitter, or Email.
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Osmos HD is a beautiful innovative and entertaining arcade game for both Android and iOS. The game is also winner of multiple "Game of the Year" awards (it was Apple’s “iPad Game of the Year” before it arrived on Android) and features unique physics-based strategy, stellar graphics, and a great ambient soundtrack. It is a relaxing and fun game which can be played by both adults and children.
Key Features: offers unique physics-based gameplay; optimized for both tablets and phones; sports pinch to zoom and other multitouch effects; easy to play; beautiful graphics and great music tracks during playgame.
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Tapatalk is a great fully functional forum app in the Market, housing over 25,000 of the most popular public forums worldwide, with about 300 added every week. The forums span 13 total categories, ranging from Aquarium and Animals to Technology. There are also hundreds of public forums listings within each category; which should be more than enough to satisfy your curiosity.
Key Features: very easy to navigate; offers integration support for many blogs; good user control within forums; extremely fast; perfect tools for finding new communities.
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iTunes U is an revolutionary Educational app that gives you access to one of largest digital catalog and also brings together learning courses from learning establishments around the world, making them available on your iOS device. What’s impressive is that the app does all this for free, and the courses are free too.
Key Features: offers free courses created and taught in important universities; provides access to course materials, including audio, video, books, documents and presentations, apps, and new iBooks textbooks; a database of over 500,000 free lectures, videos, books; provides collections from 26 countries.
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SPB Shell 3 is a delightful customizable home screen replacement by SPB Software, an interactive 3D animated environment for you to use on any Android device with Android 2.1 or higher. Although quite expensive, at around the $15, it is rendered in beautiful 3D and makes other launchers look insignificant.
Key Features: nice innovative user interface; cool animations; a great number of customizable 3D screens and panels; very good screen transitions; Smooth 3D graphics.
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It is obvious that the new camera apps hitting the market are permanently trying to expand capabilities, add new effects, and also push creativity forward. Although being far from perfect, Camera ZOOM FX makes no exception, being a complex and useful all-in-one photography tool, and, as a way to take better photos, this app is definitely very powerful.
Key Features: offers customization of all hardware buttons; live previews of some effects; customizable grid overlays; voice activated picture taking; support from Android 1.5 through to Android 4.0 including tablets.
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