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Feel
that holiday spirit in the air? It smells like pine trees and whatever
toy parents are beating each other up over this year. Share the giving
spirit and present your phone with some sweet new apps.
Multi-Platform Updates
Viber
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This
week's update brings the ability to make VoIP phone calls to any phone
number, landline or mobile, for an allegedly low rate (calls to other
app users are free). The app also displays your phone number on caller
ID, so your far-flung friends need not know you're calling them on the
cheap, and the app is 100% free, no ads involved. [Android] [iOS]
Socl
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Microsoft's try at social media (it's even pronounced "social"
— get it?) has a new app for Android, iOS and naturally, Windows Phone.
The search-based social network focuses on the visuals, letting you
create collages and respond to others' images by making your own
changes. Let's see where this one goes. [Android] [iOS] [Windows Phone]
Android
Convert Everything
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This
is one of those rare, pleasant apps that does just one thing, and does
it exactly the way you'd want it to. Think of a parameter — seriously,
any unit, be it shoe size or kinematic viscosity. Convert Everything
will let you convert between standard units of measure with ease. The
lite version is ad-supported, but if you work in a field where you've
got to juggle standard and metric, this app will totally justify itself.
[Free]
Cover (beta)
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A
smart lockscreen that promises to give you the right apps for whatever
you're doing, Cover gives you quick app access based on the time of day
and your location. It's also got a smooth single-swipe app switching
function to make for quick navigation. [Free]
Android Device Manager
Android's formerly desktop-only device locator
now has an accompanying phone and tablet app. Like the desktop version,
the app shows you where your misplaced device is, and offers to blast
its ringer, change the lockscreen password, or nuke it entirely. Now you
can use your Android to find your other Android. [Free]
iOS
Peek
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This
brand-new app helps you find the best things to do in a bunch of major
U.S. cities, London and Paris. Start by taking a quiz to determine your
"travel persona", then browse activities by category, neighborhood, or
date. Offline browsing even lets you figure out what you're going to do
while you're in the subway. [Free]
Pandora Radio
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The
popular streaming music app's iOS 7 update brings fresh new design, and
perhaps most importantly, the return of the alarm clock feature. Now
you can wake up to a genre, not just a specific song like iOS's built-in alarm clock. [Free]
Fiverr
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Fiverr,
the anything-for-five-bucks freelance marketplace just rolled out this
app that lets you hire yourself or someone else to do the things you
need done. It's even got in-app direct messaging and push notifications
to ensure you never miss out on a gig. [Free]
Windows Phone
MetroMail
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Finally,
a slick third-party Gmail client designed from the start for WP!
MetroMail brings unbroken conversation threads, easy organization and
plenty of options to search and archive old messages. [$1.50]
AccuWeather
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Nice
big update to this weather app this week, including adding Location
Search and making the local forecast summary more prominent for quick
appraisal of what you should wear. Finally, the app can now support
unlimited locations, so you can swipe to see what the weather's like
anywhere. [Free]
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The
ubiquitous professional social service now lets you add photos to your
profile and monitor who's been checking you out. It also can pull
contacts from your address book to help you boost your connections. Now
get out there and start networking! [Free]
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