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2012 Best Apps for Android and iPhone

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June 29, 2012
Apps & iPods
The Best Apps for Android and iPhone, 2012 Edition The right apps can give your iPhone or Android smartphone superpowers. Facing speeding deadlines? Want awesome entertainment? Need instantaneous news? This collection of super apps is ready to save the day!
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Air Mail for iPhone and iPad Offers Bursts of Fun While it shoots for a Disney-like touch, Air Mail's humor and strange story ultimately makes it a bit rougher around the edges, and perhaps more memorable as a result.
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Phone and Driver: Apps for Your Car These smartphone apps will help you save money on gas and repairs, recover from an accident, and avoid tickets.
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Swype Beta Adds Automatic Learning of New Words Swype remembers new words on its own, so you can concentrate on typing.
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The Sorry State of WinRT Apps on Windows Phone 8 Microsoft might like you to think a properly written Windows 8 Metro-style app will work on Windows Phone 8. News from the trenches: It ain't that easy.
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Firefox for Android Gets a 'Screaming Fast' Upgrade Also included in Mozilla's new mobile browser are a fresh new look, a more personalized approach, and Flash support.
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Your Personal Wikipedia: 9 Free Apps and Services That Help You Remember Storing your knowledge, boosting your memory, and creating your own wiki are a little easier with the help of these services for your computer or mobile device.
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Box OneCloud Now Supports Android Devices Subscribers to this enterprise service can now access Android apps and store and share Android files.
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Researcher Says Face.com iOS Flaw Left Facebook, Twitter Vulnerable UPDATE: Facial recognition start-up Face.com patched a vulnerability in its KLINK iOS app that could have allowed hijacking of Facebook and Twitter accounts.
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Evernote Hello Comes to Android, Helps You Remember People This free app, now available for Android as well as iOS, captures more information about new contacts than even the best business card.
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Your Personal Wikipedia: 9 Free Apps and Services That Help You RememberComputers and smartphones can store and sift through reams of data. You can harness that power to manage your information, whether it's in an obscure email message, a search engine result, or a tidbit you haven't even written down. These nine services and applications can help you become more productive and make better use of the tech you already own. Each offers a free version, too. Thanks to these knowledge managers, your next project may be easier to finish than you think.
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