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It’s been said time and time again that the camera on the iPhone is an excellent camera. In fact, it’s become such a popular camera that there’s a whole genre of photography known as ‘iPhoneography’. iPhone photographers not only use the camera and lens built into their iPhone, but also an assortment of apps to edit, enhance, and show off their work. There are so many great apps out there, so we’ve narrowed it down to a few of our favorites.
KitCam
The first app we’re going to take a look at is a fantastic tool for taking your photos. With it, you can adjust exposure, white balance, lenses, and film before you even take the photo. It also features convenient shooting modes like a timer, multi-exposure, time-lapse, and more. You can also view each photo’s histogram and make adjustments to levels, brightness, contrast, and saturation. If you’re looking to take more control over your iPhone’s camera, definitely grab KitCam.
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Photoforge2
KitCam does offer some nice editing options, but if you want even more, Photoforge2 is an excellent choice that’s bursting with advanced controls. The most notable is the ability to use multiple layers and masks and make advanced adjustments including curves, levels, color balance, channel mixer, white balance, noise reduction, and more. You can also add over 25 different filters and FX and combine different films lenses, filters, and textures.
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VSCO CAM
Complex and advanced controls are great, but sometimes you want something quick and easy, yet awesome — like VSCO CAM. This gem features a sleek design with minimal processing options, but the options are good. There’s a nice variety and all the basics are covered. VSCO CAM is a great app to have in your grab bag of editing tools.
Facetune
If you’re shooting portraits with your iPhone camera, then Facetune should be your go-to app for touching up blemishes, smoothing out skin, enhancing eyes, and even reshaping. Seriously, Facetune is amazing. Check out the review for a full rundown.
Fuzel Pro
Collages (or “storyboards”) are an excellent way to show off multiple photos at once. They are a great way to tell a story. The App Store is also flooded with apps that help you build collages, but the one I keep coming back to is Fuzel Pro. It has an artistic design, makes it quick and easy to add photos, and gives you control over the layouts of your collages.
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Photolettering
After editing your photo to perfection, you may realize that it would make a great poster, sign, or inspirational message. With Photolettering, you can do just that using fonts from world-renowned type foundry House Industries. It’s free with a few fonts and additional fonts are available via in-app purchase. If you’re looking to mix photography with typography, Photolettering is the way to go.
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Instagram
You didn’t think I’d get through an article about photography apps without mentioning Instagram, did you? Although there are a lot of things I would love to see changed about Instagram (especially forced square crops), there’s no denying it’s usefulness as a way to share photos. Yes, there’s a lot of snapshots of pets and kids (my own included) and plates of food, but there is also a lot of amazing photography being shared on Instagram, as well.
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Your favorite apps for iPhone photography?
So there you have it! iMore’s best apps for iPhone photographers. Did we miss any of your favorites? What apps do you use to shoot, edit, enhance, and show off your photos taking with your iPhone?
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Every week, the editors and writers at iMore carefully select some of our favorite, most useful, most extraordinary apps, accessories, gadgets, and websites. This week’s selections include a music library app, a photo editing app, a turn-based tactic game, a British magazine about Apple, and a simple dots game.
Ever heard of Wolfgang’s Vault? I’ve never heard of it until a couple of years ago despite the site existing since 2003. The site houses a massive library of music and live concert videos and was at one time referred to as “the most important collection of rock memorabilia and recordings ever assembled in one business”. Once offered to all for free, Wolfgang’s Vault is now a paid offering and even has a slick iOS app to go along with it.
The app itself is free to download and with free 7-day trial you can check out all the content available and decide if it’s worth the .99/month or .99/per year. Aside from just offering up a whole slew of audio content from rock, blues, jazz, folk and country legends it also offers access to the catalog of video as well. All of which is compatible with AirPlay and can be played back onto your TV. In short, if you’re a fan of any of the above genres of music, this app is worth the time to check out. It really is a gold mine for content and you really do need more than the 7-day free trial it offers to make your way through it.
I’m a sucker for photo editing apps and have two whole folders of them on my iPhone. One of my favorites is Afterlight mainly because it’s simple to use. I can apply lots of filters on top of each other or use it just to make basic enhancements. After you purchase the app, you’ll have access to all features except for scene clips. If you’d like those it’s an additional .99 in-app purchase.
If you simply want Afterlight as a simple way to edit photos on the go, you probably won’t have any interest in scene clips but if you do, you’ve got the option all in one app.
Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol is a turn-based tactics game set in World War 1. You command fighter aces in the skies above Europe, directing their movements and positioning them to take down the enemy while avoiding damage their own planes. Ace Patrol features both single- and multi-player modes. Move your fighters around by double-tapping the arrows that appear on the ground, which also allow your pilots to change altitude. While the game is initially free, giving you a chance to play through part of the British campaign, you will eventually need to pay .99 to go further. Additionally, there are other campaigns that you can purchase if you wish, one each for the Germans, Americans, and the French for .99 each, though you can pay .99 for all three of them. Finally, you can purchase and unlock several “Aces”, each with their own special traits. Ace Patrol is available for both iPhone and iPad as a universal download.
British based Apple magazine, MacFormat, is in the middle of celebrating a milestone for the publication. For 20 years now they have been publishing anything and everything Apple related, which is no small feat. To celebrate, they have re-published their very first issue which is available to download to Newsstand free of charge. Beyond simply re-issing a digital copy of the magazine, it includes interactive content such as video and audio clips from current members of the editorial team, and comment items throughout relating to the 20-year old content. For those of us not old enough to be using Apple products 20 years ago — I myself was just 8 years old when this went to print — it offers a fantastic look back, and highlights just how far we’ve come.
While browsing the App Store this week, I was drawn towards the colorful dots on the icon for Dots: A Game About Connecting. This is seriously one of the most basic and simple games I have ever played, but I just can’t stop playing. You simply draw a line with your fingers to connect the dots of the same color to make them disappear. You have 60-seconds to clear out as many dots as possible. You can also use Time Stops, Shrinkers, and Expanders by spending dots. I can’t tell you why this game is so addicting, but it is. It’s so clean, so basic, and such a great way to kill 60 seconds… or much more.
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Now that we’ve chosen our favorites for the week, we want to hear yours! Did you pick up a killer app, accessory, or game this week? Let us know in the comments below!
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Mother’s Day is less than a week away, and you might be stressing about what to do for Mom. Fret no more; we’ve got some great ways you can use your iPhone or iPad to honor Mom, this Sunday. Be it with flowers, cards, scrapbooks, food, or drinks, iMore’s got you covered. Let’s put your favorite device to work and use it to make Mom feel extra special this Mother’s Day.
Cleverbug Cards App
If there’s one thing your mom will be expecting this Mother’s Day, it’s a card. There are many different cards apps available in the App Store, but Cleverbug Cards Apps has grabbed my attention as a great option this Mother’s Day. It has just been updated with a bunch of great new Mother’s Day card options, and not only can you have the printed and delivered straight to your mom, but you can also choose to deliver them electronically via Facebook, Twitter, Email, or SMS for free.
Cleverbug integrates with Facebook so that you can quickly and easily add photos from Facebook to your Card. Just select your mom as the recipient and Cleverbug will automatically add her most popular photos to the card — you can, of course, also swap out the photos if you prefer to add specific ones.
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Flower Garden / Flowerly
The other common Mother’s Day gift is flowers. Flower Garden and Flowerly are two great iPhone and iPad apps that let you send virtual flowers to Mom via Facebook and email. Flower Garden is a bit more “fun” in that you actually grow the flowers that you’re going to include in your bouquet.
Since not everyone is into that sort of thing, I’m also including Flowerly, an app that simply let’s you choose a bouquet and card and send it on its way.
Both apps are great options for sending Mom a virtual bouquet on Mother’s Day.
Healthy Desserts by Green Kitchen
There’s a good chance that Mom has spent a lot of time in the kitchen cooking meals and baking treats for you and the family. Mother’s Day is the perfect day to return the favor. With Healthy Desserts by Green Kitchen, you’ll find delicious treats to present to your mom. And she’ll really appreciate it when, after she’s done enjoying the delectable dessert, you tell her that it was made with healthy ingredients. Moms love yummy desserts, often feel guilty about eating them.
If you want to go all out and cook an entire meal, check out some of our other favorite cooking apps available in the App Store.
Don’t forget to install the app on Mom’s iPhone and/or iPad as well!
Mixologist
What’s a great meal and dessert without the perfect cocktail to go with it? With Mixologist for iPhone, you can find the recipe to Mom’s favorite drink and mix one up with extra love just for her. If Mom isn’t into alcoholic drinks, there are also some tasty non-alcoholic options as well.
ScrapPad – Mother’s Day Photo Journal
Is Mom a scrapbooker? Then she’s going to love ScrapPad. During your Mother’s Day celebrations be sure to take lots of photos, including of the tiniest details, and use them to created the ultimate scrapbook with ScrapPad – Mother’s Day Photo Journal for iPad. The Mother’s Day kit includes fun clipart and graphics designed just for the day. And the best part? Once you’ve created the digital version of the scrapbook, you can order it to be printed as a physical book that Mom will cherish forever.
Your best Mother’s Day apps for iPhone and iPad?
Those are my picks for best iPhone and iPad apps for Mother’s Day. With them, you can send Mom a special card, a bouquet of flowers, make her the perfect treat, mix her a delicious drink, and create a scrapbook that she’ll forever love. Any apps I’m missing out on? Any you’d recommend more? Let me know!
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Every week, the editors and writers at iMore carefully select some of our favorite, most useful, most extraordinary apps, accessories, gadgets, and websites. This week’s selections include an app for Londoners, a couple games, a wiki, a great photography app, and app for those who wish they were astronauts.
Two things in particular came together in finding this application. Firstly, I spend a reasonable amount of time in London throughout the year. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, I drink too much coffee. And now, with this app, the two can go together hand-in-hand.
There’s nothing complicated about it, as it’s basically a directory of non-chain coffee shops throughout London. The app ties into Apple Maps, and wherever you see a dot near you, you can tap on it and get all the details of that particular coffee shop and a quick review. Opening times, the closest tube station, walking distance from your location, even whether or not it has WiFi. Best of all, it’s been really nicely designed, and is an app that you will actually want to put to use. So, if you’re headed to London anytime soon, give it a try.
Star Command is a great new game for the iPhone and iPad that sees you take command of a customizable starship as you fly across the galaxy doing battle with all manner of hostile alien races. You start with the ability to pick one ship hull, with other being unlocked as you play the game. Your ship has a number of configurable rooms that allow you to build different stations. After selecting and naming your ship and creating your captain, you can hire crew members to occupy rooms, which is required for the rooms to function. Red crew members operate weapons, blue manage scientific and medical equipment, and yellow engineers repair damage to your ship. You can also reassign your crew, so someone in a tactical room can be moved to an engineering room, for example. This way, crew can fill rolls as needed.
Combat is a big part of the game as well, and with a variety of weapons and defensive abilities at your disposal, which charge after each use. Selecting a weapon to fire brings up a mini game in order to determine the number of hits you score against the enemy ship. Since each weapon on your ship takes up a room, you must have at least one crew member staffing it in order for the weapon to charge. This can be difficult when enemy troops start boarding your ship, as only tactical and bridge crew can repel them, possibly leaving weapons unmanned. A fun game that challenges the player to manage their ship well, Star Command is a worth a look, and is available as a universal app for .99.
Trauma’s what you might call experimental. The game takes a similar format as Myst in that you’re navigating a collection of overlapping images in order to solve puzzles, in this case using a smattering of gestures at your disposal. The real kicker here is the premise. Players explore the dreamscape of a woman that’s survived a car crash, and her narrative throughout your journey puts together pieces of her story. Though initially it seems like the images assembled are extremely simple, it doesn’t take long for things to get a little on the weird side. Trauma is a surreal, ponderous game, and an altogether new kind of experience. If you’ve got an open mind, give it a shot.
There is a ton of Wiki’s out there. If you’re interested in something, chances are there is a Wiki for it. Video games, TV shows, movies, food, fashion and more. When you start looking for that much information, it can become a bit daunting. Having all that content in one spot and categorized would be awesome. Wikia Inc., which currently runs over 200,000 wikis, thought so as well and as such, they’ve created a great app called My Wikia and it offers up the best Wiki browsing experience I’ve used. Offering such features as the ability to search for and browse all your favorites right from within the app, drill down on only the content you want to see and filter out the rest, keep track of the most recent updates, follow trends and see what others think is popular. Did I mention it’s free and beautifully designed? If you spend your time reading through Wiki’s, then I suggest giving My Wikia a try.
If you’ve seen those awesome Instagrams by Safe Solvent then you’ve seen KitCam in action. It’s a fantastic iOS app that not only gives you more advanced control over the camera than the built-in app, but also lets you add lens and film effects, and adjust things like contrast, brightness, color balance, and levels.
There are some spectacular camera apps on iOS, and some equally spectacular photo editing apps, but KitCam includes enough of just exactly the right stuff to make it an excellent, one-stop shop for photographers of all skill levels. And that’s true whether you’re running and gunning or taking your time and trying to maximize your artistic vision.
The base price includes a good collection of tools, and additional bundles are available via in-app purchase. There’s a lot more to say, but I lack Leanna’s camera savvy, so I’ll save the rest for her inevitable review.
If you like it, grab it now while it’s 50% off.
I love science. And space. A childhood dream of mine was to be an astronaut, and I still kick myself in the butt sometimes for not pursuing that dream. Alas, I must live vicariously through apps like NASA, instead. The NASA app for iPhone and iPad lets you explore photos, videos, missions, and more. If you like space, science, and NASA, definitely check it out.
Your choice?
Now that we’ve chosen our favorites for the week, we want to hear yours! Did you pick up a killer app, accessory, or game this week? Let us know in the comments below!
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Remember back when BlackBerry was getting things ready for the BlackBerry 10 launch and they updated some specific PlayBook apps for BlackBerry 10 without any need for developers to make changes? Well, they’re doing it again only this time around it’s BlackBerry Z10 apps that will be automatically updated with BlackBerry Q10 compatibility. According to the email sent out, specific apps that have been tested will be marked as supported on the BlackBerry Q10.
Your app works great on BlackBerry Q10 We tested your BlackBerry Z10 app and we’re happy to report that it doesn’t require any changes in order to run on the soon-to-be-released BlackBerry Q10 smartphone! We are going to automatically port it over so you can get it in front of app-hungry BlackBerry Q10 users. If you don’t want us to automatically port your app over to BlackBerry Q10 right now, please let us know by filling out the Opt Out form. You must opt out by May 15, 2013 or your app will be automatically ported.
Again, just like before and as noted, developers do have the option to opt out should they already be working on a BlackBerry Q10 compatible version or otherwise not want their app changed over. If you’re a developer and fall into that are, now would be a good time to make sure to check your emails just in case it ended up in spam.
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If you’re still running BlackBerry OS 7.0 on a BlackBerry OS 7.1 capable device I first have to ask — why? Whatever your reason might be, BlackBerry 7.1 brings plenty of changes and improvements such as Mobile HotSpot, BlackBerry Tag and even WiFi calling where supported and updating is easy. Second, I have some good news for you. If you live in France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom and you update your device from now until June 30th, you’re eligible for some free premium app downloads:
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Every week, the editors and writers at iMore carefully select some of our favorite, most useful, most extraordinary apps, accessories, gadgets, and websites. This week’s selections include a couple games about crabs, a National Geographic app, an app for your music creation apps, an app that will help you type faster than ever, and an oceanography photography app.
I’ve been on the hunt lately for new games that aren’t the regular ones I play all the time. While browsing a section in the App Store, I wandered across Mr. Crab for iPhone and iPad. The premise of the game is simple but still strangely addicting.
If anything, it reminds be a bit of Temple Run since the idea is the same. The objective is to rescue as many baby crabs as you can and collect other goodies while trying to reach the top of each level. If you run into barricades, you’ll get turned back around. The further you get into the game, the more complicated the levels become.
The best part is for only .99, you get both the iPhone and iPad version in one.
Crabitron puts players in charge of a malicious, ever-hungering intergalactic crab that devours all in its path. By using two fingers per limb, players can open, close, and move claws about the immediate area to grasp at passing by space ships and shield against pathetic mortal resistance. Don’t worry about getting damaged – you can always gobble up free-floating aliens that you’ve left stranded to the cold embrace of outer space for an extra boost to health. To break up the redundancy of violent mayhem, occasionally you’ll encounter mini-games and boss fights. Over the course of gameplay, you earn coins which can be spent on upgrading claws, consumable power-ups found throughout levels, and projectile burps. Between the unique gameplay and the premise of cosmic chaos, Crabitron is a great way to kill time – and the universe.
Nat Geo Today is a pretty awesome app for those of you other there who enjoy the daily offerings from National Geographic. Personally, I enjoy the beautiful photos but there are often times I come across some great editorials within the app as well. Although the app focuses on ‘Today’, it does allow you to go back and view a weeks worth of content. That includes all the awesome photos, videos, editorials, games and quizzes they include. Overall, the content is well laid out, the app runs well and you can share what you’re reading through social channels. It’s free and well, I’m a sucker for free apps.
Audiobus is unique among apps in that it is less a full app in its own right and more of a hub for other apps, specifically those centered around music creation. Audiobus allows you to connect supported apps, such as Propellerhead’s Figure and Apple’s Garageband, and move audio from one app to another without hassle. A simple workflow would look something like this: record audio in Chrodion, apply effects in AmpKit, and then output the result directly to Garageband. All done with a few button presses.
What’s more, you can actually use some of the functionality of one app while in a connected app. Figure is able to record audio on its own, but if I’m just going to send that to an app like Loopy HD, why not just have Loopy record it in the first place? When an app is connected to Audiobus, a panel appears on either the left or right side of the screen that lets you do something like record audio directly to another app. If you enjoy creating music on your iPhone or iPad at all, take a look at Audiobus. It’s a universal app, currently on sale for .99 on the App Store.
TextExpander from the fine folks at Smile Software is a Mac app that lets you type short snippets of text that it almost immediately replaces with longer strings of words or code. For example, if I type this:
ssocial
It almost immediately gets automagically replaced with this
Twitter: http://twitter.com/imore Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/imorecom Google+: http://www.gplus.to/imore YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/imorevideo
I use it to insert common hyperlinks, code embeds, addresses, and much, much, more.
And thanks to TextExpander of iOS, all the stuff I use on the Mac gets synced over Dropbox to my iPhone and iPad so that I can use them to, in apps that support it.
That’s the only downside. Apple doesn’t let apps inter-communicate, nor does it allow for the deep system integration TextExpander would need to work on iOS the way it does on OS X. Still, a lot of the apps that I like, respect, and use took it upon themselves to integrate with TextExpander, so I have one seamless if not ubiquitous system at the moment.
(I use iOS’ built in text correction feature to mimic the same functionality in built-in Apple apps. For example, ggm spits out my email address for logins, something tedious to type repeatedly in iOS.)
Pretty much any string I have to type more than once or twice a month gets made into a snippet at this point. Saves time, well worth the money.
Ocean Encounters: A Photographic Exploration of Marine Wildlife by Brandon Cole – Leanna Lofte
Ocean Encounters is an iPhone and iPad app that explores Marine Wildlife through photography by Brandon Cole. I love animals and I love photography, so when I saw this app in the App Store, it was an immediate buy. The menu design needs a little work, I’ll admit, but the photography is gorgeous. It’s also fun to look through the photos with my daughter and identify starfish, whales, and colors of fish.
Unfortunately, Ocean Encounters does not support the iPhone 5′s bigger display, but I prefer to use it on my iPad, anyway.
Ocean Encounters is currently on sale for .99.
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 There are an endless number of apps on the Google Play Store. It’s nigh impossible to sift through all of them, let alone find the good ones. So, if you’re in a “hell, why not?” mood today, take a gander at this week’s roundup of random apps we thought were pretty nifty, and that you might enjoy too!
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Bestiary Live Wallpaper
First on our list of random apps this week is Bestiary Live Wallpaper. This unique wallpaper puts a beastly creature on your home screens that moves around, floats, swims, etc for your enjoyment. Each creature is uniquely shaped and with varying colors and patterns. The background behind the creature is matched with the creature so you have a comprehensive experience with each one. It’s really quite nice.
In the free version, you can only cycle through and pick a monster with its corresponding background. If you opt to pay for it, you’ll unlock all the settings and have more control over which monster goes on which background. Either way, it’s a pretty nifty live wallpaper and fans of monsters should really enjoy it. To download it, click the link above.
 Download Coach’s Eye from the Google Play Store here
Coach’s Eye
As any sports nut can tell you, game video is crucial for improvement. Giving players a look at what they did wrong and what they did right can help shape their training and shore up their weaknesses. On smartphones, though, it’s difficult to get a good sports video and it’s even harder to find good tools to turn that video into a training tool. Coach’s Eye looks to relieve both of these problems.
Coach’s Eye allows people to take a video, then analyze it, create a training video, and use it to help train. It might come off as a sports only kind of app, but really it’s good for any activity that you may need to slow down and take a closer look at. It’s still a pretty niche app, like most of our random apps, but it can be pretty useful.
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Around the Rock Disc Golf
This fun and different member of our random apps list is all about the not-so-well-known sport of disc golf. For those who have never played, you’re essentially playing golf with a frisbee. You start out at a predetermined spot and you try to throw your frisbee into a basket in as few throws as possible. It can be a fun and relaxing way to spend a day in the sun. Especially if you can’t afford golf clubs but still love the concept of golf.
It’s a difficult game to master. Gamers only have a single shot to get it in the basket but get scores based on how close you get. Once you get the controls down, you can fly through rounds. It’s no Angry Birds or Temple Run, but if you’re tired of games like Angry Birds or Temple Run, then this is a fun little distraction that costs .99.
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hiTask – Team Task Management
Project management is among the largest growing fields in the world. Businesses will pay a person well for spearheading a project and pay more if you’re successful at it. As any good project manager knows, you have to be organized to do well at project management and next on our list of random apps helps do just that. It’s called hiTask it’s a tool any project manager should at least try out.
There are a range of basic features like task creation, assigning tasks and resources, etc. There are also some more advanced features like generating project reports. It utilizes cloud storage so you can sync between your mobile device and your computer or, at least, sync between mobile devices. The only caveat is that subtasks aren’t a feature yet, but according to the hiTask team, it’s in the works. So this is definitely an app to keep an eye on and it’s free.
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Go Laundry!
Next up on our random apps list is an app called Go Laundry! This useful little app is designed to help you keep track of your laundry so you can busy yourself with other things instead of waiting around for the washer and dryer to finish. It can be useful for people cleaning their houses, but it can be even more useful for people who have to deal with a shared laundry room. If you live in an apartment, are in the military, or in college and you don’t want to leave your laundry unattended in the public washer and dryer space too long, this is definitely worth checking out.
It features a simple interface where you can set a number of timers based on what you’re doing. So if you have multiple loads in there, you can set multiple timers. It’s a very new application, so there are still some kinks to be worked out. For instance, you can only set the timer for up to 99 minutes. Some people have washers and dryers that run for longer than that. Otherwise, it’s hugely useful if you fall into that group of people who need to keep track of their laundry. You can download it for free form the link above.
 Download Grammar & Spelling Keyboard from the Google Play Store here
Grammar & Spelling Keyboard
There are a lot of keyboard options out there, but few put the focus and energy into grammar and spelling than the next app on our random apps list this week. Called Grammar & Spelling Keyboard, this keyboard focuses on learning how you type and will help correct your spelling and grammar. Unlike many, it actually won’t touch your words until you tell it to as it checks text as a whole as opposed to word by word. So if you like to type quick and correct later, this could be a good keyboard.
Unlike apps like SwiftKey, which can learn your style before you even start using it, Grammar and Spelling Keyboard requires a break in period where it’ll learn your mannerisms and typing style. Other than that, it seemed to work fairly well. If you’re in the market for a new keyboard and want to try something a little different, the download link is above.
 Download Social Network OverView from the Google Play Store here
Social Network OverView
Last on our random apps list this week is Social Network OverView. Called SNOView for short, it’s a social media aggregator that populates your feed with pretty much whatever you want. You can customize your feed however you like and have it include things like RSS feeds and social media profile feeds. It works with Twitter, Google+, and Facebook as well. So if you follow a lot of news and want a place where it’ll get put into one gigantic feed, SNOView could be what you’re looking for.
There is a free and a paid version so if you want to try it out first then you have that option. If you’re big into social networking and RSS, this is a fun app to play with and can save time if you’re frequently jumping from one social network to the next. To check it out, the download link is above.
Random Apps Wrap Up
Thanks for tuning in for our Diamonds in the Rough this week and be sure to tune in next week for more random apps goodness. If there is an app you think we should have covered this week or you just want to tell us about a random app you like, feel more than free to leave a comment and tell us about it.
Android Authority
Last month, Twitter revealed that it was going to close the TweetDeck app on both the Android and Apple app stores. Well, the app doesn’t have long left, as Twitter confirmed that the program will be shut down for good on May 7th.
After May 7th, users won’t be able to access the service on their smartphones and it will also be taken off Google Play and The App Store. Mobile devices aren’t the only places to lose out on TweetDeck, as it will no longer be integrated with Facebook severing a major link between the two social networks.
Keen TweetDeck users can still find the program on PC and Mac but also online where new apps for Chrome and other browsers are being developed. The closure is part of a shake-up by Twitter, which has been busy optimizing its various services. After all, it was only a couple of months ago when the company added photo editing to Twitter and refreshed the look and feel of the entire service.
Whilst TweetDeck will still be accessible on smartphones for the moment, its increasing blackouts will hinder its use meaning that users will need to turn to Twitter itself or other apps such as Carbon to monitor what’s going on in our social networking circles.
Android Authority
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