We buy software for any number of reasons, and with the popularity of apps currently soaring this is something we do more and more these days and often on a whim. Whether it’s to entertain us (Angry Birds), to inform us (Kindle), to help us be more productive (Windows), to help us find our car (FindMyCar) or to make us look sexier (Photoshop) we can turn to software to answer a huge number of our needs.

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With more and more manufacturers offering android on their mobiles, the demand for android apps has seen a manifold rise and so now we have many popular free apps that come under the category best free Android apps. Android, Google’s OS, that started a bit after Apple’s iOS has steadily eaten into Apple’s pie and is now a force to reckon with. But with so many apps being launched every single day, the attention span for each app has seen a gradual decline. But there are still many apps that …

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If you’re an avid web browser and you’re venturing into some of the darker or less safe corners of the internet then you might want to consider an IP anonymizing service. Perhaps you already use one. If not, you should consider it to protect your anonymity.

The truth is, the more information businesses on the web can gather on you the more money they can make off of you. If they know your search history then can aim targeted ads at you. If they know where you’re from they can do …

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There’s a super sweet program out there called GadgetTrak. If someone grabs your computer thinking they go a free laptop they’re wrong as long as you have this program installed. It can locate your laptop or phone using its GPS chip (if your mobile computer has one) and wi-fi positioning. It’s amazing and it locates your device to an exact area. What’s even cooler is that if your laptop has a camera (and what laptop doesn’t these days) it will activate the webcam, start taking pictures and sending them to …

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You know how frustrating it can be when a fully charged laptop battery that should supposedly last you over 3 hours, quietly dies after one hour of operation leaving you with work undone, movie unwatched, email unsent or Skype call unfinished. Running out of battery life when you’re on the go can certainly ruin your day and if you’ve already been in such situation, you’ll certainly want to avoid it in the future.

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There an explosion in apps for music fans happening on iPad and iPhone and while there’s an abundance of excellent paid applications, there is also a number of free iPad apps worth checking out.

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A free iPad app that will help You learn basics of music and play the piano. The sound quality is really good, in fact it delivers much more that You could expect from a freebie. It allows for playing chords with up to 5 fingers, shifting octaves and notes. A remarkable feature is …

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Adobe has announced a soon launch of three new iPad tools that are able to interact with Adobe Photoshop CS5: Adobe Eazel, Adobe Color Lava, and Adobe Nav. Each of the tools is supposed to run in conjunction with Photoshop and supply easier ways to do certain things on the iPad that represent different aspects of Photoshop.

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A new recipe application called Foodi was recently developed for iPad by ABC channel for people who like to cook from online recipes. If You’ve ever tried doing this You know how easily You can soil your laptop or iPad with sticky fingers. Now You can control Your online recipes with voice.

Presently Foodi has over 120 recipes from ABC TV programs in its database. The recipes are categorized by meal types and occasions, some of them are available as videos, the others are just written instructions with photographs. The Foodi …

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Those of You who envied Your friends playing Angry Birds on their iPads & smartphones should rejoice and get a piece of the action now! Rovio has just released their killer Angry Birds game for PCs, so now You can hunt for some port at Your Windows XP or Windows 7 system. The game is available at Intel AppUp store for $4.99, including 195 levels with free updates and additional levels to the game in the future.

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