APP SPECIAL ........................11 apps you should be using right now

11 apps you should be using right now

1. Shots is a photo sharing and social networking app that is all about sharing selfies. Justin Bieber invested in Shots early on as an angel investor.
Price: Free (iOS, Android)
2. Downtyme plans to make it easier to hang out with your friends by letting you and your friends see each other's availability, making it easy to see who's free and invite them with a single tap to dinner or to study. It is scheduled to launch in 2015.

Price: N/A (sign up)

3. Detour is a unique new app that promises to narrate stories to you based on where you're physically walking. The app will guide a long while telling you stories about the places you're seeing. The app is launching first in San Francisco, but plans to reach more cities in the future.
Price: N/A (sign up)

4. Frontback is a fun camera app that keeps things fresh by letting you snap a picture using both your rear-and front-facing cameras. You can explore other people's photos and leave a 5-second video response on a friend's photo if you want.

Price: Free (iOS, Android)

5. Yik Yak is a location-based newsfeed that allows users to anonymously upload their thoughts for others nearby to view. Yik Yak shares similarities with Reddit by allowing users to up-vote and down-vote submissions to keep a fresh feed.

Price: Free (iOS, Android)

6. Songza allows you to choose from playlists built around your current activity, mood, genre, or decade. Examples include "Working (no lyrics)," "Having Fun At Work," "Coding," or even "Grinding at a Nightclub."

Price: Free (Web)

7. Afterlight is a photo-editing app that offers 59 filters, including 14 from guest Instagram users, and 66 textures.

Price: $0.99 (iOS, Android)

8. Kitestring calls itself "your virtual overprotective mom," and isn't an app. All you have to do is text a time frame to Kitestring, and the service will send you a message checking up on you after a specified amount of time. If you text back, all is well, if not, you can set up Kitestring to send out a customised emergency message to your friends and family.

Price: Free (Web)

9. Toggl is a great tool for tracking and recording how you spend your time. You can quickly type in what you're working on, start the timer, tag your tasks, and see a nifty breakdown of your time at the end of the day.
   Price: $5/month with 30-day free trial

10. For $9.99 a year, Represent helps you quickly create a professional resume that can match your industry and personality with various designs and colours. Your resume is also stored online for easy sharing, and you can even see your resume's analytics to check how many times it's been viewed.

Price: $9.99/year (Web) 

11. Stoodle is a great way to collaborate online in a virtual workspace. Students and teachers can write and draw in realtime on a virtual whiteboard, and built-in voice conferencing and messaging makes working together easy. The best part is that all of your work is saved permanently so you can always circle back on your work.

Price: Free (Web).

ETP5 Nov, 2014