• PaperKarma Stops Junk Mail with a Snap of a Photo (iOS/Android/WP7) iOS/Android/WP7: Nobody likes junk mail, but if you're too lazy to go through and unsubscribe to everything individually, PaperKarma is a new app that only requires you to take a picture of the offending mail to remove yourself from the junk mail database.
  • Software Data Cable Connects and Transfers Data to Your Android Phone, No Cables Required (Android) If you've ever forgotten a USB cable and need a way to transfer data to your Android phone from your PC (or vice versa), Software Data Cable is a free app for Android that turns your phone into a networked storage device you can browse from your computer, no cables attached.
  • Elpis is a Lightweight Desktop Client for Pandora (Windows) Sure the default web client for Pandora is nice, but some of us want to have a desktop version to not take up a tab and memory in our browser of choice. The open source desktop client Elpis does a good job of keeping the essential functions of Pandora active while not using as many resources.
  • Black SMS Encrypts and Decrypts Your Text Messages (iOS) Anyone can pick up your phone and read your text messages. It's also not that difficult for someone to install spy software or for the U.S. government to acquire your messages from your carrier. If you want to keep your text messages private, Black SMS is an app that provides a very simple method for doing so. You simply type in the message, set a password, and send it over to iMessage. The recipient can then use their copy of Black SMS to decrypt the message using the password you set by simply pasting the message into the app and entering the password.
  • Market Unlocker Makes Location Restricted Market and Amazon Apps Available to Users in Any Country (Android) If you live outside of the United States, you know how difficult it can be to get some of the hottest new apps that are inexplicably US-only, and you know the pain of not being able to use the Amazon App Store at all. Market Unlocker is an Android app for rooted devices that makes your phone look to the Android Market and to the Amazon App Store like a US-based Verizon Wireless phone, so you can browse, buy, and download apps to your heart's content.
  • Chrome for Android Brings Bookmark Sync and Incognito Browsing to Android (Android) If you've got an Android device running Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), you can now download the beta version of Google's Chrome browser from the Android Market, complete with many of the things we love about Chrome-like bookmark syncing and Incognito mode-but on your mobile device.
  • Todo.txt Touch for Android Adds Home Screen Widget, Tap to Call Support (Android) Todo.txt, our favorite plain text to-do list manager, has updated its touch-centric Android app to include a home screen widget, recognition for phone numbers and email addresses, and a few other fixes that make it easier to use.
  • PomodoroPro for iPhone Keeps You On-Task and Productive (iOS) One of the first things you'll need if you want to try the Pomodoro productivity technique is a timer that will count down during the periods you're supposed to be working and alert you when it's time to take a break. PomodoroPro for iOS is a good-looking and elegant Pomodoro timer for the iPhone that will keep you on track and keep you motivated to continue.
  • Dashlane Securely Manages Passwords, Form info, and Even Purchases For You (and We've Got Invites) (Windows/Mac) There are plenty of services that promise to keep your passwords safe, secure, and synchronized across devices behind a single master password that you can remember, but Dashlane is a new service that does that, audits those passwords for strength, saves your form information for quick entry on new web sites, and even keeps track of the purchases you make with that information so you can see it all in one view-one that's only available to you, not even DashLane employees.
  • MeetingCalc for iPhone Shows You How Expensive Those Boring Meetings Really Are (iOS) If your office is plagued by lengthy meetings that drag on while everyone has to have their say, MeetingCalc is the mobile app for you. Start the timer, set the hourly rate of everyone in the room combined, and the app will keep a running log of how much the meeting is costing the company in terms of everyone's salary as the minutes tick past.
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