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Access a wide variety of music for free with CherryPlayer

We're always a little skeptical of media players that promise to deliver free, high-quality content. They often end up being too good to be true, annoying us with poor performance, obscure content, or restrictions on the good stuff. We were pleasantly surprised by CherryPlayer. This easy-to-use program gives users access to a huge selection of streaming music, and it has a built-in YouTube downloader as well. CherryPlayer is a great choice for listening to today's popular songs, exploring new music, and revisiting old favorites.

CherryPlayer's interface is straightforward and doesn't require much in the way of … Read more

Video chats with up to 12 friends

ooVoo Video Chat is a free iOS app that lets you have up to 12 participants in a text and video chat session on Facebook. The app installs easily and lets you see four chat participants at one time (scrolling to other screens to see the rest), or you can zoom in on one participant while maintaining a small window showing your feed.

To use ooVoo Video Chat, you log into Facebook; you can ping anyone else who is also logged in. You have the ability to initiate text chat with some people, even while video chatting with others at … Read more

To-do lists for the individual and group, made easy

Producteev is a way of managing your to-do list on your Mac desktop. Sounds pedestrian to some, but to-do lists for individuals are a great way to organize yourself and your time, and since Producteev works with team-based or group to-do lists, there's a collaborative aspect that few other apps can match. The Producteev app installs quickly and has clients for iDevices of all types, as well as other mobile environments and a Web interface.

The Producteev interface displays a fair bit of information but in a nicely organized manner. The left pane of the interface lists the larger … Read more