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Your favorite time-wasting app is back, but this time in a free version. Angry Birds HD Free does include ads, but it comes with all the fun, familiar characters and gameplay that you've come to love.

Angry Birds HD Free offers 24 different levels and 8 mini episodes. You can jump right in by pressing Play. If you've been living under a rock and haven't played Angry Birds, a graphic shows you how to pull back on the slingshot and aim the bird to take out the green pigs. The first level was unlocked for us and … Read more

The powerful camera on your smartphone needs useful photo-editing software to be truly great. If your mobile gadget has replaced your point-and-shoot camera, Snapseed is an essential app. It's a robust photo editor and sharing solution in one sleek, fast package.

The app downloads in seconds and is ready to start working after a quick tutorial. To start you off, you're given a sample image so you can play with all of the app's editing and resizing features. There are about a half-dozen filter modes that mimic apps like Instagram without any of the filters you never … Read more

vMEye is an app that allows you to access and manage live video streams from security cameras or video encoders from your iOS device. The app is free through iTunes.

Using vMEye, you can connect to one or more cameras or video encoders, usually attached to a security system, and control that system from your iDevice. To use vMEye you provide the IP address and port of the cameras or encoders you want to connect to, and provide log-in authentication. You can select from up to eight video feeds, and there's a set of buttons to control the camera (… Read more

Caesium is a terrific little photo compression tool by Matteo Paonessa that makes your digital pics easier to store and share. This free tool makes quick work of compressing your JPEG, PNG, and BMP files to manageable sizes without compromising image quality. Caesium lets you preview changes even as you set them. It can process batches of images, setting a different compression level to each image to maintain a consistent level of image quality.

Caesium's user interface has an efficient rectangular layout based around a main list view, with a control panel beneath the main view and a right-hand … Read more

SSuite Office - Premium HD bills itself as an office suite for the wide-screen monitor crowd, with large icons and other interface elements that make it easier to navigate. Although it succeeds on that front -- this large collection of applications does indeed have very user-friendly interfaces -- compatibility issues will likely limit the usefulness of the suite for many users.

Where to begin with SSuite Office? It comes with applications that you'd expect, such as a word processor (WordGraph) and a spreadsheet program (Accel), but there are other programs that we didn't anticipate, such as an image … Read more

Address books are a dime a dozen these days, so to stand out, a program had better knock our socks off. Free Address Book performs its duties as promised; however, we found its awkward navigation a big turn-off.

The program had a seemingly user-friendly interface. The design was very clean and professional-looking, with straightforward commands. But upon closer inspection, we found the program awkward to navigate. When we first launched Free Address Book, the window ran off our screen, so we tried to adjust it. Instead of resizing itself with the window, the page content ran off the page and … Read more

While it's not hard to find a free chat app that lets you IM and call friends on multiple networks, getting one to elegantly inform you of incoming chats and let you easily switch among open conversations is slimmer pickings. It may not be the most visually exciting app we've seen, but Nimbuzz IM does a fine job delivering features and alerting you to chats when you talk with friends on Skype, Facebook, Windows Live Messenger (MSN), Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), MySpace, ICQ, or Gadu-Gadu.

The app will buzz by default when a new … Read more

Jooleem Portable is a basic puzzle game that's designed to travel with you on a portable device, although it works fine on a PC as well. It's not the most thrilling game we've ever played, but it is surprisingly addictive.

Getting started with Jooleem Portable isn't necessarily easy. Users must manually specify where they want the program installed, which makes sense given that it's designed for portable use, but this step might flummox novice computer users. There's no desktop icon or Start menu entry, which means that you'd better remember where you installed … Read more

We love tabbed browsing, but we often find ourselves with tons of tabs open. Sometimes they're simply things we forgot to close when we were done with them, but other times they contain pages that we want to return to. TooManyTabs for Chrome is a clever browser extension that helps you hang on to the tabs you're not done with without all the clutter.

TooManyTabs isn't the most intuitive application we've ever used, but after a bit of experimentation, it was pretty easy to figure out. It appears as an icon to the right of Chrome'… Read more