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Review: PicsPlay provides standard photo editing features

PicsPlay offers a large number of photo editing tools in a relatively easy-to-navigate interface that works well on the iPhone. For a free app with few restrictions, PicsPlay is a very solid, well-designed, and ultimately very useful photo editor. It gets crowded by the rampant competition on the App Store, but on its merits alone, it deserves to be one of the top free options available.

PicsPlay manages to get everything you'll need onto one screen for easy access, but keeps it from being overcrowded. Once you load an image (either from your phone or camera), you can crop … Read more

Review: Wunderlist is a premium-grade, to-do list manager with many features

Wunderlist is a fantastic example of streamlined, intuitive design being used to provide a powerful, feature-rich experience for productivity junkies. While other GTD and list-keeping apps can cost a small fortune for iOS, Wunderlist is free. Despite that, it operates much like a paid app and works seamlessly on your device, Mac, or PC.

Wunderlist offers a number of features, but its core attraction is list creation. When it opens, you will need to register for an account or connect via Facebook. From there, you can start creating lists and on those lists you can create tasks. The pull-out side … Read more

Review: Pro Photo Layout's obtrusive ad placement mars this photo editor

There are so many photo editors out there for your iPhone that it's hard to keep up--and we've tested a lot of them. There are many that proved to be powerful tools for customizing your iPhone pics; however, there are just as many that have failed to impress us. Sadly, Pro Photo Layout is yet another photo editor that falls in the latter category.

We realize that many free apps come with strings attached in the form of ads, but while some publishers are able to design around ads so that they are unobtrusive, others don't and … Read more

Review: Data Converter converts given hexadecimal values and numbers

Data Converter converts numbers and hexadecimal values such as Word, Dword, and QWord to other formats such as date and time. This program will save some time and calculations for programmers, but it's not easy to figure out. If you're already used to the measurements it converts, you probably won't have a problem making it work after a couple tries. However, if you're new to coding, don't expect this program to nudge you in the right direction.

There is no need to install Data Converter as it comes as an executable file, ready to use. … Read more

Review: Edit and convert PDFs with WinPDFEditor

WinPDFEditor is shareware that stands above the masses of freeware and just beneath the do-it-all, big-box (and big-bucks) "solutions" for editing and converting PDFs. Since software costing three bills is no "solution" for most users' needs, WinPDFEditor's far more modest price makes it a serious alternative for home users, small businesses, and others who need something they can't find in freeware. WinPDFEditor Version 2 works in Windows versions 2000 to 8. WinPDFEditor is free to try, though the trial version places a watermark on output files, and file conversions are limited.

WinPDFEditor started with … Read more

Review: Display song and album information with ScreenSleeves

ScreenSleeves for Mac allows the cover art and other song information to be displayed as the screensaver while a song plays, a useful feature for those who have long playlists during parties or other events. The program easily detects which song is playing and displays the cover art in good quality and with some additional options.

ScreenSleeves for Mac downloads and installs directly into the typical screensaver area, meaning users simply have to navigate to the system preferences menu to activate it. Once selected, the application automatically reads the song that is currently playing on iTunes or Spotify. When the … Read more

Review: What's the Logo tests your pop culture and brand knowledge

What's the Logo asks you to identify one of dozens of different logos at a time, within a hangman-style interface. The game is fairly limited, but it is fun to play for anyone that enjoys testing their pop culture knowledge, and the relatively loose format for game progression makes skipping logos very easy. The result is a fun, but ultimately forgettable app with only limited appeal for long-term play.

What's the Logo has a very basic design, low-resolution graphics, and a mechanic that is too familiar. Where it makes up for all of this is with the sheer … Read more

Review: My Document opens and reads various forms of documents

My Document is designed to open and read any type of document, but the interface is needlessly jumbled, and with crashes at multiple points, the app needs some additional work. When working properly, My Document does what it advertises, opening files in nearly any format from your device, downloaded from the Internet, or on a playlist you have created. But most of the time it does not work properly and some of the features are either unnecessary or oddly placed.

The home screen for My Document is a blank menu where playlists will eventually go. It's not immediately clear … Read more

Review: 4Sync lets you store all of your files and music in its spacious cloud

4Sync offers more space and just as much style as most of the popular cloud-storage apps. It is a little costly to expand, but it's hard to beat 15GB of storage right out of the box. If nothing else, it's worth having around to keep a few dozen photos or CDs from clogging up your hard drive.

This app gives you a very beefy 15GB of storage, which is three times what Dropbox, Google Drive, and other cloud apps give you. It not only works on your computer, but on your tablet and smartphone, as well, thanks to … Read more

Review: FShuffle crafts Facebook statuses for you depending on your mood

If you're struggling to come up with a Facebook status, you can let FShuffle do it for you. It gives you dozens of statuses you can post to your Facebook or Twitter, right from the app. Whether or not they're actually interesting or funny is up to your sense of humor. However, it's hard to ignore that the statuses repeat themselves far too often.

FShuffle presents every new status as a speech bubble for you to browse. Though the app says there are more than 20,000, several statuses showed up multiple times during testing. The app'… Read more