12 Super Cool Apps for your Smart-Devices

Bangalore: Apps have become a part of our smartphone and tablet world. Since Apple kick started their App Store in 2008, there has been a flood of apps that claims to make our lives easier and entertaining on the go. For every situation in life there is an app. Right from voice apps, navigation apps, apps to book tables at a restaurant or movie tickets, apps as silly as Ghost Radar to check if there is any paranormal activity around you, to an app that helps you decide if it’s time for you to dump your boyfriend or not.

Let’s now take a look at the 12 useful apps which you should be using if you have a smart device which runs on iOS or Android. They might work towards making your life simpler, or teach you something you didn’t know.

1. Shazam: Know More about the Song You Just Heard

Price: Free

How many times have we heard a song that sounds so familiar yet we just can’t place the name of the song or the singer? How many times have we heard a new song and wanted to know the name of the artist and the song but there isn’t any easy way of finding it out. Well just when we thought that this was a herculean task we have an app called Shazam that comes as an answer to our prayers.

The app, Shazam makes use of the built in phone microphone which helps it gather a brief sample of the music which is being played. With this information it creates an acoustic fingerprint and this is then compared against a central database to find a match. If the related information is found it sends the user the information. This app makes use of music based sites like iTunes, YouTube, Spotify and Zune.

2. Evernote: Forget to Forget.

Price: Free

An app that comes with the main goal of helping the user remembers everything. So many times in out hurried lives we forget to do something, forget a loved one’s birthday or anniversary, and forget a doctor’s appointment. These are just a few in the never ending list of the things we forget. Well Evernote’s main aim is to help you remember.

This app once installed on your phone or tablet, automatically synchronizes all the data and with this it makes a list of your notes and then classifies them in the order of their importance.  The tagging of data in the device gives the Evernote app the ability to search any scanned file or document and reproduce it for you whenever you need it.