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Send Love Notes from your phone with the Paperless Post App

  Paperless Post is a wonderful website that allows you to create, send and track beautiful cards to your friends or business associates. It's a hip card store covering every occasion and reason to send a card. They have a wide array of themes and many customization options. Paperless Post now has an app where if you're on the go and you want to email or text sweet notes on the fly you can do so easily from their app. It's a thoughtful way to tell someone you're thinking of them or thank them for dinner. Enjoy :)

Check it out for iPhone here.

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Have you been having intense dreams? Feeling all the symbols and colors and wondering what the bigger picture is telling you? The dreamboard app has a very pretty and clean ui that works well for charting your dreams and seeing your recurring themes and narratives. 

They help you organize the elements of your dreams by people, places, colors, emotions, and overall feeling relating to the dream. Only the sleeper gets the dream, right?! 

Get it on iPhone here:http://goo.gl/VyyNP

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Decim8 App Turns Art Digital 

I discovered the Decim8 app from my friend @utmostfrog'sInstagram feed. He was posting the most intricate and detailed art pics and I followed the scent to Applifam, which is an Instagram andTumblr site that posts a photo per day to which people make edits to the original and repost. It's very interesting to see what people post.  There is some really beautiful art and I'm including those screenshots in this album so you can see this brilliant underground world of art and creativity being made from our phones right now!  Get Decim8 here for iPhone:https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/decim8/id392720563?mt=8 Follow @applifam on Instagram.

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It's All In A Name...App

  This App is weirdly right on the money with much of their descriptions! Type in your name or your friend's names and see what the deeper meaning of the name pattern suggests. I'm not in love with the ux and ui of this app but the accuracy of the name descriptions is rather impressive. This app is made by a name society in Canada called the @kabalarians and their online webpage offers further name descriptions. What does your name mean? 

    Get this app free on iPhone here. 

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Repix is a well made art app for adding brush strokes to your photos. With a stylus pen you can get in there for all the itty bitty details and add your unique signature. I like this app because it's ux is clean and pretty and it offers photo detailing that you can't get on other apps. Get it on iPhone here. 

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This Exquisite Forest Built on Google's App Engine

  This Exquisite Forest is an artistic aesthetic experience where technology has superceded the boundary of distance. The forest, which is a collaboration betweenTate and Google Chrome combines artwork from well-known artists from all over the world and plants them as "trees" in the forest. Anyone can then add to their creation and it plays in a loop leaf by leaf, tree by tree.

This Exquisite Forest is an online collaborative art project that lets users create short animations that build off one another as they explore a specific theme. The result is a collection of branching narratives resembling trees. The project was conceived by Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin, and produced by Google and Tate. It makes extensive use of Google Chrome’s HTML5 and JavaScript support, as well as Google App Engine and Google Cloud Storage. A physical installation is located in the collection galleries on Level 3 at Tate Modern, and will be open for approximately one year beginning on July 23, 2012.

Understand the technology behind this art project: http://www.exquisiteforest.com/concept/technology 

Download the interactive here at the Google Chrome Store:http://goo.gl/ZLQTY

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Understand Existence with A Little Alchemy

  The Alchemy app is 100% incredibly addictive. Once you create your first creation and realize how magical existence really is you're done for. It's a puzzle and it's hard! once you get it you think how obvious each element was to create. There are 360 creations that can be made from just the basic elements of water, energy, air and fire. Once you combine any two that forms a third your menu grows.  This app is free at the Chrome Store: http://goo.gl/2pSp1

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The Facetune app really ups the game when it comes to taking pics with your phone. It's the first app I've seen with an incredibly good ui for editing your spots and wrinkles if you want to get spruced up before you post to your Instagram. It gives you the editing ability that was previously only possible for pro photoshop wizards. But this app covers it all. It will smooth your skin, allow you to add eyebrow and eyelash color, gloss your lips, defocus the other bits, and you can even raise your cheekbones or widen your eyes. This app brings photo editing to a whole other level, but word to the wise: it's easy to get carried away with this app and end up looking like a plastic alien! Enjoy: Get it on iphone here.  Not on Android yet.

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Hello Kitty in Kawaii Town

  Hello Kitty is a true icon of happiness. With the Kawaii Town app you can now build your own Hello Kitty town. The more you grow flowers in your garden, the more Hello Kitty's friends come to visit you, like My Melody. You can make your own pretty shop and play with this fun and well made app. Not just for children! :) 

  Get it for iPhone and iPad Here.

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ibis has just released an app that tracks your sleep patterns and turns it into artwork. You set the alarm and then put the phone somewhere in your bed (which deserves an essay unto itself), and then go to sleep. In the morning you wake up to a visual description of how you slept. I tried it out last night and the green art piece below shows how that went--very accurately perhaps. This app is fun to experiment with, at least to see how you roll. 

Get it for your iPhone here. 

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The Line Camera App by NAVER まとめ is honestly the best photo app I've used in a long long time. It has by far the best ui and ux, is well made, has a very good selection of Purikura sticker art and links directly to other Naver apps, which includes the new Pick App, the Asian rival to Instagram. Get it free and try it out, you will not be disappointed! 

Get it for iPhone here. 

Get it for Android here. 

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DBL Camera Hipsterizes You More Without Wait for new Samsung

DBL Cam is a photo app that snaps two pics quickly one right after the other so there's no time to pose. It flips the lens from the front camera to the back camera to showcase what is behind the lens as much as in front of it.  

This app will definitely catch you off guard, which is impressive given the day and age we're in technologically. I like that this "suddeness"of the photo is added into the images because there's something honest about it all--zero pose time.

Get it on iTunes only.

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For years MonkeyBread Software's free Combine PDF's download has been a lifesaver when it comes to merging or stacking pdfs into one big pdf. It's always the little things in life and this one has proven itself very handy over the years of creating reports, sending writing pages, photo images, tax documents, etc. It's been my favorite because it's the easiest to use. One little square screen you drag your pdf's into, organize in the order you want and then click merge.

Get it free here. 

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Enhance Your Whole Internet Experience With Hover Zoom for Chrome

Hover Zoom is one of those small browser installs you would hardly think about in the moment and then BOOM Snap Poof-- your whole internet viewing experience is changed forever. With Hover Zoom installed all you have to do is roll your mouse over an image and it will instantly "hover" in the larger, full size. This is incredibly helpful for Google Image Searches, for scrolling through news feeds, Facebook albums, thumbnails. Hover Zoom will save you a lot of time because you don't have to click and then click back to see what you're wanting to see: you just hover. Trust me, this one is really useful. 

Get Hover Zoom for your Chrome Browser Here: http://goo.gl/ZuuaF

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Pintley on St.Patrick's Day

As the Irish cheer goes, Slainte! Pintley is a free app for learning about your favorite beers and discovering new favorites.  You'll be surprised as you scroll through the app how many beers you probably already know, and likewise how many you don't know about. Beer enthusiasts will love this app, but beer appreciators will too because it gives you the big picture on the many different kinds of beers there are to cheers with on St.Patrick's Day. 

No matter what part of the world you're in, whether  watching the Chelsea Football Club match today or drinking a Guiness beer in an Irish pub, or on the beaches of Kauai, Hawaii, there is a worldwide common bond in the moment of a cheers. So cheers to you, and may you have wonderful luck today. Aloha :) 

On Android here. 

On iPhone here. 

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Happy St. Patrick's Day! As the Irish say, Slainte!

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Circle Expands Your Social Radar

I really enjoy these apps that show you how small the world really is. Circle is one of those apps It's a great way to view and reach out to friends of friends in your nearby area that you most likely don't already know. It uses your Facebook friends as the connecting element to connect you to who it near you and how you may know them or know of them. It has a sleek user interface that is immediately relaxing and inviting you to peruse its interface and scroll through it's listing of nearby friends and friends of friends. Get it on Android Here Get it on iOS Here