The weapon: flightless birds, launched by catapult. The free version stores a fair amount of information, but for $45 a year, you needn’t sweat the data limits.ĪNGRY BIRDS ($1) A runaway favorite among the iPhone crowd, the app tests your ability to break down the barricades that protect green pigs. It also recognizes your written text, within limits.

Use your iPhone to copy an image, take a photo, record a voice memo or jot down a note, and it appears on your computer (and vice versa). Evernote is a traveling notepad that synchronizes with desktop and browser software (also free). Add packs of lenses and film effects for $1 apiece.ĮVERNOTE (FREE) The company advertises this as a personal digital assistant, and it’s an apt description. The results are always surprising and often stunning. At heart, the app is a filter that will unpredictably saturate, blur or discolor your images, among other things. Many are terrific, but not one matches Hipstamatic’s blend of simplicity, serendipity and art.

HIPSTAMATIC ($2) Scores of photography titles are in the App Store. Users of the free version get five tags monthly. The $5 version lets you identify an unlimited number of songs. You can hum a tune into the phone and it’ll find the song, look up lyrics and run YouTube videos of song performances. SoundHound is faster, and it offers a broader range of ancillary features. SOUNDHOUND (FREE AND $5) You’ve probably heard of Shazam, the app that identifies songs.

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