This Week's Top Downloads

Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week.

Chrome: The Heartbleed bug is among the major security vulnerabilities we have seen in recent times. It's one of those cases where precaution is the order of the day. You could manually check sites or use Chromebleed, an extension that tells you if the site you're on was affected by the bug.

Writing is a very personal practice, and as a result you have a million writing-focused apps to choose from. From distraction-free apps that take up your whole screen to feature-packed mainstays like Microsoft Word, we've put together a guide to help you choose the writing software that's right for you.

Android: Google's built-in camera app for Android has been one of the few remaining outliers in the deluge of stock Android apps released on the Play Store. Today that ends, and we get a bunch of new features to boot. The new app brings a sweet new feature called Lens Blur. This allows you to adjust the depth of field on your photos for some of those enviable SLR-like effects. It also brings Photospheres to a much wider range of phones.

iOS: Morning is one of the better dashboard apps for the iPad, working somewhat like a Google Now in that it dishes the weather, your to-dos, and more from a single screen. Now, it's available on the iPhone. Morning is essentially a customizable wake-up screen for your iPhone. Once it's installed, you can set it up to show you the weather, your to-do list, different RSS feeds, your calendar, and more.

Android: Google's finally released an Android counterpart to its Chrome-based remote desktop application. Install the Chrome Remote Desktop extension for Chrome and now you can log in to your computer remotely from Android.

Usenet is a great resource for lots of things, and we've talked about a number of great apps to use to get the most out of Usenet. Tretflix is a custom, ready-to-install operating system that wraps them all up into an easy-to-use package. All you do is provide the hardware.

OS X: Macs can stream audio and video pretty easily over AirPlay, but if you want to watch/listen to your media on a television you need an AppleTV hooked up to get the job done. SofaPlay offers the same functionality, but with the more widely-implemented UPnP/DLNA standards.

XBMC has a ton of cool add-ons. Not all of the cool possible additions come directly through official channels. If you want to get off the beaten path, Fusion can help make it easier to install unofficial (and untested) add-ons.

iPhone: Tracking things like running mileage, weight, sleep, practice time, and whatever else is great, but unless you really visualize that data, it's pretty useless. Datalove provides those visualizations so you can really see your progress.

Android (4.3+): When you get notifications on the Moto X, the center of the screen turns on to show you the time and an icon for the app that has the notification waiting for you, along with some other visual cues. If you'd like something similar for your Android phone, AcDisplay delivers.

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This Week's Top Downloads

Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week.

Chrome: The Heartbleed bug is among the major security vulnerabilities we have seen in recent times. It's one of those cases where precaution is the order of the day. You could manually check sites or use Chromebleed, an extension that tells you if the site you're on was affected by the bug.

Writing is a very personal practice, and as a result you have a million writing-focused apps to choose from. From distraction-free apps that take up your whole screen to feature-packed mainstays like Microsoft Word, we've put together a guide to help you choose the writing software that's right for you.

Android: Google's built-in camera app for Android has been one of the few remaining outliers in the deluge of stock Android apps released on the Play Store. Today that ends, and we get a bunch of new features to boot. The new app brings a sweet new feature called Lens Blur. This allows you to adjust the depth of field on your photos for some of those enviable SLR-like effects. It also brings Photospheres to a much wider range of phones.

iOS: Morning is one of the better dashboard apps for the iPad, working somewhat like a Google Now in that it dishes the weather, your to-dos, and more from a single screen. Now, it's available on the iPhone. Morning is essentially a customizable wake-up screen for your iPhone. Once it's installed, you can set it up to show you the weather, your to-do list, different RSS feeds, your calendar, and more.

Android: Google's finally released an Android counterpart to its Chrome-based remote desktop application. Install the Chrome Remote Desktop extension for Chrome and now you can log in to your computer remotely from Android.

Usenet is a great resource for lots of things, and we've talked about a number of great apps to use to get the most out of Usenet. Tretflix is a custom, ready-to-install operating system that wraps them all up into an easy-to-use package. All you do is provide the hardware.

OS X: Macs can stream audio and video pretty easily over AirPlay, but if you want to watch/listen to your media on a television you need an AppleTV hooked up to get the job done. SofaPlay offers the same functionality, but with the more widely-implemented UPnP/DLNA standards.

XBMC has a ton of cool add-ons. Not all of the cool possible additions come directly through official channels. If you want to get off the beaten path, Fusion can help make it easier to install unofficial (and untested) add-ons.

iPhone: Tracking things like running mileage, weight, sleep, practice time, and whatever else is great, but unless you really visualize that data, it's pretty useless. Datalove provides those visualizations so you can really see your progress.

Android (4.3+): When you get notifications on the Moto X, the center of the screen turns on to show you the time and an icon for the app that has the notification waiting for you, along with some other visual cues. If you'd like something similar for your Android phone, AcDisplay delivers.

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This Week's Top Downloads

Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week.

Your music library is precious. It's full of hard-to-find tracks, ripped CDs, and rare downloads. It might also be a mess. It can be easier to look up those songs on Spotify than enjoy the high-quality audio files you own. Luckily, there are some great free tools to clean it up and make sure that never happens again. Let's check out the best.

We've always loved Mailbox for iOS, but it's tough to use a specialized email app when it only works on one of your platforms. Fortunately, they've now announced the app will be available for Android and in beta for desktop on Mac today. The Android and desktop apps have the same great experience as iOS, allowing you to save email for later or add it to to-do lists.

Android: A full 90-minute sleep cycle can ensure you wake up energized, and 90Night makes it simpler for you to get this sleep by letting you choose the best time to wake up.

Chrome/Firefox: YouTube is filled with all kinds of annoyances, and the YouTube Options extension was our favorite way to fix those for a long while. But now YouTube Options costs $1.99 a month. If that's outside your price range, YouTube Center does just about everything YouTube Options can do.

Android: Some of us need a kick in the pants to get out of bed. If you're looking to wake up to something pleasant, Puzzle Alarm Clock is all wrong for you. If you'd like to be awoken with puzzles, math, flashing lights, and a $1 charge every time you snooze, however, you're in the right place. Despite the narrowly-defined name, this app is packed to the brim with a brutal features to get you out of bed.

iOS: We all have a few things we know we should do more often. Maybe it's something small like flossing once a day, or maybe it's something larger like running three times a week. Do One Thing tracks the habits you want to form and lets you know how you're doing.

Android: Tasks, or more correctly, Tasks: Astrid To-Do List Clone, is essentially what the name implies—a clone based on Astrid's old open source that aims to bring the functionality of our beloved lost to-do app back to anyone who misses it, or wants something better than what's left behind.

Android's universal share menu is awesome, but it can get really cluttered really quickly. AppChooser lets you customize and clean up the share menu to your heart's desire.

iPhone: If you're looking for a lightweight and simple way to monitor your Raspberry Pi, Command Pi is a utility that allows you to monitor your Pi's memory usage, temperature, and more right from your iPhone.

Carousel is a new app by the folks at Dropbox that make photo organization and sharing really easy. When you upload your photos to the app and share with your friends, they get your photos and you get theirs.

Chrome: Google's browser has a pretty nifty notification system. While Gmail can provide some basic notifications through Chrome, Checker Plus lets you automatically read emails out loud, mark them as read from the notification, and more.

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QuizUp gets over a million downloads in its first week on Android

Kamran Farooqui 2014-03-21T12:00:01Z23 hours ago

QuizUp, the uber popular trivia game, has racked over a million downloads in only its first week since its release on the Android platform. While already boasting millions of players on iOS on which QuizUp was first released, a strong launch on Android would only serve to further boost its popularity.

The Icelandic startup Plain Vanilla Games is behind this addictive trivia game, and with securing $22 million in funding within just 4 months of its release, I think it’s certain that QuizUp is here to stay, and the figures revealed by Plain Vanilla Games can probably back up that claim. With over a million signups in a week on Android and over 100,000 signups every day on both iOS and Android combined, QuizUp sure seems to have managed to strike a chord with its audience.

While there is no dearth of trivia games and apps such as Quizoid and Icomania on both Android and iOS, I think the reason that QuizUp is proving to be more popular is that the folks over at Plain Vanilla Games have managed to get the gameplay right. QuizUp makes you feel as if you are playing against a human opponent on the internet in real time, when in fact the opponent’s actions are a simulation of their pre-recorded answers that they probably gave when they played the game.

Also, the ability to send messages to your friends or just random people that you played against, and the ability to post trivia topics of your own liking give the game a social feel as well. With thousands of questions already in the database and over 400 topics to choose from, you will surely be spoilt for choice for a trivia topic of your liking.

So have you tried out QuizUp yet? Share your experience with it in the comments below.

Source: TechCrunch

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