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Shazam

You play with the radio frequency in your car and suddenly hear a song that makes you go "Oo La la", but have just no clue about the song. Well, here comes Shazam to the rescue. This piece of software helps in identifying a song by just listening to a part of it. Shazam is one of the most ideal music identifying apps over multiple platforms. Developed by Shazam Entertainment Ltd., the quality is assured and so are the future updates to the app. Music buffs who just love hearing the songs on the radio and need to download in an easy way, should have Shazam installed on their devices.

Sidebar Disabler

Sometime back Facebook decided to give an all-new look to the chat area. After the sudden layout redesign, majority of Facebook users were cursing the social networking site for this change, wishing they could bring the old set up back. The problem is that you cannot retrograde the changes on Facebook and your only solution is to be happy and live with the "upgrades". Many users hated the new chat-area. They felt it was it was confusing, lack-luster, and quite annoying to use. The biggest drawback was having your online friends being displayed in two panes and the group lists disappeared. Now, the Sidebard Disabler browser plug-in can revert all the changes and bring back the good old Facebook layout back on your screen.

VEVO

VEVO is a premium music service with over 7500 artists and a large library of videos, exclusive clips, top charts, top playlists and the work. There is also an original music programming feature within the app. VEVO is a joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Abu Dhabi Media, while record label EMI licenses its content to VEVO without charging any ownership royalty fees. The videos of VEVO are channeled through the internet and the total advertising revenue is shared between Google and VEVO.

Angry Birds

Angry Birds by Rovio is undoubtedly the most popular casual game at the moment with smarphone downloads hitting the billion mark. Now the whole magic crashes on the Google Chrome web-browser. Yes, so no need of an iOS, Android device the most enchanting casual game experience is right on your desktop PC, and you can use all those angry birds to crash and destroy the green pigs who stole their eggs. There are two versions available of the game SD Version ( Standard) and HD Version (High-Definition) depending on the graphic card, RAM and other resources available on your PC Playing the game on a LCD monitor on full-screen mode really heightens the game experience, and makes you want more of those Angry Birds with special powers, some explode, some just zoom-faster, some multiply, and some just drop off exploding eggs. This is not all, after completing all the 3 stages of the game with 20 levels per stage, Rovio unlocks an entire new game-play level exclusive to the Google Chrome user.

Perfect App Protector

Tired of people around fidgeting with your smartphone and content? Friends constantly spying on your texts or kids playing long hours on your smartphone. Well, your solution has arrived in the form of Perfect App Protector. This is one of those few apps that does exactly what it says. Developed by Morrison Smart Software, the same people who have developed other security solutions for the Android ecosystem. This is truly a genius in its genre.

Skitch

If scribbling on pictures was your childhood obsession, then you have the chance to live it all-over again with Skitch. Yes, this app allows users to scribble on any past, current and every picture you can lay your hands on. It not only allows to scribble but also annotate, edit, and save right on the device. The buck does not stop there, users can also sketch something entirely new, makeup an existing photo, and save it to Evernote or share with various applications and sites.

Firefox 8.0

Mozilla Firefox is synonymous with desktop browsing and it certainly has come a long way with solutions spanning to the smartphone territory. The recent update the browser received has indeed hiked the overall usage and adds some of the most amazing web-browsing features. Firefox 8 adds improvement to the Html render and also supports Html 5 for a much better gaming experience in the web-browser itself. Another great addition to the line-up was Twitter integration (will get to that, later in the post).

Dolphin Browser

And so productivity is enhanced for two of the most hardcore mobile platforms, namely, Android and iOS, with nothing other than the Dolphin Browser. The app is aimed at being a fast, efficient, and smart browser with a plethora of options you might have still didn't even hear about. Developed by Mobotap, this browser surely makes the cut.

Windows Live Writer 2011

For people who prefer to write their blogposts offline, Windows Live Writer 2011 is your best solution. If you're running a Windows 7 OS, chances are you might already have this software installed on there somewhere. For those who are running an older Windows OS, you can grab the download and get started with blogging right away. The software is a great way to write your drafts and easily upload, even publish them, to your respective blogs. No more griping about losing everything the moment you lose your internet connection while saving. It supports blog themes, categories, tags and so much more that there's really no need to head to your blog's interface just to write your post.