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• MyPad+
  While Facebook dragged its feet on an official iPad app, third-party developers stepped in to fill the void. This is the best one.
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• UberSocial
  While iOS users have better Twitter client options, UberSocial's robust feature set makes it our go-to for Android.
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• Meebo
  Meebo's free, ad-supported mobile apps are what you'd expect from a company that's been doing multi-platform chat on the web for years.
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• Socialcam
  Sharing smartphone videos always involves a compromise. Socialcam makes it far less painful.
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• Momento
  Link Momento to your social accounts and it will gather your posts and updates into a handsome visual diary, viewable as a list or a monthly calendar.
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• HBO GO
  The only way HBO GO could be any better is if it let us bypass our cable and satellite providers entirely.
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• Twitter
  Twitter is the millennial megaphone, turning anyone who signs on into a 140-character broadcaster.
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• Thrutu
  Thrutu looks to update voice-to-voice communication by letting users share contacts, photos, and more as they gab.
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• Sonar
  Sonar cuts through the degrees of social separation by telling you whether you and anyone nearby have mutual connections.
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• GarageBand
  Even if you can't tell a chord from a cord, you'll be cranking out tunes in minutes with GarageBand.
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• Meetup
  Meetup's mobile app extends the company's mission of forging like-minded people into groups for real-life gatherings.
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• Handcent SMS
  Given how much time we spend in text-message apps, it's surprising how few customization features they tend to offer.
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• RemoteSMS Pro
  Sending texts while sitting at your desk? Skip your phone's minuscule keyboard in favor of your desktop's full-size one.
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• Tweetbot
  This Twitter client doesn't look especially different from the official app, but it sets itself apart in navigation and context for individual tweets.
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• Vtok
  What good is your video-chat app if none of your friends are on the service? Vtok sidesteps that problem.
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• Verbs
  If Apple included its own instant messaging app with the iPhone, this is what it would look like.
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• Skype
  Remember when you installed Skype on your parents' computer a few years ago? That's what's keeping it relevant.
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• Fring
  What's better than a FaceTime video chat? Fring's four-way group video chats.
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• Showyou
  Showyou collects your friends' shared video links and arranges them on your screen for you to browse when you have time.
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• Bump
  Almost three years after Bump's introduction, we're still using business cards, and that's too bad.
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• Tumblr
  The simplicity that made Tumblr the dominant platform for microblogging carries over to the mobile app.
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• Yelp
  Leaving the house without your pocket Zagat guide or a whole heap of local knowledge once meant risking a mediocre meal. Then Yelp came along.
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• Android IRC
  If the internet were a high school, Internet Relay Chat would be the A/V room, a place for the tech-obsessed to congregate and talk shop.
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• The Weather Channel
  Do you want to know what it's like out now, if the clouds are making pretty patterns over New Jersey, or if that looming storm system threatens to make a lawsuit out of your luau?
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• HeyTell
  Getting a text is often preferable to getting a call. But there's still something nice about hearing a voice.
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• Kindle
  There is no better way to read e-books than on the stunningly simple Kindle app.
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• Trickle
  Trickle pushes tweets to your iOS device as they come, one at a time, and lets each stretch out across the entire display.
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