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- Top 8 iPhone Apps for Self-Help
- Top 6 Free World Cup iPhone Apps
- 7 Ways to Find Amazing New Android Apps
- Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]
- 19 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed
| Top 8 iPhone Apps for Self-Help Posted: 05 Jun 2010 08:55 PM PDT  
These eight apps can help you take your best shot at self-directed transformation. 1. Gratitude Journal According to the makers of this app (and Oprah), writing down what you are grateful for every day can change your life. In fact, the folks who made the app promise that if you do this for one month, “your life will change forever.” The app keeps your daily bulleted list protected by passcode, and you can flip through the days, e-mail your list, and add photos. There's also a function that allows you to rate how you're feeling so you can record your life improving as you complete the exercise. Price: $0.99 2. The Habit Factor Anybody who has read the back cover of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has heard that changing your habits is an effective way to change your life. The Habit Factor is designed to manage the habits you are trying to create. The first step is to set up goals and deadlines. After your goals are set, you set up habits that can help you achieve them. If your main goal is to complete a marathon, then one of your habits might be to drink more water. When you drink your targeted number, you can check that habit off your list for the day. The app tracks what percentage of your habits you are maintaining, thus creating the occasion to celebrate (or mourn) your progress. Try tracking one goal first using the free Habit Factor Lite, which allows you up to three active habits, before springing for full version. Price: $6.99 or limited free version 3. iZen Garden Sand is fun, but messy. Achieve the beauty and benefits of a Zen garden without having to vacuum afterward by using iZen Garden, a digital version of the soothing sandbox concept. While raking around your garden, you can choose between seashells, stones, leaves, and more than 100 other objects to add to the design. Decide if you prefer the sound of ocean waves or forest life in the background, add fluttering butterflies, or change the color of the sand. When you're done, you can set your garden design to your wallpaper or share the Zen you've achieved through e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter. iZen Garden Lite is also an excellent free option for those who can live with just 10 stones and one color of sand. Price: $2.99 or limited free version 4. BreakkUp When your friends can't relate to your relationship issues, or are just tired of hearing about them, it's nice to be able to turn to complete strangers who aren’t regulars at your favorite watering hole. BreakkUp lets you submit your relationship issues and posts them on a "latest drama" list that the 20,815 other registered users can access via the web or the app. The community can then respond with advice and vote your drama up or down in importance. Price: Free 5. myinstantCOACH As long as your life dilemma fits into one of the 75 options that myinstantCOACH has laid out, this app can give you the crucial advice you need to make big decisions. Simply choose the category where you need coaching: Relationships, finance, career, or well being. Then select the life scenario that best matches your own, like “I hate my boss.” MyinstantCOACH will give you the lowdown on your situation, offer specific actions you can take to improve your problem, and allow you to set up reminders that check in on your progress. Price: Free 6. LiveHappy LiveHappy puts the exercises that University of California Riverside professor Sonja Lyubomirsky suggests in her book, The How of Happiness, into app form. Her theory is that by engaging in certain activities on a daily basis, anyone can change his or her mindset. Some of these app activities include evaluating goals, keeping track of happy days, keeping a gratitude journal, thanking people directly, and remembering random acts of kindness. The app also includes a personality analysis and science of happiness content. Price: $0.99 7. MyThoughts+ The power of positive thinking has become a mantra for many self-help books. Though psychologists are still debating its merits in relation to overall well being, most other people find it hard to argue against looking on the bright side. This app keeps positive thoughts flowing in accordance with which category you select. The font, transitions, and background are all customizable, and users can add their own positive affirmations to the collection of 10,000 thoughts, but it's hard to top phrases like, "Unlimited abundance and prosperity radiate through me, creating infinite opportunities in all areas of my life." The free version contains 100 different affirmations. Price: $1.99 or free version 8. iStress This app provides several stress management activities including reading an inspirational poem, pondering encouraging quotes, laughing at "stress jokes," and rating your feelings. There's also a "reframe thoughts" function that aims to help you to identify and change negative thoughts with a relaxation exercise. I personally prefer the iShatter approach to stress relief, where $0.99 allows you to simulate the destruction of your screen, various glass objects, or a photo of your choice. Price: $0.99 For more mobile coverage, follow Mashable Mobile on Twitter or become a fan on FacebookMore iPhone resources from Mashable:
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| Top 6 Free World Cup iPhone Apps Posted: 05 Jun 2010 05:25 PM PDT 
While the BBC and ITV apps that promise to stream the games and video highlights have yet to be released, there are still some great, free iPhone apps to satisfy your World Cup appetite. 1. World Cup Countdown We know you’ve been counting the days until the non-stop soccer action. This app counts down the excitement by the days, minutes, hours and seconds until it all begins on June 11th. The app also has an interactive photo slideshow with a series of cool pictures of South Africa. You can click on the photos to learn more about each scene. There are even interesting video and audio options, like a spectacular overview of the countryside and some local music and dance moves. It’s a great way to learn about the country hosting the games, especially if you are planning to attend in person. 2. ESPN 2010 FIFA World Cup This app has just about everything you need to prepare for the tournament. With a full schedule, you’ll never miss your team in action. The app allows you to select your favorite team or teams so you can easily keep track of all the news surrounding them. It also has full biographies and stats for each player for all 32 teams, so you’ll know exactly who is playing the game. Super-fans will appreciate the app for its extensive history of the tournament, which dates back to 1930, and includes an overview, trivia and controversies for each year. Sign in with your myESPN account to post comments about your team or participate in the “Fantasy Bracket Predictor,” where you can attempt to forecast the outcome of each World Cup match. 3. World Football Live! This app gives you the latest news about all things football/soccer from BBC Sports, Yahoo! Euro Sports, and ESPN. News is updated in real-time and you can bookmark your favorite articles or e-mail them to your friends. The app also lets users browse offline. Once you’ve updated the latest news, you can read all the downloaded articles without a WiFi or 3G connection. 4. AP 2010 World Cup Coverage The Associated Press has been covering the games since the very beginning and is committed to giving fans full coverage. Once the games start, the app will provide up-to-the-minute news from more than 100 journalists in South Africa who will be covering the action. It has a multi-language platform and users can choose to get their soccer fix in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese. With customizable skins for each team, you can show everyone (at least everyone you show your phone to anyway) who you are rooting for. There is an easy to follow schedule feature that shows which teams are playing and at what time. Also, a photo and video feature will be updated once the tournament starts. The app also has a “venue” feature and lists a bit of history and interesting facts about all 10 stadiums where the games will be played. 5. World Cup Factoids and History If you really want to know what you’re talking about when you say that Germany is going to kick some butt, this is the app for you. With lists of every winner, host nation, defending champion and number of appearances since 1930, you’ll be able to make some informed predictions as to who will take home this year’s big title. History buffs will swoon for the detailed chronicles of pre-tournament dates, starting with the world’s first international soccer match between Scotland and England in 1872. The app also connects you to news from BBC, ESPN and the official FIFA site. You can help spread World Cup fever (not that it really needs the help) by pressing the button that lets you tweet about the application. 6. World Cup Trivia Challenge Lite Once you’ve brushed up on your facts and history, you’ll be ready for this game. Set on a soccer field, the lite version of this app has 50 questions that will test your soccer hooligan mettle. It’s a fast-paced game. With 90 seconds on the timer, you must answer questions like “How many nations appeared for the first time in 2006?” Once you get three questions right, you score a “goal.” For every question you get wrong, your opponent (who isn’t actually answering any questions) scores a point. There are three stages to work through and it includes a penalty shoot-out for a tie game. You can even listen to the sounds of whistles, cheers and music from a real life game, or choose to turn them off. Once you’ve mastered all 50 questions, you can upgrade to the paid version for $1.99, where 600 more questions are ready to test your fandom. For more mobile coverage, follow Mashable Mobile on Twitter or become a fan on FacebookMore iPhone resources from Mashable:
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, zentilia Reviews: Facebook, Twitter, iPhone, iStockphoto, news Tags: ESPN, fans, football, iphone, iphone application, iphone applications, iphone apps, Lists, Mobile 2.0, MyESPN, soccer, South Africa, sports, world cup, world cup 2010
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| 7 Ways to Find Amazing New Android Apps Posted: 05 Jun 2010 12:22 PM PDT 
As we saw during Google I/O, the company was demonstrating a fuller-featured, web-based version of the Android Market. It’ll likely be seen by consumers soon, but it’s always good to have a few more wrenches in your tool belt when it comes to finding and judging apps. Here are seven websites for your bookmarking pleasure. Each one acts as a directory, a review site, a screenshot gallery and a stats board for the wonderful world of Android mobile apps. Take a look around these sites, and let us know in the comments if we left out any good resources. 1. The Official Android Site We first have the official Android Market website. However, rather than being an exhaustive guide to the Android app universe, the site is currently “a showcase for some of the featured and top ranked applications and games available,” according to its landing page. To get the full, official Android Market experience, you’ll have to check your mobile device. However, we expect this to change relatively soon, especially as more Android apps become available on devices other than our phones. The site has a decent list of featured and top apps with brief descriptions and two screenshots each. 2. Androlib This resource has a listing for just about every Android app known to humankind. It’s searchable, thoroughly categorized and contains relatively accurate stats for number of downloads and star rating on Android’s 5-star scale. It also contains frank user reviews, screenshots, QR codes for download, and, when available, video demonstrations. One drawback is that the developer-supplied descriptions are often less than descriptive and, in the case of free trial and subscription apps, can be downright deceptive at times. When in doubt, check the user reviews. The UI is also a bit cluttered, and pages can be relatively slow to load. The site also contains stats, forums and special sections for games and the top app of the day. 3. Cyrket For data geeks, Cyrket is the holy grail of Android-related sites. This one-man project uses “advanced data analysis and extraction to help users find apps to buy and to allow developers to learn how their applications fit into the extended ecosystem of the mobile application marketplace,” or so says the homepage. There are also plans to include a blog with specific, interesting findings and better ways to discover new apps. With all this advanced analysis comes a highly useful breakdown of apps’ ratings. For example, would you rather know that an app gets 4 stars in the Android Market, or that 80% of users gave the app 4 stars and 15% gave the app 5 stars? You can also find QR codes, screenshots, descriptions and user comments for most apps. Apps can also be searched and sorted by popularity, rating, price and other factors. Finally, the interface is simple but clean and useful, with a bare minimum of advertising to interfere with your discovery process. 4. AndroidZoom AndroidZoom is a straightforward, easy-to-use app directory. Its app pages contain descriptions, screenshots, rating and QR codes, but no user feedback such as reviews or comments. The site does, however, show similar or related apps from the same and other developers. You can also see the most viewed and most downloaded applications, and you can browse apps by category or search term. Apps can be sorted by popularity, rating, date submitted and whether they’re free or paid. It’s a colorful site full of large-text links and friendly-looking icons; this is another site that’s simple and gets the app-finding job done. 5. App Store HQ This site has the usual suspects in features: Search, browsing by category, screenshots, QR codes, etc. A unique factor of App Store HQ is that it aggregates Android app reviews from around the web, including sites such as this one. You can browse through apps that are generating a lot of buzz on the web or apps that are heating up in Twitter mentions. Posts and tweets are aggregated onto an app’s page, so you can get a good idea of real-time activity around an app before you decide to download it. This, we like a lot. 6. AndBOT AndBOT is probably one of the best-looking sites when it comes to researching Android apps. It’s also thoroughly outfitted with a blog and regular app reviews. You can check out the latest apps, browse featured apps or peruse applications and games in a wide variety of categories. For each app’s page, the site pulls in comments from the Android Market proper and includes stats, screenshots and a QR code for instant download. You can also see developer info and app permissions. 7. AppBrain Finally, we have AppBrain. This site has search, rankings, categories, screenshots, related apps and on-site commenting features. It’s also got a fairly simple layout. One of its unique factors is being able to see changelogs for new versions and dates for how quickly an app progresses through the number-of-downloads tiers. Better yet, users can sign in with a Google account to enjoy site membership, which includes the ability to make lists of apps, install apps with a single click and write reviews. Logged-in users can also see “My Apps,” a collection of the apps they’ve installed already; they simply use the AppBrain free mobile application to sync their AppBrain account to their mobile devices. For more mobile coverage, follow Mashable Mobile on Twitter or become a fan on FacebookMore Android resources from Mashable:
Reviews: Android, Android Market, Facebook, Google, Twitter Tags: android, Android Market, App, app store, Mobile 2.0, trending
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| Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART] Posted: 05 Jun 2010 10:22 AM PDT 
And in classic Twitter form, international diplomatic crises rank right up there with pro sports upsets as the most talked about topics on the network. And if you’re concerned about Justin Bieber (as we all certainly are), rest assured, he jumps back into the trend party at number seven. As always, our pals at What The Trend have provided the insightful list below. Because this is a topical list, hashtag memes and games have been omitted from the chart. You can check past Twitter trends in our Top Twitter Topics section as well as read more about this past week's trends on What The Trend. Top Twitter Trends This Week: 5/29 – 6/4
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| 19 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed Posted: 05 Jun 2010 09:05 AM PDT 
Well, this is the Internet — you could search and scroll your way around in the hopes of finding the resources you’re looking for. Or, you could simply take a peek below at our handy weekly guide to all that was new on the web in the last seven days. This week’s roundup includes some social media sleuthing tips for that upcoming job interview, the innovative ways that lawyers use the social web to advance their careers, and some Apple-themed products for baby that will have you cooing uncontrollably. Social Media
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