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While it certainly won't win any style awards, Effecto Photo Editor brings some quality edits to your gadget's photos. It's not a replacement for some of the more social editors or for all-in-one apps, but it has lots of ways to touch up your photos. The multiple layers of customization are where it really shines, though.

The app doesn't do itself any favors with its 90s-grunge layout. Once you get past its looks, though, you'll notice plenty of great features. The app offers cropping, retouching, and other goodies that will make your photo look better. … Read more

You can get good, but not great, results with Fisheye Camera for Instagram, which suffers from some flaws that will make you think twice about its usefulness.

Though this application has Instagram in its name, it has no relation to this online photo sharing service. The only thing Instagram related is a button that allows you to share photos taken with this application via the Instagram app if you have it installed. When you open Fisheye Camera for Instagram, you'll notice it gives the super wide angle feel you'd get with a real fisheye lens. You can adjust … Read more

flayvr: photo and video albums makes it easier to view and organize your photos and videos. This app turns your albums into wonderful collages and will stop you from endlessly scrolling to find the perfect picture you're looking for. If you need a new way to look at your photos and videos, then give it a shot.

flayvr: photo and video albums organizes your photos into separate albums called "flayvrs," based on their timestamps and other metadata. However, you can't change the way they're organized to suit the way you browse photos, or delete the … Read more

Funny Face Effects lets you melt, bloat, and warp your face into all sorts of bizarre images. This app is fun for a little while, but you'll probably wipe it from your device once you see all the ads it brings with it.

Before you can get started, the app tries to get you to agree to let it install nasty ads. These mostly take over your browser, so you might miss them if you don't surf with Android's default browser. Though it's called Funny Face Effects on the Google Play store, it appears as "… Read more

GeoGlance Wallpapers HD offers hundreds of stunning wallpapers that take you all over the world. The menus and settings in this application are just as stylish as the backgrounds. If you want to decorate your home screen, there aren't many better places to look than this app.

This application displays some of the best photos from a photoblog of the same name. All of the wallpapers are presented in a smooth, snappy menu with plenty of style. Even the more high-demand photos don't slow it down. There are multiple ways to view the wallpapers, so it's really … Read more

When Google gave Talk a stylish makeover to bring you Hangouts, it added free video chat and a new messaging style to an already powerful messaging app. It keeps all of the look and feel of Talk while adding great Google+ integration. It's a must-download if your Android gadget doesn't already have it.

If you already have Google Talk, this app will install itself the next time you update. It lets you chat with any of your friends that have a Google account. You can send them a message or invite them to video chat with you a … Read more

If you're looking for the best food pics, selfies and hipster shots, InstaBest for Instagram might tickle your fancy. It rounds up pictures from all over Instagram and presents them in fun categories. It's not better than viewing pictures in Instagram's own app, but this app saves you the trouble of hunting down cool photos, yourself.

Though the app feeds in from Instagram, you don't need an account to use it. It collects pictures from other "best-of" Instagram accounts, so some are friends-only. Sadly, this means you won't be able to see about … Read more

Not many apps stitch two photos together the way InstaSplitPic does. It creates a cool image that you can then filter just like you would in Instagram or any similar app. It's missing a few landmark features, as well as any user guidance, but it's definitely a great app that most smartphone photographers should have in their toolkit.

Since the app doesn't have a tutorial, you have to wing it to figure out how to take the best shot. When you first load it, it shows you four styles of shot you can take with the app. … Read more

Here's some good advice. Wait for Intel's upcoming Silvermont chip.

In a demo Wednesday at Computex, Intel seemed to instantly -- and thoroughly -- obsolete the existing Atom, known as "Clover Trail," in a head-to-head "bake off," as the Intel demo guy put it.

The "current best-in-class Intel Atom-based tablet" (Clover Trail) was pitted against a tablet with the upcoming (and completely redesigned) quad-core Silvermont Atom (aka, "Bay Trail") packing a new "video encoder and decoder."

The benchmark, TouchXPRT, tests "performance of everyday [tasks] such as photo … Read more