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Can your phone do that? A tour of awesome apps

April Corbin

Wed, Jun 22, 2011 (4:45 p.m.)

Awesome Apps

Mint.com

Not cool enough to bank with Chase, where you can deposit checks via app? Mint connects your financial institutions and helps keep track of your hard-earned cash.

Awesome Apps

Pong

Forget faddish games like Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja and Plants vs. Zombies, and kick it old school with the original video game.

Awesome Apps

Key Ring Rewards Card

Tired of carting around a dozen different perk cards? Upload them to this app and never miss an in-store deal again.

Awesome Apps

Instagram

This popular picture-sharing app has filters to make photos look better than they are. About one million users are joining monthly.

Awesome Apps

Google Goggles

Want to Google something but don’t know what to type? This app uses your built-in camera to search the web.

Awesome Apps

Soundhound

Shazam listens to a song playing and names the artist and title. Soundhound one-ups that. You can hum and sing lyrics yourself and still get a match.

Awesome Apps

What The Font

The Soundhound/Shazam of the font world. And if it fails, just assume the font is Helvetica. It almost always is.

Awesome Apps

Slacker Radio

This app for AM/FM fans is perfect for discovering new music or fulfilling your desire for whatever hyper-specific genre you love most.

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