Fun Apps for Apple Users

 It is totally dependent upon your choice of what you want to do with your iOS device. You may be a professional and utilize it for increasing your productivity or use it for a casual purpose that will bring more of fun element into your daily life. If you are the one looking to have more fun with your Apple device then definitely you are looking for fun apps that will help you get the maximum fun element. So let us have a look at the pick of the week with 5 funniest apps that are available for iPhone 4S and 5 users.

A makeover app for your hair

Hair MakeOver Lite is a funny app and as the name suggests the app is designed to give a hair makeover to you or your friend. This app contains as many as 32 hairstyles that you can easily try on your friend's picture or your own. You can use this app for virtually styling yourself and check out the look that will best suit you without having to actually go to a hairdresser. mhapks You can try on a new hairdo and see how well it enhances your personality and compliments your looks. You get a whole gallery of different shades and colors of hairstyles to try, this is a fun app. Interestingly you can play a prank and give a hair makeover to your guy friends and poke fun at them. Choose a picture or click one and then go to the app for trying on the number of hair-dos given.

Looking for new friends locally

Friends Around Me is yet another app that is fun to have on your iOS device, though this may seem useless but this app too has its benefits. This app is helpful in expanding your social circle. You can easily interact with your entire social network via the Friends Around Me app. You can stay connected to them throughout the day. This app consists of a search that is location-based (GPS); it helps you locate your friends or people who are using this app and are near you. As soon as you launch the app on your iPhone, you will be easily able to locate more people with similar interests and connect to them via messages. This app is available in three languages English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

A Mirror for you

Now, who is not looking for a well-groomed look, we all do and for that, you require a mirror, what if you get it right in your handset. Possibly, you may think twice but installing an app by the name of Mirror on your iOS device is something that is fascinating. Interestingly you need not worry about refraction while you are viewing yourself via this app; your image is displayed as flawless as your real self is. Moreover, this app is freely available for download. Additionally, you get the choice of color that you can set against the background to be able to get a better reflection of yourself.

A fun way to detect lies

Many might have heard about lie detection gadgets that are used for detecting the lie a person is indulging into but getting your hands on one is rather difficult. A simplified version of the complicated gadget is Lie Detector Scan, this is an easy-to-use app that is free to download. You can determine the true level in the conversation that you have with people or someone specific that you are dealing with at a given time. You will know if someone is lying as this app is designed to measure the heart rate, pulse fluctuation and body temperature that vary when someone is lying. Launch the app and have your friend place their thumb on the scanner and ask questions. You can simply find out the truth about a matter by asking questions that require an explanation. Nevertheless, this is not an authentic lie detector if you are into seriously investigating the truth of the matter; remember it is just a fun app.

Calculate age with Age Calculator

Remember the time when you used numerous calculative means just to puzzle a friend into telling their actual age, well here is one such app called Age Calculator. This is rather simplified version that gives you the exact age calculation by years including the minutest number of seconds you are on this earth. You can even share your results if you like across your social network via sharing buttons incorporated within the app. This app works like magic when you want to guess the age of a person, just ask your friend to pick a card out of 6 displayed cards. A series of algorithms will then reveal the age of the person without having to input the birth date. Let us call it math-magic.

All the above apps are available for free and these are just for entertainment purposes only.

Be Safe and Choose Your App Carefully

Getting an app for every plausible thing that you can get an app for has become a rage. It is now a common joke used in mass media, like TV shows and movies, that whichever requirement you need to be fulfilled, you can literally create a mobile application for that. People actually attempt to do so and some of those apps also acquire decent success. With such a prominent love and craze for using mobile applications, there had to be a downside too. People, in the hunt for the latest and the most interesting app, have forgotten about security. Their own privacy has been challenged, with these apps infiltrating their private lives and details of their personal information.

* You should use your common sense and only give information that you know is needed for the features and functioning of the app. That is why it is important to know your app and its developer first. Details, that an app developer has no use, should not be given like there is no need for the developer to read your inbox messages.

* Common information that can be given is your email id, phone number, calendar data, device location and unique IDs, internet data, and even the way you use the app.
* It is possible that the information you provide to the app store, developer, advertiser or maybe an advertisement network can be shared with any other company.
* The app developer's email or/and website URL must be included with the app. If it is not, then it may not be such a reliable app.
* If you are asked for your location details, then there might not be a reason to panic. They could simply need your location to get you some local information and modify their services according to your details. You could get coupons for a nearby place, maps to guide you or even ads could be placed accordingly.
* Updating your installed apps with the latest version is a good way to stay secure from malware.
* You may think that you are doing proper research when you read user reviews before buying an app. However, the truth is that these could be manipulated and the users could actually be the employees of the developer, hired to spread positive words about the app.
* In case of malware threat, you can contact the app's customer care or install security apps that scan your device and remove the malware-ridden apps.
* Be careful when you get to know that someone received emails/texts that you have never sent or when an app gets installed on its own. These are signs of malware.

You can get a free or paid app, either directly from mobile devices, like Android, iPhone, etc, or you can get it from app stores. Some of the things that you need to be careful about, while you allow an app to enter your life are -

The Best iPhone and Android Apps of the Year

Here are some of the best iOS apps:

Camera Awesome
The best new app of 2012 is led by a photo-sharing service that can help in clicking awesome photos. The app is developed by a decade-old photo-sharing site SmugMug and is named as Camera Awesome. This app makes us to believe that you can ditch digital cameras any time. The app has automatic leveling features and comprehensive color adjustment options. It also includes many presets and filters for $0.99 for each of them or nearly $10 for all of them. You can share the photos across your social channels including the new Instagram app.
Pocket
The Pocket app is known as the best bookmarking app which is free and was earlier known as Read It Later. It has new features including the ability to view videos and images seamlessly which is part of its simple and classy interface.

TouchTV
News provider SkyGrid has come up with a new app called TouchTV, which shows videos from cable networks onto the iPad. TouchTV includes videos of more than 5 minutes from 16 different providers which include hotshots like ESPN, Bloomberg and the like. The app also offers a glimpse of what app-based TV would be like. It is one of the best video discovery services on the iOS platform.
Any. Do
Any.Do finally come up with an iOS version. The app is backed by Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman to be one of the best productivity apps ever made easily letting the user to complete their tasks with a swipe of a finger. It includes a comprehensive voice-dictation technology that records the words without the need to type manually. One can share lists with friends too.

HomeSnap
HomeSnap is an app that is assisted by augmented reality to help users to know the value of a home by snapping its picture. One can see school information and historical data related to the house too. Although it is not yet wholly reliable, it is efficient enough.
Here are some of the best Android apps of the year:

Flipboard
Flipboard is one of the favorite Android apps and a socially curated magazine that showcases news, photos and status updates. Flipboard is also one of the best ways to read content from third-party publishers on smartphones.

Instagram
Instagram is one of the best photo-sharing apps which attracted more than 5 million downloads in less than a week. Instagram was later taken up by Facebook; the app has since then achieved cult status and the identity of a true pop-culture sensation.

Google Drive
Google Drive is rated to be a far superior and more cost-effective solution for sharing documents through Dropbox. Many companies rely on Google Docs, so Google Drive can be easily added to the list too. It has dominated the market in the face of ruthless competition from Dropbox.

Airbnb
Airbnb is part of the Android family since January and is a vacation-rental marketplace that helps property owners and travelers for sending quick messages. The app has reputed travel recommendations from celebrities like Ashton Kutcher and Jack Dorsey.

Be Safe and Choose Your App Carefully

Getting an app for every plausible thing that you can get an app for has become a rage. It is now a common joke used in mass media, like TV shows and movies, that whichever requirement you need fulfilled, you can literally create a mobile application for that. People actually attempt to do so and some of those apps also acquire decent success. With such a prominent love and craze for using mobile applications, there had to be a downside too. People, in the hunt for the latest and the most interesting app, have forgotten about security. Their own privacy has been challenged, with these apps infiltrating their private lives and details of their personal information.

You can get a free or paid app, either directly from mobile devices, like Android, iPhone, etc, or you can get it from app stores. Some of the things that you need to be careful about, while you allow an app to enter your life are -

* You should use your common sense and only give information that you know is needed for the features and functioning of the app. That is why it is important to know your app and its developer first. Details, that an app developer has no use of, should not be given like there is no need for the developer to read your inbox messages.

* Common information that can be given is your email id, phone number, calendar data, device location and unique IDs, internet data, and even the way you use the app.

* It is possible that the information you provide to the app store, developer, advertiser or maybe an advertisement network can be shared with any other company.

* The app developer's email or/and website URL must be included with the app. If it is not, then it may not be such a reliable app.

* If you are asked for your location details, then there might not be a reason to panic. They could simply need your location to get you some local information and modify their services according to your details. You could get coupons for a nearby place, maps to guide you or even ads could be placed accordingly.

* Updating your installed apps with the latest version is a good way to stay secure from malware.

* You may think that you are doing proper research when you read user reviews before buying an app. However, the truth is that these could be manipulated and the users could actually be the employees of the developer, hired to spread positive words about the app.

* In case of malware threat, you can contact the app's customer care or install security apps that scan your device and remove the malware-ridden apps.

* Be careful when you get to know that someone received emails/texts that you have never sent or when an app gets installed on its own. These are signs of malware.