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Track ghosts in your area with Mystic Arrow

While many of the menus and descriptions are written in Chinese, the purpose of Mystic Arrow Free appears to be help locate and photograph ghosts and monsters near you. With a mystic theme and a simple arrow spinning on a compass, the app will quickly evaluate your surroundings and mark where a "ghost" or other creature may be hiding in relation to you.

The app itself is simple enough. Turn it on and activate location services. Then just tap the arrow and it will spin for two or three seconds and then point out nearby ghost locations. While … Read more

Show off photos to your friends with Social Frame Free HD Slideshow

Tablets and smartphones can make great digital photo frames on the fly. Social Frame Free HD Slideshow will craft a nifty slideshow of all the photos of you and your friends on Facebook and Twitter. Social Frame works well enough, but doesn't give you enough control of your slideshow. You can't do much with it once it's created.

The slideshow has to physically sync each of the pictures you want it to display individually. If you choose more than a dozen or so photos this takes a very long time and does a number on your phone … Read more

Tell the time with Super Clock Wallpaper

Smartphones tend to tuck the current time in the top-right corner of your phone, where your eyes almost never go. This convenient download slaps a huge clock right on your home screen so you don't have to look away to check the time. Of course, the Android operating system provides a way to do this without a download, but Super Clock Wallpaper presents a different option.

This is a live wallpaper, so expect Super Clock Wallpaper to drain your battery and take up a bit of your system's memory. If you ignore that, it's pretty nice. You'… Read more

Type your heart out with Jelly Bean Keyboard

The default keyboard on Android gadgets seems to get better and better with each update. Jelly Bean's keyboard is sleek, fast and even comes with SwiftKey-like predictive texting. Jelly Bean Keyboard puts that keyboard on gadgets running Donut (Android 1.6) and later. It's a seamless port, but it doesn't suddenly make the keyboard better than third-party keyboard apps.

Setting up another keyboard on Android gadgets comes with all sorts of scary disclaimers. Your phone or tablet will tell you that this app can track and log everything you type. That isn't true of this keyboard, … Read more

Show off your pictures with KD Collage Free

If you love the photo booth but hate shelling out cash, you need a collage app. KD Collage Free combines your smartphone's photos into dozens of different layouts with fun borders and backgrounds. It gives you more options than you'll probably ever use, which is a positive, not a negative.

Though this is the free version, the only things that seem to be different from the $1.50 pro version are ads and the slightly lower resolution. That means every feature KD Collage has to offer is here for you. It offers up dozens of different frames, borders, … Read more

Protect your Android device from theft with Avira Free Android Security

A mobile device can contain a significant amount of personal data such as contacts, banking information, photos, videos, important documents, and more. With Android devices becoming more prevalent, the need for security software is even greater. Avira Free Android Security is a feature-filled application that assists users in securing their devices. While this is not an antivirus or malware protection application, it does a great job protecting devices against theft.

The download and installation of Avira Free Android Security go quickly and easily. Some advanced settings are required for most of the features, but the application does a good job … Read more

Rip, convert, tag, and now burn CDs with FreeRip 4.0

FreeRIP extracts and converts your audio tracks, as well as detecting CD and song info and making all of that info editable right from the interface. It's easy to start right up with FreeRIP, which supports the most common audio formats--MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, and WAV. It can also convert files between any of those formats, play your audio files, and edit tags. With the release of version 4.0, the app now adds burning audio CDs to the mix of features that free users can access.

FreeRIP's bare-bones interface is set up for easy access and … Read more

BlackBerry Z10 lands during Galaxy hype

CNET Update gears up for a different March Madness:

AT&T will sell the BlackBerry Z10 on March 22, but Verizon and T-Mobile have yet to set a date. The Z10 is landing in the U.S. within a few days of the Samsung Galaxy S4 announcement. Photos posted on a forum hint that it could look like the Note, but we won't know for certain until the launch on Thursday.

Other stories in Monday's tech roundup:

- Electronic Arts is giving SimCity players a free game for their launch-week server troubles.

- A bar in Seattle … Read more

Read bible verses on your iPhone with Your Daily Bible Verse

Bible verses are a natural fit for the iPhone -- a compact, easily carried device that everyone already takes with them everywhere. Your iPhone is capable of storing large volumes of data, and it makes that data instantly accessible, whether you are at work, in bed, or somewhere in between. So what better medium could there be to provide you with an instant daily affirmation through a carefully selected bible verse? This is the promise of Your Daily Bible Verse Free, an app produced by Marc Moore to deliver one free verse to your device every day. The interface, layout, … Read more

View a collection of wallpaper designs on your iPad

There is a strong market for expanded wallpaper on the iPad and iPhone. The devices come with no built-in options for wallpaper except to add them from your list of photos. While most people are content adding photos of their dogs or children, many want a more robust selection of impersonal images. That's where Magic Wallpapers stakes its claim -- as a provider of free wallpaper that can be saved, shared, or placed on your background or lock screen. The app is attractive enough at first glance. It has a collection of Metro-style tiles, and you can add new … Read more