Software

Brushes 3

Brushes 3 is an open source painting and drawing for the iOS. Developed by Taptrix Inc., it comes with a plethora of painting tools, and you can move between your mobile devices and keep painting. What makes Brushes different from others is that it uses a sophisticated OpenGL engine that makes it more responsive than other devices.

Sleepbot

Sleepbot is a sleep cycle alarm app that will gently wake you. It’s actually a smart alarm and sleep cycle tracker in one and is pretty easy to use. This intuitive app allows you to record sounds and movements all through the night, so in effect you can use it to customize sleep.

Pixlr Express

Pixlr Express from Autodesk is a photo editing application for the iOS and Android that lets you modify and edit your pictures and images quickly. This free app also has a complete set of tools for cropping, resizing, rotating and other image editing tasks that you may have in mind.

Meme-Generator for Windows 8

You see memes everywhere, but what if you want to create one? If you have Windows 8, your best bet would be Meme Generator by Naveen. It’s a free app and is only 27.8 MB so it won’t take long to download. In addition, the application makes creating memes very easy.

Lomotif

Lomotif is an app that allows you to edit music videos for Instagram. Developed by Lomotif Private Limited, it’s the simplest, most efficient way to not just add music, crop and edit them. Unlike other full blown video editors, Lomotif is easy to pick up and learn.

MusicBrainz Picard

MusicBrainz Picard is a cross platform music tag editor that provides support for a wide number of formats. It’s not difficult to use and provides advanced options and plugins that you can add. On its own the program runs fine however, and makes tagging music files easy.

Bamboo Paper

amboo Paper from Wacom is a sketching drawing app that’s designed like a digital notebook so you can sketch your ideas and thoughts quickly. Because of the way the app has been put together, you can sketch and draw as if you are using a notebook, making the transition to digital drawing easier.

Bluefish

Bluefish is an open source programming and web development application. Developed by the Bluefish team, it gives you plenty of options for writing scripts, websites and even code. While the program is powerful, it is lightweight and loads quickly even on a netbook. However, don’t mistake the compactness for lack of features, as this is packed.

Fast Keyboard

Fast Keyboard is an iOS notes taking app with a unique keyboard layout whereby the text column is reserved the smallest area while the rest of the display is used for inserting special characters. Because of this design, there’s no need for the shift key in a keyboard.