Software for nuttin’.
By now, most adults are way past their first phones and likely have a gallery full of pictures. The phone’s native gallery app may not be working out too well. QuickPic is an alternative gallery for android users.
![QuickPic – a replacement Gallery app for Android phones [FREEWARE]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/QuickPic-1.jpg)
Photoshop is a great tool but, unfortunately, a rather expensive one. The allure of digital art and photo editing is strong. For people looking to break into creating digital art, here are three free alternatives to the pricey software.
![Top 3 Free Alternatives To Photoshop [FREEWARE]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/paint.net_.jpg)
Goals are easier to attain when you are held accountable for them. If you’re supposed to cook dinner and it’s just just you, no one will know if you just eat potato chips on the couch. If you’re supposed to feed a family, then it’s more likely to get done. Habit List is the app that holds you accountable so you can form new habits.
Whether or not we’re missing our lives because we’re spending too much time on our phones is a topic that often comes up these days. Heyday is an app that lets you use your phone to create a photo journal of sorts so you can enjoy your life and document it at the same time.
Ever wish there was a social media site that you could just share things with family? You could do that with Facebook but you either have to make a separate profile or go through the process of building lists. Cabin is an app that works like a social media site, just for family, so you don’t have to go through all that work.
![Cabin – the social network for just you and your family [FREEWARE]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Cabin-1.jpg)
We’ve talked about the very cool IFTTT (if this, then that) service before, with its cool mix of automated recipes which you can use to automate parts of your life. The idea is you can set up a recipe to, say, send an alert to your phone if snow is coming, based on a reading of the weather reports, and once the recipe is set up, it just runs automatically every day for you. Neat. Now the company is offering…
![Do Tools from IFTTT – cool online service gives us some mobile tools to play with. But what a mess! Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/dotools.jpg)
Couponing can save you so much money but it takes so much time. Going through circulars, clipping things, organizing them so they don’t expire before you can use them. Just so much work. Luckily, there’s an app for that. Flipp is an app that shoppers can use to make sure they’re always up on the deals.
![Flipp – the app that can take your couponing to the next level [FREEWARE]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Flipp-shopping-list.jpg)
We’re all busy. Making appointments to be busy later is one of the most time consuming things. You have to take time out of your day to contact the business, wait on hold, go through the negation of availability and then scribble down the date. MyTime is an app that takes all that hassle out of scheduling an appointment for you.
![MyTime – schedule your appointments at a time that works for you [FREEWARE]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/MyTime-2.jpg)
One of the big secrets of happy web use is always to have a second web browser available so you can do those things you sometimes need in a hurry. Like logging in to a website or service with a different account name, or checking up on simultaneous options like airfares. But the key thing is the second browser has to be fast.
![SlimJet Browser – fast, compatible and versatile web surfer [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/slimjet.jpg)
Everyone likes to eat out. A meal where you don’t have to do the dishes? Sold. Trying to decide where to eat, planning your night, etc that’s all work. Reserve is an app that helps take some of the work out of the process. Sort of the Uber for dinging out.
![Reserve – an app to plan your meal out [FREEWARE]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Reserve-scheduling.jpg)
When it comes down to it, backing up our smartphones is more than just sensible, it’s probably essential. Especially with the risks of loss, breakage or theft, and even upgrading a phone goes so much smoother if you can take your familiar running data with you. And the backup built into Android sucks. So how nice to report on a superb new app which we’ve been using recently to make this process totally painless.
![Easy Backup & Restore – this brilliant free Android backup app is the best, no question [Freeware Review]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/easybackuprestore.jpg)
If you’ve been on the internet for a while you’ve probably seen those cool GIFs that you can run your cursor over and they shift? Now you can make your own with the Fyuse app, the spatial photography app for your cell phone.
![Fyuse – the app that turns 2D into 2.5D [FREEWARE]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Fyuse-processs.jpg)
As if you would ever leave the house without your phone but there could be an emergency causing you to rush out in a panic. Don’t worry though, the Hotel My Phone app can turn your friend’s phone into your phone.
With little fanfare a new app has just been released in the UK which could signal a profound change in the way many of us travel each day, pointing to a new paradigm for daily commuting. The new Liftshare app (Android, with iPhone to follow shortly) works by linking together those who need a ride with those who are offering a seat in their car. It’s not a new idea, but what’s different with Liftshare is the fact that there…
![Liftshare – could this new app revolutionize the daily commute and destroy Uber? [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/liftshare.jpg)
My ringer is always on silent. Not because I need it to be but because I constantly forget to turn it back on. You keep it on vibrate all day at the office and then don’t even think about it when you get home. After you’ve already missed a phone call and a few text messages. Shush Ringer Restorer turns your ring back on so you don’t have to.
![Shush Ringer Restorer – remembering to turn your ringer back on so you don’t have to [FREEWARE]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/shush-app.jpg)
